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    Super Bowl Ad: FOX Bans “Beaver”…and News

    January 30th, 2008 by FanYard Blake
    It seems that FOX, the network television channel that use to be known for its edginess, has turned the corner, so to speak, and become one of the dinosaurs it …
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  • Super Bowl Predictions and Other Such Nonsense

    January 28th, 2008 by FanYard Blake Posted in Football, NFL, Uncategorized | 1 comment
     
    After another long and arduous season of watching football and cheering and screaming and jumping, cursing, layghing, crying, hand-wringing and dancing, we fans should all be hoping for a safe and close, exciting Super Bowl. I know I am. However…and this is not NFL smack talk, just a feeling. It has become apparent to me that people are a …

     

  • If Hitler Was A Dallas Cowboys Fan

    January 25th, 2008 by FanYard Blake Posted in Football, NFL, Uncategorized | 1 comment
     
    I just finished reading a great novel about the last half year or so of the Second World War and specifically about the downfall of that madman, Adolf Hitler and the fall of his Reich. The book was called BERLIN: The Downfall 1945 by Antony Beevor. Parts of the book reminded me of a movie I saw a few years …

     

  • Fair Weather Fans - What To Do?

    January 24th, 2008 by FanYard Blake Posted in Football, NFL, Uncategorized | 2 comments
     
    If you are like me, you like to watch, and listen to, as many NFL games as possible over the course of the season. There are some games, of course, that you will mainly just watch, because you can’t stand listening to Bryant Gumbel anymore. Or Phil Simms’ southern drawl is starting to give you epilepsy. Sometimes, you mute the …

     

  • Super Bowl Predictions, Ads and Records

    January 24th, 2008 by FanYard Blake Posted in Football, NFL, Uncategorized | Add a comment
     
    Every Super Bowl, records are set and hearts are broken. Super Bowl XLII in Glendale, Arizona this February 3rd will be no different. Both teams, the New England Patriots and the New York Giants, have already set all time NFL winning records this season, breaking many hearts along the way, including every heart within a 96.7-mile radius of Lambeau Field, …

     

  • No San Diego Chargers Super Bowl, Ever?

    January 22nd, 2008 by FanYard Blake Posted in Football, NFL, Uncategorized | 2 comments
     
    This team can’t win even when it is winning. I think they may be doomed. It was obvious when Marty Schottenheimer was the head coach that they would never amount to anything but teases for their fans. But that tricky Norv Turner really had some people fooled for, um, about one or two weeks. Some of us actually thought that maybe, …

     

  • NFL Playoff Predictions: Conference Championship Games

    January 16th, 2008 by FanYard Blake Posted in Football, NFL, Uncategorized | 3 comments
     
    It is hard to argue the fact that the possible matchup of Brett Favre versus Tom Brady in Next moth’s Super Bowl is something that has to have advertisers and NFL brass drooling. Sure, the NFL would have loved to see the Patriots lose some games and even miss the playoffs due the slight snubbing of the rules that

     

  • Dallas Cowboys: Will They Keep Jason Garrett or Wade Phillips?

    January 15th, 2008 by FanYard Blake Posted in Football, NFL, Uncategorized | 1 comment
     
    According to a report on ESPN, the Baltimore Ravens have asked Dallas Cowboys offensive coordinator Jason Garrett to be their new head coach after they fired Brian Billick for being out of his league and living on undeserved accolades from years ago. Word on the street says that Garrett has yet to make a decision. I have a feeling …

     

  • NFL Playoff Predictions: Chargers at Colts

    January 11th, 2008 by FanYard Blake Posted in Football, NFL, Uncategorized | Add a comment
     
    The last time these two met, in San Diego in Week 10, the Colts were without sure-handed targets Dallas Clark, Anthony Gonzalez and Marvin Harrison and Peyton Manning threw six interceptions. The Chargers stormed out to a 23-0 lead halfway through the second quarter and even LaDainian Tomlinson looked a little bit happy on the sidelines. Most of the …

     

  • Viewing Your Sports Predictions, Historically

    December 31st, 2007 by FanYard Blake Posted in Football, Uncategorized | Add a comment
     
    You will now notice in your My Yard page at FanYard, that there is now a new section titled: Pick History. This page breaks all your picks into the various sports very nicely. It defaults to NFL, but you will see the tabs for NCAAF, NBA and NCAAB. Your picks in whichever sport you want to look at …