February 08, 2011

SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle:

A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.

posted by huddle to general at 06:00 AM - 20 comments

Sally Jenkins has an interesting article on the bloated Super Bowl and how far the NFL can dip into our pockets before we say "Enough!"

posted by BigVACub at 08:51 AM on February 08, 2011

Good article. Thanks for posting.

When L.A. eventually gets a team and a stadium, lord knows what that's going to be like and what the price tab will be.

posted by beaverboard at 09:07 AM on February 08, 2011

I originally saw this linked on the Yahoo Baseball Blog, but I feel it is better to link directly to the article.

Every wondered what game Ferris Bueller caught the foul ball at?

posted by Demophon at 09:10 AM on February 08, 2011

Jeff MacGregor wrote a similar piece on Super Bowl excess for ESPN.Com.

posted by rcade at 10:30 AM on February 08, 2011

Liked MacGregor's article as well.

Great picture of Aguilera there.

Love child of Johnny Winter and Morticia Addams.

posted by beaverboard at 10:47 AM on February 08, 2011

Wake Forest's baseball coach now has a recruiting story that's tough to top.

posted by yerfatma at 11:23 AM on February 08, 2011

Dallas Morning News still rehashing lost seat saga at Super Bowl, including first person account. I think most interesting was that the displaced were told they were receiving a credit for $10 worth of food or drink in stadium while they waited. So essentially, the NFL was offering to buy them a beer since that is about all you could get for $10. Of course, it turned out they never got the credit anyway.

posted by graymatters at 11:47 AM on February 08, 2011

Love child of Johnny Winter ...

She looks pale with that peroxide hairstyle.

Beyond that, no chance she has any association with Johnny - he's an extremely talented and well respected musician. She should stick to her day job, whatever that is.

posted by cixelsyd at 01:11 PM on February 08, 2011

Mike Rupp. Hockey player, Beer lover. given the cost at a pens game, 8.25 for a large, I hope he brought Mike some change.

posted by Debo270 at 02:43 PM on February 08, 2011

Just an FYI: the final Pick 'Em results are in, and can be found here.

Congrats to our Beeg Weiner, tron7!

posted by hincandenza at 03:08 PM on February 08, 2011

How is this not an NCAA violation?

posted by bperk at 04:09 PM on February 08, 2011

I Wein!

posted by tron7 at 04:23 PM on February 08, 2011

How is this not an NCAA violation?

Maybe they've found some semblance of decency.

posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 05:25 PM on February 08, 2011

Alex Rodriguez was as level-headed as expected about Super Bowl candids.

posted by yerfatma at 06:10 PM on February 08, 2011

From ARod story: one of Hollywood's "it" couples never graced our flat screens for the rest of Super Bowl XLV

Thank goodness!!

posted by graymatters at 10:22 PM on February 08, 2011

Yeah, I'm not sure why ARod is upset. He just had his A-List Hollywood girlfriend feed him popcorn while sitting in a luxury box at the damn Super Bowl.

If anything, he's the boss!

posted by grum@work at 08:44 AM on February 09, 2011

A Rod sounds like a blast to hang around with, doesn't he?

posted by rcade at 08:47 AM on February 09, 2011

I'm not sure why ARod is upset

Roid rage ?

posted by cixelsyd at 11:34 AM on February 09, 2011

The local radio guys are saying the Tigers should have a Free Popcorn Night the first game vs. the Yankees, and a Popcorn-Cam where they can show women feeding popcorn to their men in the stands...

posted by MeatSaber at 11:49 AM on February 09, 2011

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