Tank McNamara by Bill Hinds for January 31, 2014

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    Ravenswing  about 10 years ago

    Got to be Dennis Rodman, because for the most part, the sports jerks of 2013 were only jerks. They didn’t consort with insane Communist dictators with giant armies who starve their own people between testing nuke-tipped missiles.

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    JohnHerbison  about 10 years ago

    For the 40 year award, how about Jerry Sandusky?

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    JohnHerbison  about 10 years ago

    My favorite comment about the mess at Penn State is that they should have left the statute of Paterno up, but turned it so that it was looking the other way.

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    Polsixe  about 10 years ago

    Richie Incognito 2013. And Don King 40 year.

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    22123magic  about 10 years ago

    Mike Rice

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    YatInExile  about 10 years ago

    Has anyone nominated Dennis Rodman yet? Because I wanna nominate Dennis Rodman.

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    ChazNCenTex  about 10 years ago

    I’d go with Pete Rose for 40year award. However long it’s been, his name keeps coming up, along with his crime. Can’t say that about Sandusky – who doesn’t deserve any award even if it’s ignominious. What he did, to my mind, falls beyond the bounds of something we should joke about.

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    tiyapakhi  about 10 years ago

    For 2013: Luis Suarez (soccer, Uruguay & Liverpool).

    For the past 40 years: Matti Nykanen (ski jumping, Finland).

    I remember the old “Sports Jerk of the week” website, and Nykanen’s name kept coming up again and again. He was a jerk for over a decade before the internet was invented, and he has continued to be a jerk subsequent to the site’s demise. Nykanen gets my vote for the great range and variety of his jerky actions.

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    mattspade  about 10 years ago

    So tankmcnamara.com re-directs here. How do you make the nomination? Just post in a comment? If so, I nominate Jerry Sandusky and Joe Paterno for Joint Jerk of the past 40 years.

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    mattspade  about 10 years ago

    So tankmcnamara.com re-directs here. How do you make the nomination? Just post in a comment? If so, I nominate Jerry Sandusky and Joe Paterno for Joint Jerk of the past 40 years.

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    paulscon Premium Member about 10 years ago

    How do you do it? Read panel 4!

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    Godfreydaniel  about 10 years ago

    I know a few people have actually shown up to collect their “Razzies” (the Oscar award parodies), but has anybody ever shown up to collect the Sports Jerk of the Year award?

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    Bob Blumenfeld  about 10 years ago

    Tank, we should live so long!

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    glennlab  about 10 years ago

    I nominate Howard Cosell for the sports jerk of the last 40 years, it’s hard to beat howard unless you are a Penn Stae fan.

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    tim_eustis Premium Member about 10 years ago

    Lance Armstrong. ‘Nuf said. (Sandusky is a felon, he’s in a totally different category. Would diminish the award to give it to him.)

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    A.Ficionada  about 10 years ago

    Pete Rose for the 40 year award. ARod this year.

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    Guilty Bystander  about 10 years ago

    I’ve mentioned Don King for the Lifetime Jerk Award, but how could I have forgotten about Al Davis? For 2013? Aaron Hernandez.

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    tiyapakhi  about 10 years ago

    Some lowlights of Matti Nykanen’s career:

    *His 1983 Sports Illustrated interview, when he hurled insults and curses at the reporter, and threw a shoe across a room.

    *His getting temporarily kicked off the Finnish ski jumping team for trashing an Austrian disco as part of a victory celebration.

    *Fed up with Finnish ski jumping officials, he threatened to move to Copenhagen and become a Swedish citizen. Geography is not a strong suit.

    *He once created such a disturbance at a restaurant that authorities needed tear gas to subdue him.

    *His short post-retirement career as a stripper.

    *He once stabbed his opponent after losing a finger-pulling competition.

    It would take much to long to detail either his political career or his marital troubles. And I’ve only started to scratch the surface of what he’s done.

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    Hunter7  about 10 years ago

    Bobby Riggs!!!!! that’s my nomination!!!!.With his mouth – he deserved to lose and be taken down a few notches.

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