I think I'm gonna stick with this title for a lot of my posts, because often while watching sports I am also dealing with something else which needs to be publicized. In no particular order, here we go...
-Nicklas Lidstrom is pretty old (39), and pretty slow. He was beaten really badly against the Blackhawks a few nights ago by Troy Brouwer, who is also not the fastest. This is good news for Blackhawks fans, as he's been pretty nasty for the Wings for a long time. Which reminds me...
-I saw former Hawk and Wing Chris Chelios on TV recently. He plays for the Chicago Wolves of the AHL, the NHL's minor league affiliate. He turns 48 on January 25th. How he is able to still play intrigues me for a few reasons. Number one being the obvious physical implications all these years take on his body. He must be a health nut or something to keep playing. Number two is...doesn't he feel weird playing hockey with men much much younger than him? They are all trying to play well to get moved up, and he is trying to play well to...win? Can't imagine any NHL team signing him so it's interesting to see him still play. The guy is a rink rat, no question. Still the man though.
- I simply don't understand why some goalies in the NHL, particularly those who've played with the Hawks the last two seasons, aren't more active and physical with forwards trying to screen them by standing in front. I'm sure the rules are a little different from Illinois high school hockey and the NHL, but I used to regularly hack with full force at the exposed back-side of forwards' legs. And the Hawks goalies are often burned by this strategy (especially in the playoffs), yet the coaching staff continues to let opponents stand idly by without putting a man on him.
- I was driving up to northern Wisconsin for New Year's and heard a radio station's tagline after a song. Can't remember which one but it went "So-so's radio station: Central Wisconsin's radio station for older women".
What? And why was I listening to that station?
- I cannot stand talking about my personal life transition to people. And I'm at a really ambiguous point in my life too so its not like lying to people about it does anybody any good either.
- I just don't think Eric Berry is as good as everyone says he is. I haven't watched a lot of SEC football, but most of the highlights I've seen of him are just not that impressive. Like the one also on Tim Tebow's personal highlight reel where Tebow Truck-sticks over Berry.
-Taylor Mays has also been a disappointment for USC this year.
- The Sporting News article Kevin sent out (http://www.sportingnews.com/college-football/article/2009-12-28/coaching-you-call-work) is some of the hottest garbage I have ever read. I firmly believe that the guy who wrote that article did it not out of his personal, true feelings, but rather so that it would create a controversy. (For anyone who even reads the Sporting News, that is, Kevin...) There is no way he thinks those things, and if he actually does, well then he's an idiot. I was fortunate to be able to play 4 full seasons of college football, and I know that even for a small Division III head coach, the strain on one's family cannot be underestimated. In recruiting alone, the what-if's and coulda been's and the fact that teenagers do a lot of dumb stuff when they think they're the shiznit make a formidable argument for a guy like Urban Meyer to step down. Outside of recruiting, a regular day for most successful coaches -- head or assistant-- usually runs from five or six in the AM to 11 PM. My coach regularly had to miss his now 5 children's activities because he had to deal with some idiot player on our team, or some to-be idiot player from some white trash town in central southern Illinois. Because of this strain, my coach also had to step down this Fall. I'm sure whatever Meyer is going through is legitimate, and the effects on one's family and personal health are much, much more significant than most casual observers of college football probably believe. When Meyer has to deal with dopes like Carlos Dunlap, in addition to sustaining great recruiting, vying for an SEC and national title, dealing with questions about a potential move to Notre Dame, and his family all in one, I think he deserves a little more slack.
-Israel Idonije has quite possibly the largest lips in the NFL.
- Raul Mondesi is running for mayor of San Cristobal, Dominican Republic. I read this online recently..."His intellectual shortcomings are obvious," one political observer notes. "We don't know of one project that Raul Mondesi has submitted." This reminds me of when Heath Shuler ran for congress in North Carolina. But he actually won that vote....
- Finally, if anybody is still reading this, here is your reward. Earlier in this post I talked about not enjoying the transition my life is currently under. Well I have been applying for a lot of jobs recently, and apparently the potential employers have had a good laugh at my expense. One particular employer emailed me after I had applied, asking for a re-submission of my resume. So I obliged and thought nothing of it. She then responded again saying that twice now I had actually submitted an essay from a German history class this Fall that had the same title as my resume, simply "Tighe Burke". I have been sending out the same document--which I thought was actually my resume--to probably over 25 employers in the last month., including a guy who was essentially "hooking me up" with a potential job. I hate so many things right now.
- J.T. O'Sullivan is so ugly and bad I don't know honestly why he is under contract in the NFL. When he came in during the 3rd quarter against the Jets, I thought I was watching Dan Orlovsky again, except with a mullet so pathetic its not even worth mentioning in an amateur blog.
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