Packers Postcript: Sifting through the wreckage
Posted on January 21st, 2008 – 11:42 AMBy Michael Rand
We’ve had so much fun already this morning, why not try a little more:
*The Zapruder text message series with Diddy, noted Packers fan:
Us to Diddy, 8:42 a.m. Sunday — U want to come over 4 Packers game?
Diddy to us, 11:46 a.m.: Im partying in milwaukee for the game. Will rub it in later after win.
Diddy to us, 3 p.m. (obviously feeling very casual): Photo text of a box of “Cougar Darts.”
Us to Diddy, 9:15 p.m: Aw.
Diddy to us, 9:53 p.m. (obviously downplaying his pain): What a game! Too bad for us.
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Linnemann was live on the scene. He filed what amounts to an awesome photo gallery over here (though we always though that statue was of Ray Rhodes). He also sent along some humorous text messages about the Green Bay bar scene and participated in this *exclusive* e-mail exchange this morning:
Linnemann, 8:44 a.m. today: My face is windburnt to hell … awesome.
Us, 8:59 a.m.: That game was so good. Please tell me some stories about dejected Packers fans. I cannot hear enough of them.
Linnemann, 9:15 a.m.: It was utter shock. They just stood there. It was actually kind of sad.
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Emmitt Smith’s take on the Giants: “If they win today, they could possibly go on to the Super Bowl.” Somebody give that guy a football and a time machine.
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The reaction in Green Bay: Not so good. Also, any game story that includes the phrase, “Sudden death, indeed,” gets us to read further.
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Fasola-link! Roughkat is up next with his COW post, while Stu aims to get to the truth about Roughkat.
35 Responses to "Packers Postcript: Sifting through the wreckage"
For insulting the Packers and their fans you own them 10 put-ups.
You forgot to mention my text message after the OT coin flip: “We want the ball, and we’re gonna score.”
[…] RandBall wrote a fantastic post today on “Packers Postcript: Sifting through the wreckage”Here’s ONLY a quick extractHe also sent along some humorous text messages about the Green Bay bar scene and participated in this *exclusive* e-mail exchange this morning:. Linnemann, 8:44 am today: My face is windburnt to hell … awesome. … […]
Man, I knew I was forgetting something. We want the pants and we’re going to score.
The thought of all those dejected and hungover Packer fans. . . .
Ahhhh, the bliss!!
This is an n abbreviated i.e chopped up version of my prior post for the ADD crowd…
… this simply wasn’t a great game…. as usual, one team wins, the other loses and who can tell which one is the better in the long haul as in if playoffs were 7 games long as in baseball, which team would be better ?
Yet, what actually did happen was that Favre played badly, very badly, often significantly under throwing his receivers as he did during overtime. And for those who never threw a ball much in extremely cold weather …(and Dave doesn’t see any significance to that)the ball not only feel glassy as the announcers constantly reported but a lesser effect is the air gets much denser (cold =dense, duh.. but quick now, determine the density of oxygen (or any gas or even a solid (since a density of a solid varies too, moron reader) at absolute zero. Times up, bovine wannabes) and, for example, a car or airplane have on board computers to adjust the air/fuel ratio yet humans obviously don’t. And it’s here where Manning made that adjustment (throwing harder and/or higher) than in warmer climes, made that adjustment better than Favre (Remember, morons, that I already owned up to that that.)
But, alas, this wasn’t and won’t be the only time in football history then where the better team lost. Meaning, it’s quite sure if you removed your COW (and what’s that follow the leader stuff about anyway) blinders and jettisoned your purplish bias that you would see that if the Pack played the same way on Sunday as they did while they were kicked your team’s butt royally, played that way last night, Eli would be going not cumming. But the Packers did not. Period. But, few here have really played this game in truly nasty weather (Dave, again thinks experience here to be important to understanding actual reality, however), so their glee today will eclipse that thought. So be it. Sh.t does happens, as I’m sure that will be evident in most of the comments today., but you RandB, to you I have something further to say….
That is, you once had an excellent column in the Star where you picked 5..6..7 letters to print each week, excellent letters as I recall since I appeared at least once as I remember (and I do write in an excellent fashion, thank you), but you never printed the nonsense there about beer and bars and porn names all your posts having zip to do with sports, pure cr.appolla, as I see see it, as they are. As for me, my posts may touch base with much wider issues than sports per se asking the whys and wherefores of blacks in sports, for example, huge questions, but I, at least, do try to bring the subject back around to sport. Instead as opposed to any real sports reference, at all I offer this brilliant opinion of Dave’s, (but remember this short post could have come any day on any issue, and does), so here’s Dave piggybacking into a long “conversation”, “sports based” no doubt about the porn names floating about, (this is a “sports based” post again, don’t forget that…
“that porn name Stu came up withSir Thrustalot? Spike McPoke? Oh yeah, Thorn Savagewood…
So, c’mon sir. You once produced a fine product but because paper readership is down, I know the skinflints at the NotsoBrite Star axed your column, but does that mean you have to cheapen a column with your very own name on it by allowing these little boys and anonymous women to write anything, usually not even tangentially about sports !! …Issues from pressing sports based isuues, again as to where to meet for beers to where is the best pizza ? Yet, my wonder is..what exactly IS a sport’s blog and can you define it for these cretins, then I ask does this criterion meet what your column is really about, what it is allowing/producing every day ? In my view, I think not. In fact, I know not, so I ask you if you would really consider any of this boyz club chit chat littering these pages, included any of this garbage in your past column and if not why do you allow it here unless this column represents simply a paycheck to you (and why should it mean anything more like an actual sports blog) and why won’t you take any ethical or creative stand in what is in it ?
Reading P3 So You Don’t Have To
This cut-and-paste feature is fascinating. If only there were a program that allowed you to check your spelling.
This has been another edition of Reading P3 So You Don’t Have To, an award-nominated joint service of Stu and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
PPP, you’ve done more than enough over the months to let us know that your tenuous grasp on sanity is rivaled only by your tenuous grasp on grammar. However, you have gone above and beyond the call of your crazy duty with today’s posts.
How could anyone, regardless of the orientation of their fandom, not consider that a great game? I recognize that you were disappointed with the outcome (www.myleastfavoriteteam.com), but any idiot has to realize that it was a fantastic contest to watch. It was football at its most dramatic. It was, despite the nonsensical assertion at the beginning of your post, a great game.
Also, I would be remiss if I didn’t at least acknowledge the, shall we say, “unique” circumstance of your screed about randball posts that veer wildly off-topic and make little to no sense. Heaven help you and the rest of the cult members on this tough day, PPP.
Rocket…go back randomly to most any day in the past and see if you actually believe your own words below…And I thought you should know I write in Word to paste later into these moron boxes only to paste my stuff in here since I have a real job taking up my time. Question then: why are you and the dinkless wonders in your Mickey Mouse club always home and a better question: Is this abort..n of a site really your idea of a sports blog, REALLY, really having as it’s chief focus….sports or is it like 2 teenagers text messaging cr.p from morn to nite ? Now as for punctuation and grammar I spend little time prepping things up for punks like you who can’t live beyond the doors of your biases anyway. And as for being understood/misunderstood because of that punctuation/spelling, I’ve always believed the message oversahdows the means, that message will always come through if the audience is listening, and I know you are listening, morons, so complain about punctuation marks if you wish. It only makes you appear even more retarded …
“Also, I would be remiss if I didn’t at least acknowledge the, shall we say, “unique” circumstance of your screed about randball posts that veer wildly off-topic and make little to no sense. Heaven help you and the rest of the cult members on this tough day”
I’m glad we got the abbreviated version.
And I thought you should know I write in Word
Oh, sure, blame Microsoft.
The Truth about Roughkat
Wasn’t an after school special starring Justine Bateman and Danny Pintauro? I think it was the sequel to The Boy Who Could Fly.
Army General: [shouting] You told us that windows 98 would be faster, and more efficient with better access to the internet!
Bill Gates: It IS faster! Over five million…
[General shoots Bill Gates and everyone cheers]
Did P3 just use “retarded” to insult someone? Good Lord, we’ve sent him back to an 8th grade mentality…
Be on the lookout for the gentlemen in white coats coming to your door, P3.
Also, I still don’t see how the fact that I may or may not have played cold weather football has anything to do with Favre being awful last night. I love that you make assumptions about people you don’t know though…it’s cute, in a vomit-inducing kind of way.
Stu and Roughkat, if you are indeed not the members of the Rough Members livin’ at home Boyz Glee club, as I insinuated above, 1) do you work 2) does your mom know you are on the computer now 3) how is your mom (now, if I was in the Boyz club, I would say right here .. “pretty good last night !” and lastly, and put both hands on the keyboard, think clearly (I know your meds don’t help that, poor babies) and answer this…Is the way this blog is run fitting your idea (or your mom’s) of what a “sports” blog should be, or should such a blog include any and all scatological and trite elements you or your brethren should come up with..
p.s. my view is that a “sports” blog, from one day to the next, should be ONLY about sports…Period. But, that’s just me…so keep talking about heavin’ and drinkin’..Yahoo!!
The Declaration of Independence had punctuation errors in it Those who want perfect punctuation often can say nothing perfectly well…
You have a belly button, well we all have belly buttons. You know what? We all love Yoohoo, especially Yoohoo with a little rum.
Please don’t tell my mom on the computer.
Since when is this purely a sports blog? Based on the above description of this blog, we need more haiku poems.
P3 is loco
Do not drink the turpentine
He knows more than us
P3, you just said that on the other post. Worried we wouldn’t see it?
I thought it would be kind of fun to watch P3’s descent into madness, but I’m actually getting a bit scared now.
RandBall: Exploring the soft underbelly of P3
Fixed.
Reading P3 So You Don’t Have To
Kill all the lawyers. More skin on HBO.
This has been another edition of Reading P3 So You Don’t Have To, an award-nominated joint service of Stu and a half-remembered Bloom County joke from 1986
Here’s an example of what passes for “sports” talk. You might as well be writing for American Idol…This is just girl talk from the bovine’s intro words….Aren’t you guys embarrassed to belong to what is equivalent to a Britney Spears fan club. This stuff is flat out Text gossip but if you wish to see it some other way, it must be because for most of the year you had no team to root for yourself..Poor little trashy boys…How’s your ma…Har
*The Zapruder text message series with Diddy, noted Packers fan:
Us to Diddy, 8:42 a.m. Sunday — U want to come over 4 Packers game?
Diddy to us, 11:46 a.m.: Im partying in milwaukee for the game. Will rub it in later after win.
Diddy to us, 3 p.m. (obviously feeling very casual): Photo text of a box of “Cougar Darts.”
Us to Diddy, 9:15 p.m: Aw.
Diddy to us, 9:53 p.m. (obviously downplaying his pain): What a game! Too bad for us.
Wow, I can’t even begin to imagine what would happen to P3 if he ventured toward deadspin, KSK or The Big Lead.
Back to actual sports discussion since this is a sports blog.
TMQ will say he knew the Giants would win when Coughlin came out in a hat and wind breaker while McCarthy looked like he drove to game on his snowmobile. If it were orange, I think it would have been ok. But most of the Packers looked colder than the Giants for all the talk about Manning complaining about the cold. Favre belongs in a nursing home where they keep the temp at a balmy 85 degrees at all times.
Nathan: Those commenters wouldn’t be nearly as nice to P3 as we are. He doesn’t know how good he has it.
P3, seriously, it’s like you forgot the whole conversation we had last week about this blog. I’d suggest a CAT scan for memory loss like that. It could be serious.
The headline and text of a January 22nd 1A story in the Star Tribune:
“Local Man Shoots Grammar Text Books”
A local man wearing nothing but bicycle shorts and a Green Bay Packers jersey walked into the Roseville Barnes and Noble and shot several grammar reference books.
The man, whom the police have only been able to identify as “PPP”, marched into the store, demanded to know if anyone else saw any “internet pigs”, and began firing at the textbooks.
“He seemed like a guy who was finally pushed over the edge,” said store clerk Trixie Thickglasses. “He kept yammering on about some website and how it was nothing more than the moldy remains of a fifteenth century Gaelic prostitute’s bloody…well it gets pretty gross from there.”
Added Thickglasses, “I think the website was rabinol or rabid balls or something like that…”
Authorities were still searching for clues as to the true identity of “PPP”, also dubbed the “grammar killer”. Several witnesses heard the man alternately screaming and weeping. All at the scene agreed that the mostly nonsensical ravings seemed to center around Minnesota Vikings fans. However, nobody could discern any thread of logic or reason.
“He mentioned the Vikings quite a bit, which I found strange since he was wearing a Packers jersey,” said patron, coffee drinker, and aspiring writer R. Benedict Q. Pretentious. “Normally I don’t pay attention when other people are talking because I am usually working here on my laptop trying to finish my novel. But this guy was too much.”
Despite the lack of coherence of “PPP’s” ranting, most agreed that his final words were something to the effect that people should look past what he was actually saying to see the message.
“I can’t help but believe that Marshall McCluhan would disagree with this cad,” added Pretentious.
Roughkat: You forgot that TMQ will spend at least four paragraphs complaining about the lack of cheerleaders at the game last night, and how, even if there were cheerleaders, they wouldn’t have “taken one for the team” by dressing in a way that allows Easterbrook to fantasize about bedding them while pretending to care what they’re talking about.
/recap of every TMQ column
“Read what I mean, not what I write.
Phat Williams smells bad and sweats a lot”
The epitaph from P3’s tombstone
As of right now, the Patriots are giving up 12.5 points and the over/under is 53.5. I don’ the the Patriots have covered in like 8 weeks. Will they go all out for the championship or will this game more resemble their week 17 matchup?
I say blowout and we get to see the Manning face 467 times during the game.
Roughkat: I think if you give Belichick and his coaches two weeks to prepare for the Giants, it’s not even going to be close. Especially since I get the feeling Eli is going to be nervous as hell. I don’t see him being calm, collected Eli in Arizona. I haven’t quite bought into him yet.
In keeping up with the tripe posted today by PPP I will copy and paste my last post from the previous thread in here as well:
That’s great PPP. The Declaration of Independence had punctuation errors in it. Guess what? The Declaration of Independence was written by one of the brightest guys in American history and signed by a bunch more that helped found a country. I think I’ll cut them some slack.
Your greatest contribution to said country, as far as I can tell, is that you apparently have played football in cold weather — and I can only take your word for that.
Dave - I think everyone’s been saying that for 3 weeks now. All he does is win though. I hope the Patriots are planning their final masterpiece of the season. I seriously want to see Eli cry on the sideline. Is that asking too much?
Punctuation has always been meant and taught so readers could follow w/o getting lost i.e taught so Cretins (look it up) and Fools won’t get lost any earlier than necessary. So, welome home, Cretins and Fools. You kept up for 3 sentences now, and they say the state of our reading comprehension is declining.
P3, did that last comment have anything to do with sports?
Hypocrite.
Don’t listen to the criticism, PPP. Your post was warm and rich and made me feel very “welome”.
[…] Packers Postcript: Sifting through the wreckage Mary wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptEmmitt Smith’s take on the Giants: “If they win today, they could possibly go on to the Super Bowl.” Somebody give that guy a football and a time machine. ——————————————–. The reaction in Green Bay: Not so good. … […]
