‘MURICA!
With a little over a week left until the Super Bowl, allow us to take you on a visual tour of the birthplace of the football — Ada, Ohio, USA.
“Looking beyond the heavily dissected interviews and nonstop jokes on Twitter, the Te’o saga has brought a new question to the forefront: just what kind of crime is posing as someone else online, if it’s a crime at all? It’s a challenging issue that state legislatures and courts have been quietly started grappling with in recent years, and there’s a growing consensus that masquerading as someone else on Facebook, Twitter or through email is no laughing matter—do it with just enough malice and you could wind up behind bars…. As for Te’o, lawyers doubt that his alleged hoaxer would face criminal charges as an online impersonator. To charge someone with the crime, most states require that the hoaxer mimic an actual person—Kekua, Te’o’s girlfriend was fictitious, though an actual woman’s photos were used without her consent to represent Kekua. It’s also hard to distinguish between the harm caused by the hoax and the harm Te’o brought on himself…”
-Time.com: Can You Go to Jail for Impersonating Someone Online?
Monmouth University, best known nationally as the FCS school that gave the world Miles Austin, looks to be producing a beast of a linebacker in Dan Sullivan, a 6’2”, 235 soon-to-be senior said to be a workout freak of nature.
Here he is casually banging out a 65” box jump.
Army-Navy Game Ball Arrives in PA
No tolls required for these #WestPoint marathoners as they enter Pennsylvania with the #Army-Navy Game ball. #GoArmy twitter.com/WestPoint_USMA…
— U.S Military Academy (@WestPoint_USMA) December 7, 2012
I know what I’m getting EDSBS this holiday season…the complete SEC wooden chair collection from Hendrix Garage Creations & Wood Working. Roll Tide.
We love this story long time.
Shout Out to Uncle Luke! Former 2Live Crew Member is Coaching in Florida!
Football’s Greatest
In this digital age where information is consumed at such a rapid pace and often on-the-go, online publishers can easily slip into a world of top-ten lists and *gasp* slideshows. Hey, they work for the medium and for the audience.
But if the rise of outlets like Grantland, The Classical and, lately, SB Nation’s long-form program, as well as the longevity and respectability maintained by Sport Illustrated are any indication, the quality and strength of in-depth, well-written pieces are not lost on the public.
When it comes to sports, one thing will always ring true: debate.
This month, Sports Illustrated released Football’s Greatest, and the beautiful hardcover collection has all of the above.
This is the book to end all arguments-and to start many others. Who’s the greatest quarterback of all time, Joe Montana or Tom Brady? Brett Favre? Who was the most dominate linebacker, Lawrence Taylor or Dick Butkus? Was Deion Sanders better than Ronnie Lott? Are the Packers of Steelers the greatest franchise ever? Sports Illustrated has polled its pro football experts to determine the Top 10 in more than 20 categories. The rankings appear alongside stirring photography and classic stories from SI’s archives.
SPOILER ALERT: The 1985 Bears edge out the 1972 Dolphins as the greatest single season team. While not shocking to most even-mannered and objective football fans, Mercury Morris was said to have been seen in Manhattan screaming nonsensically and throwing eggs at the Time Life Building.
Don’t let the actions of one elderly madman deter you from checking out the book yourself.
You can grab a copy on Amazon for you or someone you love this holiday season.
Replacement Refs Can’t Escape Election Year Politics
It isn’t just football players that love a good pile on. Already the butt of the joke on late night television, now political candidates are using replacement refs for a punching bag.
The National Republican Congressional Committee was quick to post an image proclaiming that Obama in now ranked second worst person at their job, being stripped from the title by the refs.
Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra of Michigan launched a new ad called “Replacement Refs” the day after the Packers-Seahawks game that deadpans the refs incompetency.
Incumbents are using the scabs for official business, too.
SNY Tumbled from New Jersey’s The Record:
“New Jersey state Senate President Stephen Sweeney today said he plans to introduce legislation prohibiting the playing of professional sporting events with replacement officials.”
Naturally, Green Bay’s mayor is going all ape ship.
Football and its jargon have long been used as positive metaphors for political campaigns. This is a whole new ball game, and not a good one for the NFL.
Cool technology for training, but potential huuuge downside for players…
Makes you wonder in this day and age of big business sports whether this technology could be used by franchises AGAINST players in instances such contract negotiations - pointing out (with real time metrics!) how, where and when a player either loses his edge and/or may be dogging it.
Asked afterwards where the celebration came from, Noah revealed that it comes from the Swedish former soccer player Kennet Andersson who sometimes celebrated scoring a goal by pulling the “finger guns” out of imaginary holsters and firing them.
(CSN Chicago on the origin of our boy Joakim’s “Finger Gun Salute”)
