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- 11/07/09
| Name: | Aaron Jaffe |
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| Member since: | July 25, 2005 |
| Last visit: | January 04, 2009 |
ajaffe has posted 1 link and 251 comments to SportsFilter and 2 links and 28 comments to the Locker Room.
Shotgun in the bucket: I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but a coworker and I were watching the NFL playoff games Sunday, and he had a question I couldn't answer, so I put it to all of you: Why do many quarterbacks lift a leg just as they're about to take a shotgun snap? I thought it might have to do with getting a quicker start on backpedaling, but does anyone know? Thanks.
posted by ajaffe to navel gazing at 03:21 PM on January 08 - 25 comments
It was 31 years ago today: that the Birmingham Americans beat the Florida Blazers 22-21 to take home the one-and-only World Bowl trophy as champions of the late, not-so-lamented World Football League. The Ams jumped out to a 22-0 lead and held of a furious Florida rally. And Miss Florida, who later went on to bigger things was there...
posted by ajaffe to football at 10:23 AM on December 05 - 9 comments
Does anyone want to take two U.S. Open tickets off my hands?: Chicobangs was good enough to procure a bunch for the Sept. 7 evening matches and due to family obligations, I can't go. Chico, how much are they?
posted by ajaffe to navel gazing at 12:47 PM on August 17 - 0 comments
thanks. i seem to recall that in 1987 or so, he had something like seven returns for touchdowns and for each one he claimed a peach-colored jacket from the CBC broadcast team. Some correct me on this if I'm completely deluded.
posted by ajaffe at 05:34 PM on April 05
is henry "the gizmo" williams in the cfl hof?
posted by ajaffe at 06:54 PM on April 04
No post about any politician throwing out a first pitch is complete without this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVMiJdHTfUo
posted by ajaffe at 08:52 AM on April 01
I'm not sure what time that was shot, but my wife was on her way into work near where the parade started and saw people all-but-passed out on the street in Giants garb at 9 a.m. or so. This gives you a good idea of the mood out there.
posted by ajaffe at 01:29 PM on February 07
duly noted, lbb. not really a comment on the super bowl by me, but rather an opportunity to get this out there...
posted by ajaffe at 12:24 PM on February 07
Check the comments with the story... That Live Wrong is a piece of work
posted by ajaffe at 10:10 AM on February 07
the definitive commentary on the big game? http://youtube.com/watch?v=2OR9sOID8_s
posted by ajaffe at 09:20 AM on February 07
Why did the clock continue to run after Brady threw the final incompletion? There were at least four seconds on the game clock and it ran down to one after the play was clearly over.
posted by ajaffe at 09:55 AM on February 04
As a Mets fan, to me the best thing about this deal is that they now can abandon thoughts of Kyle Lohse and Livan Hernandez. The lineup still strikes me as a bit thin, especially at the corner outfield spots, the bench and the bullpen, if everyone's not healthy.
posted by ajaffe at 08:36 AM on January 30
Mason Dixon was also the name of a main character in "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes." It's come to this...
posted by ajaffe at 07:55 PM on January 26
Pats fans -- how long do you think Bledsoe would have stayed on as the starter if Mo Lewis hadn't injured him? I doubt New England was grooming Brady as the starter before he was pressed into service and turned into Superman...
posted by ajaffe at 11:42 AM on January 22
The snarky, yet wistful tone, is just right...
posted by ajaffe at 07:30 AM on January 17
Seconding dyams on the baseball-card book -- one of the best sports books ever written. One quibble: It came out in the early to mid '70s, cos' I had a copy when I was in grade school. It was reissued in updated form in the early '90s. Years ago, I wrote a piece for a baseball Web site where I went back and found out that Charley Maxwell really didn't do all that well on Sundays in 1956...
posted by ajaffe at 10:28 PM on January 16
It's time to pitch the DH.
BoKnows, I believe that when the DH was introduced in 1973, it was on a three-year (or so) trial basis, but the league quickly (like, a month into the season) made it permanent.