The Morning Tailgate

Today’s ceremonial bratwurst goes to Oklahoma’s Sam Bradford. Not because of the great season he had individually or for getting his team to the national title game in his sophomore season...We appreciate the straight up rejection of the Detroit Lions and our hometown St. Louis Rams.

By returning to school, Bradford ensures he won’t get kidnapped to an organization that completely sucks and for that, we raise our early-morning glasses. It takes a big man to reject millions of dollars for the sake of personal pride and job security.

As far as we’re concerned, early morning bratwursts are a key part of this Native American’s breakfast.

January 15

1889 - The Coca-Cola Company is originally incorporated in Atlanta, GA. We prefer Coke over Pepsi, but their $100 million endorsement deal with LeBron James ends this year, and they never had a wickedly awesome commercial like this one.

1967 - The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles, CA.  The Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10. Brett Favre wouldn’t be born until two years later, but we’re quite certain he was the reason for the victory.

1981 - Bob Gibson, largely considered one of the greatest pitchers of all time, is elected to Baseball’s Hall of Fame.  In 1968, he won the NL Cy Young and MVP awards while throwing 13 complete game shutouts.  CC Sabathia led the Majors with three this past season. Suck it, CC.###MORE###

John Saunders, ESPN - Saunders passionately demands that all of his lovers refer to him as Barry White before, during, and after having relations.

* Hat tip to those zany fellers over The Sports Hernia for their submission.  Is it weird that one set of grown men is sending pictures of male sexual escalation to another set of grown men?  Did we just cyber?

( Complete Set of Sportsanchor “Oh” Faces )

Just in case you missed it early this week, the most recent video edition of The JoeSportsFan Show explores what happens within the tight confines of an announcers booth

The Sports Hernia stops by to offer silly musings to entertain.

We take a look at the new branding initiative by energy drink giant, Gatorade and preview some of the new “attitude” they’re bringing with it.