Blog: September 2005 Archives
Proving once again that my dry humor and sarcasm is entirely obliterated when I try to put it in writing, let me state for the record that yesterday’s entry on the Tiger video game “shake feature” was a TOTAL and...
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From the dead-on hilarious minds of the boys at “The Onion”. The headline: “T.O. Pre-emptively Disparages Next Contract.” Priceless. Read the whole thing, but here’s a snippet. PHILADELPHIA—Eagles wideout Terrell Owens, who recently returned to his team after a training-camp...
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If you had any doubts about NFL boss Paul “Whatdoido?” Tagliabue’s stance on San Antonio even remotely having a chance to become the new permanent home of the Saints, read this dagger between the eyes…. “Ever since we approved the...
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From the latte-soaked gigantic head of Peter King: “Cincinnati (3-0). I am starting to believe. We know the Striped Ones can score. Any defense that confuses and chases Kyle Orton all over the field is a good one. I know...
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Watching the President’s Cup, I was stunned at the shameless lengths which NBC went to in order to attempt to hide information - and a BIG potential storyline - from viewers. All through the afternoon, as Dan Hicks, Johnny Miller...
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Congrats to “Raffy the Rat” for pathetically throwing teammate Miguel Tejada under the bus when he told the appeal board that Tejada “gave him” some B-12 which might have magically morphed into stanizolol – the Johnny Walker Black of steroids....
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The President’s Cup is this week/end, and I wish I could say that I am pumped up, but I’m not. When this event was hatched 12 years ago, it had great potential. With the popularity of the Ryder Cup, it...
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For the hell of it, I decided I should actually check in with my favorite NFL writer/stooge Peter King. Instead of just getting second hand blurbs from my dedicated team of King Watchers via email, I dug through his column...
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God bless dumb luck. Or maybe, we “made our own luck” last night against the Cowboys. I could care less. It felt, G-R-E-A-T! Just to see Bill Parcells’ dyspeptic look as Santana Moss ran free for the second time in...
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Here’s why even though Mark Brunnel may well be the best we’ve got right now at QB, I’ll still never like the guy. He’s a totally insufferable brown-noser. Here’s how the story read on Tuesday of this week from Redskin...
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As of Thursday afternoon, delicious crow-pie was baking in the oven of the NFL front office, just waiting to be shoved down the throat of the arrogant Head Check Endorser known as Paul Tagliabue. Get this! Emails are flying around...
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Got to thinking about the pre-game fight between the Falcons and Eagles, and I believe I’ve got a good solution to any future macho bullshizzle of this sort. If Trotter and Mathis had been put in “timeout” for the entire...
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God, some days I really, REALLY, love my job. Oh, I know. I should just shut my hole. I have every man’s DREAM JOB. I talk about sports for a living. Good grief, right? Well, let me explain. Some days...
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SHANGHAI - A restaurant in northeastern China that advertised illegal tiger meat dishes was found instead to be selling donkey flesh _ marinated in tiger urine, a newspaper reported Thursday. The Hufulou restaurant, located beside the Heidaohezi tiger reserve near...
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Redskins Post-Op. I figure I’ll give a weekly post-game take on my burg and gold in this lead slot on Mondays. So here goes for Week One… The Good: We won. Cue Herman Edwards rant. We won. Period. Let’s move...
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How’s the Superdome doing? Not too good… The last storm victims stuck at the Superdome climbed aboard evacuation buses Saturday, leaving millions of dollars of damage behind -- a flooded field, overflowing bathrooms, a sea of garbage up to 5...
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It’s a mailbag kinda day. Here’s one I’d like to respond to in depth. Czabe, Was listening to Dan Patrick yesterday, because I live in Ft. Wayne, IN and can't listen to you on B&B or satelite radio, and he...
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1. Saints coach Jim Haslett is publicly griping. Bill Parcells won’t even go there, he’s so mad. And I’m sure several other NFL coaches (especially in the NFC East) are privately blowing a gasket at NFL boss Paul “WhatdoIdo?” Tagliabue....
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1. After nearly a full week with my head buried in the news section, and one eye stuck on Fox and CNN absorbing Katrina-related news coverage, I think I’ve had enough. At first, there was a dramatic intrigue about how...
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1. You knew this was coming, didn’t you? Some guy has decided, that it’s time for an “art” piece commemorating Ted Williams in his frozen-dome state. Sculptor Daniel Edwards of Connecticut has carved this beauty, and it will be on...
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