an update to a previous thread. not content to offer an homage of tmq reader submissions, football outsiders is now the official (temporary) home of tuesday morning quarterback.
"it was like playing on a soft natural grass pitch, easy to stop sharply and shoot or cross the ball at speed. i'd have happily played on it for hours non-stop..." curtis fleming - middlesbrough fc & republic of ireland international soccer player
the dallas cowboys are the first nfl installation. for us amateurs, you can try it out at several different locations. has anyone played or seen this surface?
while countless booth personalities languished behind madden/summerall for decades at cbs and fox, troy only had to wait a year.
sorry fellow cowboy fans, but it looks like summerall really is going to announce most of the cowboys games. sigh.
nfl, usfl, wfl and more. pro, college and semi! every year, every team, every logo. get yer helmets!
texas tech (15-3) rips the number six rated oklahoma sooners at home, 92-79, avenging a blowout loss in norman two weeks ago. bobby knight has turned the red raiders into winners. can he keep it together and make lubbock, texas a perennial college hoops powerhouse?
kareem abdul-jabbar lands head-coaching postition for the oklahoma storm. flyover country gets a rare opportunity to see a living legend.
Dillon skipped the first voluntary minicamp under Lewis, and was the only regular to show up late for training camp. Lewis has urged him to talk to the media regularly, but has been rebuffed. from here. just what the cowboys need, a talented, lazy, malcontent. give me troy hambrick, anyday. he might not get 100 yards a game, but he'll stick his helmet on a linebacker to pick up the blitz, or block for the fullback, or do whatever the heck is neccessary for the team to be successful.
i'm not really sure what a footie is, starfucker. but for your entertainment, here is a fantasy footie (sfw) site.
"It wasn't enough to get cut by Buddy Ryan. He had to try to knock me out of the game. That tells you what kind of man Buddy Ryan is," said Zendejas, who never had another opportunity to kick in Thursday's game. He said he wasn't sure whether he would have been able to kick. those cowboys sucked too.
interestingly, esera has duet with singer suzy k available. i'm glad he was able to finally talk about his real self. but i can't imagine anyone being able to come out while currenting playing, and still being able to keep their job in the nfl.
etagloh: that wording is straight from realgrass. but nevertheless, i stand corrected. and while i'm admitting to my errors, my previous link to the rundown should have pointed here. and you can't deep link to dallascowboys.com (which i did in the fpp)
here's a rundown of some of the newer surfaces being used in the nfl. and this is a very nice pdf showing how it is constructed.
owillis, i think a lot of teams are kicking themselves right now. are the tums not working very well?
is anyone watching this show, outside of dallas cowboys fans? i don't have hbo. when i (sporadically) check my favorite p2p networks, i haven't seen any episodes available. fyi: i wonder if flowers will get another chance, now that wr rocket ismail lost for 2002 season.
dan patrick argues davis should be in the hall of fame. his comparison to sayers is close, but not convincing for me. davis had an oustanding supporting cast. sayers did not.
historical football stats have (ahem, historically) been very hard to locate. i'm an avid football stat person, a strat-o-matic geek. i found the football reference (which the prospectus links to, awhile back. you can download some raw data there and play around with it. excellent link. and i was trying to save some money this month.
to balance this out a little, scales to be first women in radio booth for nfl preseason game. last year, leslie visser was the first female to work the monday night radio booth.
and yet they can't make a single, not one, decent football game for the console. everything is arcade style, with simulation either completely forgotten, or if it exists, generating woefully erroneous gameplay. everyone touting madden -- yes, i mean you too owillis, is simply wrong. madden football is an interesting experiment, but in the end the real life player has *way* too much control over the performance of individual runners, tacklers, passers, et al. the game, like the supreme court [every good rant has to throw a shot at bush in, don't you think?], is completely compromised. actual understanding and real game savvy is subsumed by button punching ablility. you might as well be playing atari football. give me some strat-o-matic and the dice anyday. off tackle right, joe morris, guessed wrong. no men in the zone -- anyone, anyone?
[link]"One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty thugishness about the power-baseline style that's become dominant on the tour. Watch Agassi closely sometime...he's amazingly absent of finesse, with movements that look more like a heavy-metal musician's than an athlete's...what a top PBer really resembles is film of the old Soviet Union putting down a rebellion. It's awesome, but brutally so, with a grinding, faceless quality about its power that renders that power curiously dull and empty." david foster wallace. (originally a magazine article - republished in a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again)
hincandenza: you might want to see this comment at another website for a bit of an explanation. if that is still confusing, try here
wulfgar!: i'm actually very happy the seahawks are returning to the nfc. i was in sixth grade when seattle and tampa joined the league, and i've been a casual fan of both teams (the 'hawks, more so) since. also, i had two gorgeous posters for each team, that were issued that year. i'd appreciate a link if anyone knows where on the web they might be viewed. as for houston, it's all about the qb. they need someone mobile, who can escape a portion of the pounding that will inevitably occur. i'd make that, like aerosmith tickets [ref.], the top priority of the summer. (maybe randall 'pink' floyd is available)
i'm pretty sure tyson is now being managed by skandar akbar. if not, he should be. even if i thought this would be a good fight (lewis will hammer tyson, imho), i wouldn't support it with a dime of my money. sideshows like this are what keep me from supporting the sport. are you listening don king?
thank you chules, for giving me the opportunity to share this story. my first nfl game was the cowboys-steelers game in 1985 (google cache link) i was a poor college student, who could not afford the outrageous $75 and up fee the scalpers were charging outside. after the game had begun, and prices still had not dropped significantly, i became quite discouraged. it was then my buddy bruce and i talked to this guy who offered to get us in the stadium for $40. we had tried and failed to make it into the ou-texas game, where troy aikman led ou to a 14-7 victory [en route to a national championship] the previous day, so we were very keen on making into the stadium. after handing the gentleman our money, and waiting around for a short time, he provided us with a plastic vest and various implements of destruction [i.e. cleaning crew tools]. he walked us through the gates, and up several ramps, then collected the vests and things, turning us loose in texas stadium. the game was a complete sellout, and we could not find any seats that were vacant. we ended up sitting at the very top, on a concrete railing just a little back of last row of seats. but the cowboys managed to win the game, and tony d passed the 10,000 yard mark. money well spent.
fox is now contemplating having summerall be the exclusive television voice for the dallas cowboys. please no. make it stop.
"Try throwing this [watermelon] to your [n-word]s. Maybe they can catch this." it hasn't happened quickly, but progress is being made.
it looks like attendence for the usbl is not that terrific (1-2 thousand) and i was unable to ascertain whether that is a break even point or not. the cba didn't last, and the franchise nearest me was very poorly attended. college basketball draws very well, but all of the major teams (ou/osu/tu) in oklahoma are outstanding. oddly enough, the oklahoma city blazers (chl hockey) average over 8300 per game, which is more than respectable.
hal, i was watching too. that was a great episode, and i'm glad the texas rollergirls and ann were able to meet and pay respects.