Published on: 18th June, 2010
SATIRE—Gene Stallings, once a young Junction boy of Bear Bryant, but currently the old boy of the Texas A&M Aggie's Board of Regents, must muse melancholy over the changed college football landscape and maybe even softly sing about what a long, strange trip it's been. Bryant was a mercenary ...Published on: 14th September, 2009
"The more tribes, the more they'll fight, and the better for us." -Daniel Dravot From The Man Who Would Be King The BCS is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Or so they seem to want us to believe. We hear tales of unbreakable conference entanglements and beloved traditions. But big ...Published on: 21st August, 2009
Baby you can drive my car Yes I'm gonna be a star Baby you can drive my car And maybe I'll love you "Speaking of whether I ever punched a coach — I never drove anyone from the airport, either." John Madden, from the New York Times NFL ...Published on: 7th July, 2009
Its 1943 and the Soviets are surrounding the beleaguered German Sixth Army at Stalingrad. US Marines are locked in bloody combat with Japanese Imperial troops on Guadalcanal and Penn State Head Coach Joe Paterno is tired. Traveling, recruiting, old coach type of tired. The kind of traveling tired that's ...Published on: 2nd July, 2009
"Greed is good." Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's Wall Street; still a motto in many parts of the land. In these tough economic times, one would think businesses based on customers' leisure time habits would cater their products to retain their customer base. Not so with the NFL and its long ...