(Tuesday Morning Quarterback, that is.)
Sign of the times: TMQ just changed the "AP" entry in his AutoCorrect from Advanced Placement to Adrian Peterson.
Even though this will sound wrong for anyone who didn't already know Peterson's nickname, shouldn't it be AD (for "All Day")?
But aren't you glad he got that final carry?
Not really, why? If anything this is one more unsettling data point about players of team sports pursuing individual records for their own sake.
The past two Sundays, Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Brett Favre have become the only quarterbacks in NFL history to defeat 31 other teams.
In Easterbrook's favor he expresses this one correctly, unlike the San Francisco Chronicle, which incorrectly stated (in a headline) that Favre had beaten every NFL team. (I went to the article excitedly, thinking perhaps he'd happened to beat the Packers while still in Atlanta, but no such luck.)
Stretching back to last season, Pittsburgh is on a 10-3 run.
I remember the day the Coliseum scoreboard bothered to spend pixels telling fans that some player (Scott Hatteberg if I remember right, but the detail isn't relevant) had batted .250 over his previous seven games. These are the sports statistic counterpart to how The Onion revels in "Least Essential" albums.
Marshawn Lynch had rushed on six consecutive snaps, and the Cincinnati defense was fixated on him. Lynch took a pitch right, accompanied by pulling tackle Langston Walker, and flipped a touchdown pass to tight end Robert Royal.
I'd actually e-mailed Chad a cut-and-paste of the plays from that drive, specifically to express how highly I approved.
Endlessly I bellow at my middle school football kids, "Never stop moving on defense!"
Americans spend a incredible amount time on football. Try not to think too hard about that.
Compared to us the cosmos is inexpressibly old; compared to itself, the universe glistens with dew. Creation might continue for hundreds of billions of years -- or forever.
Sure, why not? Seriously! What order of magnitude would you intuitively think of as the shelf life of the universe? Now that you've thought of it, why couldn't it be (say) a thousand orders of magnitude higher?
Put more football on television! Show it on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, when viewers can actually watch.
For the target audience in question, of course he's actually right. On a larger scale, though... see my note about Americans and football two items up.
But aren't you glad he got that final carry?
Really, I was stunned by this...after killing who knows how many electrons over the past years bemoaning the bad sportsmanship of leaving in your starters to run up the score, know he praises someone left in to solely to set a record.
Even though this will sound wrong for anyone who didn't already know Peterson's nickname
How do you know that is not the subtext of his nickname?
Posted by: Kubi at November 6, 2007 06:24 PM