NTSF 121: The Life of a Blessed Sports Fan…
I’ve been thinking the past few days about just how blessed I am as a sports fan. Perhaps it is just the glow after finishing the first draft of my first book, achieving the New Year’s resolution I set on the first of January 2010 of having this thing completed and ready to edit by the 31st of January 2011, that has me all aglow. If — nay, when – everything goes right, one way or another, the book is going to be in print before the... Read More
Quick Thoughts Following the Rose Bowl
It was the most bittersweet of results, a simultaneous welling of pride as this site’s resident BCS Buster guru and pangs of agony as a lifelong Badger fan. When TCU’s otherworldly linebacker Tank Carder stuck up a meaty paw and deflected away Scott Tolzein’s on-target two-point conversion attempt as it floated on a line toward wide-open Jacob Pederson, it sealed the 21-19 win for the Horned Frogs in the historic confines of the... Read More
NTSF 118: Blown away by in-flight technology…
As the New Year nears, this is the time slot when I would normally be breaking down all the events of the year, the biggest people and places of the past 365 days. But I pretty much did that last month, when I declared that we really ought to push the concept of the “New Year” up the calendar to more coherently conform with the start and finish of sports leagues. So I’m not going to go into the vagaries of breaking down December for you…... Read More
NTSF 116: Why we root the way we do…
It is something that so wholly encompasses the sports fan’s consciousness that it seems second nature. Yet it is one of those things that the fan rarely thinks about as he goes about his daily existence. Rooting for his team or teams, year after year, there are precious few occasions on which he finds himself questioning why he continues to offer his support, year after year. Read More Read More
A Disjointed Fan’s Worst Nightmare
One of college football's greatest venues...home to a personal nightmare? Cold sweat, the room still dark, cat shuffling ’round the two pair of feet poking out the covers at the edge of the bed. This fan doesn’t usually dream in his sleep, but this nightmare vision seemed to be coming in more vividly as he awakened. The phone on the nightstand blinks with messages piped in through the night. 3:31 am, too damn early to be awake, yet... Read More
