Peyton and Eli Manning will both start in the Pro Bowl, which no one will watch, but it’s a cool concept. And the fact their daddy, Archie, also played in the game is just incredible. That got me to thinking of all the quarterback daddies I have never seen and I am curious because who cares about all that other NFL slop fans get served over and over like Beefaroni in a school lunch line.
Where are Donovan Daddy, Uncle Ben, Father Favre and Big Romo? What’s it like to have a son quarterbacking an NFL team, I would like to ask them. I know that offensive lineman take after their moms, but what about quarterbacks?
All NFL teams now have media guides online in the dreaded PDF format because they got tired carting around boxes of books to all their road games. Each player biography has a section labeled “personal,” which gives you the only chance to find out about a player’s parents. You would be surprised, but there is a lot less bragging than one might imagine.
LOOKING STUPID - Football coaches who lose always look stupid when their team performs in an inept fashion. Andy Reid is larger than preseason because, by his own admission, the coach has been known to swallow uncertainty and anxiety. But Andy and his wet walrus self have been cool lately because the team is winning games.
Contrast that to Jim Zorn of the Redskins, a former NFL quarterback who stays in shape, but needs lots of advice beginning with the helmet head hair to never letting them see you waver in your commitment to your own intelligence.
“I may be the worst coach in the league.”
Look at Browns coach Romeo Crennel. Walks using a cane, stands on the sidelines and doesn’t respond to anything and yet his players love him and want him to stay, but “wherefore art thou” Romeo - one act play is two acts too long. Wade Phillips of the Cowboys is the other head coach who, like a patron in Peebles without a license, can’t get any credit. I’d love to see the Boyz win it all and have Phillips go off and quit but take the trophy home.
COACH SHALL NOT RETURN - Coach George Glenn is my dog, so people have been asking me every freaking day whether coach is coming back to the Cape football program and I tell them, “The next time I’m on the roof of an outlet mall setting up Christmas lights I will ask him. But as of now I know nothing.”
Coach and I spoke last Wednesday and I confirmed that he is not a candidate for the vacant Cape football job and that is most emphatically that. Interviews for the job will likely occur in January after a committee soon to be ignored is put in place. Read between the lines - lots of men talk football but who really knows the game? I can talk philosophy, but should I be on the faculty at Penn?
The problem with committees of experts is that sometimes their recommendations are overridden by committees reactive to political pressuring. Say it ain’t so!
DON’T DOWNTOWN - I call this the cocktail party clicky-clacky social season, and if you’re not willing to alternate Christmas tree cookies and fried crab balls while nursing a doctored up fruity drink masking hard liquor then stay home and stop annoying everybody which is what I do. And never “talk noise” and downtown your employer.
That especially goes for educators because many people not in the business actually want to believe the worst, so don’t feed into their “the whole country is falling apart” world view because the last time I checked no school-aged kids were in charge of the economy or foreign policy.
This relates to sports because kids in competition where scores are kept are just the best and coaches are the greatest, so don’t forget to get them a gift card for a stocking stuffer. I’m hoping for a sock monkey to sit next to me while I write.
SNIPPETS - Resolutions and goals are the same, I think, and athletes are a goal-oriented class of people. Look at runners who represent goals gone wild and powerlifters and those with perfect discipline. But what is there to look forward to if you never waver or wafer, which is why goals need to be thrown overboard every so often and replaced with new ones.
A paparazzi - word resembles pizza and pepperoni - captured a fat photo of Mike Tyson and now everyone is loving it. Bring back the Tyson quote to Lennox Lewis: “I will eat your children.” But I respect Mike for being the fat guy and I’ll be the first to laugh when he eats some guy’s Nikon D 700.
I’m out like a water spout!
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