"A Few Good Men" NFL/SNL ...Style

Okay...Let us put an end to..."Deflate-gate"....in style.  Nobody does it better than our friends at Saturday Night Live.

In case you missed it?

Enjoy this:

Patriots Press Conference Cold Open | Video | Saturday Night Live | NBC

NBC.com‎ - 3 days ago

On This Day...

Today is Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Today in
Sports History
1940 - The New York Rangers and the Montreal Canadiens played in the first hockey game to be televised in the U.S. The game was aired on W2WBS in New York with one camera in a fixed position. The Rangers beat the Canadiens 6-2.

1941 - The Boston Bruins set an NHL record after going 23 games unbeaten. Their record during the stretch was 15-0-8.


1951 - The first Pan American Games opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1957 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that baseball was the only professional sport exempt from antitrust laws.

1964 - Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) became heavyweight-boxing champion in an upset victory over Sonny Liston.

1978 - O.J. Simpson was a guest on "Saturday Night Live."

1981 - The Boston Bruins and the Minnesota North Stars set a record for most penalties in a game. There were 84 penalties that totaled 392 minutes.

1989 - Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, fired head coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career.

1995 - Major league baseball announced that regular season games would be played in Hawaii for the first time.

2002 - Jayson Williams, the former NBA star, surrendered to New Jersey police. He was charged with second-degree manslaughter in the death of Costas Christofi. Christofi was killed by a shotgun that was recklessly handled by Williams. Williams was released on $250,000 bail.

2005 - It was announced that the Walt Disney Co. had agreed to sell the Anaheim Mighty Ducks to billionaire Henry Samueli and his wife Susan. Samueli's company was the operator of Arrowhead Pond, the Mighty Ducks' home arena.

Things From the Week-end....

Please excuse our inactivity here lately.    Been a little busy.   But the sporting world will go on.  With....or without us.

Here's an attempt to get back on board.   A few things from this past week-end:



This was the funniest bit on "SNL"...in a very long time:
 

'SNL' Spoofs Stephen A. Smith (And Tebow)

 

 

 

 

We can't wait to see it:

 

The Upcoming Jackie Robinson Movie Looks Awesome

Cork Gaines | Sep. 24, 4:30 PM | 768 |

Is this the next great baseball movie?
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Micheal Vick will never last the entire season:

Huge Hit On Michael Vick Completely Changes Game And May Have Sealed The Eagles' Fate

Cork Gaines | 2,035 |

The "Dirty Birds" are undefeated:

 

Gregory Bull

Falcons overpower Chargers

Ryan has 275 yards passing and Turner finishes with 80 yards rushing against former team; Falcons improve to 3-0. 

 

 

As I went off to work this morning,  it was 43 degrees!  A bit cold in these parts.   Felt good though.   Fall is definitely in the air!

On This Day....February 18th

Today is Saturday, February 18, 2012
Today in
Sports History
1918 - Georges Vezina (Montreal Canadiens) recorded the first shutout in NHL history. The event came in the third month of the NHL's first season.

1932 - Sonja Henie won her 6th world women’s figure skating title in Montreal, Canada.

1965 - Frank Gifford announced his retirement from football for a career in broadcasting.

1983 - The Indiana Pacers began a 28 game road losing streak.

1984 - Bill Bradley had his New York Knickerbocker number 24 retired at Madison Square Garden.

1984 - The 4,000,000th NBA point was scored.

1984 - Reed Larson (Detroit Red Wings) became the highest scoring American-born player in NHL history. He passed Tom Williams when he got his 432nd point.

1995 - John Stockton (Utah Jazz) became the first player to register 10,000 assists.

1995 - Deion Sanders was a guest on "Saturday Night Live."

1996 - Frankie Fredericks of Namibia became the first man to run 200 meters under 20 seconds indoors. He set the record at 19.92 seconds.

2001 - NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, Sr., was killed in a crash during the Daytona 500 race.

On this Day.....

Today is Friday, December 17, 2010
Today in
Sports History
1933 - The Chicago Bears defeated the New York Giants in the first National Football League interdivisional championship game. The Bears won 23-21.

Noland Smith

1967 - Noland Smith (Kansas City Chiefs) ran a kickoff return 106 yards to set an NFL record.



1984 - Dan Marino (Miami Dolphins) set NFL season records for touchdowns (48), completions (362) and yards (5084).




1991 - The NBA's most one-sided game took place when the Cleveland beat Miami 148-80.





1993 - FOX outbid CBS for the National Football Conference TV package.





1994 - George Foreman was a guest on "Saturday Night Live."






2000 - Terrell Owens (San Francisco 49ers) caught an NFL-record 20 passes for 283 yards and a touchdown against the Chicago Bears. The previous record was held by Tom Fears (Los Angeles Rams) with 18 catches on December 3, 1950, against the Green Bay Packers. Owens also broke Jerry Rice's franchise record of 16 receptions set in 1994 against the Los Angeles Rams.

SNL ....Gets into........."Tiger-gate"

You just ......had to know .....this was coming.

From the crew at Saturday Night Live.......and Hulu.com:

"SNL" versus TNT and Barkley

You know you have made it when..........

Saturday Night Live.....does a spoof on you. Charles Barkley and his network.....TNT were the butt of this latest SNL skit.

Kenan Thompson does not do a good Charles.......but the white guy sure looks a lot like Ernie....and SNL does a great job pointing out just how annoying all those on screen promos for upcoming shows are for us fans........who just want their sports.

Take a look:

Courtesy of YouTube....