- 08:47 AM
- 09/06/25
| Member since: | April 27, 2007 |
|---|---|
| Last visit: | September 05, 2025 |
beaverboard has posted 22 links and 7,183 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 3 comments to the Locker Room.
Hartford Whalers: From Heartbeat to Heartbreak: Whalers and Canes fans on here may want to check this out. Almost an hour run length so maybe not for casual quickie viewing.
As a former Hartford resident, I remember what the downtown area was like during hockey season when the Civic Center was rocking.
In the early 80's the UConn men's basketball team played some of its games there, but they hadn't hired Jim Calhoun and become nationally prominent yet, so the Whalers were absolutely the main game in town.
posted by beaverboard to hockey at 11:20 PM on December 20, 2024 - 4 comments
RIP Franco Harris: An icon and hero of my adolescence. Heading into the 1972 Draft, Franco was seen as a workhorse and his Penn State backfield mate Lydell Mitchell was seen as the skill stud. It was stunning when the Steelers drafted Franco well ahead of Mitchell, but they knew what they were doing. Lydell did OK for the Colts, but Franco ascended to the pantheon of immortals. He was a major tone setter for the great 1970's Steeler rosters, which caused great pain to Cowboys fans and others. I was somewhat ambivalent about the team until they handled the Fran Tarkenton Vikings in the Super Bowl. Then I got on board. Anyone who took care of Tark was deserving of a thumbs up in my book. With several teammates and coaches already deceased, I'm glad that Terry Bradshaw is still around and able to clearly articulate his thoughts and feelings in great detail as people reminisce about Franco and those Pittsburgh teams.
posted by beaverboard to football at 11:41 AM on December 22, 2022 - 2 comments
I Don't Want Cooperstown, I want Shaughnessy: Curt Schilling's thoughts on baseball immortality and settling scores.
posted by beaverboard to baseball at 01:58 AM on January 27, 2021 - 5 comments
Chargers Team Doctor Punctured Tyrod Taylor's Lung: Broadcasters during the Chargers/Chiefs game on Sunday were mystified by the last-minute absence of quarterback Tyrod Taylor, who wasn't on the injury list but did not make the start. Coach Anthony Lynn revealed that Taylor missed the game because the team doctor accidentally punctured his lung while administering a painkiller injection for Taylor's cracked ribs. He's out indefinitely.
posted by beaverboard to football at 04:26 PM on September 23, 2020 - 2 comments
I Was the Fastest Girl in America, Until I Joined Nike: Elite runner Mary Cain's harrowing tale of breakdown in the grips of the Nike training program.
posted by beaverboard to general at 07:34 PM on November 08, 2019 - 3 comments
Dallas post-game internal memo:
1) Have an opponent spit on Prescott before the start of each half.
2) Figure out if there may be a reason for the following, which was repeated throughout the broadcast: "Hurts, with all kinds of time..."
3) Either get Cee Dee Lamb some Lester Hayes Stickum or quit throwing him passes with Wallenda-level degrees of difficulty and high potential for serious collisions.
posted by beaverboard at 04:56 PM on September 05, 2025
Indianapolis being favored over Miami is strange. What am I not seeing there?
An off-season of steadily building impatience with former wunderkind McDaniel and ongoing dislike for longtime brunt Grier.
Home game for the Colts with a new DC and what should be a decent D overall.
Zach Wilson might miss the walkthrough looking for maturity at Ike and Jonesy's.
posted by beaverboard at 12:18 PM on September 03, 2025
If agent Jimmy Sexton's top 5 money earning college head coach clients (including Kalen DeBoer of Alabama) were fired without cause, the combined buyout total would be 340 million dollars.
Nick Saban was (and is) a Jimmy Sexton client but never figured into that math because he didn't have a buyout clause in his contract when he was coaching.
Sexton made up for it when he negotiated a massive buyout for DeBoer that Bama never should have agreed to. They wanted to look brisk and decisive in replacing Saban and paid accordingly.
posted by beaverboard at 10:27 AM on September 03, 2025
If a sports editor ordered a new plot concept for The Wizard Of Oz:
"Horned Frogs Of Dykes Lick Heels Of Gold Digger's Daddy"
posted by beaverboard at 11:23 AM on September 02, 2025
RIP Alabama and Dallas great Lee Roy Jordan, who regrettably lived to see the Cowboys GM trade away Micah Parsons, but thankfully won't be around to witness the spectacle of boosters at his alma mater begging Coach Saban to come out of retirement and rescue the backsliding Tide.
posted by beaverboard at 04:41 PM on August 31, 2025
Noles send Tide home stunned.
There are people not getting any younger who have never known what it's like when all three of the big Fla. schools are nationally competitive at the same time.
The glory years would have been even more epic if Coach Bowden had cared enough about placekicking to recruit and develop reliable, sustained excellence at the position.
posted by beaverboard at 09:42 PM on August 30, 2025
Jerry Jones:
"those draft picks could get us, I'm talking top Pro-Bowl type players," the Cowboys owner said. "They could get us as few as three or as many as five outstanding players."
The Cowboys haven't drafted all that badly in recent years, so maybe.
But it sure sounds like Jerry has Johnnie Walkered his front office brain back into the Herschel Zone.
posted by beaverboard at 05:13 PM on August 29, 2025
The owner of the most valuable sports franchise in the world negotiates in the dumbest way possible with Parsons and his agent, so Micah goes to a community owned team in the league's smallest market with the second lowest operating revenue and gets an unprecedented contract.
If Jim Irsay was still alive and someone asked me if I'd rather have the Cowboys' ownership problems or the Colts' ownership problems, I'd have to think about it.
posted by beaverboard at 10:18 AM on August 29, 2025
Unreal photo.
Sort of looks like the facial masks that NoMich and I recently got at the man spa.
We chatted idly about what the Eagles could possibly see in Sam Howell.
posted by beaverboard at 01:47 PM on August 27, 2025
I feel a little bad for Daniel Jones.
There are only 32 GM's in the NFL. A player's chances of being rostered by an astute one are less than even odds.
Jones went from playing for a GM who decided the QB was worth paying before releasing him (Joe Schoen) to a GM who declared that he believed in Anthony Richardson the day before Jones was named the starting QB (Chris Ballard).
If the Daughters of Irsay decide to do some firing, I would can Ballard ASAP and give Coach Steichen a fighting chance to compete with a roster built by someone who knows what they're doing and doesn't have their career trajectory forever pegged to having the rug pulled out from under them by the retirement of Andrew Luck.
posted by beaverboard at 04:00 PM on August 20, 2025
I don't want Dolan to give the Federal Government any more technology based exclusionary ideas.
My money's on Morgan and Morgan. Their average annual revenue is at least 10 times Dolan's net worth.
Attorneys could have a lot of fun with this.
Such as announcing a Vendetta Day. All ticket holders show up in Guy Fawkes masks to thwart facial recognition devices.
I now see the task that lies ahead of me.
I have to find a way to dupe Alan Dershowitz into suing Madison Square Garden.
If that guy gets banned, Dolan will wish he'd never been born.
Dershowitz is in the "All About Me" Hall Of Fame along with the likes of Tonya Harding, Terrell Owens, and General Douglas MacArthur.
posted by beaverboard at 01:31 PM on August 15, 2025
Arlington, Texas remains the largest city in the US without a fixed route mass transit system.
Many tax dollars have gone into funding new sports facilities instead.
And we recently learned here on SpoFi about how abhorrent the Stars have become in imposing a stranglehold on the central Texas hockey community.
According to one of the comments that follow this Defector piece (the comments are almost as blistering as the piece itself), no one in Arlington cares about the Cowboys.
The article includes this insight into area highway conditions:
"Every Dallas resident has a fetish for sitting dead-stopped on a 10-lane highway alongside a bunch of other unhappy people, all driving the largest car available."
At least things are trending upward in one other sporting region of the continent.
posted by beaverboard at 04:52 PM on August 11, 2025
That whole bit in the Isaac clip about the K-Ball prep is illuminating.
It'll be interesting to see if someone breaks Tucker's record during the regular season.
posted by beaverboard at 12:41 PM on August 11, 2025
Immortality confirmed: The LSD fueled no-hitter that Dock Ellis threw in 1970 was a clue in today's Boston Globe Crossword.
1970 was a banner year in sports.
posted by beaverboard at 12:35 PM on August 10, 2025
SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle
NFL post-game internal memo:
1) Don't put a franchise in the UK if you can't handle the weather in Philadelphia.