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
Some dates are forever burned into your memory. July 4th, 1776. December 7th, 1941. September 11th, 2001. In Minnesota, you can add August 18th, 2009 – the day King Brett I ascended to The Throne of the Court of the Purple. This is also the anniversary date of this very blog; it came to be as an outlet… Read More One Year Later, Brett Favre Is Still A Douche; Viking Fans Still Blind
With his tousled blond locks and his piercing blue eyes that matched the blue in the throwback Colts baseball cap he was wearing, Curtis Painter cut quite a GQ-type figure. The problem came when he traded the cap for the helmet. Now, you may ask why would anybody give a damn about the second-string quarterback… Read More You Can Take the Quarterback Out Of Purdue, But You Can’t Take the Purdue Out Of The Quarterback
Was Abe Lincoln honest? Not including what happened this past week, there have been seven prior negotiating sessions between the NFL owners and the Players’ Association. Including what happened this week, they’ve made no progress toward a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA). While the reasons for this may be numerous, a single vision of a… Read More Ask The Geico Guy: Will There Be an NFL Lockout in 2011?
Most people when they hear of Minnesota think brutally cold winters, snow drifts, polar bears, iceberg, the freshness of a York Peppermint patty or anything else that turns your nipples into pencil erasers and chatters your teeth right out of your head. But having lived there, I can tell you that summers can be the… Read More Whenever You Need To See Stupidity, Look No Further Than Minnesota
Those of you who actually read these rants know here at Dubsism we tabbed Tim Tebow as a saint back when he was anointing lepers and circumcising Filipino orphans. You also know we have been dying to see where the combination of Saint Tebow and the Holy Orton would lead us. Apparently just as we… Read More Is He Really Becoming Saint Tebow?
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