Archive for the ‘Choke Jobs’ Category
Monday, January 23rd, 2012
On Sept. 23, 1908 Fred Merkle became the first athlete to achieve national infamy for a gaffe that ultimately cost his team a shot at a championship.
Merkle's Boner, as they called it back then, has been joined by dozens of choke-jobs in the century following — two of which came ...
Posted in AFC Championship Game, Choke Jobs, NFC Championship Game | 1 Comment »
Saturday, September 20th, 2008
Football season is screaming by and I'm already wishing it would slow down. I'm convinced the reason football is so popular in America is because it's violent (duh), and the season goes by really, really fast. There's eight months of off-season and only four months of football per year. No ...
Posted in Ball State University, Boise State, Booter Chimes In, Choke Jobs, College Football, EPL, Florida Gators, Free Keiland Williams, Free SDSU, Fuck Notre Dame, General, Georgia Bulldogs, Georgia Tech, Ian Johnson, Indiana University, International Soccer, LSU, McD's Gambling Problem, Ohio State, Puck Furdue, SEC, Tennessee, University of Iowa, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
In order to make things easier for the police, I'm just going to come out and confess: if 300-400 hobos in Chicagoland are found brutally murdered Wednesday morning, there's a chance that I had some culpability in the matter. Or at least I might have if I didn't take the ...
Posted in Accursed Sports Towns, Choke Jobs, MLB | No Comments »
Monday, June 9th, 2008
Ever since Big Brown shat the bed at the Belmont on Saturday, we here at Rumors and Rants (well, at least me) have been eating it up with a spoon. (Figuratively speaking of course, since horses crap in their beds on a daily basis and we still haven't had to ...
Posted in Belmont Stakes, Big Brown, Choke Jobs | 1 Comment »