Wow, for the dozens of times I've yelled at the television, "Rex, what the fuck are you thinking?" we now have an answer. That's perfect.
Ogged, did you see the HS football clip posted a little further down? It's awesome. I done wet ma'britches.
Ugh, I went to high school with Rex Grossman. Why does he have to be the famous guy?
4: I'd never heard of him, if that helps.
Something else amazing, in the "the pros are unbelievably good" category: number 88, Terence Green, who was a man among boys in that game, plays minor league baseball.
Holy moly, that's some game.
I've seen better tackling in flag football games. As noted in the comments, the last 48 points of that game were scored without the winning team's offense ever taking the field.
For NBA fans, let me point in the direction of Yard Work's basketball spinoff, Hard Wood.
One note joke. The blog name is startlingly good, though.
Drew Bledsoe's blog. The execution isn't as clever as the name.
12: E-gg-ce-llent name, though.
7: Ogged, the skill level among professional athletes is simply staggering, especially for the ones who are 'normal' sized. And Randy Moss, the single most graceful human being I've ever seen. Which is ironic, because he is singularly graceless as an individual.
Clearly Pooh, you haven't read my personals profile. Sigh. (Yes, every thread is an excuse to bring it up.)
I've been living in Chicago long enough that I even root for the Bears over my hometown Giants, but I'll never get used to how dumb the sports fans in this city are. (Cubs. 'nuff said.) Ditka, PBUH, won one (1) Super Bowl, and he is worshipped as a god. Not God, actually -- he's God's head coach. He tells God what to do and makes him run laps.
And now the same Bears fans who got to watch a season of Kyle-fucking-Orton are desperate to dump Rex Grossman, a player with real talent and potential to stuff in another journeyman hack like every other quarterback this team's had.
Bratwurst is bad for the brain, I guess.
11 -- Hey 'smasher, I don't think you're watching the same game-film as Merril Hoge.
I'm super happy about Vince's success this year and all. Really. Still, I can't help feeling that the Greater Good would have been best served by him staying with UT for another year. Christ those last two games sucked.
14 - The summer pro-am league in San Francisco has some very low level NBA players on the rosters. Every now and then, one will show up for a game and be incredibly better than anyone else there. It is amazing to see.
Herril Hoge doesn't make a lick of sense. There are good reasons to doubt Vince Young, but he doesn't list any. A lack of consistency--in his college career? Is Hoge being paid by Matt Leinart to say this stuff?
I'm not sure that the model--the scrambly quarterback--is a sound one for the NFL, personally. I've never really cared all that much about Michael Vick, for example: As electrifying as he is, Vick is injured too often, and the definition of insanity is running the same option play every down and expecting different results.
In most respects Young's a more promising quarterback than Vick was when he entered, even with the goofy sidearm throwing motion. His yards after the catch stats are amazing, and that speaks to his ability to target and lead a receiver, and his good days are always amazing--and he plays for one sucky team. I think he'll be better at finding the holes than Vick, but that's so much worse for the position--it's not as if successfully penetrating a hole makes the defense hit you less hard, and it's not as if Young's so much stronger than Vick that he's going to be sidelined less frequently.
18: Oh lord, did they ever. But Colt McCoy surprised me; offensively, we never lost a game. Our secondary, on the other hand--what a nightmare.
Nice try, Labs. A football post doesn't make you less gay.
Yeah, the secondary has indeed been horrible, but Colt has been surprisingly solid and effective. But whose idea was it to try to send him over the top in that Kansas State game?
Word this morning is of Grossman trash-talking during the Vikings game in the idiom projected above with uncanny accuracy, at least as to tone.
I agree with Brian about the second-ratedness of local fan culture, both as to giving Grossman's obvious talent space to grow and the revolting, never-ending Ditka cult. I almost typed Ditko cult, but of course I'm in favor of that.
As electrifying as he is, Vick is injured too often
The problem isn't that he's injured too often, it's that his passing accuracy is lousy. He wouldn't have to take off and run so much if he was able to hit a receiver downfield.
He's such a disappointment. For a while there, it looked like he might be some sort of proto-X-man. It turns out he's Randall Cunningham with more hair.
a proto-X-man
Reckon you're thinking of Barack Obama.