I apologize for posting so many movies today, but this one just seems so right on for this here website. It’s a documentary video of a 100-year-old church being moved from one location to another with lots of time-lapse shots, set to a sort of rock-and-roll choir piece written specifically for the video of the […]

Over the next few days we’ll be taking a look at some of the best NFL players ever, in an attempt to give you a passing familiarity with some big names that are likely to be thrown around at the water cooler or Super Bowl party.
Today’s position: Running Back. You know, the guy who starts […]

Hitchcock tried to warn us, but we wouldn’t listen: birds are dicks.
Also, in Bird World, this pigeon—it is a pigeon, right?—is Mr. T.

Yesterday we linked a copy of the Bears’ infamous mid-season promotional song, the “Super Bowl Shuffle.” Just minutes after we embedded the copy from YouTube, it was pulled down, purportedly at the request of “Julia Meyer.” Who was Julia Meyer and why didn’t she want people to see the “Super Bowl Shuffle?”
Turns out Ms. […]

Hey, I drive a PC, but this was just bad ass. I remember watching this when it was televised, I was 13 years old, and I had actually just finished reading 1984. This knocked us all flat. I don’t even remember who was playing, but when I rediscovered this commercial a few years ago, it […]

Unlikely as it may sound, some of our fathers either didn’t bother or didn’t know how to teach us wee lads the correct way to throw a football. Odds are that the fellows to whom this applies spent a lot of time in the science room and now make more money than the rest […]

The life of a multi-million dollar ball player isn’t easy. Perhaps the hardest part of the job is fielding inane questions from the press.
Bills running back Thurman Thomas was asked how he got psyched for big games.
“I read the newspaper and look at the stupid questions you all ask,” he replied.
Dumbest Super Bowl […]

Back in the 90’s I was living in Milwaukee and attending the University of Wisconsin as a theater major. Now, Milwaukee is nothing if not steeped in football fandom, and these were the first of the infamous Reggie White and Brett Favre days. Good god, the Favre fervor was insane. Packer fans are, as a […]