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September 18, 2014
SportsFilter: The Thursday 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.
Florida is an outlier because only the north part of Florida is culturally "southern."
Louisiana is an outlier because the Saints play the Vikings this weekend.
posted by holden at 09:52 AM on September 18, 2014
New Gatorade commercial for Derek Jeter's retirement.
I wanted to hate it. I really did. I was going in with cynicism set to "full".
But those scenes interacting with the fans really are sweet.
(The kid almost losing his mind realizing Jeter is going to sign his baseball is my favourite reaction.)
I would like to have seen a longer version of that if they made one.
This commercial is SO much better than that Nike "Tip of the Cap" one with the celebs.
posted by grum@work at 11:01 AM on September 18, 2014
With respect to the Peterson thing, 538 took a look at the correlation between region, religion, race, and political party affiliation and attitudes on corporal punishment, and the attitudes in the South are definitely more pro-spanking, even after controlling for the other variables.
posted by holden at 12:58 PM on September 18, 2014
New Gatorade commercial for Derek Jeter's retirement.
The spot was well done. I don't think I've seen a commercial that was as genuine as that one is.
posted by BornIcon at 01:14 PM on September 18, 2014
When I went to school in Texas in the '70s and '80s, teachers would threaten to paddle students and some carried out that threat. I can remember being in class while a teacher took a student to the adjacent resource room for paddling, then listening to the kid wail.
Paddles seemed to disappear from that school district in Richardson within 3-5 years, but when I moved to the smaller town of Burleson in middle school, they were back. Some teachers hung them up on their class wall (labeled "Board of Education"). My basketball coach occasionally paddled players in the locker room after practice as we were changing out of our gym clothes or uniforms, and in retrospect it was a spectacle both awkward and homoerotic.
posted by rcade at 01:32 PM on September 18, 2014
I do not recall seeing paddles at schools when I was a kid (coincidentally, I also went to school in Richardson, TX -- Yale Elementary -- for Kindergarten and 1st grade), although we left the south in the early 80's when I was in second grade. However, up until 4 or 5 years ago my wife worked for a non-profit literacy program that goes into Chicago public schools and she suggested that corporal punishment is still found in some CPS schools on the south and west sides, and that some/many parents in those communities actually want the teachers to paddle or otherwise physically discipline their kids.
posted by holden at 01:54 PM on September 18, 2014
I was one of the kids who opened up Yale, attending from 2nd through 5th grade in 1975-78. My younger brother and sister were four years behind me there. Sounds like you just missed us.
Go Roadrunners! (We chose that mascot. It was a heated debate that tore us apart not unlike today's Scotland vote.)
posted by rcade at 02:22 PM on September 18, 2014
Peyton Manning bought 21 pizza restaurants in Denver weeks before Colorado legalized pot.
They're posting record sales.
posted by rcade at 02:34 PM on September 18, 2014
Peyton Manning had this to say in a recent interview with Peter King:
"There's some different laws out here in Colorado. Pizza business is pretty good out here, believe it or not, due to some recent law changes. So when you come to a different place, you've kind of got to learn everything that comes with it."
posted by holden at 02:56 PM on September 18, 2014
Peyton Manning bought 21 pizza restaurants in Denver weeks before Colorado legalized pot.
Those who say there are no ill effects from marijuana use are dead wrong! Obesity will shortly become a major problem.
I'm getting the munchies just writing this'
posted by Howard_T at 03:00 PM on September 18, 2014
I was hoping that Bayless and Smith would invest in a Heart Attack Grill franchise.
Or maybe that Superhead would open a Five Guys.
posted by beaverboard at 03:45 PM on September 18, 2014
And rcade - "Go Roadrunners!" indeed. In my later years, always wondered why the mascot was not the Bulldogs, but that probably was too highfalutin east coast for mid-70's Texas.
posted by holden at 03:50 PM on September 18, 2014
It was a heated debate that tore us apart not unlike today's Scotland vote
My sister flies home to Aberdeen tonight. The flight has already been pushed back twice. I'm concerned they are currently extending Hadrian's Wall vertically.
posted by yerfatma at 03:58 PM on September 18, 2014
Sitting here banging away on the computer with the TV on the NBA Channel. They're showing replays of various playoff games. Right now it's LA vs Indiana in 2000. The original broadcast was NBC, and the announcer is Bob Costas. I did not realize just how good this guy was when doing play-by-play, and it's quite a revelation to someone who thinks Bob Costas is an insufferable dickhead when he pontificates on one issue or another. You live and learn, I guess.
posted by Howard_T at 05:44 PM on September 18, 2014
New Gatorade commercial for Derek Jeter's retirement.
Is it dusty in here or what? Something in my eye...
posted by Joey Michaels at 06:01 PM on September 18, 2014
The CBS analysts thought this would be a tough, close, low-scoring game tonight between the Falcons and Bucs.
It's now 35-0, and we've got 7 minutes left in the 2nd quarter.
posted by Bonkers at 09:32 PM on September 18, 2014
There's an interesting trend in the ESPN online poll results for whether the Vikings should have suspended Adrian Peterson. The Yes votes are in the majority everywhere but the south.