A few notes to wrap up the evening:
1. I need your input. I'm coming to the forum I feel will give me the most honest opinion. To the left is my beard. It's about 2-3 weeks grown-in. Now, I'm going to a wedding this weekend and part of me feels I should take off the beard. The other part of me doesn't want to because I don't want to spend another 2-3 weeks to get it to where it is now and I like it for the winter. I have a poll set up. Click here. Yes, it's a slow night at work.
2. In order of increasing importance, I finally saw the movie "Invincible" today. It stars our very own Bob Glauber. It actually doesn't star him. He's in the movie as a reporter. But I'll say this much, and it won't come as a surprise: Great hair. Great hair. Anyway, it's a good flick.
3. Joe Paterno's salary is finally going to be revealed. Mike here in the office, a Penn State die hard thinks it'll be in the range of $500,000/year. I say it's at least 5-6 times that. What do you think it'll be?
4. Nick Saban is a goof. Here's why:
"Changes in history usually occur after some kind of catastrophic event," Saban said during the opening remarks of his weekly news conference. "It may be 9-11, which sort of changed the spirit of America relative to catastrophic events. Pearl Harbor kind of got us ready for World War II, or whatever, and that was a catastrophic event."
Alabama's just getting ready to face No. 25 Auburn, its biggest rival, on Saturday.
A Saban spokesman said the coach chose the 9-11 and Pearl Harbor references to illustrate the challenges facing his team.
"What Coach Saban said did not correlate losing a football game with tragedy; everyone needs to understand that. He was not equating losing football games to those catastrophic events," football spokesman Jeff Purington said in a statement to The Associated Press. "The message was that true spirit and unity become evident in the most difficult of times. Those were two tremendous examples that everyone can identify with."
That's straight from the Associated Press.
I took a stroll over to Erik Boland's desk to talk about this with him and said he might be able to explain how idiotic this statement was with more eloquence. He came back with "Anything you write in response to that doesn't need eloquence."
He's right. It's not even offensive, it's just stupid. I say it's not offensive because I really, truly think he had no clue of what he was saying. "Pearl Harbor got us ready for World War II, or whatever..." Could be offensive, but more ignorant than anything else.
There are about 40,000 better ways to say what he was implying. Why not just say: These are trying times for us. We suffered two bad losses in a row and we better dig deep, rally and use that fire to face Auburn this weekend? Or why not use a sports reference? The 2001 Patriots: Losers in three of their first four, only to go on and win the Super Bowl and kick off a tremendous run. We need to put together a season-ending performance just like that.
When did he think this was a good idea? Did he run it by anyone?
Stick to the Xs and Os, coach. You're much better at that.
Comments (11)
And here I thought you were going to ask more about who was ultra hot...personally, I would never shave if I could get away with it.
Paul, has the blog jumped the shark with this post? I knew this was dangerous territory going in.
keep the beard. man up!
Keep the beard.
What's with the fascination with Glauber's hair?
Great job on the poll, but why the sexy photo? Are you turning into Neil Best?
Nick Saban has completely lost his mind.
Thanks for your blog.
Adam, no fun if there is no danger at all. Besides, if the only thing we were on here for was hot pics, I am not sure that this is the website we would go to. Heck, as I am sure B&G would agree, tough to really find local spots to talk CFB, was one of the first things I discovered about the internet. ESPN used to have great chat rooms, many moons ago, and their CFB room was great for the junkies.
Besides, I don't just read Neil Best's blog for the pics, either, in a past life, I was looking for a career in sports journalism, but that was long before the sports radio explosion. But I would be lying if I said I did not like the pics.
Leave shaving to the married guys. Enjoy the beard while you can.
Being married allows you NOT to shave as often.
real men don't shave beards, they groom them.
glauber has amazing hair!
Adam, you're going to Pittsburgh for God's sake... not exactly the fashion capital of the world! :-) Your lack of a Mullet is already going to make you stand out! :-)
Keep the beard Adam.. gives you that Don Johnson early 80's retro look - (Don't go so far with the concept that wear a suit without socks and roll up the suit jacket sleeves though. ) :-)
I don't have a problem with Saban's comments... if he'd have said them to his players as part of a motivational speech in the locker room, it would have been fine. Problem is we've become too sensitive over these things.
To tie this back into the Miami Vice thing - It's not as though he said his team was "Going to war" and have them wear 'camo' the the teams charter flight like the U of M did a few years ago!
As for JoePa... 500K? 500K? 500K? Is your friend totally out of his/her mind? If it had been only 500K they would have gone public years ago. It's 2 million if it's a dime.
Re: Glauber: Was it a speaking part? If so, how many times did he say Right Here, Right Now? :-) Sorry BG couldn't resist. :-)
Paul, you're absolutely right, the NY area is disgusting when it comes to college football coverage.
The most exciting sports events I've ever attended were college football and basketball games... that includes the 1979 world series, the 1979 Super Bowl, and Stanley Cup games in 1991-2.
Nothing, I repeat, nothing beats Morgantown on a Saturday (the win over PSU in 1984 sent the town flying!). And the burning couches afterwards are pretty cool too! :-)
Having said that, while I've been to "The Horseshoe" and to "Beaver Stadium", I've never been to the "Big House".
P.S. Jenna - protect your couch! :-)
Many feel JoePa is underpaid.