The Weekend in Review
No, no championships here, my friends, easy, just a few sports highlights from SBW -
1. My text to FOB MC (an Iowa football fan much like our very own RTS):
"Floyd of Rosedale? Come on Iowa you're better than that."
Closed circuit to RTS "Sorry, dude. Notice, I didn't text you to rub it in."
2. Debut of Leslie Llewellyn Frazier *
That had all the drama of making a bagel. It was like Washington said "we are the team who you think we are . . . if by that you mean 'mediocre.'" Favre playing within some sort of offensive system, not making crushing turnovers, having "fun," (doing the cha-cha on Chilly's grave) - you know, being just like Brett Favre (half the time.) AP looked like a man possessed before the injury (cross fingers nothing serious.) Nice way to not fumble Toby Gerhart. Next time maybe we can stick the knife in 'em when we get a turnover on the opponent's 12 yard line but I'll take the "W" for now.
3. Below: Bro-in-law's signed program from 1987. Told you he had some sweet access. I could make out (left corner, counter-clockwise): TK, Puckett, Hrbek, Gladden (I think), Reardon, Viola, Blyleven, and four others I can't really make out (although one is "Steve Lombar" could be Steve Lombardozzi but how do you not sign the rest of your name? Maybe that was his equivalent of Ron Mexico?)
* Llewellyn may or not be his middle name but it should be.
4 Comments:
Anybody who watched the Minnesota/Iowa game could see that Minnesota played harder and wanted that game more. I think that is the first trophy game that the U of M seniors won. Congrats to Iowa, they just played themselves out of a New Years day bowl. I have not been this disappointed in a team since Drew Tate's senior year, which was not all that long ago. Classic line by Horton, after the game he joked "I would like to announce that I have just accepted the head coaching job."
Football wise lets see how this year compares to last year:
Gophers 2009 lost insight.com bowl 14-13.
Gophers 2010 canned coach and went 3-9
Vikes 2009 lost NFC Champ game in OT
Vikes 2010 canned coach, joke of the league, season was over 5 weeks into it.
Iowa 2009 won Orange Bowl.
Iowa 2010 probably in the top 5 teams in the country for most disappointing season.
FFL Team 2009 Missed playoffs
FFL Team 2010 Missed playoffs, at least something is consistant.
That must have been a heck of a World Series with Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Mike Schmidt, Reggie Jackson and Willie Mays. Alright stupid joke but why would they put legends on the World Series program and not either Twins or Cardinals? Some of those guys aren't even World Series legends. Anyway still a very cool thing to have autographed. I am sure you have it sealed and graded as well a certificate of authenticity and everything else that has zapped all the fun out of collectibles.
November 29, 2010 at 8:18 AM
Quite a year over at the RTS household, love to get the "non-sports" list of comparing this year to last year, I'm guessing it starts with:
2009: Child too young for school.
2010: Child school age. Now costing me thousands of dollars a year to put her in private school because Atlanta public school's have issues with things like "accreditation."
Oh, and sorry for knocking you out of the FFL playoffs race. Actually, you know what? I'm NOT sorry...considering you ranked me "9th or 10th" after my draft, even questioning my receiver corps which included one Dewayne Antonio Bowe* who dropped a cold hard 35 on you yesterday. How you like me now?
* Dewayne is actually spelled Dwayne, you know like John DWayne. Also, his middle name is "Lorenzo," "Antonio" is Leslie Frazier's middle name.
November 29, 2010 at 10:58 AM
Looks like I was a little too quick to praise TUbby and the Gophers, as they are in the process of blowing a game at home to UVA. Yuck. Al Nolen is out for a few weeks and he's apparently been an awesome "game manager" so far this year.
Hopefully this Horton guy keeps his job as O-coordinator or O-line coach because he's clearly got some sort of secret sauce to keep the team motivated. Unbelievable that Iowa rolled over like that.
If the Vikes could win out, they could...just kidding. I won't go there. In all seriousness, I'm afraid the ensuing winning streak is going to knock us out of a good draft slot. No Andrew Luck for us...
November 29, 2010 at 8:06 PM
Buck ninety-one Timmy's the autograph in the middle. Don Baylor's in the upper right. The last one almost has to be Randy Bush, but I searched for autographed cards on the web and it looks very little like his usual autograph. Maybe he was drunk at the time or something.
December 1, 2010 at 11:52 AM
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