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July 23, 2010 – Capt. Gridiron Being a Vols football fan is quite an unique experience. Most programs will offer you a chance to get an autograph or your picture taken with your favorite player.  UT takes it up a notch by offering you the chance to be robbed at gunpoint or beaten by your [...]

July 23, 2010 – Capt. Gridiron Forbes released their Top 50 Most Valuable Sports Teams and NFL teams have dominated the lineup. Soccer team Manchester United ranked as the most valuable team with a value of $1.83 billion and revenue around $459 million but it was the Dallas Cowboys coming up fast at #2 to [...]

July 22, 2010 – Capt. Gridiron One of the best secondary players ever, Ed Reed, has come out publicly to state that the Ravens are not being generous in their contract negotiations with the player. And that he doesn’t wear a jock strap. Reed is halfway through his six-year $40 million deal that included $15 [...]

July 22, 2010 – Capt. Gridiron Loving the Lou [The Smoking Jacket] Lou Piniella, the confused and (most likely) senile 66-year-old manager of the Chicago Cubs, announced that 2010 will be his last year at the helm of a big league ball club. Piniella has been a skipper for 23 years and is well-known for [...]

July 21, 2010 – Michael Cahill So say you work at Cosco as a stock boy. Say you make a decent hourly wage and you do a good job. How would you feel if they brought in some new guy who they thought was going to be good at his job (but they couldn’t guarantee [...]

July 20, 2010 – Capt. Gridiron Sharktopus’ the Movie is 8 Legs and 3,000 Teeth of Pure Awesomeness [BroBible] Yes, there’s something called a Sharktopus. Yes, it’s half-shark, half-octopus. Yes, the United States Navy has control over it. Yes, the SyFy network and Roger Corman made a movie about it. Yes, it’s called “Sharktopus.” Yes, [...]

July 20, 2010 – Capt. Gridiron Sports legends from around the world of sports are gathered at Joe Carter Celebrity golf tournament when Scott Stephenson decides to drop by and ask questions. Football great Jonathon Ogden gets pranked with some great athletes like Charles Barkley (Is Space Jam real?) but it’s baseball star Kenny Lofton [...]

July 19, 2010 – Matt De Lima In 1988, John Madden Football was released on the Apple II. Yes, the game was originally a computer game. Thankfully the game transitioned to the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis and the rest is history. For the young generation of children and teenagers playing Madden back in the [...]

July 16, 2010 – Capt. Gridiron Somebody help Peyton Manning! He’s trapped in a house with that crazy lady from Speed. It’s nice to see a news article about a Tennessee Vol not involving the police. A funny parody of the hit movie “Blind Side” premiered as a fake trailer at the ESPYs Thursday night. [...]

July 16, 2010 – Capt. Gridiron New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees had a busy day Thursday. Before heading out to accept four awards at ESPN’s ESPY awards, include Best Male Athlete, Brees stopped by the Tonight Show to chat with Conan O’Brien Jay Leno. Brees is having a great year after winning the Super [...]