CURIOUS INDEX, 8/22/07
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If you have any balls, you will force them to air you singing "Send In the Clowns." In their ongoing campaign to kill Rece Davis or force a spectacular on-air suicide, ESPN is making Rece Davis and company pull a 25-hour lead-in to the LSU/Mississippi State game on Thursday next week. First, prolonged May/Holtz exposure, now this, and then he wakes up in a bathroom chained to a radiator with Sean Salisbury with a saw on the floor between them. Who is trying to kill this nice man? (Judging from Salisbury's jowls this year, we'd bet on Davis losing by a devouring there.) 3.22 more yards will destroy this sport. Or not. The hysteria over changing the kickoff to the thirty yard line--ballyhooed in Mandel's blog and in other places--may be just that. CFB Stats looked at the data, always a cunning thing to do, and deduced that the actual difference last year on kicks from the 30 (as opposed to the 35) amounted to a measly 3.22 yards. Pete Carroll does his best James Jesus Angleton impression. We only think we're winning this Cold War gentlemen...and we are sadly mistaken. If you've been watching The Company, you're undoubtedly fascinated by the paranoid head of the CIA, James Jesus Angleton, who was real and was convinced that a Soviet "supermole" lay in their midst at all times. Pete Carroll's channeling him when he suggests that the recent departure of Emmanuel Moody and Jamere Holland comes as a result of double agents. ``Those guys got their information from somewhere,'' Carroll said. ``Somebody's talking to them. I have some ideas.'' Contact our people in London. Use no open channels. Contact me, and then only announce yourself as "Ravenwood." I'll see you in Oslo in 72 hours. The SEC is a marginal conference in one sense of the word. Life, according to SMQ, is lived at the margins in the SEC, which should have everyone from the pummeled Kentucky fan to the already-hyped Alabama fan brimming with the most toxic drug of all: hope. And for seventy-five dollars, Tommy Bowden will wash your dishes. Florida's on a mad cash run following the national title, including dinner with Urban Meyer for just one million dollars. Highlights will include Jarvis Moss blocking bites of food as they enter your mouth, Reggie Nelson smashing open the clay pot chicken with a devastating tackle, and Chris Leak delicately floating profiteroles into your open mouth as you turn around on a four yard curl route. <!-- End content section --> |
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is it friday yet? dying for cheesecake here…perhaps we introduce Crumpet Wednesdays, for the sake of featuring Lucy Pinder?
by swampchomp on Aug 22, 2007 10:55 AM EDT reply actions
“Contact our people in London.”
Fuck that. I saw what happened to Litvineko.
by DevilGrad on Aug 22, 2007 11:00 AM EDT reply actions
DG—
Please, don’t be so paranoid. Have some more sushi. Tea?
by Orson Swindle on Aug 22, 2007 11:02 AM EDT reply actions
The 25-hour lead-in is such a spectacularly bad idea, it’s nearly unfathomable.
Seriously, even in the unlikely scenario that a fan is that “starved for more, more, more,” don’t you have to stop feeding them at some point?
ESPN’s level of restraint when it comes to coverage is somewhere between “fungus” and “malignant tumor.”
by Oops Pow Surprise on Aug 22, 2007 11:09 AM EDT reply actions
Orson, why is every volume of “Curiosities…” volume I?
by PW on Aug 22, 2007 11:09 AM EDT reply actions
For $1m I’m also receiving a helmetless, unassisted fucksack from superfan Dana Dye. On the trunk of her Firebird.
by Allahver Fist on Aug 22, 2007 11:12 AM EDT reply actions
#6
It’s on a scroll, dude. One long scroll.
by jebushchrist on Aug 22, 2007 11:12 AM EDT reply actions
or you could have chris leak with jelly on the back of his pants sliding across a slice of toast you placed just short of the first down marker.
by PW on Aug 22, 2007 11:13 AM EDT reply actions
I plan on binge drinking for 25 hours straight before the LSU-Miss State game just to make it through the first quarter.
by AtomicDog on Aug 22, 2007 11:15 AM EDT reply actions
I think I’ll liveblog the 25-hour pregame show. The only thing worse than being on the actual show would be watching it and writing about it.
by jebushchrist on Aug 22, 2007 11:16 AM EDT reply actions
Why are people constantly asking for additional cheesecake? This is the internet, people, there’s plenty of it out there on other websites, I promise.
Has a combination AU/UA/cheesecake threadjack happened yet? If not, I’m sure it’s coming any day now.
by Boy Howdy on Aug 22, 2007 11:21 AM EDT reply actions
It starts in the northwest. Ty Willingham has been hiding secret messages in his golf balls and shanking them into the water hazards. Bellotti has a couple of Oregon students on the wacky-weed trail collect the balls, and transport them to Jim Harbaugh. Jim Harbaugh then tells the Stanford players he’s going to jog backwards to LA as a motivational technique. Harbaugh hands off the message to Eric Scott. Eric Scott finds someone to read the messages to him. Eric Scott then “infiltrates” SC player’s rooms and swaps out their cell phones with ones that have demotivational voice mail and pre-loaded text messages from other coaches.
There would have been more defections, but the messages that were being sent in via donut ceased to be effective when Chauncey Washington decided to lose some weight.
Oh, the eagle flies backwards at midnight, all right. Trust no-one.
by DC Trojan on Aug 22, 2007 11:25 AM EDT reply actions
You are doing the Lord’s work Jebus. The people of this great nation salute you.
by Jerkwheat on Aug 22, 2007 11:26 AM EDT reply actions
#13
Excellent work, sir. I could have used your skillz the first time I watched “Jacob’s Ladder”.
by Allahver Fist on Aug 22, 2007 11:29 AM EDT reply actions
- of course its happening any day, the Girls of the SEC edition of playboy is coming out soon
I imagine it will be short of bunda…
How are all the margin dwellers doing out there today?
by Stephen on Aug 22, 2007 11:29 AM EDT reply actions
about the “Million Dollars To Hang Out With Urban” thing.. any mention about getting some quiet time with Shelley(wife) in there anywhere? If not, it’s worth, like, $12 …
by Futbawl Fan on Aug 22, 2007 11:36 AM EDT reply actions
I just can’t WAIT to see some Reggie F’kn Nelson bone crushing hits in the NFL. I don’t give a crap about the Jaguars, but I will watch them just to see what he does….
Why are people constantly asking for additional cheesecake? This is the internet, people, there’s plenty of it out there on other websites, I promise.
Couldn’t agree more. It’s like the hullabulloo (sp?) about the SI swimsuit issue. So overrated. Especially when you can get alot better pictures elsewhere.
by Palouse on Aug 22, 2007 11:43 AM EDT reply actions
I’m glad someone pointed out the asinine 5 Yard Hysteria that seems to have infected every head coach and beat writer in the country. Has everybody forgotten that 9 out of 10 kickoff returns result in an illegal block penalty?
by Mr. Wrong on Aug 22, 2007 11:48 AM EDT reply actions
You had to use Tommy? Really?
Somehow, given the ultimate of referendum seasons, it is appropriate.
Alas, you hurt my feelings.
And, seriously, when does the USC TB exodus really ensue?
I looked at USC’s roster the other day, and USC has, according to Rivals, 9 “RBs” that had either 4 or 5 stars coming out of high school.
Say, Broderick Green, how you doin’?
by Coop on Aug 22, 2007 11:48 AM EDT reply actions
I grew up in a neighborhood named “Ravenwood”.
They’ll likely have that information and then my cover is blown!
by Rival on Aug 22, 2007 11:49 AM EDT reply actions
I have pretty good feeling that John Dddddddddavid Booty is a double that was planted by Nick Saban way back in the day. There is no telling when Booty will go active.
by Kim Philby on Aug 22, 2007 11:49 AM EDT reply actions
OPS, gawd, that’s what my dealer said too. You guys can both sit back and watch me rule.
Hatters!
by jebushchrist on Aug 22, 2007 11:54 AM EDT reply actions
Chris Leak can keep his floating profiteroles away from my mouth thankyouverymuch.
by Cincy on Aug 22, 2007 11:56 AM EDT reply actions
Anyone who watches that Hawaii practice at 3am on the East Coast should probably be eaten alive by snakes.
Unless you’ve been up all night doing your lady, realize it’s 3am, and put on ESPN to watch football. Even then, more than five to ten minutes is excessive.
Free Rece Davis!!
by Edsall is God on Aug 22, 2007 11:59 AM EDT reply actions
Man, those Hatters are a bitch, with all the hats and all.
/Lame, and I’m sorry I said it already.
by That 5.0 Guy (Now at Work!) on Aug 22, 2007 12:05 PM EDT reply actions
woodchuck to grey squirrel:
after 25 hours is Holtz going to have any moisture left in his body, ney his mouth? It is one thing to see Rece and May on camera and quite another seeing their faces milkingly glazed with Blue Lou Boyle’s “words.”
by Turk182 on Aug 22, 2007 12:12 PM EDT reply actions
actually, reggie nelson doesn’t break the dishes…he waits until you ask urban to pass the cornpone, and as you reach for it, defenseless, he drives his helmet into your chest.
or, better yet, he waits until the dishes are cleared and back in the kitchen before he FUCKING cheap shots you.
then he stands over you and pretends that he’s tough.
by matty blue on Aug 22, 2007 12:15 PM EDT reply actions
“Look at us. Look at what they make you give.”
by Hook'em Tide on Aug 22, 2007 12:38 PM EDT reply actions
So does that mean that, just past the halfway point in the dinner, Leak’s profiteroles (like that’s a real word) will start hitting the guy sitting next to me right in the middle of his chest?
But what I fully expect is for Leak to drive the food cart all the way from the kitchen right up to my table, only to have Tebow come running up and cram the food right in my mouth.
by crimson daddy on Aug 22, 2007 12:42 PM EDT reply actions
Speaking of cheesecake, now that the Herb World Tour has been expanded to include Portugal, some love needs to be shown to the other country that decimated/repopulated a continent.
by Herb on Aug 22, 2007 1:18 PM EDT reply actions
Now Pete Carroll knows how Hef feels when he is out with his “girlfriends”…..
by Stacy Keibler Luvs Me on Aug 22, 2007 3:06 PM EDT reply actions
#13
Excellent analysis, except I believe Eric Scott only waited in the car while his friends went to “visit” SC players’ rooms.
by Defender90 on Aug 23, 2007 5:51 AM EDT reply actions
Interesting analysis of SEC teams and close games.
I knew, in an abstract sort of way, that Shula excelled at throwing away games we could have won, but now I have some cold hard numbers to back it up.
by bama_buck on Aug 23, 2007 9:02 AM EDT reply actions

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