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.
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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.