NFL, Sports History
February 08, 2025

Early Super Bowl halftime shows were jazzy big band affairs

The great Super Bowl Jazz Trumpeter once said, “I have three loves, my horn, my team [the Saints], and my hometown.” He was referring to his hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana home of this Sunday’s Super Bowl. A bit of Super Bowl trivia-who was the first Super Bowl halftime act? That New Orleans Jazz great, […]

MLB, Sports History
February 01, 2025

Baseball Card of the Day: Von Hayes 1990 Donruss MVP

For sometime in the baseball card collecting world there have been pre-war 1880-1939 era cards and then everything else. For me, it’s now 1980’s through whenever anyone started watching out-of-market games on an MLB.TV subscription. The baseball fan in the 80’s and 90’s simply never saw certain players play on Saturday afternoons, the only time […]