The Morning Tailgate

Pete Vuckovich.

The name is sacred here at the JoeSportsFan headquarters, but to the average joe, it’s one of those names that you’re familar with, but not quite sure of its cultural significance.

What do you do? Well, you head to Google, like any warm-blooded human. You may want to rethink that, according to Alex Wissner-Gross, a Harvard University physicist whose currently researching the environmental impact of Google’s search engines.

“Google are very efficient but their primary concern is to make searches fast and that means they have a lot of extra capacity that burns energy.”

We’re not sure what to make of this story.  Quite frankly, we’re a little confused why Google is treated like a plural proper noun in the quote above, but that’s neither here nor there—so we’re going to take down today’s ceremonial tailgate bratwurst ourself.

Furthermore, what’s the alternative?  Heading to the library every time we want to look up pictures of our favorite mustached athlete? We think not. Mustache gratification needs to be immediate.

January 13

1962 - Kevin Mitchell is born…angry as hell.

1972 - Bam Morris is born in Cooper, TX. In his NFL career he would go on to rack up 3,809 rushing yards and 4,212 kilos of marijuana sold.

1994 - Tonya Harding’s bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt and Derrick Brian Smith arrested and charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan. We don’t condone orchestrated violence here at JSF, but after seeing the Kerrigan replay of her screaming “WHYYYY!!! WHYYYY MEEEEE???????” over and over again...We understand.

1999 - Michael Jordan announces his retirement from basketball, which ultimately lasted only two years until his return in 2001. Somewhere Brett Favre was watching on TV and thinking to himself “fake retiring looks like fun”.###MORE###

New Hall of Famer Jim Rice / Shaft

The Forgotten Heroes

In honor of the Hall of Fame inductions of Jim Rice and Rickey Henderson, we look back at the only column in JSF history that included both new inductees (per the JSF search engine).

Whether they’ve been forgotten, ignored or simply overlooked, today we honor those players who were instrumental in creating the most dramatic home runs in baseball history.  For no other reason than convenience, we’ll revisit the moments in the order in which they occurred.

Sure, the column referenced Jim Rice striking out and Rickey Henderson drawing a walk, but the incidents still played a small part in the process to create some of the most memorable home runs in baseball history.

Check out the piece here.

JoeSportsFan.com writer and American Mustache Institute founder Dr. Aaron was recently profiled by a local television program in St. Louis along with fellow JSF Future Star Dan Callahan. Though the following isn’t the replay of the segment, you do get highlights of a mustached man dipping bacon into his coffee, which counts for something.

Fan of the Week - Our resident fan hunters take a long, hard look at the fan bases of Arizona and Philadelphia to intelligently determine a winner in this week’s NFC Championship game.

Dr. Aaron gets something off his chest. He’s quite bothered by this matter, so we’d appreciate it if you listen up.