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Welcome to The Vault, the weekly blog post that takes a look back at some of the best (and worst) jerseys throughout sports history. Each week, a classic set of threads each from the sports of football, basketball, hockey, baseball, and soccer will be revisited.  All submissions are welcome by messaging @tftb_smalls on IG. Football: Oregon Ducks QB Danny O’Neil Before you sayContinueContinue reading “The Vault: Week 3”

On Thoughts From The Bench, I’ve pretty much stuck to writing about college football, normally in a humorous way. Today, though, I’m gonna attempt to take a step back and write about something a little more serious and uplifting. Growing up in a Penn State household, I always heard stories of the great Nittany LionContinueContinue reading “THON Weekend: Just another reason why we still love College Sports”

Before Clemson’s Cotton Bowl matchup against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, the team was notified that three of their players had tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. Defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence, offensive lineman Zach Giella, and tight end Braden Galloway were suspended for both the Cotton Bowl and national championship game against Alabama after testingContinueContinue reading “The Clemson Drug Ring: A TFTB Investigation”

Welcome to The Vault, the weekly blog post that takes a look back at some of the best (and worst) jerseys throughout sports history. Each week, a classic set of threads each from the sports of football, basketball, hockey, baseball, and soccer will be revisited.  All submissions are welcome by messaging @tftb_smalls on Instagram. Football: University of Pittsburgh WR Larry Fitzgerald Our footballContinueContinue reading “The Vault: Week 2”

On Monday, I put my Unofficial National Signing Day Guide up on the site and went through the some of the names to watch out for today. Darnell Wright and Jerrion Ealy were the only two unsigned players I brought up in the article, and I’ll be the first to admit I made a HUGEContinueContinue reading “The Only Story That Matters on National Signing Day: Louis Hedley”

Welcome to The Vault, the weekly blog post that takes a look back at some of the best (and worst) jerseys throughout sports history. Each week, a classic set of threads each from the sports of football, basketball, hockey, baseball, and soccer will be revisited.  All submissions are welcome by messaging @tftb_smalls on Instagram. Football: Houston Oilers QB Warren Moon Our first jerseyContinueContinue reading “The Vault: Week 1”

Post-Super Bowl week is often considered the worst week of the calendar year. Many have even lobbied to make the Monday after the Super Bowl a national holiday in order to cope with the end of football season. But instead, most Americans will begrudgingly clock into work and slowly partake in the longest hibernation knownContinueContinue reading “TFTB’s Unofficial National Signing Day Guide”

In response to Moorhead dropping his mock draft yesterday, I’ve decided to throw my hat into the ring. After that peasant decided to rank Wild Berry as the #2 Pop-Tart flavor of all time, I wanted to knock this so-called “rankings guru” down a peg or two. For this mock draft (which is obviously subjectContinueContinue reading “IT’S MOCK DRAFT SEASON, BABY”

Warning: I’m about the sound like the old man yelling at a cloud, and I realize that some of my millennial peers will most likely disagree with this take. Today, I was scrolling through Twitter and saw that TCU football had come out with these new uniforms for the 2019 season: I personally think theseContinueContinue reading “Opinion: The Uniform Gimmick in College Football Needs to Stop”

Yes, you read that right. I’m going to keep this blog pretty short since I’m still a little confused. Former LSU and current Kansas football coach Les Miles has a confirmed role in The Challenger Disaster, which was apparently released to the public today. This independent film tells the never-before-seen story of a NASA engineer’s desperate attempt toContinueContinue reading “New Kansas Head Football Coach Les Miles is starring in a movie…?”