Stockholm Syndrome. The NFL has adopted/implemented what marketers call the “firehose effect,” in which the message becomes so ubiquitous it induces consumer overload stupor. The message is inevitable, so there is no point in resisting it, and it is ultimately just accepted. Apparently works with some politicians and their idiosyncratic messaging.
I think Bobby Huggins will retire. We spoke about fishing once when I met him and I think he said he likes to fish off of St. Simons Island. Betting he goes down there and follows his dreams. And, forget the gold watch. You don't need a watch when you retire. Give me the money, I say.
I think Huggs and the Mountaineers win Thursday. I think they get Alabama round 2 and that will be an L for Huggs. I hope he doesn’t retire yet. I want to see Huggs bring his bar stool to The Shoe a few times. Will always be my favorite coach
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When you're a 24 hour sport news channel, you're gonna have to put together lots and lots of fillers. Nature of the beast. Most of the fillers will be non-sensical worthless tripe. Doc, I'm projecting that you still have to watch ESPN, likely with only one jaded and cynical eye open, because it's sometimes a source relating to your work. As for me, I stopped watching ESPN years ago, about the time they destroyed the old Big East and gave way too much stage to clown acts like Jamelle Hill and Stephen A. ESPN can rot in hell, and probably will long before I watch it again. One of the biggest joys is I never have to see their horrible fillers any more. They're the news equivalent of fake cotton candy pulled out of a trash can, if you can picture such a thing. Yuck!
Memphis horribly underseeded? Yes! Completely agree! I might put something on that game. Where is the $1 window? Johnny BigBucks is ready to roll! I think I'll pull up in the front of the off-track betting joint in my '84 Corolla, dressed to impress, in my best G. Dead t-shirt. Memphis has been burned in the polls all year. They are good. We can take our winnings and hit the Precinct, no? lighting cigars with our piles of $50s. What??? YOU say it'll be .50 cents. Where's the bubble gum machine? I bin robbed. Just like the Bengals D-secondary. Let's let Ted of the excellent adventure paraphrase both these turns of events; "Big Bummers, Dudes and Dudettes."
Sticky Fingers and Some Girls are my favorites. But they're all great in their own way.
The NFL can be a year-round hype machine because there are plenty of fans who are exclusively football fans. I know a few of them. Grown men in their 40s--while they dabble in hoops and soccer, they have no desire for anything baseball (one is from Indy, the other from Cbus--so maybe it's a latitudinal issue). The main thing is football by far and it just gets to a numbers game. While I personally claim to love the Reds, Muskies, and Bengals all equally (and FCC more recently)--who am I kidding?
Sure I'll watch/follow all their games, but I'm not eagerly awaiting to see how Marquette fairs at Providence in November (and extrapolating from that how X might match up against both). I'm not ripping my hair out because the Columbus Crew landed that Brazilian midfielder. Since the Super Bowl, I've even reduced the hours spent watching sports simply to make up for all the football I watch from September to February. For better or worse, the NFL has created a closed system where every action has an implication. Part of it is the mechanical nature of the schedule, part is the salary cap and free agency. It's a bunch of other stuff as well. Everything becomes relevant. Pretty sure it was the ghost of Pete Rozelle on Schefter's phone-congratulating him on helping achieve his ultimate vision.
I agree with you Paul on Beggars’Banquet. This may be heresy to the stones fans, but I just don’t like Sympathy for the Devil for several reasons.
My favorite Stones albums:
1. Let it Bleed-quintessential Stones at their very best. Several of they greatest compositions all’s one 1 record.
2. Exile-many Stones fans’ favorite. I love “Sweet Virginia”-one number that doesn’t get the acclaim it should.
3. Blue and Lonesome-this one was a huge surprise. The band of old guys played with zeal and precision. Keith said they did it in just a few days. Their inspiration was short lived and he said they were emotionally exhausted at the end because they gave it their all. It won a Grammy-I think their 1st. Keith’s response to the award? “It’s about f_____g time”. Gotta love the guy.
I'd love to share some controversial point of view on the never-ending NFL hype machine, but I can't. Why? Simple really, I am in full agreement with Doc's take on the Musical Chairs With Money and all that is ... chicken or egg. ESPN: "If we air it, they will watch." Or....I just watch the games. BTW, I once scooped Adam Schefter - that on the official announcement of UM hiring of Coach Harbaugh. Of course, I didn't have his following, but my tweet beat his. Just sayin'. Talk among yourselves friends.
The constant NFL coverage is just a testament to the hegemony to the NFL itself - it dwarfs all the other sports combined. However, I just don't watch ESPN unless there's a ballgame on in the evening or weekend. Who's watching the talking head stuff anyway? I hear First Take is entertaining, but shouldn't everyone be at work at 10am?
In some ways, it's no different to me than the Tucker Carlson/Don Lemon/Rachel Maddow/etc crapola...Who watches other people just blather on for hours, eating up our precious evenings? Certainly not I, or anyone I know under 60. My evenings are too sacred, especially once the days lengthen and the weather warms. But perhaps I'm the outlier; obviously people ARE watching this stuff or I suppose it wouldn't be on.
If the line on the Vermont/Marquette game moves down into single digits, I'm going the other way...Marquette is a legit Final Four contender.
Doc, today is the perfect example of enjoying good writing irrespective of the subject matter. My eyes glaze over like a Krispy Kreme when it comes to the year-round NFL. I can barely watch the games (well established I prefer college football), so this topic is about as interesting to me as a time-share pitch in Toledo. But for you... I read.
I don't pretend to understand the logic of the NFL owners. You think Hayden Hurst is next? I wonder why they would let him go? Is there something lacking in his abilities? What more do the Bengals want from a tight end? I don't know, it seems like sometimes we let a good player go, to save a few bucks, only to sign a new guy and pay them close to the same amount. I hope then Men can keep their culture together in 2023.
I think the Von Bell loss stings. He was a leader, a good safety, and he was tough. Bates was so up and down the last two years, that loss is not as a big deal to me. Probably to others, though. But, the recent track record of Duke has been pretty good, so I'll "trust the process".
I watched a 1993 Bengals-Raiders game I found on Youtube. I can't tell if Klingler was that bad or his offensive line ruined him. Either way, that was a mess. Wow. Pickens was out that game, so it was Jeff Query and some no names. Bengals win. lol
I have to go with your son on this. Nothing wrong with some periodic Mick.
Tommy Casanova,LSU,quit to be a dentist
Yes. I can Google, too. Thanks for continuing to follow with clarity explaining some oddly nebulous point.
Stockholm Syndrome. The NFL has adopted/implemented what marketers call the “firehose effect,” in which the message becomes so ubiquitous it induces consumer overload stupor. The message is inevitable, so there is no point in resisting it, and it is ultimately just accepted. Apparently works with some politicians and their idiosyncratic messaging.
Eli can go.
I think Bobby Huggins will retire. We spoke about fishing once when I met him and I think he said he likes to fish off of St. Simons Island. Betting he goes down there and follows his dreams. And, forget the gold watch. You don't need a watch when you retire. Give me the money, I say.
I think Huggs and the Mountaineers win Thursday. I think they get Alabama round 2 and that will be an L for Huggs. I hope he doesn’t retire yet. I want to see Huggs bring his bar stool to The Shoe a few times. Will always be my favorite coach
When you're a 24 hour sport news channel, you're gonna have to put together lots and lots of fillers. Nature of the beast. Most of the fillers will be non-sensical worthless tripe. Doc, I'm projecting that you still have to watch ESPN, likely with only one jaded and cynical eye open, because it's sometimes a source relating to your work. As for me, I stopped watching ESPN years ago, about the time they destroyed the old Big East and gave way too much stage to clown acts like Jamelle Hill and Stephen A. ESPN can rot in hell, and probably will long before I watch it again. One of the biggest joys is I never have to see their horrible fillers any more. They're the news equivalent of fake cotton candy pulled out of a trash can, if you can picture such a thing. Yuck!
Memphis horribly underseeded? Yes! Completely agree! I might put something on that game. Where is the $1 window? Johnny BigBucks is ready to roll! I think I'll pull up in the front of the off-track betting joint in my '84 Corolla, dressed to impress, in my best G. Dead t-shirt. Memphis has been burned in the polls all year. They are good. We can take our winnings and hit the Precinct, no? lighting cigars with our piles of $50s. What??? YOU say it'll be .50 cents. Where's the bubble gum machine? I bin robbed. Just like the Bengals D-secondary. Let's let Ted of the excellent adventure paraphrase both these turns of events; "Big Bummers, Dudes and Dudettes."
Sticky Fingers and Some Girls are my favorites. But they're all great in their own way.
The NFL can be a year-round hype machine because there are plenty of fans who are exclusively football fans. I know a few of them. Grown men in their 40s--while they dabble in hoops and soccer, they have no desire for anything baseball (one is from Indy, the other from Cbus--so maybe it's a latitudinal issue). The main thing is football by far and it just gets to a numbers game. While I personally claim to love the Reds, Muskies, and Bengals all equally (and FCC more recently)--who am I kidding?
Sure I'll watch/follow all their games, but I'm not eagerly awaiting to see how Marquette fairs at Providence in November (and extrapolating from that how X might match up against both). I'm not ripping my hair out because the Columbus Crew landed that Brazilian midfielder. Since the Super Bowl, I've even reduced the hours spent watching sports simply to make up for all the football I watch from September to February. For better or worse, the NFL has created a closed system where every action has an implication. Part of it is the mechanical nature of the schedule, part is the salary cap and free agency. It's a bunch of other stuff as well. Everything becomes relevant. Pretty sure it was the ghost of Pete Rozelle on Schefter's phone-congratulating him on helping achieve his ultimate vision.
I agree with you Paul on Beggars’Banquet. This may be heresy to the stones fans, but I just don’t like Sympathy for the Devil for several reasons.
My favorite Stones albums:
1. Let it Bleed-quintessential Stones at their very best. Several of they greatest compositions all’s one 1 record.
2. Exile-many Stones fans’ favorite. I love “Sweet Virginia”-one number that doesn’t get the acclaim it should.
3. Blue and Lonesome-this one was a huge surprise. The band of old guys played with zeal and precision. Keith said they did it in just a few days. Their inspiration was short lived and he said they were emotionally exhausted at the end because they gave it their all. It won a Grammy-I think their 1st. Keith’s response to the award? “It’s about f_____g time”. Gotta love the guy.
I'd love to share some controversial point of view on the never-ending NFL hype machine, but I can't. Why? Simple really, I am in full agreement with Doc's take on the Musical Chairs With Money and all that is ... chicken or egg. ESPN: "If we air it, they will watch." Or....I just watch the games. BTW, I once scooped Adam Schefter - that on the official announcement of UM hiring of Coach Harbaugh. Of course, I didn't have his following, but my tweet beat his. Just sayin'. Talk among yourselves friends.
The constant NFL coverage is just a testament to the hegemony to the NFL itself - it dwarfs all the other sports combined. However, I just don't watch ESPN unless there's a ballgame on in the evening or weekend. Who's watching the talking head stuff anyway? I hear First Take is entertaining, but shouldn't everyone be at work at 10am?
In some ways, it's no different to me than the Tucker Carlson/Don Lemon/Rachel Maddow/etc crapola...Who watches other people just blather on for hours, eating up our precious evenings? Certainly not I, or anyone I know under 60. My evenings are too sacred, especially once the days lengthen and the weather warms. But perhaps I'm the outlier; obviously people ARE watching this stuff or I suppose it wouldn't be on.
If the line on the Vermont/Marquette game moves down into single digits, I'm going the other way...Marquette is a legit Final Four contender.
Doc, today is the perfect example of enjoying good writing irrespective of the subject matter. My eyes glaze over like a Krispy Kreme when it comes to the year-round NFL. I can barely watch the games (well established I prefer college football), so this topic is about as interesting to me as a time-share pitch in Toledo. But for you... I read.
I don't pretend to understand the logic of the NFL owners. You think Hayden Hurst is next? I wonder why they would let him go? Is there something lacking in his abilities? What more do the Bengals want from a tight end? I don't know, it seems like sometimes we let a good player go, to save a few bucks, only to sign a new guy and pay them close to the same amount. I hope then Men can keep their culture together in 2023.
Yeah NFL Draft and Free Agency are ridiculous but there you are writing about it so …….
Catamounts have the best name in basketball, hands down.
Don't give a hoot about NFL shuffle. Bengals generally don't make big offers to keep anybody. They like the summer yard sales too much.
I prefer nearly any cut from Beggars Banquet over that one. Longstanding dislike of the chicken hawk vibe.
Kelly's right and you're wr-wr-wr-wr-not right.
I think the Von Bell loss stings. He was a leader, a good safety, and he was tough. Bates was so up and down the last two years, that loss is not as a big deal to me. Probably to others, though. But, the recent track record of Duke has been pretty good, so I'll "trust the process".
I watched a 1993 Bengals-Raiders game I found on Youtube. I can't tell if Klingler was that bad or his offensive line ruined him. Either way, that was a mess. Wow. Pickens was out that game, so it was Jeff Query and some no names. Bengals win. lol