Carolina Panthers Sir Purr Bobblehead
The WALL STREET JOURNAL has reported that the CAROLINA PANTHERS WERE THE LEAST EXCITING TEAM IN THE NFL this season.
Can’t say that we disagree, considering that would be one explanation of how the Panthers “earned” their number one draft pick in the next NFL draft.
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Thanks for visiting Web Watch this past year. We thought we’d take a quick look at how 2010 has gone, and share some details on what our visitors were most interested in reading before we dive into 2011:
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Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Outfit
Ever wonder what professional sports cheerleaders do in their real lives?
Because they certainly can’t make a living on PROFESSIONAL CHEERLEADING alone, making from $50-$100 per game each season, you’re going to need something else to fall back on to support yourself.
Like a “real” job.
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Carolina Panthers Football Jersey – Steve Smith
If you’re a REAL football fan, you have at least one jersey in your closet to wear on game day.
At least one, because you have to have one of each team color – and perhaps some older jerseys of players you no longer care to support because the quit the team or were traded to the enemy. God forbid that you go to a game wearing a jersey for a team that isn’t even playing that day…
Suffice it to say, there are a lot of RULES REGARDING THE RIGHT AND WRONG WAY TO WEAR A FOOTBALL JERSEY, thanks to our friend Josh. Since it’s in the middle of football season right now, why not have a little refresher? Here are three of the rules Josh pulled together — and he’s dead-on with his other observations.
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Full-body Spandex Morphsuit (pick your color)
So the other day, Web Watch was participating in the monthly WOOT-OFF when we saw them talking about the ROOT SUIT.
We know you’ve seen the ROOT SUIT on TV this football season — it’s been featured gameday wear for any number of collegiate and NFL football fans eager to get on TV but without having to show their face.
There are other versions and names out there: the MORPH SUIT, Zentai, a full-body spandex suit, the lycra outfit, the Spiderman getup. And they’re all the same basic thing — a costume that you can hide in public in.
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Baseball – Skills & Drills: The FUNdamentals of Baserunning
One thing that Web Watch has trouble understanding is why the baseball season needs to extend out into November.
November is FOOTBALL season, as everyone knows. Sure, throw in a little pre-season basketball or hockey if you’d like – at least those two are considered “winter” sports. But baseball already has spring training, the boys of summer, and the fall classic. Why do they need to bogart the winter season as well – it’s not like baseball is played outdoors in all types of weather, like we see with real sports like football. Let’s keep the baseball playoffs to the fall months and be done with it.
Maybe the issue is that baseball players don’t really understand how to play the game.
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You know that PERFECTLY TIMED SPORTS PHOTO that been going around the Internet this last week?
You know the one – it’s where Tiger Woods hit an errant chip shot at this year’s RYDER CUP that went directly at a photographer’s camera?
Well, we’re not here to talk about Tiger or his golf skill… we’re here to talk about THE CIGAR GUY. He’s the one that turned a phenomenal golf photo into an Internet sensation.
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Weber’s Way to Grill: The Step-by-Step Guide to Expert Grilling
Web Watch knows that there’s nothing that tastes better than some meat cooked fresh on the grill.
And when it’s football season, you have to have a grill to really do the tailgate up right. Web Watch even won a Weber Grill a few years ago in a football tailgating cookoff contest with our grilled steak sandwich with carmelized onions. One of the judges even came back to our setup and took an extra sandwich with them “for the road” when the competition was over.
So we have that going for us.
Which brings us back to today’s point – that when it comes to tailgating and grilling, nobody knows their stuff better than the folks over at Weber.
Which is why every year Weber releases their own WEBER TAILGATING STUDY, a look at the tailgating habits that we should expect to see this upcoming football season.
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Eat This Book: A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit
Competitive eating is not everything you may think it is. It’s not all glory on the playing field, and unless you really want to devote your life to travelling around the country in order to eat yourself silly, there really isn’t enough money to be made in eating contests to call being a “Professional Eater” a full-time career.
One has to wonder if the lack of cost-of-living raises is one of the reasons that Takeru Kobayashi, the former World Champion Hot Dog Eater, refused to sign a contract with the IFOCE and ended up rushing the stage at this year’s Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest.
And considering the amount of effort that the IFOCE and ESPN put into making the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest and its world-famous Mustard Yellow Belt a cultural lynchpin in our annual July 4th festivities, it’s really surprising that the NATHAN’S CONTEST WAS NOT THE COMPETITIVE EATING CONTEST WITH THE MOST PRIZE MONEY over the past year.
Continue reading "How much money do competitive eaters make? On a per-calorie basis, not a whole lot of dough"
If you are active in a fantasy sports league with your friends, then you probably have run into a situation where you’re trying to make a specific deal and something horribly goes wrong.
Maybe its that you pulled some stunt regarding whether a player was on waivers or not. Maybe you backed out of a deal at the last minute because you had some insider information that wasn’t available to the general public. Really, it could be anything that really would make Ari Gold blush.
So what do you do after you’ve exhausted all reasonable alternatives and still have a stalemate?
You call in the FANTASY SPORTS LEGAL EXPERTS, SPORTSJUDGE.COM.
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This week is NATIONAL BOWLING WEEK and that’s why the BOWLING PROPRIETORS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (BPAA) have decided to let the fans decide who is the BIGGEST CELEBRITY PROMOTER OF THE SPORT OF BOWLING, with the celebrity receiving the most votes being entered into the CELEBRITY HALL OF FAME at the International Bowling Museum.
The celebrity with the most votes on AUGUST 7th (NATIONAL BOWLING DAY) will be the winner, and YOU can vote as many times as you’d like for your favorite celebrity. What else is special about NATIONAL BOWLING DAY? You can get a free game of bowling with this coupon! Use it on August 7th, and help set a world record for the most bowling games played in a 24-hour period.
But more importantly, who are the celebrity nominees and what their vote tallies were as we head into these final few days before voting closes?
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Official NFL Fantasy Football League Draft Kit
It’s about that time of year again.
With the World Cup over, we can officially move on from “football” to “hand egg”.
(You know, “hand egg”. Because that’s what an NFL football looks like. Oh, never mind – we’ll start over.)
Take 2: With the World Cup over, we can officially move on from soccer to professional football.
And with professional football comes everybody’s favorite office diversion after Farmville, managing your FANTASY FOOTBALL TEAM. And Web Watch is here to help you with the most important part of managing your team — CREATING THE BEST FANTASY FOOTBALL TEAM NAME.
Here are some ideas to get you started:
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When it comes to sports – and more importantly, how athletes present themselves both on and off the field – times have changed a lot over the past few years.
With Soccer Parents getting into fights with coaches over why their kids aren’t getting enough field time, fighting-enducing trash-talking during a game, athletes climbing into the stands to punch out hecklers, or even some sports where the scoreboard is being taken away entirely “because kids don’t want the pressure to have to win” — the reason for sports to exist in the first place are slowly falling down by the wayside as the “spirit of competition” gives way to “winning at all costs”.
Continue reading "Why an Athletes’ Creed? Because 81% of athletes surveyed said it’s better to win than play fair"
More Gigs Now: Concert Booking Secrets of Successful Musicians
Web Watch last covered how much money it would take to book an artist for a private party many years ago.
Since then, the list of available artists has changed… as have the prices that they’ve charged.
So we felt that now was just as good a time as any to revisit the topic and present a selection of booking information we’ve found that can help you BUDGET AN ARTIST BOOKING FOR A PRIVATE EVENT.
Here is a sampling of approximate costs that you can expect to pay at a minimum if you decide to throw an exclusive private party and want a big-name artist or speaker to come and perform for you and your drunk friends at your house:
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Thank you, Ralph Bruno, for inventing the Cheesehead hat
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Foam hats of different designs have become ubiquitious at sporting events around the world.
From the original CHEESEHEAD first worn in 1987 at a White Sox/Brewers baseball game by inventor Ralph Bruno, to paws, bird claws, horseshoes, or any other mascot figure under the sun — you have FOAMATION to thank for your team spirit.
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