It's Pro Bowl Week!
* You think we're going to hear a little bit about Archie Manning in the next two weeks?
* I love that a team that turned the ball over six times is complaining about overtime rules and pass interferrence.
* I don't mind NFL overtime rules. We'll have a day of talk radio blabber about it and then go on to the Manning Bowl. To me, if you lose the coin flip, make an f'n stop. I think teh college game takes away the special teams portion of the game and is like a shootout or a free throw contest to decide a game. It's part of the game, but it's not the whole thing.
* I'm still confused -- Brett Favre, this guy that has his own FavreCenter channel has won exactly as many Super Bowl titles as Trent Dilfer and Brad Johnson, right?
* Did anyone else notice the Twitter meme #ESPNFavreRulesforAll -- it was basically how ESPN will make excuses for Favre for whatever. (Here's the background, apparently)
And, yeah, that pass was typical Favre and it cost the Vikings the Super Bowl.
* Instead, we'll get this -- but cliche New Orleans coverage is preferable to FavreCenter. And MLB Network is preferable to either.
* Last week a marketing student sent me a link from numbers he looked at from compete.com stating we had more unique visitors than Reds.com. I printed that before looking more deeply into the numbers -- that was a mistake. We went deeper with the numbers, the link provided was from the free version of the website,w hen digging deeper with the numbers, it came out to be untrue. I appologize for the error. I didn't know how to use the software properly. Lee does and all the numbers we use for advertisors and the rest are accurate. Lee is a respected web developer who knows the analytics and how to use them and I will forever defer to his knowledge on such matters. My appologies to the Reds, Reds.com and mlb.com. I regret the error.
* Hey Reds fans, just be glad you're not a Royals fan.
Or a Pirates fan. The Pirates hope to some day ascend to the spending level of the Reds.
* I don't see that the Reds really "missed out" on Miguel Tejada.
* At the Decemeber BBWAA meeting, Will Carrol of Baseball Perspectus noted that there should be an award for relievers -- Jayson Stark of ESPN noted he'd thought about and he'd wrtite a proposal. Here's his argument for the Jerome Holtzman Award, which would join the MVP, Cy Young, Rookie of the Year and Manager of the Year awards handed out by the BBWAA.
There's some pretty good debate on the BBWAA site about whether or not there should be a relieve award, and whether naming it after a writer is the right thing. I see all sides of this so far and not sure I've made up my mind.
* How pitchers change their approach against good hitters.
* The 90s may be remembered as a time when the powder blues were dropped and many teams went back to basics in uniforms, but 'Duk at Big League Stew remembers some of the awful uniforms of the decade, too.
* An Indians coach will be on The Amazing Race.
* Former big league outfielder Doug Glanville writes in the New York Times about the steroid era.
* A former steroid dealer says he sold steroids and HGH to Michael Vick.
* Your weekend didn't seem long enough? Need more time? Urban Meyer scoffs at you. He had to be rushed to the hospital because of stress and has cyst in his brain that acts up when sterssed -- and he took a day-and-a-half off. Now he's good. You are weak wanting two whole days off.
* I'm a sucker for lists and college football -- so Dr. Saturday's Top 10 plays of 2009.
* This is one of my faovrite things I read this weekend. David Hale covers UGA for the Macon Telelgraph and he has one of the best beat blogs in the country. Writing in the aftermath of the Bulldogs' victory over No. 8 Tennessee, he wrote this:
"As a northerner, I have no room to comment on the commitment of football fans. Up north, we treat college football the same way we treat breakfast -- we like it, but if we're busy, we'll just grab a pop tart and not think twice."
* The story behind the old Larry Bird-Michael Jordan McDonalds "Nothing but net" commercial.
* One of the things I hate about recruiting coverage is that it's always more about hype and where a kid is going to go, where he's visiting, which coach he likes, where he's leaning and all that. Our RedHawkey blog changes the usual coverage -- John Lachmann went to Indianapolis for the second time to provide a live scouting report on Miami hockey's four fall committments.
* This is priced way out of my price range, and probably anyone's, but a game-used Cincinnati Swords jersey is on eBay.
* I've had nightmares of tripping and falling into a Picasso. I'm glad it wasn't me who actually did it.
* This woman in Cleveland killed her boyfriend by sitting on him. Really.
* I admit, I'm pretty excited about Apple's announcement on Wednesday. I'm a geek, what can I say?
* The creators of How I Met Your Mother are putting together another show.
* WIlco has two live shows availale for download. The band asks you give to Haiti relief efforts in exchange for the shows.
* You know what should be much more enjoyable than it really is? A wedding registry. You know, it's like, you put down stuff you'd like and have a good chance of getting it. The bad thing is you can't do anything good -- it's all forks and dishes and stand mixers. You try to put on a GPS and the DLP gets all mad and stuff. Oh well.
* You think we're going to hear a little bit about Archie Manning in the next two weeks?
* I love that a team that turned the ball over six times is complaining about overtime rules and pass interferrence.
* I don't mind NFL overtime rules. We'll have a day of talk radio blabber about it and then go on to the Manning Bowl. To me, if you lose the coin flip, make an f'n stop. I think teh college game takes away the special teams portion of the game and is like a shootout or a free throw contest to decide a game. It's part of the game, but it's not the whole thing.
* I'm still confused -- Brett Favre, this guy that has his own FavreCenter channel has won exactly as many Super Bowl titles as Trent Dilfer and Brad Johnson, right?
* Did anyone else notice the Twitter meme #ESPNFavreRulesforAll -- it was basically how ESPN will make excuses for Favre for whatever. (Here's the background, apparently)
And, yeah, that pass was typical Favre and it cost the Vikings the Super Bowl.
* Instead, we'll get this -- but cliche New Orleans coverage is preferable to FavreCenter. And MLB Network is preferable to either.
* Last week a marketing student sent me a link from numbers he looked at from compete.com stating we had more unique visitors than Reds.com. I printed that before looking more deeply into the numbers -- that was a mistake. We went deeper with the numbers, the link provided was from the free version of the website,w hen digging deeper with the numbers, it came out to be untrue. I appologize for the error. I didn't know how to use the software properly. Lee does and all the numbers we use for advertisors and the rest are accurate. Lee is a respected web developer who knows the analytics and how to use them and I will forever defer to his knowledge on such matters. My appologies to the Reds, Reds.com and mlb.com. I regret the error.
* Hey Reds fans, just be glad you're not a Royals fan.
Or a Pirates fan. The Pirates hope to some day ascend to the spending level of the Reds.
* I don't see that the Reds really "missed out" on Miguel Tejada.
* At the Decemeber BBWAA meeting, Will Carrol of Baseball Perspectus noted that there should be an award for relievers -- Jayson Stark of ESPN noted he'd thought about and he'd wrtite a proposal. Here's his argument for the Jerome Holtzman Award, which would join the MVP, Cy Young, Rookie of the Year and Manager of the Year awards handed out by the BBWAA.
There's some pretty good debate on the BBWAA site about whether or not there should be a relieve award, and whether naming it after a writer is the right thing. I see all sides of this so far and not sure I've made up my mind.
* How pitchers change their approach against good hitters.
* The 90s may be remembered as a time when the powder blues were dropped and many teams went back to basics in uniforms, but 'Duk at Big League Stew remembers some of the awful uniforms of the decade, too.
* An Indians coach will be on The Amazing Race.
* Former big league outfielder Doug Glanville writes in the New York Times about the steroid era.
* A former steroid dealer says he sold steroids and HGH to Michael Vick.
* Your weekend didn't seem long enough? Need more time? Urban Meyer scoffs at you. He had to be rushed to the hospital because of stress and has cyst in his brain that acts up when sterssed -- and he took a day-and-a-half off. Now he's good. You are weak wanting two whole days off.
* I'm a sucker for lists and college football -- so Dr. Saturday's Top 10 plays of 2009.
* This is one of my faovrite things I read this weekend. David Hale covers UGA for the Macon Telelgraph and he has one of the best beat blogs in the country. Writing in the aftermath of the Bulldogs' victory over No. 8 Tennessee, he wrote this:
"As a northerner, I have no room to comment on the commitment of football fans. Up north, we treat college football the same way we treat breakfast -- we like it, but if we're busy, we'll just grab a pop tart and not think twice."
* The story behind the old Larry Bird-Michael Jordan McDonalds "Nothing but net" commercial.
* One of the things I hate about recruiting coverage is that it's always more about hype and where a kid is going to go, where he's visiting, which coach he likes, where he's leaning and all that. Our RedHawkey blog changes the usual coverage -- John Lachmann went to Indianapolis for the second time to provide a live scouting report on Miami hockey's four fall committments.
* This is priced way out of my price range, and probably anyone's, but a game-used Cincinnati Swords jersey is on eBay.
* I've had nightmares of tripping and falling into a Picasso. I'm glad it wasn't me who actually did it.
* This woman in Cleveland killed her boyfriend by sitting on him. Really.
* I admit, I'm pretty excited about Apple's announcement on Wednesday. I'm a geek, what can I say?
* The creators of How I Met Your Mother are putting together another show.
* WIlco has two live shows availale for download. The band asks you give to Haiti relief efforts in exchange for the shows.
* You know what should be much more enjoyable than it really is? A wedding registry. You know, it's like, you put down stuff you'd like and have a good chance of getting it. The bad thing is you can't do anything good -- it's all forks and dishes and stand mixers. You try to put on a GPS and the DLP gets all mad and stuff. Oh well.
Did Brett Favre blow the game with his INT, probably so, not guarrenttee with how kickers have done this post season, but yeah. Of course Adrian Peterson, Bernard Berrian and Percy Harvin didn't help any either. However, I will ask this question where would Minnesota have made it with Tavaris Jackson? I'd take almost super bowl over first round of playoffs if I were a Vikings fan.
Urban Meyer doesn't need rest because God is on his side at all times. Especially in recruiting and dreams.
I think people in State College, Columbus, Ann Arbor, and South Bend may disagree with the his comment about the passion of college football fans. Maybe New Yorkers or people in Boston are that way, but when you can fill 100,000 seat stadiums and have twice that amount still partying outside, I'd say they are quite passionate still.
There's only one thing wrong with NFL overtime rules and it's not that it's "unfair", it's just boring. Marching down the field 50 yards and kicking a field goal is just the most anti-climatic way to decide a hard fought game. I think the NCAA gets it right. You can't deny the roller coaster emotions of a multi-OT game. It's much more exciting. Considering the NFL is the top sporting league in terms of TV viewership, you would think that they would want to provide a better endgame. Besides, if you're a Bengals fan, why would you want to watch a OT game relying on your special teams play? I'll cut out the kicking game for the excitement of short field football.
eric, i don't agree, but i respect that viewpoint. i hate hearing how a coin flip decides a game -- it really doesn't. defense and special teams d have a place in it.
i'm of the opinion that the sudden death makes everything more exciting -- i like the tension of it. but i think overtime playoff hockey is the best thing in sports.
i've heard peopl say you should make it first touchdown wins, and i can see that, but it's more gimicky
I like College football's system, but wish the guys didn't start in field goal range. I've never seen the numbers or know if they exist for that matter, but I'd venture to say the Majority of teams who win the toss in NFL sudden death win the game. To me it does kind of stink, but I totally agree, make a stop. You are supposed to be one of the best defenses in football.
Put the GPS on the registry. I've had this discussion with my wife and other friends. We came up with the idea that a guy can put something like a GPS on a registry so that his single guy friends can buy something like that vs silverware. I had a friend once who jokingly put a TV on his registry, he ended up getting it because me and his 6 other single guy friends didn't want to buy china.
re: NFL overtime
What about each team trades kickoffs instead of starts at a fixed position on the field? That would keep the special teams in play.
And maybe push the kick off distance further back so that teams don't have to drive so far.
i had to take off the tv too!
in fairness, i did put on the grill i really want, she said that was ok -- i need a charcoal grill to go with my gas grill and smoker.
and, i don't know that people will realize this, but the badass knives that were registered for are for me
Registering was one of the worst days ever. It was so fun for the first 1 1/2 hours, playing wi th the little lazer gun and all, but 3 hours in Bed Bath and Beyond is just too much!
yeah, a little tip -- no matter how many times you shoot yourself in the head with the laser gun at target, it won't take you out of your misery.
That comment about Brad Johnson and Trent Dilfer was kind of silly. Brett Favre has also won more Super Bowls than Dan Marino. Does he suck to?
I'm not a huge fan of Brett, but he is a first ballot Hall of Fame QB no matter how you spin it.
With Brett Favre, I don't care about the will her retire or won't he stuff. What gets annoying is how much ESPN covers it. But that's what ESPN is, annoying. They have appeal to the large markets and what people want to hear. So in the offseason, when there's not a lot going on we hear about Brett Favre. We only hear about RedSox/Yankees during baseball. All their "experts" picked the Jets to win this weekend. When you see Kentucky football play another middle of the pack team from another conference, the reason they are winning is because they have SEC Speed. Duke/UNC is the greatest rivalry in sports, etc. It's them taking what's popular and what they've paid Billions to have on their chanel, and trying to make it relevant to everyone else.
ESPN, to me is the Wal-Mart of sports media. They want everyone to depend on ESPN, and only ESPN for sports coverage. That's why they have 5 or 6 chanels, that's why they've got the Magazine, and that's why now they are starting up these ESPN websites that are specific to certain cities. With the fall of local newspapers, and beat writers being eliminated, the climate is right for ESPN to succeed. Hopefully small upstarts like this website can ultimately gain more popularity for their great content and give us a good source other than ESPN.
I kind of like the college overtime system, but I would start each possession no closer than midfield. Like btalbert said, you shouldn't start in field goal range.
My wife and I compromised with a registry at Sears, so I could include power tools. My friends were much more willing to buy a drill than a duvet cover.
congrats on the engagement, ctrent! sorry your dlp doesnt want the dlp tv...
i am in the ranks of people that think nfl overtime should be a race to six points. the current system is just boring. a team gets the kickoff, drives for a couple of first downs, and then clenches up in typical conservative nfl fashion. force coaches hands and make them open up the playbook to win.
brs,
in no way am i saying brett favre isn't a hall of fame quarterback or that he "sucks." what i'm saying is he has been deified by espn, and while he's a first-ballot, no-doubt hall of famer, he isn't as good as they make him out to be
I tagged a digital video cam on my registry, never got it. Thought it was reasonable, especially since I was graduating college studying film and all. But if you get the smoker and knife set the TV would just be...totally awesome (but maybe asking too much).