Richard Kimball

Yeah, here's some of Emmitt's showboating after scoring a 75 yard TD against the Redskins. Slaps hands with a few fans then hugs his teammates.

It's an old meme, but it checks out.

Random thoughts on Newton. Always hated that pretending to rip his shirt open like he's Superman thing. Course, I wasn't the audience for that. I'm one of the old guys who liked seeing Emmitt Smith score the touchdown and head back to the sidelines. Serious narcissist brought back down to earth by the realities of NFL football. Dude has a ton of talent and has been a great player. He could have been better if he'd kept his ego in check and been a team leader instead of a "look at me" guy. If nothing changes, he'll forever be defined by that moment in the Super Bowl when he did that stutter step instead of jumping on the ball. His wardrobe choices are questionable. When Matt Rhule did the interview saying he'd love to have Newton play for him, I knew he was never going to take a snap from a Matt Rhule coached team. Belichick went from the ultimate team quarterback to the ultimate "me" quarterback. Newton did his best with the Patriots, but he's so different from Brady, it was a huge shift for a team that was already successful. It would be like going from Troy Aikman to Michael Vick. The entire offensive philosophy has to change to accommodate that different a quarterback. He didn't deserve the lip from that kid at his camp.

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That's awesome. My Corvette story didn't have a happy ending. I ran up on one at the old Corvette Country in Austin. It was an 85, and about fifteen years old at the time. Never wrecked, I had an old truck they gave me $5500 for, paid cash for the other $4500. I loved that car. My wife hated it, and gave me shit about it every day for a solid year until I sold it. Traded it in for a new pickup. Closest I ever came to getting a divorce was over that car. She did shit I'd never seen her do before. Gave the keys to a friend of ours, and tried to talk him into taking it and driving by us and waving at us as he drove by. He wouldn't do it, cause guys understand that kind of shit. Anyway, for the next six months after I got rid of it, she'd keep asking me, "How do you like the new pick up?" I'd tell her, "It's a pickup. It's fine." She finally started saying, "If I knew how much you liked the Corvette, I wouldn't have mentioned selling it." This ought to be on the "Wives" thread.

TL;DR McCarthy took the job for the bucks. He was burned out his last couple of years at Green Bay, but he'll take $4 million to say "sounds good boss" whenever Jerry has a random neural firing. Confession: I haven't watched a Cowboys game since Garrett iced his own kicker. That was in 2011. So, you know how up to date I am on the team. The soliloquy: Jerry's early success hurt him later, and (IMHO) he's a functioning alcoholic. His decisions remind me of playing poker with a drunk. Ever play poker with a drunk, he's sitting on two pair, and still throws money on the table like it's four of a kind? The Deion Sanders trade was what ruined him. He traded for Deion, they won the Super Bowl next year. It set two patterns. Jerry became convinced he could identify talent, and he also thinks he's perpetually one big signing away from a Super Bowl win. He picks a guy, figures HE'S THE GUY, and that's how you end up with the Elliot contact, drafting a fourth rounder, Quincy Carter, in the second round, and filling out the roster with a bunch of guys named Norm. Tom Brady turned the Patriots, and then the Buccaneers, into places people wanted to go to win. Jerry turned the Cowboys into a place where guys want to go for a paycheck.

There's a couple of things I really like about WandaVision One thing I never figured out in the Avengers movies was why they didn't give the Scarlet Witch an actual Scarlet Witch outfit. She was always dressed like a goth girl going to the mall on a chilly day. The only other one they didn't give an actual costume to was Hawkeye, and I've never met anyone who gives a crap about Hawkeye.

I know it was a couple of months ago, so maybe late to comment, but that letter reads like it was written by a Nigerian Prince. Probably some guy that lives in an efficiency apartment.

Don't know why it occurred to me, but I loved Captain Kangaroo when I was a kid.

Let me tell you a story about getting mileage off one performance.

These twitter & press department press releases are a joke. Before computers, nobody had the time to look up bullshit like the longest kick return to start the second half in a domed stadium west of the Mississippi since 1987.

Live is worse than TV, especially when you are broke and spend all the money and then get heartbroken.

When I was young, sports seemed a lot more important. I was a huge Cowboys fan. They'd lost to Green Bay in 66 and 67 on the last play of the championship game. In 1968, Green Bay was done, and the Cowboys finished the regular season 12-2. I was thirteen, and thought for sure they were going to win the Super Bowl. Cleveland beat the shit out of them in the divisional round. It was horrible. I don't think anything sports related ever hurt worse than that loss. It was like losing my first love (which I hadn't had, yet.) Yeah, I may get disappointed over a loss now, but when I was a kid, it seemed like life and death. When I was writing this and reflecting back on my youth, it reminded me of why I hated Notre Dame so bad. Couldn't see the Longhorns in Texas, but EVERY SUNDAY MORNING the local station showed NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL HIGHLIGHTS. Frikkin hour of the Saturday Notre Dame game, with every good play by the opponent taken out.

You mean Morton? I always felt bad for Morton. He had a great arm, and could have been as well known as Staubach, but he played just about that entire season with a separated right shoulder. He played that season with less than half of his normal throwing strength, and with a hip pointer, several concussions and a knee injury. He was not a particularly mobile QB, and in that era, they beat the shit out of QBs.

Saw an interview with John Madden years ago. They asked him why he got out of coaching so young. He told a story about breakfast one morning with the family, and it was a game week, so he was preoccupied. His wife told him that he'd promised to get their oldest son a car when he turned sixteen. He said he snapped at her, asking her why she was bugging him about that when it was game week and there was plenty of time. She told him the boy was turning sixteen the next week. He said he knew something wasn't right when he didn't know within two years how old his son was.

I'm gonna take a wild guess that the ratings were horribad, bad enough they'll have to refund a bunch of advertiser dollars, and they'r trying to figure out how to spin it, or hoping if they stonewall long enough, people will quit asking. Since all the networks, news outlets, and the NFL have common financial interests, they'll do everything they can to cover up for each other.

Russell's first year in the NBA, 1956, there were a total of eight NBA teams. The NBA didn't hit ten teams until the 1966 season. Half the teams were in about a three hundred mile loop of Boston, New York, Syracuse, and Philadelphia. Yeah, the Celtics won eleven titles in thirteen years, but the Celtics were the only stable NBA franchise in the fifties. Think of them as the Harlem Globetrotters and all the other teams as the Washington Generals. The Celtics are the only NBA franchise from 1956 that's still located in the same city. Every other franchise moved, some multiple times. I don't want to diss the old records, but it was just different. These were guys that had to get jobs in the off season, and the quality of play would probably be JUCO level today.

I have difficulty seeing Belichick make it to another Super Bowl. He's 68, and while he's a good X and O coach, he's also a horse's ass. Brady kept the Patriots together. Belichick, as a coach, needed someone to provide the heart for the team, cause he didn't have one. I almost felt sorry for Cam Newton trying to replace Brady. The fact that Belichick lowballed Brady and thought Newton would be an adequate replacement tells you he did not understand what Brady brought to the team. It also tells you he didn't realize how corrosive a personality he has, or didn't care. Without Brady to unify the locker room, Belichick will be the same guy everybody knew and loathed when he was with Cleveland.

Exactly where I am. Part of it is the regime, and part of it is a product of my age. The 70s Cowboys were older than me, and seemed bigger than life. They probably still did a bunch jack wagon stuff, but without social media to amplify it and 24 hour news cycles, we didn't know. It's still hard for me to imagine Staubach, Pearson, Landry, Pugh, Lilly, Billy Jo Dupree, Bob Hayes or any of the others sitting up at a podium talking about glory hole days. Course, there was was Lance Rentzel. Seeing Drew get into the HOF is a throw back to a time when sports probably wasn't much cleaner, but I was more naive about how it really worked. Great to see him get there.

Best possible outcome is the guy was talking out his ass with bad information. If he got actual medical info and released it, there was a HIPAA violation. The reporter has no legal obligation to maintain confidentiality once he knows the information. Whoever was the custodian of the information is the one legally responsible, and that could cause problems for the entire University.

Lots of different thoughts on this. First, hope the kid comes out all right. You know all the NFL money guys are sitting around a table right now going, "Well, shit." Steer the teams through this insane season, get Super Bowl set up, great story lines on Brady-Mahomes, terrific publicity from giving away Super Bowl tickets to health care workers, and here comes BRITT REID. Seriously, could he have done anything to cause more damage a couple of days before the game?

Damn. Reid had another son die of a heroin overdose. That family has some substance abuse problems.

Bet she keeps bringing up penalties from two years ago.

tampa and tom brady Trivia of the day. Bill Belichick has coached 26 years. Eighteen of those years, Tom. Brady was his quarterback. His winning percentage in those years was .760. In the eight years he coached and Brady wasn't his quarterback, his winning percentage was .460. Without Brady, Belichick has a worse record than Jeff Fischer.