Weekend links with Jon Marthaler
Posted on February 2nd, 2008 – 10:32 AMBy Michael Rand
It’s Super Bowl weekend. Thank goodness; there’s nothing more annoying than wall-to-wall media coverage of the Super Bowl. Every Tom, Dick, and Stephen A. Smith in the sports world is down in Arizona, mostly producing coverage of the other people who have also arrived to cover or watch the event. It’s like watching CNN cover the Gaza Strip by rushing to the Egyptian border in
order to interview the BBC reporters. For two weeks now, every angle has been probed, every piece has been produced, every interview has been re-hashed, and every ironic-minded idiot has asked stupid questions or goofed on Media Day in the incredibly-mistaken
impression they were doing something original. I’m tired of it; let’s just play the football game so we can start talking about the Giants’ lack of pass rush, instead of whether Eli Manning is too much of a mama’s boy to win the Super Bowl.
(Announcer: “Thank you, Andy Rooney, for that grumpy and pointless commentary. And now, onto the weekend links!”)
*See what I mean? [DC Sports Bog]
*At this point, we must consider the possibility that EDSBS’s Spencer Hall / Orson Swindle is a super-duper comedy savant of some kind. Here’s his recap of ex-Georgia Tech defensive coordinator Jon Tenuta’s job interview with new boss Charlie Weis. If you don’t laugh, don’t worry, but know this: I hate you.
*Remember Donyell Marshall? He’s found a role with Cleveland: comic relief. [TrueHoop]
*The NHL blogosphere’s talking heads get together on The FanHosue and agree: the first 15 years of Gary Bettman seemed more like 1500. In purgatory.
*Speaking of media coverage from the Super Bowl, here’s the Kansas City Star’s Joe Posnanski, letting us know what a Larry King column would look like if Larry wrote three paragraphs for every thought. The whole thing’s worth it, though, for Posnanski’s random imagining of the pitch meeting for The Flying Nun.
*If lightning hits Roger Goodell on Sunday and a flood cancels the Super Bowl, don’t say you weren’t warned.
*Ah, the definitive history of Bud Bowl (from mental_floss). I can remember talking more about the results of Bud Bowl than about the actual Super Bowl with my friends. We were nine years old at the time. How Joe Camel got singled out, I’ll never know.
Tomorrow is Super Bowl Sunday, the secular Christmas; here’s hoping that, unlike the real holidays, you get to spend this one with people you actually like. (Note to any family members reading this: I’m kidding!) Let’s finish with the end of a poem:
*And I heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight
“The Patriots to cover, and to all a good night!”
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Here’s another piece of football news in the paper that’s a little more interesting than Saturday’s news pieces on a game not played yet anyway: Cris Carter is expected to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. And no doubt, deservedly so. I didn’t like him in Philly (nor did Ryan, obviously) and didn’t like his non stop yapping crap up in MN. (I think he was the first guy I saw pull off the “Luke Skypointer” schtick ..you know where you ask the dback about his mom’s reputed skills in bed then after Cris makes his td catch, he points to the heavens, Cris’s God being some voyeuristic dude.
But, when it came to body control and tip toeing down the sideline, I don’t think there was any better. When you see these suspect sexuality men with their spins and leaps in figure skating and in gymnastics, yes they do also have great body control but lack a 200 lb db smashing them in the ribs while they do so. So, here’s to Luke, I mean Cris. He deserves the honor..
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What planet do these blue meanie blog splices come from? ….as in
“..there’s nothing more annoying than wall-to-wall media coverage of the Super Bowl”…and doesn’t anybody have anything different to say than these phrase clones ? It’s like reading in a car and hitting bumps and having to start reading again….Go away tag along bloggers. You bother me
Upon awakening to this cloudy windless day and reading everything I could about tomorrow’s Patriot’s win, I found myself suddenly and completely overwhelmed by all of the media mash, and I fell into a swoon following hyperlink after hyperlink from Brady’s babe to Moss’ assuredly accidental love taps, and I awoke soaked in sweat feeling even more lost than after the Green Bay game. So, I crawled around my p.c. and looked up WebMd, where all maladies are identified together with the prescripts that will cure them. And sure enough, it turns out I was suffering from pre traumatic shock, quite common when anticipations run too high. So, I promptly put the sports papers into the recycling and turned off anything to do with the Superbowl yet still wondering as I did so why with all the money and hype involved after all these years no one could come up with a more creative name than Superbowl.
So, now I sit, detoxing, and more lost than ever having one of my dreaded neja vu feelings I used to get after too much Everclear and OJ. Yes, neja vu where you go into a room you’ve never been before and say to yourself “I’ve never been here”…This will be a long day
Weekend Links + the Kool Aid Man = Yay.
It’s totally Scott Erickson’s birthday today. He’s 40.
I bet he uses a black Sharpie to color his gray hairs. He just seems like that kind of guy.
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He still has hockey hair I’ll bet.
UND head coach Dave Hakstol: Just a classy guy.
Way to go, coach. I’m sure Don Adam was chastened by your finger signals.
No wonder Hakstol’s team starts fights in the handshake line… The class act built his team in his image.
Don Adam = ridiculously awful. How about all those phantom calls tonight? Don Lucia sure appeared to have some choice words for him after the scuffles were settled as well. The crowd sure got it right with their “F— you, Adam!” chants, IMO.
Eli = good, D line priceless
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