Category Archives: pigskin
New Piece at Leatherheads
This one ties together Good Times with Alex Karras, Jack Kemp, and Jimmy Hoffa. Enjoy.
The Life of Daly
I’ve mainly written about basbeall over the past decade, but here’s a football piece. It’s my usual six degrees of separation type riff with some autobiographical tangents. Enjoy.
Icarus In Spikes
Mariano Rivera saved Enrique Wilson’s life. He blew Game Seven of the 2001 World Series but made his best save ever. Wilson was scheduled to fly home to the Dominican Republic on American Airlines Flight 587. But Arizona defeated the … Continue reading
Filed under baseball, beisbol, football, Other sports, pigskin
George Blanda R.I.P.
From the Hartford Courant’s AP feed. The Oakland Raiders announced the death of legendary quarterback and kicker George Blanda on their website Monday. Blanda, who was 81, played 26 seasons in professional football, including stints with the Chicago Bears, Baltimore … Continue reading
Is It Time To Retire The Football Helmet?
Slate pointed me towards this Wall Street Journal article from a year ago. It’s something that I have thought of before. I don’t think it was an original thought, I may have picked it up in one of the various … Continue reading
Quarterback Mayhem I Don’t Understand
This ad doesn’t make sense to me. Why is the driver looking at his left towards the football team then crashing into the motorcycles? Isn’t he heading straight into the team and shouldn’t he crash into some offensive linemen forming … Continue reading
More Free Darko On Football
Here. I got back into basketball pretty organically. It just sort of happened one summer. Once it took over my life, it wasn’t long before I wanted — or saw that it made sense to be — a generalist. Year-round … Continue reading
UConn Power Line
Okay, the Huskies didn’t have a good weekend. but I want to bring some attention to this article from the Journal Inquirer. In particular, I want to highlight this portion: UConn doesn’t find offensive linemen, it creates them. “I am … Continue reading
This Would Have Been An Interesting Post-Baseball Career
Heard this guy on the radio today talking about Hurricane Earl. Thought he might’ve been John Cangeolosi and not John Cangialosi. In other, unrelated, news Carson Cistulli showed up in my dream the other nite. I don’t recall talking baseball … Continue reading
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Twenty-Four Precepts From Football Outsiders
Just in time for the football season. Talk to me, people. Wiser folks than me have suggested that “The Curse of 370″ is less light than heat, but the rest of the list looks solid.
