CURIOUS INDEX, 9/2/2009
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2004 want ads: Five year internship available. Paid. Terms to be disclosed. Via the Wiz and WSBT. Phil Steele still likes your chances, Notre Dame, no matter what an extremely well-played billboard says, and will say as much in our podcast later this morning. (The tablesetter for EDSBS LIVE!, which is tonight at 9. Plan ahead accordingly LADIES DRINK FREE.) (NOT REALLY.) (BUT FREE MEANS YOU ARE FREE TO DRINK, LADIES.) This is coming from the enemy consider this when you read this: We would need three hours and a local Atlanta band to come up with a more fitting tribute to the undeniable and double-factual manbeastiness of Eric Berry. In fact, our services are hereby offered for free, because sometimes an act of pure charity is the only appropriate response to atrocities like this. Scoff now, but when we get Mastodon to record an eight minute epic about how Eric Berry inherited his powers of ball magnetism from Rasputin during an astral voyage, you will so thank us for the effort. You trusted a guy named Clegg Lamar Greene. Rich Rodriguez didn't really default on a loan, but was instead the victim of two mistakes: 1.) he was taken in a Ponzi scheme, and 2.) he trusted a guy named Clegg Lamar Greene. The first is understandable; after all that's why they call them "schemes," and not "bear-trap-obvious cons." The second is unpardonable, though. His name is Clegg Lamar Greene, and he insists on being called all three. You may be called three names if you are a country or blues singer, author, or 1950s intellectual. Everyone else is an old shyster waiting to steal your money or a serial killer. Thom Brennaman can spend time pretending Jevan Snead is Tebow, and that will soothe the tears and the pain. Fox does get to hold onto one bowl game, the Cotton, ensuring that some lucky SEC and Big 12 fanbases will get to have their bowl game subjected to the trained hands of the epileptic plastic surgeons of the college football broadcasting world. Hey, the band! Show the band again! The Ole Miss band, because that's where they're going! The canary in the merchandising coal mine. Hell Spawned Javelinas does some consumer field research and discovers the merchandising equivalent of vanishing honeybees: the complete lack of the iconic aTm logo in college apparel stores. |
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willard van orman quine laughs at your measly three names.
by kleph on Sep 2, 2009 8:53 AM EDT reply actions
Ball magnetism aside…has Berry inherited any other Rasputin characteristics? Useful would be an ability to attract females with a mere look, grow tremendous amounts of facial hair and style it in amusing positions, a physical body immune to gunshots, knife wounds and dismemberment…still gotta steer clear of the poison…just askin’…
by sb on Sep 2, 2009 8:57 AM EDT reply actions
Thom Brennaman can also spend time pronouncing Jevan Snead as “Juh-von Sned” because, at Fox, properly pronouncing shit is for the gays.
by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Sep 2, 2009 9:06 AM EDT reply actions
Re: You may be called three names if you are a country or blues singer, author, or 1950s intellectual. Everyone else is an old shyster waiting to steal your money or a serial killer.
You forgot Presidential assassin
by Jmuthaf'nT on Sep 2, 2009 9:15 AM EDT reply actions
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Ahhh!!! Famous serial murderers or plain ol’ murderers. Henry Lee Lucas, John Wayne Gacy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Houston Dale Nutt, Blanche Taylor Moore, etc…
by yoyofutbawl on Sep 2, 2009 9:24 AM EDT reply actions
RichRod must have some sharp as a butter knife agent. If you think it was RR who actually negotiated anything, you have to be drunk already. Between the WfV contract with the buyout clause and this deal, he may have to keep coaching to pay back Michigan for renting his office space.
by Crabapple Buck on Sep 2, 2009 9:29 AM EDT reply actions
Eric Berry should be furious at how his support band is ripping off the worst advertisements on television. Really, they should be basing his Heisman candidacy on the fine wine of “The World’s Most Interesting Man”
by wfguiteau on Sep 2, 2009 9:33 AM EDT reply actions
Was this the very same Clegg from Eastbound and Down? Who would trust the Shaboom Shabooms publican with money? pffff
by MightyMightyMitzu on Sep 2, 2009 9:42 AM EDT reply actions
I think the Berry ad should have gone for more of a “300” or “Gladiator” theme, with a narrator that sounds like the guy that narrates all of the movie previews. That quirky, funny shit doesn’t fit with rip-your-colon-out SEC football.
by ALGator on Sep 2, 2009 9:57 AM EDT reply actions
I had no idea John Parker Wilson was an old shyster looking to steal money.
Oh yeah…the contract with the Falcons. Forget what I said.
by Counter Trap on Sep 2, 2009 10:24 AM EDT reply actions
Ah, Lamar Greene. Not once, but twice, disassociated from the program. Now going to prison for the rest of his life. Shame he could never became our Sam Gilbert.
Having said the above, I like the names of the developments. The Legends of Tuscaloosa and Blacksburg. The Legends of, oh wait. Yeah, that is a tough sell to put anything legendary over by Williams-Brice.
Banner week for RR, though. Clearly, he has had some outstanding legal and financial representation in the past couple of years.
by Coop on Sep 2, 2009 10:25 AM EDT reply actions
Maybe I’m the one who doesn’t get it, but spending between 350,000 and 650,000 to own a condo in sight of a stadium (which you will be inside of during the actual game) seems to me to be downright stupid. Perhaps moronic. In those towns you could probably buy a perfectly nice house for 250,000 or less, build a detached garage with a second floor that you could stay in during games, and rent the main house out to students that you are familiar with from your own community. (presuming you still live in your state, which, since they are southern state schools, is nearly entirely likely).
If anyone cares to enlighten me on why someone would buy these things, I would appreciate it.
by Brian on Sep 2, 2009 10:50 AM EDT reply actions
Wow…so what does this say about the elusive FOUR-named people…like Ben Jarvis Green-Ellis?
by the ex-croominator on Sep 2, 2009 11:00 AM EDT reply actions
God I hate Fox college coverage.
At least put someone with a brain in the booth, ask Jimmuh Johnson.
by drb on Sep 2, 2009 11:31 AM EDT reply actions
Pat Summmaralll wants you to know that if you can’t see the play through a bottle of Beefeater Gin, well then goddammit, it’s not worth seeing.
by Godfrey on Sep 2, 2009 11:35 AM EDT reply actions
drb – I think Mike Balogun hates FOX more. Well – at least Charles Davis.
by hobeg8r on Sep 2, 2009 12:00 PM EDT reply actions
Great EB&D reference by MightyMightyMitzu and ALGator, yes, that Berry promo would have been perfect with a little “Carmina Burana” underneath.
by onegreatseason on Sep 2, 2009 12:12 PM EDT reply actions
Don’t blame Rich Rod’s representation. RR knew the talented Mr. Greene from their days at Clemson.
If I’m Bill Martin, I’m crapping my pants right about now. The media is going to dig big time into RR’s financial relationships and will gleefully smear RR and the entire UM program with whatever they find.
by Busted Draft Pick on Sep 2, 2009 12:18 PM EDT reply actions
I love aggies – every year they find new ways to measure their failures. Thankfully the Sherman hire and recent disclosures regarding the athletic dept operating in the red will ensure misery and futility for year to come – that is when they are most entertaining for the rest of us.
by Wes Tex on Sep 2, 2009 12:20 PM EDT reply actions
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Don’t be thinking “student housing,” be thinking “corporate sponsorship of luxury condo within walking distance of the game.” Also a guaranteed parking space for the limo that will actually drive your fat corporate ass the 200 yards to the stadium entrance and will come pick it back up after the game.
Add a Jumbotron-scale big screen HD tv for the late games and maid service on Monday to clean up the mess, and you’ve got a king-hell location for entertaining clients, wealthy alums, what have you.
You gotta get out of the “keg of beer on the front porch” box if you want to be big time.
by An 'eer with a beer on Sep 2, 2009 1:32 PM EDT reply actions
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Don’t forget gated access to keep my damn wife in the dark when I’m with my mistress angle.
by yoyofutbawl on Sep 2, 2009 1:59 PM EDT reply actions
ya know what’s fun? Place an “e” on either side of the aTm logo.
by Jubanator on Sep 2, 2009 2:30 PM EDT reply actions
I’ve known Lamar Greene for 23 years and to my knowledge, he has NEVER asked anyone to call him by his entire name. Please tell me where in the he// you received your information that he insists on going by all three names. That’s just NOT TRUE. He goes by Lamar Greene. He is no saint, obviously, but he did not trick Rodriguez or take advantage of him. Those two have been best friends since they met. I’ve seen them interact. Rodriguez made his decisions with full knowledge of who his business partners were and are.
by Alice Elrod on Sep 2, 2009 8:31 PM EDT reply actions
Yea, I forgot about the old rich dudes and entertaining clients or whatever. Silly me for wanting to tail gate and be around drunk college girls.
by Brian on Sep 2, 2009 11:38 PM EDT reply actions
Thanks for the tip about OU gear being readily available in the lower counties. I’m headed to Baja Oklahoma tomorrow, so I’ll help make sure Academy, etc. stock our stuff for years to come.
by Soonertruth on Sep 3, 2009 12:47 AM EDT reply actions

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