Has a Punter Ever Been Drafted in the First Round?
The game of football has changed significantly over the past 40-50 years. It's impossible to imagine a punter being taken in the first round of the NFL Draft. A punter being taken over a quart...
Donnel Pumphrey: Still College Football's All-Time Rushing Leader
The all-time college football rushing leader - including bowl games - remains Donnel Pumphrey, who rushed for 6,405 yards during his time with San Diego State. Pumphrey remains ahead of such all-t...
The Year That Derrick Thomas (Unofficially) Posted 27 Sacks in a Single Season for Alabama
If you look at the record for most sacks in a single college football season, you'll see that Terrell Suggs holds the record with 24. In 2002, while playing for Arizona State, Suggs absolutely dom...
Aaron Rodgers Nearly Went an Entire Season Without Throwing an Interception in 2018
Aaron Rodgers doesn't throw many interceptions. Over the course of a career that has spanned nearly two decades, Rodgers has thrown just 105 interceptions, which is a ridiculous numbers. In 20...
How The Montreal Expos Were Possibly Robbed of a Title in 1994
One of the great "what ifs" of the past thirty years in Major League Baseball: What would have happened if a player's strike didn't end the 1994 season? Baseball fans in Montreal can't help but ...
Jennings B. Whitworth: The Alabama Head Coach With the 16.7% Winning Percentage
In this day and age, the idea of Alabama football losing more than 1-2 games per season seems almost unthinkable. The program, led by Nick Saban, consistently lands top recruits and is consistentl...
Joe Montana's Surprisingly Good Final Two Seasons With the Kansas City Chiefs
It's a common story - the former superstar player who sticks around a bit too long, ultimately lamenting that they should have retired while on top. This wasn't the story with Joe Montana, who had...
The Forgotten "Dream Team II" That Won The 1994 FIBA World Championship
Everyone remembers the original "Dream Team", which featured the likes of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, just to name a few. Most remember the "Dream Team III", which featured the l...
Remembering Peter Forsberg's 31 Point Rampage at the 1993 World Juniors
Wayne Gretzky. Jaromir Jagr. Eric Lindros. These are just some of the players that are in the top 20 of all-time scoring at the World Junior Hockey tournament (IIHF World Junior Championship). ...
The Time a 1,000 Pound Coaching Tower Fell on Top of Ray Nitschke During Practice
If you visit the Packer Hall of Fame in Green Bay, Wisconsin, you will see the helmet that famously saved Ray Nitschke's life. The helmet has a big hole where a screw pierced it - the screw that w...
When Deion Sanders Tried To Play a Football Game AND Baseball Game - In The Same Day
October 11th, 1992 was surely a day that Deion Sanders will never forget. This was the day that Sanders attempted to play for the Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta Braves - IN THE SAME DAY. - At ...
What Are The Odds of a Game Going To Overtime in the NFL?
What are the odds of a NFL game going to overtime? How many NFL games go to overtime every season? The overtime period was added to the NFL's rules in 1974 - prior to that, games would just end ...
Has There Ever Been a 2,000 Yard Season For a Wide Receiver in the NFL?
Jerry Rice. Calvin Johnson. Julio Jones. These are just some of the wide receivers that made a run at the 2,000 yard mark in a single season, though all three ended up coming short. With Tyree...
The Time The Owner of the Cleveland Browns Had To Personally Guarantee a Loan to Pay Andre Rison's Signing Bonus
It seems almost absurd to consider in this day and age. Imagine a NFL franchise being SO deep in debt that an owner had to PERSONALLY guarantee a loan that was to be used to pay for the signing bo...
What Was The Last Division I School To Discontinue Their Football Program?
What was the last D1 school to shutter their football program? In this day and age, there aren't too many Division I schools that shut down their football programs. From 2000 to 2010, for insta...
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