The happiest man in Bristol, CT this week is Cris Carter. The NFL analyst who told rookies in 2014 to get “a fall guy” when they ran into the law; got one of his own, and he doesn’t even have to pay him. Former MLB pitcher, ESPN baseball analyst and noted right wing kook and […]

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This time of year, the training camps are open in preparation of another NFL season, and there are some truths that are unassailable: preseason games are nothing more than profit grabs for the owners to whet the fans’ appetites; there are too many preseason games; and players get hurt in these “meaningless” games. And, as […]

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When we were at Northwestern, my friend Tony Swanagan and I said that if we ever got rich and famous, we had to have an entourage. Besides the drivers, friends and various go-fers, we joked that we would have to have a scapegoat to blame everything on and probably a whipping boy to slap around. […]

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Part of the severity of the NFL’s ruling against Tom Brady in the “deflategate” scandal was the record of cheating by Brady’s team, the New England Patriots. The Patriots were caught videotaping the play calls in a game against the New York Jets in 2007. NFL Commissioner Roger “The Sherriff” Goodell fined the team $250,000, […]

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For a very long time, I have wondered why the Chicago Bears have a terrible string of quarterbacks? If you look at the All Time Bear passing records, many are still owned by the late Hall of Famer Sid Luckman, who played with the Bears from 1939 to 1950. Since that time, it has been […]

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So, it’s been a busy year for your narrator, so I’m going to take a little time off. But before I go, one final couple of thoughts: One of the major sports networks says that the Chicago Bears are going to be the worst team in the NFL, projecting out to 3-13, last in the […]

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Over the past several years, residents of major cities around the globe have discovered that spending millions and even billions of dollars on hosting Olympics or World Cup soccer tournaments are a huge scam. Even before the FIFA scandal was announced and officials began getting arrested, it was common assumption that the whole “bidding” involved […]

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