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Posted on January 13, 2018January 12, 2018 by Patrick

Gale Sayers, Vince Lombardi And The Glory Days

Fun Facts: Tossing Around The Football

Life is mostly about the pursuit of knowledge and, therefore, the collection of fun facts. All my fun facts were harvested personally … They started as a physical book purchase from Amazon, then moved to a Kindle download where I bookmarked them by hand; at the conclusion of a book they were transcribed into a Snoopy Moleskine, and finally, they appear here for your personal wonderment.

These invisible guys got drafted before Tom Brady in the 2000 NFL draft: Chad Pennington, Giovanni Carmazzi, Chris Redmon, Marc Bulger, Tee Martin, Spurgeon Wynn.
Green Bay, Wisconsin is one of the most Catholic regions in the nation. In Lombardi’s day, there were two Catholic high schools, ten Catholic elementary schools, sixteen churches, forty-two-weekday masses and ninety-four masses on Sunday with the first being at 4:30AM.

So Hideously Complicated, You Need A “Rules Expert”

I was watching the World Series of Poker when they had to stop the action and look at the replay. After sixteen minutes and twenty-nine different angles an official announces, “The ruling on the table stands, the bald guy who keeps picking up and dropping his chips has a pair!”

Turns out I had dozed off and was dreaming that poker had become the NFL.

Posted on January 10, 2018January 9, 2018 by Patrick

The Best Sports Weekends Of The Year

If your sporting life revolves around the NFL, then you must be more excited than the fat kid who just found out the McRib is back. This upcoming weekend of football deliciousness has been eighteen long weeks in the making and I hope you appreciate it because weekends like this one only come around once a year. Here’s a breakdown of what are historically the best weekends in American sports.