When looking back at the year of 2007 there are so many memories and big storiesin sports. It is unbelievable how many huge stories there were. What is being attempted here is three lists. Three lists that are putting all these stories front and center once again.

Some will spark fond memories, some not so much. Some stories we had this year were and still are very painful to many people but great to many others. Some of these stories were so unbelievable that we had to check several sources just to believe they were true. Unfortunately there were many deaths as well.

It was yet another great year in sports. Here are the top 10 stories for the Good the Bad and the Ugly.

 Top Ten Good from 2007-

 

10. U.S. wins team World Championships for Greco Roman Wrestling in Baku, Azerbaijan. This was the first time the U.S. has ever won this as a team. Maybe if this victory didn’t take place in Azerbaijan you would have heard about this one.

9. David Beckham signs with the L.A. Galaxy in the MLS. The MLS is so far off the map that many Americans didn’t know that there was still an MLS for him to sign in.

8. Jimmie Johnson wins Nascar’s Nextel Cup for second season in a row! Johnson beat out Jeff Gordon who also had an amazing year.

7. Big Boston deals. The Celtics became a relevant team agin in 2007 by acquiring Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett. The Celtics went from worst to first and are now legitimate contenders not only in the NBA’s Eastern Conference but for a NBA Championship.

6. Rockies Roll to the World Series. The Rockies won 21 of 22 in a remarkable run to the World Series. Unfortunately they had an 8 day lay off that may have cooled the teams momentum as the were beat by the Red Sox.

5. Boise State goes undefeated and beat Oklahoma on two incredible plays to win. Boise State was the underdog in the Fiesta Bowl and won in overtime 43-42 in one of the best football games ever. It capped off an undefeated season.

4. Florida’s big year. After winning the NCAA basketball Championship and football Championship the football team had the Heisman trophy winner. Tim Tebow won the trophy as an underclassman and is poised to be the second two-time winner if all goes well in 2008. Tebow had 51 total touchdowns (29 passing, 22 rushing) as only a sophomore!

3. The Spurs won the NBA Championship and the Anaheim Ducks won the Stanley Cup. These were two under the radar type Championships for different reasons. The Spurs won with defense and overall team play headed by possibly the best overall player in the league in Tim Duncan. The Ducks won in similar fashion but since bowling gets higher ratings than hockey most people didn’t even see the Ducks play on their amazing run.

2. Indianapolis wins the Super Bowl and Peyton Manning gets off the snide. Manning who was riddled with big game losses through college and pro football. But not in 2007. Manning led the Colts past the Patriots and then the Bears.

1. Appalachian State beats Michigan at the Big House in the biggest upset in college football history. By beating the number five ranked Wolverines Appalachian State won their 3rd straight Division 1 National Championship.

 Top Ten Bad from 2007-

 

 10. West Virginia coaches bolt for Michigan. West Virginia lost three coaches overall. Gone to Michigan are the women’s soccer coach, men’s head basketball coach, and most recently the head football coach. I think it is time for Michigan and West Virginia to start playing every year.

9. Marion Jones doping scandal. Marion Jones was included in the Balco steroids scandal this year which in turn wiped out all the Olympic gold medals and Olympic records. This story has been in the making for years but was confirmed this year.

8. Kevin Everett’s spinal injury in week one of the NFL season was a very scary one. Some players on the field didn’t think he would live, let alone walk again.

7. Ugueth Urbina was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the attempted murder of five employees at his ranch in Venezuela. The ranch hands were using the family’s pool without permission so Urbina decided to pour gas on them and attempted to light them on fire.

6. Joe Kennedy’s death. Kennedy died mysteriously the day before being a best man in a wedding. He last pitched for Toronto but was better known for his days in Oakland. He was the father of a 1 year old son.

5. Cardinals lose another pitcher in a tragic death. First it was Pitcher Daryl Kile in 2002 and then Josh Hancock, a relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, had died in an automobile accident. Josh was intoxicated and hit a tow truck on the highway.

4. Darrent Williams death after a New Years eve party was shocking to many as he was hit in a limo that was leaving a party. This all happened just hours after the team was eliminated from the playoffs.

3. Sean Taylor’s death was another tragedy in the NFL this season as he was gunned down in his own home in Miami. Taylor was recently elected to the Pro Bowl and is mourned by many as he was a man who had just decided to turn his life around in recent years. He was an impact player in the NFL and becoming an impact citizen in life.

2. Michal Vick’s dog fighting scandal was alomost as big as it got in sports stories for 2007. The Vick scandal rocked two communities and also headed the demise of the Atlanta Falcons organization. The Falcons have used four Qbs and also had head coach Bobby Petrino bolt for Arkansas. Vick was sentenced to 23 months in jail and could face more time in Virginia for the same case.

1. Chris Benoit was the most shocking story of the year. The WWE Superstar had recently lost best friend and fellow WWE Superstar Eddie Guerrero the year before. This year he killed his son, his wife, and then himself in a span of two days at his home in Georgia. The story had more twists and turns than any story in many years.

 Top Ten Ugly from 2007-

 

10. The Miami Dolphins (1-14 at the time this was written) having their worst season ever and threatened to go winless in the same season the undefeated record set by the 72' Dolphins is threatened by New England.

9. The Chicago Bears went all the way to the Super Bowl in 2007 but ended up having to rely on Wrecks Grossman in the Big Game. Everything that got the Bears to the Super Bowl was absent from the Super Bowl. They got there with special teams, defense, and key turnovers. Three things they couldn’t manage to get in a rain soaked Super Bowl. Since the big game they have slid all the way into last place in the NFC Central getting swept by the Detroit Lions of all teams.

8. Travis Henry had a drug problem. It manifested into a positive test that was appealed and over ruled which not only kept him in football this season it also revealed his child support payments to his 9 children with 9 women. Better known as "baby mamas". Two more and he has an entire football squad, if they played both ways!

7. Marty Schottenheimer was fired after leading the Chargers to a 14-2 season. That is unheard of in football. It didn’t look good as the Chargers started slowly under new coach Norv Turner. The Chargers did turn it around and won the AFC West this season.

6. Cleveland and the state of Ohio were denied in many sports in 2007. Ohio State lost in the college basketball and football championships, both to Florida, the Cavaliers lost in the NBA Finals to the Spurs, and the Indians lost to the Red Sox in the ALCS. I guess it could be worse, all those teams could be terrible. This does not mention the great season the Browns are having either. They should make the playoffs but I think most fans in Ohio are not expecting them to go to the Super Bowl. Although the mind of a Browns fan is a sick an twisted place!

5. Pacman Jones was suspended for the entire 2007 season for all the arrests he had in a one year period. There was a point where sports highlights shows didn’t ever show him in a uniform, it was usually county jail orange. He then signed up with TNA Wrestling. What a fitting move.

4. Imus fired for remarks towards Rutgers womens basketball. Imus initially was given a two-week suspension for calling the Rutgers women’s basketball team "nappy-headed ####" which was way out of line. Most of those girls aren’t "####"! They are too ugly for that. Actually there aren’t a whole lot of good looking college athletes in any sport. The Comments were backed up by comedian D.L. Hughley which in turn sparked the debates even further. Somehow I don’t think these girls have not been called worse in person. But they are college girls and it wasn’t fair to them. It didn’t help that the comments came from one of the worst radio hosts who is so ugly that if his ugliness was represented by bricks he would be the Great Wall of China.

3. Barry Bonds broke the all-time home run record this year and then was indicted by a federal grand jury for perjury all in the same year. It was rather strange though how the indictments didn’t come down until after the season was over.

2. The NBA ref scandal with Tim Donaghy. NBA referee Tim Donaghy allegedly bet on NBA games, including contests that he officiated. Could NBA playoff games have been compromised? What does this betting scandal do to the credibility of NBA games? It all seamed so obvious when looking back at some of the glaring calls he made. The problem is, many have thought this in the past already with the way some games are called in such a lopsided fashion. This only put more fuel on the fire.

1. The Mitchell report. Only Bud Selig would spend $40 Million to find out what he and every breathing person in America already knew. Many players did steroids in baseball. The report only named 90 players after a 20 month investigation. Why didn’t they spend 1/100th of that and implant a solid steroids testing policy more like the Olympics use or the Tour De France! Besides it was steroids that brought the game back in 1998 after the lockout.

Receiving a vote for every category of the lists were the New England Patriots. They pulled off a trade to get Randy Moss for only a forth round pick, lost their first round pick in 2008 to "Spygate" and coach Belichick was fined an additional $500,000! The Patriots were then labeled as cheaters for many other incidents as well as some from 2006. All this and the Patriots are still undefeated at 14-0 at the time this was written and hold possibly the 5th overall pick in a trade from San Francisco(4-10).

Lets talk about irony in sports. I am not talking about irony like Sheryl Crow did either. Her type is rain on your wedding day. That isn’t ironic, that is a sign! That means run! Besides, a wise man once said " a man doesn’t realize what true happiness is until he gets married, unfortunately by then it is too late!

Sports irony happens all the time. Sometimes it can be more of poetic justice than irony.

The Motor City/State- It’s ironic in Michigan, the auto capitol of the world, the head football coach of the football team had a last name of Carr, then tried to replace him with a coach named Les Miles! 

 The Cashman- It’s ironic that the New York Yankees, the "Evil Empire", MLB’s richest franchise, has a GM with the last name of Cashman. Brian Cashman is the GM with the highest payroll in all of sports! Cashman has signed players to their highest contracts to come to New York. Although, if the Yankees are such a great organization, why do they have to pay so much more for players than other teams do? In 2007 the Yankees had 5 of the top 10 paid player salaries and had the top three in Giambi, Rodriguez, and Jeter.

The Magic Johnson- It’s ironic that a handsome, successful, charismatic, basketball player with a great rack of chicklets for a smile named "Magic Johnson" would get HIV? It would be like a guy named #### Hertz or a woman named Sharon Cox getting it. Too bad he didn’t cover his "Magic Johnson" before he contracted HIV. He helped raise awareness for the disease, unfortunately he had to have it to do it. I guess the cure for AIDS is money because he has had HIV for 16 years now. OK, so maybe it would be more ironic if this happened to a guy named Jimmy Hatt instead, but someone had to point it out.

New York, New York, Buffalo- It’s ironic that there are three teams in the NFL that represent the state of New York but only one of them actually plays in the state of New York. The two teams bearing the state and or city name of New York play in New Jersey at the Meadowlands and the Buffalo Bills actually play in Buffalo, New York.

Saturday’s Balls- Isn’t it ironic that Peyton Manning is constantly licking his hands to get a better grip on balls but does it before and after each snap. Maybe Jeff Saturday just has something special going on down there.....or those are the balls he is trying to get a better grip on. Maybe that isn’t ironic, just nasty, sorry for that.

College Lighting- In October of 2006 a college football game featuring the Kent State University "Golden Flashes" was temporarily delayed by lightning.

Gruden’s Grudge Match- In 2002 the head coach of the Oakland Raiders John Gruden was traded to Tampa Bay for a ton of draft picks. Owner Al Davis felt the move was great because he felt that Gruden could not win the "Big One". Ironically in his first year as the Bucs head coach he won the Super Bowl against who?....................the Raiders

  It happens almost everywhere and rarely a peep about it is heard.  When that peep turns into a car horn honking more people hear it.  But when the horn honks, just carry on as if it never did.

  Time and time again the NCAA shows signs of absurdness and daftness of disbelief like no other.  Not having a college football playoff system for one is bad enough on it's own.  You mean to tell us that the NCAA could not have at least a four team playoff?  Do you know what the ratings would be for those games?  My new term coined for the NCAA is rediculii.  Rediculii is meaning that they are rediculous on so many levels it is unfathomable.

Second Ohio State had it issues with Troy Smith taking cash and Maurice Clarrett taking anything he could get his hands on.  Is Ohio State on probation or have they had to forfeit games long past? 

Third Reggie Bush's family recieved a great deal on a house amongst a few other things and that is all we heard about it. 

Now the NCAA says Oklahoma must erase its wins from the 2005 season and will lose two scholarships for the 2008-09 and 2009-10 school years.  OU did an investigation into two players that were kicked off the team last August for being paid for work they had not performed at a Norman car dealership.

At least OU did something about these players.  Ohio State would have had Clarrett come back had he not tried to go pro and Troy Smith stayed as if nothing ever happened.  The Trojans haven't had any reprocussions from the Reggis Bush situation.

Michigan's Fab Five took money and when Michigan did an investigation of itself they ended up losing all the banners from the Big Ten titles and NCAA runner up banners as well.  They also lost future scholarships and TV time.  Both major hits when you want to recruit.

The moral of the stories.  Honesty is the not always the best policy.  Universities quit investigating yourselves.  If the NCAA can't find anything that is thier fault.  What message do they send when a university does this and then they get the hammer thrown down on them?

Florida won the National Championship Monday night for the second time in its school's history.  Former Michigan coach Bo Schembechler used to call it the "mythical National Championship" because you had to rely on people to vote on who the best was instead of it getting settled on the field.  Florida was lucky to even be in the game in the first place.  Florida was sitting in fourth place in the BCS standings with two weeks to go.  USC had jumped in front of Michigan and then lost to rival UCLA.  This leap frogged Florida from four to number two.  But how?  If they were better than Michigan before USC lost, then why weren't they already number 3?

Here is why, they beat Arkansas in the SEC title game giving them the SEC Championship and an automatic BCS bid.  In order to play for the National Championship you need to be a conference champion, unless you are Nebraska.  Why not Boise State?  They won their conference (WAC does not get an automatic BCS bid) Championship and went undefeated.

Here are some serious arguments:

1.  Florida deserved to be there because they won the SEC Championship and went 12-1.  But wait.  They lost to Auburn, a two loss team (11-2) which is still not a bad loss, but they did barely get by an eight loss Vanderbilt team on the road.  In fact they only played four road games the entire year!  They struggled in all four road games.  In the SEC Championship they needed a boneheaded punt return fumble into the endzone for a touchdown to take over in that game.  The game was a great match up for the SEC Championship right?  Well Arkansas got HAMMERED by USC 50-14 and lost to Wisconsin in the Capitol One Bowl, which Wisconsin got hammered by Michigan, which barely lost at nuimber Ohio State, which got hammered by who? Florida.  We learn nothing.  The Big Ten was 2-1 against the SEC in Bowl games.

2.  College Football is the worst set up ever.  How about this March we take the top 64 teams and they all just get one basketball game to play and we vote on who the best two teams are and they will play for the basketball championship, but make them wait almost two months to play it.  This is how NCAAFB is.  What would college sports be without great tournaments?  You would not have the College Baseball World Series, the NCAA hockey tournament, MARCH MADNESS, and what ever they do for soccer and LaCrosse.

3.  Boise State didn't even get a chance.    BSU got jobbed much like Oklahoma did at Oregon this year.  Had Oklahoma not been screwed so bad in Oregon they would have been 11-1 going into that bowl game and maybe not even playing BSU.  They may have been in the Rose Bowl playin Michigan because Oklahoma with one loss will get a higher ranking every time over BSU based onb who they play.  Boise has to fix something within first.  They need to get teams like Sacremento State off the schedule and if they are going to play Hawaii that is an AUTOMATIC road game.  If you play Hawaii, you go there.  You live in Idaho, go to Hawaii.  Everyone knows that is a bonus bowl game anyway.  Plus a road win looks better anyway.  To their credit they did hammer Oregon State (#22 in BCS) 42-14.  If there was a short playoff, just like the rest of the NFL playoffs have from the 2nd round on, they may have won it all.

4.  If all the voters who set the big game up knew so much about these teams, football, and predictions, then Ohio State would have won easily according to what everyone had said.  But they didn't did they?  So are you going to say BSU would not have beaten one of these teams?  We will never actually know.

So who really is the best team?  It doesn't matter.  Florida is the National Champions so congradulations on a great season.  You did everything you had to do and when you had your chance you didn't blow it.  Florida didn't listen to all the na sayers.  They used it for motivation.

  It really pains me to do this but I am holding up my end of the bet made with Ohio State fan "the sports intellectual" in which I would write an ode to Ohio State or at least a respectful piece about the program.  So here it is.

  Jim Tressel may be shaping up to be the greatest coach in Ohio State history with another win over Michigan and another shot at the National Championship.  Tressel has taken the Buckeyes to the promise land twice already in his short term as coach.  He has been everything the program wanted in a coach.  He said right in the begining that the fans would be proud of his boys went they played the team from up north, and they have been. Troy Smith should win the Heisman and probably will.  The No. 1 Buckeyes (12-0, 8-0) have their first outright Big Ten title since 1984.

  Apparrently their are signs of class in Columbus as well.  This time I am not talking about the sign that says Ann Arbor 187 miles either.  A video tribute to Schembechler, an Ohio State alum, was shown on the scoreboard before kickoff and the crowd of 105,708 responded with a respectful and loud ovation. "Michigan has lost a coach and patriarch," the public-address announcer read. "The Big Ten has lost a legend and icon. Ohio State has lost an alumnus and friend."  

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  Former Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler died at 11:42 Friday morning on the eve of one of the most-anticipated Michigan-Ohio State showdowns. Having a history of heart ailments, Schembechler died a month after a device was implanted to regulate his heartbeat. Ironically with Bo he will always be remembered for his heart.  He showed his heart on Saturdays for many years, the seven-time Big Ten coach of the year compiled a 194-48-5 record at Michigan from 1969-89. Schembechler's record in 26 years of coaching was 234-65-8.  He is also one of the great names in college football history as well as one of the greatest coaches.

  He was a college football icon as well as an icon of the University of Michigan.  He always showed passion towards the football program and for the entire University of Michigan.  Thirteen of Schembechler's Michigan teams either won or shared the Big Ten Championship.  Fifteen of them finished in The Associated Press Top 10, with the 1985 team finishing No. 2.

Bo will always be remembered as a coach who got the most out of his players.  He was the Athletic Director and Schembechler's signature moment as athletic director probably came in March 1989, when basketball coach Bill Frieder accepted a job at Arizona State on the eve of the NCAA tournament.

An angry Schembechler declared, "A Michigan man will coach Michigan, not an Arizona State man." He refused to accept Frieder's 21-day notice and named assistant Steve Fisher as interim coach.

The Wolverines went on to win the national championship by beating Seton Hall 80-79 in overtime.

Bo left his imprint on so much on the university and will be missed.  He always had something to say and loved to talk Michigan football.  He brought back Michigan football and it has never left.  He was an assistant for Woody Hayes at Ohio State before coming to coach the Wolverines and that only fueled the rivalry between the two schools.  Now he rejoins Woody for the biggest game of them all.

Thank you Bo for all you have done for so many.

Bo Schembechler
1929-2006

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  Is it just me, or...........Did Red Soxnation just get dumber in one day.  Over $51 Million just to talk to a Japanese player.  Do they even speak Japenese?  This will be taxed I am sure to the fans tickets and consessions next year.  So next year hot dogs will only be $4.00 and tickets will keep anyone under the upper middle class out of the park.  Red Sox you have now joined the evil empire.  There will be multiple teams with a smaller total team payroll next year, so I will now officially start rooting for the all to have a better record than the Sox.  On Daisuke Matsuzaka, Fox Sports writer Michael Rosenberg said "I hate to slap any limits on free speech, but from now on, there are two words I never again want to hear out of the city of Boston." "Evil Empire."  And he is right, what an absolute joke.  Ichiro should get a cut of this since he is the original on this type of transaction.


  Is it just me, or...........is the Michigan/Ohio State game a game that should be played at 8pm EST instead of 3:30pm EST?  With all the hype and the breakdowns of the game on ESPN it is being played only slightly later than usual.  This game usually gets played at noon.  It still has all the makings to be a classic and should be the game of the year.  We will see how that works out though.  

Is it just me, or...........is the NFL the worst sport to watch with all the commercials and TV timeouts?  The game has been getting cut short by the advertising at every single opportunity.  I never want to EVER hear money excuses from NFL owners anywhere.  They split a whopping $7 Billion in advertising and TV revenue every year.  Shouldn't tickets be getting cheaper?  They should but it turns out what gets cheaper is the owners.


   Is it just me, or...........is it a complete joke that Joe Girardi wins manager of the year just six weeks after being fired in Florida.  Normally this gets a guy a raise, but after having a fallout with team owner Jeff Loria, and having the Marlins in the playoff hunt even into late September, he isn't even going to coach anywhere this season.  He is going to be an announcer for the Yankees.  He should have been hired to a long term deal.  The other thing is that the Marlins TOTAL team salary in 2006 was $14,998,500........over $20 Million less than the next team the Tampa Bay Devil Rays who had a payroll of $35,417,967.  A-Rod made moore than this by the All-Star break.  There were actually 13 players that made more than the Marlins entire team last year.  The Yankees actually had 5 players in the top 13 all making more money than the Marlins and 3 of the top 4 are Yankees..  The Red Sox just bid  more than three times that amount just to talk to a player who has never even pitched in MLB.

It is as big as it gets this week when #2 Michigan travels to Columbus to face #1 Ohio State for the biggest game in college football this year.  This may also be the biggest game of the two schools storied rivalry.  These two teams are seperated by a few mere thousanths of a point in the BCS standings.  The big question also remains, if these two should rematch for the National Championship.

  The only way I see them rematching would be if #3 USC gets beat by #5 Notre Dame.  Notre Dame got thumped at home by Michigan earlier this year, and #4 Florida may not even win their conference title, they still have tough games ahead.  Michigan and Ohio State have dominated with defense all season and are both still undefeated.  A new player emerging in the BCS question is Rutgers.  They too are undefeated and just beat former #3 Louisville.

  Through all the Michigan VS Ohio State games though, this is the biggest.  The last time these two were both unbeaten was 1973.  That game ended in a 10-10 tie leaving both unbeaten and OSU getting the vote to go to the Rose Bowl.  Of the 102 previous meetings between Michigan and Ohio State, just four have come when both teams were undefeated. And just nine have seen both teams ranked in the Top 5.

  This Saturday at 3:30 pm EST we will all find out just how evenly matched these two teams are.  If either team wins in a blow out there is now way they will rematch for the National Championship, if it is close they just might.

  The other winner in all this, Wisconsin?  Would they then be the next team in line for the Rose Bowl?  Not likely.  If the Wolverines and Buckeyes rematch there would not be a Big Ten team in the Rose Bowl.  That hasn't happened since..........well last year

I was thinking about all the different types of sellouts around sports and I think I have come up with a few different examples of how many different ways Players, teams, and or fans are sellouts or will sellout. In no order of significance.

1. Yankee fans selling out on A-rod. It is already happening in New York that many fans and reporters are willing and advocating the trade Alex Rodriguez. Trust me now is not the time to bail out on the youngest player to hit 450 HRs because he is the highest paid player of anything in the World. This is the same guy that the Yankees traded Alphonso Soriano for and have been rumored to want to reacquire. The Yankees and fans sold out on Soriano in trading him, the fans and media are selling out on A-Rod and Brian Cashman (ironically named in being the Yankees GM) has sold out the Yankees future by making far too many trades.

2. The city of Detroit for not scheduling a Lions game and Tigers game on the same Sunday. When the Lions open up their season and the Tigers close theirs down, it would have been possible to sellout two games on the same intersection of downtown. The Lions continually sellout the home games and the Tigers have been selling outain and are making a playoff run which in turn may be the only way they would be able to have the two-fer of sellouts in October. Being the great sports town that Detroit is, the fans would sellout both games for sure.

3. Chris Brown of the Tennessee Titans is selling out on the Titans and his fans. The oft injured Brown is in the final year of his contract. The Titans drafted Lindale White as well. Brown's agent, Wynn Silbermann, formerly asked for a trade last week. Brown and his agent believe being traded away from a crowded backfield is his best career move. To me that tells me he is either not competitive or just does not believe he is good enough to get the bulk of the carries. How much does he think he is really going to get as a free agent? I am not looking for a player who wants out at the first sight of serious competition for his job. To me he is just a sellout.

4. Monday Night Football is a sellout for selling out to itself. They moved MNF to ESPN this year and changed the crew up. To me if they were really looking for an improvement in ratings, they would have made adjustments to the actual games! There were so many things to tweak but they never really did anything bout the actual games. They should have had more variety of teams on, less Packers (so we didn't have to hear Madden say Brett Favre's name over 100 times per and besides he is washed up now, move on!), and had an 8 O'clock start time EST. They should have had some signs that the games didn't mean anything because there wer so many games that weren't sold out.

5. The Brewers and Carlos Lee are sellouts. The fans of the Brew Crew are the big losers in this though. The Brewers need to trade Carlos Lee or resign him to a multi year deal. The fans have not had a World Series contender since 1982 and have never even won the World Series. They need to run the team less like a business and more like a team that wants to win. How about making a run for once instead of setting new lows in mediocrity. The Brewers and Detroit Lions are like distant sports cousins I guess, but do they both Sellout on their fans?  Either way they have never won it all.  The Lions only claim to a chamtpionship in way back in 1957 before it was even called the Super Bowl.

6.  Maurice Clarrett was a sellout to the team that made him famous, the Ohio State Buckeyes.  He was also a sellout to the fans of OSU, and he was a sellout to coachs of OSU.  Then to top it off he sold out his NFL career by having a year off.  He then sold out his future when he was arrested for aggrevated robbery.  He is now better known for non football activities, which is not good.




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