WE ARE UNDER WAY, BABY: PROGRAMMING NOTES/SNACKY TIDBITS
ONE. Herr Swindle is headed to Draft Day, baby. He’ll be the one they’re not taking alive. Suggestions for fauxhawk disguises/Jets fan repellent methods in the comments, if you please.

TWO. This snapshot of the 2001 ‘Canes O-line from, of all places, the Grey Lady. Few things amuse me quite as much as reading anthropological dissections of college sport:
Most of their teammates refuse to be seen in public with them. They refer to themselves as ”animals.” Their coach, Larry Coker, calls them ‘’scary.” They’re ”weird, off the wall, the most politically incorrect people I’ve ever met,” says Ken Dorsey, the team’s laid-back quarterback, with a sly grin. ”I try not to let my girlfriend near them…”
They helped turn Dorsey, a smart, self-possessed quarterback with limited physical skills, into a Heisman Trophy candidate. (The award was won by Eric Crouch of Nebraska.)
Romberg, of Norwegian ancestry, speaks Norwegian, Lithuanian, Serbo-Croatian, some Spanish and English. Haji-Rasouli speaks Persian, Spanish, some German and English. Bibla speaks Polish, Russian and English. Gonzalez speaks Spanish and English. They have taught one another vulgar expressions in each of their many languages.
Read on, campers read on; there’s so much more.
THREE. This headline.
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Beast44 says:
Are you also playing golf later with David Duval at Indian Wells?
April 24th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
2
LL says:
The Black Kids – a Jacksonville band getting some love on EDSBS. Nice.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
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Holly says:
@Beast44 +1
@LL Right? I was willing to set foot at Coachella just to see them. Fucking out of this world. Everyone please buy their album and make them famous, immediately.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
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PTTO says:
The singer in that video sounds exactly like Robert Smith of the Cure. Its ridiculous how similar he sounds.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
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ThreenOut says:
whoo hoo.
That real job has it’s perks doesn’t it orson?
April 24th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
6
Coop says:
Every Sorkin show is merely a glimpse into his massive ego. I am smarter than everyone else, thus I will treat everyone like shit, because they don’t get how smart I am.
If only someone was as much of a genius as I so I could communicate with someone.
The West Wing episode where Toby laments his genius while writing the State of the Union address, some sort of writer’s block emerges, and the douchebag from Sports Night appears, with a note from Sam, “Toby, he’s one of us.”
I would have preferred they shot Toby in Season 1 or 2, I forget, and hit the correct ventricle instead of hitting Josh.
Josh, I liked.
Oh, and that Gonzalez kid who played OL at Miami turned down an academic scholarship at Harvard to walk on at Miami.
Impressive, and it would have been more impressive had I not read that every other week during 2001.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
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DC Trojan says:
“Y gorford ymgryfhau o hun eneiniog!”
“What was that Daffyd?”
“I said the force is strong in this one, Huw”
“Well why not just say it then, you daft bugger?”
“I’m trying not to get arrested on anti-sectarian charges… again.”
“There is no try, Daffyd, do, or do not.”
April 24th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
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Ryno says:
Coop…end of season one, start of season two if I remember correctly.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
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Cardiac Kids says:
Is that Jamie Lee Curtis?
April 24th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
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ThreenOut says:
That was a darn fine show.
April 24th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
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Dave says:
Jets fan repellent = a can of Lysol. Also, literature.
April 24th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
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Last Dragon says:
#4 – Even though I was looking at the video, I thought it was the Cure. Maybe Robert Smith in some horrid costume or something.
April 24th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
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Chicago3 says:
I had an “I survived draft day at sportsnight” shirt made last year. I will be wearing it Saturday.
April 24th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
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Will says:
Jet fan repellent? Wear a Kyle Brady jersey, or maybe a Blair Thomas jersey, or a Johnny Mitchell jersey, or a Marvin Jones jersey, or… I’m starting to sense a theme here, aren’t I?
April 24th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
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Mr Pelican Pants says:
I personally like the remix of “I’m not gonna teach your boyfriend to dance” you can find on myspace….
and yes, the vocal similarity to The Cure lead singer is freakin crazy……when Robert Smith wasnt so depressed, in his more upbeat earlier stuff……
April 24th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
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That 5.0 Guy says:
Q: Jets fan repellent?
A: Soap!
WAKKA WAKKA!!
crappy, unfair, untrue jokes aside, . . .
Um . . .
I’m kinda at a loss here.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
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Harris says:
That 5.0 Guy beat me to it. I was going to say a shower and a clean shirt.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
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John F says:
The best repellant from Jets fans is just living well. After all, success eludes the Jets, so having some success – and you definitely have some, Mr. Swindle – should suffice.
Though if you want to make them feel bad should they keep after you, just do your best commissioner voice and say this:
“With the 9th selection in the 1995 draft, the Jets draft…TIGHT END Kyle Brady.”
Then they’ll be sad and go away.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
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COB says:
Possibly gold rings?
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN2319603620080424
Do with this what you will, sir.
April 24th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
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Jim Harbaugh Scramble says:
If you want to be avoided at draft day Orson, my recommendation would be to dress as a Detroit Lions fan, from my personal experience people will just stare, shake their heads in disgust, and then movie on.
April 24th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
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JB says:
Damn, that’s the best Cure impersonation I’ve ever heard.
April 24th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
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J-skool says:
The delay between audio and display on my Sirius radio allows enough of a chance to switch Left of Center before I have to hear that terrible song.
April 24th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
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Pac10dude says:
The NFL is having a draft?!
April 24th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
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DevilGrad says:
You could print up a shirt that reads “JETS FANS GO TO THE DRAFT . . . GIANTS FANS GO TO THE SUPER BOWL.”
But I suspect that a local will have already thought of that one.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
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adam says:
what’s really fun is knowing the guy and the girl that song is about.
it’s really weird hearing them and seeing them on pitchfork, left of center, etc…
April 24th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
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baconboy says:
I had no idea that Barack Obama was in a band in the 80s.
April 24th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
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karlhungus12 says:
I heard a montage of like the Jets first round selections for like the last 20 years and the draft day fans’ reactions to them. It was hilarious.
April 25th, 2008 at 8:54 am
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Matt says:
Fuck yes! The Black Kids are the tits.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:19 am
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John Cocktosin says:
As a Jet fan in pains me to watch this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZxNeFLuY98
The best moment is the guy in the background yelling at the news of the jets drafting Roger Vick.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:44 am
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Excuse me Stewardess, but I speak jive says:
damn i miss Sports Night…
April 25th, 2008 at 12:37 pm