HAIL (STONES) TO THE CHEFS!
Up until now, I’ve been patient with head coach Herm Edwards, I’ve given G.M. Carl Peterson the benefit of numerous doubts and I’ve put up with Larry Johnson’s chronic pissing and moaning, but after that sorry-ass performance yesterday against the Raiders at Arrowhead, my patience has reached its end. I firmly believe the U. of Missouri would’ve kicked the crap out of the Chefs yesterday. Granted, the Chefs don’t have the greatest talent on the team as a whole, but they should’ve been good enough to beat Oakland, who got flogged by the Broncos last week on MNF. Johnson was just shy of worthless—22 yards rushing on 12 carries? Hey LJ, try running somewhere else besides right up your own lineman’s ass, and you might gain a few more yards. I blame yesterday’s debacle totally on the coaching staff—that team was obviously not prepared to play a decent football game, and it reminded me of those lovely days back in the late ‘70s when the Chefs were absolutely abysmal and only 15,000 people even bothered to show up to watch them every Sunday. Those days are about to return, so we best get used to the games being blacked-out on local TV because the sellout streak at Arrowhead is ovah after this…
SPEAKING OF SELLOUTS…
Is anyone besides me already getting tired of those TV ads featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates? Yes I know, Seinfeld’s been a corporate shill for years, but I don’t recall comedians George Carlin, Richard Pryor or Robin Williams feeling the need to do TV commercials. And what the fuck does Bill Gates need the money for doing these ads for?
COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE?
In Raiders owner Al Davis’ case, it’s more like a commitment to being committed, as talk swirled this week that he’s about to fire his second-year head coach Lane Kiffin just two games into the season. There’s a big reason why the Raidas have sucked big-time in recent years, and it’s not Kiffin—it’s Davis himself! He’s made numerous questionable personnel decisions and has gone through more head coaches than the K.C. school district has gone through superintendents over the last ten years or so. Hey Al, just retire, baby…
GET BENT, BECKHAM!
I know I’ve ranted about this subject before here, but it bears repeating—I just don’t get all the hysteria over David Beckham, do you? I guess he’s like the Tiger Woods of outdoor soccer, but this obsession over him by the media and fans is getting to be a joke. Becks was in town Saturday night with the L.A. Galaxy to play our mighty K.C. Wizards. Even though the Wizzes have been playing soccer all season in a minor league baseball stadium (the T-Bones’ insert-corporate-name-here Ballpark) because of renovations to Arrowhead, the ‘Head suddenly became available for this match so gullible fans could pay an extra $10 a ticket and $12 bucks to park (which is normally free at the T-Bone joint) just to see Beckham be a non-factor in the Wizzes’ 2-0 win over the Galaxy. Apart from all the abject hysteria he’s caused, Beckham’s impact on the game of soccer in this country has been minimal, at best, and nearly non-existent on his own team, which has the worst record in Major League Soccer and hasn’t even won a game since June. My friend Steve in England swears up and down that Beckham truly is the shit, and is worthy of all this folderol, but I personally think he’s more like (as the Brits also say) the shite!
CLASSIC MISHEARD LYRIC #95
"Join Together"—THE WHO (1972) "Do you really think I care, what you read or what you wear?" Or as I originally heard it, "Do you really think I care, what you EAT or what you wear..."
POOR OZZIE GETS UPSTAGED ONCE AGAIN
I couldn’t help but chuckle last night when ESPN cut away from their broadcast of Ozzie Guillen’s Chicago White Sox playing Detroit to show the final three outs of the Cubs’ Carlos Zambrano’s no-hitter in Milwaukee against Houston. Ozzie’s always bitching and whining that the Sox never get any respect in Chi-Town, even after winning the World Series in ’05, and that the Cubs always get the lion’s share of the love in spite of their 100-year championship drought. Could this be because the Cubs conduct themselves with a fair amount of class, Ozzie? I hope Minnesota catches the White Sox and knocks them out of the playoffs.
Meantime, even though I’m a Cubs fan, I do think the Astros kinda got screwed on this deal by having to play these games in Milwaukee because of Hurricane Ike. Milwaukee is practically a northern suburb of Chicago, and Miller Park is almost the Cubs’ home-away-from-home as it is, because whenever they play the Brewers there, the place is over half-filled with Cub fans who make the 90-minute drive. Seems to me that Cincinnati, St. Louis or even Atlanta might’ve been a more suitable alternative.
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Carlin, Williams, and Pryor didn't need to do TV commercials because they were actually funny. Seinfeld, IMO, might be the most overrated show in the history of television.
David Beckham was the Tiger Woods of soccer five years ago. He's in America to score some big paydays, and because playing against weaker competition may extend his career a few years.
Amen, brother! I was beginning to think I was the only one who finds "Seinfeld" to be a grossly overrated TV show, along with "Everybody Loves Raymond". I've tried watching "Seinfeld" numerous times, but can never get into it, in spite of Julia Louis-Dreyfus being quite the attractive woman. The characters on the show just aren't as endearing to me as say "Frasier" or "Friends".
As for Beckham, if he even contributed a fraction of what the great Pele did on the field for the old NASL, then I'd respect him more, but to me he's just a freakin' dog and pony show for MLS. It's not like he needs the money, either...
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