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Your Help, Please: Blog Awards

Okay readers, I need your help.

Brian from MGoBlog and Joel from Rocky Top Talk are putting together the first ever College Football Blog Awards, presented by the BlogPoll. (Take a moment to read the introduction to how the awards will work.) Now, I know most of you don't read hundreds of blogs each day, like I do - hey, it's part of my job - and I wouldn't expect you to.

But. I do need some help. Putting together these awards is a two-step process.

1) Figure out what the categoires should be.
2) Name the categories.

And that's where I need your help. We need to put together a complete list of categories for blogs to be nominated in - ranging from "Best Blog" to "Funniest Blog" to "Best Writing" and so on. We also need creative names for these things. Because we're bloggers. We're cutsie like that.

Anyway, y'all are often far more creative and imaginative than we are, which means your input is pretty crucial here. Below you'll find a list of categories - some with proposed cutsie names, some without. Your task is to fill in the blanks with categories you think of that ought to be in there, as well as to throw out proposed clever names for these things. One note before we dive in: these awards are all going to be positive awards, so you can go ahead and withhold that "Chevy Chase Memorial 'Your Blog Was So Good At The Beginning But Now You Suck' Award" that you were going to propose.

Proposed Blog Awards
Proposed Category Proposed Name
Best Blog, Overall The Burnt Orange Nation Award In Excellence (Okay, kidding. Any suggestions?)
Funniest Blog ???? (I'm not that funny.)
Best Writing The "You'd Never Get Hired By CBS Sportsline" Award
Best Invective Writer The "Damn, You Should Have Gone Into Hip Hop" Award
Best Analysis The "Baseball Prospectus" Award (Too obscure, I know. Help?)
Most Thought Provoking The "Malcolm Gladwell" Award
Best Site Design ????
Best Blog Network ????
Best "Mid-Major Blog" From my own awards last year: The "Your Team Sucks, But Your Blog Doesn't" Award
Best Watchdog Blog The FAIR.org Award
Best Team Blog ????
Best General CFB Blog ????

Okay, readers. Help me out. This is just a starting point. What other categories need to be included? And, for God's sake, help me out with some creative names. Much appreciated.

One final note, readers: these awards are going to be open to any blog that covers college football - not just members of the BlogPoll. It'd be nice if we could come up with an award category that we could nominate 54b for. His weekly game summaries are among the best reads anywhere, week in, week out.

--PB--

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Categories and cutesie names...
I'd like to see an award for the most fan interactive blog (the best blog for welcoming input from readers and implementing that input into blog content)
Cutesie name: Armchair Quarterback Club Award

Best site design award cutesie name could be something along the lines of: Best Alternative to Porn Award

by HED on Nov 29, 2006 8:21 AM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

EDSBS &
MZone for the funniest.  EDSBS for the obvious and Mzone for their coverage of the "riots and coup d' etat in Columbus" during the recent Michigan/OSU game.   Freaking sweet.
Street level

by UT2001 on Nov 29, 2006 8:22 AM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Just choosing categories for now
We'll have a chance to vote on the nominees once the categories and names are set.

Still, you're right.  Those two blogs are (easily) #1 and #1a in terms of constant hilarity. They offer more funny content in a week than I could muster in an entire year.

by PB @ BON on Nov 29, 2006 8:25 AM CST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Another Category Suggestion
Best Sport-Specific Blog

Boring Naming Suggestions:

Gridiron Genius Award
Hardwood Hero Award

by patienthornsfan on Nov 29, 2006 8:39 AM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Only CFB
These awards will only be for college football blogging.

by PB @ BON on Nov 29, 2006 8:46 AM CST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Duh....
Helps if I read the full text of your post!

by patienthornsfan on Nov 29, 2006 8:57 AM CST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Funniest Blog
Pick a comedian of your choice.

Jerry Lewis comes to mind, but then I thought Dennis Miller, because of the style and content of his humor as well as the MNF tie-in.

The Dennis Miller Award?

by patienthornsfan on Nov 29, 2006 9:15 AM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

funniest blog:
The Arrested Development Memorial Award

by billyzane on Nov 29, 2006 9:18 AM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

also, you should have these awards:
The New Blogs on the Block Award for Best New Blog.

and

The Sports Night Award for the Best Blog That You're Not Reading

Okay, maybe those names are lame, but i definitely think there should at least be an award for best new blog.

by billyzane on Nov 29, 2006 9:29 AM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Best General CFB Blog
The "Too much time on my hands" Award.
If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable.

by GoHorns on Nov 29, 2006 9:32 AM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Blog Awards
Best Site Design =  Best Blog Bling

I don't really visit many other blog sites... I guess I'm monogablogamous!  (groan...)

Hook Em!

by Margaritaking on Nov 29, 2006 1:07 PM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

What about best post
Not sure of a name, but each blog that wants to be considered submitts what they think their best post of the year.
Also, best comments to a post, where instead of the story being voted on, the blog submitts the comments that were posted and that is voted on.

by Wells on Nov 29, 2006 2:29 PM CST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

That is still
the background on my computer...

by Kahuna on Nov 29, 2006 3:34 PM CST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

What balls
risking liability and whatnot.  Glad to see its return though.

Still my background as well

by aorist9 on Nov 30, 2006 11:07 PM CST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Somehow
Someway there needs to be the "Crying Boy Award"
Beautiful!

by VYdisciple on Nov 30, 2006 11:42 PM CST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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