This post is all about questions, not the least of which is why the hell does Roger Goodell care which team I support? The answer to that is a bit more complex than you might think, and to get you there means seeing a few more questions. How do we know Kommissar Goodell wants you… Read More Roger Goodell Wants You To Be A New York Jets Fan
If you like Thursday Night Football, then this piece isn’t for you. You are the NFL fan Kommissar Roger Goodell loves; the one who keeps gulping down the sports slop the NFL is pumping out these days. The NFL remains the most popular sports league in this country despite the fact that under Goodell’s watch,… Read More Thursday Night Football Is Another Example Of How The NFL’s Bullshit Quotient Is Rising
By J-Dub and Ryan Meehan The Deep Six is another series from Sports Blog Movement that has found a new home on Dubsism. In its history, it has sometimes been written by J-Dub, sometimes by Ryan Meehan, and sometimes a collaboration. Sometimes it has appeared on Sports Blog Movement, and sometimes on Dubsism, but it… Read More The Deep Six: NFL Broadcasting Figures We Can’t Make Up Our Minds About
This is another installment in the Sports Blog Movement series which now calls Dubsism home. Tales of Depression and Sorrow takes a hard look at certain instances, or specific seasons which would make sports fans cringe in horror and pain, or expands on that to take a hard look at the long-suffering fans of franchises… Read More The Blast-Cast: Tales of Depression and Sorrow – The Philadelphia Eagles
Sports Blog Movement may be gone, but the Blast-Cast has returned. Today’s episode is all about a preview of the upcoming NFL season that only J-Dub and Ryan Meehan can bring you. This is more than just which team is better than which…this is stuff you really need to know! WARNING: This Blast-Cast gets a… Read More The Blast-Cast with J-Dub and Meehan: Stuff You Need To Know About the 2014 NFL Season
In today’s episode, J-Dub talks about how Indianapolis Colts’ owner Jim Irsay’s arrest for driving under the influence and possession of a controlled substance has morphed from a story about a man and his demons to a pointed commentary on how America has a huge problem when it comes to addiction and how we as… Read More Radio J-Dub, Volume 2 – How The Jim Irsay Situation Illustrates America’s Hypocrisy Toward Addiction
We here at Dubsism are excited to bring you a new feature, an audio podcast to go along with the series of video podcast we produce. In the inaugural episode, J-Dub talks about how NFL free agency is like having a girlfriend who is jet-screaming hot, but is also bat-shit crazy. He also puts to… Read More Radio J-Dub, Volume 1 – NFL Free Agency and the Phil Jackson Saga
By J-Dub and Meehan The NFL once was the ultimate gridiron struggle, but in recent years it’s become more of a contest to see who can get the zebras to give them the biggest advantage. We’ve all seen the offense line-up on 4th-and-short with no intention of snapping the football; rather it’s all about which yardbarker can draw… Read More The NFL Has Become the Bullshit Penalty League – How Long Before They Get Sued Over Bad Calls?
Honestly, this is just an update of some interesting numbers from a piece I wrote last year concerning Peyton Manning’s proclivity for gagging in big games. FACT: In three years at Tennessee, Peyton Manning never beat main rival Florida. FACT: Peyton Manning now owns a 11-12 playoff record as a starting quarterback. FACT: In 8 of Manning’s… Read More Perhaps Peyton Manning Could Use The Heimlich Maneuver UPDATED
Hindsight being what it is, there a whole lot of football commentators who have a giant shitburger to eat this morning. For purposes of full disclosure, I did not see such a complete dismantling of the Broncos as the outcome of Super Bowl XLVIII. But I did see a Seahawks victory being entirely possible. There… Read More The Best Thing About The Seahawks Super Bowl Win: Somebody Finally Calls Out Cris Carter
1) What Vegas Thinks As a retired bookie, J-Dub has always known that professional gamblers pay attention to five key statistics: Yards Rushing per Game: Regular Season – Seattle 136.8, Denver 117.1; Post-Season – Seattle, 144.5, Denver 120.0 Yards Rushing Allowed Per Game: Regular Season – Seattle 101.6, Denver 101.6; Post-Season – Denver 64.5, Seattle… Read More The Definitive Dubsism Super Bowl XLVIII Preview
By J-Dub and Meehan As part of Sports Blog Movement’s Super Bowl coverage, we are taking a page from J-Dubs own blog Dubsism. There, he made it a point to depart from the usual Super Bowl bluster; we aren’t here to tell you a bunch of shit about who’s going to win, why there going to win, and we… Read More Why You Shouldn’t Cheer For: The Seattle Seahawks
By J-Dub and Meehan As part of Sports Blog Movement’s Super Bowl coverage, we are taking a page from J-Dubs own blog Dubsism. There, he made it a point to depart from the usual Super Bowl bluster; we aren’t here to tell you a bunch of shit about who’s going to win, why there going to win, and we… Read More Why You Shouldn’t Cheer For: The Denver Broncos
After the New York Jets beat the Miami Dolphins 20-7 to end their season, owner Woody Johnson announced that Rex Ryan would be the Jets’ head coach next year. Then, he backed that up by inking Ryan to a multi-year extension. Finally, the Jets’ make a smart move. Yes, I understand that Ryan can be… Read More Why Rex Ryan Should Be AFC Coach of the Year
Every January since this blog was created, we here at Dubsism have given an award for achievements during the previous year in some under-recognized categories in the world of sports. In prior years, the nominations for the awards were done exclusively by an internal committee, but we’ve had so much success allowing nominations from the… Read More The Fifth Annual Dubsy Awards
If you are a sports fan who doesn’t line under a rock somewhere on the dark side of the moon, you know that last Monday night’s game between the Carolina Panthers and the New England Patriots ended on what became a controversial call. It didn’t have to be that way, and that is why we… Read More The Definitive Dubsism Breakdown of the Pass Interference Non-Call at the End of the Patriots-Panthers Game.
A few days ago, the NFL lost a legend. Even in his heyday, not many people would have known who he was if you gave them his given name, Oail Andrew Phillips, Jr. But in the late 1970’s, “Bum” Phillips was a household name. Phillips didn’t look the part of one of the best NFL head coaches… Read More RIP, Bum Phillips
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by J-Dub and Meehan When a football team becomes a train wreck, much like the New York Giants have become, sometimes the concept of “team” starts to show cracks. As we have been prone to do in this series, we find those cracks and expose them to you, the blog-reading public. It…
For all the media-generated bluster that has happened today over Indianapolis Colts’ owner Jim Irsay’s comments about his former quarterback, one thing that has bee largely forgotten is that everything Irsay said is true. In case you missed it, here’s what he said in an interview with USA Today Sports. The context is Irsay is lamenting… Read More Did Anybody Happen To Notice Jim Irsay Was Right? P.S. Tony Dungy Has His Head Up His Ass
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by J-Dub and Meehan There’s an old saying in sports that winning cures everything. Naturally, the opposite of that is what losing does. One thing we know for sure is that losing strains the relationships between players and coaches, and given the steaming pile of infected monkey shit the Steelers’ season has…
