WE ARE UNDER WAY, BABY: PROGRAMMING NOTES/SNACKY TIDBITS

by Holly Anderson on Apr 24, 2008 3:52 PM EDT

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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Are you also playing golf later with David Duval at Indian Wells?

by Beast44 on Apr 24, 2008 3:59 PM EDT reply actions

The Black Kids – a Jacksonville band getting some love on EDSBS. Nice.

by LL on Apr 24, 2008 4:01 PM EDT reply actions

@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.

by Holly on Apr 24, 2008 4:02 PM EDT reply actions

The singer in that video sounds exactly like Robert Smith of the Cure. Its ridiculous how similar he sounds.

by PTTO on Apr 24, 2008 4:06 PM EDT reply actions

whoo hoo.

That real job has it’s perks doesn’t it orson?

by ThreenOut on Apr 24, 2008 4:08 PM EDT reply actions

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.

by Coop on Apr 24, 2008 4:19 PM EDT reply actions

“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.”

by DC Trojan on Apr 24, 2008 4:28 PM EDT reply actions

Coop…end of season one, start of season two if I remember correctly.

by Ryno on Apr 24, 2008 4:53 PM EDT reply actions

Is that Jamie Lee Curtis?

by Cardiac Kids on Apr 24, 2008 5:01 PM EDT reply actions

That was a darn fine show.

by ThreenOut on Apr 24, 2008 5:05 PM EDT reply actions

Jets fan repellent = a can of Lysol. Also, literature.

by Dave on Apr 24, 2008 5:11 PM EDT reply actions

- Even though I was looking at the video, I thought it was the Cure. Maybe Robert Smith in some horrid costume or something.

by Last Dragon on Apr 24, 2008 5:27 PM EDT reply actions

I had an “I survived draft day at sportsnight” shirt made last year. I will be wearing it Saturday.

by Chicago3 on Apr 24, 2008 5:40 PM EDT reply actions

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?

by Will on Apr 24, 2008 6:10 PM EDT reply actions

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……

by Mr Pelican Pants on Apr 24, 2008 6:28 PM EDT reply actions

Q: Jets fan repellent?
A: Soap!

WAKKA WAKKA!!

crappy, unfair, untrue jokes aside, . . .
Um . . .
I’m kinda at a loss here.

by That 5.0 Guy on Apr 24, 2008 7:12 PM EDT reply actions

That 5.0 Guy beat me to it. I was going to say a shower and a clean shirt.

by Harris on Apr 24, 2008 7:26 PM EDT reply actions

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.

by John F on Apr 24, 2008 7:47 PM EDT reply actions

Possibly gold rings?

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN2319603620080424

Do with this what you will, sir.

by COB on Apr 24, 2008 9:05 PM EDT reply actions

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.

by Jim Harbaugh Scramble on Apr 24, 2008 9:06 PM EDT reply actions