Category: American Football
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Whelan still rollin’ as Cowboys get ambushed
Someone once said to me that football is a language which the whole world can communicate through. It makes sense on a lot of levels. However, that needs clarification as its considerably more nuanced than the original quote would imply. Simply as there are so many variations of football around the world. From Gaelic, to…
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Pursuit of ‘keeper trio underlines the competition
Never is, I think, one of those trick words put into the English language that none of us like using but not doing so is quite literally impossible. To put a degree of context on the rest of what will appear, many moons ago, it would have been said in this corner that there were…
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Just when you thought the GAA couldn’t frustrate you anymore…
David Clifford is a phenomenon. The best ever to play Gaelic football? That’s a subjective issue but he’s certainly in the vanguard thereof. Though only via video in my case, comparable in style and class to Matt Connor and – perhaps more aptly in this case – Maurice Fitzgerald. But, as I always say in…
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High fielding is a multi-sport art
Do you remember when, in GAA, the National Leagues used to be used to trial experimental rules? Many of which would, eventually, make it onto the set menu of playing rules. Stipulations such as the introduction of red and yellow cards, the taking of frees sideline balls from the hand, several incarnations of the Sin…
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Laois lucky to have another good Ross on the grid
Mayo’s Lee Keegan bowing out of inter county fare could hardly be classified as a shock. Especially as it was signposted on this site nearly a month ago. It was, however, sadly in keeping with modern trends of county players retiring too young. The Westport clubman being only 33. Thankfully, there will always be those…
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Assuming the limelight in the afterglow of Brady’s brilliance
Whether Colm O’Rourke made a formal announcement regarding his retirement from inter county GAA cannot be recalled. There was definitely activity in the media the following year when rumours of a comeback began to swirl. Either way, feelings in this seat were of tremendous sadness. An era was ending. Of course, the disappointment from a…
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Master still holds sway as great story rumbles on
One of the great things about having a life centred around sport is that sometimes all is not what it seems to be. For example, Leitrim shouldn’t win the Connacht Senior Football Championship – on perceived rank and status within GAA – but in 1994 it happened. Indeed, the people of that great county have…
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New Brady bunch, same outcome
The two greatest things derived from reading Con Houlihan’s mesmeric meanderings were a vastly increased vocabulary and an ability to scribe on a much broader range of subject matter. Or, to be more accurate, having the confidence to do so. Now read on… Baseball and ice hockey remain as the two bridges that have never…
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Trump used sport for his own benefit
Roy Keane has had many famous utterances throughout his playing, management and subsequent media career. “Fail to prepare, prepare to fail” may be the most famous thereof, but, for me, his correct excoriation of the “Prawn Sandwich Brigade”. Those corrosive pests are in every sport. The suits in Croke Park on an All Ireland weekend…