It is always said that the most popular player in Chicago is always the Bears’ backup quarterback. Mike Glennon was signed as the short term answer, but the Bears drafted Matt Trubisky to be the QB of the future, even though Glennon isn’t very old. We had a feeling that the Bears were going to […]

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The Indignant Family and I have been on vacation, which is why I haven’t posted here is awhile, but I’m back trying to make up for it in grand style. My first story concerns Detroit Lions QB Matthew Stafford. The Lions signed him to the largest contract in NFL history, a five-year, $135 million contract. […]

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Training camps are shutting down this weekend; the NFL season begins in a week and once again, numerous players have suffered injuries in preseason games and will miss the entire season. And once again, people, including yours truly will ask if there really need to be preseason games at all, or at least so many? […]

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I very rarely am on the side of sports owners. They are very rich; they are or are wannabe oligarchs; they often distance themselves from the common people, looking down at us, or just as money to be taken. Often, they treat their players like pawns. Not people easy to root for, or even congratulate. […]

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For decades now, the opening of the NFL training camps was like Christmas – the anticipation, looking forward to numerous football games: the increase in the monthly DirecTV bill for the Sunday Ticket payments; going out to buy the NFL Preview magazines. This year however, the anticipation is still there, but muted. I have three […]

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Over the weekend, Adrian Beltre became the 31st player in baseball history to have 3,000 hits. In the past, that was a guarantee for passage to the Hall of Fame, but with steroids and other performance enhancing drugs, there are several members of the club who remain outside. Unfortunately, every player who played in or […]

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Last Thursday Boston Red Sox pitcher David Price verbally confronted TV analyst Dennis Eckersley on the team’s flight to Toronto. Apparently, there were heated words between the current and former pitchers on the plane. The next day, Price met with manager John Farrell and team president Dave Dombrowski, but Farrell didn’t elaborate on the meeting […]

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