CURIOUS INDEX, 8/19/09

by Orson on Aug 19, 2009 9:32 AM EDT

We gettin' wasted like them white boys. Celebrate, pop various bottles of champ, and then be sure to tweet about it: you may now, within reasonable limits, tweet away at SEC football games. Get down, Haverchucks of the world!

This is all an adjustment on the fly by Charles Bloom and the SEC burghers who, surveying the absurdities they had created with their new policy, had to tweak in order to prevent the shrieking of twitch-fingered media types. Now you may rest assured that if there are Chick-Fil-A sandwiches in the booth at the SEC Championship (and there always are) then you will be the first to know it via Twitter, or even better through our new Twitter competitor, the 30 characters only "Gibbrsh.com." You still can't post eight minutes of SEC highlights in a row, but fair use and discretion will probably allow for sensible use of video as long as you aren't cutting it with porn. (If you are, you know our email, and be quick with it.)

Also we'd like to congratulate the SEC on their deep and thoughtful use of Walter Benjamin's theories on reproduction in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. English majors: we make the world make sense, but only when everything else has failed and lies smoking on the turf. (HT: Mashable.)

Under useless investigation: Bryce Brown, who like many other players had money raised for him to attend football camps, and who unlike many other players had a professional-type svengali coordinate his recruitment, meaning he gets an NCAA investigation to determine whether he's still an amateur, technically, and everyone else just gets to go on in a world where the NCAA is irrelevant and distant, like the emperor in Beijing when you're running guns on the edge of Tibet.

Yeah, that's where we went to high school. Treasure Island. You know what they say about Treasure Island, Jake.

Playerfluff, Big 12 edition. This repeats everything you may have ever heard about Todd Reesing: small, charismatic, laden with Kansas passing records...but fuck it. Marky M never lie, and Todd Reesing and his Economist-reading, cougar-grinding ass deserve all the pub he's going to get as a 5' 10" quarterback in the middle of the continent. Take the verbiage where you can get it, Todd.

We like the jetski. Notre Dame went to the lake to cool off this past weekend, and had to improvise to find an appropriate watercraft for Chris Stewart to tool around the lake in, because he was both too big for jet skis, and because the whales are the only ones who truly understand him.

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“(As much as the blogosphere likes to pile on old media, this type of reporting is still something they do very, very well — the digging for facts, calling police departments, etc. Hats off to Ken Gordon and Tim May on the scoop.)”

reading a police report. hell of a job, boys. props.

by dirt sandwich on Aug 19, 2009 9:55 AM EDT reply actions

I have read that the charge(s) will turn into a felony when the court learns of the condition of Tyler Moeller.

by Crabapple Buck on Aug 19, 2009 10:15 AM EDT reply actions

Was that Decker’s mug shot? If so, why was he smiling?

Is that a USF shirt he is wearing?

Is he being offered a coaching position at Oakland since sucker punches seem to be the norm?

by hobeg8r on Aug 19, 2009 10:21 AM EDT reply actions

Good ole Gators, the finest place to pick 40-something year old cougars that have aged like an old leather couch.

by Allen on Aug 19, 2009 10:40 AM EDT reply actions

I’m sorry, but the aura of experiencing a game in person cannot be reproduced by television, let alone a YouTube clip. On the other hand, I could have done without the ritual of checking out the Mona Lisa encased in its box at the Louvre and obscured by throngs of other tourists.

by NCT on Aug 19, 2009 10:46 AM EDT reply actions

On the bright side today,isn’t it nice that the WWL can spend the next 2 weeks with non-stop Favre reports and leave CFB to everyone else who truly cares about the best sport in the world?

by hobeg8r on Aug 19, 2009 10:49 AM EDT reply actions

Miami DE Adewale Ojomo, #1 on their depth chart at RE according to Rivals, may have to sit out the season with a broken jaw because a walk on knocked him out in the locker room.

Nice work, ’Canes.

by Coop on Aug 19, 2009 10:57 AM EDT reply actions

Coop—If that’s not a sign the ’Canes of old are coming back, nothing is.

by Orson Swindle on Aug 19, 2009 11:15 AM EDT reply actions

Whatever, let me know when Bryce starts wearing a girdle to practice or consumes some impermissible snacks.

by mattain on Aug 19, 2009 11:22 AM EDT reply actions

remember Coop, stabbin=passion.

by CincySooner on Aug 19, 2009 11:35 AM EDT reply actions

The Canes of old might be back, but when they come to Columbus on Sept 11 next year, you may be seeing a return to mediocrity. Getting tOSU on their schedule for two years when Terrelle Pryor is a junior and senior won’t be good for Randy’s insomnia.

BTW – Tyler Moeller’s assaulter has an extensive criminal record. We’ll see what the Florida court has in store.

by Crabapple Buck on Aug 19, 2009 11:44 AM EDT reply actions

A Buckeye comes to Florida and gets sucker punched at a place named Gators?

by zzgator on Aug 19, 2009 11:59 AM EDT reply actions

Wow, in clicking on the Reesing link, either Tim Griffin is the definition of diminutive or Ivan Maisel is the Jolly Jewish Giant. Either way, adjust your seat heights guys.

by meatybob on Aug 19, 2009 1:15 PM EDT reply actions

Wasn’t David Oku represented by that same “agent”, UT could lose both of their highly rated incoming freshmen.

by Mooncricket on Aug 19, 2009 1:39 PM EDT reply actions

Did Stewart have to take turns on that ride with Weis?

by DevilGrad on Aug 19, 2009 1:53 PM EDT reply actions

If you believe that any publicity is good publicity (I don’t), this quickly revised policy introduced many people unfamiliar with college sports to the SEC. I read about it on a Turkish soccer blog* of all places, and every site or blog in he world that deals with new media or social media discussed it and explained who and what the SEC is for their nor-sports readers. I’ve never seen so many pieces that felt it necessary to first distinguish from the Securities and Exchange Commission before discussing the SEC.

Dr. Saturday->TN Blog Catalog of all coverage->Turkish soccer blog. Turns out Galatasaray is again the team to beat. Tell me something we don’t know, right?

by chg on Aug 19, 2009 4:39 PM EDT reply actions

“A Buckeye comes to Florida and gets sucker punched at a place named Gators?”

And by a guy named Decker!

(And exactly what high school is located on Treasure Island? I graduated from high school in St. Petersburg, and although I spent a significant amount of what should have been class time at the beach, my diploma doesn’t mention TI).

by Floridan on Aug 20, 2009 12:42 PM EDT reply actions