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  • How Old are the Most Popular Sports

    How Old are the Most Popular Sports

    The Olympics, in some sort of ancient version, were here way before Jesus walked on water. While association football (soccer) doesn’t have an official source, versions of the game have been around for hundreds of years. The NFL, NBA and MLB might be relatively young, but the sports these leagues are based on have been around for quite some time.

  • AFC Super Bowl Dominance vs NFC Parity

    AFC Super Bowl Dominance vs NFC Parity

    It’s not a big secret that the AFC has been the stronger conference in the NFL, although the last three Super Bowls and four of the last five have been won by the NFC. The big arguing case about parity and disparity? Only 3 AFC teams have made the big game for the last nine years, while 8 teams from the NFC have made it.

  • Terrell Owens – Definitely Hall of Fame Material

    Being a likable person shouldn’t be a criteria for whether a person belongs in the hall of fame or not. Being a great football player is. Terrell Owens, regardless of what people may think of him as a person, was a great football player in the NFL for over a decade, and deserves a spot, eventually, in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

  • 10 Most Valuable Teams in the World

    Soccer (real football) might not be a big thing in the United States, but it’s a religion around the rest of the globe, making it hardly a surprise that four soccer clubs (Arsenal, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Manchester United) are among the 10 most valuable sport franchises in the world, along with 4 NFL teams (Giants, Patriots, Redskins, Cowboys) and two Baseball clubs, the Yankees and the Dodgers.

  • Soccer (Real Football) vs (American) Football – The Never Ending Story

    The most popular sport in the world is football. Not American football. No no. That weird thing they call soccer in the USA, which has a rising league called the MLS as its ambassador in North America. For the rest of the world, most of it at least, it’s the biggest pass time there is. A religion […]

  • From High School Athlete to Pro Ball? Hardly a Chance (Infographic)

    Making it, becoming a professional athlete, is probably the dream of every young kid at one point or another during the early days. Millions go on to become High School athletes, but the chances of actually making it from there to the NFL, NHL, NBA, MLB and MLS is ridiculously low.

  • A History of Major Sports Leagues Lockouts and Strikes (Infographic)

    An Infographic describing the history of lockouts and strikes in the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL, clearly proving that history repeats itself and losing two weeks or a month of NBA regular season games isn’t the worst thing that can happen.

  • Top Ten Biggest NFL Stadiums

    NFL Stadiums don’t produce eye popping numbers like some of College Football 100,000+ venues, but there aren’t any with less than 60,000. Cowboys Stadium can pack 110,000 when Jerry Jones feels like it, while FedEx stadium keeps getting smaller, but remains high on the list.

  • The History of the Super Bowl in Pictures Part II

    Part II of our Super Bowl history class, going through Super Bowl XXI with a Phil Simms led Giant beating the Broncos to Kurt Warner’s Rams in Super Bowl XXXIV and their win over the Titans.

  • The History of the Super Bowl in Pictures Part I

    A week before the big game in Arlington, we’re doing a run down of all the Super Bowls, beginning with the first 20 NFL Finals – Super Bowl I (Packers) to Super Bowl XX (Bears).