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Former Denver running back Floyd Little was one of Tom Mackie’s favorite players while the latter was growing up watching the Broncos. He was so dedicated a fan, in fact, that for years after Little retired he wrote letters and compiled statistics arguing for his idol’s induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
And as Little and Mackie suffered through years and years of disappointments, Mackie even got to write Little’s biography, which was titled “Floyd Little’s Tales from the Broncos Sideline.”
Little’s induction later this summer has been supported by some and panned by others both here at this site and elsewhere. Those who support him say his numbers don’t tell the entire story of what he meant to the Denver Broncos and the National Football League. Those who disagree with his enshrinement say he didn’t play long enough or put up dominant enough statistics.
Whether you agree with it or don’t, however, you can’t knock the efforts Mackie put forth in supporting his friend and one-time hero. SportsIllustrated.com penned a fascinating story this week that looked at the relationship that developed between the two and at the steps Mackie took to ensure that Little would one-day be memorialized in Canton.
It’s a good read. I’d suggest checking it out.
I’m not smart enough nor do I have the time right now to understand ins and outs of college football’s Bowl Championship Series. If you do an archive search on this blog, which typically focuses more on the NFL than college football, you’ll see that neither my brother nor I like the BCS as it sits right now.
But I would guess neither of us would claim to be an expert on what conferences make huge chunks of money or whose teams have the worst chances of being selected for the big money bowl games.
I was intrigued during the last couple weeks, however, as discussion emerged about the possibilities of the Big Ten, which includes the University of Minnesota where we both went to college, potentially adding any number of teams from big name Notre Dame to up-and-coming Rutgers, to recent power Missouri to trying-to-re-emerge Nebraska.
But I’ve been hesitant to embrace the talks too much because when you follow college sports you know that A) the BCS sucks and B) there is always a money angle somewhere along the line.
Yahoo! Sports has a fantastic story describing one view of how the Big 10 fought off a “plus one” playoff format a couple years ago as part of a plan to get its own network up and running so it could now raid the Big 12 and become one of what could become three or four “super conferences”. Continue reading
The finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2010 were announced on Friday, with three first-year eligible players heading the group:
Jerry Rice – Wide Receiver – 1985-2000 San Francisco 49ers, 2001-04 Oakland Raiders, 2004 Seattle Seahawks
Emmitt Smith – Running Back – 1990-2002 Dallas Cowboys, 2003-04 Arizona Cardinals
Tim Brown – Wide Receiver/Kick Returner – 1988-2003 Los Angeles/Oakland Raiders, 2004 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
I’m sure this is already posted all over the interwebz, but we just had to post it as well:
Stay classy, Philly fans.
While we frequently criticize the league and/or teams for trying to take the fun out of the game, someone needs to step up on this one–the team should be going after anyone that they can catch for throwing the snowballs, and suspending their ticket privileges, whether season ticket holders or single game ticket buyers.
And if the team doesn’t go after the guilty parties, then the league needs to step in with fines for the team, and/or suspensions–hell, make them play in front of an empty stadium.
A bit harsh? Well, just wait until some of the fans start pouring some water or beer on the snowballs to make them ice balls–or putting batteries in them, or something else more solid than snow.
And you know it will happen–and then someone is really going to get hurt, or worse.
Somehow the official announcement got past us, but I picked up on an article today regarding the effort to put the stripes back on the San Francisco 49ers new uniforms, and I have to say, it’s nice to see a team change their uniforms using their past as a guide, rather than using Nike and the Arena League as their inspriation.
I never understood why the 49ers added the drop shadow to the numbers on their uniforms in the first place–and apparently, by eliminating, the new uniforms are lighter now as well. Maybe the uniforms will help Mike Singletary get more out of his players?
Hopefully this will start a trend in the league, and we will see a return to classic uniforms for more teams, for more than just 1-2 “throwback” games a year. The Vikings, in particular, always look way sharper in their classic duds with stripes on the sleeves and grey facemasks.
We can only hope that the Titans, Bills, Seahawks and other teams that have fallen in love with pastel and monochrome arena league style uniforms will follow. Before they start putting ads on the uniforms.
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