A link between General Patton and bombastic football coach Rex Ryan which wanders through Tim Tebow, Herman Goehring, and more Greg McElroy jokes than you might expect.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 153: “Patton”
Not only am I not wrong about Lamar Jackson, he actually proves a point I made about the NFL almost seven years ago.… Read More Change My Mind: Lamar Jackson Proves My “Tim Tebow Theory”
Only at Dubsism can you find out what the seven original Mercury astronauts could have in common with the 12 Greatest Saturdays of the Year!… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 50: “The Right Stuff”
The title is fairly self-explanatory…six stories about baseball nobody is really taking about. … Read More The Deep Six: Under-Appreciated Baseball Realities Coming Into The Home Stretch
Forget about batting average, home runs, or “esoteric statistics.” Tim Tebow is killing it in a very important category.… Read More Tim Tebow Is Doing Exactly What He Was Supposed To Do
Could Roger Goodell be sending himself toward the same fate as Hyman Roth and Fredo Corleone?… Read More Five Non-Kaepernick Reasons Why I’m Ready To Pull The Plug On The NFL
Lots of guys are leaving money on the table. Joe McGrath is here to fix that.… Read More Guest Column: Joe McGrath Offers Career Advice to Sports Figures
If you think about it, what do the Eagles really have to lose here?… Read More The J-Dub Breakdown of the Tim Tebow Era in Philadelphia
Last week, the owner of the Russian football team Moscow Black Storm, offered Tim Tebow $1 million to appear in two games later this month. Don’t get confused, this isn’t “football” in the European sense; this isn’t soccer. These guys actually play actual American style football; they’ve got helmets and everything. “I talked with him personally and… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: Somewhere, Somebody Thinks Tim Tebow Is The Michael Jordan of American Football
With the arrival of Tim Tebow in New England, this seems like as good as time as any to explore in detail a discussion I’ve had with several football fans. The NFL of the past few years has become a league infatuated with the passing game to a point where several offenses in this league… Read More The “Tebow Theory:” Eventually, Somebody Is Going To Build An NFL Offense Around a Quarterback Who Can’t Throw
1) The “Elite Quarterback” Discussion Got Blown Up The Super Bowl essentially was the induction of Joe “Gummy Bear” Flacco into that silly media-created status of “elite quarterbacks.” Joe Montana’s Right Arm has the best run-down as to why even the most ardent Flacco-haters now have to stifle themsleves, but this piece is more about… Read More What We Learned: The 2012 NFL Season Showed Us Two Things About Quarterbacks
If the mere thought of the “Dubs-eteria” doesn’t inspire gastronomic terror, then the following menu items certainly should. The only defense we can offer is that these dishes still aren’t as lousy as anything you can get at Olive Garden. Appetizers: The Baseball Writer’s Association of America “Poo-Poo” Platter It doesn’t even come with a… Read More If Dubsism Were a Bad Restaurant…Get Ready For Sports Stories as Menu Items
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 Los Angeles Kings Win The Stanley Cup For purposes… Read More The Dubsism Top Fifteen Sports Stories of 2012
Seriously, everybody locked me into this Christian thing… Shabbat Hospitality? What about Shomer Shabbas? When do you fucking roll, Timmy? Walter Sobchak is going to want an answer…
Oh, was this a sweet moment…In a game where the Minnesota Vikings were finally exposed, the most over-rated player in the NFL got the bitch-slapping he’s deserved for far too long. Some folks at ESPN may want you to believe Tim Tebow is the most over-rated player in the NFL, but somehow they forgot about… Read More Jared Allen Gets His Over-Rated Ass Kicked
Back in January, Drew Magary from Deadspin posed five hypothetical questions about Tim Tebow. These questions were so interesting they required a Dubsism response. Now that Tebow continues to be an NFL version of a lighting rod in cleats, perhaps it is time to ask a few more questions that you simply won’t find anywhere… Read More Tebow-Mania, Part II: Five More Questions About Tim Tebow
Be warned the following post is Rated “R” largely because it includes an uncensored Rex Ryan… The other day, the New York Jets introduced their new media sensation to the New York press. While that press conference was widely covered, the introduction between Tim Tebow and Jets coach Rex Ryan was kept largely under wraps.… Read More Rex Ryan and Tim Tebow: The Introduction
12) Minutes Played Let’s be honest. In basketball, it isn’t about how often you get on the floor, it’s what you do when you get there. That’s probably why all the leaders all-time in minutes played are (or will be) in the Hall-of Fame. This statistic gets even more worthless when you add the divisor… Read More The Twelve Most Useless Statistics in Sports
Throughout life, we deal with units of measure. To me, the most interesting are scales; where a level of intensity is assigned to an event or quality based on a quantifiable measure. The world of weather brings us the Saffir-Simpson scalefor hurricane intensity or the Fujita scale for tornadoes. Seismologists categorizes earthquakes according to the Richter scale. However, as a… Read More The Dubsism Quarterback Douchebag Scale
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
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