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 [...]

We Won’t Get Fooled Again

Let’s be clear about this thing… Although I wanted the New Orleans Saints to win the Super Bowl, there was no way it seemed possible. Nothing personal against Drew Brees, Sean Payton, any of their teammates, Who Dat Nation, Dr. John, or anyone else from NOLA you can mention – it just didn’t seem like [...]

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.
Hi Todd!
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 [...]

Championship Weekend Just Made Me Throw Up In My Mouth

The playoffs only become a hollow and cold place once your favorite team is knocked out (unless you root for the Buffalo Bills, then your entire existence is hollow and cold). There’s been an interesting discussion in New England over the last week about who Patriots fans will be pulling for in the AFC Championship [...]

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 [...]