Reilly on Tebow
January 13, 2012
Though I once considered the Denver Broncos my co-favorite team in the NFL, I was hugely disappointed that Tim Tebow led them to an overtime victory over my clearly-number-1-favorite team, the Pittsburgh Steelers. That said, I am like a whole lot of Americans in loving Tim Tebow and what he stands for.
Rick Reilly is now, after what seems like a conversion of sorts, also a Tebow-lover. Read what he has to say.
Weird Uncle Buddy McFly is at it Again
November 17, 2011
Baseball Commissioner Buddy McFly is once again at his infernal best, finding a couple of new and exciting ways to screw up what used to be America’s Pastime. “Hey, let’s move the Astros to the American League, and let’s add yet another two teams to the playoffs (so, ostensibly, we can become more and more like the NBA)”.
Weird Uncle Buddy Strikes Again
Hey, let’s add an extra run for super-long homers! How about adding rubber to the baseball to juice it up so 20-run games will become the norm? Any other brilliant ideas? I would put nothing, nothing past this incompetent commissioner and all the other doofuses who run baseball these days. Sheesh.
A Cool Coincidence
September 7, 2010
Football surpassed baseball in the mid-90′s as my favorite sport; combination of the fact that I just came to enjoy football more and more, and the fact that baseball is run by a dog’s breakfast of the ignorant, the greedy, and the self-important.
Which makes it fitting that the NFL season kicks off on my 50th birthday. Some of you may remember the fact that the old AFL kicked off on the day I was born, September 9, 1960, with a game between the Buffalo Bills and the Denver Broncos.
Cool.
50 Years of Life, a Retrospective: Part II B.1
August 14, 2010
Oops…it dawned on me that there was one other sports moment that had to make the list: Phil Mickelson winning the 2004 Masters. If you could watch that event unfold and say that golf on TV is always boring, well, I got nothing for ya.
Phil Finally Wins a Major
Honorable Mention in my little excursion into my favorite sports moments I watched live:
Carlton Fisk’s Homer in the ’76 World Series
Ozzie Smith’s Homer in the ’85 NLCS
Bjorn Borg/John McEnroe Going 5 Sets in the Wimbledon Final, 1980
UVa Snapping Florida State’s ACC Unbeaten Streak with a Goal-Line Stand, 1996
St. Louis Cardinals Winning the 1982 World Series
Lorenzo Charles’ Game-Winning Shot in the NCAA Tournament
Jim O’Brien Winning Super Bowl V for the Colts over Dallas
50 Years of Life, a Retrospective, Part IIB
August 14, 2010
Continuing the ten coolest sporting moments I’ve witnessed live:
Kerri Strug’s Gold Medal Vault, 1996 Atlanta
Weird that three of my top ten involve Olympics, which I’m not a huge fan of, but they all were feats of tremendous courage and fortitude.
The Epic in Miami – This was possibly the greatest football game I’ve ever seen, and Kellen Winslow gave one of the great all-time performances in NFL history.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOSI3_d5q68&feature=related
Kirk Gibson Wins Game One in Dramatic Fashion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG2trlRYBJg&NR=1
Christian Laettner Sends Duke to the Final Four
Steelers Win Super Bowl 43
50 Years of Life, A Retrospective: Part II
August 14, 2010
The Top Ten Sporting Events I Have Seen Live (no, not in person, but on TV…silly). They are listed in no particular order, and they are my list, meaning that some of them may have no meaning to others. Deal with it. Since I’m adding video for all of these I can, this is the first five:
Derrick Cope Swoops by Dale Earnhardt to Win the 1990 Daytona 500
Hank Aaron Hits Home Run #715
Derek Redmond at the Olympics
Broncos Beat Packers in Super Bowl XXXII
The Miracle on Ice
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
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