08/11/25
August 10, 2025
SportsFilter: The Sunday 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.
Amazing. And that explains a Bluesky post that I saw yesterday, something along the lines of "takes a drag off a smoke, tells the QB: just get me to our 45 yard line" My internal reaction was that this idiot poster doesn't know the difference between "our" side of the field vs "their" side of the field. Who's the idiot poster now? (me. the answer is me.)
posted by NoMich at 11:11 AM on August 10, 2025
Immortality confirmed: The LSD fueled no-hitter that Dock Ellis threw in 1970 was a clue in today's Boston Globe Crossword.
1970 was a banner year in sports.
posted by beaverboard at 12:35 PM on August 10, 2025
Youtuber Isaac Punts breaks down Little's 70 yarder.
posted by NoMich at 01:08 PM on August 10, 2025
Cam Little kicked a 70 yd. field goal for the Jaguars yesterday.
It's not in the record books because it was not kicked during a regular season game.
But it was even a more historic kick than the numbers indicate.
Tom Dempsey kicked a record setting 63 yd. FG in 1970 that was all the more remarkable because he kicked it in the sultry air of outdoor Tulane Stadium in NOLA.
But it was kicked in November, when weather conditions in Louisiana are more moderate.
Most of the massive moon shots that Elam, Prater and McManus kicked for the Broncos were struck in the thin, high altitude air of Denver, where the ball carries farther.
Justin Tucker's record 66 yarder was kicked in a controlled environment, indoors at Ford Field in Detroit.
Cam Little's kick was nailed outdoors in August in Jacksonville on the banks of the St. Johns River, a short distance inland from the sea air of the Atlantic.
That is some thick, wet, heavy ass air. The idea that Little made a 70 yard kick under those conditions is mind boggling. I'd say tack on another 5 yards for degree of difficulty and give him the record.
The whole thing is fitting poetic justice. It wasn't that long ago that the Jags' Asshole In Chief, Urban Meyer, kicked PK Josh Lambo in the leg during an August practice and said: "Hey dipshit, make your fucking kicks" before releasing Lambo (one of the best all time kickers in franchise history) from the squad.