Tag Archives: Super Bowl
The Weekend Hangover: Clearing Out Two Weeks Of Links Edition
The Weekly Hangover is a gathering place for all the miscellaneous news, blog posts, and articles that were interesting and sports related, but yet not quite enough so for me to bother clambering down into my mother’s basement to write about. Served with a heaping helping of sarcasm, market price. This [...]
Obituary Section: Peyton Manning’s New Image
Peyton Manning’s new image as a clutch performer and likable guy passed away Sunday evening after a brief, but ultimately futile, battle with the forces of nature. It was three years old.
Since entering professional football as the top pick of the NFL Draft in 1998, Manning was seen as the heir apparent to Hall of [...]
The Weekly Hangover: January 29 – February 5, 2010
The Weekly Hangover is a gathering place for all the miscellaneous news, blog posts, and articles that were interesting and sports related, but yet not quite enough so for me to bother clambering down into my mother’s basement to write about. Served with a heaping helping of sarcasm, market price.
* It’s reported that Hooters girls [...]
The Pro Bowl Is A Joke, And Other Obviousness
About the only way you’d catch me watching the Pro Bowl from beginning to end would be if, through some strange mishap, I became trapped under a boulder in my living room as I was channel surfing and the TV was stuck on the game with the remote control out of my reach. Even under [...]
Family Versus Sports
Hi everyone. My name is Todd and I’m a footballaholic.
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The ultimate beauty of the NFL season is this: unlike hockey, baseball, and basketball, every game is important (unless you root for the Bills, Raiders, or Lions that is). Losing streaks carry an extra burden unlike any other in professional sports. Lose four in a [...]
Patriots 2009 Season Postmortem, Part 3: Offense
Calling the 2009 New England Patriots season a “trainwreck” would be doing a disservice to creativity as well as to the actual confusing and awkward nature of the beast. I’d be more inclined to compare it to something like a strained lower back. Sometimes, even though I know my back is tweaked and needs rest, [...]
Patriots 2009 Season Postmortem, Part 1
Aside from the obvious kick-to-the-groin dull pain still throbbing after Sunday’s game, there is a bright spot to New England’s 33-14 embarrassment at the hands of the Baltimore Ravens. Finally, after years and years of gathering dust, writers can dig those Patriots dynasty obituaries out of their filing cabinets and set them to print. It [...]
Sometimes, Rex Ryan Makes This Blogging Thing Too Easy
Folks, there are days when even with the NFL playoffs afoot, the NBA season in swing, Gilbert Arenas packing, the Bruins making some noise, and everything else that nothing quite strikes the old writing bone. Despite my every best intention, nothing seems to resonate enough to want to chew on it, expound upon it, and [...]
