Category Archives: Sports

Minimum Wages

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Terry Taylor

Did you know that the minimum wage in the NFL is $860,000 a year? That’s the minimum. See those guys standing around on the sidelines holding clipboards and not sweating or getting dirty? They’re racking up nearly 900 grand a … Continue reading →

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Ode To The Skin Of A Pig

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Terry Taylor

I know full well that college football is damned near pro football – perched right on the edge, sniffing the rim like a dog in the bathroom. I know that major teams are raking in millions while players scramble to … Continue reading →

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Aluminum Bleachers

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Terry Taylor

It is fall; time for leaves to turn orange, yellow and red and butts to gravitate towards aluminum bleachers all over America. College football started last week and most big stadiums are surrounded by massive inclines of gleaming aluminum aching … Continue reading →

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Len Berman’s Top 5

Posted on August 5, 2009 by Terry Taylor

If you have seen, heard or read about sports in the last 25 years, you know Len Berman. Every day, Len’s punchy descriptions, devoid of hype and jargon ding into my email inbox. If you don’t get Len Berman’s Top … Continue reading →

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April Madness

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Terry Taylor

After 24-hour-a-day basketball, what are we supposed to watch now? American Idol? Baseball that doesn’t matter? Diners, Drive-Ins and the Toast Chees I used to eat every day for lunch? Tweet This Post

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Drunk and Dressed To The Hilt

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Terry Taylor

I went to a Southern university where proper ladies and gentlemen of culture wore suits, ties and sundresses to football games on Saturday. Since I was neither proper nor cultured and wouldn’t recognize a lady or a gentleman if they … Continue reading →

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The Crowd

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Terry Taylor

An old friend of mine, Peter Kaufman, recently invited me to a function where it was my job to be a panelist, talking to a fairly large group (who paid to get in – more for the drinks than the … Continue reading →

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You Think Brett Favre Has Seen It All?

Posted on April 9, 2008 by Terry Taylor

We tend to attach logos to the ends of our accomplishments in branding. I’d like to look at the last 29 years, however, as experiences (plural) rather than experience (singular). There is a big difference. Tweet This Post

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Racing To Change

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Terry Taylor

When I was a kid in Montgomery, Alabama, my dad took me to the Montgomery International Speedway on Saturday nights to watch men like Donnie and Bobby Allison race Red Farmer and maybe some shade-tree mechanics from Prattville or Wetumpka … Continue reading →

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Strike Three, We’re Out

Posted on January 18, 2008 by Terry Taylor

It hurts to lose a baseball game. It hurts even more to lose your entire team. Tweet This Post

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Orange Bowl R.I.P.

Posted on December 5, 2007 by Terry Taylor

The most popular funeral tune is Amazing Grace. I can hear it now, the strains of the old notes riding the breeze north from Miami. How sweet the sound. Tweet This Post

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JJ and the Texas Big House

Posted on August 10, 2007 by Terry Taylor

The old man slammed the sports section of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram down on the just-wiped table, took off his sweat-stained Resistol, placed it in the seat beside him and settled in with several other breakfast regulars in the cinderblock … Continue reading →

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Speed Bumps

Posted on April 18, 2007 by Terry Taylor

NASCAR has hit a few speed bumps, according to a recent article in The New York Times. Attendance and TV viewership aren’t growing like they once were; new race venues around the country have been axed or aren’t pulling the … Continue reading →

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Our Partial List of Things That Make This the South

Posted on April 4, 2007 by Terry Taylor

It is impossible, in one blog, to even attempt to address the things that make the South a unique place. Note: You may see a food pattern forming below, but that’s okay. If you see a skinny Southerner, that just … Continue reading →

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After-Bowl Ads Get More Attention Than Super Bowl

Posted on February 13, 2007 by Terry Taylor

After two mechanics did the lip-shimmy up the chocolate shaft of a Snickers bar while working on a car and ended the ordeal with a kiss during the Super Bowl commercial snoozathon, a particular group got offended and started complaining, … Continue reading →

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