Christ, who the hell was I thinking of then…my bad

Which is apparently what a lot of the announcers trying to emulate Uecker seem to forget.

Favorite Madden-Summerall moment:

Being a native Cincinnatian and lifelong (and long-suffering) Reds fan, I'll always have a special place in my heart for Marty Brennaman and Joe Nuxhall. Vin Scully, politics aside, is a goddamn national treasure. I say this as someone who despises the Dodgers almost as much as I hate the St. Louis Cardinals.

Apparently his announcement of "you are looking live at…" is some sort of code to gamblers and bookies.

Anyone else ever try to make a drinking game out of how many times Simms says "the football" only to get blackout drunk before the end of the first quarter?

I love Uecker, but too many announcers nowadays try to emulate him. I can't stand listening to Diamondbacks games on the radio (I'm not even that much of a Diamondbacks fan but I need to get my baseball fix every once in a while) and Schulte and Candiotti apparently based everything they know about play-by-play and…

Pretty sure Jack Hannah said something similar, and I figure he must know what he's talking about.

I still can't believe we (Ohio) nearly went to war over that fucking city and that we "won" the right to keep Toledo. And then Michigan got the Upper Peninsula, so tell me who won in the long run?

To be fair, Columbus does have a pretty kickass zoo.

"Lets bring with us the vegetation we had back home and plant it in an incompatible environment" - nearly every person who's moved to Arizona from somewhere east of Colorado

As a resident of Flagstaff/Coconino County, I'm all in favor of any measure we can take in reducing the Great State of Maricopa's influence and power over the rest of the state. We're not all gun-toting rednecks who hate anyone with a browner shade of skin than us transplants, although parts of Prescott and most of…

Yeah, several of our arena and concert venues, excluding where the NFL Cardinals play and Diamondbacks play, have names licensed by local Native American tribes:

I live in Arizona, and I don't know if this says something about the people I hang out with or not, but it appeared that a large segment of the population of this state was really disappointed about the cancelled concert, more people than I presume who actually had tickets to the concert.

Deadspin ran an article titled "Philip Rivers is an intense weirdo" during a Monday night game featuring the Chargers back in October 2013.

I hate the Steelers (much in the same way I hate the St. Louis Cardinals) because of how much more successfully they are than my teams. It's nothing but jealousy.

Can't wait until they get to the Bengals. I thought suffering through the 1990s, and the 2005 wildcard game against the Steelers (who went on to win the Super Bowl that year) were bad enough. Then, whatever the fuck that was happened with 1:30 left in the fourth with the Bengals up by one (or two?) over the Steelers…

I think he's also writing for Sports on Earth, but so is Mike Lupica (christ, what an asshole)

I'll be the first to admit I'm not the biggest fan of Burneko (he seems to go out of his way to disparage my favorite food, ever) but I always just chalked up my dislike of him to his pissing (or shitting) on my beloved "diarrhea sludge," aka Cincinnati Chili (for anyone familiar with the area, my favorites are Camp…

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