Friday, July 31, 2009

Lou Grant - an old school boss

This is a great 3:34 clip from the Mary Tyler Moore Show...Mary meets Mr. Grant for the first time and goes through a job interview...this is great stuff:

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Is there more to the NFL than just Brett Favre and Michael Vick?

The NFL season is fast approaching...it will be Week 1 before we know it...but the media is taking some of the excitement away from the upcoming season because of their nauseating coverage of Brett Favre and Michael Vick...there are over 1,400 players in the NFL and all we have to hear about every stinking day is of an old broken down drama queen and a criminal who butchered dogs...

Favre
Brett Favre made an ass out of Minnesota Vikings head coach Brad Childress...if Childress had any onions, he would have told Favre, back in May, that he needed a decision by Memorial Day, if not, the Vikings would move on...Childress had a responsibility to lead this team, instead, Favre made Childress his bitch...

Did Childress really think that Favre was going to lead the Vikings to the Super Bowl?...Childress was trying to hire a name - Brett Favre...that's all it was...the name was not going to take the Vikings to the Super Bowl...in fact, when was the last time Brett Favre led his team to the Super Bowl?...try 1998!!!...

Childress should have tried to sign freaking Joe Willie Namath or Joe Montana...I hope the Vikings tank this season and Childress gets fired....if it wasn't so close to the start of the season, the owner should can him now...

As far as Favre goes, I still think this is not entirely over...if a quarterback gets hurt, ala Tom Brady last season, the entire drama will start over again...

Another scenario is Favre pulling a Roger Clemens...Favre sits out the first eight games and comes back for the last half of the season...Favre cannot physically handle the rigors of an entire 16 game season...therefore he may try a comeback in October...

Vick
Now that gray beard if off the radar for now, the media will drive us all nuts with Michael Vick coverage...it will be a media circus the day he signs with a new team, the day he reports to camp, the day he takes a dump at the football facility...and I dread the week that Vick makes his return to the NFL...

Sorry, but I can't write anymore about this crap...I'm out of here...

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Jim Johnson, Eagles defensive coordinator, dies

Amid all the Brett Favre circus and Michael Vick sympathizers, the NFL lost a great assistant coach...

Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Johnson died yesterday at the age of 68-years-old after a six month battle with cancer...if the Pro Football Hall of Fame ever inducted assistant coaches, Johnson would be a first ballot hall of famer...

Johnson coached last season from his familiar spot on the sidelines...however, he coached in the press box in Week 17 and throughout the playoffs...he was suffering from severe back pain and had a difficult time standing for a long period of time...after the Eagles lost in the NFC title game, Johnson went to the doctor and was diagnosed with cancer...

It will not be the same this football season in not seeing Johnson dialing up the defensive schemes for the Eagles...Favre and Vick may be getting the headlines, but the real story of the NFL this week was the loss of a great coach...
  • Jim Johnson Obit

  • Rich Hofmann
  • Tuesday, July 28, 2009

    Gwen Stefani - Is she hot?

    Gwen Stefano Bio
    Birthday - October 3, 1969 - Fullerton, California

    Background
    Stefani was raised in a Roman-Catholic family...as a kid she had weight problems and joined the high school swim team in order to lose weight...her first job was working at the local Dairy Queen...nowadays she is a mega-star as the lead singer of No Doubt...she has also been successful as a solo artist...

    She was once married to a member of the band...after a divorce, she married Gavin Rossdale and now has two kids...Stefani is a natural brunette, however she has been a platinum blond for the last 15 years...she likes hanging around Japanese woman called Harajuku Girls...

    Is Gwen Stefani hot?
    At first look, she is someone who can easily be picked up at any bar after she gets a few drinks in her...I will say, her mid-section is phenomenal...she seems like a nice person and would probably be wild in the sack...she is not super hot, but I would give her thumbs up...

    Monday, July 27, 2009

    Tom Hamilton of the Cleveland Indians is the worst baseball announcer

    There are many annoying baseball announcers...the first that comes to mind is the New York Yankees John Sterling with his "Yankees Win...thaaaaaaaaaaaa Yankees Win"...the Chicago White Sox play-by-play man Hawk Harrelson gets under my skin with his "He gone" call after a White Sox pitcher strikes out a batter...but the most annoying and worst baseball announcer in the sport is the Cleveland Indians Tom Hamilton...

    Hamilton calls every Indians homerun like it is a World Series clinching blast...Ryan Garko can hit a solo shot in the first inning and Hamilton will be screaming and yelling...as a kid I used to listen to Herb Score call the Indians games...Score was not perfect as he made many errors in calling the game...but at least he was professional and did not act like every homerun was the "mother of all homers"...this weekend the Tribe is honoring Hamilton as fans will be receiving a Tom Hamilton bobblehead...the Indians will then have fireworks after the game with a replay of Hamilton's greatest play-by-plays...if anyone gets one of those bobbleheads, please send it to be so I can bust it into pieces...

    These announcers need to take a lesson from Los Angeles Dodgers great Vin Scully...Scully is the best baseball announcer ever...he was praised by the media for his call on Manny Ramirez's pinch-hit grand slam last week...check it out:
  • Vin Scully
  • Sunday, July 26, 2009

    Cleveland Indians become major player on trading deadline with Cliff Lee and Victor Martinez

    Cleveland Indians have become a major player as the trading deadline looms...with Toronto asking for your blood in their demands for Roy Halladay, the Indians may be the beneficiary...

    Talk on the internet states that the Philadelphia Phillies are interested in Indians pitcher Cliff Lee...what makes this possible deal intriguing for the Phils is that they don't have to give up their top pitching prospects in J.A. Happ nor Kyle Drabek...

    There are also reports the Los Angeles Dodgers are talking to the Indians in a blockbuster deal...supposedly the Dodgers will send either Chad Billingsley or Clayton Kershaw along with James Loney, and prospects to Cleveland for Cliff Lee and Victor Martinez...talk is that Joe Torre would like to have a veteran in his rotation for the playoffs...

    Supposedly the Indians have another offer from the San Francisco Giants...the Giants would send prospects to Cleveland for Lee...

    Tony Kubek, former NBC broadcaster, to be inducted into the Baeeball Hall of Fame

    Richard Sandomir of The New York Times writes about former New York Yankees shortstop and NBC broadcaster, Tony Kubek, who will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame today as the recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award for his 30 plus years of broadcasting... "Apart from the banter, Kubek and his wife, Margaret, are using the weekend as a family outing, with his two sons, two daughters and five grandchildren in attendance. Underlining Kubek’s individuality, they are staying in a house separate from the Hall of Famers’ headquarters at the Otesaga. And when the weekend ends, the Kubeks will drive back home with one of their daughters to continue their lives without baseball and resume helping the Hmong community in Appleton, Wis., where they live most of the year." ...
  • Richard Sandomir