Sports History Network Hockey has always been a game that is played with emotion. Within a moment in any game, you can see tension, excitement, joy, despair, relief, frustration, anger. And sadly, sometimes, the frustration and anger can lead to gruesome results. This is a story of the latter. Over the last sixty years, it’s difficult to think … Read more
Today we have Super Bowl XXVI, which was held on January 26, 1992, at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis between the second-time AFC champion Buffalo Bills and the record-tying fifth-time NFC champion Washington Redskins. If you’re looking for the full story of this 1991 season, pick up my Nifty Nineties book and you’ll learn more … Read more
Most fans will say that sports look different now than they did 30, 50, or 100 years ago because the athletes are better, the training is better, or the technology is better. Of course, all of that is important. However, rule changes have had just as much of an impact on sports, if not more, … Read more
Today we have Super Bowl XXVII, which was held on January 31, 1993, at the Rose Bowl in beautiful Pasadena, California, between the third-time AFC champion Buffalo Bills and the record-setting sixth-time NFC champion Dallas Cowboys. If you’re looking for the full story of this 1992 season, pick up my Nifty Nineties book and you’ll learn more … Read more
In this segment Ladies and Gentlemen, I am going to discuss upsets throughout Boxing History, ending the episode with perhaps the greatest upset of all time. I define an upset as an unlikely ending to a contest that one would think was a sure thing but had an unexpected winner for a long shot victor … Read more
