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Having just written an article that's already sparked nearly 40 posts and over 1,500 reads—most of them telling me that I'm not a Steelers fan, that I don't know what I'm talking about, that I hate life, and that Tim Tebow is the devil, I thought I'd throw out the other side of the argument.
First of all, Ben Roethlisberger continues to irritate the crap out of me. Yes, there are ...
Note To Pittsburgh Steelers Coach Mike Tomlin: How About Tim Tebow?
Posted: 6th April 2010 by Alex Ferguson in NFL
Last time I looked, the Pittsburgh Steelers were having a fair amount of problems at quarterback. We know why: Ben Roethlisberger might not play this year because of legal issues. He wasn't that great this year, either, and people are getting a little fed up with him.
Add to that the issues with Super Bowl hero Santonio Holmes, and Pittsburgh wants back its image as a team that appeals to ...
Welcome back, sweet baseball. We pray from Seattle to Florida and from Toronto to Texas to you to give us the elixir of October success. Over the next few months we’ll fall back in love with our stadiums—from the Green Monster at Fenway to the Green Monster Ivy at Wrigley. We’ll hope to see a player fall up the hill in Houston, fall over the fence in Arizona, ...
So Dad called us to say today. "Go and see 'The Blind Side' - Mum and I have just come from seeing it, and I had tears in my eyes," he said. That got us thinking. First of all, we loved "Friday Night Lights" , Texas-based football. The TV series was pretty damned good, too.
There is no better mix out there than high school, insanely hot girls, teen drama, ...
Tim Tebow: In Defense of the QB and Why He Should Go to Jacksonsville
Posted: 25th March 2010 by Alex Ferguson in NFL
Listen, we at the VFA may have been a little strong on our hammering of Tim Tebow for a less-than-wonderful Wonderlic test, but the point is this: Superman is a winner.
If you're the Jacksonville Jaguars, why in the heck wouldn't you want to draft someone who's not only God in the State of Florida, but also has better numbers than "better" QBs out of the SEC who were drafted? ...
NFL Draft Thoughts: Get Spiller, Get Clausen, Ignore Bradford
Posted: 26th February 2010 by Alex Ferguson in NFL
We know that The Boy Named Suh and Gerald McCoy are going to go 1-2, which means that St. Louis and Detroit are going to be paying them next year. Both sides are winners on thisùso well done by them. With Tampa Bay and Washington not having a quarterback to speak of, odds are that one of them is going to be picking up Sam Bradford or Jimmy ...
It was a shock to all of us at the VFA when we heard that Urban Meyer was retiring from his role as the Florida Gators head coach.
Citing family and faith before football, Meyer decided that a possible heart attack and death on the sideline wasn't worth risking for the gadzillions and the glory.
And you know what? Good on him.
Driven as he is, Meyer didn't have anything else to prove ...
Nick Johnson is once again a Yankee, if the reports are right .
As a Yankee fan, I should be happy. In 2001 he pulled off a brilliant catch from first base that sticks in my mind. He's not a horrible hitter (lifetime .273 hitter).
He's seen as being the 'next Johnny Damon' in that he'll provide a bat to cover Alex Rodriguez and play DH for 100-odd games.
But taking over from ...
After he basically said he'd entertain offers from big-time schools, Cincinnati head coach Brian Kelly seems to have gotten himself the biggest offer of them allùNotre Dame. Unless you've been under a rock for the last few years, when it comes to college football, Notre Dame and their coaching situations have been a somewhat unsteady business.
You come, you get a few wins, you lose, and you get fired. ...
Finally, the Bowl Committees get it right. As a Penn State fan, I would have loved the Nittany Lions to sneak into a BCS Bowl and play somebody, but they lost (and were outclassed) by the Iowa Hawkeyes...at home. Frankly, I can't wait until Penn State plays LSU in a bowl game for the ages in Orlando. It's Joe Paterno vs. Les Miles. Both have seen their teams ...