Articles Tagged: nfl
2010: The Year In Sports
12.21.10 - Posted By: Brett Haynes - Greenville, SC
A look at the 2010 sports year through my eyes. Yeah, yeah, I know, the year is only 35/36ths complete. We still have another whole nine and a half crazy days of sports happenings left to amaze us. But with family get-togethers planned, many miles on the highway ahead, and an uncertain schedule looming of when I will have a keyboard in my lap, I decided to go ahead and give this a shot. A lot went down in the world of sports in 2010, and sitting here trying to recollect it all is proving to be quite tricky. As "The Top Fan," I try to attend as many sports events as is reasonably possible, and here is how the season went for me...
The Conference Playoff
09.01.10 - Posted By: Brett Haynes - Greenville, SC
The battle for conference supremacy will be decided on the field. If there is one thing I have learned in the nearly five years of running this site, it is that almost every message board topic has the potential to evolve into a debate over which conference is the best (or more accurately, which conference sucks the worst). So while beating my head against the wall to help pass the time until kickoff Thursday night, I got an idea. What if there was a conference playoff? What if there was a playoff where each conference fielded an all-star team, and those guys battled it out on the gridiron for conference supremacy? The more I thought about, I thought "this could work." Then the more and more I got into it I thought, "this is genious!" All of the aspects we love about college football would exist in this postseason event - hype, pride, elite athletes, rabid fans, media frenziness, and most importantly, money.
