So, Bill Belichick has been fined half a million for the incident last week in which a Patriots assistant coach was caught videotaping Jets signals. The team was also fined $250K, and will lose at least one draft pick over the incident. Now that the punishment has been handed down, can somebody explain to me… Continue reading This Is a Scandal?
Category: Football
Football: That Was Quick
I don’t normally pay much attention to preseason or off-season sports, and my isolation has been better than usual this year with regard to the NFL, what with being in Japan for the past three weeks. As a result, I vaguely expected my Giants to suck this year, but I was not prepared for the… Continue reading Football: That Was Quick
Are You Ready for Some Football?
Because my team, the Forty Niners, aren’t. Neither apparently is Michigan. On the other hand, my co-guest blogger is surely happy.
Subhuman Behavior in the NFL
I’ve never been a big fan of Michael Vick as a football player, and his indictment for running a dog-fighting business pretty much wipes out any chance he ever had of winning me over. Steve Verdon notes that, if convicted, Vick could be fined up to $350,000 and face as much as six years in… Continue reading Subhuman Behavior in the NFL
Pop Culture Supercollider
One of those only-on-the-Internet, adventrues-in-D-list-celebrity videos: A YouTube clip of a hair metal cover band joined onstage by one of the teachers from “Saved by the Bell” and Dallas Cowboys snap-dropper Tony Romo, singing “Somewhere in the Night” by Journey. Romo really gets into it, and Mr. Belding drops the F-bomb a few times, and,… Continue reading Pop Culture Supercollider
Super Blog
I watched the game at a Super Bowl party hosted by some of our senior majors, because Kate didn’t want to see it. Of course, the guys who hosted the party didn’t have cable, so we were watching the game through a haze of static and swirly lines that made the weather look even worse… Continue reading Super Blog
Fearless Super Bowl Prognostication
I’ll put my prediction behind the cut, as since the Pats lost, Kate has been trying to pretend that football season is over, and I wouldn’t want to upset her…
Tom Brady
My Giants are done for the year, but Kate’s Patriots are still in it, so there will be football-watching this weekend (well, actually, I’ll be playing in an intramural basketball game for a good chunk of the Pats game, but Kate will be watching). In honor of the Pats, then, here’s a video for Kate,… Continue reading Tom Brady
American Sports Round-Up
A busy sporting weekend for Chateau Steelypips: First, there were two NFL wild card games on Saturday, as a sort of appetizer for the real action on Sunday. The Colts borrowed a defense from somewhere, and despite Peyton Manning deciding to play like his little brother for the first half or so, Indianapolis moved on… Continue reading American Sports Round-Up
Football Round-Up
So, remember a month or two back when everybody was whining about how Michigan got screwed out of a shot at the Mythical National Championship? They lost to USC last night. USC, you’ll recall, demonstrated their inferiority to Michigan by losing to UCLA, which is how they ended up in the Rose Bowl, rather than… Continue reading Football Round-Up