...Sometimes I just don't get it !!!

As offensive coordinator for the san Francisco 49ers last year, Mike McCarthy's offense finished 32nd and dead last in the nfl. How bad was it ??? That offense finished 32nd in passing, 22nd in rushing, and was 30th overal in points going eight games of a sixteen game schedule without an offensive touchdown.

As quarterback coach of the Packers during Ray Rhodes short-lived and ill-fated 1999 regime, McCarthy guided Bret Favre to his second worst season as a professional with the future HOFer throwing 24 pics to just 23 touchdowns. Favre's 74.7 QB rating was was only supraceeded by his 1993 sopomore season rating of 72.2 and this year's train-wreck of 70.9 yet this week Mike McCarthy was brought back to Green Bay and hired as the 14th Head Coach in arguably the most storied franchise in nfl history.

The Packers had to know that this was a controversial hire as the McCarthy news conference seemed to be more of a damage control preemptive rather than a celebration of the man that was going to restore tarnished lustre and return Green Bay to the promised land.

McCarthy was lauded for his p...more

nfl Football History. A brief Overview

... AFLs New York Jets displaced the nfl old guard.

In 1932, the first nfl championship game was played indoors on 80-yard field. While a lot about the game has evolved since the 1920s, the emotion and pain of the football game remains the same.more

FA Cup Third Round - Possible Upsets

...Surprisingly, there are no "all Premiership" ties for the third round and has set up more "Championship vs Premiership" matches than usual. Championship sides awarded a home tie against Premiership opposition have a good winning record in recent seasons and here are a few matches where an "upset" could be on the cards:

WBA vs Reading @ 3.40
Reading top the Championship table and are unbeaten away from home this season, winning nine and drawing five so far. Comparatively, the Baggies are hovering just above the Premiership relegation zone.

Sheff Wed @ 4.00 vs Charlton
Alan Curbishleys side have a dismal record in the FA Cup against lower opposition, last season losing to Leicester, 2003/04 losing away at Gilling...more

Top 30 Politics Quotations

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1. "It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs."
   -- Albert Einstein

2. "Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles."
   -- Ambrose Bierce

3. "Man is by nature a political animal."
   -- Aristotle

4. "I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
   -- Charles De Gaulle

5. "The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed."
   -- Claude D. Pepper

6. "Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies."
   -- Dalton camp

7. "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."
   -- Ernest Benn

8. "Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb ...more
   
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