Dumb “Alliance” Saves Its Dumbest For Team Names

Who would name a professional sports franchise after a building material? Well, a team in something called the Alliance of American Football would … and has. The Birmingham Iron. What’s next, the Petersburg Plastic? Duluth Drywalls, Wyoming Wood, the fuckin’ Butte Bricks? So dumb, but then again the whole idea of a pro football league that’s not spelled N-F-L is a lesson in dumbness.

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Ringing The Dumb Bell

Sports is really the main reason why television was invented. It’s the reason we own seven TVs – so we can watch games in every room. Back in Japan, Sony thought up the concept of television so that he could watch the NFL draft from his home in Yokohama, then he invented the remote so that he could toggle between the draft and the New York Yankees game.

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