Odds 'N Ends on a Thursday Night
from this week's Sports Illustrated...
1) Sal Fasano...my favorite MFY.
According to SI's 8/21/06 issues "Pop Culture Grid", Fasano's most prized possession is his "shrine of Chicago Bears memorabilia", the most expensive pair of shoes he's bought is a $120 pair of "work boots", the "Fan club I'd like to be the president of" is "The Hanson Brothers" (of "Slap Shot" fame), and his favorite LOVE song is "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Poison. Awesome! Now this is a regular G-U-Y. And I thought he was just a journeyman catcher with a .224 career average. He's much more....a real DUDE....with a .224 average. How can you not like a guy who loves the Hansons?
(Hope he gets the chance to lower that average a point or two this weekend....)
2) New NFL Commish Roger Goodell is married to a Fox "News" Anchor....
That would be Jane Skinner. Somehow I do not see the league's nickname of the "No Fun League" changing with a guy who marries into Roger Ailes cabal.
3) The Arizona Cardinals could turn into a monster of a team....
....if their owner didn't continue to be penny pinching Bill Bidwell. The have an INCREDIBLE new stadium which should significantly boost revenues and attendance, signed free agent The Edge, have 2 great receivers in Fitzgerald and Boldin, and due to their new dome will likely not wilt in the heat during the second half of the season. But still...Bidwell....Bidwell....Bidwell. He continues to own the team, and his son Michael "runs" it. With the NFC champion Seahawks about the only team that looks very strong in that conference the Cardinals could easily win 9/10 games and make the playoffs, despite a lack of depth. But I have a feeling their owner, whose club is STILL about $12m under the NFL's salary cap, will screw it up.
4) SI ran a feature on other pro athletes besides Phoenix Suns announcer Eddie Johnson who have names similar to other jocks.
Like Greg and Gregg Olson. Cute little line from Gregg about signing autographs on Greg's baseball card. Awwww.
Also "Hot Plate" and "Hot Rod" Williams. One weighed about 350 on retiring (guess which one), the other was a not-so-bright participant in a point shaving scandal at Tulane University.
Now we're getting closer to the Eddie Johnson(s) situation. Kudos to Chicago's EJ for being quoted lashing out at those quick to assume he was a child molester: "The thing that disappointed me the most is some people were overzealous enough to think it was me and attack me with a ferocity I can't comprehend."
EJ: thanks for speaking out, but it's not too hard to hard to "understand" the "ferocity". Johnson is black. The folks/media criticizing him were white...and lazy. No mystery.
Compare that with the three Jason/Jayson Williams who have played or are currently playing in the NBA. Jason is a point guard for the Heat, is white, and has had some legal run ins during his life. Jayson is a former Net charged with manslaughter in an ugly shooting death a few years back. And the former Jason, now Jay, was a Duke All-American, drafted by the Bulls who injured himself terribly two years ago in a motorcycle wreck. Seems at though the media has a very easy time keeping these three straight. Is it because one is white? And one of the black guys went to Duke? I don't know.
1) Sal Fasano...my favorite MFY.
According to SI's 8/21/06 issues "Pop Culture Grid", Fasano's most prized possession is his "shrine of Chicago Bears memorabilia", the most expensive pair of shoes he's bought is a $120 pair of "work boots", the "Fan club I'd like to be the president of" is "The Hanson Brothers" (of "Slap Shot" fame), and his favorite LOVE song is "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Poison. Awesome! Now this is a regular G-U-Y. And I thought he was just a journeyman catcher with a .224 career average. He's much more....a real DUDE....with a .224 average. How can you not like a guy who loves the Hansons?
(Hope he gets the chance to lower that average a point or two this weekend....)
2) New NFL Commish Roger Goodell is married to a Fox "News" Anchor....
That would be Jane Skinner. Somehow I do not see the league's nickname of the "No Fun League" changing with a guy who marries into Roger Ailes cabal.
3) The Arizona Cardinals could turn into a monster of a team....
....if their owner didn't continue to be penny pinching Bill Bidwell. The have an INCREDIBLE new stadium which should significantly boost revenues and attendance, signed free agent The Edge, have 2 great receivers in Fitzgerald and Boldin, and due to their new dome will likely not wilt in the heat during the second half of the season. But still...Bidwell....Bidwell....Bidwell. He continues to own the team, and his son Michael "runs" it. With the NFC champion Seahawks about the only team that looks very strong in that conference the Cardinals could easily win 9/10 games and make the playoffs, despite a lack of depth. But I have a feeling their owner, whose club is STILL about $12m under the NFL's salary cap, will screw it up.
4) SI ran a feature on other pro athletes besides Phoenix Suns announcer Eddie Johnson who have names similar to other jocks.
Like Greg and Gregg Olson. Cute little line from Gregg about signing autographs on Greg's baseball card. Awwww.
Also "Hot Plate" and "Hot Rod" Williams. One weighed about 350 on retiring (guess which one), the other was a not-so-bright participant in a point shaving scandal at Tulane University.
Now we're getting closer to the Eddie Johnson(s) situation. Kudos to Chicago's EJ for being quoted lashing out at those quick to assume he was a child molester: "The thing that disappointed me the most is some people were overzealous enough to think it was me and attack me with a ferocity I can't comprehend."
EJ: thanks for speaking out, but it's not too hard to hard to "understand" the "ferocity". Johnson is black. The folks/media criticizing him were white...and lazy. No mystery.
Compare that with the three Jason/Jayson Williams who have played or are currently playing in the NBA. Jason is a point guard for the Heat, is white, and has had some legal run ins during his life. Jayson is a former Net charged with manslaughter in an ugly shooting death a few years back. And the former Jason, now Jay, was a Duke All-American, drafted by the Bulls who injured himself terribly two years ago in a motorcycle wreck. Seems at though the media has a very easy time keeping these three straight. Is it because one is white? And one of the black guys went to Duke? I don't know.
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