Weekend Links with Jon Marthaler
Posted on August 30th, 2008 – 10:40 AMBy Michael Rand
Happy Saturday! I write this accompanied by the dulcet tones of Chris Fowler, Lee Corso, and Kirk Herbstreit on “College Gameday”… oh yes, it’s football season. Our long national nightmare (also known as “spring and summer”) is over; it’s time for marching bands and the sharp “clack” of shoulder pads, for 6 a.m. tailgating and school songs, for the Little Brown Jug and Paul Bunyan’s Axe and Howard’s Rock and Between the Hedges and UGA and Big Mike and Reville and Bevo and all the rest. Fire up your TVs (or, even better, both of your TVs) and get set — it’s time for football!
A few non-football-related weekend links (and one that’s only somewhat football-related), for those of you who don’t particularly care to watch Akron vs. Wisconsin and Northern Illinois vs. Minnesota today:
*Chris at Western College Hockey doesn’t think that Sarah Palin qualifies as a real hockey mom, and has some tongue-in-cheek reasons why not.
*If you’re a Twins fan, you’re completely sick of the team’s bullpen, and you’re pretty much ready to trade the whole non-Joe-Nathan lot for just about anybody else. Yet John Bonnes, the Twins Geek, has some surprising numbers: by one measure, almost every Twins reliever has been above-average this year.
*Fire Joe Morgan and Joe Posnanski both take shots at the traditional practice of using number of wins to determine the Cy Young winner; Posnanski does it by (avert your eyes, Brandon!) making up a meaningless stat, while FJM does it with sarcasm. Either way: I approve.
*And finally: the Fulmer Cup is over for another year. Congratulations to Alabama, which swept both the team award (given to the college football program which manages the most off-season shenanigans that get the police involved) and the individual award (which goes to the one player who gets the single biggest charge). Both awards are mostly thanks to Jimmy Johns, who racked up five counts of selling cocaine, one count of cocaine possession, plus a couple of traffic tickets, thus outscoring every other team in the nation, save Missouri, by himself.
That’ll do it for me — now get out there and start enjoying your three-day weekend. If you have one of those jobs that does not give you these three days off, consider skipping work, calling in sick, or quitting. It’s the American thing to do.
5 Responses to "Weekend Links with Jon Marthaler"
Let’s get real. Would anyone in their right mind (and sexual preference) sleep with Biden, the squinting cynic, or Palin, the beautiful ? And isn’t it rich and waaaaay over the top that the Obee Wah KenoBee camp would call foul that she has so little experience ? Especially since Obee served in that Kindergarten of politics in the Ill. senate where a huge bill was what to rename some backwater highwater.
And “lack of esperience” ..that’s too rich for me..Go Obee
Since there is only one comment in here so far (mine..do people get drunk all weekend and forget how to type ?..Duh, and that’s what I get accused of anyway)…I took great offense a number of posts, subsets, chapters, whatever they are called when the proprietor seemed to gloat that politics, Coleman ads etc are not worth the sweat off his….Well they are, and there is no conceivable reason, both politics and sports cannot intermingle unless our knowledgeable readers truly believe sports are free of politics…Right
So, with that in mind, I’m copy/pasting a “short” (for me) note I printed elsewhere. It makes good reading whether anyone believes it or not. After all, these same people likely believed the Earth was flat ..here goes..
“Get with the program. This is a far bigger political world than a baseball diamond considering a fraction of the slobs here even play just watch with a beer on their expanding gut. Maybe if and when Iran (politics) brings millions of troops over the border into Iraq, you can ask the weak sister Obama or the war monger McCain to do something about it, but to gloat saying you’re doing us a favor not “delving” into politics, instead of working on something more “important” like Mauer’s Tshirt sales, is asine. It’s possible to do both, you know, sports and the wider more imp. world, but that hasn’t generally occurred to too many sports guys. That is, in fact, why they remain sports guys. Yet, the best writers could walk that fine line. Enough said. My meaning should be clear..
getting back to football and acknowledging it’s only preseason (but it’s preseason for EVERYONE Purple Whine), look at a few of these stats from the Dallas game and admit that this team still has one foul odor to it..
3 rushing first downs !!
9 passing first downs
4-14-29% 3rd down in(effiency ..still)
245 = total yards
58
100 total rushing yard …the vaunted running game didn’t show..again
23 !!!total rushes
145 yds passing on 33 attempts
14-33 completed/attempted
4.1 avg yards per pass..
Leading me to ask, when will you Viking fans say there is something in the water or something foul and cruelly karmic in the fans that only the Vikings blame their losses on the “preseason” instead of stepping to the plate like men and saying “We stink”. Would that be so hard ?
More weekend sports!!
After 35,000 televised hours of beetch volleyball, I flip the channels and there it is..more May and Walsh !! Don’t networks feel they are saturating the airwaves with those geeks. And with all the drug testing going on, is there ever any fem/andro testing ..meaning these two look like adolescent boys far more than grown women, so before we whine about the age of the Chinese girls why not find out, if in fact, our “girls” are just that. Misty May has a beard for chrissake…
Elect Pedro !! (I just wanted to end this political vent )…Is ist hot in here ??
