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’84 49ers and ’85 Bears: Best of the 80s Bull Market Era. Who’s Better?

June 30, 2010

Many NFL fans, when encouraged, will immediately rank the 1985 Chicago Bears with its 18-1 record as the best team in the XLV years of the Super Bowl super era.  ...

1986 New York Giants: Third Best Team of the 80s Bull Market Era

June 27, 2010

It's a great quarterback nickname, coined by the cynical New Yorkers of the late 1970s. "Parkway Joe" Pisarcik, was described by the tabloids' sportswriters as "the bargain basement quarterback." No $427,000 bonus ...

1983 LA Raiders: Fourth Best Team in the ’80s Bull Market Era

June 21, 2010

I’ll say this: If the 1983 Raiders are the fourth best team in the 1982-1987 Bull Market Era, the other three must have been coached by Saint Peter with Moses as the ...

The Four Best NFL Teams of the 80s Bull Market Era: An Introduction

June 17, 2010

Wall $treet and its denizens set the tone for a short period in United States history during which everything (except Democrats) had nads. Have you watched AMC's Mad Men ?  ...

Five Best NFL Teams of the Energy Crisis Era: 1976-1981

June 9, 2010

  In my first two or three years of college (beer and poker...I think I lost a semester), I studied psychology, hoping someday to become a counselor.  Yeah, right. After seriously evaluating my ...

The Seven Greatest Super Bowl Teams of the Vietnam Era

May 25, 2010

At the young age of 10 I was already a football freak.  Even though I knew little about the game and didn't play for fear of being hit really hard, ...

Reality Bites: Why Pittsburgh Steelers Fans Should Worship Big Ben (Seriously)

May 11, 2010

I'm the guy who in two recent Bleacher Report articles tried to tie NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to racism and misogyny in his handling of the Ben Roethlisberger situations. Thirty ...

Super Bowl XIII in 1979: Deja Vu All Over Again

May 10, 2010

Steelers fans around the globe knew Sunday January 21, 1979, was going to be a special day.  Their Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys, the Steel Curtain and America’s ...

Just Finished Big Ben’s SI Cover Article…and Thinking About Women

May 8, 2010

I’m the guy who in a Bleacher Report article attempted to tie NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to racism after he, in my opinion, pitched Ben Roethlisberger a creampuff with his ...

Super Bowl X: Up With People? How About Swannie All Day!

May 5, 2010

Of all the sorry…I mean “Up With People?”  Talk about an exciting Super Bowl X halftime show.  It was as if your church’s choir had taken off the robes to ...