1) The Brady-Bieber Hair Postulate Having hair that covers your face is only acceptable if you are an ass-kicking sheep-dog. It is not acceptable anywhere else, not even on teen heart-throbs and especially not on quarterbacks. 2) Their general sense of entitlement As evidenced by this t-shirt. There are far too many Patriots fans who… Read More Why You Shouldn’t Cheer For…The New England Patriots
I’m Peyton Manning’s neck. I’m creating all kinds of mayhem, and nobody can figure out how. Thanks to me, there’s a team of doctors arguing over whether Peyton’s career is or is not over, and thanks to that, I’ve got the entire sporting world having that same pointless discussion. Face it, I have so much… Read More Guest Column: Peyton Manning’s Neck on It’s New Career Options
Let’s start with my original playoff predictions: New England Patriots Why They Can Win: Because Tom Brady is still Tom Brady; one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history on the NFL, and he isn’t far enough past his prime to be discounted. Why They Can’t Win: To see the future in Foxboro, just look toward Indianapolis. Don’t… Read More The Super Bowl: The Definitive Dubsism Preview
1) Fundamentals Still Matter If you wanted to know why the two teams many of us had as the favorites to win this playoff tournament will be spending next weekend working on their collective golf swings, the answer is rather simple. It does not matter how many video game/fantasy football numbers your offense posts, it… Read More What We Learned About the NFL Heading Into Championship Weekend
Drew Magary is one of my favorite writers in all of the blogosphere. He is in more desperate need of a mental health professional than anybody out there, but that’s part of his charm. Anyway, he posted some interesting questions of a “what if” nature about the current mass psychosis surrounding the Bronco celebrity quarterback. I… Read More Tebow-Mania Continued: Deadspin Poses Some Awesome Hypothetical Questions
There’s really nothing quite like the special level of hell reserved for when a current phenomenon inspires the return of one with a “retro” feel. Take the current Tim Tebow-mania which as we speak has a death-grip on the throat of the sports world. How would you feel about marrying that to the soundtrack from… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Horrible 80’s Music Goes “Tebow”
I’ll be honest. I started writing this piece on Sunday with an entirely different beginning. After the Willis McGahee fumble, I really thought this was going to be a post-mortem piece for the Tebow phenomenon. But we all saw what happened in the waning moments in that game in Denver yesterday. Instead of a look… Read More Tim Tebow and the Idiotic “Race” Argument
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. This was the first year we allowed nominations from the… Read More The 2011 Dubsy Awards
Now that I’m dead, I can finally tell the story about how I hate that smarmy little cocksucker Lane Kiffin. First off, I should have never hired that little asshole. A lot of people tried to warn me about that move. I thought making that little shit the youngest coach in NFL history would put me… Read More Guest Column: Al Davis “I’m Not the Only One Who Hated Lane Kiffin”
1) Andy Reid and Rex Ryan are just photo-negatives of each other Andy Reid is quiet and studious. Rex Ryan is loud and brash. And they’ve both lost their locker rooms. It doesn’t matter where the shit-talking came from, there was far too much of it. While the media didn’t do Reid and the Eagles… Read More What We Learned: The NFL Regular Season
1) Green Bay Packers Why They Can Win: In this case, there’s three good reasons. First, just like in boxing, you are the champs until somebody beats you, and to get to the Super Bowl, an NFC team is going to have to pull that off in Lambeau Field in January. Secondly, the Packers have… Read More The 2012 NFL Playoffs – The Definitive Dubsism Oddsmaker’s View
Being that we are at the end of what has proven to be a tumultuous twelve months, why not take a look back at the biggest sports stories of such a year? After all, I’m pretty sure nobody else does these sort of retrospectives… 15) The Establishment of Two All-Time Winningest College Coaches: Paterno and… Read More The Dubsism Top Fifteen Sports Stories of 2011
1) This Tebow Thing Is Now Officially Out of Control I watched the last three minutes of that Bears-Broncos game last night, and I still don’t believe what I saw. Sure, there’s all the stuff that surrounds Timmy Rah-Rah. You can see that on every other outlet out there. But the hype hides the unbelievable… Read More What We Learned From This Weekend In Football 12/10/2011
1) Stick a Fork in ‘Em… The Philadelphia Eagles Turkeys are Done Just by taking the Sgt. Joe Friday approach (“Just the facts”), one can see it is time to blow up this thing in Philadelphia. The Michael Vick thing was a mistake, DeSean Jackson is a cancer, and the whole “Dream Team” thing was… Read More What We Learned From This Weekend in Football 12/4/2011
Say whatever you will about Tim Tebow, but for some reason he’s like Nickleback; people either love him or hate him. Frankly, I think part of the trouble Tebow has is that he speaks in a language all his own. It’s easy to miss this language barrier; the tricky part is that Tebonics sounds just… Read More Tebonics – The Language of Tim Tebow
Being that the holiday season is upon us, there is a lot of thought begin given to gift-giving. If you are reading this, then you must be thinking, “Gee, what do I get for the sports blogger in my life?” This allows for another of our comparison pieces with a list published by the good… Read More Ten Pointless USB Devices Compared To Their Equally Useless Sports Figures
Rumors have been circulating for a while now about the future of future NFL Hall-of-Famer Peyton Manning. We all know the situation; his neck has been surgically rebuilt twice, and there are serious concerns as to whether he can ever or even should play football again. Coupled with the fact the Colts have collapsed so… Read More Guest Column: Joe McGrath vs. Dan Aykroyd – Point/Counterpoint on Peyton Manning
Lots of stuff has happened since we originally started this Coaches’ Death Watch a month ago. Some of it we saw coming, some of it we didn’t, and some of it is simply inexplicable. There’s the guys who bought it before we ever published the inaugural death watch issue. Granted, we messed up when we… Read More What We Learned From This Weekend in Football 11/26/2011 – The Up-To-The-Minute Coaches’ Death Watch Edition
For the third January in a row, we here at Dubsism will be handing out our coveted awards for various acheivements in the world of sport. If you are unfamiliar, you can check out the two previous Dubsy awards here and here. But the one thing we are doing differently this year is opening the… Read More It’s Time To Submit Your Nominees For The 2011 Dubsy Awards
Editor’s Note: This article is a collaborative effort between Dubsism and Ryan Meehan from First Order Historians. Ryan also has his own blog, East End Philadelphia, which is featured in our BlogRoll and it is well worth the read. Normally, Dubsism doesn’t write these sort of preview posts. The reason is there’s already 10,000 other lousy hacks doing… Read More Your Week 12 NFL Preview – The Thanksgiving Edition
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