Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Warning! Major Time Suck Ahead!

OK, so last week when I was looking for the box score from the Pupunu game, I found Pro Football Reference, which, as you may guess if you've ever spent time on Baseball Reference, is a site full of useless yet valuable football stats. I just spent my entire lunch hour perusing the site, and it will probably suck up a substantial amount of my remaining should-be-working time over the next week or three (depending on Sunday's result).

For example, did you know that Yancey Thigpen holds the Steelers record for single-season receiving yards? Even more shockingly, he accomplished this feat during a season when Kordell Stewart was throwing him the ball! Also, Hines Ward and Plaxico Burress are 3 and 4 on this list - from the same season (a disturbing reminder of how out of whack the offense was during the 2002 "Tommy Gun" season).

Anyway, sorry if this gets anyone fired.

P.S. We may want to (at least temporarily) change the name of this site to "White, Black and Gold Nerdy Wonks."