Daily Archives: October 2, 2007

Happy 20th birthday, NFL strike!

Hey Seattle fans: Do you remember this ticket?
If you’ve got one like it (and God help the lonely 31,739 that bought one of these sorry tickets), you may have attended the lowest point in the Seattle Kingdome’s history, and part of the worst mistake the league has ever made.
SCAB FOOTBALL!
True, by score it looks like [...]

Welcome to hell, Dolphins fans

Growing up in Indiana, I’ve had long-term exposure to horrible football. Whether it was watching my alma mater (Indiana University) suffer through an interminable string of losing seasons, watching the abortive Fred Akers and Jim Colletto eras at Purdue, or watching the Indianapolis Colts repeatedly suck for 15 years, bad football was never that far [...]

“I have no idea how we just won”

For those who didn’t see it last night, the Colorado Rockies/San Diego Padres play-in game was one of the most enjoyable nights of baseball that I’ve watched in a while. It had a bit of everything — Jake Peavy going all Tom Glavine in the first inning, the Padres hitting a grand slam to take [...]

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