Mas Dumpage
It's time once again to bring you a collection of ThumbTubes and YouNails, only without the YouThumbs, or the TubeNails. I'm not sure which. Lots of good reading after the jump, though, so hop to it.
Not only did we already know that that the New York Yankees organization is gay in the mouf, and its fans are assholes, With Leather shows us how barbaric and unruly they can really be.
Deadspin -- who apparently now owns a nation -- via the Chicago Bull, shows us a nomination for Name of the Year.
Chiefs Nation, on the other hand, is um, being scrutinized by some random, scarcely dressed gal.
(clip courtesy of Arrowhead Addict)
Awful Announcing has compiled some interesting Favre photos.
Bugs and Cranks has another installment on the Bonds v. Ruth series.
Homerun Derby has one final, fond look at the last snapshots taken of Harry Caray at Wrigley.
More Brodie Croyle "analysis":
(link courtesy of Chiefs Gab)
The Onion has some precious rap-rhymin' ideas.
Gotta offer kudos to the Missouri Southern alum, occasional fourth-string Broncos quarterback. He was one of few Broncos I always respected.
(clip courtesy of Bronco Talk)
HercRock is convinced #80 won't wind up in Canton.
1 comments:
If he doesn't wind up in the Hall, everyone's priorities are fucked beyond recognition.
Here's the thing about the stats: they're wrecked for everyone. For example, Keenan McCardell had more catches--but no one in their right mind is going to say that Keenan McCardell was a better player than Rod Smith. Jimmy Smith was a good player and definitely needs to be in the conversation, but kind of a regular season stat collector more than a real winner, right?
So the things that will get receivers from this era into the Hall will not be solely stat-based. They can't be. Larry Centers has like 1,000 catches to his name. Is he going in? The proliferation of passing offenses has cheapened the numbers of the elite receivers.
And the Pro Bowl is basically worthless as an indicator. There are guys, like our own Mr. Lynch, who get in every year on reputation.
Rod flew under the radar, but he won two Super Bowls, and according to Shanahan--who evidently is already building the public case--more games than any other wideout during the span of his career. He easily would have won the MVP of that Atlanta Super Bowl if Elway hadn't had the sentimental lean. He's probably, along with Hines Ward, the best blocking receiver of his era. He did serve as a scout team QB--and as a fucking punt returner, for christ's sake, years after he didn't have to play special teams anymore. His touchdown numbers are respectable, and he displayed remarkable consistency--9 consecutive seasons with 70 or more catches--but most of all he was a leader. And since when is leadership not a qualification for enshrinement?
I know that there will be guys who'll go in ahead of him because of their numbers, the TOs and the Randy Mosses and the Torry Isaac Holt Bruces, but there's a place for our #80 in the Hall.
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