Stupid Sideline Reporters Turns Five? Has it Really Been Five Years?

Wow. Half-a-decade worth of my inane ramblings, inaccurate predictions, and live-blogs. And the best part is, people actually read it! I’ve put a lot of time into this and I’m glad to still be around when so many blogs have fizzled or disappeared. Blogging in general has sure grown up over the last few years, hasn’t it? I remember when the media repeatedly pushed the “these guys are just losers in their PJs in their mother’s basement” agenda, now we’re able to get media credentials at the Super Bowl. Doesn’t it feel good to adapt?

This isn’t some sappy sentimental post as I really can’t think of writing goop like that. Just an acknowledgement of the 5th year of Stupid Sideline Reporters and a thank you to everyone who has viewed, contributed, or posted on this site. Let’s keep this thing going for a 6th year! Hell, maybe one of my favorite teams will actually win a championship so I don’t write like I’m pissed off year-round!

Four More Years!

FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS!

I made a concerted effort not to forget….and it paid off. Four years ago today Stupid Sideline Reporters was spawned. It started under Blogspot before a move to the vastly superior and far more advanced WordPress later that fall. Didn’t think I’d manage to last four years, much less have  “ssreporters wordpress com” show up as one of the suggested searches in Google (seriously try it out).

Site traffic has been phenomenal lately and 10,000 views for the month looks extremely likely. Many thanks to all who visit regularly, sparsely, or came here because they typed in something about Joe Lunardi.

What’s the future? World domination. Well I do have one that’s in the cards and more details will be announced sometime in early May. Additionally over the next few weeks I will be taking down several posts with broken video links as frankly they’re quite useless right now. But for now things stay the same. The only possibility is an increase in non-sports related writing but not politics or religion. After all, there is a lot of brilliant material you can get just scouring the internet (don’t worry, 4Chan is verboten here).

You may now carry on with your day as I pat myself on the back….

Whoopee, This Blog is Three Years Old!

Breaking News: Seahawks trade TJ Houshmandzadeh and Brandon Mebane for this cake and a 6th round draft pick.

Technically yesterday was officially the opening of Stupid Sideline Reporters, but I forgot decided to note this on Monday as I was entranced in March Madness and Jon Jones shattering Brandon Vera’s face.

It’s been three years and nearly 1500 posts and 2346 comments later this puppy is still going strong. A massive pay raise thank you to all of my readers who have been following since the early days of the .blogspot domain. Hopefully that will continue once we get past the .wordpress era.

I’m not much of a birthday person so (as you can probably tell) this isn’t going to be a self-serving extravagant post discussing every major achievement this site has hit. The only thing I will say is that I’m glad I’ve lasted three years and will work feverishly to improve SSR to become one of the best sports opinion websites on the internet.

You can definitely expect several changes to the blog entering year #4 ……in fact you’re looking at one of them now. The template has changed, fewer posts are on the front page, and the sidebar has been somewhat “decluttered” to maximize viewing and minimize the page scrolling.

Again, thank you to my loyal readers and commenters, and cheers to another year of ranting about NBC. Oh yeah, and sports too. More specifically, a lot of therapeutic posts about the Seattle Seahawks and Toronto FC to ease the pain of watching the equivalent of a multi-car pileup on I-5.

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming….

SS Reporters Turns One

Today is a very special day for this blog. Not because I had a 16-0 record last night in my bracket challenge (no really, I did go 16-0), but because Stupid Sideline Reporters is one year old! On March 21, 2007 at 12:54 PM, a student named Mookie hit publish on his original blogspot website and the wonderful journey began.

A blog that once had maybe a dog on a computer looking at this site now has hundreds throughout the world visiting and many comments written. It’s very special to me that 594 posts later, I’ve gone this far without getting tired of writing or neglecting this place.

My writing has gradually improved towards the summer and in June 2007, Dan Lewis forced invited me to write for ArmchairGM.com. Some of the posts you see here are from ArmchairGM and some of the posts you see there are from this blog.

The success on SS Reporters spawned a weekly updated blog called Footy Mania, a site dedicated to all things soccer back in August. Although not as popular, it’s still receiving link partners and commenting.

And of course on my birthday (11/5/07), it was time for SSR to move on from blogger and head over to WordPress…where it has seen the brighter side of having pages and more widgets.

Now it’s one year later, and since I’ve bored you with this speech, here are some milestone posts of note:

First Post: Welcome!

100th Post: Post #100

Favorite Post: Us Americans should never announcer a football (soccer) game. It’s not because of my writing, it’s because of the war that broke out in the comments section.

First…And Probably Only Live Blog: Patriots vs. Giants (12/29/07)

 

Of course, I also had many series of note, such as….

Reviewing the NFL in the Form of Haiku

If Joe Buck Was A……

Bowl Games I’d Like to See In College Football...

 

I want to thank all of the past and current bloggers who have linked to and commented on this site, the visitors and non blogging commenters for well….acknowledging that this site exists, and most importantly my family for encouraging me to start this blog. One year down, 60 years to go.

Oh, gifts? Um…….$500,000?