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A few of my favorite links du jour, possibly related to sports:
- This link was brought to my attention by McKeever. Despite the fact that this nailbiting Northern Illinois game was mislabeled as "Northern
Iowa Football," this clip is a classic because the homophobic remark the (off-)color guy makes actually ends up getting him
fired! The play-by-play man starts talking about how one needs to use his soft hands to "caress" the ball, the color guy tells
him "that's kinda gay," and an awkward six-second silence follows. I like this one so much I made it my home page on Facebook.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JDbDAGlbSY is a video sent to me by Blumenthal, I like its non-YouTube title a little better: Cop Owns National Anthem. And good Lord,
does he ever. I mean between going off-key to mixing up verses to totally butchering the words (O'er the land of the free
/ And the home of the... free), this is seriously the worst rendition of the national anthem you'll ever hear. The best part
is probably the blonde, white cop biting his lower lip trying not to laugh.
- When times get tough, I'll often rediscover one of my quirky childhood obsessions, like some Super NES game or TV show.
This weekend, when my girlfriend Kelly's roommate was seriously some sort of demon spawn, Kelly and I turned to Mystery Science Theater 3000. For those of you who have never heard of it, it's not what you think it is. THEY ARE, WHAT WE THOUGHT THE--no. The show
is where they take the worst-of-the-worst B-grade movies, usually sci-fi stinkers, and have a guy, Mike or Joel, with his
robot friends Servo and Crow, lampooning it the whole way through. I used to get up early on Saturday mornings to watch this.
If you've never seen it, do yourself a favor and watch--just bear with it through the atrocious first 5-10 minutes where the
actors and puppets are jawing at each other. When the movie actually starts, it's hilarious. I recommend "Space Mutiny" in
season 9, the Google-hosted links are usually really fast on a good connection.
- As a Yankee fan, I love this one. I believe Bill Simmons linked to this one last summer or something. It's the tenth inning of Game 6--THE Game 6--of the
1986 World Series between the Mets and Red Sox reenacted PERFECTLY in RBI Baseball for the NES. Right down to the direction
of the foul pops, the balls and strikes, and even the Player of the Game graphic, it all lines up with the play-by-play.
- I've been a lot more into blog reading lately, and especially college football blogs. As a Michigan fan, I cannot break
the awful habit of checking mgoblog about thirty times a day, but Michigan fan or not, I think that this is one of the best pieces of sportswriting I have ever read...
If respected Rocky Mountain News columnist Paul Campos can let our mutual acquaintance JJ write entire
columns, I can yank the most perfect metaphor ever for what Michigan football seems to be in 2007: a unit of Redcoats in the
Revolutionary war walking down the road in a block, getting picked off on all sides by guerrilla fighters. They drink tea
and think "by crumbs, these chaps will never make it in a real war" and feel superior to the elusive guys who are cutting
them down by the dozens.
Brian Cook is the man; he also runs the weekly BlogPoll and gives out some interesting statistical superlatives. The other
sports blog I like is everydayshouldbesaturday. It's a Florida blog, meh, but they hardly talk about Florida at all and they have some excellent recurring features, such
as Mustache Wednesday and the old-school broadside thing that's really well-done.
- A classic ... If you tell me you didn't watch this at least five or six times in a row, audibly gasping each time, you're lying. Terry
had THC in her syst--OOOOHHHH!!!
- In light of the recent Mike Gundy Flipout, I wanted to unearth a few of my favorite coach flipouts of yore. Here's the Dan Hawkins rant, as seen on the Best Damn Sports Show; the laugh track in the background makes it that much better. There have been
lots of rumors floating about lately about what isn't news to anyone who pays attention: Mike Hopkins is officially the successor
to Jim Boeheim at Syracuse. It will be a tremendously sad day for Syracuse when Boeheim retires; not too many coaches respect
their kids like this. (That's the famous "not 10 fucking games" speech following the "Gerry McNamara is overrated" thing after the Big East Tournament
in '05)
1:23, LaSorda, classic.
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