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The best Super Bowl halftime show in history was Prince in 2007, closely followed by Janet Jackson flashing the world three years earlier.  In this case, a full set of music trumps a few seconds

The Rest Of Super Bowl Week Top 10

Best NFL Team 1992 and 93 Cowboys. Best offensive line in history coupled with an all-time great runningback. One of the best defenses in the entire league was just a bonus. Beat a couple teams that were close to dynasties themselves — Bills and 49ers
Greatest Sports Figure Pat Tillman
Best Sports Statistic The Detroit Lions have won 29% of their 192 games over the past 12 years. For the 10 years before that, they won 49%; for the 10 years before that, they won 35%
The worst franchise with the most incompetent management in all of professional sports was a playoff team because of one running back. That’s what makes Barry Sanders the Best non-QB in NFL History
Best Snack for the Super Bowl I will be report that here on Super Bowl Sunday
Best Sports Quote I never smoked Astroturf
Best Sports Moment Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich trade wives. That sort of thing goes on in professional sports every day. But this one was done out in the open with houses, children and pets also included in the trade
Best TV Moment Jesse Spano abuses diet pills. With ads selling for up to $3 million this Sunday let us not forget the one true lesson TV has taught us: any teenager who ever tries drugs, even tablets that contain 200mg caffeine will eventually end up in porn
Best Moment in Pittsburgh History There is nothing the Steelers will ever do that will match Jennifer Beals taking off her bra on camera without showing the world her tits

While she didn’t pull the trigger, the relationship may have been a factor. Among the many talented musicians lost. How is it Nirvana and 4 Non Blondes were considered the same genre?

Had it been Axl Rose who died in 1994 instead, the world would view Guns ‘N Roses as one of the very best bands ever. The past 17 years don’t change how great the early years were, so they still deserve that title. For over 20 years no one could match Appitite for Destruction as the greatest hard rock ever (until equaled by Miley Cyrus Party in the USA)

The other eight to make the Top 10 for Music

Prince Obviously number one and nothing else even comes close

Ain’t Nothin but a G Thang Dr Dre and Snoop together at the top of their game. After Regulate came out one year later, rap has never even been half as good

Roberta Flack

Hendrix

Rihanna Not nearly as talented as anyone else listed ahead, but she is a personal favorite as some of her most recent songs were written and performed specifically about me — – Rude Boy, Only Girl in the World and What’s My Name (“The square root of 69 is eight-something.” I can guess what they’re trying to express, but then it doesn’t really make any sense. “Every door you enter, I will let you in.” That line makes sense. The cube root of 69 is four-something. . . )

Chili Pepper’s Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Nearly every track was damn good. And Mother’s Milk was even better. Recent stuff hasn’t been great

School House Rock A time machine back to being nine years old and every Saturday there was a box of cereal and cartoons for breakfast and Twix bars, a bag of Bugles and hyperactivity for lunch. Great American Melting Pot is a personal favorite

Some people might think this is a conversation, not music. It is so melodic, so poetic, such rhythm, so truly beautiful, from such a talented guy that it is music to me. If not for Prince, the greatest recording in human history. The only video that will ever appear here:

Noddin my head like Yeah
Movin my hips like Yeah

Top 10 ways to know if a person is in shape.  From most difficult to easiest

Touch your toes without bending your knees
Do 20 pullups
Dunk a basketball
Clean-and-jerk 140 kilograms Women only have to use 90kg and only have to touch the rim, not dunk
Go 72 hours without sleeping
Go 72 hours without eating Bonus points if you can go three days without eating or sleeping and do so comfortably.  Falling asleep when you’re tired and waking up when fully rested is the healthy thing to do, but if a person has to be eating and sleeping constantly, that’s pretty weak
Eat three large pizzas in one hour Very easy for anyone who likes to eat.  All those carbs and Calories and nourishment’s are always a good way to keep your strength

The absolute best and truest tests a person can use to measure their strength and fitness: Win a professional MMA fight.   Or score 7000 points in a decathlon

On a personal note, I’ve done five of these in my lifetime.  So at one time I was half-way strong.  I’m even weaker than that now.  I’m so weak I can only come up with nine entries for a Top 10 list

Best Movie Ever RoboCop
Best Sports Movie When We Were Kings
Best Documentary Jackass Number Two
Best War Movie South Park
Best Line “Fuck me gently with a chainsaw”
Best Villain Eric Gordon from Billy Madison
Best Soundtrack Purple Rain
Best Foreign Film The Story of Furious Pete
Best Movie of 2010 Machete
Best Love Story “There’s a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don’t all bring you lasagna at work”

X Josh Gibson and Alex Rodriguez Not sure I feel comfortable saying Gibson was better or worse than the others on the list.  All I know for sure is that based on what we saw in the decades after Jackie Robonson, the very best black player during segregation could not have been too far behind the top three white players to make the list.  A catcher who hit no worse than Frank Robinson, I’ll take that over Oscar Charleston any day

Albert Pujols moved a lot closer to surpassing Rodriguez as the best player of this generation.  But he is still five full years behind.  It can be hard to evaluate players without the benefit of taking a step back after their careers end.  For Rodriguez, it is not hard to see he is already past 2 300 games played, .958 OPS, high defensive value and coming into this year even a .977 OPS in the playoffs

8 Hank Aaron Ever so slightly below Stan Musial as a hitter, well above him defensively and at baserunning.  The sample size may be insignificant, but the magnitude of how each did in the World Series isn’t

7 Mickey Mantle One of the top homerun hitters in history even had the second highest post-World War II on-base percentage until Barry Bonds started using drugs

6 Walter Johnson Not counting his fading over his final two years, he had the best adjusted ERA in history, while pitching in 1 500 and 2 500 more innings than the next two best (Lefty Grove and Pedro Martinez)

5 Roger Clemens A unanimous Cy Young award in 1986, 20 years later he had the lowest ERA of the 21st century.  In between there were six more years he was the best pitcher in the league, another seven years he was a legitimate ace and an additional eight years he was a solid contributor.  Greg Maddux and Randy Johnson can’t match that; without exaggeration, that’s essentially double what Sandy Koufax did

4 Willie Mays Virtually equal to Aaron as a hitter except a great defensive centerfielder compared to a great defensive rightfielder … that’s pretty big

3 Babe Ruth Rank him this low because the athletes he played against were much less capable than the athletes that came in the following generations

2 Barry Bonds Among baseball management, the media, the players and the fans, no one wanted drug testing until more than a decade after Jose Canseco won his MVP (and years still after Ken Caminiti and Sammy Sosa won theirs).  If anyone involved in baseball didn’t want Bonds using drugs they should have insisted he pee into a cup for them and they should have asked him to do so starting in the 1980s.  They made the choice not to do that.  It was only because of that, that Bonds eventually made the choice to use them.  Before he made that choice around age 34 he was already closing in on Top 10

1 Ted Williams Few people have a problem calling him the best hitter in history.  In 1943, 44, 45, 52 and 53 he was just as good a hitter as in all his other years; just because he was engaging the enemy on the battle field rather than pitchers on the diamond does not change that.  That means nearly every year from age 20 to age 40 he was the best hitter in the world, occasionally falling to second or third best   Can’t see anyway subpar defense would be enough to drop him below Ruth

Infield Positions and Other Notes: Ty Cobb is slightly ahead of Honus Wagner as best deadball-era player
Johnny Bench is the best catcher in Major League history
Lou Gehrig is easily ahead of Jimmie Foxx as the best firstbaseman ever, Jeff Bagwell is closer than you think
Joe Morgan is the easy choice for best secondbaseman in history; Rogers Hornsby’s batting average is miles ahead, yet compared to league average, their ability to reach base is fairly close.  Morgan has a huge edge in defense and baserunning, played in 400 more games and played against much higher overall talent
Rodriguez has to be considered a shortstop, which means Mike Schmidt is still the best thirdbaseman in history
Cal Ripken is behind Wagner and ahead of Jeter among shortstops.  Barry Larkin is just about as good as anyone else in history

10 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Candy makers should stop trying, these will never be beaten
9 Frozen Mudslide Ice cream is good.  Ice cream that can get you drunk is better
8 Oreo Cereal Haven’t Oreo O’s in a long time, so think it’s been discontinued.  That’s because a package of Oreos crushed and topped with chocolate milk is even better
7 Oxycontin Google says it costs around $1 per milligram.  That’s like 454,000 as much as I pay for bags of frozen vegetables.  It must be good
6 Cake Frosting Equal parts hydrogenated oil and high fructose corn syrup.  How can anything top that?
5-thru-1 Just pile sugar on top of fat on top of anything

Protein is expensive, but it’s one of those nutrients you should eat, so I spend the money on it

10 Hot Dogs Eat enough of them and someone will pay you thousands of dollars.  That can’t completely make up for the high fat content, which is why they are only 10th on the list
9 McDonald’s Double Hamburger From the dollar menu and no matter where you are, never more than a few minutes away from being able to pick up one of these
8 Ground Turkey Only drawback is much more cooking and cleaning that most on the list
7 Whole Chicken At $5 to $8 cooked at the grocery store, somewhat pricey and almost too much nutrition
6 Textured Vegetable Protein Hard to find keeps it low on the list, but still less than $3 per pound even at the way overpriced WholeFoods
5 Protein Powder More than twice the price of TVP, at least you can find it most anywhere
4 Eggs
3 Yogurt Also on this list Cottage Cheese is comparable
2 Six to 16 pound hamburgers That’s like 24 to 64 times as good as a quarter-pounder
1 Tuna Close to twice the price per pound as yogurt and eggs, but you can leave them in your car for more than 20 minutes in summer (sardines are nearly as good)

10/10/10

In honor of 10 October 2010

presenting top 10 lists, starting with Top 10 Best Things to Eat

the criteria used is being able to get the greatest amount of food for the least money, while still being able to eat 10 pounds or more in a day and not get fat

10 Bananas From Rick Reilly sometime last century: “For the potassium?” I asked.
“No,” Biff said, “because they taste about the same coming up as they do going down.”
9 Coffee Obviously something you drink, not eat. But it also comes laced with drugs. Drugs I like a lot
8 Watermelon (berries, apples, oranges, mostly all fruit is great, but watermelon is top) As low as 20-cents per pound (though you probably throw away the green parts), low calories and vitamins and shit
7 Yogurt Most expensive thing on this list, though still as low as $1 per pound makes it the cheapest protein you can find
6 Oatmeal While about 100 Calories per ounce, you can cook it and add moisture and it’s only a few more Calories per pound than most fruits and vegetables, while costing a lot less
5-thru-1 Green Veggies So many options and so superior to everything else, these occupy spots five through one, as low as 25-cents per pound, never more than $1 (lettuce, cabbage, cucumbers, broccoli, celery, green beans)