Pacifist Viking

NPR reports on a study from Germany about the stress die-hard sports fans deal with on game day. Gerhard Steinbeck finds that "cardia...

When you look at the NFL, you see several franchises that don't seem to have any plan for success. Look at the Lions : in Matt Millen...

The Wall Street Journal has a story focusing on all the former Minnesota athletes now starring in Boston, and the general disparity of spor...

At Epic Carnival , wwtb? compares Steve Young from 1992-1998 to Peyton Manning from 2003-2007. Young really was a spectacular quarterback...

There's an interesting article in The Wall Street Journal about vegan and vegetarian diets for athletes. The article doesn't sugg...

From 1992 through 1995, the Dallas Cowboys went 49-15 in the regular season and 10-1 in the post-season. When they won their third Super B...

I don't think the Free Agency/Salary Cap Era (FA/SC) really makes it more difficult for great teams to maintain dominance. You will som...

That is right folks. I predict the end of the world is just around the corner. How else can you explain the TWolves winning two (yes 2) ga...

"Existence precedes essence" In this discussion at Football Outsiders , I came to understand just what it is that bothers me about...

Class of 83' Looking back, people always talk about how great the class of 1983 was for quarterbacks. Well looking back they were domin...

Patriots 21, Chargers 12 Giants 23, Packers 20 (overtime) I feel bad for Packer fan RK Of course I wanted the Giants to win. But I admit, w...

Boston in this decade is not the first sports region to have a big run of success. Let's look at some others. New York, 1986-2000: 8 ch...

Rooting What a vexing Championship Conference weekend. Going into this season, I would have assumed I cared about the San Diego Chargers an...

There's never a just cause to take Seinfeld away from the people. "Green Bay TV station pulling 'Seinfeld,' Eli's favo...

Do NFL rules really prevent sustained success? There are those who make the argument we're supposed to be particularly impressed with th...

A new store, "Beyond Shinders," has taken over the location of the old Maplewood Shinders. "Beyond Shinders" sells the ...

2004's first-round quarterbacks The top three quarterbacks selected in the 2004 NFL draft (Eli Manning, Philip Rivers, Ben Roethlisberg...

Excepting any weekend involving a Viking loss, this is the most disappointing football weekend I can remember. I went into the weekend root...

If you spend your whole day waiting for football, and then watching football, and then the teams you want to win lose, it feels like an enti...

Holy Hitter does not like it when people or entities refer to themselves in the third person. Some do it at an attempt of humor (see PFT an...