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Recently, I was presented with a seemingly simple task by the good folks of Captain Morgan. To accomplish my assignment, I was to come up with what I thought was the best advancement from the world of sports which has created unparalleled improvement and the reasons why said advancement was far and above the cream of the crop as it related to others, be they a technological improvement, a means by which fairness of play was enhanced or even an advancement which improved the overall entertainment factor. Silly me, I figured accomplishing the modest task that was my charge would be easy, easy like Sunday morning. Nope.
As I contemplated the conundrum laid out for me, I quickly realized that over the years, we have seen such a multitude of changes to sports (e.g. shot clock in basketball, instant replay in football, the shootout in the NHL – okay maybe not the shootout), not to mention in so many facets of the respective sports, that coming up with the Best One Ever would be a far more dubious task than I had originally envisioned. I mean, what makes one better than another? And what criteria was I to use in determining which one was the best? The options and possibilities were endless. So while my idea as to what has been the Best Advancement In Sports Ever may be different than yours, hopefully you will find it difficult to disagree with me that if it were not for this particular advancement, sports – and the many ways in which we enjoy them – would be so vastly different the world of sports would indeed by unrecognizable. Read More→
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Okay, okay. A blog post cannot technically be eaten given the limitations of modern technology, but one day in the future, we will all be able to consume data from the internet which will then provide our cybernetic brains with needed sustenance. But if were able to somehow get transported to that time in the future after the machines take over and we become one with technology, you could bet the farm on the fact that this post would be pretty darn tasty. Not that there will be farms in the future, so I suppose there will be a need for some other idiom by which to explain the fact that something is a sure thing. Jeez, technology sure is confusing.
Anyhoo, the good folks at T.G.I. Friday’s have asked me to prepare a nutritious, scrumdiddilyicious NFL preview for you folks, and of course, I was more than happy to oblige. Read on, and enjoy the morsels of NFL deliciousness I have provided. While you still can.
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Ahoy hoy, Sportressphiles. Amazingly, the Thanksgiving holiday is upon us once again…jeez, where does the time go? If you’re wondering, I actually do have some thoughts as to where said time goes: it involves quantum physics, ancient aliens and some interesting artifacts I found in my dryer’s lint trap – I mean, have you ever looked inside one of those things? Boggles the mind…
Anyhoo, the good folks at Captain Morgan (Happy Captain’s Eve, everyone, by the way) have asked me to prepare a little write-up highlighting a few of the best matchups in the National Football League (Jon Gruden would say, “The National Football League is where players in the National Football League play a unique brand of football which can only be found in the National Football League. This league…football!”) during the upcoming holiday weekend. There are three – yes three – games on the docket for Turkey Day – well, those of us who have NFL Network. Are there people still out there that still cannot get the NFL Network? Can that possible? Well, if it is, for those out there for some reason or another do not have it: man, you are one pathetic loser…no offense.
But hey, I’m not here to rub salt in the wounds of those of you who will be unable to watch the NFL’s version of a Thanksgiving matinee. There are still two great games to be enjoyed while you are trying your damnedest to barely tolerate those family members you find intolerable, even without the evening matchup between the Bengals and the Jets. In the early game, New England visits Detroit (wOOt!), followed by New Orleans at Dallas.
So, without further ado, let’s take a look at a few games ol’ Weed finds the most intriguing. Enjoy.
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Friends, Sportressphiles and assorted internet troglodytes: this weekend, yours truly was commissioned with an interesting assignment. Yes, believe it or not, someone thought it would be a good idea to dispatch me to Mall of America Field to take in the pregame festivities in the streets of Minneapolis. Even better, this was Packers-Vikings week in the Twin Cities, and despite the Vikings woeful record, the matchup generally brings out the best of the best as it pertains to tailgating and outdoors shenanigans. Even more so, this happened to be the 100th game in the Packers-Vikings rivalry, and while there certainly wasn’t as much at stake as there have been in previous meetings (at least for the Purple), the fact that it was a numerically significant game certainly made up for the lack of overall buzz and anticipation.
When your humble Yardbarker correspondent awoke Sunday morning, I walked out to get my Sunday paper only to notice that some precipitation had fallen overnight. And when it is late November in Minnesota and it rains as opposed to snows, well, it’s not a very good thing. My driveway was a slick sheet of glazed ice, as were the roads throughout the Twin Cities metro area. So bad, in fact, that a travel advisory had been issued for Sunday morning and there were reports of automobiles slipping, sliding and crashing all over the place as a result of the wintry mix.
As a lifelong resident of Minnesota who has become accustomed to situations such as the one which presented itself this dreary Sunday morning, I would not be deterred. I got in the car and made my way to the City of Lakes (and Iced-Over Sidewalks).
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It’s hard to believe, but we are already at Week 11 in the NFL season. Where have the days, weeks and months gone? For some teams (and their respective fans), the fact that the calendar will soon be rolling over to December means that it’s high time to get revved up for a possible postseason run; while for others, it means the season is nearing its merciful end and they shift their focus and begin to look forward to an offseason during which their team can improve their sorry lot in life via the draft and free agency.
Or there could be a lockout (GAH!), which would mean either no 2011 season or a truncated version of one. But that’s kooky talk, something we should never speak of again. Instead, let us instead look forward to a bright future for the NFL in the upcoming calendar year, but before that, how about we take a gander at a few of the more compelling matchups headed our way this weekend? Sounds good to me.
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Greetings, one and all. To commemorate the release of Active 2, the good folks at Electronic Arts have asked me to come up with my five most heart pumping moments in the world of sports from the 2000s. And boy, what a decade it was, amirite? Crazy stuff was happening. Obviously, to whittle down all the unbelievable moments from the previous decade into such a small number was terribly difficult, but I did my very best and below are the results from my very unscientific yet, like, super smart study on what might constitute the top five heart stopping events from the world of sport in the 2000s.
Now, I imagine your list of the five most exhilarating, fantastical moments from the past decade may be different than the ones selected by yours truly (more on that later), but here’s ol’ Weed’s Top 5.
Enjoy, and agree to disagree with me afterward. You might even win a copy of EA Sports Active 2 for your efforts.
