It’s not a team logo, but the “official” logo of the first Super Bowl, before the game was even known by its’ current name. The game was called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game for the first 2 years, and was renamed the “Super Bowl” before the Jets and Colts played in the third game. After … Read More
Classic Sports Card of The Day
Since it’s Super Bowl week this week, the Sports Card of The Day will feature all football cards, and what better card to kick off the week than this 1982 Topps football card of former Los Angeles Rams’ defensive end Jack Youngblood. Youngblood was a symbol of toughness in his playing days, and played in … Read More
NFL – 20th Anniversary of “Wide Right”
Today – Thursday, January 27th, 2011, is the 20th anniversary of a game that lives on in Buffalo sports history as “Wide Right”, the Buffalo Bills’ first-ever appearance in the NFL’s Super Bowl following the 1990 season, that ended in heart-breaking fashion with kicker Scott Norwood missing a 47 yard field goal that would’ve won the … Read More
Classic Team Logo of The Day
Logo of the Shreveport Steamer football team, a short-lived franchise in the old World Football League. They were born as the Houston Texans in 1974, but toward the end of their first season moved to Shreveport, and played there until folding partway through the ’75 season. Famed broadcaster Larry King was an analyst on the … Read More
Classic Sports Card of The Day
From www.CheckOutMyCards.com , this is a 1971 Opechee football card of quarterback Joe Theismann, a player with the Canadian Football League’s Toronto Argonauts at the time the card was issued. Theismann played in the CFL after a stellar college career, mostly because he was considered “too small” to play in the NFL. Theisman finally made … Read More
NFL – Championship Game Predictions
The two conference championship games this weekend figure to be a pair of classic matchups, with both games being played at outdoor venues in cold weather cities, meaning that the games will feature real, knock-down drag-out football, rather than the sanitized dome stadium games. In the divisional round games last weekend, I managed to pick … Read More
Classic Team Logo of The Day
Logo of professional basketball’s Minnesota Timberwolves, used from their inaugural season in the National Basketball Association in 1989 until 1996. They joined the league as an expansion team along with Miami, Orlando and the Charlotte (now New Orleans) Hornets, and the birth of the franchise meant that the NBA was returning to the Twin Cities … Read More
Classic Sports Card of The Day
From www.CheckOutMyCards.com , a 1975 Topps basketball card of former NBA great Paul Silas. Manning the “power forward” position, Silas was one of the top defensive players and rebounders of his era, and was a key member of 2 championship teams with the Boston Celtics in the 1970s. He was one of the consummate “role” players, … Read More
Black Athletes In The 1960s
My perspective on African American athletes in the 1960s was pretty much formed by whatever was written about them in the press at the time. It was a very impressionable time for me, and the gang I grew up with, and I remember we idolized many pro athletes and didn’t really make much of what … Read More
Classic Team Logo of The Day
Logo of a baseball team that played in the old Negro American League, the Kansas City Monarchs. The Monarchs were the longest running franchise of all the teams in the Negro Leagues, and one of the most memorable, and sent more players -9 – on to the major leagues than any other Negro League team. Their … Read More