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Who are Tom Brady’s peers in other sports?There’s no doubt Tom Brady won championships at a rate we’ve never seen before in the NFL, with no fellow football players lifting as many titles as the longtime Patriot and most-recent Buccaneer did. He alone holds the record for most Super Bowls won by an individual player....

Eric Cantona Gives Instantly Iconic, Batshit Insane Speech At UEFA Award Show“As flies to wanton boys, we are for the gods. They kill us for sport,” was how soccer legend Eric Cantona, quoting Shakespeare, began his wholly and fittingly insane acceptance speech after being handed the UEFA President’s Award today. And it only got weirder from there:...

Today is the 22nd anniversary of Eric Cantona’s infamous kung-fu kick, one of the strangest and most outrageous events in Premier League history. This makes Luis Suarez’s biting habit seem tame....

Remembering The Time A Manchester United Player Kung-Fu Kicked A Fan

With all this focus on the unimaginably dumb scandal that has swallowed the brains of the stupids in the sports world, it's good to remember that there was once a time when people were justifiably shocked at behavior during a sporting event. Like the time Manchester United great Eric Cantona jumped ...

Kicking A Fan In The Face Is Eric Cantona's Most Treasured Memory

Cantona, on his famous flying kick of an abusive fan: "I think that maybe it's like a dream for some people sometimes, to kick these kinds of people. So I did it for them. So they are happy." [The First Post]...

Eric Cantona Crowned King Of New York Or Something

The New York Cosmos — essentially a 1970s forerunner to that Carlsberg advert with the pub team — are BACK, according to Eric Cantona. He's been appointed director of soccer — which has no real meaning — and said this about it:...