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Funny thing, this reminds me of an SI article during the Seventies on Steeler CB, Mel Blount. Roy Blount, author of Three Bricks Shy of a Load was the author. Roy Blount wrote that "Pittsburgh, where white ethnics set the tone, is not a particularly good place for a black athlete." Mel Blount...

Note that the previous best overnight rating for a Super Bowl featured a NY Giant victory. Going back to the late 1950's, the NY Giants have drawn higher ratings than anybody when in a championship game. The large New York-New Jersey market helps account for it. This game even had a New...

"In 1969, Hillary Rodham, a recent graduate of Wellesley College, interned in the office of New York Republican Rep. Charles Goodell. Father of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell." I'm sure it's only a coincidence.   I did a Yahoo search.  Hillary currently a Senator from NY interned...

The last-minute drive that Eli Manning made is what makes a great QB. Yes, the play that Eli made and the catch by Tyree could be the most remarkable ever in a Super Bowl. Manning wouldn't give up and Tyree seemed to will himself to hold onto the ball. The Giants excelled themselves to win and...

Yawn. How much money could the fixers offer Brady above what he already makes and would make if he won? Who provides the money? Or would the fixers tell Brady that they would pay Gisele Bundchen (highest paid model in the world) to leave him?

Eli Manning has been named Super Bowl MVP.

Several times I have referred to an article by Larry Felser I read in a pre-season football publication some 30 years ago. In it, Felser wrote that the Pro Football HOF was the toughest of the sports HOF's to get into. Well, that obviously is no longer the case. Emmitt Thomas was considered...

The Giant defense doesn't figure to stop Brady for the whole game. It may be like the regular season game between the two teams. Usually in Super Bowls with this kind of matchup, the favorite wins a blowout. FWIW, I"ll pick the Patriots by 10 with Eli Manning having a good game to keep the...

There had been some though to making a movie about Ernie Davis as far back as the 1970's. Then, it might have been due to the success of Brian's Song. Guess who was being discussed in the 70's to portray Ernie Davis? Answer, O.J. Simpson.

I remember an article about Ernie Davis in the Saturday Evening Post in 1962. It was titled "I'm Not Unlucky." Reading the article, you thought he would live. A few months later, he died. Very sad. I saw him play on TV several times, including the 1961 Liberty Bowl. I took a book I have...

In the 1970's, I saw an article somewhere on this subject. The author wrote that Frank Ryan, Craig Morton, and Charley Johnson had the highest IQ's of the pro football QB's of the era. He then declared that Johnny Unitas and Joe Namath were better than those three. The point being that IQ did...

I just saw an item by Steve Sailer at the Vdare blog on the IQ's of Tom Brady and Eli Manning. Guess which one has the higher IQ? The answer, Eli Manning, at 136 (very high). Brady is 124. Sailer writes that he has seen reports of 108 and 114 for Peyton Manning. Sailer believes that Dan...

I have posted this before, but I recall glancing at one of the late Joel Buschbaum's draft preview booklets when Alstott was at Purdue. Buschbaum wrote that Alstott would "bring back the days of Larry Csonka and John Riggins." By this he meant that Alstott would be a big white runner who was a...

As you would expect, I was "around" when All in the Family first aired. Many people attacked the show at the time because it showed someone with conservative views to be "stupid," as Norman Lear intended. However, there were some people who liked what they heard the "Archie Bunker" character say.

The biggest reason was that coaches assumed that they would not be able to compete without a lot of black players. Still, Bryant and most of the other Southern coaches seem to have been reluctant to change. Black players were still rare in the SEC around 1971-72 when the first blacks at...

As I have posted before, Tennessee was the first SEC team to have a black starter, Lester McClain in 1968. Most of the other SEC teams were NOT eager to do the same, which may surprise some people. Florida only had one black player when Doug Dickey came to Florida from Tennessee in 1970. A year...

Yes, I noticed it. Was it Toomer that had the drop early in the game with no one within yards of him? Manning's pass hit him right in the numbers. You can't say that Eli Manning has one of the best groups of receivers in the NFL.

I watched the 1961 NFL Championship game between the Giants and Packers on TV, age 11. The weather was sub-freezing, but the game was played in the middle of the day under sunshine. The NY Giants were heavily publicized, as being a New York team counted for more in those days. Y.A. Tittle...

I meant before the 1970's that LB's were mainly white..

It was around the mid-1960's that the fact that nearly all pro football offensive linemen were white became noticed. This was often written about in the sporting press as a negative thing. It was known that offensive linemen had to be intelligent. This meant, according to many writers, the NFL...

Moss sounds like O.J. Simpson saying, "I never hit Nicole."

Steve Largent was picked in the 4th Round of the 1976 draft by Houston. He was going to be cut during preseason but Seattle offered a 8th Round draft choice in the 1977 draft for him.

I remember Larry Felser writing about this incident in a pro football preview magazine. The subject was the toughness of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Felser called Lambert the "Steelers blond stormtrooper."

I hope New England is "On" tonight. Jacksonville is in a situation in which the pressure is on the Patriots, and upsets sometimes happen when the underdog hasn't anything to lose.

I listened to The Political Cesspool last night. The feed kept going out, but I heard the host, James Edwards, being very critical of Ron Paul, whom Edwards has supported strongly. Regarding the newsletter and the comments about MLK, Edwards said something like, "If Ron Paul claims he didn't...