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Favre takes it to the Packers: Vikings win 30-23: Brett Favre proved to the Green Bay Packers he has plenty of fire left inside, and in his right arm. Favre's first game against his former team was all fun for the Minnesota Vikings and all frustration for the Packers, as the graying quarterback kept his cool and connected for three touchdown passes and 271 yards in a 30-23 victory on Monday night
posted by dviking to football at 01:05 AM on October 06 - 36 comments
Brett Favre not coming back to join the Vikings: Favre decided he was not up to a 19th season, so it's Sage Rosenfels or T-Jack at QB for the Vikings
posted by dviking to football at 06:27 PM on July 28 - 34 comments
Vick, Goodell met in New Jersey, though the league is not confirming this: Looks like talks aimed at Vick's reinstatement are underway.
posted by dviking to football at 12:24 AM on July 24 - 11 comments
Tom Watson continues to lead the field at the British Open.: Tom Watson looked around at the amazing scene Saturday, his eyes tearing up a bit as all the Scottish fans surrounding the 18th green toasted one of golf's greatest champions. Man, I wish I was there!
posted by dviking to golf at 03:08 PM on July 18 - 10 comments
Florida State gets 4 years of probation: Head Coach Bobby Bowden, one win behind one behind Penn State's Joe Paterno, might have a few wins taken away.
posted by dviking to football at 05:17 PM on March 06 - 4 comments
The sample size is plenty large enough to hold validity, in fact it's probably several times larger than it really needs to be. All that is really needed is fairly equal representation from each team. If they told me that two players from each team were interviewed I'd be totally fine with the results.
Keep in mind that players on teams talk, and they all view films, so if a guy is a cheap shot artist, they get talked about. I doubt a guy could make the list to the level that Ward did without some validity to it. Guys on the bottom of the list might get there due to just one, or two hits, but you don't get top billing without some consistent level of dirty play. Twice as many listed Ward as they did the second place guy. That does send a message.
Unless someone can prove that they only talked to AFC defensive players, or all of the Bengal players and none of the Steelers, I think the survey hold water. Keep in mind that the league fined him twice last year, so it's not exactly virgin territory to be calling Ward a cheap shot.
posted by dviking at 04:15 PM on November 06
Of course, the single biggest advantage the Yankees have had since 1995 is that their "core four" (Posada, Jeter, Rivera, Pettitte (although he left and came back)) have performed amazingly well for 15 seasons. It's really hard to find any teams since free agency that can claim to have had that sort of reliability in that many players for that long
That's exactly the point...Small market teams can't afford to. Look at my Twins...they had a nice run..late 80's to early 90's...but can't afford to hang to players the way the Yankees can. This next year the Twins get a financial boost due to a new stadium, but who knows if they'll be able to compete with big market teams when Joe Mauer's contract comes up next year? Small market teams get very short windows of opportunity, big market teams get a shot at it almost every year.
Playing in cheat mode doesn't give the player all of the achievements for beating a game that they would have earned if they just played by the rules.
That also was my point. I don't think the Yankees are getting the full credit that most championship teams get. Look at the number of people on this site that believe they cheated. You play in cheat mode on video games and no one cares. I see a lot of people that don't care that the Yankees won. I usually watch the last game, just to see the celebrations, and have watched many parades for teams I don't cheer for. I couldn't find the excitement to even finish watching the final game this year, and at work, not a single person is talking about the Yankees. By far the fastest "move on" after the series that I can remember.
posted by dviking at 10:19 AM on November 06
At my son's football game tonight, some guy shows up wearing a Jeter jersey...he got booed. Seems as though there's a pretty widespread dislike of the Yankees down here, or maybe they just hate Jeter.
Personally, I don't think the Yankees cheated, I just feel that the payroll disparity cheapens the win. It's like having the 16 year old playing in the Little League game...yea, you won, but you should have won, big deal. I don't ever recall any other team winning a championship in any sport, and not really being given their due respect for doing so. Everyone I've talked to (have not talked to single person from NY) is pretty much going "whatever, of course they won, look at the payroll"
Kudo's to Steinbrenner for paying the bucks to get it done.
posted by dviking at 11:43 PM on November 05
Holden, it's the payout on a dollar bet. A horse at $10 pays $50 on a $5 bet.
Makes more sense to me than the way odds are shown here.
posted by dviking at 09:04 AM on November 04
Is he really even sitting out 30 minutes? Florida is going to have the ball for the majority of the time anyway, so hardly a suspension.
posted by dviking at 02:48 AM on November 04
Failing that, hit him hard, hit him clean, punish him for the rest of the game
That line brought back memories...in a High School game, an opposing corner back put several cheap shots on our QB, and was seen kneeing a guy in the groin after a tackle. I was one of the wide outs. the coach told us all that on every running play he wanted us to take the jerk out. If he was standing at the end of a play, we were coming out. I think I blind sided him about 10 times myself. The cheap shot artist's last name was Christian. That game was over 30 years ago, funny how some things stick with you. Sorry, that was my trip down memory lane for the day.
posted by dviking at 09:34 PM on November 03
LOL, given that we have a Kenyan Nationalist as our President, what's a marathon runner from Eritrea matter?
Sorry, couldn't resist...I'll see myself out to the woodshed.
posted by dviking at 09:14 PM on November 03
so, you're saying that he played a entire play with Ealey's spit on his glove, taking care not to accidentally wipe it off doing anything silly like, oh, maybe tackle someone. Then, he jumped on the pile, keeping that hand free, and was simply wiping the spit back on Ealey...is that what you're saying? I double the BS call...no way that happened.
Minimum one game suspension...half a game is almost worse than no suspension. With no suspension you could at least make the statement "we reviewed the tapes, and talked to players, and our decision was to handle this one internally" The half game suspension smacks of "yes, he did that, but we've got a national title to win, and we need to beat Vandy by 60 this week"
posted by dviking at 10:14 AM on November 03
Tennis rackets work very well. (not for the squeamish)
Used to deal with the flying mammals at a lake cabin, the animals can do quite the damage to a wooden structure.
posted by dviking at 02:55 PM on November 02
It's all about economics...the seasons of all sports have been expanded to allow for more games, thus more revenue.
While I like watching a football game that's taking place in inclement weather, baseball is another matter. The season should end by mid-October at the latest.
posted by dviking at 10:58 AM on November 02
LOL, nice job of swatting a bat out of mid-air. Though to be fair, the bat was probably pretty disoriented as he was totally out of his natural habitat.
The player swatted it down, he didn't stomp on his head...PETA has no reason for complaint here.
I think the hand sanitizer is the least that should have happened. I'd probably want to take a shower after contacting the bat like that!
posted by dviking at 10:55 AM on November 02
Favre was awesome today! 4 TD's and no picks or sacks.
His replacement had a decent day, though he did suffer through 6 sacks! Can blame some of those on his line, however, he also needs to learn to get rid of the ball.
It could have been worse, the Pack benefitted from some poor officiating at the start of the game. A clear Packer fumble that was returned for a TD was ruled down. I do understand that the whistle blows the play dead, but what the heck was the official blowing the whistle for on a play that was clearly not over? Didn't matter in the end.
posted by dviking at 11:19 PM on November 01
I'll second the vote that baseball be done in September.
posted by dviking at 11:13 PM on November 01
Just going to guess that the tackler plays on both all the special team plays...somehow forgot which he was on.
You wouldn't think this would happen past 7th grade.
posted by dviking at 02:51 PM on November 01
Yankees Win World Series
There are probably 10 sports (not Yankees-specific) sites that were able to discuss the outcome of the series without turning it into a forum on baseball economics. Here's one. What's funny about that is that BBTF is reputed to be a collection of stathead number crunchers, and yet there's more of the kind of emotional response and camaraderie there than you are apparently hoping for here when you describe intelligent sports communities. Yeesh.
did you even look at that silly site? It's just a collection of one liners...no discussion or debate on a single item. If you want to say "congrat's Yankees!" and think that's somehow interesting, please go back to that site.
The Yankees have had this enormous financial advantage for several years. Why is this the first time they've won?
Beyond justgary's reply, I'd like to add that the Yankee's money keeps them as contenders every year. They don't have to keep going through the rebuilding years that small market teams do when they can't afford to resign their top players. Because Steinbrenner can't sign every top player, other teams do have a chance, and collectively the league has denied the Yankees from winning the WS the past few years. That doesn't really diminish the fact that the Yankees had a huge advantage each of those years.