Monday, August 14, 2006
Roadkill Fights Back
Since the Mets are 9-1/2 games up for home-field advantage and I have no clue of how to deal with prosperity, I'll instead turn my thoughts to the first weekend of the NFL preseason. Yeah, it's only preseason but since football is the only sporting season that doesn't run too long (well, other than Dick Cheney octogenarian hunting season), it's worth checking out.
And since RW's bachelor party (kudos to Buddha for his work in making it happen) has robbed me of my ability for long-term thought and writing in coherent sentences, I'll resort to notes and bullet points:
1. As Deadspin so eloquently put it, a Raccoon ran over a man this weekend. T-Rac (seriously? this first initial-first syllable of last name thing has to stop), the Tennessee Titans' mascot hit Saints QB Adrian McPherson with a golf cart while handing out T-shirts, officially making this incident McPherson's most embarassing ever (easily eclipsing getting booted out of FSU). This is ridiculous on any level, but how pissed must the Saints be? It's one thing to get hurt on a sack or in a pile, another when hit by poorly named mascot. Of course, this will likely be how Chad Pennington gets injured somewhere down the road.
2. Speaking of, on Saturday everything I read was how excited the Jets were that Pennington took a hit and didn't go down for the season. Of course, they scored three points so maybe that was the highlight. Ugh.
3. The Titans' Randy Starks was suspended for his team's first preseason game for allegedly assualting his fiancee, adding to a rough offseason for the NFL. The new commish would do well to address the number of arrests, detainments and taserings of NFL players recently. It's getting a little out of hand. On the upside, by turning himself in R-Stark did avoid the wrath of T-Rac's out-of-control cart racing.
And since RW's bachelor party (kudos to Buddha for his work in making it happen) has robbed me of my ability for long-term thought and writing in coherent sentences, I'll resort to notes and bullet points:
1. As Deadspin so eloquently put it, a Raccoon ran over a man this weekend. T-Rac (seriously? this first initial-first syllable of last name thing has to stop), the Tennessee Titans' mascot hit Saints QB Adrian McPherson with a golf cart while handing out T-shirts, officially making this incident McPherson's most embarassing ever (easily eclipsing getting booted out of FSU). This is ridiculous on any level, but how pissed must the Saints be? It's one thing to get hurt on a sack or in a pile, another when hit by poorly named mascot. Of course, this will likely be how Chad Pennington gets injured somewhere down the road.
2. Speaking of, on Saturday everything I read was how excited the Jets were that Pennington took a hit and didn't go down for the season. Of course, they scored three points so maybe that was the highlight. Ugh.
3. The Titans' Randy Starks was suspended for his team's first preseason game for allegedly assualting his fiancee, adding to a rough offseason for the NFL. The new commish would do well to address the number of arrests, detainments and taserings of NFL players recently. It's getting a little out of hand. On the upside, by turning himself in R-Stark did avoid the wrath of T-Rac's out-of-control cart racing.
# posted by EJ @ 10:57 AM 
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Sometimes you eat the raccoon, and sometimes the raccoon eats you.
So I'm starting to think that we should have a series of posts related to just weird Ohio sports stories. What is the most you've drank in one day? I think we can all say we've had fifteen beer days. Twenty beers would be quite a lot for one drinking session. Twenty five probably has to be about my record. Well, Alex Boone, an offensive lineman for the Buckeyes, puts that to shame. For him, 25 beers is a day off. He estimates his average was in the 30 to 40 beer per day range, before entering rehab.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/
sports/content/sports/osu/daily/
081106osufb.html
Boone is 6'8, 350. I imagine he was a real treat to run into at the bar, after he's had his first, you know, 35 or so.
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So I'm starting to think that we should have a series of posts related to just weird Ohio sports stories. What is the most you've drank in one day? I think we can all say we've had fifteen beer days. Twenty beers would be quite a lot for one drinking session. Twenty five probably has to be about my record. Well, Alex Boone, an offensive lineman for the Buckeyes, puts that to shame. For him, 25 beers is a day off. He estimates his average was in the 30 to 40 beer per day range, before entering rehab.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/
sports/content/sports/osu/daily/
081106osufb.html
Boone is 6'8, 350. I imagine he was a real treat to run into at the bar, after he's had his first, you know, 35 or so.
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