Bored 0 Report post Posted January 25, 2006 I was actually thinking about doing a list of the best Super Bowl highlights by NFL Films...and The Onion AV Club of all places beats me to it: Inventory: The XII Greatest Super Bowl Highlight Films Heavy on the John Facenda ones which I'd agree with as all NFL Films stuff just doesn't have the same feel as when he was doing the narrative. They left off my favorite which was Super Bowl XVI. "Not only were the Bengals fighthing the fired up 49ers, they had to deal with another enemy...the clock." The worst had to be Super Bowl XIX, the first without Facenda, which had this lame ass Super Bowl theme music they played at the start of it. I wish I could find the lyrics to that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanadianChris 0 Report post Posted January 27, 2006 Thought about making a separate thread for this, but I decided that Bode Miller facing a certain libel suit from Lance Armstrong wasn't newsworthy enough for one... http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/winter06/alp...tory?id=2307776 Why can't he just concentrate on the Olympics instead of shooting his mouth off all the time? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bored 0 Report post Posted January 29, 2006 NFL Network will televise eight regular season games next year including a third Thanksgiving game which will probably be a rotating game. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2309549 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanadianChris 0 Report post Posted February 12, 2006 Wow, it's almost my nightmare Sports Reporters this morning...Dan LeBatard AND Screamin A. Smith. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Baron 0 Report post Posted February 12, 2006 Ouch. Thats just horrible. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
razazteca 0 Report post Posted February 16, 2006 Wow, it's almost my nightmare Sports Reporters this morning...Dan LeBatard AND Screamin A. Smith. Woody Paige + Bayless + LeBatard + Smith would make the perfect Around the Horn....hell make Stu Scott the host. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bored 0 Report post Posted February 19, 2006 Anyone wondering what ex-Phillies catcher Darren Daulton has been up to? Even if you weren't this pretty damn funny, or sad depending on your perspective. He's pretty much lost his mind. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writ...rren/index.html "I've been thrown in jail five or six times," Daulton says from his home in Tampa. "Nicole thinks I'm crazy. She blames everything on drugs and drinking. But I don't take drugs and I'm not a drunk. Nicole just doesn't understand metaphysics." .... "I didn't have my first out-of-body experience until I was 35," he says. Curiously, the epiphany occurred at one of baseball's holiest shrines -- Wrigley Field. "I hit a line-drive just inside the third base line to help win a game," he recalls. "The strange thing was I didn't hit that ball. I never hit balls inside the third base line!" He left the ballpark in tears. "I told my wife, 'It wasn't me who swung that bat! It wasn't me!'" he says. "She thought I was Looney Tunes." .... The Mayan calendar stops at Dec. 21, 2012 -- the date the Mayans believed the world would end," he says. "On that day, at 11:11 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time, those who are ready to ascend will vanish from this plane of existence, like the crew of the Enterprise in Star Trek." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slayer 0 Report post Posted June 20, 2006 Interesting fact I did not realize until i heard it this morning: In the World Series, NBA Finals and Stanley Cup Finals, a road team has not won Game 7 since the '79 Pittsburgh Pirates Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Damaramu 0 Report post Posted July 4, 2006 Kobayashi just set the world record again with 54 hot dogs. I thought it was funny they were calling the eaters athletes and comparing them to Joe Dimaggio(yes they really did). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanadianChris 0 Report post Posted July 4, 2006 Yes, nothing says "athlete" like sliding whole wieners and water-soaked buns down your throat. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bob_barron 0 Report post Posted July 4, 2006 I was wondering if all the hyperbole they did (Joey Chestnut...a true American hero) was them just being funny or if they were serious. But seriously, how can someone eat so many hot dogs? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spaceman Spiff 0 Report post Posted July 4, 2006 Yes, nothing says "athlete" like sliding whole wieners and water-soaked buns down your throat. You leave Mike Piazza out of this. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Damaramu 0 Report post Posted July 10, 2006 After watching Eurotrip again I wish i could be a soccer hooligan like the guys in the movie. Fucking I-ties! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanadianGuitarist 0 Report post Posted July 10, 2006 Wow, it's almost my nightmare Sports Reporters this morning...Dan LeBatard AND Screamin A. Smith. Woody Paige + Bayless + LeBatard + Smith would make the perfect Around the Horn....hell make Stu Scott the host. So I'm not the only one who hates Scott? The Jonathan Coachman of ESPN....(although I don't hate the Coach that much, really). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rendclaw 0 Report post Posted July 10, 2006 Stuart Scott was all right when he first came out, but like Berman, his act got old and tired pretty fast, and now they are both parodies of themselves. Unlike Kenny Mayne, who was NEVER funny. Way too much E in ESPN, the height of which was that ridiculous prognostication about who is going to win the Super Bowl in 07. Utterly idiotic. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the max 0 Report post Posted July 11, 2006 Unlike Kenny Mayne, who was NEVER funny. I am king of the diamond! Let there be an abundant clubhouse feast! Bring me the finest meats and cheeses in all the land! Kenny Mayne>you Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Damaramu 0 Report post Posted July 11, 2006 Stuart Scott was all right when he first came out, but like Berman, his act got old and tired pretty fast, and now they are both parodies of themselves. Unlike Kenny Mayne, who was NEVER funny. Way too much E in ESPN, the height of which was that ridiculous prognostication about who is going to win the Super Bowl in 07. Utterly idiotic. And on top of that they picked the Panthers again! They picked the Panthers last year! And the year before! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vampiro69 0 Report post Posted July 11, 2006 Maybe Berman will make his own picks and make his bold prediction of the Super Bowl being the 49ers vs the Bills. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanadianChris 0 Report post Posted July 11, 2006 I think he stopped doing that awhile ago, when it was apparent neither of them were any good. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
razazteca 0 Report post Posted July 16, 2006 For the 2 people that watch boxing did you see the Mosley/Vargas undercard match of Ponce de Leon/Lookyangtoy where the Thai fighter almost died in the ring? Sod Lookyangtoy was KTFO for nearly 2 minutes and was given oxygen to be revived in the ring! Mosley vs Mayweather in the works? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bored 0 Report post Posted July 23, 2006 In the "Where Are They Now?" file if you have Comcast SportsNet tune on the Toronto/Saskatchewan game right now as Eric Crouch has been forced into the game at quarterback for the Argos due to injuries. Ricky Williams was knocked out early tonight with an arm injury and he's been pretty stinky in the CFL so far. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MFer 0 Report post Posted July 24, 2006 How about Tiger Woods winning the British Open only a couple months after his father's death and Floyd Landis winning the Tour de France with a bad hip? Both great accomplishments. Woods is now tied with Walter Hagen for 2nd all-time with 11 majors. Jack has 18. I kind of wanted to see Sergio or DiMarco win their first. especially with the latter recently losing his mother, but I'll never complain about Tiger winning. Landis' win might be one of the greatest accomplishmets in American sports history. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vern Gagne 0 Report post Posted July 24, 2006 I've hated DiMarco ever since he got pissed at a fan for quoting Caddyshack, after he had made a putt. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanadianChris 0 Report post Posted July 24, 2006 Landis's 17th stage was the greatest, most unbelievable thing I've ever seen in sports. The only thing that would come close would be the Sox beating the Yankees two years ago. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanadianGuitarist 0 Report post Posted July 24, 2006 I've hated DiMarco ever since he got pissed at a fan for quoting Caddyshack, after he had made a putt. It was actually before he made the putt. The fan screamed out NOONAN! as Dimarco lined it up. Anywhere else, it would have been fine for Dimarco to give security the "get him out" thumb jerk. But Saturday at Phoenix? All bets are off. DiMarco overreacted. On the other hand, I think he's earned his way back into the good section of most golf fans after a few close calls in majors and superb play at the President's two years ago. What did Landis do on Sunday? I'm not going to say "Did he just win the TDF?" But what makes this one bigger than another win? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanadianChris 0 Report post Posted July 25, 2006 What did Landis do on Sunday? I'm not going to say "Did he just win the TDF?" But what makes this one bigger than another win? It's difficult to understand the magnitude without some knowledge of cycling. But...on Wednesday, Landis hit the wall going up the final mountain of the second stage in the Alps and lost ten minutes of time (10:00 with four stages left is the equivalent of being down, say, 5-0 in a hockey game with 5 minutes left in the third), enough that everyone who follows cycling conceded that he had no chance of winning the Tour. The very next day, he went off on a solo breakaway over all four mountains in the next stage and got all but 30 seconds of that time back. Normally, riders attack on the final hill -- attacking before they even reach the first hill is unheard of, practically suicidal. It's probably the greatest ride in cycling history. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted July 25, 2006 The reason that he hit the wall was because he didn't eat enough the night before. Also, he and his family are Mennonites, so the likelihood of him being a doper is slim. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanadianChris 0 Report post Posted July 27, 2006 Corey Pavin shot a 26 on the front 9 at the US Bank Championship today, a new PGA record. That's sick. When I shoot 26, I'm usually getting ready for the fifth hole. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Open the Muggy Gate 0 Report post Posted July 27, 2006 And let the Floyd Landis love end.... he had a positve drug test. Now that really fucking pisses me off right there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanadianGuitarist 0 Report post Posted July 28, 2006 It's ben ten fucking years since Bailey's double gold at the Atlanta Games. The Score and Sportscentre have done good compilations of the greatest moments in Canadian sport. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
