UPDATED 27 April 2008: Add Kansas City Royals.
UPDATED 20 May 2007: Add Philadelphia Phillies.
I’m a sports fan, and I “collect” stadiums (stadia?). Especially major league baseball, NFL football, and NHL hockey. My goal, before I die, is to see a baseball game in the home stadium of every MLB team. It would be an added bonus if I could do the NHL and NFL venues, but right now, I’m focusing primarily on baseball.
Problem is, I keep forgetting where I’ve been, and losing count. Therefore, mostly for my own reference (and because I expect few others to be interested), I’m posting a list of venues attended below the fold. I’ve ordered them in roughly the order in which I first visited them, to the best of my ability to recall.
However, if you have comments concerning favorite (or least favorite) venues, feel free to leave them.
April 27th, 2008
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Sports, I do too have a life, NFL, MLB, NHL |
10 comments
A few thoughts:
- Congrats to the Giants. They were very impressive at the end of the season and the playoffs and deserved this win.
- The Giants receivers were the difference in the game. They made Manning look good, making several spectacular catches. Manning should not have been the MVP, his receiving corps should have been.
- This was not a great game. It was exciting, but it wasn’t what I would call great execution. Each team blew chances (the missed sack on the last drive, the wide open Burress that Manning missed in the fourth after the Giants had taken the 10-7 led and forced the Pats to punt, the under-throw of Moss at the end, the fumble that the Pats recovered but had taken away from them because the refs were slow to realize the play should have been dead and the Giants player took the ball back in the scrum, etc) and the two defenses held, grabbed, pushed and pretty much dared the referees to call penalties, which they generally did not. I really hope this isn’t a trend and the NFL goes back to the boring, clutch and grab nonsense of the late 90s.
- The Pats were really let down by their offensive line. I know the Giants front seven is very good, but the Pats o-line just played miserably. The Pats linebackers were supposed to be the weakness, not the offensive line.
- If God was just, He would have let the Pats win so that we would never have to hear from the 72 Dolphins or their fans ever again.
- Joe Buck can ruin games in two sports. Well done, Joe.
February 3rd, 2008
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General, Sports, NFL |
11 comments
Since the NFL season is over, and the Super Bowl is almost upon us, I’d like to do my usual thing and list the rules changes I’d implement for next season, were I emperor of the league. They are, in no particular order:
- Preseason: Cut back to two preseason games. We don’t need four.
- Instant Replay: Rather than the current system of coaches challenges, and the on-field ref going under the hood, switch to a Big Ten or NHL-style replay system. Reviews would be called for by a reply official in the booth, and the review would happen either upstairs, or at a centralized league office. Reviews would be shortened to 60 seconds, just enough time to view each replay once. If it’s not immediately apparent that the call on the field was bad, that call stands. Coaches would retain one challenge per game. Any play would be reviewable, up to the point where the whistle blows.
- Defensive Pass Interference: Go to a two-tiered system for pass interference penalties, similar to what we have for facemask penalties. The “incidental” variety would be ten yards and an automatic first down, while the “flagrant” variety would be spot-of-the-foul. Pass interference penalties would be reviewable by instant replay.
- Offensive Pass Interference: Start calling it! Too many receivers are gaining an advantage by pushing off, and too many offenses are running picks.
- Roughing The Passer: I understand the importance of protecting quarterbacks, but this has gone too far. Keep calling blows to the head, inadvertent or not, but if a blitzer only takes one step between the release of the ball and the hit, it ought to be a clean hit.
- Icing The Kicker: On game-tying or game-winning field goal tries in the final minute of regulation or overtime, if the defensive team wishes to call a timeout to ice the kicker, they must announce their intention to do so to the officials before the play, and call the timeout as soon as the kicking team sets, or before the play clock goes below 5 seconds (whichever comes first). Waiting until just before the snap and then calling timeout would be a five yard delay of game penalty.
- Playoff Seeding: Seeding is determined based solely on your record. Winning your division guarantees you a playoff spot, but does not guarantee you a top four seed.
- Super Bowl: No more two-week delays between the Conference Championships and the Super Bowl. One week only. And let’s finally schedule an outdoor northern/bad weather Super Bowl. You could easily fill Soldier Field or Giants Stadium for that game, irrespective of the conditions.
- Pro Bowl: Just replace it with a skills competition. Nobody cares about the game, anyway.
- Kickoffs: No more taking a knee in the end zone on a kickoff. You’ve got to run it out. Also, if a kicker kicks the ball through the end zone on a kickoff, where the ball never hits in the field of play, it’s treated the same way as a kickoff out of bounds.
I’m sure I’ll think of more, but this is my initial list. Thoughts?
UPDATE: Added the kickoffs section. Also, some have suggested eliminating fair catches on punts, but I think that would invite too many injuries. I like hard hits as much as the next guy, but I don’t want people getting killed. 
January 29th, 2008
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Sports, NFL |
17 comments
…but the Giants kicked the crap out of the Packers. It was only through luck and stupid mistakes that it wasn’t a blowout.
Anyway, congrats to the Giants, and here’s hoping you make the most of your rematch with the Pats.
January 20th, 2008
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My pleasure is Kevin’s pain. And as an added bonus, I even got to watch Peyton Manning remember that he’s Peyton Manning.
All in all, a great weekend, even though the Patriots won.
I’ll say this, though: the Cowboys would have won that game if Dallas’ receivers hadn’t forgotten how to catch.
January 13th, 2008
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Sports, NFL |
20 comments
Seattle’s going to play at Green Bay, and somebody (doesn’t matter who) is going to lose at New England.
January 7th, 2008
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Sports, NFL, Humor |
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“Hey, Mr. Blank, look at that over there!”
*bolts*
December 12th, 2007
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Sports, NFL, College FB |
2 comments
A few thoughts, in no particular order:
- First, I thought going in that the Cowboys were the better team (I’ve been saying most of the season that I don’t think the Packers are as good as their record), and it looks like I was right.
- That said, neither team looks to me like a championship caliber team. They both have a lot of talent, but are simply too inconsistent, and too prone to giving up the big play.
- I knew that “Bad Brett” was still hiding in there somewhere. But a lot of that had to do with coaching yesterday. More on this later. I will say, though, that as bad as Brett’s first INT looked, the guy was open — he simply underthrew him, probably because he was hurried. If he’d thrown the ball about 5 yards farther, that’s a probable touchdown.
- Tony Romo is the real deal. But I don’t understand the constant comparisons to Brett Favre. Yes, he’s got a gun for an arm, but that’s where the similarities end, in my opinion. Romo’s much less cavalier with the football; I didn’t see him make any of the kinds of cover-your-eyes throws that Favre is prone to making (and often getting away with).
- Of course, it doesn’t hurt that Romo had all day and then some to throw the ball. My kingdom for a pass rush. If you want my opinion of the single most important difference-maker in the game, it was that Dallas had a good pass rush (especially early and late), and Green Bay didn’t.
- Is it just me, or was the game terribly officiated? The only saving grace was that it was bad in a way that didn’t favor one team over the other. I saw several blatant holds go uncalled in both directions; ditto for several blatant occurrences of offensive interference. I don’t think Green Bay got the first down near the goal line in the third, but the officials said “close enough.” Al Harris’ clear interception in the first quarter was called a completion to Owens. The list goes on.
- Despite my complaints about the officiating, I do think that the late pass interference call against Green Bay was the right call. Although I would like to see a two-tiered pass interference rule (think facemask), with a flagrant, spot-of-the-foul variety, and a less severe, 10-yards-and-automatic-first-down variety. But with the rule the way it is today, I think you have to call that.
- As I alluded to above, the game was coached terribly. Both teams demonstrated a maddening refusal to stick with what works. McCarthy seemed to think that the Packers needed to hit a home run, and called several long plays and getting away from the controlled, short passing attack that has worked so well all season. (Indeed, when Favre went out and Rodgers came in, he reverted to that plan, with a couple of ugly exceptions, and lo and behold, it worked pretty well.)
- Wade Phillips (or perhaps Jason Garrett), on the other hand, went with a “that worked, let’s not try it again” approach. Every time the Cowboys put Owens in motion, it confused the Green Bay corners and resulted in a big play. Yet they only did it a few times, and stopped altogether when they built up a big lead, only going back to it after the Packers pulled to within 3.
- WTF was up with that Owens bobble in the end zone that resulted in Romo’s only INT? Romo should be allowed to punch him in the nose for that…
- Speaking of Owens, he pretty much took Al Harris to school. He also provided a blueprint for how to beat Harris: don’t worry about gaining position on him, because on several plays Harris was in perfect defensive position and then merely stood there while Owens went up and made the catch.
- Not to make excuses, but I would like to see how the game would have played out if Green Bay didn’t have injuries to its top pass rusher, one of its top two corners, and one of its best offensive lineman. I think the injury to Favre actually helped the Packers, though: Favre tends to get psyched out in Dallas, and the switch to Rodgers made the Cowboys [stupidly] switch to a more conservative game plan.
- On the bright side, Rodgers showed a lot of promise. As uncomfortable as he looked, he got the job done; you certainly can’t pin the loss on him. If he gets comfortable, the Packers will be just fine at the QB position for quite some time.
- Finally, Chris Collinsworth gets the trifecta: He managed to give glowing verbal hand jobs to Favre, Romo, and Rodgers, all in the same game. Apparently, all you have to do is either be effective or have a good history in order to be worshipped by Collinsworth…
- OK, I lied, one more thing: Bryant Gumbel is awful. I can’t even count how many times he called a three yard gain “almost nothing,” and in the end, he can’t even count, because he said something like “Cowboys win by 7.” It’s not every day someone can make me long for Joe Buck, but Gumbel does it.
November 30th, 2007
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2 comments
Is Jeff Garcia the second coming of Doug Flutie? The criticisms seem to be the same: His arm’s not strong enough, he’s too old, he’s too short, etc. The results are the same, too: All he does is win football games. Counting the 2006 and 2007 seasons, he’s 9-3 as a starter, including a narrow playoff loss at New Orleans, and a 3-1 start this year. Yet he had a hard time even finding a job this year.
The most important thing you can do as a quarterback is lead your team to victory, and like Flutie before him, that’s what Garcia has done everywhere except Detroit. (And, really, who can blame him for Detroit being Detroit?)
So, it’s my contention that Garcia is the new Flutie. Discuss.
October 1st, 2007
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Sports, NFL |
4 comments
Some random reactions to the defenses and other thoughts about the Don Imus firing and a rumination on sports place in society.
- Imus Was Trying to be Funny: Yes, but he was trying to be funny in a specific way for a specific purpose. I watched much of that Rutgers/Tennessee championship game and I can tell you flat out that Rutgers played awful. If he wanted to make a joke about the game, there was plenty of material related to the actual game play that he could have used. But he choose, instead, to attack them in a personal manner and to make fun of them in terms that were designed to denigrate and humiliate them. He was, in other words, trying to put them in their pace. That he was also trying to be funny is not an excuse.
- Rappers Say Worse: So? Am I to excuse Pol Pot because Hitler killed more people, to use an extreme example? An Imus is not your average rapper, now is he? He is a prominent insider voice whose position can literally make book sales and aid political careers. When the rapper du jour gets to that level of power then maybe that might be a valid point. Until then, it’s like comparing Buicks to unicycles.
- Other Radio Hosts Say Worse: So? See the above point. And then give me a list - -those people deserve to be fired, too.
- Imus has Said Worse: Yes, he has. That does not mean that he should not have been fired; it means that he should have been fired sooner.
- Imus Does Charity Work: It is entirely possible to be a racist and a sexist and to do charity work. The charity work does not excuse using a radio show to spout racism and sexism.
- Now Other Radio Host Will Be Too Afraid To Speak Their Minds: Only if they are racist or sexists. If they don’t use sexist or racist language then there is no problem. Essentially you are telling me that Imus’s firing make sit harder for casual racism and sexism to be transmitted through commerical media. Why am I supposed to think this is a bad thing?
- But Imus is a Shock Jock — This Is What He Does: So? That doesn’t make it right. Again, that’s not an argument that he should not have been fired, that’s an argument that he should have been fired sooner
- CBS and MSNBC Only Fired Imus Because Sponsors Pulled Out: Maybe, maybe not. MSNBC’s chief in particular made it clear that he had gotten a lot of heated opinion from his reporters on the Imus issue. But, again, so what? Before the firing, MSNBC and CBS and the show’s sponsors were quite happy to take the money of racists and sexists. Today, they have learned that pandering to racists and sexists can cost you money. Again, why am I supposed to think that this is a bad thing?
The most fascinating thing to me in this story is how it intersects with sports. Don Imus has said much worse about politicians and reporters and gotten away with it for years. Indeed, there are precious few reporters and public figures who dared to ignore his show because of its place in the insider media food chain. But this first time — as far as I can tell — he personally attacked sports figures in this way he gets fired. Much of the discussion and the news I heard about Imus I heard through sports shows and sports talk radio. I don’t think its an exaggeration to say that millions more people heard his comments and about the uproar because of sports talk. I have to believe that it had an effect on the outcome. The more people who hear about the affair, the more people there were to put pressure on the sponsors. Rush Limbaugh went through a similar event. He made a racist comment about Donovan McNabb on ESPN and was fired. That comment was mild compared to some of the racist remarks he has made in the past, but it was that remark that caused him to lose a job and that remark that is the one I hear most often when his racist past is brought up.
I am not sure what this tells us. I suspect that it means nothing more than that sports is the one area where we still share a largely common culture in this country and that we, as a society, pay far, far more attention to sports than we do to journalism or politics. But it might also mean that sports — with it’s clearly measurable objectives and obvious markers of success — is the one are of our culture where racism’s inherent idiocy is most clearly revealed. It is easy, sometimes, for people not to see the effects of racism, to argue that minorities aren’t discriminated against in the real world, that they just don’t work hard enough. No one with a brain, though, could argue that the Rutgers players hadn’t worked hard and didn’t belong where they found themselves. No one could argue that Donovan McNabb wasn’t one of the league’s best quarterbacks or that he had gotten where he was because of some weird quarterback affirmative action. Sports fans expect their games to be honest and reflect of actual effort and ability. When someone implies the opposite, the fallacy is obvious and jarring in a way that it isn’t in almost any other activity.
Baseball is celebrating Jackie Robinson today. I have heard people say that Jackie Robinson the baseball player (the distinction matters; Jackie Robinson the man, it is often forgotten, was a tireless champion for civil rights from the day of his retirement to the day of his death) was the most important civil rights leader the country ever had. I used to think that was a ludicrous exaggeration. I still don’t believe it, but I think it’s a lot closer to the truth than I had believed.
April 13th, 2007
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Politics, Sports, Economics, Culture, Media, NFL, MLB, College Hoops |
13 comments
Yeah, we were wrong. We’re still getting comments about it. What of it?
And for what it’s worth, Manning looked ordinary in the Super Bowl. Credit where it’s due, he finally beat the Pats in the playoffs, and he finally won the big one — even beating a Florida QB in Florida — but for my money, Dominic Rhodes was the MVP, not Peyton Manning.
February 23rd, 2007
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- How did Rudy G
auy not make it? I hear constantly from coaches and talking heads that they way to win championships is with defense and running. Control the clock, win the battle of field position, and don’t let those silly quarterbacks lose the game. Super Bowls have been won and entire coaching careers built around that notion. Well, punters are field position. A good punter can reverse, all by himself, a bad field position situation. A bad one can make you defense defend a very short field. So if field position is so important, and punters are the primary weapon for creating advantageous field position, how come the consensus greatest punter ever can’t get into the Hall of Fame?
- I am a bit surprised that Tagliabue didn’t make the cut. Yes, I realize that his legacy is not complete until the effects of his last CBA are determined, but, really, unless that CBA destroys the League, how could it possibly hurt his reputation that much. There used to be a Big Four of professional sports in the United States. Now there is just the NFL and a bunch of also-rans. Tagliabue managed that transition. The NFL became the money making machine that is is today in large part because of Tagliabue. He deserves to be in the Hall of Fame
- The selection process is dumb. A list of finalists is determined and then forty media people meet one day before the Super Bowl and debate about who should be allowed into the Hall. Voting is usually arranged so that there is one paring down and then another round of debate. That’s all fine with me. My problem is with the voting — only a certain number of people can get in each year. So instead of a Hall of Fame, we have a Hall of People Who Fit Into an Arbitrary Number of Allowed Entrants in a Given Year of Eligibility. The idea that any year’s class of eligibles can only produce a certain number of entrants is silly. Greatness is greatness, not matter if it stands alone at the vote or with ten other great players. Each finalist should get a straight yes or no vote.
February 4th, 2007
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Sports, NFL |
4 comments
Over in this thread, I made what I thought was basically an uncontroversial comment:
The other story worth covering here is the Pittsburgh Steelers’ hiring of Mike Tomlin — an African-American coach they wouldn’t have even interviewed if not for a requirement that they interview some minority candidates. This is exactly what that requirement was supposed to accomplish: a candidate who otherwise would have been overlooked so impressed team management that they hired him in favor of several other big-name coaches, and even in favor of promoting from within.
Why did I think this was uncontroversial? Because at the time I made it, almost all of the stories on the subject basically said as much. Basically, they said that the Steelers interviewed Tomlin because he was on a short list of “qualified minority candidates” that they’re required to interview because of the “Rooney Rule,” established in 2002 at the prompting of Steelers owner Dan Rooney, which requires teams with coaching vacancies to interview minority candidates. But commenter Ted challenged me on this claim, and when I went to look it up again today, almost all of those references are gone.
Do a quick Google on tomlin steelers “rooney rule” and you’ll see what I mean. Plenty of references, but when you click through — to Yahoo sports, to the New York Times, etc. — the references to the “Rooney Rule” are gone. You have to look up the cached versions to find them. I’m not that conspiratorial, but what’s going on here? Something doesn’t smell right about this.
With enough searching, I was able to find one story out of Pittsburgh that’s still essentially unaltered:
Not long ago, before Steelers owner Dan Rooney successfully lobbied in 2002 for a rule that requires all NFL teams to interview minority candidates for coaching jobs, the 34-year-old Tomlin might not have been targeted by the Steelers.
But after a successful first season as Minnesota’s defensive coordinator, Tomlin’s name was one of about a dozen on a list of qualified minority candidates given Rooney at a mid-December meeting in New York. Rooney is the chairman of the NFL Committee on Workplace Diversity.
The very intent of the Rooney Rule was to give coaches such as Tomlin a forum to display their credentials. And Tomlin was chosen largely because of the motivation, enthusiasm and organizational skills he showed in two strong interviews with Rooney, team president Art Rooney II and director of football operations Kevin Colbert.
…snip…
Tomlin’s hiring completed a 2 1/2-week search in which he was initially viewed as an unlikely choice behind perceived front-runners Ken Whisenhunt and Russ Grimm, but Whisenhunt later accepted the Arizona Cardinals’ job.
Why have virtually all of the other stories been edited to remove this aspect? It seems not only relevant, but extremely important. Something’s not right here.
January 24th, 2007
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Sports, Culture, Media, NFL |
one comment
By now, even the most sports averse of readers probably know that history was made Sunday and will be made again two Sundays from now. Lovie Smith and Tony Dungy became, within hours of each other, the first two African Americans to coach a team to the Super Bowl. On February 4th, one of them (hopefully Lovie. Go Bears!) will become the first African American head coach to win a Super Bowl.
Think of that. February’s game will be the forty-first Super Bowl. Almost all of them have taken place after the passage of the Civil Rights Act. It has taken until now for an African American coach to even reach the Super Bowl, much less win one. Those facts say several things about our country, not all of them good. However you measure it, though, I would think that it would be obvious that Dungy and Smith have achieved something worthy of note.
Joe Theismann didn’t seem to think so Monday. I don;t have a transcript for the show in front of me, but I listened to his segment on the way to work. Theismann said that he wished people would stop talking about the fact that Dungy and Smith were African American. He seemed to feel that mentioning that took away from their achievements and that they were head coached, full stop. Theismann couldn’t be more wrong. The fact that Dungy and Smith are African Americans means that their achievements are even more impressive.
Even putting aside the slow rate of progress in the NFL itself (which, to its credit, has done well in the last five years to correct the situation) we do not live in a post-racism society. Smith and Dungy started at a time when they would have had to work harder than their peers in order to impress certain people. They had the handicap of not belonging to the same race as the owners and GM and others who made hiring decisions, and thus not being a “comfortable fit” for those people. At every level, they would have to overcome the fact that some people expected the worst for them and some others would not even recognize their best as any good.
I know this because it is still perfectly acceptable to be a racist and suffer hardly any consequences for it. I know that because Rush Limbaugh has made a career out of it, with his latest broadside just a few days ago:
Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.
How many stations did Rush lose with this blatantly racist comment? As far as I can tell: one. So while I understand Theismann’s desire for the world to see Smith and Dungy for just their professional achievements, the fact remains that too much of the country will never accept their achievements as real. That’s why their race is relevant, and that’s why their race makes their achievements more impressive, not less.
January 23rd, 2007
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Sports, Culture, NFL |
25 comments
Some quick thoughs about the second week:
- Huh, Rex Grossman is an actual quarterback. Whoda thunk?
- Joe Gibbs is horribly over-rated as a coach. I didn’t see the first half, so perhaps I missed it, but the Cowboys’ defensive weakness has been its coverage for a couple of years now. Last year, the Redskins themselves overcame a thirteen point deficit to beat the Cowboys by throwing two long touchdowns. But Gibbs didn’t seem to try to stretch the defense at all.
- Gibbs also doesn’t appear too bright. Down by 17 with just under four minutes to go, the Redskins were in field goal position, but decided to go for it on fourth and seven. Why not kick the field goal and go from there? What the hell was he thinking? Did he have any idea what the score and/or time situation actually was? Did he just want to get back to the hotel and get some shut-eye?
- Those H3 commercials with the magician? I don’t want to cast aspersions on the magician but, well, let’s just say that I am not hiring anyone who looks that unsavory for any kids’ party I am associated with.
- Drew Bledsoe still needs to be benched. Washington didn’t do what you need to do beat Bledsoe: pressure him and make decisions. Bledsoe can’t make good decisions, never has been able to make good decisions, and shows no signs of ever being able to make good decisions. Under pressure, its at least 50/50 that he will do something horribly stupid and kill your team. He is Brett Favre without the personality or talent.
- I don’t know if you can win a Super Bowl running the option offense, but after the last two weeks, I wouldn’t blame Atlanta for trying it.
- Eli Manning is going to kill a coach. For three quarters, he looked like he had never played the game before. No one would have baled Coughlin for sitting him down. And then he led the Giants to an overtime victory from a seventeen point fourth quarter deficit.
- Why not play Vince Young? Vollek is apparently so far in the dog house that the Titans preferred to sign Kerry Collins rather than play him. And Kerry Collins is, well, Kerry Collins. The Titans aren’t going to win very many games anyway, so why not let Young learn the game?
- Yet again many, many players gave praise to God for winning the game or playing well and no one said a variation of the following: “We were doing great. Until GOD made me lose that fumble.” I cannot die happy until that happens.
- What’s the over/under for the number of weeks before Texan fans burn down the team’s offices? They passed on home town hero Young and almost sure-thing pro-bowler Reggie Bush to take a defensive player who has four tackles and no sacks through two weeks.
- New Orleans is a great story, but they haven’t played anyone good yet. This little run ends next week when Atlanta comes to the Superdome. And its a shame that the rest of New Orleans hasn’t been treated as well as the Superdome has.
- Has any quarterback dropped as precipitously as Dante Culpepper? Two years ago he was the best quarterback not named Peyton. Last years he was terrible, then injured, and this year he has been terrible.
- Do you think that defense players have taken to asking Brett Farve if he is happy he came back for one more season?
- I think that Minnesota is doing it with mirrors, but as a Bears fan, I am uneasy about their game next week.
- Tgirsch is once again beating me in the football picks pool.
September 18th, 2006
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Sports, NFL |
5 comments
Is it too early to call for the benching of Drew Bledsoe?
September 10th, 2006
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Sports, NFL |
one comment
From the Lame Excuses File, Roethlisberger edition:
“That day I wasn’t, I forgot it. I literally forgot it,” he said. “You know there are times that, people that have been making a big deal for the last couple years about me riding first of all, and then me riding without a helmet, but it’s one of those things that I ride with a helmet also. I do a little bit of both. If you don’t wear a seat belt every time you ride in the car should I label you as a person who doesn’t wear a seat belt? And unfortunately I happened to not have it on that day because I forgot it in the basement.“
July 13th, 2006
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From Dan Wetzel:
Multiple captains is the dumbest idea in sports. What’s the purpose? You either have a captain or you don’t. There is only one Captain Crunch, Kangaroo, Morgan, America and so on. The [1985] Patriots should have sent out Hog Hannah and then they would have stood a chance. Instead, they showed confusion and weakness and got mocked even by their junior high-aged fans.
So what happens Sunday? Each team sent out six captains for the coin flip. That’s not a sign of leadership, that’s a couple of boy bands. It’s something out of pre-kindergarten soccer. It’s the coach saying he doesn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings in an era where everyone is above average.
Ha!
February 7th, 2006
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