Welcome to the Beginning

Sports.  As straight, American men, we more than any other incarnation of humanity are predisposed to spend hours and hours of our days watching sports.  But it’s not just watching.  As men, we talk about sports.  We talk about what happened in the past, what’s happening now, and what’s going to happen in the future.  We see ourselves, each and every one, as the Nostradamus of the world we inhabit.  We watch, we talk, and we feel a part of the everyday events that entertain and captivate us.  And we all think we know what we’re talking about.

The Sporting Dudes are no different.  We have known each other since we were seven.  In the first grade, we met on the playground and soon found out we were the only kids religiously watching SportsCenter while most kids our age were watching cartoons in the morning.  We’ve also known each other forever as two of the most competitive people on this planet.  We spent our days in elementary school, middle school, high school, and college constantly trying to one-up each other in everything from girls to grades.  We both played quarterback. We both played basketball. We had classes together.  One of us ran over the other's foot with his car.  That’s a true story for a future blog post, but my point is that we’ve been competing against each other since day one of knowing one another.  And one of the things that we are most competitive and passionate about is discussing sports.

Back in the mean streets of Richmond, VA, we would talk about sports on every level as if someone was listening.  We were always trying to win the debate in front of that imaginary judge that always turned out to be nothing but our own inflated senses of self.  When we got bored in elementary school, we’d make up basketball teams, play against each other one on one, and decide who’s team was better as if we were comparing Duke and Kentucky from the early 1990s.  We would play each other one on one in football for crap’s sake.  Do you know how hard that is?  Through the years, no matter what was going on or where we were, we always contacted each other with the latest sports argument, breaking it down like Tucker Max breaks down a woman’s self-esteem.

Our mission here is to talk sports in an open forum like we’ve been doing for years.  What you’ll get from us is a passionate argument from some die-hard sports fans.  There’s a chemistry here that has been built through nearly two decades of squabbling.  That’s something you don’t get from your everyday sports reporters.  You can come to the Sporting Dudes for a unique spin on a topic that may be current, past, or future.  You can post your own arguments, too.  Whether or not you come back to this site, just know this argument will continue for better or worse until one of us meets his untimely death doing something undoubtedly stupid…probably trying to gain a competitive edge on the other one.