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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame Bud Adams for Moving the Houston Oilers to...
December 15, 1996, 20 years ago: The Cincinnati Bengals defeat the Houston Oilers 21-13 at the Astrodome. It is the last home game the Oilers will ever play. With their move to Tennessee already...
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How to Be a Jets Fan In New England -- 2016 Edition
The Jets travel to Foxboro, Massachusetts, to take on the New England Patriots, the Boston area's pro football team, this coming Saturday afternoon, Christmas Eve.The Jets don't play the Giants in the...
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Top 10 TV Christmas Episodes
Top 10 TV Christmas Episodes10. The Andy Griffith Show, "The Christmas Story," first airing on December 19, 1960. In Mayberry, North Carolina (based on Mount Airy, the real-life hometown of Griffith,...
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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Atlanta -- 2016-17 Edition
The New York Knicks visit the Atlanta Hawks on December 28 and January 29. The Brooklyn Nets do so on March 8 and 26.Knicks vs. Hawks isn't much of a rivalry. Nor is Nets vs. Hawks. But, since the...
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How to Be a Devils Fan In Washington -- 2016-17 Edition
On Thursday night, December 29, the New Jersey Devils visit the Washington Capitals. Once again, it'll be that classic matchup of the Caps' Alexander Ovechkin vs. the Devils' Martin Brod--Oh, that's...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame Al Davis for Moving the Oakland Raiders to Los...
December 23, 1994: The Los Angeles Raiders play what turns out to be their last home game before moving back to Oakland. They lose 19-9 to the Kansas City Chiefs in front of 64,130 at the Los Angeles...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame Al Davis for Moving the Los Angeles Raiders...
December 23, 1994: The Los Angeles Raiders play what turns out to be their last home game before moving back to Oakland. They lose 19-9 to the Kansas City Chiefs in front of 64,130 at the Los Angeles...
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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In New Orleans -- 2016-17 Edition
Next Friday, December 30, the New York Knicks will travel to what has been called "America's only foreign city," to face the New Orleans Pelicans. The Brooklyn Nets will do the same on January...
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Airing of Yankee Grievances
On this December 23, a.k.a. Festivus, I saw a Twitter hashtag, #MetsGrievances. Fitting, since Jerry Seinfeld, whose show introduced the faux holiday, is a Met fan. Some of the #MetsGrievances were...
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Tales of Christmas Past
Some of the following actually happened, while some is taken from TV shows and movies.Incidentally, if you can find out what was the 1st TV show to have a Christmas-themed episode, let me know, because...
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Problematic Christmas Songs -- 2016 Edition
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through The Bronxnot a creature was stirring where usually sit throngs.The Pennants, they fly from the flagpoles with carein the hope, in the New Year, a new...
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My Yankees Gave to Me
On the 12th day of Christmas, my Yankees gave to me... 12 Chase Headley11 Brett Gardner10 Phil Rizzuto9 Roger Maris8 Yogi Berra7 Mickey Mantle6 Joe Torre...5... Joltin' Joe!4 Iron Horse3 Babe Ruth2...
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How to Be a Giant Fan In Washington -- 2016-17 Edition
On Sunday, January 1, New Year's Day, the New York Giants will play away to the Washington Redskins.At this time, I don't feel like having a debate over whether to continue using the "Redskins" name....
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How Long It's Been: The Minnesota Vikings Reached a Super Bowl
December 26, 1976, 40 years ago: The Minnesota Vikings, a.k.a. the Purple People Eaters, beat the Los Angeles Rams 24-13 at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota, and win their 4th NFL/NFC...
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How Old Are You Now? 2016 Television Edition
The Honeymooners was centered on Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason). On a few occasions, he mentioned that he'd been driving a bus for 15 or 16 years. Since the show aired in 1955 and '56, that means he...
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Russian Pie: The Year Everything Died
To the tune of "American Pie" by Don McLean. Lada is the leading brand of car made in Russia.A long, long time agoI can still rememberwhen that fraud Trump used to make me smile.And I knew we would...
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The Year of Hell
In 1975, Billy Joel wrote a song titled "Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out On Broadway)." It might have been understandable if 2017 were to have it in for us.What did we do to 2016 to make this year...
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Things I Never Want to See Again Starting in 2017
Things I never want to see again, starting in 2017:* Yankee caps in any color other than a white interlocking N-Y on a navy blue field. The star-spangled N-Y on patriotic holidays is the only...
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Greatest Baseball Player from Each State
I did this one 3 years ago. This time, with a new round of Baseball Hall of Fame election results coming up, I'm adding foreign countries.One more time: It's not necessarily where they were born that...
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Greatest Football Player from Each State
As this painting shows, Pennsylvania was a tough calljust for quarterbacks from the western part of the State.Left to right: Jim Plunkett, Jim Kelly, Dan Marino,Joe Montana, Johnny Unitas and Joe...
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