Greetings Tipsters
By the gods, the telecast of Eagles at Bengals was fantastic! Granted, it was the post-match edit and a brilliant sunny day in Cincinatti but a ton of dynamic angles and movement, the director and editor did great work. The white and black strip made the home team look more like Zebras than Bengals, thus consequently eaten.
49ers stadium in Santa Clara is terrible. Runs north-south, executive suites are built like a cheap motel on the western side, no sun in the eyes of the benefactors, big gaps between that and the uncovered cheap seats facing the afternoon sun and wind and rain.
“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco” – Mark Twain.
Anthony Richardson is the 22-yr-old QB for the Colts, he excused himself from a play because he was tired and threw 10/32. He has now been benched in favour of 39-yr-old journeyman Joe Flacco. He was a #4 pick in ’23 after displaying otherworldly gifts at the Draft Combine but had only played 13 college games – he would need time to develop.
He managed four games last season before injury. This season he has put up historically awful numbers and done a few brilliant things very few quarterbacks could even think about. Should Steichen, HC, play him and risk losing the locker room or replace him and maybe win enough to make the playoffs? The Colts are 4-4 in the AFC South, a terrible division.
Richardson has played 23 matches since High School. He has a steep learning curve ahead of him. Taking him out of the spotlight for a few weeks, on the scout team to play against the starting D in practice, on the sideline to watch the wily veteran and observe the game from a different viewpoint while getting tips from the coaches, might be the best thing for him. He isn’t so terrible as poor Bryce Young but maybe Crazy Jim, owner, sent word that merch sales are down.
I like the kid, he has moxie. I hope he comes back and rips.
Ah, Chicago Bears, just when you think the team might finally be getting it together, they come up with stunts like giving the ball to a rookie second-string O-lineman on a fourth and goal, who fumbled, of course – poor bastard might never have touched a ball in a game ever before – then, with a 3 point lead, 2 seconds left, Washington Commanders have the ball, haven’t scored a touchdown, 52 yards out…
One last play, Jayden Daniels, the Commies talented rookie QB is gonna throw a Hail Mary. The Bears sent a three man rush, giving Jayden plenty of room to roll left, roll right, run around for 13 seconds before launching a long bomb which bounces off the hands of a pile of Bears and into the hands of Noah Brown, standing calmly in the endzone.
Tyrique Stevenson, the CB who was supposed to be minding Brown, was looking at the crowd and taunting Commies fans when the ball was snapped, Bears fans were yelling at him and pointing upfield. He got back to the fall of the ball but joined the pack instead of guarding Brown.
One heck of a clusterflip, that. Chicago have Caleb Williams, another talented rookie QB, so may eventually climb out of the hole but I expect Eberflus, HC, to be gone by next season. Maybe by the end of this one.
Tennessee Titans played in Detroit, Perky Girl reckons that Mason Rudolph, their backup QB who started today, is more handsome than Jimmy Garoppolo. He’s Henry Cavill with a dash of Latino. The Lions racked up team and league records, the D made turnovers, the S returned punts and kicks, the O started five straight drives within 30 yards of the endzone, they hit stats not seen since 1933, ’41 and ’50 when it was a totally different game. Some writers expressed amazement at the low yards on O – they must not have watched the game, nor must they understand it all that well. Bill Belichik said Lions O was unstoppable.
Houston Oilers won the the first two American Football League Championships in 1960 and ’61, had great colours, Columbia blue, scarlet, white and a neat derrick logo on the helmet. Bud Adams, owner, Cherokee on the maternal side, oilmen on the paternal, was an AFL founder. After that early success the team was reliably mediocre. Bud moved the operation to Nashville where, for the first season, they played in Memphis and were still the Oilers. By 2000 it was Tennessee Titans Time, won the Conference Championship but otherwise the team has been traditionally mediocre. Bud’s daughter Amy is the owner now, she’s an avid fox hunter. Whether she hunts them for sport or as part of an organised program of eliminating exotic species so that native animals can thrive again, I know not.
Cheers Tipsters
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Freelance gardener, I’ve thousands of books, thousands of records, one fast motorcycle and one gorgeous smart funny sexy woman. Life’s pretty darn neat.
Thanks Earl. Saw the Hail Mary live and when they come off it’s hugely entertaining. I thought it interesting when immediately after the Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels was interviewed and he mentioned multiple times the role of God in the victory and then used a war metaphor. I thought there’s the USA right there in two words.
That Mark Twain line’s fantastic. Probably works for Melbourne too!
Always entertaining Earl. My memories of NFL are largely around the year I spent in the US in 1988 (anything to escape the Bicentennial). Houston Oilers had a black quarterback (which was rare – QB’s were traditionally white) Warren Moon who had come from the Edmonton Eskimos in the Canadian Football League. He was small for a QB with a rocket arm, and his mobility allowed him to compete with the white hulks like Montana and Marino. I sort of followed his long career of 22 years (1978-2000) in the big leagues, but never found a team to adopt like I did in baseball with the Dodgers. The LA Raiders under Al Davis were a carnival sideshow.
How is Goolwa treating you (other than noisy lawnmowers)?
Peter – Warren Moon played in the CFL cos no NFL team wanted him as a QB. Edmonton won 5 championships in 6 seasons w him under centre. Even then, only a lousy team like Oilers would take him. He racked up great numbers.
Mickey – giving thanks to god is common in NFL, I’d have thought the masseur that gets yr hamstrings ready would be more important, but that’s America. I do love her.