Devin Hester, from last night’s game against the Philadelphia Eagles:
hehehehehehe!!
Bud Adams is classy!
Here’s a short video of Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams flipping off the Buffalo Bills sideline at yesterday’s game:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTxHuUGG_2c&feature=player_embedded
Classy! Read more about it here.
RIGHTING THE WRONGS: Joe Theismann
Former Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann is almost as famous for being a broadcaster as he is a football player. He served as color commentator for ESPN’s Sunday Night Football from 1988 to 2005, where he was known for saying almost as many stupid things as longtime color man John Madden. In fact, one thing that Theismann said almost always comes up on “stupidest things anyone’s ever said” lists:
“Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.”
Everyone assumes that Theismann, a dumb jock, meant to say Albert Einstein. But the truth is more complicated than that. Perhaps Theismann did mean to say Albert Einstein… or maybe he was thinking of Norman Einstein, a former classmate of his at South River High School and the valedictorian of his class.
Yes, folks, there really is a Norman Einstein. He is an emergency room physician at Catawba Valley Medical Center in nearby Hickory, North Carolina. Here is his contact info. According to this Reader’s Digest article about the flub,
“‘I was a senior when he was a sophomore,’ Dr. Einstein said. As boys, they lived just blocks apart. ‘We played a little bit of basketball, touch football-that kind of stuff.’ But they weren’t close friends: Theismann was a jock, Einstein a brain. Einstein graduated in 1965 and was the class valedictorian. He attended Rutgers University and then medical school at Tufts University. Theismann headed to the NFL. Twenty-seven years later, in a corner of the Metrodome in Minneapolis, Norman Einstein’s name popped back into Joe Theismann’s head.”
For the record, Sports Illustrated also ran an article about Einstein, but I can’t find it online.
So yes, Theismann misspoke. But his flub isn’t as stupid as it at first sounds.
Thanks, Panthers!
Check out this map:
The people in red get to watch the Vikings take on the Packers this Sunday. That should be a hell of a game – Brett Farve returning to play at Lambeau Field, two well-matched teams going at it… and the line is the home team by 3.
The people in blue – me – instead get to watch the Carolina Panthers travel to Arizona to take on the Cardinals. That game should be a bloodbath – in fact, I’m surprised that the line is only 9. Me? I think the final score will be 34-6 for the home team. But I’ll get to see the Panthers – in all their crappy glory – instead of a game that, you know, people actually want to watch.
Bastards!
Oh, and John Fox said today that Jake Delhomme is still, somehow, the Panthers’ starting quarterback (check out this great article on SportingNews.com that asks what Jake has to do to get benched).
Should I go ahead and get season tickets for next year when Cowher takes over?
Go Jackets!
Georgia Tech takes on Virginia this afternoon up in Charlottesville – which is a hard place for the Jackets to play, as they haven’t won up there since 1990… and we all know what happened that year, right? 🙂
Go Jackets!
Yeeeeeessssss!
Just a few hours ago, #19 Georgia Tech defeated #4 Virginia Tech at The Flats 28-23, giving the Ramblin’ Wreck their first home win against a top 5 opponent since the Bobby Dodd-led Jackets beat Alabama all the way back in 1962!
Hellll yeaaaahhh – GO JACKETS!
Redman promoted
In a move that’s sure to please a large number of Steelers fans (including yours truly), the team today promoted Isaac Redman from the practice squad to the full-time roster.
You might recall Redman having an excellent pre-season with the team, once running the ball into the endzone four out of five times in goal-line drills against the first team defense. You might also recall the pre-season game against the Panthers, when Redman scored a touchdown, dragging 3 or 4 of the Panthers’ first string defenders with him.
I’m pretty excited about the move. Maybe Redman doesn’t have the overall talent of Fast Willie or Mendenhall, but he certainly has more desire than the both of them combined, which certainly counts for something. Sadly, defensive end Nick Eason was let go to make room for Redmon. Eason certainly wasn’t the best player who ever lived, but he was certainly a capable back-up.
Bobby Cox to retire
I’m not much of a baseball fan, but when I do watch the game, I cheer for the hometown Atlanta Braves. And for the past 19 years, Bobby Cox has been their manager. As of yesterday, Cox had 2,408 wins as manager, and is only one of two managers in major league history to have six 100 win seasons. Although he is most known for taking the Braves to the playoffs for 14 consecutive seasons, he also holds the record for most ejections at 159. And, sadly, he will retire after next season.
It was Cox’s second run as manager of the Braves, after leading the team from 1978-1981.
Thinking about the Braves makes me a bit sad these days. With Skip Caray and now Bobby Cox gone, it’s like the Braves I knew don’t exist any more.
Random fact: Chipper Jones has played for Bobby Cox his entire career.
“A National Embarrassment”
The QC Sports Blog has come down hard on John Fox and the Carolina Panthers’ management team for starting Jake “11 Interceptions” Delhomme next week:
It’s official; John Fox named Jake Delhomme the starter next week at Atlanta. This is unbelievable. Could you imagine if the Panthers were coached by Bill Parcells or Bill Cowher? Delhomme wouldn’t just be benched; he would be cut. Instead, he was given a vote of confidence to remain the starter of the John Fox-led Panthers.
We are rapidly joining the Bengals and Raiders as the laughingstocks of the league.
I’ve followed that blog since last season, and I would normally consider the author to be a pretty level-headed guy. But if he’s this pissed about it, I wonder what the really hardcore Panthers fans are thinking!
FRIDAY FUN: Atlanta’s Air Force
I was searching uniwatchblog.com the other day for something specific about this season’s Georgia Tech football uniforms, when I accidentally stumbled across this fine piece of circa-1986 cheese from my home city:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfXYyCJYY40
The song (and the production quality, and the haircuts, and the outfits) is simply horrendous, but there are some great clips of some mid 80s Hawks action, the old Omni, Harry the Hawk, Mike Fratello jumping up and down like a loon, and that longtime assistant coach who looks like Neal Boortz.
All of which reminds me… what, exactly, was wrong with the Hawks’ old “Pac Man” logo:
I think it kicks ass, personally! May the Hawks be cursed with mediocrity (snerk) until they bring the old logo back!