This is the thread where I admit that I am insane

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You see, when I moved here (Denver) in 1999 I made the decision not to get a TV set, my assumption being that either I could be a writer or I could be someone with a TV in the house but I couldn't be both. So this means I watch only a couple of football games a year, usually over Thanksgiving. Nonetheless, not only have I already read every post on this board and on the two ILE NFL threads for 2005, but I usually read the AP account of every game, I read everything that Paul Zimmerman ever posts except the ones you have to pay for - in fact, the single thing I look forward to most in a week is his mail column on Friday - I usually read Peter King's online columns, and I used to read Chris Mortensen's chat wraps.

Anyway, I agree with what you guys are saying about Michael Vick and the Atlanta offensive line, even though I've never seen Vick play, and haven't seen the Atlanta line in action since the January 1999 (or was it February?) Superbowl.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 4 November 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

P.S. Do you believe it's necessary to listen to music in order to be a fan of music? Couldn't one's fandom be based entirely on what one reads about music?

(Except this would require that there be at least one music writer as good as Paul Zimmerman.)

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 4 November 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Cora Frazier, the daughter of my friend Jay, was on the Montclair High mock trial team, along with Mary Beth King, Peter King's daughter, so I used to read about the Montclair High trial team in Peter King's Monday Morning Quarterback column. (Also read about Mary Beth's field hockey and softball exploits.) But Mary Beth has graduated and gone on to Cornell.

I've only met Cora once, back in 1989 at my wedding, when Cora was only six months old.

Last year, she was the only freshman to make the mock trial team. "This explains why I never win any arguments," says Jay.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 4 November 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

I tried to go TV-free too, and it was the NFL that led me to cave.

Dr. Z does rule. I used to like Peter King, but he seems to grow more flatulent as a writer the thinner he gets IRL. Tutting LT for promoting Blitz (a great game with a direct bloodline to the late, lamented Playmakers) struck me as a new low.

Zimmerman's respect for the history of the game >>>>>>>> King's respect for the sanctity of the game

Easterbrook also seems to be running out of juice, which is a damn shame.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 4 November 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I think Mary Beth is at Colgate, not Cornell. All those upstate colleges that begin with C seem the same to me.

King is downright maudlin a lot of the time, and takes stereotyped positions on the need for teamwork, sacrifice, etc., and if I thought r*ckism had value as an epithet he'd be my archetypal r*ckist; but I think it's great that there are people like him (he's probably a wonderful dad), and he seems to know his stuff when it comes to game analysis. There are worse things to be than maudlin.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 4 November 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Easterbrook HAS run out of steam. He keeps pushing the same principles into the ground (don't blitz on third and long, preposterous punts, etc.) while conveniently ignoring instances when these strategies actually work.

Football Outsiders (www.footballoutsiders.com) currently has the best writing next to Dr. Z. There was an article on the ridiculous concept of "swagger" today that was a good read.

― Scott H, Friday, 4 November 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Frank,
Don't feel bad...I do exactly the same thing with baseball...I rarely watch it, but I always read about it/listen to stuff about it on sports talk....I have opinion up the butt about players I've never seen pitch, etc...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 5 November 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

Whaddya mean Joe Jurevicius is white?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 5 November 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

And Johnny Otis.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Sunday, 6 November 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

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