The hysteria that gripped the West coast in 1941 happens nearly every year to football fans in places like Dallas and Minnesota.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 109: “1941”
What’s the difference between a “fairy tale” and a “myth?” Too many people believe myths.… Read More Movies Everybody Loves That I Hate – Episode 10: “The Jackie Robinson Story”
Just imagine the owner of an NFL team as a drunken “Clark Griswold” in a tale with so many twists it somehow links Hollywood legend Don Ameche and Pro Wrestling Hall of Famer Fritz von Erich.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 108: “National Lampoon’s Vacation”
Dubsism is the only place which can show you the connection between Doris Day and the Soviet Union’s National Hockey Team. … Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 107: “The Man Who Knew Too Much”
Only Dubsism can show you the thread binding Victorian England to Sealy, Texas in the late 1970s.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 106: “Great Expectations”
Today’s analogy takes not one, but TWO Clint Eastwood flicks to bear it out.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 105: “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Here’s where you discover how an episode of “The Rockford Files” echoes off nearly every wall in British sport!… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 104: “The Rockford Files – Drought at Indianhead River”
Instead of the “Old West” of the 19th Century, imagine a 21st Century Gregory Peck riding in to Fenway Park to gun down the Boston Red Sox.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 103: “The Bravados”
Most popular depictions of Frankenstein’s monster show him as a shade of green. But how close were we to Andre the Giant as “Redskin-stein?”… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 102: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Politicians, lawyers, and used car salesman have nothing on the sleaziness of college football recruiters.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 101: “Johnny Be Good”
O Romeo, Romeo…Wherefore art thou, Romeo? Well, he’s certainly not playing for the Minnesota Timberwolves anymore.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 100: “Romeo and Juliet”
Dubsism: The only place where the twine tying John Wayne to the greatest hockey player who ever skated involves a gymnast playing Peter Pan.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 99: “Big Jake”
It took a space catastrophe and a pandemic to get me to say something positive about Roger Goodell. … Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 98: “Apollo 13”
There’s a lot of clues that “Ralphie” might have been a Philadelphia Eagles fan.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 97: “A Christmas Story”
“Ol’ Blue Eyes” had such a way with the ladies, there’s no way he would have had 5,700 career strikeouts, right?… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 96: “Von Ryan’s Express”
A tale of two Buicks and one North Dakota. … Read More Story Time With J-Dub: Episode 5 – “Buick Riviera”
I’ve nailed every category in this “Thankful” blog-a-thon with only two movies. You’re welcome…… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 95: “The Why I’m Thankful For The Comedy of Jonathan Winters Double-Header”
Could Donn Clendenon sink a German gunboat with just a Louisville Slugger?… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 94: “The African Queen”
Get ready to sharpen your light sabers, Star Wars fans…between J-Dub and The Unknown Blogger, somebody is going to say something you might consider sacrilege!… Read More Point-Counterpoint: What Kind of Movie Is Star Wars?
Forget boxing’s “Rocky.” There was never a tougher son-of-a-bitch than Rocky Bleier.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 93: “Pride of the Marines”
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