The San Francisco 49'ers will wear throwback uniforms against Washington fo the last game of the season and John Crumpacker, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer, reports that many of the Niners will be wearing throwback facial hair. Crumpacker says the Niners' grow-a moustache-for-the-last-game campaign means the team has good chemistry, despite the fractured season.In "Let's all wear hospital gowns and dance in a padded room" news, people think the New England Patriots should trade Tom Brady. Okay, Matt Cassel is a few years younger and was good story this year. Brady's knee is, admittedly, questionable for 2009. But, still, who would you rather have; a guy who's had one good season in the NFL or the three-time Super Bowl champ? Doesn't the guy with all the passing records and rings have the right to at least try to win his job back? A more likely scenario is that the Pats let go off Cassel. Duh.
The Scores Report accuses Rick Reilly of shoehorning dated cultural references and lame jokes into his ESPN The Magazine columns. Which he totally, totally does.
Gunaxin (a blog with the delightful subhead, "helping guys waste time on the Internet since 1978") has a list of the ten worst transactions of the year. Normally, we stay away from journalistic cliches like year-end Best or Worst lists, but do enjoy reliving the Grizzlies' ridiculous trade of Pau Gasol to the Lakers or how the Twins got zilch for Johan Santana. Deadspin chimes in with their year-end retrospective, on the very Deadspin-y theme of creepy stuff that happened in bathrooms this year.
