What the hell we are up to: ici.
BEST NEW BLOG: Black Heart Gold Pants. JHC, OPS, and the other guy have got me reading a blog about the Big Ten. I can't believe I give a damn, but they're that good.
BEST COMMUNITY: EDSBS, owing largely to the advent of its fine radio show. Even the assholes are funny.
BEST WRITING: SMQ.
BEST POST: Black Heart Gold Pants: Are You There, Cyclone Fan?
and
EDSBS: Who's Now: Tom Brady vs. Galactus
FUNNIEST BLOG: Bruins Nation. A nuanced, uproariously tickling portrayal of madness.
BEST ANALYSIS: Burnt Orange Nation. Peter has a way of crunching tangly numbers in ways that makes them...well, Not Boring to read, like other numbers.
BEST LOOKING BLOG: Rocky Top Talk. The SB Nation template has always looked a mite Geocities to me, but this one's got all kindsa toys on it. Also: Is orange.
and
Gate 21, for the checkerboards.
THE JOB AWARD: Rocky Top Talk. Making sense of our becurbstomped Vols was no mean feat this season.
BEST AUDIO: EDSBS Live. Swindle and PB keep the pressure off by constantly referencing their own self-assessed mediocrity as radio hosts, but consider this: Without this show, Paul Finebaum would never have been called a motherfucker on live air. Without this show, I wouldn't have been able to do the same to John Adams. Without this show, we wouldn't have been bathed in the all-knowing white light of Phil "Motherfucking" Steele. QEDMF.
BEST REGULAR FEATURE: Rocky Top Talk: Joel's postgame animated drive charts. and animated polls.
BEST VIDEO: CatLab, CatLab, a thousand times CatLab. Particularly this Texas mashup from hell that graced BON earlier this year. Do not watch before sleeping:
BEST ART: LSUFreek, "They Live".
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Thanks for the mention and the nom. I appreciate it. Glad someone liked the checkerboards...
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- lawvol: http://Gate21.net - Life, the Universe, & College Football
Shit. You warned me, but I didn't listen. Now I'll have nightmares of cows and Matthew McConaughey. "That's what I love about these heffers, man. I get older. They stay the same age."
Posted by: Biggus Rickus at January 24, 2008 09:12 PMI have to vote for Animated BlogPoll over the drive charts, although it's a fair question as to whether it counts as "regular" when it never was updated for the postseason.
Posted by: Devin McCullen at January 25, 2008 08:24 AMYeah, that's why I picked the charts. I should maybe change that to "Joel's Flash-y things"...they were all exceptional.
Posted by: Holly at January 25, 2008 08:42 AMYour nomination really does mean something. Further, to be nominated alongside Brady vs. Galactus is actually embarrassing. It's not just the funniest sports piece I read all year, it's one of the funniest things I've ever read, period.
Thank you, very much.
It was a good year. Everyone blew my mind. Everyone. And I can't wait to do it again.