Showing posts with label nfl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nfl. Show all posts

Mike McCarthy can't be trusted with a red sharpie



Packers coach Mike McCarthy shows how not to wear a sharpie. Via.

Link roundup

1. Josh Ellingson has posted several improbably cute drawings of Chase the No Face Cat.

2. Serious Eats' dollar menu favorites.

3. How Jets players inadvertently tipped off plays to the Steelers.

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Phantom Sacks



Watch Jim Everett frighten himself into a sack (35 seconds in). And speaking of that moment, watch Jim Everett attack Jim Rome for making fun of him:



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Link roundup

1. "A police spy married an activist he met while undercover in the environmental protest movement and then went on to have children with her." Via.

2. NFL football coming back to LA? Here's what Bill Simmons says:
Absolutely. Very quietly, the group pushing the downtown stadium sold its naming rights for big bucks to Farmer's Insurance recently, that's going to give them most of the money to build it. I think LA will end up with TWO teams. That's my prediction. Definitely the Chargers, then someone else way down the line. I think the Vikes will stay, that team means too much to Minnesota and it would be even worse than the Sonics leaving Seattle if they left - just a complete failure by the organization and the league. We can't have an NFL that doesn't have a team in Minnesota. It's wrong.
3. Jordyn Bochon is looking for commissions.

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Link roundup

1. Mark Millar: "my combined income for having the top ten downloads of 2010 is projected to be less I got for one issue of Superman Adventures twelve years ago." Via.

2. Do NOT look at these photos of Al Davis.

3. Nintendo's eye-destroying 3DS is going to be a ludicrous $250. (Plus another $40+ for a slightly reworked version of Ocarina of Time.)

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This will make you a Clay Matthews fan...



Watch as Aaron Rodgers snubs a female cancer patient, but Clay Matthews stops to sign for her.

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Link roundup

1. Stunning incompetence prevented the police from stopping Jeffrey Dahmer sooner.

2. From one of Bill Simmons's readers:
(Baltimore Ravens kicker) Billy Cundiff has 38 touchbacks. That is insanely high. I didn't recall him having a particularly strong leg, so I looked over his past stats: 38 of 75 kickoffs for touchbacks (this year); 11 of 209 kickoffs for touchbacks (previous five seasons).
3. 25% off art at Bear and Bird.

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Link roundup

1. Best Randy Moss story yet.

2. Great name for the ultimate team of super heroes: The Sense of Right Alliance.

3. At Walt Disney World, you can dine with an Imagineer.

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Link roundup

1. In light of all the talk this week about the Jets strength coach trying to trip an opposing player, such tactics are apparently routine, and indeed people are now looking at this video of Bill Belichick possibly trying to trip a player.

2. Serious Eats is looking to hire bloggers.

3. Download this Chrome extension, and every tab you open will raise money for charity.

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Video of the Metrodome's roof collapsing




Watch the moment the Metrodome's roof collapsed and snow rushed in. (It's 85 degrees in Los Angeles, by the way.) Via.

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Link roundup

1. Mailbag Art Museum:
So I had this thought the other day: what if I made little pieces of art and sent them to a bunch of famous artists, along with a tiny blank canvas for them to create something and return it? Would I get anything back? Would they even read my request?
Via.

2. "Michael Vick Was On Pros Vs. Joes Just Eight Months Ago." Deadspin takes a look at the episode.

3. "The first Native American to arrive in Europe may have been a woman brought to Iceland by the Vikings more than 1,000 years ago, a study by Spanish and Icelandic researchers suggests."

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Link roundup

1. I don't think I've ever seen a professional football player give up on a play the way Albert Haynesworth does on this play. Via.

2. "From November 23 to December 7, the full text of Greg Bear’s HULL ZERO THREE will be available for free on the just-launched Starbucks Digital Network, in partnership with Yahoo!" "The Starbucks Digital Network offers customers access to premium, free content on the in-store Wi-Fi network. Customers will be able to access the complete text of HULL ZERO THREE on their laptops, tablets, and many smart phones."

3. I read the same message twice yesterday - - we're entering an era of excellence where you will have to be unreasonably talented to stand out.

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Ark of the Covenant cake; Ray Lewis battling a stallion cake

Two cakes by Charm City Cakes:



Ark of the Covenant cake. You can see a great photo gallery of the wedding here.




Ray Lewis battling a stallion cake by Mary Lewis.

She also created a Ray Lewis jack-o'-lantern:



And finally, the best of the Old Spice commercials, where Ray Lewis equates using Old Spice Swagger to getting to fly on a rocket-powered raven into space:






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Andy Reid was an enormous child?





This could be an elaborate joke, or maybe he was significantly older than the other kids in line, but check out young, gigantic Andy Reid at a punt, pass, and kick contest. Via.

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Link roundup

1. Can't wait to see what comes of the friendship between Last Exit to Nowhere and Pixar.

2. Massive Voodoo is giving away miniatures.

3. Doctor says Brett Favre's "broken ankle" is a "glorified ankle sprain."

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Link roundup

1. Adorable Swedish cake pops.

2. Saturday Night Live had Brett Favre's latest commercial for Wrangler - - open fly jeans.

3. Cute Green Lantern drawing by Eric Merced on sale.

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Link roundup

1. NFL players apparently commonly pee in their pants. (On purpose.)

2. I assume by this point in the evening you don't need me to tell you that Tom Whalen created Star Trek and Jabba's Palace posters that'll go on sale at Mondotees tomorrow.

3. The BBTS has new 6" Scott Pilgrim figures (based on the comic, not movie). The $5 action figure sale is still going on, too.

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Link roundup

1. A whole lot of Supermans at Burning Man.

2. It seemed like ESPN's NFL coverage on Monday morning was 90% "Albert Haynesworth's refusal to participate in a defensive huddle the sideline shows he's checked out on the team." Turns out defensive linemen like Haynesworth weren't supposed to be in that huddle.

3. Great term for office wear - - move over "business casual," here's "business sexual."

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