Tank McNamara by Bill Hinds for March 16, 2023

What does Sumo YMCA have to offer?

Reminds me of the William “Refrigerator” Perry experiment by the Chicago Bears back in the ’80s. Perry, nominally weighing around 335 lbs. in this period, was a defensive tackle that was occasionally used as a fullback to barrel through the opposing teams D-line in short yardage situations. Worked a few times, but it developed that in a game where fractions of a second can make all the difference in a play being successful, Perry was way too slow to be an effective running back. Perry proved much more effective as a defensive tackle, playing for the Chicago Bears for nine seasons.

Space race. Arms race. Sumo race.

I see squished QB in our future

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Imagine if a sumo wrestler took on a regular wrestler.

Just don’t let them go against each other in practice….

I had a defensive lineman drop onto hands & knees, every play! He was impossible to move … until I jumped onto his back. My long cleats brought out some screams, and he didn’t try it again.

NY Mets supercloser Edwin Diaz injures leg during postgame celebration for Team Puerto Rico preseason game.

As another correspondent likes to say—-cue the ominous music

Aaron Rodgers negotiations hit snag—-he demands his own personal cheese cave.

Gotta ask why the Japanese Oyakata (Head of the Japanese sumo club) has a Chinese Pai Mei beard and mustache.

Frankly, I’m surprised no team has tried this.

This what later sports historians will remember as the Great Sumo Wars.