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Eric Mangini Is a Genius: The Mangini Plan

Cleveland Brown Coach Eric Mangini is a genius. It is extremely hard to annoy and antagonize an owner to such an extent that he rather fire you and pay you millions to stay home. It's even harder to do that in the first year of a contract...

Written by Dan Boone about 2 days ago 71 reads 2 comments
Which NFL Coaches Are Cooked? The Dead Turkey Day Ten

Dick Jauron, or the strange, gaunt wax figurine that eerily replaced him on the frigid Buffalo Bill sideline, is gone from the field where the buffalo roam but seldom score...

Written by Dan Boone about 4 days ago 43 reads 0 comments
Ten Terrible Turkey Day College Football Coaches

Which college football coaches make their fans feel like the kid in A Christmas Story who, on a dreaded triple dog dare, stuck his tongue on a frozen pole? Sure the season started on a fun ...

Written by Dan Boone about 5 days ago 32 reads 2 comments
Bad, Bad Bears: A Brief Bear Forty Niner History

The bad news for the Bears did not start with Jay Cutler's pitiful five pick night in San Francisco. Lovie Smith bad bunch of Bears were beaten by the Niners but much better Bears squads and players have been whipped by the gold rush gang...

Written by Dan Boone about 16 days ago 38 reads 2 comments
The NFL's Worst QB and Coach Combos

Great quarterback can make mediocre coaches look great. Weeb Ewbank said that having Johnny Unitas and Joe Namath as his quarterbacks made him look like a pretty good coach. Which he was...

Written by Dan Boone about 16 days ago 74 reads 0 comments
November Nightmares: College Football's Worst Of The Week That Was

To quote a deranged Denny Green Notre Dame is what we thought they were; not very good. Undersized Navy has blown the Irish out of the water two out of the last three years...

Written by Dan Boone about 21 days ago 180 reads 4 comments
The NFL's Worst Teams On Veterans Day: What If They Were War Movies?

Happy veterans day to all vets living and dead! NFL coaches, back when they had personalites, and had yet to evolve into boring bots, many times took on the persona of military leaders...

Written by Dan Boone about 23 days ago 25 reads 2 comments
Is Adrian Peterson The Last Hall Of Fame Running Back?

Is Adrian Peterson the last of the Hall of Fame backs? Will the man in Purple be the last running back to ever make the Hall? The British Buggles sang that video killed the radio star ...

Written by Dan Boone about 24 days ago 122 reads 2 comments
College Football's Worst: The Terrible Ten at Halloween

Hold on, man. We don't go anywhere with "scary," "spooky," "haunted," or "forbidden" in the title. ~From Scooby-Doo Its the first Halloween since we bombed the moon...

Written by Dan Boone about about 1 month ago 76 reads 3 comments
The NFL's Worst Teams: The Sad Sack Seven Special Halloween Edition

The sports books can't give the bad NFL underdogs enough points. The bad teams in the NFL, and there are more at one time then any other time in the history of the league, are the worst ever fielded by the NFL...

Written by Dan Boone about about 1 month ago 128 reads 0 comments
Lovie Smith: Why Is This Man Hiding His Play Calls?

Its looks rather silly when NFL coaches shield their mouths when signaling in top secret plays. They do it, I suppose, to prevent opposing teams highly paid lip readers from catching their top ...

Written by Dan Boone about about 1 month ago 117 reads 0 comments
NFL Halloween Week: What if NFL Teams Were Horror Movies?

Its Halloween week, and Edgar Allan Poe just turned 200 years of age, so what if each NFL team had a Halloween horror theme? Some are easy, some hard, but lets take a look at what tricks and treats we find...

Written by Dan Boone about about 1 month ago 94 reads 7 comments
NFL Football :Crossroads Game Week

I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees.I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees.Asked the lord above for mercy, save me if you please.I went down to the crossroads, tried to flag a ride...

Written by Dan Boone about about 1 month ago 15 reads 0 comments
Take Me Out To The Old Ball Park : Baseball Playoff Prices

Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack, I don't care if I never get back, Let me root, root, root for the home team, If they don't win it's a shame...

Written by Dan Boone about about 1 month ago 30 reads 0 comments
The NCAA's Worst :The Terrible Ten Of College Football

1] Illinois: [1-5] Ron Zook is so resigned to his fate he seems relaxed. Make no mistake Illinois, who scored their first TD against a FBS opponent since last November, are still utterly be terrible but Zook, at least, seems relaxed...

Written by Dan Boone about about 1 month ago 81 reads 0 comments
The NFL's Worst Week Six: Six Teams To Make Fans Sick

1] St Louis Rams [0-6] Averaging a nifty nine points a game, offensive guru's Dick Curls' secret three field goal game plan, the Rams were left behind by the suddenly victorious cross state Kansas City Chiefs...

Written by Dan Boone about about 1 month ago 219 reads 0 comments
Rush Limbaugh Rammed: Don't Take It So Hard

You want a little bit - once in a while Come on and get a bit You shouldn't take it so hard - Yeah You shouldn't take it You shouldn't take it so hard - Yeah Take a look around you - Tell ...

Written by Dan Boone about about 1 month ago 70 reads 4 comments
When Did The NFL Get This Bad? The NFL's Worst Week Five.

The Cleveland Browns and Buffalo Bills bowl was one of the most awful displays of football in history. The Browns quarterback, Derrick Anderson, played about as bad as a player can play...

Written by Dan Boone about about 1 month ago 172 reads 1 comments
The Terrible Ten Of College Football: Week Six

1] Illinois [1-4] Ron Zook pulled the plug on his Me and Eddie McGee show at half time and let the Juice go on the loose. But that was still a song, song blue since the Juice has gone flat and Zook has lost his zap...

Written by Dan Boone about about 1 month ago 76 reads 11 comments
Who Will Be The First NFL Coach Fired? The Odds Are Up!

"The heat is on, on the street Inside your head, on every beat And the beat's so loud, deep inside The pressure's high, just to stay alive 'Cause the heat is on" Glen Frey "Courage is grace under pressure...

Written by Dan Boone about about 1 month ago 193 reads 8 comments
The NFL's Worst Teams Week Four: The Sad Sack Seven

San Francisco Forty Niner head coach Mike Singletary always could skin a Ram whether it was of the Los Angeles or of the St Louis breed...

Written by Dan Boone about about 1 month ago 39 reads 0 comments
The Terrible Ten Of College Football: Week Five

Go, Al Groh, go! Al and his Virginia Cavaliers whipped Butch Davis' North Carolina Tar Heels much like Stonewall Jackson did Nathanial Banks in the Shenandoah all those kickoffs ago...

Written by Dan Boone about about 1 month ago 186 reads 0 comments
Coaches Poll Madness! Why Is Penn State Ranked Above Iowa?

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgement based upon it. Bert Russell, who, alas, does not have a vote in the coaches poll...

Written by Dan Boone about about 1 month ago 132 reads 2 comments
American Gothic: Ted Williams' Head On Ice

"Johnson writes that Alcor severed many of its members' heads and placed them in a deep freeze, balancing them on empty cans of BumbleBee tuna fish so that the heads didn't stick to their containers...

Written by Dan Boone about about 1 month ago 47 reads 3 comments
The NFL's Worst Teams Week Three:The Sad Sack Seven

There are some really bad ball clubs in the NFL this year. Teams not only drained of talent but also lacking any ability to excite their fan bases. The NFL is built for parity...

Written by Dan Boone about 2 months ago 2,385 reads 4 comments

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Dan Boone Article Archive

Eric Mangini Is a Genius: The Mangini Plan

Which NFL Coaches Are Cooked? The Dead Turkey Day Ten

Ten Terrible Turkey Day College Football Coaches

Bad, Bad Bears: A Brief Bear Forty Niner History

The NFL's Worst QB and Coach Combos

November Nightmares: College Football's Worst Of The Week That Was

The NFL's Worst Teams On Veterans Day: What If They Were War Movies?

Is Adrian Peterson The Last Hall Of Fame Running Back?

College Football's Worst: The Terrible Ten at Halloween

The NFL's Worst Teams: The Sad Sack Seven Special Halloween Edition

Lovie Smith: Why Is This Man Hiding His Play Calls?

NFL Halloween Week: What if NFL Teams Were Horror Movies?

NFL Football :Crossroads Game Week

Take Me Out To The Old Ball Park : Baseball Playoff Prices

The NCAA's Worst :The Terrible Ten Of College Football

The NFL's Worst Week Six: Six Teams To Make Fans Sick

Rush Limbaugh Rammed: Don't Take It So Hard

When Did The NFL Get This Bad? The NFL's Worst Week Five.

The Terrible Ten Of College Football: Week Six

Who Will Be The First NFL Coach Fired? The Odds Are Up!

The NFL's Worst Teams Week Four: The Sad Sack Seven

The Terrible Ten Of College Football: Week Five

Coaches Poll Madness! Why Is Penn State Ranked Above Iowa?

American Gothic: Ted Williams' Head On Ice

The NFL's Worst Teams Week Three:The Sad Sack Seven

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