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A Guide To Super Bowl Survival… For Women

February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

With Sunday’s big game quickly approaching, nearly everyone in America is planning their own version of a massive Super Bowl party. Let’s face it. It’s the ultimate guy’s day. It’s not just a football game, it’s a spectacle. It’s a world-wide phenomenon that gets broadcast to countries that don’t even give a damn about the [...]

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Tags: Opinion/Editorial · Other · Patrick Swafford

The Michael Vick Failure

February 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

As the football world descends on Miami for Super Bowl XLIV, there are 30 teams that are already planning their off-season acquisitions and their draft plans.
For one quarterback, he’s planning his re-ascension to the top of the NFL’s food chain just a year and change removed from a stint in prison.
For Michael Vick, it’s not [...]

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Tags: Football · Opinion/Editorial · Patrick Swafford

If This Is The End…

January 27th, 2010 · No Comments

Wednesday afternoon brought news that Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner could announce his retirement during a press conference scheduled for Friday.
While a lot of other blogs and sports news sites have already lamented his great career and his unbelievable ride through the football landscape, I’m not.
I’m not here to bury him, I’m here to praise [...]

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Tags: Football · Opinion/Editorial · Patrick Swafford

Ingram’s Curse To Break

December 12th, 2009 · No Comments

With Alabama’s Mark Ingram winning the 75th Heisman Trophy, it marks the first time a Crimson Tide player has won college football’s highest honor. For a program that is known for producing names like Starr, Namath, Stabler, Alexander and countless others, including Brodie Croyle, it’s sort of shocking that it’s taken 75 different Heisman trophies [...]

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Tags: College · Football · Opinion/Editorial · Patrick Swafford

Baltimore’s Double Standard

October 15th, 2009 · No Comments

The Double Standard…

It’s the one thing in life (and in sports) that drives me up the wall.

For anyone to take the approach that “it’s okay for me to do something, but not you” makes me want to slap the Hell out someone.

Jesse Jackson’s guilty of it. It’s perfectly fine for him have infidelity issues, but [...]

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Tags: Football · Opinion/Editorial · Patrick Swafford

I’m probably going to piss off every Alabama fan I know… but…

October 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Note: While I know there are A LOT of Alabama fans that are not like this, I am talking about the “stereotypical” ‘Bama fan here. Any threats should be sent to chris@audiblyoffensive.com

Dear Alabama Fan,
Yes, I do realize that your precious team is 3-0. So are countless others in college football, including a few inside your [...]

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Tags: College · Football · Opinion/Editorial · Patrick Swafford

Why 2010 means everything for the NHL.

October 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Editors Note: Sorry for the absence over the last few months. I’m back for good now. Thanks for being patient with me.
With the NHL season dropping the puck tonight, a lot of questions loom as the Pittsburgh Penguins get set to defend the greatest trophy in sports, The Stanley Cup.
While I could talk about all [...]

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Tags: Ice Hockey · Opinion/Editorial · Patrick Swafford

Hockey Finally Has Magic/Bird In Playoffs

April 30th, 2009 · No Comments

It didn’t hit me until I was rolling out of bed at 8:30 this morning that the second round of the NHL’s Eastern Conference playoffs featured the one match-up that Commish Gary Bettman has been salivating over since the arrival of both players.
Pens/Caps. A match-up of two of the most non-intimidating logos in professional sports. [...]

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Tags: Ice Hockey · Opinion/Editorial · Patrick Swafford

Swafford and Lemke (4/23/2009)

April 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

The end of April brings playoff hoops and hockey and the NFL Draft. The only way this show would be better would be if Lemke got screwed over and forced Swafford to scramble for a replacement. Check.

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Tags: Opinion/Editorial · Podcasts

Swafford and Lemke (3/11/09)

March 12th, 2009 · No Comments

It’s the last show during Year One of the AO Era. One week before the Anniversary Extravaganza, the guys tore into this week’s biggest topic, T.O. I don’t wanna go off on a rant here, but we had a little fun.

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Tags: Opinion/Editorial · Podcasts

The Lion Weeps Tonight

December 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Have you ever seen something that you knew was going to be so brutal that you couldn’t look away? Maybe when Frank Mir broke Tim Sylvia’s arm or when the original LT sacked Joe Theismann and broke his leg? Or that time on Saved By The Bell when Jessie got hooked on caffeine pills and [...]

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Tags: Football · Opinion/Editorial · Patrick Swafford

Where The Chizik Meets The Stone

December 15th, 2008 · No Comments

AUBURN, Ala – Auburn University introduced former Iowa State head coach Gene Chizik as its new coach on Monday, replacing Tommy Tubberville after ten years and an 85-40 record down on the Plains.

While the move has been well-received by a majority of Auburn fans, some more prominent fans have been vocal about the decision to [...]

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Tags: College · Football · Opinion/Editorial · Patrick Swafford