The Buffalo Bills will not end up with a “perfect” record this year, since they won their first game today against the Detroit Lions. And to celebrate, the 1972 Miami Dolphins opened a case of really cheap generic beer.
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My friend Douglas Hudson pointed out that the Lions have now lost their 25th straight road game, breaking their own NFL record set in 2001-03.
In this environmentally conscious age, maybe Detroit should just declare themselves the NFL’s first truly “green” team and just forfeit the rest of their road games? Would save travel costs, the associated “carbon footprint,” plus wear and tear on the players…
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Brett Favre seems to have recovered from his broken ankle, as he was running around the field like looking like a young man Sunday. Unfortunately for the Vikings, the young man he looked like was Vinny Testaverde.
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The lights went out for a brief time tonight during the Giants-Cowboys game Sunday night. Although despite Dallas’s upset win, it was still about a month after the lights went out on the Cowboys’ season.
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A recent survey by the Chronicle of Higher Education found that 30 presidents of U.S. colleges and universities received more than $1 million in pay and benefits in 2008. As opposed to only 61 college football coaches who made over a million in salary alone.
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San Francisco beat the Rams today in overtime 23-20, despite 14 penalties. Who knew… the secret of success might simply have been for the 49ers to become the Raiders?
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There are now allegations that parts of George W. Bush’s memoir were plagarized from other books and articles. On the brighter side, this might indicate that W. actually reads.
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A British study found that 1 in 10 men say they use the internet primarily to look for porn. The other nine presumably just go online to read the articles.
from Marc Ragovin:
Bud Selig raised eyebrows the other day when he said that civil war veteran Abner Doubleday invented baseball, despite all evidence to the contrary. Leading Jamie Moyer to say: “I knew Abner Doubeday. I fought with Abner Doubleday. And Abner Doubleday did not invent baseball.”
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