Posts Tagged ‘vince young’
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Jun
Posted by John S in Culture, Sports. Tagged: 2006 rose bowl, 2007 New England Patriots, bad villains, Big 3, Chris Bosh, classic LeBron, dallas mavericks, dirk nowitzki, dwyane wade, fake coughing, Ivan Drago, Jason Terry, lebron james, LeBron James fourth quarter, miami heat, Osama bin Laden, plaxico burress, postame crying, Tom Brady, villains, Villanova-Georgetown 1985, vince young. 2 Comments
The Least Intimidating Villains Ever
The Miami Heat are the most obvious villains in sports right now, and quite possibly ever. Fans have wanted to see the Heat lose since before this season even started. It’s possible that someone outside Miami was rooting for them to win last night, but if so, he probably kept it to himself. EVERYONE wanted to see Dallas win that series. I barely care about the NBA, and I was thrilled that the Mavericks won. So far in 2011, my Facebook and Twitter feeds have demonstrated complete and utter unity only twice: Last night when the Heat lost, and last month when Osama bin Laden was killed.
The Miami Heat are the Osama bin Laden of sports.
And yet the Heat are not good sports villains. It is fun to root against them, but not as much fun as it should be. Continue reading »
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Jan
Posted by Tim in Aught Lang Syne, Rankings, Sports. Tagged: Albert Pujols, Alex Rodriguez, athlete of the decade, barry bonds, carmelo anthony, Derek Jeter, ichiro suzuki, jason white, jason williams, jj redick, Manny Ramirez, matt leinart, reggie bush, stephen curry, tim tebow, tyler hansbrough, vince young. 6 Comments
You thought we were done, didn’t you? That we would stick to our promise to end by December 31? Please. We’ve still got two posts to go to determine the most important title of all: Athlete of the Decade.
In defining what exactly constituted the “Athlete of the Decade” in a sport, there’s a fine line between who is best and who is the most iconic. I tended toward the latter, which runs the risk of predicting how future historians remember the Aughts.
And a little wrinkle: The order in which I present the sports counts down to the Athlete of the Decade across sports. That is, the last sport I do will have the No. 1 Athlete of the Decade, the penultimate is the second-best across sports, and so on. Here are Nos. 6, 5, and 4. Continue reading »
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Dec
Posted by Tim in Unabated to the Quarterback. Tagged: chris johnson, college coaches, darrelle revis, gregg easterbrook, grey cup, incorrect uses of the term "big three", jamarcus russell, jeff fisher, jim caldwell, legacies of the unbeaten, my picks don't come with explanations anymore because i'm fresh out of them, new orleans saints, peter king, tennessee titans, the giants' thanksgiving problems, tim tebow, vince young. 4 Comments
“Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.”
—Albert Camus
It was the worst GameCast experience of my life and the perpetuation of what would become an annual Giants’ tradition. On November 26, 2006, Big Blue led the Titans 21-0 going into the fourth quarter. They were about to put an end to an ugly two-game losing streak, move to 7-4, and proceed to win the NFC East—or so I thought.
That’s when Vince Young went to work. The then-rookie led the Titans on one touchdown drive, and then another. Then the Giants had Tennessee in a 4th-and-10, and Mathias Kiwanuka had his arms around Young, and he let go, and Vince ran for the first down and eventually, threw for another touchdown. An Eli INT—by PacMan Jones, no less—and a Rob Bironas field goal completed the comeback.
Three years later, Vince Young led a similarly remarkable comeback, converting three fourth downs while driving the Titans 99 yards in the final moments for a 20-17 victory over the Cardinals. One would think that the postgame narrative would have been structured around Young’s abilities in the fourth quarter, perhaps with references to his Rose Bowl appearances and that comeback against the Giants. Instead, much of the talk was on how Vince Young is finally living up to the hype. Gregg Easterbrook said Young’s success proves Tim Tebow can start in the NFL at quarterback. On PTI, Peter King even compared Young to JaMarcus Russell.
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Nov
Posted by Tim in Unabated to the Quarterback. Tagged: baltimore ravens, brad childress, brett favre, cedric benson, chad pennington, chris johnson, cincinnati bengals, edgerrin james, indianapolis colts, intricacies of scheduling byes, jamarcus russell, jim brown, joe flacco, josh freeman, kansas city chiefs, ken whisenhunt, larry johnson, matt forte, miami dolphins, minnesota vikings, new york jets, prepositional wordplay, ray rice, san diego chargers, steve smith, tampa bay bucs, todd haley, tom coughlin, Unabated to the Quarterback, vince young, washington redskins, yards per carry. Leave a Comment
Every time it seems to me that I’ve grasped the deep meaning of the world, it is its simplicity that always overwhelms me…. Everything simple is beyond us. What is blue, and how do we think “blue”?
—Albert Camus
Three seasons ago, the NFL peaked in terms of its own scheduling. Every team had enjoyed its bye week by Week 9 (hehe), meaning that there was a distinct midway point of the season by which everyone had played eight games.
The NFL, for some unknown reason, tinkered with its bye scheduling in the subsequent years, pushing some byes back later in the schedule. Thus, this year, while 30 of the 32 teams have already had their bye and have played eight games and can be totally compared at a kind of midway point, the Giants and Texans are 5-4 heading into their byes.
This does not, however, mean that we can’t still consider this halftime of the 2009 NFL season and the perfect time to look back at what I thought was going to happen, and what subsequently did not happen. We’ll hand out awards amidst some “Pats on the Back” and several “Yeah, about that…”s.
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