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Why This Win Means So Much to New Orleans

Going into Sunday’s game, everyone had the subplot in the back of their minds about New Orleans recovery from the devastation of hurricane Katrina.  Only, for Louisiana natives that subplot was the main story.  While the rest of the country sits back and assumes that a sports team’s victory 5 years after a natural disaster [...]

By Jeremy Hawn | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1) February 8, 2010 – 10:59 am

Sports Announcer Endorsed Products

With the release of Tim McCarver’s groundbreaking debut album, Songs by Dead People for the Nostalgia of Old People, several of his contemporaries are jumping on the bandwagon to shamelessly cash in on their names while they can.  Here are a few products endorsed by sports announcers:

By Jeremy Hawn | Also posted in Baseball, Basketball | Comments (0) February 3, 2010 – 1:01 pm

Favre to Retire

Vikings quarterback Brett Favre called a press conference today to announce his (third) retirement from football.  Favre cried a lot and said that finishing his career on a game in which his 2 interceptions and 1 fumble ended his team’s chance at a title was a fitting way to call it quits.  Immediately after his [...]

By Jeremy Hawn | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0) January 25, 2010 – 11:43 am

3 Beatdowns and a Little Baby (Keith Brooking)

Welcome to the weekend roundup.  Let’s jump right in.
Cardinals/Saints
Here’s all you need to know about this game:

Not the QB shootout I was hoping for.  The Cardinals couldn’t protect Warner, which kept him from getting the ball in the hands of his talented receivers. Meanwhile, Drew Brees and Reggie Bush put on a pretty good [...]

By Jeremy Hawn | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0) January 18, 2010 – 12:26 pm

Every Grocery Bagger’s Hero

Yesterday Kurt Warner played possibly the greatest game by a QB in the history of the NFL playoffs.  Here is his stat line:
29-33, 379 yards, 5 TDs, 0 INT
He had more TDs than incompletions.    One of his incompletions was due to Charles Woodson, possibly the defensive MVP, just barely tipping the ball off course.  [...]

By Jeremy Hawn | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0) January 11, 2010 – 9:37 am

Big Fat Person Key to Victory

In assessing the first round NFL playoff matchups, ESPN’s Mark Schlereth named fat man Vince Wilfork the key to the Patriots victory, and presumably the one to blame if they lose.  The Patriots hopes to advance to the next round now lie on his broad, fat shoulders.  He must use his tremendous girth to lift [...]

By Jeremy Hawn | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0) January 8, 2010 – 10:50 am

Is Pat White Awake Yet?

I know Pat White is a proponent of more regulations on concussions in the NFL, but did he really need to go this far to prove his point?

UPDATE: Pat White is awake and doing fine.

By Jeremy Hawn | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1) January 4, 2010 – 9:47 am

Jim Caldwell is a Coward

Everyone knows what went down on Sunday.  The Colts had a legitimate chance to go 15-0 heading into the last week of the season and make a run at an undefeated season, and their coach went and pulled his starters in the 3rd quarter, thus forfeiting the game to the Jets.  Everything about that is [...]

By Jeremy Hawn | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0) December 29, 2009 – 9:59 am

Failgate Party

I try not to focus too much of this site on my Chicago teams, and for the most I’ve been really good about it.  But I have to post about this.  The Bears are terrible.  I haven’t written anything about them since our week one disaster, and things haven’t changed at all.  Our “franchise” QB [...]

By Jeremy Hawn | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0) December 21, 2009 – 10:24 am

Tone Puts His Dogs Into Jeremy Hawn’s Bathtub

Jeremy Hawn is the cockiest person I know.  When we began discussing that we’d be facing one another in the first round of our fantasy football playoffs, he was immediately convinced that I didn’t have a chance.  I played it cool, complimented his players, and said that he might be wrong.  I guess that he [...]

By Mark Twan | Also posted in Fantasy Island | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1) December 14, 2009 – 9:38 am