Seems the Oakland Raiders have serious competition for the Most Dysfunctional NFL Team. Love the headline from Sporting News:
In Cleveland, GM Mess Leaves Brown Stains
I make the Raiders a slight favorite to take that title by year's end. The Tom Cable wife/girlfriend/assistant abuse scandal should trump almost anything the buffoons in Cleveland can do. I have to go with the team whose head coach likes to punch everyone. Teams in Washington DC, Tampa, St Louis, Kansas City, and Detroit are mere pretenders. And, NO, I do not miss the days when the Saints were perennial contenders for that title. Thanks for asking.
A few years ago, I marveled at a Korean man who finally passed his driver's license exam after 271 failures. I thought then that Korea should have just issued him a lifetime bus ticket and quit wasting everyone's time. I didn't think that could be topped. I should never think that. A Korean woman finally passed hers after 949 failures. If that's going to be topped, my money is on it being someone from Korea. Wonder what kind of insurance rate she will get.
Quote of the Day
That team that spent $50 million more than any other team, that team with three sure Hall of Famers and as many as four others, that team that bought Milwaukee's best pitcher and Anaheim's best hitter and Toronto's No. 2 starter and Boston's favorite Idiot and the most expensive player in the history of baseball and so on, that team will win the World Series, and spray champagne on each other, and they will tell you that they won because they came together as a group and kept pulling themselves off the ground and didn't listen to the doubters.
Joe Posnanski, Sports Illustrated
Blog of the day here.
Quote from said blog: "Always leave room for assumption!"
And if Cable ever lets us down, entertainment-wise, there's always Jamarcus Russell to provide comic relief -- both with his clownish incompetence during the game and his oblivious postgame critiques of his own performances. Geaux Raiders!
I don't know what happened to Jamarcus. He was so highly-regarded at LSU by all of us Tiger fans. I think he was thrown in too soon but teams aren't going to wait on a first overall pick to mature.