Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving, as I did. In between bites of turkey and stuffing, my brother informed me that he’s become a soccer fan, which was a bit …
Category: History
Before You Reach for That Drumstick, Take a Look at This
As I’ve been saying for years now, the conventional football uniform format of a shirt, pants, and socks is badly outdated. The shirt is no longer a shirt (no sleeves), …
Tablets from the Mountaintop
Back in February I did a post about how the 49ers’ infamous 1991 one-day helmet had appeared as part of a Duncan Hines cake promotion (if you missed that entry, …
Auction Action
As you may have noticed from the ad in the left sidebar, our friends at Grey Flannel Auctions have a bunch of new items up for bid. Here are the …
Black-and-White Blasts from a Distant Past
Reader Blair Thompson recently pointed me toward a page with over 100 sports photos, all from 1925 or earlier. At first I was just gonna Ticker-link to the page, but …
There’s No Service Like Wire Service, Vol. 37
Nice batch today — some from Mako Mameli, some from Bruce Menard, some from Mike Hersh, and some from me. • Did you know that Chicago had its own semi-pro …
The Bleeding Ultimate
Quick, who was the last boxer to score a knockdown against Muhammad Ali? Punch yourself in the nose 13 times in a row if you knew it was Chuck Wepner, …
A Ghost from the Past
. Reader Mark Haarmann recently visited the Rangers Hall of Fame at the Ballpark in Arlington, where he took the photo you see above. “It’s from the team’s first season …
Humpback Liner? No, Humpback NINER!
What you see above is 49ers QB Steve DeBerg getting wired up with a speaker for a game in 1980. Deberg had been stricken with laryngitis, so the San Francisco …
There’s No Service Like Wire Service, Vol. 36
[Phil here — Paul’s still on vacation, but work, life and grad school all conspired against me yesterday, so I wasn’t able to come up with a lede for today. …
There’s No Service Like Wire Service, Vol. 35
Click photo for larger version Sometimes a single wire photo deserves an entry of its own. Such is the case with the image shown above, which was submitted by reader …
There’s No Service Like Wire Service, Vol. 34
Lots of Pirates shots this time around, along with some other stuff. This latest batch comes from Paul Wiederecht, Bruce Menard, Jerry Wolper, Brendan Slattery, Mike Hersh, and Mako Mameli. …
Is That NNOB? Or GNOB?
Most of you are probably familiar with the story of the Maple Leafs’ GNOBs (that’s ghost names on back) from 1978. The story usually goes something like this: “The Leafs’ …
Of White Whales, Blue Horses, and Red Herrings
My annual college football season-preview column is now available on ESPN. Ordinarily that would mean a short main entry here, but today we have big news that can’t wait. It’s …
The Earflap Chronicles, Continued
Hurricane, shmurricane. I don’t mean to make light of a storm that killed 21 people and has left millions without power. But in my part of Brooklyn, thankfully, it was …