Five Best NFL Teams of the Energy Crisis Era: 1976-1981
Published on: 9th June, 2010
In my first two or three years of college (beer and poker...I think I lost a semester), I studied psychology, hoping someday to become a counselor. Yeah, right. After seriously evaluating my life, I determined I should be on the weird side of that desk. Seeing a counselor was the ...Reality Bites: Why Pittsburgh Steelers Fans Should Worship Big Ben (Seriously)
Published on: 11th May, 2010
I'm the guy who in two recent Bleacher Report articles tried to tie NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to racism and misogyny in his handling of the Ben Roethlisberger situations. Thirty eight terse comments say I didn't sell anyone on my ideas. The best result of all of this, is that we agree ...Super Bowl XIII in 1979: Deja Vu All Over Again
Published on: 10th May, 2010
Steelers fans around the globe knew Sunday January 21, 1979, was going to be a special day. Their Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys, the Steel Curtain and America’s Team, were meeting that afternoon in Super Bowl XIII at the Orange Bowl. That championship game held much promise ...Just Finished Big Ben’s SI Cover Article…and Thinking About Women
Published on: 8th May, 2010
I’m the guy who in a Bleacher Report article attempted to tie NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to racism after he, in my opinion, pitched Ben Roethlisberger a creampuff with his six week suspension that could turn into four provided that Big Ben quickly changes his evil ways. Many arguments against my ...Super Bowl X: Up With People? How About Swannie All Day!
Published on: 5th May, 2010
Of all the sorry…I mean “Up With People?” Talk about an exciting Super Bowl X halftime show. It was as if your church’s choir had taken off the robes to reveal Republican fashions and Mister Rogers was the choreographer. Glad I was 19 and on my fifth Miller High Life. Don’t sweat ...Gator Bowl: Cut the Dick Cheney Humor, Florida State
Published on: 21st December, 2009
In the middle of the 2008 presidential campaign, vice president Dick Cheney quipped to the National Press Club about his family's relationship to Barack Obama. To support this venture into comedy, the veep said: "So we had Cheneys on both sides of the family—and we don't even live in West Virginia." I heard ...West Virginia Football: Situation Normal…
Published on: 17th December, 2009
The gong was banged on Mountaineer football twice this decade, both as a result of someone, or some entity, heading for the exit. Miami, Virginia Tech, and Boston College took the first jetliner out of the Big East during the expansion of the Atlantic Coast Conference to twelve schools. Three years ...West Virginia Joins ACT-17 Conference Amid Big-10 Raid (Humor)
Published on: 16th December, 2009
(Morgantown, W. Va.) The athletic department administration of West Virginia University, wishing to remain nameless for obvious reasons, combined with the president of the university, also anonymous, to announce the school's charter membership in a newly-minted athletic conference. "The ACT-17 Conference was formed as an alliance of institutions of...uh...higher learning left ...West Virginia Football Year-End 2009 Wrap-Up
Published on: 14th December, 2009
Effective today, I am taking a leave of absence from my duties as a featured columnist covering the West Virginia University football Mountaineers for Bleacher Report. I fully intend to return soon, as my only reason for the leave is to complete the screenplay about college football in the 1960s that ...A Random Walk Through 2009 West Virginia Football
Published on: 11th December, 2009
In July, I issued the Waffling Flip-Flop Comment of the Year by stating that West Virginia could end up 6-and-6 or win them all and neither would surprise me. I was right. No shocker at 9-and-3. Twenty words or less: The offensive line fell into place, the defense fought through injuries, and ...Featured Sponsors
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