Lombardi Ave » Tiger Woods http://lombardiave.com A Green Bay Packers Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and more. Sat, 25 May 2013 05:30:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Manning, Ryan, Brady NFL’s top moneymakers http://lombardiave.com/2011/06/19/manning-ryan-brady-nfls-top-moneymakers/ http://lombardiave.com/2011/06/19/manning-ryan-brady-nfls-top-moneymakers/#comments Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:49:30 +0000 Raymond Rivard http://lombardiave.com/?p=5047 What’s wrong with this picture? SI.com’s recently released list of the top 50 highest paid American athletes is still led by that philandering fool Tiger Woods, but contains just three NFL stars in its top 10. In addition to Woods, second place also goes to a pro golfer, Phil Mickelson. But surprisingly, the list’s top [...]

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]]> Payton Manning is the highest paid NFL quarterback when you figure in the amount of income he makes through endorsements. Raymond T. Rivard photographWhat’s wrong with this picture?
SI.com’s recently released list of the top 50 highest paid American athletes is still led by that philandering fool Tiger Woods, but contains just three NFL stars in its top 10. In addition to Woods, second place also goes to a pro golfer, Phil Mickelson.
But surprisingly, the list’s top 10 only includes these three NFL star quarterbacks: Payton Manning, Matt Ryan, and Tom Brady. The list includes four NBA stars: LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnet, and Dwight Howard.
Rounding out the top 10 is the Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez. (more…)

]]> http://lombardiave.com/2011/06/19/manning-ryan-brady-nfls-top-moneymakers/feed/ 0 ESPN Continues to Slay Me http://lombardiave.com/2008/07/05/espn-continues-to-slay-me/ http://lombardiave.com/2008/07/05/espn-continues-to-slay-me/#comments Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:57:24 +0000 djlombardi http://lombardiave.com/?p=230 ESPN just keeps doing it.  Besides their non-stop Brett Favre “coverage” (“lovefest” and any word pertaining to what goes on at a “lovefest” can be added in place of “coverage”), ESPN is also known for futile publicity stunts as Who’s Now and The Greatest Highlight with Chris Berman.  Who’s Now was one of the worst [...]

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]]> ESPN just keeps doing it.  Besides their non-stop Brett Favre “coverage” (“lovefest” and any word pertaining to what goes on at a “lovefest” can be added in place of “coverage”), ESPN is also known for futile publicity stunts as Who’s Now and The Greatest Highlight with Chris Berman.  Who’s Now was one of the worst things that has ever happened to television in the sports world.  By the way, I knew from the start Tiger Woods had it locked up.

So now ESPN decides to one-up themselves, this time with TitleTown USA.  Um, ESPN, aren’t you forgetting that Green Bay, Wisconsin, home of the 12-time NFL Champion Green Bay Packers is Titletown?  Quite convenient of you to forget this.  So what is this search for “TitleTown USA”?

“SportsCenter” will travel to 20 communities this summer before letting SportsNation make the call on the city deserving the name TitleTown USA.

Well if the people that voted on Who’s Now had enough sense to know that Woods was definitely “now,” they definitely should have enough sense to know that Green Bay is the real, legitimate TitleTown USA.  Who is the great city of Green Bay going up against?

July 4 Green Bay, Wis.

July 5 Lawrence, Kan.

July 6 Pittsburgh

July 7 Knoxville, Tenn.

July 8 Chapel Hill, N.C.

July 9 Los Angeles

July 10 Palo Alto, Calif.

July 11 Louisville, Ky.

July 12 Chicago

July 13 Boston

July 14 Gainesville, Fla.

July 15 New York

July 16 Valdosta, Ga.

July 17 Detroit

July 18 San Francisco

July 19 Williamsport, Pa.

July 20 Ann Arbor, Mich.

July 21 Columbus, Ohio

July 22 Parkersburg, W.V.

July 23 Massillon, Ohio

If Green Bay does not win this, I will be totally shocked.  New York and Boston are probably the best cities to give Green Bay a run for their money, and I guess if the panelists are partial to college towns that could sway their judgment.  And the fact that they are all mostly associated with ESPN could have a negative affect on this competition.  This will truly show ESPN’s and the people of the USA’s intelligence.

Green Bay is.  TitleTown USA.

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