Monthly Archives: January 2007

1/9/07 – Big Ten Spanking

January 9, 2007 – 9:29 am

It is 1:00 AM here in Curmudgeon Central; the Florida/Ohio State game has been over for about 90 minutes; I’m still waiting to see how long it will be until someone on the Ohio State offensive line figures out that blocking a Florida defensive end might be a good idea. I’m also waiting for all [...]

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Have The “Golf Goofs” Goofed?

January 8, 2007 – 7:52 pm

I don’t play golf. It’s a game that omits an element that I find most appealing in any game I try to play – defense. So, from the outset, you can attribute everything here to the ravings of someone who “just doesn’t get it”. Or, maybe I’m one of the ones who haven’t drunk the [...]

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Mythical Picks NFL – Weekend of 1/6/07

January 5, 2007 – 11:56 am

I must have used up all of my dumb luck last weekend with Mythical Picks because I had OVER Feb 1st for the next time Mike Tyson would be arrested… Oh well. Last weekend was a really good one for Mythical Picks despite the fact that most of the games were meaningless for at least [...]

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1/5/07 – College Football Coaches Just Got A Raise

January 5, 2007 – 9:34 am

Yesterday, I wondered aloud what Nick Saban’s reported $40M deal to coach the University of Alabama might have done to Bill Cowher’s asking price should he become a coaching free agent. After a bit of reflection, I wonder what that contract does to the asking price for college coaches such as Pete Carroll and Jim [...]

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1/4/07 – Salary Inflation

January 4, 2007 – 9:37 am

Now that Nick Saban has left Miami after at least a half dozen statements that he wasn’t going to do that to go and coach at Alabama for a salary that is almost at the top of the NFL salary scale, there are several comments that have to be made: 1. When Joe Gibbs finally [...]

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NFL Coaches in Jeopardy?

January 3, 2007 – 8:10 pm

The sounds of the final whistles in last weekend’s games had barely died down and the teams had may or may not have left the stadia before the stories broke that Dennis Green and Jim Mora Jr. would be looking for work next season. What has surprised me is that there have not been any [...]

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1/2/07 – Happy New Year Everyone

January 2, 2007 – 9:54 am

There’s lots of stuff to clean up from the final week or so of the NFL season so let me get to it. So far only two coaches have been fired and I think that number is shy of the number that ought to be fired. I’ll do a full disclosure of the coaches I [...]

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