In addition to my annual insistence for anyone to bring me the skull of Norv Turner, I add another request: bring me the skull of Ed Hochuli. I doubt either will be missed.
Norv Turner is still the AntiChrist. Actually, he's too incompetent to even be the AntiChrist. We suffered through his nincompoopery with the 'Skins. I do so very, very much identify with your urge to put a hot iron in an inappropriate plate.
Hochuli has gone from the pantheon of officiating to purgatory for me. Here's the thing.
-- If that was a fumble, it's a fumble. -- If that was a pass, it is not an incomplete pass. It is a fumble, as it went backwards. -- If you don't know when to blow the whistle in the fourth quarter of a football game, put down the whistle and go sign affidavits for the rest of your life. Or choke on it. I'm not picky.
Norv is being Norv. Not keying in on the fact that Brandon Marshall is pulling down eleventy billion passes in the game and continues to cover him with a lawn chair. This isn't surprising; we expect him to take a team filled with extremely talented athletes and coach them into the ground faster than you can say "Marshall 1970."
There is a mechanism of protest, not that the commissioner will ever use it. But this is me slowly tuning out for the rest of the season, methinks.
"Oh, God, what if this is how the election turns out?"
Again?
My one vivid memory of the 2000 football season was that I was watching the Chargers drive against the Chiefs, when the last bit of the game was cut off for a press conference by the over-made-up Florida secretary of state announcing the certification of the vote. And when they cut back to the game, it was over, and it was their only win of the year. Microcosm.
He called himself on the error - too little, too late. But damn if that wasn't some white-knuckle play at the end there. The rookie's INT followed by that rocket-up-his-bum Sproles run was spectacular.
Sproles is a talented athlete. Sadly he's on a team whose coach wouldn't know talented if it grasped him by the throat and started choking him. Not that I'm condoning such an act. Though it would be fucking awesome.
Great day for former K-Staters. Sproles AND Jordy Nelson scored TDs, Gramatica got a 49-yard field goal for the Saints and Baltimore didn't play. All in all, pretty good day.
I'm amazed Gramatica's still around, though I imagine he won't last the season. Nelson's a terrific talent, and my spite for the Cowboys doesn't extend to Terence Newman. The alums as a whole are doing quite well.
Not just the one, but remember the fumble call in the first quarter. That set up a Denver TD too. Funny that the review system would be mysteriously "not functioning." That's the sort of thing I'd expect at Gillette Stadium, not Mile High.
I've been thinking about how some coaches' post-game rants rattle off profanity or tirades against officiating and then get fined ludicrous sums. If it had been me, today, after that game, I would've gotten my money's worth, because if I'd have known a profane or incendiary or otherwise forbidden word, I'd have used it as many times as I could. And nobody watching the game can say that it wouldn't have been warranted.
I still expect Norv to be his insipid, gelatinous self, to roll over and take it like a good little marshmallow. If it were Marty, there'd already be four dead and a hostage situation at Mile High, and I'd be driving out to help him reload.
Speaking of spineless coaches, I've finally given up on "Hrm" Edwards. Every shot of him on the sidelines makes him look like he's wondering if he left the iron on. You're down by 8 points with 4 minutes left in the game. You haven't been able to stop the run all day. So what do you do? You kick it deep! Unfortunately, Bernard Pollard, warrior that he is, damn near justified his coach's bad decision. Fortunately, Tyler-don't-call-me-Bobby Thigpen sealed the loss for us.
It's not like Herm hasn't had enough weapons to build a team around. It just seems like he plays his football, regardless of what the talent on his roster is, or what they're capable of.
The West has gone from dominant division to dormant, and we'll get further excruciating examples of this as the non-conference games kick in. I would probably sack every head coach in the West. Norv I'd charge with war crimes.
Yeah, I never understood what people saw in Herm. I thought he was mediocre at best with the Jets; I thought it was highway robbery that they got a fourth-round draft pick for him. I'd have given that up to get rid of him if I were the Jets.
they brought us coverage of the 4th quarter after the pats/jets game. and i was thinking about you the whole time. mostly, i was picturing your brain exploding, i mean.
Was glad to see the Colts and your Bucs do well, though. There's the silver lining around my huge dark cloud.
I just can't believe the only person in the freakin' universe who thought that was a fumble was wearing a whistle. (And the NFL needs to look at that rule in the offseason, if not sooner.) I did find myself beginning a lot of thoughts with "If I hadn't broken my hand..." and kept reflexively making a fist.
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I feel for Hochuli. I mean he's usually spot on. That sucks to blow a call like that. Mind you, I'm not minding overly much. :)
And I so need a football icon...
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Norv Turner is still the AntiChrist. Actually, he's too incompetent to even be the AntiChrist. We suffered through his nincompoopery with the 'Skins. I do so very, very much identify with your urge to put a hot iron in an inappropriate plate.
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-- If that was a fumble, it's a fumble.
-- If that was a pass, it is not an incomplete pass. It is a fumble, as it went backwards.
-- If you don't know when to blow the whistle in the fourth quarter of a football game, put down the whistle and go sign affidavits for the rest of your life. Or choke on it. I'm not picky.
Norv is being Norv. Not keying in on the fact that Brandon Marshall is pulling down eleventy billion passes in the game and continues to cover him with a lawn chair. This isn't surprising; we expect him to take a team filled with extremely talented athletes and coach them into the ground faster than you can say "Marshall 1970."
There is a mechanism of protest, not that the commissioner will ever use it. But this is me slowly tuning out for the rest of the season, methinks.
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As it ended, my first thought was "Oh, God, what if this is how the election turns out?"
Pardon me, I'm going to be scrubbing out my cats' litter boxes. Amazingly enough, that should be an improvement on my overall mood.
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Again?
My one vivid memory of the 2000 football season was that I was watching the Chargers drive against the Chiefs, when the last bit of the game was cut off for a press conference by the over-made-up Florida secretary of state announcing the certification of the vote. And when they cut back to the game, it was over, and it was their only win of the year. Microcosm.
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Now the real game starts...
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I thought you said Skrulls.
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Absolutely robbed. Twice.
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I still expect Norv to be his insipid, gelatinous self, to roll over and take it like a good little marshmallow. If it were Marty, there'd already be four dead and a hostage situation at Mile High, and I'd be driving out to help him reload.
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And Lane Kiffin is the one on the hot seat.
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The West has gone from dominant division to dormant, and we'll get further excruciating examples of this as the non-conference games kick in. I would probably sack every head coach in the West. Norv I'd charge with war crimes.
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I just can't believe the only person in the freakin' universe who thought that was a fumble was wearing a whistle. (And the NFL needs to look at that rule in the offseason, if not sooner.) I did find myself beginning a lot of thoughts with "If I hadn't broken my hand..." and kept reflexively making a fist.