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Kelly Bowers

Huskie Outsider has a great profile from 2010 on Kelly Bowers.  Bowers is a former member of the Hilltops coaching staff, current voice of the Huskies, and coordinator of much of what happens with the Kinsmen Football League.

Mark

I haven’t been posting much here about what’s going around the house but Wendy has a couple of posts about Mark.  The big news with Mark is that he is playing pee wee football for the Babineau Warriors in the Kinsmen Football League.  In real terms it means that instead of coming home from work, [...]

The hypocrisy of the Terrelle Pryor decision

Some of you know I am a big fan of Yahoo! Sports’ Mike Silver.  He has a great column on Terrelle Pryor’s entrance into the NFL Supplemental Draft and the hypocrisy that is shown by the NFL by punishing Pryor and letting coaches like Pete Carroll to move on from programs under suspension to the [...]

Buffalo deserves better

I am not a Buffalo Bills fan for quite a few reasons.  They were great when my Denver Broncos were only good, Jim Kelly always used to find a way to beat them and just when I started to cheer for them, Thurman Thomas lost his helmet.  Yet they have amazing fans.  Fans so loyal [...]

Dodge Charger anyone?

A former basketball player at THE Ohio State University has some questions over what he sees going on in the football program. I frequently crossed paths with a bunch of the football guys for a variety of reasons (stayed in the same dorm as some of them during my freshman year, went to same place [...]

Eleven

About the time this goes online, Mark will be awake and opening his birthday gifts.  We bought him an upgraded cellphone, a LG Rumor 2, NFL Training Camp for the Wii, a dopp kit for the lake, and an iTunes card.  He is also getting a cell phone case (but he will want to pick [...]

The week in bad ownership

In a week where the Washington Football Club/Racist Nickname asked the Washington Post to rename a sports news blog that covers the team and you also have Jerry Jones trying to intimidate the union in negotiations which lead them to decertify and sue the league, you would think the NFL would be a lock for [...]

Bill Simmons on the NFL Labour Dispute

On of his best articles ever (which is saying a lot) in which he takes on the mentality of the owners in terms us bloggers can understand. If Charlie Sheen is addicted to winning, then I am addicted to making money. I have lost any and all perspective. I don’t care if I lose my [...]

The rise and fall of The Fridge

ESPN chronicles the struggles of William (the Refrigerator) Perry In November, the Bears organization staged its 25th anniversary reunion of the ’85 team, and planned a raucous weekend in Chicago. The Fridge didn’t attend, and when asked why, he says, "I didn’t even know of the anniversary.” The truth is, he did know about it [...]

Don’t Stop Believin

ESPN has a long piece on why Jason Taylor has dedicated his season to his agent. Taylor was still calling Wichard every day, trying to give him the same kind of pick-me-ups the agent used to give him. But something was off, and he soon found out why the agent seemed to have gone into [...]

How NFL Footballs Are Made

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Christmas Around Here

I see that both Wendy and Mark have posted about Christmas so I thought I might as well.  I won’t describe the day as Wendy did a great job of doing that but I will ad in that it was a lot of fun to have friends and family around.  For my gifts, Wendy and [...]

Talent is Overrated

How do you turn around a team in the hurry? If you want to turn a locker room around in a hurry, fill it with a bunch of guys who really need the jobs. Pack it with players who are just happy to have contracts, who don’t think certain work is too menial for them, [...]

Navy now has a winning streak against Notre Dame

This is getting out of hand. Navy knocked off Notre Dame again and this time the Midshipmen made it look easy. Ricky Dobbs scored three touchdowns and Alexander Teich ran for 210 yards to lead Navy to its third victory against the Fighting Irish in the last four seasons, a 35-17 rout on Saturday at [...]

Prime Time’s Low Ratings

I have been watching the 100 Greatest Players on NFL Network this fall and really enjoying it.  This week Deion Sanders was named number 35 and was quite unhappy at how high his ranking was.  I am not a fan of Sanders as a player.  He avoided a lot of contact and missed a lot [...]