Hey- did you hear Ken Griffey, Jr. is back with the Seattle Mariners?  I bet he’ll make a great coach!  Wait, what’s that?  They brought him back to play?  Ok- now that’s depressing.

Here we see Danny Johnson, the 14-year-old Guitar Hero phenom scoring 986,000 points playing Dragon Force’s ‘Through the Fire and Flames” on Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock. I don’t know about you, but Fire and Flames on expert makes me crap my pants in 10 seconds or less.
Anyway, this video was recorded at home, but young Danny performed the feat publicly at a Best Buy last week, scoring 973,954 points, to take the record away from some douchey 17-year-old (we kid, we know nothing about Chris Chike except that …

We’ve already addressed the novelty graciousness of Tennessee fans. Philly gets a bad rap. Oakland isn’t so great. Ladies and Gentlemen, your 2007 Super Bowl Champion New York Giants.

The ongoing, unsettleable arguments in sports are always about things that can’t be measured. In Pro Football especially, the primary illogical fight is about which city has the best fans. Seattle and Minnesota fans often claim superiority because their buildings are the loudest. Pittsburgh and Dallas fans are the greatest in number. Cleveland and Philadelphia show their pride by treating every loss like the end of Marley and Me (spoiler alert, but it was a book). The Raiders fans dress up like cartoon murderers, even when their team has five …

After two seasons leading Boston College, Jeff Jagodzinski has been fired for interviewing with the New York Jets.  This continued a decades-long tradition of nothing good coming for anyone who interviews with the New York Jets.  BC did a reasonable thing here…ask a guy at a Tier 2 school to stick around for more than 2 years.  Apparently, Jagodzinski sees himself as a little more than that, and decided that no one would tell him what to do.
Of course, as I always do, I was able to land the big …

There are certainties in football. Peyton Manning and Tom Brady are in their own class of quarterback. Ed Reed has a legit shot to take every pick to the house. LaDainian Tomlinson couldn’t be more done if he was Christian Slater’s TV action career.
And Norv Turner is a horrible coach.
Brad Childress is a bad coach. Romeo Crennel and Scott Linehan were insanely bad. Mike Nolan wasn’t that bad, but got submarined by the Alex Smith era. Herm Edwards is not only a bad coach, but one of the most confused …

This Oscar season, there’s no need to see Brad Pitt in makeup delving into a look at time and aging.  I’ll save you the 3 hours and tell you the story of Brett Favre…a story as inspiring as Benjamin Button’s without the pedophiliac undertones.  Well, unless you factor in John Madden’s creepy admiration.

Sixteen teams got their Viking Funeral last week in the rankings, and this week they’re joined by four more…including the Vikings.
-Atlanta Falcons – Awards for Matt Ryan and Mike Smith are a bit of solace for getting bounced by the worst playoff team since the Dick Cheney-led Gog Magogs. The Falcons were an illusion all season; a great story can often delude fans and networks to overlook staggering flaws. It’s like when an embattled people finally earn their independence; you feel good about them, but you’re not exactly afraid of …

The firing of Mike Shanahan was easily the least anticipated story of the year. Of all the coaches in the league, only Bill Belichick seemed less untouchable. Anyway, the press is saying now that Bowlen wanted to fire the GM Shanahan, not necessarily the coach Shanahan. And although such surgeries are certainly possible at Johns Hopkins or the Mayo Clinic, all the money for such a procedure was tied up in former Browns’ defensive linemen.
It obviously stinks for Shanahan, who for all his failures as a personnel guy is an …

 
There’s a rule in the NFL: every season, half of last year’s playoff teams will be replaced by non-playoff teams from the year before. This year was no different, with the Eagles, Falcons, Vikings, Cardinals, Ravens, and Dolphins replacing the Redskins, Bucs, Packers, Seahawks, Pats and Jags. You can set your watch by it. We know for certain that six of the teams currently in will not be in next year. That’s why the NFL is better than Major League Baseball.
What made this season’s field a little stranger was the …