1) This Year, the Entire BCS Argument is Moot Name a team outside of the SEC that can beat Alabama, LSU, or Arkansas…I’m waiting… 2) We Sort Of Forgot About Miami I think we all know why the scandal that gripped Hurricane football dropped off our collective radars. But now,for some reason, the University of… Read More What We Learned From This Weekend in Football 11/19/2011
1) OK, We Get It – Aaron Rodgers is Crazy Good I’m trying to make sure all you media people understand this. You can all stop with the stories telling football fans how good Aaron Rodgers is. We get it. All of the people you are telling this to are in fantasy football leagues in… Read More What We Learned From This Weekend in Football 11/12/2011
1) The Penn State Situation I’m not going to get into the minutia of this disgusting affair now, if for no other reason than I want to see if somebody hits the nail on the head about why this played out the way it did. As horrible as this story is, there is also a… Read More What We Learned From This Weekend In Football 11/5/2011 – The “I Can’t Believe This Is Happening” Edition
We here at Dubsism, in our ever-present search for the absurd, have come up with photographic proof that Vikings’ defensive end had a career in movies before he became the most over-rated player in professional football. Go back to the 1988 college football recruiting classic “Johnny Be Good.” Look for the character “Bad Breath.” The… Read More BREAKING NEWS: Jared Allen’s Early Film Career Discovered
Former 49ers head coach and NFL legend Bill Walsh always said the four most powerful words in leadership were “I believe in you.” The irony is when a coach here’s those words coming from his owner or general manager, he might as well just packing up his office then. Let’s be honest. We are deep… Read More What We Learned From This Weekend in Football 10/22/2011 – The Inaugural Coaches’ Death Watch Edition
Seriously, I have no idea where to start with this rant. Viking fans have always been a bit delusional; they have to be to be fans of a team that has given them the “Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown treatment” more often than Lucy herself gave it to Charlie Brown. But that delusion… Read More Teams That Grind My Gears: The Minnesota Vikings
If you are my age, you remember Fotomat. If you don’t remember Fotomat, then you also likely don’t remember rotary dial phones, cars that had carburetors rather than fuel injection, and the days when McDonald’s didn’t pretend to care about your health. You don’t remember the days when you never had to dial somebody’s area code… Read More What We Learned From This Weekend in Football 10/15/2011 – The “Exposed” Edition
1) Minnesota might be the worst BCS Conference team I’ve seen since…well, Minnesota The good news is the Golden Gophers found the end zone this week, and they didn’t need a Sherpa guide to do it. The bad news is both of their trips to paydirt came after they were already down by six touchdowns,… Read More What We Learned From This Weekend in Football 10/9/2011
There will never be another NFL figure like Al Davis. I would be lying if I said that I never criticized Davis. Just a few months ago, I included him on my list of the 15 Worst Owners in Sports. However, as I said in that piece, that criticism was reserved for the Al Davis… Read More Why Al Davis Is So Important to the History of Professional Football
If you go back to the very first post on this blog posted over two years ago, you will see it was a rant about the ridiculousness that was the end of the Favre’s career. We all know how much fruit that garden has produced; just glance at the tag cloud in the right-hand column… Read More An Open Letter to Brett Favre – Please Kill Yourself
I cringe writing this, but I can’t hold my tongue on this completely ridiculous Hank Williams, Jr. situation any longer. The six regular readers of this blog know that while I avoid politics, I am not afraid of strong or even controversial opinions. The “About Dubsism” page on this very blog outlines that. However, unfortunately there… Read More What Grinds My Gears: This Whole Hank Williams, Jr. Mess
With such a full weekend of college and NFL action, let’s just cut to the chase… 1) We still don’t know if Notre Dame is any good Every year, Notre Dame gets over-rated, and every year, they prove that by the time they get to Purdue. This year, they’ve done nothing but send a mixed… Read More What We Learned From This Week In Football 10/3/2011
The National Football League for years has been making itself deliberately mediocre. There was a philosophy born under Commissioner Paul Tagliabue known as “Parity;” the primary components of which was there should be no dynasties. Rather, teams should be able to quickly build themselves into contention through free-agency and the draft. Last season, the graphic below was posted… Read More Parity: Why Every Team in the NFL Is Now Flawed
Clark Kent isn’t the only journalist who can become a superhero. Clark Judge at CBS Sports.com has the ability to drop his snap-brim hat, horn-rim glasses, and gray flannel suit faster than this speeding blog to become his cape-wearing alter-ego Captain Obvious. I’m sure Judge isn’t the only guy to write a column this week… Read More When Sports Writers Get Too Clever: Obviously, It Doesn’t Take A Superhero To Beat Tom Brady
With yet another weekend of football in the books, there are several more important lessons we should have learned both in the college ranks and in the NFL. 1) You “instant replay solves everything” people can all bite me…again. The Toledo Rockets got robbed by not just the officials, but also by the instant replay… Read More What We Learned From This Past Weekend in Football 9/25/11
Remember when you were a kid and there was that one old guy in the neighborhood who was bitter toward the whole world? The guy who cut up any Nerf footballs that landed in his yard, and consequently got a lot of flaming bags of dog crap left on his doorstep? Well, it isn’t hard… Read More Dan Pastorini: “F–k Drew Brees”
Several important football lessons were learned this weekend, both in the college ranks and in the NFL. So, without wasting time on a clever introduction, let’s just cut to the important stuff… 1) What Do Cam Newton and Notre Dame have in common? To be blunt, they are both now officially over-rated. The Irish are… Read More What We Learned From This Weekend in Football 9/18/11
Without a bunch of fluff, it’s time to look at some things that happened last week that you won’t see again this week. In other words, let’s not go overboard on some things: 1) The Redskins are not as good as they looked, and the Giants aren’t as bad as they looked (but not by… Read More Five Things You Saw In NFL Week One That You Won’t See in Week Two
While the rest of America is looking to remember 9/11 on its tenth anniversary, a decade from now people in Indiana may be remembering 9/8; the day their football world collapsed. Yes, I understand that comparing a medical procedure on a football player to an act of war that changed the entire world is completely… Read More An Open Letter To Indianapolis Colts Fans: Like It Or Not,The Peyton Manning Era Is Over
As we find ourselves on the verge of another NFL season, it is time for the degenerate gambler in me to preview the carnage. Let’s face it, the NFL is comprised of three classes: Really Good, Mediocre, and Lousy. This means NFL predictions are pretty easy to get reasonably correct. For example, the online sports… Read More The Dubsism 2011 Pre-Season NFL Power Rankings
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