Van Brocklin set that record against the New York Yanks, a team that was on the brink of insolvency and folded after that season. You'd never get a discrepancy between teams in the modern-day NFL as wide as the '51 Rams (NFL champs) vs the '51 Yanks (failed franchise about to collapse.)

My favorite way of looking at how much easier it's become to move the ball through the air:

He finally got to use his Federal Breast Inspectors badge.

Eddie Griffin's rookie card is worth as much as a car — as long as the car is not a Bentley.

@UweBollocks: +1. So does that mean "Dream Brother" is about ... ?

@Body By Bacardi: Magary. He ran a story about a vehicle striking a doughnut shop and I commented "Golden Tate wishes he had thought of this." I didn't think it was terribly funny but Drew was feeling generous I guess.

@Ryanosaurus Rex: The caricature of Easterbrook is that he "dabbles in conspiracy theory politics." Every post about him has to have some reference to a shadowy cabal of Jewish bankers, or the Gnomes of Zurich, or some such ridiculous thing. But that's an exaggeration for comedic effect. Just like we all assume…

@Desi_Relaford: Nice, although Blair Thomas wants to know why he was excluded.

Another streak that made it to 8 1/2: Fellini's run of Oscars in the early '60s.

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Even with a blowout loss, Auburn will probably fall no further than #2 in most of the computer polls. A few minutes of fooling around with "Play God" mode on the Colley website confirms this.

Tell Roto-Rooter I looooooooooooove her.

Could have been worse, Kris. At least the Stanley Cup didn't call you an "ass man."

@Hatey McLife: +1

Alternate theories on how Jim Gentile won 1961 RBI title:

Golden Tate wishes he had thought of this.

Last time a Panda tried to teach children a valuable life lesson, everything went fine.

@TommyAce: Baseball-reference made an exception to its normal nomenclature for Kevin Youkilis' home page: it's "youkLke" instead of, well.

@TommyAce:

J.D. Considine thinks this license plate is total SHAYT.