What Is Your State Known For Being Good At?

On Tuesday, we posted a link to things that states sucked at.  Today, we have the United States of Awesome: What does your state do well?  This list isn't even close to as interesting at the bad stuff that states are known for, but it's still worth a look.

Naturally, for Oregon, its massive hippie population is represented well.  Good lord.  I'm going to go hug a tree or two now.

What Is Your State Known For Being The Worst At?



This map is a great little time waster for ya.  It's making the rounds on the internet and it's from Pleated Jeans (click the link for the stats breakdown).  I can't decide what state I would not want to be from more: Washington, Louisiana, or South Dakota?  Toss up between Washington and South Dakota if you ask us.

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Best NFL Players With Ties To The State Of Oregon

OregonLive has an article on all the players in the NFL that are either from Oregon or went to college in Oregon.  The big names most of you know of:  Steven Jackson, Haloti Ngata, Ndomukong Suh, Troy Polamalu, TJ Houshmandzadeh (had to look to spell this) and Chad Ochocinco.

It's a pretty good list that included several players that I had no idea had ties to Oregon, or had forgotten about.  To be honest, I had completely forgotten about Kevin Boss, the TE for the New York Giants.

Boss's story still amazes me actually.  Dude came out of tiny Philomath High School and played college ball at Western Oregon University, a division two college with even less of a significant football program than even Portland State University.  And Kevin Boss is still in the league and still starting at tight end for the Giants.  If I remember it correctly, he was even surprised to get drafted at all.  Freaking crazy stuff.

Anyway, so OregonLive says that Steven Jackson is the best player in the NFL with Oregon ties.  Not that it matters too much, but we'll go with Troy Polamalu.  Although Jackson did pretty much carry the Rams to the brink of the playoffs by himself this season.  Polamalu is a ball-hawking safety who happens to always be near the ball and making plays.  One of the two best safeties in the NFL.  (Ed Reed being the other top safety.)

[ OregonLive ]