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Hulu & ESPN Writer Name Greatest Super Bowl Ever!

Hulu along with, FootballOutsiders.com creator and ESPN columnist Aaron Schatz, recently did a countdown of the top 10 Super Bowls of all time.  This is not the same list as done by NFL Network's show Top Ten, although they both came up with the exact same AND CORRECT conclusion!

Super Bowl XLIII: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Arizona Cardinals



To see if your favorite Super Bowl made the list check out Hulu's Greatest Super Bowl Games Of All Time.


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Athletes & Children Out Of Wedlock

I love ESPN's Outside The Lines series. It's similar to CBS' 60 Minutes but from a sports perspective. ESPN rarely allows for their youtube videos to be embedded on other sites, so when I saw this one was embeddable I had to post it here.

Although the focus is on athletes the issue is obviously one that is societal and just becomes more newsworthy because the amount of money these particular people have made during their careers.

ESPN really needs to follow my blog.

This question has already been address! Dallas can be America's team, but the Steelers are North America's team. It's a statistical fact!

ESPN still has their SportsNation Poll going if you are interested in voting, but like I said . . . we were already ahead of the curve in regards to this, last year.

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A New Addition To The Blog: Essential Podcasts

Since moving to Chicago from Pittsburgh, I have been riding public transit constantly. Back home a car was pretty much a necessity. When I was driving I would typically listen to sports talk radio or music that I had in the car. Now that I'm using trains & buses so much I tend to have my Zune surgically attached to me.

I've noticed that I listen to music more when I'm at my laptop. When I'm on the go it tends to be podcasts most of the time. I don't listen to music podcasts because I never really saw the point. I own more than enough music to listen to what I want, when I want. Anyway, this was a long winded way to mention that on the lower right of the blog I added a podcast list of some of the podcasts that I listen to frequently.

I since I don't have cable, podcasts are kind of like the next best thing for some shows. They allow me to get my daily fix of Tony Kornheiser & Mike Wilbon of Pardon The Interuption. I wish my Zune, or any other mp3 player, would have an AM tuner so I could here the Dan Patrick Show instead of through podcasts.

I subscribe to Countdown With Keith Olbermann as well as Real Time With Bill Maher for my current affairs news/commentary. I tend to watch Countdown online, but the Real Time podcast definitely gets weekly play when he's on air.

You can check the podcast list for other podcasts that I check out. I have been listening to comic book podcasts lately. Doc Midnight kinda dragged me back into comics, just when I kinda had that habit kicked. lol

Do you listen to any podcasts? If so, which ones?

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Mayweather's Not So Money/Back For More Cash

Mr. Mayweather may no longer be able conviently retire to duck fighters who can possibly beat him. According to SportingNews.com & Boxingscene.com, "Money" as Mayweather is known to call himself, is having a bit of a cash flow problem. He's in debt to the IRS for $6,000,000. I guess he's not exactly printing money over there at his label, Philthy Rich Records.



This gives me hope that I may finally see him step in the ring with Shane Mosley or Miguel Cotto. But since those are the only fights I care to see him in, instead he will continue to pick fights against naturally smaller fighters like the winner of Manny Pacquiao & Ricky Hatton. Mayweather's already easily beaten Hatton once at Welterweight, although Ricky is naturally a Junior Welterweight (140 lbs). He will probably try for an easy pay day if Ricky were to pull out an upset of Pacquiao, which I seriously doubt he can do. If Manny were to win Floyd would dodge Cotto & Mosley by going after a man who won his first world title in the Flyweight division. FLYWEIGHT!!! That's 112 lbs, kids! Hell, there's even talk of Floyd possibly coming out of retirement to face Juan Manuel Márquez, according to ESPN.com's Dan Rafael.

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The Steelers Are Officially North America's Team (Kinda)

Today I was listening to Tirico & Van Pelt as I normally do and they started off by rehashing the the Monday night game between the Steelers & Redskins. They talked about the dominance of the Steelers defense as well as Byron Leftwich stepping in to relieve Ben, but the big story to them was the fact that Steeler fans took over Fedex Field. lol It was so bad that the Redskins had to go to a silent snap count in their own stadium! I guess they have not been paying attention to how Steeler fans take over damn near every stadium they go to. Anyway, their mystification prompted me to fire off a quick e-mail. To my shock my little sentence was read on national radio and the phrase "The Pittsburgh Steelers are North America's Team" was broadcast over national airwaves!!!!!

Move the movement my friends!



In order to hear my moment of glory you can fast forward to the 34:25 mark. :)



Redskins on the Fan Turnout: "Disappointed"

D.C. Sports Bog

By Dan Steinberg

By the end of this morning's open locker room, every Redskins player was being asked about the Pittsburgh fan invasion. You know, the one that prompted Michael Wilbon to write this:

The Steelers left town with a victory, with Roethlisberger also smiling and not seriously hurt, and with the Redskins licking their wounds after what felt like a loss on the road. From the racket made and "Terrible Towels" being waved, Leftwich might have thought he was playing in Pittsburgh, since between 15,000 to 20,000 Steelers fans snapped up tickets and promptly took over FedEx Field in their black road jerseys. It really gets a little tiresome hearing how great Redskins fans are, only to see fans of the Cowboys or Steelers or Eagles commandeer FedEx Field. Really, they're a very average lot, at best.

Ouch. By the way, nothing like watching Redskins fans from the stands turn their backs to the field so they can take cell phone pictures of Wilbon in the press box.

Anyhow, my original estimate of 15 percent Yinzers? Way, way, way off, according to the team.

"50-50," H.B. Blades guessed.

"it sounded like 50-50 from the noise they were making, but maybe 60-40," Fred Smoot said.

"it might have been half, I don't know, it might have been 40-60," Randy Thomas said.

"40?" guessed Casey Rabach. "When I looked at the stands after the game, there wasn't many red, there was a lot of [bleeping] black though."

"I have no clue, but there was a lot of black," Mike Sellers said. "A lot of it."

Rabach said he asked for the silent count in the second quarter, and that he and Jason Campbell used it about a half-dozen times. Why?

"I couldn't [bleepin'] hear him," Rabach said.

Go to Washington Post's D.C. Bog For The Full Article.

Memory Lane

I woke up this morning like I do every weekday morning, to the sounds of Mike & Mike on ESPN Radio. Sadly, both Mikes were out on vacation so there were subs in. Anyway, the show often delves into various topics that aren't sports related for brief periods of time. This time they happened to mention that today is Michael Jackson's 50th birthday so they were talking about his album Thriller and how they both agreed that it was definitive album of the 80's. They went on to also agree that Nirvana's Nevermind was the definitive album of the 90's. Now I completely agree in regards to Thriller and although Nevermind wouldn't be even in my top 10 albums of the 90's I can understand why they chose it. The Grunge Movement basically took over the decade and that was the album of the movement so I definitely understand the logic. But it got me to thinking, what was my definitive album of the 90's? I was torn between 2 albums, Nas' Illmatic and A Tribe Called Quest's's Midnight Marauders. Midnight Marauders is the album that not only made me fall in love with Hip-Hop, but with music in general. Before that album I wasn't a huge music listener. I basically listened to whatever was on and it didn't really have any impact on me. Their album was the first album that I had to have. On the other had Illmatic was the first album I heard that completely grabbed me. I had never had an album grab me musically as well with it's voice, both figuratively and literally. I saw Nas' voice as the voice of an observer more than a tough guy. He never came off to me as a menace or a badass. He just seemed like a cat discribing his situation the best he knew. Not to mention his words painted the perfect picture of his environment, which was mine.

Wipe the sweat off my dome
Spit the phlegm on the streets
Suede Timb's on my feet makes my cypher complete

My window faces shootouts, drug overdoses
Live amongst no roses only the drama for real
A nickel-plate is my fate, my medicine is the ganja

If you couldn't tell by the title of the blog, the winner is . . .



At the end of the day Midnight Marauders opened my eyes and ears to the world of music, but Illmatic made me really take a look at the world I was in.

Now, my song of the decade it's not from either ATCQ or Nas, but from 3 artists that kind of defined and era within an era. They definite what was 90's underground or backpack rap. The song described your average American city. When I rode the 84A to class every morning I would ride through the Burrows Projects, where my late grandmother used to live. When I started college they were just beginning to be torn down and this song described my bus daily bus ride through those projects. By the middle of my freshman year the fences were up around all of the vacant projects as they were preparing to tear them down.

Sat by the window with a clutched dome
Listenin' to shorties cuss long
Young girls with weak minds, but they butt strong
Tried to call or at least beep the lord
But didn't have a touchtone
Its a dog eat dog world, you gotta mush on
Some of this land I must own
Outta the city, they want us gone
Tearin' down the 'jects creatin' plush homes

I would listen to this song on my nightly bus rides home from work, also. At night the song became that much more powerful. It's the definitive night time song for city dwellers. I always got goosebumps whenever I would listen to this song while my bus would turn up Crawford ave on my way home. I would have a phenomenal view of the Pittsburgh Skyline while this played . . .



*Not to mention it had one of, if not, the greatest hook ever!

What would you consider YOUR definitive album & song of the 90's? What made you choose that album/song? Did it describe a time in your life? Was it just a song that never left your cd player or walkman?

p.s. This isn't about any genre. It's whatever YOUR album is. It could be rock, country, afro beat, techno, garage . . .

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