Let’s be honest…one of the reasons women drive men crazy is because they always want mutually exclusive things. If you don’t believe that, just ask a single woman under the age of 30 what her “dream” man would be like, and you will get a litany of things that simply don’t go together. Comedian Dave… Read More Great…Now The NFL Is Acting Like A Woman. Joe Paterno To The Rescue!
20) The Rose Bowl – Pasadena, California Much your grandfather who fought in World War II, The Rose Bowl is all about what once was. The fact that we keep sticking modern Super Bowls in this ancient edifice means once every few years is not reminder enough of how antiquated this stadium is. If it… Read More The 20 Worst Sports Venues In America
Let this be a lesson to males everywhere. If you get accused of sending pictures of your wang with your cell phone, God will nail you in the crank with a football. It is more proof God hates Brett Favre.
1) The “Sack Dance” is completely out of control. Seriously, what the hell do you call this? The “guy getting hit with a cattle prod?” “The funky gallbladder?” 2) Tom Brady has Douche-Hair. Remember when Tom Brady burst onto the scene as a 6th-rounder injury replacement for Drew Bledsoe? You liked him then; he was… Read More Four Things We’ve Learned About the NFL Heading Into Week Five
This is the problem faced by the NFL. The Roethlisberger incident set the precedent in which the NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell acted swiftly and decisively handing out punishment in a instance where there was determined to be no criminal conduct. Now, you have an issue involving the biggest “box office” draw in the league with some pretty solid evidence of a crime being committed (we checked, it is in fact illegal to send people pictures of your wiener). … Read More Brett Favre’s Penis and Other Things Roger Goodell Doesn’t Want To Touch
According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the Vikings are expected to close a deal with New England today to acquire Randy Moss. Forget that Minnesota ran Moss out of town in 2004. Forget that Randy Moss has never once passed the “Net Difference” test. And for now, forget that Randy Moss is in a contract year.… Read More Whenever You Need To See Desparation, Just Look Toward Minnesota
A Michigan high school football team has made a rather unique decision to start holding practices during overnight. Did he do this to avoid the summer heat? Did he do this as some sort of punishment? No, it turns out he is yet another example of knuckling under to stupidity. Fordson High, located in Dearborn,… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Midnight Football Practice
George “The Grand Old Man” Blanda passed away yesterday and the football world certainly feels a huge loss. From his days as the son of a Czech-born Pennsylvania coal miner to the University of Kentucky under legendary head coach Paul “Bear” Bryant, to the NFL, the AFL, and the Hall of Fame, Blanda left a… Read More RIP, George Blanda
Over on Listverse, there has been another great-yet-odd list compiled. While the subject doesn’t matter nearly as much as the fact that I found it comparable to a somehow-sports-related screed, it is really hard to resist a list of people who were killed by radiation. Just think, the same power that heats up your lunch in… Read More Ten Famous Deaths By Radiation Poisoning and Their Equivalent Sports Firings
There are dates on which everybody remembers where they were because some infamous event occurred on that day. December 7th, 1941…January 28th, 1986…September 11th, 2001. Perhaps it is only for me, but I would add August 3rd, 2010 to that list of infamy. Like I said, you may not remember what happened that day, but… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Brett Favre
I love Listverse. The one beef I would have is that it doesn’t have enough good sports lists. But what it does have is many lists that have equivalencies in the sports world. Today’s installment involves 10 forms of government and gives a representative example from the sports world. Think of it as a civics… Read More Ten Forms of Government and Their Representative Sports Organizations
It is officially time for people who write those “biggest draft bust” lists to begin writing the “Matt Leinart” entry. Now that he’s been relegated to the third-string in Houston, it’s a pretty safe bet the “potential” in his career is gone. He now becomes the 45-year old guy who once was the “smartest kid… Read More How Can You Be Out of Coconut Shrimp? Hey, Didn’t You Used to Be Matt Leinart?
Does a woodchuck chuck wood? Let’s just cut to the chase here…Calvin Johnson and the Lions got it “prison style.” Don’t get me wrong, I’m not blaming the officials; they enforced the letter of the rule, which is exactly what they need to do. But it is the spirit of the rule that is screwed… Read More Ask the Geico Guy: Did The Detroit Lions Get Screwed?
Football fans love a big, bruising runner; as a football fan, I’m no different. But I’m also a train geek, and I couldn’t help but notice that people love to use train-related terms when referring to the big bruisers. So, in my twisted mind, it makes perfect sense to compare the great big bruisers to… Read More The Ten Greatest “Power” Running Backs and Their Locomotive Equivalent
When you are a kid, two things that get your juices going are music and sports. Face it, being good at either was the ticket to Chick-town, and since I was 14 with enough testosterone surging through my veins to kill a man in his 50’s, I got involved in both because I was taking… Read More The Deep Six: “Old School” Rhythm Sections and Their Sporting Equivalents
Have you ever seen one of those incidents like a car accident where there are body part laying in the streets and fuel tanks rocketing flame into the air and some cop is standing there waving people away with the phrase “move along, nothing to see here…” It sounds stupid then, and it sounded equally… Read More Adrian “Fumbl-icious” Peterson Says “Move Along…Nothing to See Here”
Trying to read what Brett Favre is going to do is nearly impossible, unless of course you are one of the approximately 300+ people who have picked off his passes. There’s a very good football blog called The Shutdown Corner which tried to do this with Brett Favre’s press conference announcing that he would return… Read More Where The Shutdown Corner And Dubsism Disagree
Gee, your hair smells like a million bucks. Celebrities have insured body parts before, but this is the first time that someone insured a part of the body that can grow back. Pittsburgh Steelers All-Pro safety Troy Polamalu recently took precautionary measures to ensure that his luscious 3-foot locks are insured and fully protected. Head… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Hair Insurance
Kids, learn a lesson here…you just can’t go around punching people in the face. If you are a public figure like a football player, people will dig up every little thing you’ve ever done. I’m not going to blame The Oregonian’s John Canzaro for doing his job; that’s what reporters do. Instead, you can take… Read More Here Comes The Rumor Mill…
The other day, a flap came about between former NFL head coach Tony Dungy and current New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan because Ryan “swears too much.” Today, ESPN’s Colin Cowherd asserted what he thinks the core of the issue is. Cowherd’s belief is that swearing when used “sparingly” has an impact; that volume… Read More Your Colin Cowherd Moment of the Day – Rex Ryan vs. Tony Dungy: A Study In Leadership Styles
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