By Doc Hancock on Nov 27, 2008 in NFL | 0 Comments
This week, everyone has been wondering if the longstanding tradition of the Lions playing on Thanksgiving should be done away with because of the woes of the Lions these days.
Obviously, after the way the Titans played all day in Detroit, maybe that should be a logical decision since the Titans improved their record to 11-1 [...]
By Doc Hancock on Aug 7, 2008 in NFL | 1 Comment
When Gerald Ford said 34 years ago that the long national nightmare was over, he was referring to the aftermath of Watergate in which Richard Nixon resigned.
Not the soap opera that has been the last month with the Green Bay Packers and Brett Favre, who parted ways late Wednesday night when Favre, the only Packers [...]
By Doc Hancock on Dec 9, 2007 in NFL | 2 Comments
As the grandson of a Miami native, I wonder as the Dolphins inch closer and closer towards futility, I wonder what my late grandfather would say about the 2007 Dolphins.
“Another interception?” he would ask me, “Ryne, get me my Jack Daniel’s.”
“You already drank that, Father Fred,” I would reply.
“There’s a backup bottle in the dining [...]
By Doc Hancock on Nov 4, 2007 in NFL | 0 Comments
For a week or so, I’ve remained mum on the Colts-Patriots showdown because of various reasons.
One is the fact that there’s been plenty of exciting adventures at school that I wrote at length about in the blog, one of which included a parody of the Michigan State-Notre Dame rivalry on the pool table, except this [...]
By Doc Hancock on Oct 23, 2007 in NFL | 0 Comments
For the last three years, the Colts have started the season with 6-9 wins and in the discussion for challenging the 1972 Miami Dolphins’ 17-0 record, which as we know, is very unlikely to happen anytime soon.
But as the Colts cruised to a convincing win over Jacksonville last night in the same manner that the [...]