Natural Born Kidder: April 2020

So Yahoo!, one of the least reliable sources of sports news ever, recently ran reader's polls to determine who were the best sports teams in every sport Americans like to watch.

Here were their results...

NFL (Yahoo!'s Winner: '85 Bears)

I mean, the '72 Dolphins beat every single team put on their schedule, and you're telling me they don't even make the finals of this thing? Man, how do you do better than undefeated?! Every single team that faced off with them found a new way to lose -- and something tells me the '85 Bears would have been no different. Yeah, they didn't have some stupid shuffle dance like the '85 Bears (that's 'cause Shula was too hard-nosed to allow that), and they didn't have big names like the Bears ("Sweetness" Walter Payton, Jim McMahon, William "Refrigerator" Perry, etc.), but what they did have is a big fat zero in the loss column, which meant exemplary team work. Furthermore, the only loss those '85 Bears suffered were to the '85 Dolphins, and if they can lose to THOSE Dolphins, they can certainly lose to the REAL Dolphins. I think the '72 Dolphins squad should have taken the NFL bracket. For them to not even make the finals is just downright disrespectful!

MLB (Yahoo!'s Winner: '27 Yankees)

This one I don't take as much offense with, because honestly, I wasn't around to see those '27 Yankees play. And the line-up pitched in their article tells me that team consisted of such names as Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, just to name a few. So yeah, even though I've seen the "Big Red Machine" and never imagined another team being their equal, esp. with Pete Rose being on a whole 'nother level that year, I can definitely see this 1927 "Murderer's Row" line-up causing major headaches for our boys in Cincinnati, so I won't debate this one too harshly. Plus, these '27 Yanks were the only pre-1970s team to win one of these brackets, so there really MUST be something here for recency bias not to affect the 1927 squad at all. This one's probably correct!

NBA (Yahoo!'s Winner: '96 Bulls)

The 2017 Warriors in the finals, really? That is so lame, and so untruthful! First of all, they weren't even the best team that year, as they lost in the NBA Finals (need I really remind you of that?). Secondly, they shouldn't have even made it out of the first round, as those 1989 "Bad Boy Pistons" would have knocked this soft squad into tomorrow. You're seriously telling me that you think Draymond can bully up a goon like Bill Laimbeer? You're seriously telling me that Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars, Mark Aguirre and company are going to just sit back and let the Warriors pop off 100 three's per game? That would have never happened back in the day! Get your soft modern-day NBA ball out of these all-time finals! Any of those three teams in the Final Four would have busted Steph and Klay up. Neither Wilt ('72 Lakers), Larry ('86 Celtics) nor Michael ('96 Bulls) took much crap on the basketball court, but esp. not Michael. That guy -- alongside Pippen, Kukoc and Rodman -- would've kicked the crud out of the "Splash Brothers." M.J. for the win... in pretty much anything basketball related!

NHL (Yahoo!'s Winner: '85 Oilers)

I'm sorry, they had the '85 Oilers winning this thing, but even that's wrong! I understand the Gretzky love -- dude is the G.O.A.T., plain and simple! However, that '77 Canadiens team only lost eight games all season! Do you know how ridiculous that is to pull off? If anybody in the modern game pulled that off, they'd coast through this tournament in a landslide, and the same should be the case for Montreal!

Here are the other six brackets, which I won't comment on for now...

NCAAF (Yahoo!'s Winner: '95 Nebraska)