Website: www.deuceofdavenport.com

What is your name? If you want to stay anonymous, why? (Please be detailed as possible)

My name is Chimpanzee Rage…and I do want to stay anonymous for now. Anyone with some basic internet searching skills could probably figure out who I am, but I like to keep this persona up to separate the sports blogging world from my real life. Basically, I don’t want to get fired from my day job for doing the blog.

When did you start Deuce of Davenport?

We started the blog in late January ‘07

What made you start it?

Like most good ideas, we came up with it at a bar. Mustafa, Trapper and I have been discussing the same things we write about online to each other for many years now. To cure boredom at our respective jobs we constantly scoured the web for some material to made us laugh or that we found interesting ever since we all graduated from school. Jan. ‘07 is just when we got sober enough to throw something up online to give us something to do with our collective insomnia, people started reading and linking and emailing, so then we decided we were screwed and had to keep putting stuff up.

Do you blog for fun or are you trying to make it a career?

We all blog for fun and the aforementioned insomnia, although it would be a far more entertaining career choice for all of us. Unless someone throws a boatload of money at us, I don’t think any of us are thinking of making this a career. School loans have to get paid off somehow.

For the people out there that don’t know the story behind Najeh Davenport, please tell them. I love hearing this story.

The name originates from the current Steeler, Najeh Davenport. He was drinking hard at a university on an off day while playing with the Packers and a girl came home to her dorm room to find him, in her closet, taking a dump in her hamper. Thus, our site is one big shit joke.

What was your tipping point? What put you on the map?

Our second story ever was picked up on deadspin, I wrote something on the NFL and some of their not family friendly commercials, but I think the real tipping point was when I did a story on athletes on cereal boxes. I had no idea people were that interested in breakfast foods.

What type of blogging software do you use?

We stick with Blogger, although I wish I could switch to WordPress, seems like there’s way more options there. I just don’t think at this point a switch is possible…at least with my tech savvy…or lack thereof, i mean, have you seen our site? Yeesh…

What ad network do you use?

I’ve got some Google Adsense stuff up there, some ShareASale ads, and some Link Syngery ads on there. None of them make us that much cash, but it does give me something else to look at while at work.

How much money do you make off your site monthly?

So far, not much a month. Took us until November to get our first Google check and I still haven’t seen it. We’ve turned down a few ticket companies who wanted to put text ads up and would’ve helped our bottom line, but we didn’t want to have an ad up there for a year…that meant we would have to keep writing for the site for a year. We don’t really want the blog to be like work, its here to cure our boredom.

Any bold predictions for the future of sports on the internet?

I think more and more of the good blogs and writers are going to get picked up by larger sports entertainment companies. There’s great stuff out there like 100% Injury Rate, With Malice, Scott Van Pelt Style, My Brain Says Rage, Nation of Islam Sportsblog, and others that deserve to be read by wider audiences. A lot of the sports bloggers actually do or want to do this for a living and more power to them, they’re doing great stuff and I think they’re proving to the mainstream media that there are a lot of talented writers out there that people should read. Its already started with Simmons, Henry Abbott, the Mottram brothers and others. Soon other companies will see the talent and the readers are there and will see the potential big dollar signs from it all.

STN’s Take:

The Deuce of Davenport is a great blog and everyone should take a look. They are the average sports fan writing for the average sports fan. It doesn’t get any better then coming up with an idea in a bar and you have to love the story behind their name. And of course they are apart of our Top 25 Sports Blogs.

One suggestion I would give them to help out their Google earnings is to make their ads blend in with their site. Their background on their ads should be the same as their site, their headers should be yellow like the blog titles on their site, their link address should be blue like the links on their site, and their text should be white. Not only should this get more clicks, this will also make their site much cleaner looking.