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Reilly on Tebow

Byron — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:24:36 +0000

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

Byron — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:39:13 +0000

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.

Cinderella: The Slipper Fits!!!!!!

Byron — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:25:15 +0000

A Cool Coincidence

Byron — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:43:08 +0000

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

Byron — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:56:34 +0000

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