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“Green Police” Commercial

February 8, 2010

Audi paid the big bucks for this commercial in last night’s Super Bowl in order to promote their “green” cars:

To most it’s just Super Bowl silly, but I couldn’t help but think about a particular Liberal friend whose hyperactive about everything green.  I’m pretty sure that’s his perfect little Eco-Nazi world!
Personally, while a few were [...]

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Rush’s Op-ed in the Wall Street Journal

October 17, 2009

Personally, I think that Rush Limbaugh has a legal case against many of those involved in the unfounded defamation of his character which resulted in real financial consequences, many of whom are in the MSM.  But, Rush has decided to take another route — battling back in the arena of ideas like he’s preached for decades on [...]

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Welcome to the NFL, Mark Sanchez!

October 5, 2009

The NFL is great for the sports drama and excitement it dishes out every week.  In keeping with that, New York Jets rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez put in a very rookie-like performance yesterday in his 24-10 loss to the high-flying New Orleans Saints: 

The New York media has been generally forgiving, though.  With all the buzz [...]

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John Madden Leaves the Booth

April 16, 2009

Former NFL coach and renowned commentator John Madden is retiring from the booth.  The last game he called was Super Bowl XLIII last February.  He will be replaced on Sunday Night Football by Cris Collinsworth. If he follows the Favre model, we’ll see him in September, but most sources believe this retirement is legit, that [...]

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2009 NFL Schedule Released

April 14, 2009

My two favorite sports to watch are football and the men’s college basketball tournaments.  If the Celtics are doing well, then I’ll watch the NBA playoffs.  I’m going to try once again to get into baseball this year — each season I get more into it so the trend line on the baseball-fan-in-me is good.  [...]

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Stop the Presses! Brett Favre Retires… Again

February 11, 2009

Where have I heard this before?
That’s right, every single NFL post-season since Noah was trying to tick off “two emus” from his list! 
Though this time I think it’s for real.  Maybe. 
Thusly, I’m not getting all nostalgic.  I’ve already done that at the end of last season and what did that get me — Favre ended up at [...]

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The Super Bowl “Flu” Epidemic

February 1, 2009

Long have there been calls to make Super Bowl Monday a holiday since absenteeism and productivity resulting from the Super Bowl “flu” can be costly: last year 4.4 million late-ins and an estimated 1.5 million extra absences were phoned in.  Some have also estimated that $16 million per minute lost during the week preceding the Super Bowl on people running [...]

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Petraeus to Toss Coin at Super Bowl XLIII

January 29, 2009

Centcom Head and Iraq Redeemer David Petraeus will be part of the Super Bowl XLIII coin toss Sunday night.  Here what Petraeus had to say about it:
“It is a privilege to represent our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen in the coin-toss ceremony…. And it is an honor to thank the NFL commissioner and the [...]

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Arizona Cardinals Win a Playoff Game!

January 3, 2009

No, I’m not joking! 
I just finished watching something I may tell my grandkids one day — I witnessed the Arizona Cardinals actually win a home playoff game 30-24!  1947 was the last time the Cardinals hosted a playoff game, so I’m not totally kidding about that. 
I’m not a Cardinals fan by any stretch, but they’ve been [...]

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Meadowland Mauling Killed the Patriots

December 28, 2008

The football gods are still inflicting more karmic mayhem on the New England Patriots.
After the Spygate fiasco, the football gods waited until the last possible moment to exact their revenge against the Pats — waiting until the last three-minutes of the Super Bowl to take the possible undefeated season out of reach by losing to [...]

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Eagles @ Bengals: The Game Nobody Won

November 16, 2008

For the first time since 2002, an NFL game ended at the end of sudden-death overtime without a winner.  The Philadelphia Eagles played the Cincinnati Bengals for 75 game minutes, ending in a 13-13 tie.  In a way, as a big NFL fan, it is kind of neat because it’s so unusual. 
However, I’m not a fan of [...]

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Fins End Pats Streak

September 21, 2008

I guess when a football streak comes to an end, you might as well make it memorable!  I won’t be forgetting this one soon.
The last time the New England Patriots lost a regular season game was December 10, 2006, against the Miami Dolphins.  So, the Dolphins showed up to not just beat the Pats at home [...]

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NFL’s New Rules for 2008

August 13, 2008

NFL.com is reporting that a few rule changes discussed in March will indeed be going into effect next season.  Among them, I liked these two: 

They are getting rid of the “force out” rule — one has to honestly make the catch and come down with it in-bounds, regardless of whether the defense has knocked you [...]

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Brett Favre and the New York Jets

August 7, 2008

Trading in the green-and-gold for a certainly less shiny green-and-white, the Green Bay Packers have ended all this pre-season Favre silliness by finally trading the future Hall-of-Famer to the New York Jets for a “conditional” fourth-round draft pick. 
But, here are some other conditions from NFL.com:
“The pick turns into a third-round selection if Favre plays in 50 [...]

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Where O Where will Dick Cheney Be?

August 5, 2008

Word is buzzing that Dick Cheney may not be invited to speak at the Republican National Convention.  A sitting two-term Vice President has never been snubbed by the incumbent party’s convention that I can think of in modern times.  I know that if Cheney doesn’t go it’ll be spun as his “choice” to help McCain, but [...]

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Favre’s Impending Return

July 26, 2008

Is anyone else getting sick of all this?  I remember at the end the last NFL season, the great Brett Favre finally retired.  Everyone was nostalgic, some even perplexed since he obviously still had talent, even I here at AOR provided a glowing post as a career epitaph for a man who always looked like he was [...]

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Cheaters Never Win: New York Giants Win Super Bowl XLII

February 3, 2008

This New York Jets fan is proud to congratulate the New York Giants for winning Super Bowl XLII 17-14 over the New England Patriots Cheaters and removing the stain that tarnished this season and threatened to remain on the record books forever.
By stopping the Patriots, the Giants showed that although cheating can seemingly give one [...]

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