Greatest Intro songs!!!

  Alright sports fans, there is not much that gets a
fan more pumped up than a great intro or at bat song.
As a Jazz fan, I get so pumped up when I am at a game and they are doing their intro!  I guess its my "kid in a candy store" moment.  I just get giddy.  Wish I could have had the opportunity to do that just once in my life.  I guess I will just have to live vicariously through the pros....So the question I have is, what are the best intro or at bat songs?  I am a big fan of just about anything AC/DC, specifically Thunderstruck.  I also like Johnny Cash, Gods gonna cut you down.  So what do you guys think?  Post songs in comments and I will compile a list and do an update to this post with the top picks!

Games of the week!!!

  Alright sports fans we are going to try something here at Another Level Sports.  I am going to pick a game of the week from all of the major sporting events that people watch.  Should be a fun way to dig in to some sports that we may not watch very often.  If it is popular I will continue to do it every week.  Also feed back and comments are always appreciated.  So lets take a look.....

NBA-
Brooklyn Nets vs.Miami Heat 10/13/13
Possible that this could be an Eastern Conference Finals preview.  Yeah I know it is only preseason, but both teams will want to come out and establish themselves for what looks to be a hard fought season for these two

.
                                         Honorable Mention-Indiana Pacers vs. Chicago Bulls 10/18/13

NFL-
Denver Broncos vs. Indianapolis Colts 10/20/13
Well come back Peyton.  The Broncos come in to this game 6-0 on a record breaking season for Peyton Manning.  The Colts have been equally as brilliant upsetting the likes of the 49ers and Seahawks.

College Football-
#11 UCLA vs #5 Stanford
Big Pac-12 match-up that should dominate the national spot light for the week.  UCLA has a multifaceted offense and can spread the ball around.  They have a very deep back field with 3 RB that could all see time.  Stanford looks to come in with a no nonsense approach to the game.  They come straight at you both on offense and defense.


                                         Honorable Mention-#6 Florida State vs. #3 Clemson

NHL-
St.Louis Blues vs. Chicago Blackhawks
The Blues have started the season hot!  They take on the defending champion Blackhawks.  Its an early match-up for these two teams that look to contend for the top spot in the west.

  These are my picks for the best games of the week!  Hopefully they will do me justice.

Greatest Sports Movies of All Time!

  "You're killing me Smalls"  Great quote, great movie, the Sand lot.  There are a number of great sports movies out there.  Sand lot is just one of many.  So I thought we could do a Top 10 here on Another Level Sports.

1.Hoosiers
  For me this has to be the best sports movie of all time.  As a basketball player there is nothing better than watching Gene Hackman take his team in to the field house and measure the length of the court, height of the hoop etc.  Then telling his team that its no different than their own gym back home.

2.Rudy
  The original story/movie of the little guy over coming great odds.  Great movie but every time I watch it now, I see Sean Astin as a Hobbit!  Still a great move about a guy with more heart than an entire team.

3.Talladega Nights: The Ballad for Ricky Bobby
  I have to confess, I am a huge Will Ferrell fan and this is one of his best movies ever!  I have seen this movie countless times and laugh every time I watch it.  John C Reilly as Cal Naughton Jr, Ricky Bobby's childhood friend and racing teammate.  The two of them make a wonderfully entertaining pair.  The story of Ricky Bobby's rise and fall and rise again in NASCAR.

4.Rocky
  "Adrian!!!" Not much has to be said about Rocky or the Rocky series.  Stallone at his best.

5.Field Of Dreams
  "If you build it, they will come..."  When I first saw this movie, the first thing I thought was, I want my dad to build a baseball field in our yard.  It was the coolest thing I had seen as a kid.  Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones are fantastic.  As baseball movies go, this is the cream of the crop.

6.Warrior
  UFC fans love this movie, but so should everyone else.  This movie has some grit to it and hits hard with a families struggles.  Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte, Joel Edgerton are fantastic.  This is one of Nolte best films.  Watch this movie if you haven't!

7.Invincible
  This is a very underrated sports movie.  Yeah is another story of a "little guy" and his hard work to make the NFL but I loved it.  Mark Wahlberg is great.  A very good football movie.

8.Remember The Titans
  The story of a African American coaching being hired as a head coach to a high school football team as segregation is being done away with.  Awesome show.  Denzel Washington is fantastic and the high emotion with racial tension is captivating.  Love the way the team over comes the many issues to succeed.

9.Moneyball
  This movie was very interesting.  I had never paid much attention to the intricacies of statistics.  I have always checked box scores and what not. But this movie brought a whole new dimension to statistics and sports management to me.

10.Dodgeball
  "If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball..."  Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn as mortal enemies.  Love it.  The is movie has a great cast and some of the best comedy commentating in and movie.  Gotta love the "Ocho"

  There are so many others out there.  And I think I have seen just about all of them.  We can also add to the list the new movie Rush by Ron Howard.  Looks great, I will wait for it on Blu-ray.  But if you have some time and want to kill it with some good sports movies, these would be my picks.  How about you?

The greatest the game has ever seen?

  Peyton Manning.  Watching what this man has done already this season is unreal.  I have never seen anything like him from the Quarterback position.  Through 5 games he has 20 TD pass and 1 INT!  His QB rating is 92.0 and he is completing and unbelievable 75.8% of his passes.  The man is amazing!  He is on pace to reclaim the single season touchdown record.  As great as all of the stats are, the thing I enjoy the most about watching Peyton play is his command of the offense.  To watch him stand there take a look at the defense, get a read, run a hard count, watch for a tell and the change the play and have success is incredible.  He seems as if he is playing a game with the defense.  There are times, I swear I can see a bit of a smirk on his face because he knows what the defense is going to do and already has his counter in mind.  The question I have, is he the greatest Quarterback ever?  In all my years of watching football I can't remember ever seeing anything like this.  I was a huge fan of the '85 Bears, loved Mcmahon.  Thought he was the best.  Loved the Joe Montana/Steve Young years with the 49ers.  But none of them ever had the mastery Peyton does today.  Now many are going to argue, he has only one Super Bowl.  For me championship just add to a legacy.  Barkley, Stockton, Malone all great players never got their rings.  Same thing can be said for LaDainian Tomlinson, Barry Sanders....the lists could go on and on.  If he get another ring or two, I don't see any way he is not the greatest of all time.  As a fan I will enjoy this year with Mr.Manning and how ever many he has left in him.  I will enjoy the precision and greatness he brings to the field.  Because we may not have that many left of the one that I would call the Greatest!  Good luck Peyton and the Broncos!

Where does your allegiance lie?

NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, College Football, College Basketball.  Sporting events, as a fan, I enjoy all of these things.  In a calendar year, each has a time and a place in my sports viewing lifestyle.  Is there a favorite?  A league, game or event that is more enjoyable or exciting to watch?

  When it comes to sports, I feel like I have watched it all at one time or another.  I have watched all of the mainstream sports or events.  I have also watched others that may not be considered mainstream, such as, Indy car racing, Nascar, UFC, X-games and many others.  All these events are exciting and have their own following.  I love the excitement, pressure and adrenalin that all these events provide.

Where do you, as a sports fan invest the majority of time?

My rank looks something like this....

1.NBA
  For me this is an 11 calendar month sport.  I love the draft, free-agency, summer league, preseason, regular season and playoffs.  I watch it all.  I DVR the summer league games for pete-sake!  I can not get enough basketball.  But this is the sport I played the most growing up.  Being 6'6" tall would seem to make a little sense that this is where my heart was at.

2.College Basketball
  I enjoy college basketball a great deal.  One of my favorite times of the year is March Madness.  I am known to take a week off just to watch the opening rounds of the NCAA tournament.  There is nothing like it!  Win or go home and the kids give it everything they've got.

3.College Football
  Even with the BCS, NCAA and rampant corruption issues in college football, it is still something to behold. I lived in Austin Texas, Longhorn country!  These people start tailgating on Thursday night before a game on Saturday!  I also have the pleasure of living in Utah and there is nothing like the "Holy War" BYU vs. UTAH!  Yeah its sad to see that game go away for a couple of years.  But in the long run, I think it will make that game even more special.

4.NFL
  Right now, watching Peyton Manning do what he is with the Denver Broncos is amazing!  I have never seen a football player more intelligent!  Its like he is playing a game with the defense at times.  This league is full of monsters.  Guys like JJ Watt, Adrian Peterson, Vernon Davis.  They do things that just don't seem humanly possible.

The rest of the sports or events are all kind of equal for me.  Last year I watched more Stanley Cup playoffs then I had ever watched.  They were fantastic!  I also love October, and the MLB playoffs.  There isn't a day or night in my week that I am not looking for some sort of sport or event to watch.  So I ask the question again, Where do your allegiances lie?

What would you do?

With all the rule changes in both college and the NFL, would you want your son playing football on any level? You had TE Dustin Keller get hit low in the preseason and had his knee obliterated. And now this...2nd case this year alone. Don't get me wrong, I love football as much as the next guy, but are the risks too much? Your 17 year old son destroys his knee and now is going to walk with a limp for the rest of his life, not to mention the arthritis and other complications that are caused by this injury. I have a 9 year old that, in the past, I have wanted to play football. But the more I think about it, the more I feel it is best if he doesn't.

http://tracking.si.com/2013/09/16/damon-janes-dies-dead-helmet-to-helmet-high-school/?sct=hp_t2_a7&eref=sihp