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  1. DBWI Metallica kicks out Dave Mustaine

    Metal fans know the story - it was April 11, 1983, and James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich had decided to kick Mustaine out of Metallica. According to the stories, Mustaine was abusing alcohol and drugs, and worse, he didn’t get along with the band. That morning, however, before the band headed to...

  2. DBWI: Rozelle vetoes Elway-to-Raiders trade

    One of the most unusual chapters in NFL history was kickstarted when Al Davis decided he wanted to trade up to obtain the number one pick in 1983 to draft John Elway. We all know the details - the Raiders traded up with the Bears to get the number six pick and used that pick as part of a package...

  3. DBWI: Canton Bulldogs not sold to fans

    In a sports landscape ruled by big markets in most sports, the NFL’s two most successful franchises - the Green Bay Packers and Canton Bulldogs - are owned by the fans who cheer them on. And it almost didn’t happen that way, at least in Canton, since former owner Sam Deutsch took them to...

  4. DBWI: 2004-05 NHL season lost

    The announcement on January 31, 2005 that the season was saved stunned everyone in the hockey world. But NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said the idea came to him in a dream - a salary cap with special exceptions, paid for by a league-wide endorsement campaign. The NHLPA agreed, and the labor...

  5. AHC: Worst dystopia resulting from JFK surviving 11/22/1963

    This one’s inspired a bit by Stephen King’s 11/22/63, in which a teacher travels back in time to stop the JFK assassination. So how bad can it get if JFK survives? Have him survive any plausible way you wish - the gun jams, Oswald misses, Oswald falls out the window, JFK gets shot but...

  6. AHC: Largest possible Confederacy

    OTL the Confederate States of America’s included eleven states plus Arizona, which I understand was actually the southern half of what turned into Arizona and New Mexico. It did not include Missouri, Kentucky or the plastic-grocery-bag-shaped half of Virginia that became West Virginia. But if...

  7. Commissioner W: A Collaborative MLB Timeline

    Let’s give this a shot, since there seems to be at least a good deal of interest in a TL with George W. Bush taking over as MLB commissioner in place of Bud Selig. I’ll post the PoD and then anyone who wants to contribute can do so. In addition to standard collab TL protocol, a couple of ground...

  8. AHC: Smallest town with surviving major league pro team

    OTL just about all big-league sports teams are in or near major cities and owned either by billionaires or investment groups. However, there is one clear exception - the NFL’s Green Bay Packers, a team in a small city of roughly 100,000 owned by shareholding fans. The Packers are an anomaly but...

  9. AHC: openly atheist POTUS

    Even with a lot of distrust of gay folks, Muslims, this group or that group throughout the 20th century, the single most distrusted group in America is atheists. And it’s damn hard to get elected POTUS if you’re a minority in anything - shit, we’ve only had two Presidents who have been divorced...

  10. DBAHC: President Jeff Blythe

    A lot of people thought working class hero Jeff Blythe could have been President one day, but he’s always had a lot working against him. People think he’s something of a bumpkin despite having been a Rhodes scholar, graduated at the top of his class at the University of Chicago law school, and...

  11. DBWI: Chris Farley dies in the 90s

    Legendary actor and comedian Chris Farley is known for his evolving range as an actor as well as being the face of recovered addicts. Though nearly every role of his is comic (and hilarious,) he did one Oscar-winning performance in Metamorphosis, a “fictional” account of a comic who nearly dies...

  12. DBWI: Tom Brady plays pro football

    The seemingly ageless fitness magnate Tom Brady called not being drafted into the NFL “a blessing in disguise,” especially after he started his fitness empire TB10 (Tom Brady, number 10 from his playing days at Michigan.) He certainly is no worse for wear after his company went public and made...

  13. DBWI: No ‘Year Without Sports’ in America

    Officially it started on August 12, 1994 with the first day of the MLBPA strike and ended on July 4, 1995 with the abbreviated 1995 MLB season, and given the folly that was MLS in 1995, it wasn’t totally without sports, but all four major professional leagues were shut down because of disputes...

  14. DBWI early end to NBA lockout

    One of the uglier chapters in American sports was the NBA lockout that covered the end of the millennium. Both sides thought that it would end in January 1999, but NBA commissioner David Stern and NBPA Head Billy Hunter got into another shouting match and no contract was finalized. Hunter...

  15. DBWI: No eminent domain for the Raiders

    One of my favorite Supreme Court cases is theblandmark eminent domain case Davis v City of Oakland back in 1986, one that rendered Irsay v Maryland moot in the process and stopped Art Modell in his tracks. In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that government could seize private property...

  16. DBWI: Trump doesn’t run in 1988

    Probably the most unusual chapter in American history was at the turn of the decade from Reagan’s high-flying Hollywood optimism to Gore’s reserved, subdued optimism was the brash man known as Dollars and Sense Donald. Donald J. Trump became President thanks to the efforts of a man named Mike...

  17. DBWI: Mario Lemieux buys the Penguins

    Pittsburgh sports hero (and life hero after surviving cancer) Mario Lemieux led the Penguins to two Stanley Cup championships in the early 1990s, and God I feel old just talking about the Penguins. I have to wonder if I’d still be a Penguins fan if Lemieux’s plan to buy the team hadn’t fallen...

  18. DBAHC: President Jimmy Carter

    As we all know, the sticking point for Reverend Jimmy, as he’s popularly known as the former head of the Southern Baptist Church, in running for President was selling his peanut farm. He would have had to put it in trust and eventually sell it to divest his assets. He just couldn’t do it. So if...

  19. DBWI: Japan doesn’t turn Christian after WWII

    The story of Emperor Hirohito after World War II announcing he had become a Christian is well-documented, and his countrymen followed suit - today over 70% of Japan is Christian, and Shinto is seen to the younger generations much the way the Ancient Greek religion is to people today. But the...

  20. DBWI: The Colts draft Peyton Manning

    So I was listening to the talking heads on the radio this morning while I was taking my kids to the park, and they were talking about just how important Peyton Manning has been to the city of San Diego and to the Chargers. They made a good point - no Peyton, no Jack in the Box Field (and that...
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