Zooey wrote:

So Bernie had a deadline and couldn’t think of anything fresh to write about.

LoL. Yup. There’s a good-Bernie,
and a bad-Bernie.

As I’ve said before, the good-Bernie
gives us some interesting stats and analysis.

Bad-Bernie gives us the “Heads need to Roll!” schtick.

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PA Ram wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>wv wrote:</div>

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>PA Ram wrote:</div>
I agree with lyser.

He is the board blaspheemer,
you know.

“In any duly constituted faculty of theology, a chair of blasphemy – in preparation for the doctorate of course – would be indispensable; occupied by the Devil himself, if possible.”
Antonio Machado (1875-1939)

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No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy

It’s funny you quote Philip K. Dick.

I’m reading “The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick” off and on again.

It’s a lot of his rambling thoughts –but man some of the thoughts. Crazy? Sure. Interesting? Absolutely. Fascinating? Without a doubt.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Exegesis-Philip-K-Dick/dp/B00A7KUEVI

“Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.”
― Philip K. Dick

“Everything in life is just for a while.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

“The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

21Dog wrote:

That was his style….pull no punches.

I agree 100 percent with him here.

He was definitely a love or hate him type of columnist.

I think I liked Jim Murray, more.
I used to subscribe to the LA Times back
in the 70’s. Just for two or three years or so.
I got to read some of the LA columnists. Murray
impressed me.

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http://articles.latimes.com/1996-07-04/sports/sp-21017_1_deacon-jones

Jim Murray
July 4, 1996

He put the “d” in football. What? You say there is no “d” in football? There was the way Deacon Jones played it.

He put the word “sack” into the lexicon. He was the first one to conjure up the image of the fallen quarterback being wrapped in burlap or a body bag.

No one bothered to interview a defensive end before Deacon came along. You concentrated on the quarterbacks, the running backs. The glamour guys.

Deacon changed all that. He made defensive end into a cabinet post. He was the football administration’s official “Secretary of Defense.”
He was, in a way, the Muhammad Ali of football. Before Deacon, the game used to round up all the troglodytes it could find, suit them up and tell them, “Now, you just stand there and don’t let anyone by.”

Deacon didn’t rely on brute strength, although he had plenty of that. Deacon relied on footwork, speed, deception. Deacon was as unstoppable as a flood, as elusive as a fly in a hot room.

When you hear a football crowd yell “Dee-fense! Dee-fense!” it is a tribute to Deacon. Before him, there was no such yell. Oh, maybe back in the Ivy League at a Harvard-Yale game, the student body in raccoon coats and flapper skirts would yell “Hold that line!” but it wasn’t the same thing.

You see, defense was a passive thing in those days. You waited at the line of scrimmage or slid along the length of it, waiting for the ballcarrier to crash into you like a ship hitting the rocks. The “Seven Blocks of Granite” were the kind of thing they used to call successful defenders.

Deacon Jones was nobody’s block of granite. He was on the move. The way Deacon played it, the defense did the attacking. The classic explanation of his job was, you just crash around or over the blockers and arrive at the quarterback in ill humor. Big Daddy Gene Lipscomb used to like to say he just charged in picking people up and throwing them aside till he found the one with the ball. Him, you kept.

Deacon did this better than anybody. Coaches sat up nights trying to devise schemes that would take the play away from No. 75. They couldn’t. This was because Deacon without the ball could run as fast as anyone with the ball. He had such impressive speed for a man 255 pounds that he used to race running backs–not linemen–in training camp for betting money. The Rams’ trainer, George Menefee, used to line up the suckers. Until, one day, the head coach, Harland Svare, asked them to stop. They were giving the team’s running backs inferiority complexes. Beaten by a down lineman!

The Deacon knew how to work the room too. He was one of the first to raise his hands to get the crowd to cheer for the home team. And he shared the nuances of modern defensive football with the fans by calling attention to them in the press. Deacon was never a “No comment” interview. Deacon had lots of comments. He was militant but not hobbled by hate.

Before Deacon, defensive linemen were the unknown soldiers of the sport. Silent butlers, so to speak. They were so safe from recognition that you figured you might find Jimmy Hoffa in there. Before Deacon, defensive linemen got drafted just ahead of placekick-holders.

The crowds used to go out for a beer and a hot dog when the Rams didn’t have the football. But when Deacon came along, they used to wait till the Rams did have the football. Deacon was more exciting to watch than Billy Wade or Ron Jaworski.

It wasn’t only speed and power with Deacon. Watching him charge the ballhandler was like watching Dempsey-Firpo. Deacon had perfected another weapon in the pass-rusher’s arsenal–the head slap. Deacon came across the line of scrimmage throwing these crazy rights and straight lefts to the helmet of the blocking backs till you could hear the heads rattling like dice in a cage. How effective was it? So effective, they outlawed it in Deacon’s last year.

Deacon was part of the greatest pass rush of all time–the Fearsome Foursome of Lamar Lundy, Rosey Grier, Merlin Olsen and the Deacon. They were as choreographed as “Swan Lake,” a ballet not a game. They didn’t come at you the same way twice. They didn’t invent, but they perfected the maneuvers known as “stunting” and “looping” where they traded positions or lunges at the snap of the ball to confound the offense. Johnny Unitas once said the passer got 3 1/2 seconds to get rid of the ball–except against the Rams’ Fearsomes where you were lucky they didn’t arrive when the ball did.

Deacon was so fast off the line that new officials used to conclude confusedly that he must have been offside. Deacon was like a good sprinter who can anticipate the starter’s gun from the initial click.

PA Ram wrote:

I agree with lyser.

He is the board blaspheemer,
you know.

“In any duly constituted faculty of theology, a chair of blasphemy – in preparation for the doctorate of course – would be indispensable; occupied by the Devil himself, if possible.”
Antonio Machado (1875-1939)

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No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy

lyser wrote:

stfu wv

You are a man without
an avatar.

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Herzog wrote:

Good Lord that was depressing. There should be a warning attached to that!

This is him on the inter-net

A sample of his writing:
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/THE+BIG+CHILL%3b+RAMS+TOO+TOUGH%3a+IT%27LL+BE+GEORGIA+IN+GEORGIA.-a083391878
“le to fleece new suitors for taxpayer-subsidized stadiums – the St. Louis Rams and Tennessee Titans will settle their difference today in the 72-degree warmth of the enclosed Georgia Dome.

This will be a match painful to watch for many of the disenfranchised fans in Los Angeles, who supported the Rams for 49 seasons, and in Houston, who did the same with the Oilers for 37 seasons.

What will be even more aggravating to these people is that one of the miscreants responsible for the shift in residences – either the Oilers’ Bud Adams, or the Rams’ Georgia Frontiere – will be strutting on center stage this evening celebrating a Super Bowl victory.

The hunch here is that person will be Georgia Frontiere..
…..
……..
…And thus expect to see the ungodly spectacle of George Frontiere, the seven-time married Rams owner, on the sidelines late in the fourth quarter tonight, savoring a 30-20 win by her minions and defying the laws of compensation yet again.”

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• This reply was modified 11 years, 3 months ago by zn.

Georgia never liked the Kneel Down.
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http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995-03-16/sports/9503160267_1_rams-owner-georgia-frontiere-vice-president-john-shaw-rams-from-los-angeles
Next Move In Court
Nfl Rejects Rams’ St. Louis Transfer

March 16, 1995|
By Don Pierson, Tribune Pro Football Writer.

PHOENIX — National Football League owners voted down the proposed move of the Rams from Los Angeles to St. Louis on Wednesday, but the door to further negotiation still appears as open as the arch.

Rams owner Georgia Frontiere called it an “arbitrary and capricious” decision by a “kangaroo court” and laid groundwork for antitrust action in the kind of court that is painfully familiar to fellow owners who failed to prevent Al Davis from moving the Raiders from Oakland to Los Angeles in 1982.

“We’re exploring every option. I have complete resolve to move,” she said.

Commissioner Paul Tagliabue conceded the case is not closed, calling the vote he recommended applicable “at least for this week.” He said he “expected” the Rams would play in Anaheim again this year, but admitted he had no assurance that they wouldn’t hire moving vans and sneak out of town the way Robert Irsay did without a vote in 1984 when he left Baltimore for Indianapolis. But the league believes its guidelines governing franchise movement established since 1984 will stand up in court this time.

Frontiere urged St. Louis fans to “keep the faith.” They have purchased 74,000 “seat licenses” just for the right to buy tickets, many more than the city’s new dome can handle. Frontiere said she knew of no deadline for moving to play there this season, and with a slip of the tongue, said: “I’m afraid we’ll have to wait to see what the court decides.”

Both Frontiere and Rams vice president John Shaw said they would play in Anaheim this year if necessary, Shaw calling it “distinctly a possibility.”

By a vote of 21-3 with six abstentions, owners said the Rams did not meet the league criteria for moving, including sustained revenue losses. But the issue is far more complex than any list of do’s and don’ts.

For starters, the league offered the Rams three ways to buy their way into a go-vote regardless of guideline violations: 1. share a portion of the more than $60 million in “personal seat licenses” sold to St. Louis fans; 2. “deal” with the question of rights fees rebates to the Fox network; 3. contribute to a trust fund that would help build a stadium for an NFC team in Southern California.

The Rams made what Frontiere called a “substantial” offer to owners, believed to be $26 million, but were blindsided by the last two demands, which might have reached “tens of millions,” according to a source.

Shaw accused the league of planting the idea of rebates in a letter to Fox and called the trust fund for a Southern California stadium “arbitrary.” League spokesman Joe Browne called Shaw’s accusation of a plant “ridiculous.”

Tagliabue called the discussion and vote a “soul-searching” process of “how to balance the interests of two groups of fans.” Clearly, keeping an NFC team in the country’s second-largest market won out over the enthusiasm of St. Louis fans in the 20th market.

The Rams, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Cincinnati Bengals were the only yes votes, and the ownership of the Bucs and Bengals have pushed for new stadiums. The six teams that abstained were the Raiders, Seahawks, Chargers, Colts, Saints, and Falcons.

Bears chairman Ed McCaskey voted against the move, saying: “The sanctity of the constitution and bylaws has been maintained.”

Frontiere said she reminded fellow owners that Bill Bidwill’s move of the Cardinals out of St. Louis to Phoenix in 1988 was approved “very easily.”

“He was a very lucky man,” she said.

“If Busch Stadium were a clone of Anaheim , I’d still be in St. Louis,” Bidwill said.

Shaw said he felt “extremely” confident the Rams could win a lawsuit, an option the Missouri attorney general’s office already has threatened.

Player agent Leigh Steinberg, chairman of the “Save the Rams” group in Anaheim, called the vote “wonderful” and invited Frontiere back with the promise to work on a new stadium or suggest 11 different groups happy to buy the team.

Frontiere said she would “never” sell and the enthusiasm of Southern California over the Rams was demonstrated by the absence of any television cameras from Los Angeles at these NFL meetings.

Abandoned by the Cardinals and jilted by expansion, St. Louis was left with only this promise from Frontiere: “I never liked the quarterback kneel at the end of a game. I’m not doing the quarterback kneel. The clock is still ticking.”
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http://articles.chicagotribune.com/keyword/georgia-frontiere
Rams Say They’re Moving
Frontiere Gives Ok
Club Hopes To Wrap Up St. Louis Deal Soon
January 16, 1995

Los Angeles Rams owner Georgia Frontiere and other team officials plan to complete a deal over the next two days to move the franchise to St. Louis.

Team President John Shaw was among a Rams contingent that arrived Sunday night in St. Louis to finalize details for the move, Rams spokesman Rick Smith said. Frontiere was to arrive later in the week.

FANS Inc., the St. Louis group courting the Rams, plans a news conference Tuesday to formally announce the switch, which must then be approved by NFL owners.

“I’m on my way,” Frontiere told the Los Angeles Times. “I have to give my approval. I have no other choice.”

The Rams, who projected a loss of some $6 million in Anaheim in 1994, have been offered a new stadium and practice facility and a potential profit of more than $20 million a year in St. Louis. That would make the franchise the most profitable in the NFL.

Part of the agreement is an unprecedented guarantee that at least 85 percent of luxury boxes and club seats will be sold for the next 15 years, accounting for at least $10 million annually for the team. The deal also will provide $30 million to pay off what the Rams owe the City of Anaheim.

The Rams have played in Southern California for 49 years since coming west from Cleveland. They were the first major-league team to move to the West Coast.

“I feel a little numb,” Frontiere told the Times. “It’s so wonderful and the future looks so bright, but I’m also sad that things were not able to work out here.”

Frontiere said she didn’t know what to say to Rams fans about taking the team to Missouri.

“How can you say anything?” Frontiere said. “You’re taking something away from somebody and they’re not going to be happy. I don’t think anyone will ever know how much I fought not to have this happen.”

3 on the all-rookie team? Nice.

2014 1 2 Greg Robinson OL
2014 1 13 Aaron Donald DT
2014 2 41 Lamarcus Joyner CB
2014 3 75 Tre Mason RB
2014 4 110 Maurice Alexander SS
2014 6 188 E.J. Gaines CB

2014 6 214 Garrett Gilbert QB
2014 7 226 Mitchell Van Dyk OL
2014 7 241 C.B. Bryant FS
2014 7 249 Michael Sam DE
2014 7 250 Demetrius Rhaney OL
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“…it will replace the 31-year-old Metrodome, which the Vikings will vacate after the 2013 season. They’ll play outside at the University of Minnesota’s TCF Bank Stadium for two years while the new venue is under construction.
In 2016, the Vikings will move back indoors. From the look of the new 65,000-seat building, though, they’ll feel a little like they’re playing in the elements, albeit with a controlled climate and protection from the rain, wind and snow….”

Vikings are gonna play outside
for two years ?

Damn. That will bring back some
memories of the old, cold days.
http://fs64sports.blogspot.com/2010/12/1969-kapp-brings-vikings-from-behind-to.html

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Yeah, it was pretty obvious
he was playing hurt this year.

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Dunno if this GIF will work, but its the one LA posted at the herd board.
LA thought it shows a catch. Because dez is “reaching out” for the endzone.

I think it shows a no catch. Cause to me theres no “reaching out for the endzone” Exception
to the Rules. He didnt demonstrate control. He shouldnt have reached out if he
was gonna bobble it by reaching out. He shoulda just tucked it.

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• This reply was modified 11 years, 3 months ago by zn.

Itz Dallas and itz Dez
so, NO, it wasnt a catch.

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Just saw the stats on the Patriot-Raven game

Patriots 408 yards passing.
Patriots 14 yards rushing. (13 rushing plays)

Thats gotta be some sorta record.

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