Month: October 2005

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Jacksonville, that’s “Who Dey”

Jacksonville, that’s “Who Dey” and don’t say I didn’t tell ya so.

OK, so they had a ‘chance’ at the end.

Fact is they played like crap. As Marvin said, “They didn’t play well enough to win.” 23-20 is not indicative of the way they played. They were owned.

They can’t stop the run, no way no how. They didn’t tackle. They didn’t really give up the ball until that last drive when Palmer fumbled, but they gave up field position all night long on stupid/bad penalties.

Recover a fumble on the 20 and have to kick a 50 yard field goal. Sheesh.

I will give them this: “There was no quit”. That is a HUGE improvement.

But they are not Super bowl bound. There are too many good teams on the schedule, and I don’t think they have the talent (yet) to play with those teams.

Prior to Sunday night the combined records of teams they had beaten was 3-10 to get them to 4-0. That was a large part of what got them there.

Had they played Pittsburg or other teams in the first 4 games and things would be quite different.

I don’t blame the fans or the media. Cincinnati is so starved for a winner that we’ll take anything positive and run with it. But let’s be realistic folks.

This guys are good, but they are not _that_ good yet.

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The Soccer Report

Whew, winter is moving in…

It was freezing this morning.

The 10am game featured the Cheeto’s vs. the blue team in another game of attention span soccer.

Maria played her best game yet. She made some great plays. While on defense she stole the ball and carried it out to the center line. She was all alone, on a break away! The coach was screaming, Go Maria, Go! But she got to half way dumped the ball and ran back. After all she was on defense and that wasn’t her job.

Full size pictures are in the Gallery under Maria:Soccer

Even though it’s candy league and they don’t keep score, they won again 3-1 I think.

The 11:30am game featured the Green Machine vs the Yellow Bellies or something.

The Green Machine got off to their best start ever. Scoring first for the first time in any of their games! There was hope! They played better.

As with Maria, this was Maggies best effort as well. The Yellow team turned it up a notch, and broke down the Green Machines defense and again left the goalie in a number of 2 on 1 and 3 on 1 situations in which she had no chance.

Down 3-1 with only minutes to play they decided it was time to make a comeback. But it was too little too late. Final score today 3-2 in favor of the bad guys 🙁

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I have a new hero!

These are circa 2003 SuperBowl I’m sure. I stumbled across them today. They played them at a seminar that I went to as intermission or break entertainment.

Man, we need an office linebacker here badly.

“You kill the Jo, you make some mo! Baby!”

There are (5) Commercials in the series:

Terry Tate 1

#2

#3

#4

#5

Bonus

Enjoy

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The NHL is back! So What?!?

The NHL is back! So What?!?

Man, I never thought I’d say this. But I’m not sure I really care.

I like most of the world has waited far too long for Hockey to return. The season started last night. How much hockey could I watch on TV? Only a Blue Jackets game on the local Fox affiliate.

1) That doesn’t cut it and 2) It was Blue Jackets vs. the Capitols, but nevertheless, it was Hockey.

With the new rules, you’d think that the rinks would have eliminated the red line? Or made it smaller?

The rink seemed smaller or the guys seemed bigger, the hockey for opening night was sloppy and the guys seemed to be out of shape and sucking wind early in the 2nd period. I turned if off at the end of the 2nd period. By the looks of the score sheet that was a good move.

Looking at the scores from last night, it does look like scoring is up overall. That was their goal and I think that’s good.

But last night, my choice was one game and one game only. I was not happy, and it’s not going to get me back into hockey easily.

It’s not because the players locked out. Yeah that’s the root cause. But man, if you want fans, you have to deliver the product which means mainstream TV, ESPN and other real networks folks.