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Pointless controversy: Thursday night football has to go

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Lummox JR

Question asked: Should the NFL consider ditching Thursday night football? Yes. Yes, they should. As an occasional diversion from the regular schedule, Thursday games are fine. They’re a Thanksgiving tradition, and in the late season, sure, why not a Thursday … Continue reading →

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Mark of the toolbag

Posted on February 3, 2015 by Lummox JR

This is still bothering me, so I’m gonna expand on it. There’s a standard we set for all Superbowl ads. They can be funny, they can be heartwarming, or they can be some combination of the above as well as … Continue reading →

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Nationwide is on my List

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Lummox JR

When I become a supervillain, the execs at Nationwide responsible and the stupid, stupid, stupid stupid stupid ad agency responsible for making that hideous dead kid commercial and showing it during the Superbowl will be brought to justice. This is … Continue reading →

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Superbowl wishes (for chaos)

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Lummox JR

This is my first post of the new year, mainly for one big reason: I got sick not long afterward, catching a nasty cold from someone at a big game night—which was postponed from New Year’s Eve in the first … Continue reading →

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Olympic fever

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Lummox JR

I admit it: I love the Olympics. Yes, the IOC is a hyper-politicized entity that makes a lot of bad decisions (Beijing and Sochi among them), and there’s all kinds of controversy, and the TV coverage sucks on toast, but … Continue reading →

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A halftime lament

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Lummox JR

On Sunday I watched my other football team bomb out of the playoffs. Actually to be correct, I had to watch the game on a delay because I was otherwise engaged earlier in the day and time ran over, and … Continue reading →

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Pointless controversy: Super Bowl XXXI had the best halftime show ever

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Lummox JR

The Super Bowl, hereafter spelled Superbowl because I’m lazy and I also think that’s the way it should be spelled anyway, has had an alarming number of truly terrible halftime shows. Looking through the history of them on Wikipedia is … Continue reading →

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