For some reason the blue-collar butcher-shop incompetent street brawl terminology used to describe so many things in football, especially when employed almost as a non sequitur in the middle of an otherwise sane argument, can really crack me up. It's probably just the phonics in my mind, since it all rings out like fart jokes, and many attributes of my sense of humor remain kinda scarily juvenile. Examples that have made me laugh out loud:
http://footballoutsiders.com/walkthrough/walkthrough-return-king
Sure, the quarterback could run a draw or sweep, but no one really thinks Kerry Collins is going to bust up the gut on third-and-goal from the four-yard line.
http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0207afterhalftime
He was far better at handing the pig to John Riggins and having his tibia snapped by a cokehead.
I'm a crazy person, right?
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 20 November 2008 08:08 (seventeen years ago)
p sure the second one is supposed to be funny
― ಥ﹏ಥ (cankles), Thursday, 20 November 2008 16:20 (seventeen years ago)
i got 1/4 of the way thru that article before saynig to myself "hey didnt klosterman do an article just like thi-- oh. Oh."
― ಥ﹏ಥ (cankles), Thursday, 20 November 2008 16:26 (seventeen years ago)
lol
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 20 November 2008 18:20 (seventeen years ago)
dude i saw the words "chuck klosterman" and hit the back button -- how did u miss it
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 20 November 2008 18:24 (seventeen years ago)