Your Monday Open Thread

Yes! Brian Murphy, writer for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, really went to the mat on this story about all the sleazy “son’s of great men” that hold senior positions in NFL Headquarters…. a must read article by anyone who follows NFL Football.

If you don’t get the St. Paul Pioneer Press, or it was tossed out in the trash I have a pdf copy of Brian’s article that I can send you by emailing me at parnelli@comcast.net.

PS: “son’s of great men” is a old British term for being born out of wedlock.

Um, probably more like “This is why North Korea sucks”.

/Gets ready for men’s league soccer game tonight

but my tiger style is better….. ok when I was a kid there were to many bad movies late Saturday nights. I wish there was a little more input or output on how camp is going, I guess its early and I am restless.

Awesome way to recap, MCF, thank you!

On McKinnie, I’m with you; show me the money, babe. I would love to see McKinnie step up to be the truly elite LT that he has the ability to be. The fact that he was still playing when he was seriously hurting last year is a tribute to his grit. Hopefully he’ll be more than just another screwup waiting to happen.

The review on Cook is exciting. Very exciting. Granted this is just training camp, but these are also his ‘baby-steps’ in the NFL and he’s looking like he might develop into a shutdown-corner. Just when we really needed to help :) . Hopefully someone caught some pics of his game during the camp.

A lot of the time they say defensive backs are wide receivers that couldn’t catch.
- Childress

OUCH! And probably true for the run-of-the-mill corner, but the best of them are, IMO, more like defensive WRs, going for the ball on each and every play. Lately we’ve had alot of great tacklers so maybe some folks have forgotten what it’s like to have a secondary that’s flipping the field around on a regular basis. I haven’t, though. I also remember what it was like to have a defense that was a threat to block every fg attempt and every punt, man that was exciting.

And soccer doesn’t suck. It ranks right up there with kickball and hop-scotch, and it’s better than the hula-hoop (although I’m all for NFL cheerleader hula-hoop competitions)! Less manly than tennis (and requiring way less skill), I think soccer is a great game for kids. Even a 2 year old can play, and it’s never too early to get kids hooked on something athletic :)