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if your too lazy to read it ill tell you, its the top 25 sports stories of the last 25 years
NOT A SINGLE NFL STORY IS IN THIS!!!!
I for one am completly pissed about this i mean cmon they could have atleast listed the greatest comeback in NFL history when the bills came back from 35-3 and won that game 41-38 on a steve christie field goal but no womens world cup soccer is a so much better story than the comeback and it was with the bills backup quaterback noless
if your too lazy to read it ill tell you, its the top 25 sports stories of the last 25 years
NOT A SINGLE NFL STORY IS IN THIS!!!!
"APPARENTLY USA TODAY FORGOT THE NFL EXISTS by Michael David Smith
The NFL is by far America's most popular sports league, and it has been for at least the last quarter-century. So you'd think that when USA Today decided (as part of the paper's own 25th anniversary) to list the Top 25 sports moments of the last 25 years, the NFL would be heavily represented.
Well, it isn't. USA Today's Top 25 list includes not a single story that is directly related to the NFL, and only one (the O.J. Simpson murder trial) that is even tangentially related to the NFL.
Lists like this should never be taken too seriously, but this list is particularly ridiculous. It includes nine entries from Major League Baseball, including four of the top six. The biggest story in sports in the last 25 years, according to USA Today? The Boston Red Sox winning the 2004 World Series.
USA Today could have listed the way the NFL has changed the television landscape, with huge rights contracts, the establishment of the satellite television Sunday Ticket package, or the emergence of NFL Network. It could have mentioned the way the NFL took the lead in putting the sports world aside after 9/11, or the death of former Arizona Cardinal Pat Tillman. It could have mentioned teams moving from city to city, the owners hiring replacement players when the union went on strike, the NFL's emergence as the victor in a struggle with the USFL, or, if it wanted something on the field, the dynasties in San Francisco, Dallas and New England.
The paper mentioned none of those things. But at least it found room for the 1999 Women's World Cup."
The NFL is by far America's most popular sports league, and it has been for at least the last quarter-century. So you'd think that when USA Today decided (as part of the paper's own 25th anniversary) to list the Top 25 sports moments of the last 25 years, the NFL would be heavily represented.
Well, it isn't. USA Today's Top 25 list includes not a single story that is directly related to the NFL, and only one (the O.J. Simpson murder trial) that is even tangentially related to the NFL.
Lists like this should never be taken too seriously, but this list is particularly ridiculous. It includes nine entries from Major League Baseball, including four of the top six. The biggest story in sports in the last 25 years, according to USA Today? The Boston Red Sox winning the 2004 World Series.
USA Today could have listed the way the NFL has changed the television landscape, with huge rights contracts, the establishment of the satellite television Sunday Ticket package, or the emergence of NFL Network. It could have mentioned the way the NFL took the lead in putting the sports world aside after 9/11, or the death of former Arizona Cardinal Pat Tillman. It could have mentioned teams moving from city to city, the owners hiring replacement players when the union went on strike, the NFL's emergence as the victor in a struggle with the USFL, or, if it wanted something on the field, the dynasties in San Francisco, Dallas and New England.
The paper mentioned none of those things. But at least it found room for the 1999 Women's World Cup."
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