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BILL COWARD MORE LIKE IT AMIRITE: THE 06-07 COACHING CAROUSEL LOL FUK U ALLY

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LOL oh steelers

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

Did he cry?

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

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^^^ this is brett favre fyi

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

My father-in-law is doing a jig as I type this.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Wha happen? I thought Brett was having fun this year!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

omg can I post the picture ESPN is running right now or will I get yelled at like I'm Tad?

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

listen to your heart

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE FORMER FACE OF THE STEELERS:

http://espn-ak.starwave.com/media/nfl/2006/0201/photo/g_cowher_412.jpg

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Wow hey there chinny mcchinface!! I heard you quit coachin'!

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

I guess SOMEONE on the Steelers has to have a face, amirite LOL @ rofflesberger.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

LOL!

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

What 49-year-old quits coaching for good? The easy guess would be a year or two off, then back to coaching. Is there some reason to think Cowher is retiring for good?

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Friday, 5 January 2007 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

My high school football coach looked a whole lot like Cowher, except he had a full on fu manchu style stache.

I think Cowher will sit out a few years and if the NC State head football coaching job comes up, that might be the one he will want. Either that or wait on the Carolina Panthers job. I think Cowher is a close to the home kind of guy.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Friday, 5 January 2007 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

i kept wanting to throw my beer at the tv last weekend every time that nfl films commercial would come on with cowher biting his lip and saying, 'that was a special moment'. and then namath came on after him, ugh.

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 5 January 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

No tears today...how refreshing.

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Friday, 5 January 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

they're better off w/o him at this point, he is so mellow and like "lol i do not care i am kyle orton" right now

AMAAAAAZING that nobody has mentioned saban yet :-0

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Friday, 5 January 2007 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

i knew saban was gone after this season the instant i saw that limp-dick flag toss in week 1.

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 5 January 2007 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

not so amazing that no one has brought up saban on a thread about a totally different person, you jackweeds!!! lol j/k

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

gis "lmbo"

http://www.geocities.com/grumpie_man/Animation6.gif

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

ally i have something for you

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070105/capt.njff10501051714.giants_eagles_football_njff105.jpg

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

*"i'm a believer" plays*

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/3/b/4/3b49181a938cac3aa6c896404d2391d4.jpg

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

it's a good enough point

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

also both "grumpie_man" the wizard cat and eli: i love them!!!

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

OH I SEE IT HAS BEEN BROUGHTEN!!!!

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Friday, 5 January 2007 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://x.go.com/cgi/x.pl?goto=http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2720610&name=FPT-2720610-010517&srvc=sz


Raiders' job avail.

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 5 January 2007 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

I should sign up; it would decrease my commute time.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 5 January 2007 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

I think the Raiders should have a reality show with the winner becoming the head coach.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

If it was the winner pulling the plug on Davis, I'd watch.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 6 January 2007 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

Or rub Vitalis into his scalp and trim his nose hair. Ewwww! Davis is now like your crazy neighbor with 50 cats all named Randy Moss.

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Saturday, 6 January 2007 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

hahahahahaha bobby petrino is atlanta's new HC hahahahahaha oh god

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

;_;

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

*points at you, laughs*

I guess I should knock it off before the Maras decide to hire, like, the dude from the Wendy's commercial eatin' tiny food as their next head coach :(

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

LOL THEY COULD HAVE BEEN ON BOISE STATE JOCK BANDWAGON RITE?

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 8 January 2007 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

he will follow in the footsteps of ncaa-to-nfl success stories like pete carroll, steve spurrier and nick saban :'(

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 January 2007 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

There's no way he can be as bad as Spurrier was.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

I still think the Redskins/Spurrier situation was just a bad fit for all parties involved. Had he debuted with a different team, things might have gone better.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 8 January 2007 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

who in their right mind would take the falcons job?!?!?

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 8 January 2007 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

Someone willing to bench Vick?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 8 January 2007 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe after Parcells "retires" again he can go in there, shape those wacky kids up.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Monday, 8 January 2007 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

we're going to wind up with Mora because it's only one letter away from Mara. that's using misdirection to create confusion.

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Then Olindo Mare is in the running. Giants should definitely hire a kicker as their next head coach.

― lk (lawrence kansas), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Olindo Mare, the new Giants OC.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

roffle at "someone willing to bench vick" my ass.

also does he not remember the marcus vick incident?

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

ok holy shit Adam Schefter is now starting the rumorreporting that Parcells is a strong candidate for the Giants GM job.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

that would be awesome! right?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

there'll be overweight guidos all over new jersey spontaneously creaming in their sweatpants when they hear that on sports radio later this afternoon.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Also apparently Arizona is having KURT WARNER and MATT LEINART interview potential head coaches. The Bidwells really seriously do not give a fuck at all, do they?

xpost I...am not really sure. They supposedly want their new GM in ASAP so he can firemake the decision on Coughlin by Monday.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Upside: Parcells would definitely fire Coughlin
Downside: Might drag random old players out of the woodwork like pokemons and force them onto the Giants team

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Parcells would fire the fuck out of some Coughlin. with elan.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

c'mon, Jeff Hostetler is what the NFL has been missing!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.nfl.com/photos/img9916474.jpg
^^^ lol

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

oh god Hostetler

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Marv Levy is GM of the Bills. I think it would be nice parallelism if Parcells became GM of the Giants.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

It would really screw with Belichick, somehow.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

well, I'm sold.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

coughlin got his start under parcells, i think tuna might get rid of players before his buddy.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

no way man, Parcells is cold as ice!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

nonono, it was kurt warner and ANQUAN BOLDIN. TOTALLY DIFFERENT, DUDE.

i think UNITED PARCELLS SERVICE as GM would be awesome. it'd probably be easier on his health, and he's drafted superbly in Dallas. they're flush with defensive talent now.

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

coughlin got his start under parcells, i think tuna might get rid of players before his buddy.

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vs

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I don't think the dude cares that much about anyone. He left his entire family to go coach the frigging Patriots, dude.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

I got confused re: Matt Leinart because Norm Chow also had to go meet with Leinart.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

UNITED PARCELLS SERVICE

when did you become Rich Eisen?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'd say ZING except also COMPLIMENT

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

i would bet all i have that parcells would rather give a big FU to the players than to a coaching squad. but the thing is i don't think parcells could be a gm and have anyone else coaching the team. i think he'd be second guessing the coach after ever game, win or lose. so in that case, you're absolutely right, if parcells is the gm then coughlin is out 'cause tuna will be waddling the sidelines next season.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

but it's not like it's mutually exclusive. can't he just give a big FU to everyone? the lovable rascal.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

They're not going to hire Parcells, or even consider him, if he's unwilling to fire Coughlin, to phrase this all in a different fashion.

But yeah, that is also OTM, being just a GM would probably drive him nuts a bit.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

being just a GM would probably drive him nuts a bit.

srsly, if the team went 14-2 he'd be giving himself ulcers because he would be sure he could've won those two games.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

aw. not that I want this to happen, but I imagine Parcells is going to die on the sidelines.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

But maybe after all these years of cooking, Bill just wants to go shopping!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

OK how come internets has no record of Parcells's Slim Fast ads in the '80s.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

bill knows some people who know some people who made sure those ads never see the light of day, capiche?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

He got fat like 3 days after they were on the tv.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

he was unnatural, the Bill Parcells of those commercials. all smiley and svelte.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

here u go http://youtube.com/watch?v=K3qg4i22x9M

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

"i don't think parcells could be a gm and have anyone else coaching the team"

Parcells kind of tried that out once and it did not work too well, at least for the Jets. Parcells stayed on as GM of the Jets after he retired for the second time for a season and this went down.

New York Jets
After leaving Cleveland, Belichick served under Parcells again as assistant head coach/defensive coordinator with the Patriots (1996) and New York Jets (1997-99). When Parcells stepped down as head coach, Belichick became the new head coach. However, Belichick's introduction to the media the following day turned out to be a surprise resignation announcement. Before taking the podium, he scrawled a resignation note on a sheet of loose leaf paper that read, in its entirety, "I resign as HC of the NYJ." He then delivered a rambling half-hour speech explaining his resignation to the assembled press corps.[2]

Shortly afterward, he accepted an offer from the Patriots to become their new head coach, who had previously tried to hire him away from the Jets. Parcells and the Jets claimed that Belichick was still under contract, and demanded compensation from the Patriots. NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue agreed, and the Patriots gave the Jets a first-round draft pick in 2000 in exchange for the right to hire Belichick


― Earl Nash (earlnash), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

"Also apparently Arizona is having KURT WARNER and MATT LEINART interview potential head coaches."

I don't think that is that bad an idea, it happens all the time in the NBA. Leinart is going to be their QB for hopefully a long time. I think having the QB understanding what kind of offensive philosophy is going to end up at head coach is not a bad thing. The owner is going to do what the owner is going to do and whatever happens in Arizona it won't be good either way.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

oh shit, i forgot about that! wasn't al groh the coach when tuna was gm? and that worked out so well that groh left after a year to coach in the ACC?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

I think the point is, that no one but the players is really interviewing these people. I really hope Norm Chow doesn't take that job, the Bidwells are 47x the coach killers Michael Vick is.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

i would srsly doubt no one other than the two mentioned is interviewing candidates. i think they are merely the only two mentioned.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

nah there was like 6 people mentioned. They were all players. Adam Schefter made a big deal about it, you all need to get some NFLN and be up on the game.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

god damn it, i need to get a new job so i can move into a new apartment so i can get some cable tv so i can watch nfln.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

OTM!

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Y'all can just come over my place.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

cool, if i start walking after work tonight i should be there by the second half of the superbowl.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

oh that's good, we're having a superbowl party! There will be food and drinks!

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

ooh i want to go to dc for allyzay/tombot super bowl party funtime awesomeness!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

if my sister & bro in law still lived in alexandria i would totally go.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

i can think of exactly one person in chicago that i hang out with who will be interested in the superbowl. i will likely be at a bar.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

our party is probably going to be kind of lame because 98% of the people who will be attending do not actually seem to understand or care about football, and depending on what is happening I might turn bitchy at them if they are talking over the game and ESPECIALLY if they decide to break out the travel Scrabble that has been busted out at MULTIPLE BARS on Sundays now.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

but I will have food, and drinks, and will be wearing my Tiki Barber jersey as a dress. Also I have pretty cute cats, and they seem to enjoy football a lot.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

that is 98% of all people at all super bowl parties, so it's no big deal.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

I've apparently only been to high quality super bowl parties in the past.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

One time I went to a super bowl party, and I made a cake shaped like a football and it was pretty good!

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

when the pat's went to the superbowl back in '96 me and 24 other dudes rented out the clubhouse of a local country club for the game. my best friend's uncle was (and is, i guess) a chef so he took over the kitchen and we gorged ourselves for hours and killed 4 kegs over the course of 14 hours. there may or may not have been a drunken chinese fire drill on the trip home.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

that was the only good superbowl party i've been to.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

I went to one once and I ate 60 chicken wings :D

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

I think it was a Pats superbowl!

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

But one in which they won, not the '96 one :(

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

i remember the one against the rams, we were living in the garden apartment on washington blvd. and jen got so skittish that she had to leave the room on the final drive. i got a call from my friends in boston as vinatieri's kick was sailing through the uprights and there was nothing but white noise coming from the other end. i missed some pandemonium i guess.

also, someone stole my jacket at that party in '96.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

will be wearing my Tiki Barber jersey as a dress

yay!

Kevin, for serious, come over to my place any time you want to watch NFLN. it's all I do these days and my sister won't yell at me about it if there's someone else there!

I kind of hate SuperBowl parties cause people don't keep their goddamn mouths shut during the game.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

we should plan a chilx footsball party.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

yes!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

It took me ages to get the DCers to start coming out with me for football, uphill freaking battle. You'd think I was all like, "Hey dudes, do you want to go drown some kittens this weekend?" insteaad of being like, "Hey dudes, do you want to go to the place with 25c wings and $3 Sam Adams seasonals and unlimited free shots?"

(I HOPE YOU GUYS ARE ALL READING THIS AND REALIZED YOU MISSED AN ENTIRE YEAR OF MUTTLEYS)

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i don't know who from the chilxors would be interested. i'd bet jeff would be. maybe dan? if it was hockey dan would be all over it. if it were baseball it would be all of them. but since it's football i don't know who'd be down for it. i'd guess jenny & jeff and that's it. four does not make a party.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

would anyone be down for a superbowl party of some kind? this is carry over from ilnfl.
-- chicago kevin (blablabl...) (webmail), Today 11:01 AM. (chicago kevin) (later) (link)


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Yeah, maybe. I don't care much about football, but I like parties.
-- jaymc (jmcunnin...) (webmail), Today 11:02 AM. (jaymc) (later) (link)

this is what i was afraid of. the response, not the respondant.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, enough people who don't care=no fun.

as it is, I'm invited to a Super Bowl party that is going to be huge+very few people are in it for the football, so I think I'm going to blow that one off.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

the best time i ever had at a superbowl party as an adult was when a bunch of us took over the weird restaurant/bar across route 9 from bard for super bowl sunday - the day before the spring semester started (a bunch of us seniors were up early working on our senior projects). i think that was the year the broncos won? and i won some sort of pool thing based on the outcome where i got this ridiculous free kahlua t-shirt. good times.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to force people to bet on the game at any party I attend this year (the outcome not just the score at the end of each quarter) so they'll have a rooting interest. This is my solemn vow to you.

― lk (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

ha! brilliant!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

i'm going to a bar. i've decided.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

oh dear.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

shit. I'm sorry, Ally and Tom!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

1/10/2007

NEVER FORGET

― lk (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

THAT NEWS IS COMPLETE BALLS.

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.bestwebbuys.com/muze/books/69/1558532269.jpg

― lk (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Oh for fuck's sake, that team is dead to me.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

our party is probably going to be kind of lame because 98% of the people who will be attending do not actually seem to understand or care about football, and depending on what is happening I might turn bitchy at them if they are talking over the game and ESPECIALLY if they decide to break out the travel Scrabble that has been busted out at MULTIPLE BARS on Sundays now.

I will make the party fun if I come and I will watch and I will not talk about Superchunk, and I can bring a homemade dessert if needed.

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

I was just kidding (I know a couple of you lurk here and am trying to taunt y'all out), but I have to warn you that the cats really hate Superchunk and I'm not liable for any attacks put on you by them if you discuss Superchunk.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

I came instantly to this thread as soon as I read the news about

I AM TOM COUGHLIN
ALLYZ SO HAPPY TO SEE ME AGAIN

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

I will be presented with the Must Stain Hall of Fame fantasy football championship trophy in a halftime ceremony during this year's Super Bowl. I'm even going to shave for the presentation.

I'm as surprised as anyone that this has turned out to be such a moment for me.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

but I have to warn you that the cats really hate Superchunk

then really, you should get some new cats.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

My cats like to watch America's Game.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

ooh i want to go to dc for allyzay/tombot super bowl party funtime awesomeness!

seriously, I don't mean to be all sappy Tiny Tim god bless us everyone, but I wish I could watch the SuperBowl with ILNFL.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

my friends' dog hudson gets too stressed out when they watch football. ;_;

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe we should make this happen somehow, next year. I mean hell if I am not tired of being in DC.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

my friends' dog hudson gets too stressed out when they watch football. ;_;

man, I feel for Hudson! back when there was still an infinitesimal chance the Bills would make the playoffs, I mainlined, like, 3 boxes of Cheez-Its in the second half of the Bills-Titans game.

I am totally down for ILNFL Super Bowl Party '08!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

OK seriously I don't know wtf is wrong with my brain but for some reason I thought you were talking about Bills-Oilers '94 and was like OTM and then was like OK that would make no sense to even be talking about plus they are no longer the Oilers. I need to get over this cold-type-thing I've got, stat.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

during Bills-Oilers '94 I was mainlining heroin.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

that doesn't even make any sense and also I was 14!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

that was the best game that ever happened. EVER.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

They should reshow THAT with interviews of players and coaches and Martin Sheen narration on America's Game.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

ESPN sometimes runs an "NFL's Greatest Games" segment on it, and it always makes me tear up a little. SHUT UP THIS IS ALL BUFFALO HAS!!!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

CryingSabresFan.jpg

― lk (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

xpost, OMG Ally, you should see the NFL's Greatest Games! Marv Levy is all smiley and adorable and Andre Reed is still hot and Frank Reich is the most modest person who's ever engineered a comeback and not a bad-looking chap either and the moment I start to tear up is when Andre Reed has caught the touchdown pass that gets the Bills within, like 4 points, and Jim Kelly freaks out on the sidelines because he's injured (sniff!) and pounds Reed's helmet and is all "one more, baby, just one more!"

(I am very sorry about this self-indulgent post, everyone.)

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, does JK bring it up in the Man Law ad, actually? The Houston game? That really is what they have. Which is pretty awesome but sad too. They really should've beat the Giants :(

xpost I TOTALLY need to see that! Frank Reich always kind of looked like Scott Bakula to me, btw.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, there's something extra-poignant about that Man Law ad (there's something I never thought I'd type!) to me, because he does mention the Houston game (as a reason fans shouldn't leave a game early) and it's like, aw, Jim Kelly, you didn't even get to play in that game that must have burned.

fyi, the people they interview from the Bills in that "NFL's Greatest Games" thing are: Marv Levy, Frank Reich, Andre Reed, and Don Beebe. And they'll show an amazing Bills drive and then cut to Frank Reich saying, "you know, I just got really lucky there because Houston blew a coverage." it's like, it's a good thing you were never a starter, Frank Reich, because you need to get yourself an ego, son.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

i'm totally dusting this off and watching it before the chargers game this weekend.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

wait, you own that!!

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure he has it tucked away somewhere amirite

― lk (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

yes i own that, and it's not tucked away, it's in the drawer of my tv stand next to my red sox dvd. i also own a different patriots dvd, one that wasn't put out by nfl films. and, uhm, i had my sister tape the first championship parade in boston and had her burn that to dvd for me too.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

uh oh corey dillon, i don't know how much to read into this but your shirts are 20% off and the only one's on sale at the pat's pro shop.

thanks for 3 great years corey.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

that's so...quaint.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

ooh, hey, if you know any pat's fans of a certain age have a birthday coming up i'm sure that they would love this.


xpost- if by quaint you mean mildly disturbing, yes, yes i'm aware. but you don't know, you have no idea how BAD, how MIND NUMBINGLY BAD this franchise was for so long. the sam jankovich years. zeke mowatt's zipper problems. don macpherson. I PAID MONEY TO WATCH A SEPTUGENARIAN MARK WILSON PLAY QUARTERBACK. so yes, i wanted something to document that that season did, in fact, happen.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

in passing, I love NFL Films. I wish they were in charge of filming everyting ever.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

hey, someone remind me on friday to go back to the pats pro shop and spend too much money. i totally want a throwback hat. my dad had one from the '70s that was red with the old pat patriot on it and a WHITE FUCKING POM PON ON TOP.

classic 70s cheese.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

This is completely OTM. You guys all saw the thing they did where they just had a highlight reel of Barry Sanders LOSING yardage, right? Eminently watchable!

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

me and my buddy jon used to randomly quote nfl films.

"from the dusty land of TYLER, TEX-us.... comes a PUNISH-ing running back by the name of UUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHHHHLLLLLLLLLL CAM-bell...."

"we gonna hit 'em! we gonna kick they ass!! we gonna knock 'em around!!! and when we're done? we're gonna go in the stands and slap their mamas!"

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

have not seen Barry Sanders losing yardage highlight reel!

dudes, it's really hard for me to do anything but obsess about football during the playoffs.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

after the Browns season and the OSU game the other night my eye is starting to wander towards baseball :-/

― lk (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dude, I'm sorry :\

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

Hey!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

I just need some time alone to sort things out.

― lk (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

You need to find footage of Grady Sizemore's buttocks rippling in sublime fashion as he flags down a deep drive in left-center.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just saying.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

i will de-lurk just long enough to say that the Buffalo-Houston game = WORST DAY OF MY LIFE AND IM TOTALLY SERIOUS ABOUT THAT.

ESPN sometimes runs an "NFL's Greatest Games" segment on it, and it always makes me tear up a little. SHUT UP THIS IS ALL BUFFALO HAS!!!

imagine being a Houston fan!!!!

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

THIS IS WHY YOU LIFT ALL THEM WEIGHTS

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

NOW WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO MOVE OUR GLASS MEETING CUBE

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://cachemediasrv.patriots.com/ImgDyn.cfm?s=BelichickThrow-1.jpg&w=300&cs=1

Patriots ProShop Exclusive! The Belichick Throw is a large (54"x 84"), warm, comfortable throw that was inspired by the Belichick Hooded Sweatshirt! Available only at PatriotsProShop.com and the Patriots ProShop at Gillette Stadium!

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Does it come with Belichick stench?

also, ryan, I'm sorry for you too.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry, Ryan! I think Super Bowl XXV might have been the worst day of my life, and I'm almost totally serious about that, if that...makes you feel any better? are you a Titans fan now? because how 'bout that Vince Young?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

or, oh shit, maybe you hate the Titans cause they left town? forget I said anything.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

actually after the oilers left i sort of gave up on the NFL for a while and half-supported the Titans until all the old Oilers retired. i like to pretend the Texans play for another city...

when vince young ran for a 40 yard touchdown against the texans a month ago people here were saying it was the "THE WORST THING EVAH TO HAPPEN SINCE THE BILLS GAME."

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

frankly i wouldnt be surprised if saints and titans games (which they showed every week here) got slightly better tv ratings!

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

I've been trying to rally all the fans of teams who didn't make the playoffs that I know behind the Saints. who can't get behind the Saints?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

"who can't get behind the Saints?"

ME

I HOPE DAWKINS TAKES REGGIE BUSH'S KNEES OUT :(

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

i love the saints now. i watched all their games this year! did they change their uniforms? because they sorta cool now and i used to think they were pukish.

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

i've had a grudge aginst the Saints since Depmsey kicked that field goal against the Lions

― lk (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

I thought you thought Mike Karney was a folk hero or something, Ade. /jaymc

I thought the Saints always wore black and gold? also Drew Brees was talking in a press conference about some fan who came up to him and showed him a tattoo of a fleur-de-lys he'd gotten on the INSIDE OF HIS BOTTOM LIP. hardcore.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

(okay, I don't have any historical feelings about the Saints one way or another. but post-Katrina, come on!)

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

ok looking it up i see i only like their "alternate" uniforms.

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha we are all watching the same channel all the time.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

i like it when the Saints wear their goth outfits. what's the over-under on the thing on Drew Brees' face slowly turning into a fleur de lys sometime in the next year?

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

oh shit ally i'm sorry i just saw the news ; (

― ‘•’u (gear), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

Frank Reich always kind of looked like Scott Bakula to me, btw.

You are not alone.

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

What event could make New Orleans fans feel more like things have returned to pre-Katrina conditions than a Saints loss?

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

1) bombing
2) another hurricane

that's about all I got

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

3) PAT SWILLING

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

4. archie manning and/or bum phillips.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Whisenhunt going to the Cardinals should be, uh, entertaining. Probably not as entertaining as Denny Green was but at least maybe Leinart/James might score on somebody besides the unBears next year.

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Why is Bobby Petrino so so bad & hated btw?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

who's hatin'? i would assume because of a recent string of successful college coaches who couldn't cut it in the pros? i'm trying to think of the last one who made the jump successfully and i have to go back to jimmy johnson.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

I think really the thing with college coaches is that the game is so totally different that they need to be eased into the situation. Just willy nilly shooting them off as head coaches at the pro-level is ridiculous but I guess with the kind of money "colleges" are interested in paying people these days you kind of can't be like, "Hi we will give you a job as a QB coach so you can learn the ropes, here's yr pittance salary"?

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Why is Bobby Petrino so so bad & hated btw?

he sold out to the hated vick motherfucking-stomp-a-cardinal-player brother.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

oh, and now that i think of it, barry switzer won his first couple years. but he sucked enough later that it kind of evens out.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

Switzer won w/ Johnson's sloppy seconds, tho. I think Rich Kotite would've one @ least one Super Bowl w/ that team.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

the most important college coaching skill is not applicable in the pros: RECRUITING

the best college teams are always fucking stacked, the talent disparity between the good and bad college teams is 1000x more than the pros.

so you take a great recruiter and send him to the pros and he actually has to like coach - and of course he can't.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

That's exactly what I mean, the skills that are really great to have as a college coach are nowhere near the same skillset as a pro coach, so it's not generally a great idea to just throw those dudes straight into the fire. But no one is willing to work their way up anymore because, yeah, colleges will pay out the ass.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

the talent disparity between the good and bad college teams is 1000x more than the pros

i think that's the most important difference.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

"the most important college coaching skill is not applicable in the pros: RECRUITING"

word. petrino in particular has made his way by out-recruiting everyone else in his conference. petrino WAS an NFL OC for a while (read: one year), but that was like in the 90s.

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Petrino was an OC for Jacksonville, but before that was the quarterbacks coach. He also was a quarterback coach at Arizona State when Jake Plummer was there. I don't know if that helps or hurts given Plummer's career. Having seen his offences at Louisville for the last several years I don't think he'll be a good fit in Atlanta. A lot will depend on who his OC is.

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

you guys think college recruiting is dissimilar to, y'know, evaluating a player for the draft?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

You think the NFL draft is like college recruiting?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 05:52 (nineteen years ago)

not particularly, in some ways, but i'm sure just evaluating players is probably based on pretty similar metrics (er...). but yeah.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

scouting is probably the same on both levels (tho there's a lot more to recruiting than talent evaluation), but scouting is only one aspect of the draft, and the draft is a small part of your average NFL coach's job (depending on the GM and how much power they have).

― SEACREST OUT OF IRAQ! (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 07:01 (nineteen years ago)

Scouting and recruiting are different skills altogether. A college coach probably both scouts and recruits, but the whole thing where they have to show up and eat dinner with some hick's parents... that's not something pro coaches have to do.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

college and pro coaches have a ton of scouting personnel out there doing their work for them. scouts at both levels typically work for all comers, so there's more than enough knowledge to go around. as stated, a big part of success in the college game is recruiting, and a big part of recruiting is the dinner-with-the-family bit, which Nick Saban excels at and I'm sure Petrino does too. That counts for fuck-all at the pro level. Repeat: fuck-all.

I really don't understand why you wouldn't snipe from a good college program's assistant coaching staff and train people up, instead of trying to move a head coach directly into a completely different head coach job. I suppose it works sometimes, but not often enough to be worth the kind of money teams lay out for the privilege.

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

RECRUITING = SALEZ

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

As someone said upthread if your a good recruiter you can hide your coaching flaws. See Steve Sprurrier. Can't hide in the NFL.

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

QUESTION
For how long has the straight NCAA coach ==> NFL coach progression been happening? The first instance that I can remember (in my 9er-centric weltanschauung) is when Seifert got booted for Mariucci, then headcoaching Berkeley, because in the post-Holmgren OMG HE SO ESEXXY assistants boom, he seemed like a hot tamale and the 9ers didn't want to lose their chance on him and put him straight through to HC even though he was only ever Farve's enabler/QB coach in the NFL.

― c('°c) (Leee), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

then headcoaching Berkeley

Remember also that he headcoached Cal to a 6-5 record in his only season there. That was fucking ridiculous.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

it's been going on for ever. mike holovak went from bc to the patriots in the '60s, jimmy johnson when from miami to the cowboys in '88 or '89. i'm sure it went on before that.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

The only thing I know about Cal football is that they only started beating Stanfurd after I graduated.

― c('°c) (Leee), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

dick vermeil came from winning the rose bowl for ucla!

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

So what's the story with Schottenheimer? I heard he got beat up in a clubthey're trying to buy him out?

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 03:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=AvmqZZVuHVHoIdHyD1dIlQ45nYcB?slug=ap-chargers-schottenheimer&prov=ap&type=lgns

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 18 January 2007 04:19 (nineteen years ago)

Oh that's the complete opposite of what I thought happened. Thanks!

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 04:29 (nineteen years ago)

Bill Parcells: 'I've Always Hated Football'
January 11, 2007 | Onion Sports

DALLAS—In the last press conference Bill Parcells would give this year after leading the Cowboys through a frustrating 9-7 season and an excruciating first-round playoff loss to the Seattle Seahawks, the hard-nosed coach surprised reporters by revealing that he "was glad to see the season, and with any luck [his] career, come to an end," stating that "I can't remember a time in my life when I haven't hated football."

"Come on—anyone who paid attention to my career must have suspected it," two-time Super Bowl-winner Parcells told stunned members of the press at the Cowboys practice facility Tuesday, reacting to their disbelief with surprise of his own. "When did I ever look like I was enjoying myself? When did you last see me smile on the sidelines or in the locker room? You must have at least wondered why I was always so angry with everyone around me."

"I'll tell you why—I was goddamn miserable," Parcells added. "Football sucks."

The coach expounded on his statements by explaining, in acid tones and with an exasperated manner, how he "just sort of fell into coaching" after playing college football at Wichita State, an experience he described as "pretty okay, I guess, at least for young men."

"But coaching? All that pressure, having to deal with all those dumbass players, just to play a game that's basically a lot of choreographed shoving?" Parcells said. "Screw that. Screw football. Seriously, I wonder sometimes why I was so good at it."

Parcells explained that he developed his trademark style of possession-oriented, run-first, ball-control football in an effort to not spend too much time thinking about a game that he found "basically pretty freaking dumb."

"No one was more surprised than I was when it worked," Parcells said. "Surprised and damn disappointed, really. Turns out football's really simple. Hell, a freaking ape could coach this game. Guys like Belichick, Cowher, Holmgren, you know why they're successful? Because they're actually too smart to coach football. Come to think of it, I bet they hate it too."

"The worst part of my success was that it meant if I wanted any kind of successful career, I had no choice but to spend my time dealing with really stellar guys like Drew Bledsoe, Lawrence Taylor, Keyshawn Johnson, and Terrell Owens," Parcells said in an effort to explain his often fractious relationship with most of his players. "Solid-gold citizens, football players. If they're not boring as hell, they're arrogant drug-crazed felons."

"You guys thought I was hard on them to make them better players," Parcells added, "but really I was hard on them because, except for Harry Carson and that one blond guy from the Giants, I hated every man who ever played for me very, very much."

Parcells said that, although the sport had led him down a cold, lightless path that seemed to lead down an ever-steeper path toward a premature stress-hastened death, it had taught him a few important lessons.

"First of all, never do anything you hate, even if it's the only thing you're good at, no matter how tempting the fame and the money are," said Parcells, who now regrets "measuring out my life one excruciating wind-sprint drill, one interminable video session, one bone-stick-stone stupid press conference at a time, until nothing is left at the tail end of my worthless life but regret and hatred for myself and others."

"Second of all, it's never too late to quit. Never. And sometimes it's the only right thing to do," Parcells continued. "And third, taking your hatred out on others, no matter how satisfying it may be, no matter how much those stupid wide receivers deserve it, is not really right. And I intend to make this the heart of my Hall of Fame acceptance speech when they put me in Canton in a few years."

"Now all of you go to hell," Parcells said, ending the press conference with his trademark frankness and inspiring laughter among reporters. "You mental children should be ashamed of yourself, making a living sucking at the teat of angry overgrown losers like me."

Parcells is expected to make an announcement in the next few days concerning either his retirement, his future as general manager of the New York Giants, or most probably, his return to coach his much-deplored Dallas Cowboys for next season.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

I think most NFL coaches are obsessive-compulsive, borderline personality disordered, nutcases who are only a step away from a straight jacket. Would you really be surprised if someday Belichick or is found living in a cardboard box outside Foxboro stadium. I know I wouldn't. He's already got the wardrobe.

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

Wait a fucking nano second--he doesn't already do that?

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

isn't this like the 3rd time this article has been posted or linked to?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

yes, but it's hilarious.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2007/football/nfl/01/20/steelers.coach/t1_0120_tomlin_getty.jpg

This dude is the new head coach of the Steelers. Who is Mike Tomlin? I've never heard of him!

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

So-Called 'Genius' Bill Belichick Stumped By Non-Football-Related Question

FOXBOROUGH, MA—Patriots head coach Bill Belichick's reputation for possessing a keen, incisive intelligence and being able to intuitively grasp all pertinent aspects of a problem took a major hit Tuesday when, while fielding reporters' questions at his daily press conference, he stammered through his response to a Business Week reporter's routine inquiry concerning alternative economic approaches to societal trends. "Well, we, uh, I guess it's like the salary cap all teams operate under, as far as… Is commodification the word I want to use here?" said Belichick, obviously attempting to dodge the question in what onlookers called a "humiliating moment of mere mortality for the acknowledged genius." "I don't know if Keynesian theory is what I want here, but… A football game is a service, I guess, in terms of Keynesian market concepts… No, wait, I think I'm thinking of Thorstein Veblen. You know what? Any questions on how we're planning for the Colts' passing game?" Patriots players would not comment directly on their coach's public failure to live up to his reputation, although some players were heard wondering aloud how a coach with such severely limited economic knowledge could in good faith call himself an offensive innovator.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 21 January 2007 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

bernie has the answers you crave, i'm telling you, he is the shadow obama; thank me later - patz by infinity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/magazine/21Sanders.t.html

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 21 January 2007 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.post-gazette.com/images4/20060108Wap_Parcells_450.jpg

bye bye!

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

LOL @ "RETIRE"

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

LOL @ Adam Schefter

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

So who's going to take the Dallas or the Oakland jobs? Both owners are nuts and will stab you in the back at the blink of any eye. I'm happy the Steelers hired Omar Epps. He's a good hire.

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

new steelers head coach is my age. i feelz teh old creeping into my bones.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

uh, new raiders coach is YOUNGER than i am!

nuts to that...i also predict he will be a spectacular failure, but what do i know?

― jonathan quayle higgins (j.q. higgins), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

a raiders coach... failing? lemme write this down!!!

― aidsy (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

uhm higgins, brett, i'm reasonably certain i'm older than you.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://vmedia.rivals.com/IMAGES/Coach/PHOTO/KIFFIN,-LANE150.JPG

THE SPIRIT OF '75

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

That guy is 17.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

haha, I was just coming here to post, "so, Raiders hired a 12-year-old to coach the team."

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't say fail, i said fail spectacularly...did you hear? they want to send moss, porter and #1 to atlanta for vick and a #1.

my sides!

i also think "tuna" must be some native american dialect for "guy who does not see out contract...repeatedly"

― jonathan quayle higgins (j.q. higgins), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

oh, I was also coming here to say: Mike Tomlin is hott.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't say fail, i said fail spectacularly...did you hear? they want to send moss, porter and #1 to atlanta for vick and a #1.

ok this is worthy of this: 8[

wtf!!!!!!!!!

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

i just don't see how a 31 year old w/ no head coaching experience is going to handle a product of the va tech crime factory that's already de-pantsed one youthful head coach scion.

i dunno...maybe this guy stole the gentle glow in which pete carroll basks?

― jonathan quayle higgins (j.q. higgins), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

oh man next season is gonna be great 8 D

― ‘•’u (gear), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'd say Atlanta would be laughing all the way to the bank on that trade but they're getting Moss.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

does ATL think schaub is the next tony romo or something?

― ‘•’u (gear), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Inta*Juice with Randy Moss.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

laughing all the way to the bank TO FILE BANKRUPTCY

vick would be a 22 million cap hit. shit aint happening, and also it would ruin the team for years to come even if schaub turned out to be a brady-in-waiting as so many white ppl fantasize.

vikes fans should be pissssssssssssssssed that tomlin is gone. they would've been so much better off promoting him, ENJOY YOUR CHILDRESS LMBO. he probably doesn't deserve much credit for their defense this year (any team with pat and kev williams is gonna have a hellacious run d) but basically everyone in the league is completely in love with him. pittsburgh's got a gem imo. also he is Omar Epps which adds some gravitas to the position imo.

― aidsy (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

actually lol @ "ruin the team for years to come", as if we are on the cusp of a championship or something

― aidsy (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

I was gonna say!!! You guys are fucked no matter what, unless they replace the entire team somehow. I don't think "white ppl" think that Schaub is going to turn into Brady (or Romo LOL cryingface.jpg here), I think a lot of people are just fuckin sick of Michael Vick. The dude isn't really good enough to justify the shit the team goes through for him. But yeah that trade isn't happening, not even the Raiders are that crazy.

(cue Schefter suddenly turning up telling me I'm wrong)

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah there's no way the Falcons do that trade. The cap hit would be brutal. They'd be better off trading Schaub, actually. Maybe he's the new Jesus, but he also hasn't done shit yet and his value will never be higher.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

honestly just a year or two ago trading michael vick would've been like when the hawks traded dominique wilkins, but right now there are a LOT of fans who have been vick supporters from day one who would be receptive to a change. i'd still like to see him succeed here and i think he'd play to his potential if he wasn't coddled so gd much, if he had a coach who would push him and hold him accountable and blah blah. all of this totally ignores that it's a completely shitty team in every way, with or without him, and he brings a higher level of play as is than most of his teammates but w/e VICK VICK VICKKFPAFSLF PENIS.

― aidsy (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

schaub's a RFA, so they'll probably tender him at the highest level and hopefully squeeze a first-rounder out of it.

― aidsy (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

i wish blount was around i want his input :*(

― aidsy (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

r.i.p ; (

― ‘•’u (gear), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah I agree with you that if Vick wasn't treated like a pretty, pretty princess he'd probably have progressed a lot further by now. What on earth is that about, everyone tiptoeing around him? I dont really follow the Falcons so I am not sure what the story is with that but I have noticed it a lot.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

it's hard to say whether or not he actually regressed this year though, b/c the gm kind of fucked him. they got rid of duckett, and got lelie who did fuck all (until they played the skins, incidentally) and their receivers went through a stretch of several games where they dropped everything thrown at them (until they played the skins, incidentally).

recall that at the beginning of the season, he was going bananas.

i dunno, apparently the owner loves him, but this dope bust has kind of soured him on mssr. mexico.

― jonathan quayle higgins (j.q. higgins), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

The Falcons should focus on getting some receivers but I guess everyone already knows that. All those dudes they have are like sub-Reche.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

michael jenkins is their #1, which says a lot

― ‘•’u (gear), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

i think it's cuz he was brought in to be the savior of an eternally-miserable franchise from day one. this is a team that couldn't sell out playoff games on the rare occasion that it had them, barely anybody even noticed when they went to the super bowl. if he goes, so does a lot of the attention and fanbase. contrast his sitch with, like, steve young, who sucked on a terrible Tampa team, then had to spend years stewing in the shadow of montana and teh mighty niner empire and that jazz, which i think turned him into some kind of pathological loony who had to prove himself at any cost. or shit, BUCKHEAD BRETT - a guy with great physical gifts but also an undisciplined football player who never really began playing to his potential until holmgren came along and held him accountable. (note decline in play when sherman took over)

(lol i am such an apologist~)

― aidsy (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

i think vick can do it but i don't know if he can do it in atlanta. maybe the texans! 8 /

― ‘•’u (gear), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Wouldn't the owners want to keep Vick at pretty much any cost? I am pretty sure the cash he brings in totally dwarf his salary, over here (england) you cannot get Brady or Manning shit like at all but Michael Vick stuff is gettable in sports shops, I dunno if that is mirrored in Thailand etc but if it is $$_$$recheface.jpg.

QUESTION: why is this?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

greg, no matter WHO the qb is the money the team makes will dwarf his salary. and the nfl has revenue sharing so all teams will see some money from the sale of vick shirts, though not as much as the falcons do now. if the falcons could get a qb who could lead them to a couple of playoff wins then THAT would make him more valuable.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Atlanta's cap hit would be more than 10% of their total cap space for 2007. No way there moving him before 2008 and even then you still take a big hit. Vick's not going anywhere soon.

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

"They'd be better off trading Schaub, actually. Maybe he's the new Jesus, but he also hasn't done shit yet and his value will never be higher."

You know the last time the Falcons tried that, it didn't work out so hot.

I've said it before but Atlanta needs a vet reciever that is steady with some hands that can run routes and go across the middle. As much as he is a mouth, K-Shawn would have been a good choice. I think the Chargers did good getting Keenan McCardell a few years back to play wideout to Brees. I think a steady guy like that might be the glue to hold their offense together. They could also go for the mother of all freak shows and maybe see if Jerry would ship them T.O. for a quart of milk.

The one thing about the Falcons keeping Vick for one more year is that if he totally mainlines next season, they probably won't be able to trade him and will just have to eat the cash on a release. I think next year is it.

Either way, I would be working most of all on improving their defense, which has slid from injuries quite a bit in the past couple of years. I think if their defense could greatly improve with that running game, they would be very competitive. Heck they are not far from that now.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

You know the last time the Falcons tried that, it didn't work out so hot.

Who, Doug Johnson? I remember when he was "the best non-starting quarterback in the NFL." Then Vick got hurt and Johnson played like a backup quarterback. Not every highly touted prospect dude is Brett Favre.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/resources/2007/01/ackaldavis.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

it's like some sort of edgar bergin/charlie mccarthy bit taken to a horrifyingly disturbing level.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

holy fuck

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

I just heard snippets of Kiffen's press conference on the local sports talk performing monkey channel. The poor guy kept spouting cliche's about how the Raiders will work hard and have fun. I'm not sure how this will go over with guys like Joey Porter or Randy Moss. I feel sorry for the him.

That picture needs to be in the FAQ!!!

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Thursday, 25 January 2007 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

i think reche or b-dawk need to be involved first

― roger goodell (gear), Thursday, 25 January 2007 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://scoopsnoodle.com/lix/aldavis.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 25 January 2007 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

precccccccccccccioussssssss

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 25 January 2007 05:46 (nineteen years ago)

aggh no wtf jesus

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

it's like Al Davis saw Blue Velvet and thought "that's awesome! this guy Frank is awesome!"

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Which old, incompetent fart are the Cowboys going to hire?

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

wilford brimley

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 January 2007 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

Lorenzo Lamas

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 26 January 2007 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

or Donald Rumsfeld

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 26 January 2007 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

god, Rumsfeld would out-asshole Belichick. that would be kind of amazing.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 26 January 2007 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

i would seriously love to see a football game between teams coached by chaney and rumsfeld. plus the inevitable post-game slap fight at mid-field in place of the handshake.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

condi wants to be commissioner one day and did anyone read the tiki profile in this weeks nyer where he says he had an instant bond w/her and shes just such a genuine lady no pretense at all then theres a pic of him shirtless in jeans looking so fn gay and the whole time yr thinking he seems like a decent guy no wait hes a vacuous egomaniac and the entire thing is abt how football hurts like alot arrrgh wtf permanently scarred

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

waht

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't been able to bring myself to read that New Yorker profile, because the beefcake shot of him is surprisingly disturbing. I mean, empirically, he's a hot man, but that picture is just wrong.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Saturday, 27 January 2007 07:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/plechazunga/ilx/aldavis-reche.jpg

― c(,,c) (Leee), Sunday, 28 January 2007 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/5732/prezalyd4.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 28 January 2007 05:08 (nineteen years ago)

D: MY MIND

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 28 January 2007 08:50 (nineteen years ago)


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