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October 19, 2009
SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
posted by rcade at 09:18 AM on October 19, 2009
beaverboard wins. Huddle's over.
And... BREAK!
posted by DrJohnEvans at 09:24 AM on October 19, 2009
Sportsfilter: Don't let the hop play you; you play the hop.
posted by JJ at 09:36 AM on October 19, 2009
I like the idea of saying "break!" when somebody wins the huddle. "Farting cow playing a mail-order banjo" may have won the entire site.
posted by rcade at 10:39 AM on October 19, 2009
Steelers K Jeff Reed (who?) is the latest in a string of dirty criminals who party too hard and get into trouble. Instead of, say, shooting himself in the foot, Reed got cited for tackling a convenience store paper dispenser. Too be fair, when those things jam, it can make a beast out of a man.
posted by dfleming at 10:59 AM on October 19, 2009
Perhaps the dispenser contained more nude pics that Reed took with his phone to send to random girls at a bar?
posted by Ufez Jones at 11:41 AM on October 19, 2009
Jeff Reed has gone beyond "Jeff Reed who?" status. He's the crazy kicker who takes the best drunk pictures in sports since Dirk Nowitzki and Steve Nash.
posted by rcade at 12:58 PM on October 19, 2009
Reminds me of The Leg from The Replacements.
posted by jmd82 at 01:05 PM on October 19, 2009
I am reserving judgement on Reed as I took out a paper towel dispenser at YukonGold's wedding after-party. In my defense, it was asking for it.
posted by yerfatma at 01:06 PM on October 19, 2009
I completely forgot about why I knew who Jeff Reed was. The Tucker Max of kickers!
David Akers is currently sulking over losing that title.
posted by dfleming at 01:10 PM on October 19, 2009
The Detroit Shock are moving to Tulsa.
posted by rcade at 02:10 PM on October 19, 2009
I completely forgot about why I knew who Jeff Reed was. The Tucker Max of kickers!
Hey now! Slow your roll there. There's only one Tucker Max and Jeff Reed sure ain't it....unless he starts recording his conversations with the ladies while intoxicated and make one hell of a hilarious movie about it like Tucker did.
posted by BornIcon at 02:19 PM on October 19, 2009
Dante Wesley of the Carolina Panthers was ejected from the game with the Tampa Bay Buccaneeers for a extremely dirty hit on a punt returner. Wesley and his coach claim it was unintentional.
posted by rcade at 03:21 PM on October 19, 2009
I don't know what could possibly have been unintentional about that vicious hit.
posted by bperk at 04:19 PM on October 19, 2009
That hit by Wesley was nuts. Last player who did something, which was nowhere near as bad, got a $25k fine (this is per an ESPN commentator just now).
I will repeat past calls for the league to suspend players for the same number of games missed by the victim due to injury when an illegal play causes injury, plus one game. (In any sport, not just NFL)
posted by billsaysthis at 05:17 PM on October 19, 2009
I like the idea of saying "break!" when somebody wins the huddle. "Farting cow playing a mail-order banjo" may have won the entire site.
I'd say. But let's not overlook the potential in a Bill Walton/Inspector Clouseau offspring. Think of the domiant characteristics that thing would have. Thinking maybe like Luke Walton, only he'd be investigating gambling refs with ridiculous hyperbole.
"Thank you for your report, Inspector, though I have some diffculty believing that Monsieur Donaghy was "one of the five greatest criminal minds since the ABA-NBA merger.'"
posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 05:57 PM on October 19, 2009
Damn, but that was a gorgeous pitch-out.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 07:23 PM on October 19, 2009
Jeff Reed, Tucker Max ...
Just wasted 6 minutes of my life figuring out who these losers were.
See what happens to the world when there's no place for Jerry Springer rejects to go?
posted by cixelsyd at 07:32 PM on October 19, 2009
Tonight's football game is a match-up between the greatest socks ever worn and the powder blue jersies. I wish the NFL would celebrate the AFL every single year.
posted by NoMich at 10:10 PM on October 19, 2009
While I also liked the socks, and the jerseys, those orange officiating outfits have to go.
posted by dviking at 12:06 AM on October 20, 2009
Do they ever! Those refs look like a barbershop quartet and I keep waiting for them to break out in song when they're wearing those outfits. Just brutal.
posted by BornIcon at 09:22 AM on October 20, 2009
It would be cool if they did the penalty announcements in four-part harmony. Or the "after review" announcements at least.
posted by fabulon7 at 10:39 AM on October 20, 2009
I had to stop listening to the TBS broadcast of the Dodgers - Phillies game. I can't take it anymore.
Ron Darling sounds like the love child of Bill Walton and Inspector Clouseau and Buck Martinez sounds like a farting cow playing a mail order banjo.