Monday, 28-Jan-2002
Spurious
thoughts and idle musings from the sports week just past ...
Well,
Supe 36 is all set with the Flying Elvii going against the Faulk-Warners. Boy, those $100,000,000 backup All-Pro QB's
sure do come in handy, don't they ???
Not to mention two count 'em two special team sixes that melted the
Steelers and sent the jiggy Patriots in search of a good beignet and a hot
cuppa cafe au lait. Afterwards, my
Iggles honked to the Ramjets and saw their sweet season go East St Louis
Toodle-Oo. Too bad both Pennsylvania
teams lost cause it mighta been fun watching Gov. Schweiker bet himself a box
of pierogies against a sack of cheesesteaks.
Ah, it's
never a dull week when a Rusty Mike Tyson press gig erupts into a full-scale
furball. By now, Mike's so far beyond
pathetic he makes an armed bus driver on a field trip to nowhere look sane by
comparison. And this latest melee with
Lennox "China" Lewis and his posse was just more theater of the
absurd. Umm, anybody know when the next
one is ???
Forbes
Magazine released its annual ranking of NBA teams by total financial value last
week and guess who came in a dead last 29th outta 29 teams ??? Yep, you got it ... My hometown Charlotte
Dead Men Walking, soon to be the New Orleans Hornets, sank in value from last
year's $144 million to a rock bottom $135 million now and counting. And yet the two Po Boys, George Shinn and
Ray Wooldridge, keep insisting Dem Bugs ain't for sale. Sigh, I sure wish Enron owned this team. At
least those guys knew when to sell.
Just a
brutal ladies final down under as Jenny Cap saved four match points and
defended her Aussie Open crown against the Swiss Miss in summertime heat that
all but wilted these two fierce felines.
I watched most of their match late Friday night and let's just say that
both the heat and the humidity made this Must See TV to be sure. Yeah, I know I'm a pig but c'mon ... I
wasn't the guy in the ESPN truck directing the camera shots, now was I ??? At any rate, sweet match, Jenny.
Better
take a good long hard look at the list of players available to the Houston
Texans for next month's expansion draft cause the NFL probably isn't going to
add a new franchise again for a long time to come. Yep, for that obscene expansion fee, the new Texans get to pick
either insanely fat contracts or sadly hobbled cripples. Or in other words, the Texans now get to
choose whether to overspend or overheal or both. Welcome to the No Fair League, Houston.
More NFL
offs notes ... During the post-game lovefest, didja see Rams owner Georgia
Frontiere wearing some kinda flashy two-fingered ring thing in anticipation of
winning her second Supe next week ???
Man, talk about your basic locker room material. If the underdog Belichicks don't get their
tricorns in a tizzy over seeing that, I don't know what'll do it. As for the Eagles, here's hoping they'll
learn the most valuable lesson of all ... Get home field advantage. Cause it's always better to have your own
lunatics painting their faces and holding up silly signs. Pittsburgh not included.
Just
curious but did Rams KR Yo Murphy's mom originally name him "Toyota"
but he just scraped the extra letters off his birth certificate ???
Sure wish
we coulda seen the look on Pat Summerall's face the first time he read the
on-air promo for next week's Supe pre-game show featuring the Barenaked Ladies
among others. Followed up of course by
the equally astonished look Pat musta shown when someone explained to him that
BNL is really five geeky white dudes from Canada, eh.
Other NBA
notelets ... Apparently not satisfied with bobblehead dolls and beany babies,
the Sixers recently handed out thousands of Allen Iverson Celebriducks, rubber
duckies made to look just like The Answer complete with his trademark cornrows
and tats. Meanwhile, Pain Webber
admitted that an aunt back in Michigan had prescribed a home remedy mixture of
cow manure and ammonia for his bum ankle.
Hmm, crazy people in Michigan mixing fertilizer and ammonia. Now where have we heard that before ???
Drew
Bledsoe or Tom Brady ??? Choose wisely,
Bill Belichick.
Saw this
little beauty on the Headline News crawl late last week ... Volusia County, FL,
home of the Daytona 500, to vote on changing its name to NASCAR County ... No
word on whether the Supreme Court will be standing by to decide this one too.
Shows you
how little attention I give to top shelf boxing anymore cause I don't think I'd
ever heard of Sugar Shane Mosely before I watched him lose his first ever pro
fight on Saturday night to Vernon Forrest, another unbeaten fighter way off my
personal sports radar screen. And is
there an official list of boxing first names that can be called
"Sugar" ??? Sugar Ray,
obviously. But Sugar Shane ??? And what about Vernon ??? Shouldn't he get to call himself Sugar
Vernon until Sugar Shane beats him in a rematch ???
See ya
nexted week ...
Robert E Hunt Jr
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