2017 NFL Power Rankings: Pre-Combine

In the never-ending quest to determine who the best team is in each league we will start with the NFL. It feels like yesterday that Tom Brady and the Patriots came back from 25 points down in Super Bowl LI giving Brady and the Patriots their fifth title. However, there is no rest in the NFL as the league’s scouting combine begins next week at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Starting with no shock, the Patriots are number one, but have a lot of question marks going into the offseason.

Top 10 Worst Retro Sports Logos

A logo is what defines a team. From the classic Raiders’ silver and black, eye-patch wearing pirate to the Chicago Blackhawks’ Chief Blackhawk head on their fantastic red jerseys, there are certain logos around the sporting world that have stood the test of time. This list is not for those logos. Yesterday we did the greatest retro logos, these are not these logos. Due to rebranding and the endless quest for people to make more money off of merchandise sales and whatever else, logos change, and in this case, with terrible results. To make this list I simply took logos from the four major American sports just to make it easier, but other than that there are no other rules. They can come from a team that is in their current city, a logo no longer used because the team moved, or even logos for teams that no longer exist anymore. As long the team plays or played in the NFL, NBA, MLB, or NHL and the team no longer uses the logo as their primary one they are fair game. If you get to number seven on this list I commend you because they logos could possibly hurt your eyes. Let’s get into it.

The Top 10 Greatest Retro Sports Logos

A logo is what defines a team. From the classic Raiders’ silver and black, eye-patch wearing pirate to the Chicago Blackhawks’ Chief Blackhawk head on their fantastic red jerseys, there are certain logos around the sporting world that have stood the test of time. This list is not for those logos. Due to rebranding and the endless quest for people to make more money off of merchandise sales and whatever else, logos change. To make this list I simply took logos from the four major American sports just to make it easier, but other than that there are no other rules. They can come from a team that is in their current city, a logo no longer used because the team moved, or even logos for teams that no longer exist anymore. As long the team plays or played in the NFL, NBA, MLB, or NHL and the team no longer uses the logo as their primary one they are fair game. 

The Ten Greatest Super Bowls of All-Time

 

I get it, this one is a little overdue. Sue me. Anyways the Super Bowl is greatest single day sporting spectacle of all-time. Two weeks of coverage, media day (Opening Night BS whatever now), crazy stories, repeated stories (how many times did we hear about Tom Brady and Roger Goodell just in the two weeks leading up to the game let alone for the past two years), and finally the game itself. There have been now fifty-one of these such games with a good handful being duds (ahem Super Bowl XXXIII) but a good amount of them being great and/or memorable. Yea you’ve probably seen a billion of these things especially around this time but I tell you mine is the best so just shut up and read this thing.

2016 All-Drought Defense

 

We are back baby, and in the only way we know how, writing about sadness. For seventeen years, the Buffalo Bills have, let we say, struggledto find their grip in the NFL and make it to the NFL playoffs. The last time the Bills made the playoffs Believe by Cher was the number one song in America, Bill Clinton was president and this happened. Kill me. If your dad staring at the TV and slowly standing up to turn it off after that BS is one of your first memories then maybe you should’ve known something had to give. It was forward pass, but that’s for another place and another time. Whatever way you slice it, the Bills lost that fateful “Music City Miracle” (give me a break, it was a crime as Tim Russert would say) and haven’t been back since. They’ve come close (see 2000, 2004, and just about every year in the 2010s) but really they have not come close at all. There have been many players and coaches that have come through One Bills Drive to try and lead the Bills back to the playoffs, but all have failed. Yesterday we did the offense and today we will wrap it up with the defense and pick a coach to lead this ragtag bunch of awful players. For all intents and purposes I am going with a 4-3 style defense since that is the base defense that the Bills have used for a majority of the drought years.

2016 All-Drought Team: Offense

We are back baby, and in the only way we know how, writing about sadness. For seventeen years, the Buffalo Bills have, let we say, struggledto find their grip in the NFL and make it to the NFL playoffs. The last time the Bills made the playoffs Believe by Cher was the number one song in America, Bill Clinton was president and this happened. Kill me. If your dad staring at the TV and slowly standing up to turn it off after that BS is one of your first memories then maybe you should’ve known something had to give. It was forward pass, but that’s for another place and another time. Whatever way you slice it, the Bills lost that fateful “Music City Miracle” (give me a break, it was a crime as Tim Russert would say) and haven’t been back since. They’ve come close (see 2000, 2004, and just about every year in the 2010s) but really they have not come close at all. There have been many players and coaches that have come through One Bills Drive to try and lead the Bills back to the playoffs, but all have failed. Here are the best of the absolute worst, starting with the offense.

Full 2016 European Championship Preview

This Friday marks the beginning of the UEFA European Championship as the host nation, France, plays Romania and kicks off the month long, twenty-four team tournament. Follow along as we grow group by group and predict the unpredictable and figure out who will be the champion of Europe.

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Muhammad Ali is not Dead

Muhammad Ali is not dead.

Buying Vowels is the Weakest Move in all of Game Shows

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Everyone has watched their fair share of Wheel of Fortune. Watching contestants lose their ever-loving minds over playing the simple game of Hangman while winning money and exotic trips while questioning how Vanna is 59 years old is one of the backbones of this great country.