BackupQuarterback

Unlike the Tonys and Emmys, BackupQuarterback could not get Neil Patrick Harris to host its First Annual Super Bowl Awards presentation.
Too bad.
He could have discussed one of the most widely watched Super Bowls of all-time and a football game that will be remembered as legen….wait for it….dary!
MVP/MVC:
Drew Brees’ 32-for-39 passing performance, during which he tied [...]

Two retirements, two comebacks and two teams later, Brett Favre is in the same position he was in two years ago.
He is the quarterback who threw an interception on his team’s final offensive play in a NFC championship game loss – and maybe on the final pass of his Hall of Fame career.
There is a [...]

Do you know what “請讓我坐在你的長凳上，徵收一筆薪水” means in Chinese?
According to freetranslation.com, it means “Please let me sit on your bench and collect a paycheck” – a quote that we would have heard from Stephon Marbury if he took a even small dose of truth serum after signing a contract to play a professional basketball team in [...]

Andre Dawson stopped hitting home runs and throwing out base runners in 1996, which doesn’t explain how he has managed to become a better baseball player over the last nine years.
This past year alone was a major source of improvement for Dawson, who did not need a single at-bat to change the minds of 59 Hall [...]

So you’ve just arrived at work and your boss calls you into his office.
You must have made a serious mistake yesterday. Best to act humble and apologize.
“You’re going to have to keep putting in the same night and weekend hours as your colleagues but you’re not going to be eligible for the same bonus check [...]

You hired the Domino’s guy to be your new Athletic Director. Not the delivery guy – he was too busy making house calls – but Chairman and CEO David Brandon. He sounds qualified enough, having played football for the Wolverines, worked as finance chairman for the Republican Party and run a multi-million dollar business based [...]

Will you be making any roster additions this offseason? You can’t re-sign players (John Lackey, Chone Figgins). You can’t trade for players (Roy Halladay). And you can’t sign players (Adrian Beltre). Sure, manager Mike Scioscia is good for about five wins a year — assuming you give him nine names to put on a lineup card — but [...]

Wipe that stupid grin off your face. The serious knee injury suffered by New England Patriots wide receiver Wes Welker in the meaningless season finale doesn’t justify what your Indianapolis Colts did during the previous week. As team president you encouraged resting healthy players and throwing away a shot at a the immortality of a [...]

10. Hit by the Moneyball
Michael Lewis titled his 2003 book about the Oakland Athletics’ front office “Moneyball,” and soon enough that term was as much a part of baseball jargon as “Can of Corn” or “High Cheese.”  Moneyball is a revolutionary statistical analysis of players based on Sabermetrics fashioned by the Athletics and widely copied [...]

Brett Favre’s Hall of Fame career is now complete.
Expect the inscription underneath his bust to read something like this:
“Once merely a great quarterback, by Favre’s final retirement he had mastered all grounds for Hall of Fame enshrinement. He was a great general manager – orchestrating his own trade out of Green Bay and arrival in [...]