CURIOUS INDEX, 9/30/09

Stewart Copeland kicks ass and takes names behind the drums

How is it even possible to tear those three ligaments in a single knee? Wouldn’t your leg just be flopping around like a dick without them?

Well, that whole dementia thing goes a LONG way in explaining why TO is the way he is.

Up to Tebow huh?

We’ll let’s ramp up our blitz packages shall we.

Dr. Lou has a thpot in eternity for you and your thweetie thet athide for you!

Thign up now. Thpaces are limited.

I just hope LSU beats Georgia this weekend. Need ranking in tact. If UF has to check down to Brantley and they still win… Ohhh mama.

Jebus hysterically points out that Lou Holtz talks with a lisp. That is so funny and so original. I never noticed that about Lou nor noticed anyone ever commenting on that before. Keep up the good work.

@1:
Saw them in concert a couple of years ago, that man does insane stuff with them fancy windchime things (I’m sure there’s a technical term) he’s got for Wrapped Around Your Finger.

@2

There’s still the patellar tendon and lateral collateral ligament

But for the most part, yeah, it’s floppy like a dick.

Didn’t Willis McGahee tear all three in that nauseating helmet to knee hit?

7 – Its something of an obligation, similar to mocking the French. Never mind the repetition, it just has to be done.

@6

I don’t think it should be that much of an issue, considering:

A) Georgia turns the ball over 3x a game
B) AJ Jones IS Georgia football

I don’t think that doctor quoted in the article is the team doctor, he seems to be Dr. Robert Cantu, a concussion specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston who has spent more than 30 years studying head-related injuries.

Saying Walter Thurmond the 3rd in an irish accent brings about an hilarity one should not miss…

I dunno Swindle. Letting Baby Rhino loose in Red Stick would seem to be a manic outburst of dementia all around. Still, it his gray matter and their professional integrity. Enjoy boys.

Oh, and Neil Peart is way better than Copeland.

The doctor in that article you link to is not a Florida “team doctor,” he’s a doctor at a hospital in Boston who hasn’t examined Tebow. The article uses him as background for a generalized picture of what happens with concussion patients, not Tebow’s specific case. He doesn’t know any more about the specifics of the injury than, say, Gregg Doyel.

Florida’s “team doctors” haven’t made any such announcement.

yes, because football should only be played in 72 degree weather. just ask bart starr.

you southern football people are pussies.

For the purposes of fan enjoyment, yes, it should be played in 72 degree weather when possible. Who the fuck wants to sit in subfreezing temps and watch a football game?

Not a football game: a college bowl game. The kind where you’re supposed to go to someplace warm when everywhere else is frozen.

But yes! Total pussies! J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS!!!

@ 11… Indeed, AJ Jones IS Georgia Football, assuming the program is singularly represented by a beer delivery driver from LaGrange, GA. Similarly, Tim Harrison, shoe salesman from Orlando,FL IS Florida football.

Also, simultaneously blowing out our cruciate ligaments cubed, being sold gravesites by Coach Lou, and dropping a 275 barbell on our necks would all be preferable to attending that bowl game in Yankee Stadium.

Considering the game is a Big 12/Big East matchup, you’d think they’d want to at least play it somewhere warm so fans have a bit of incentive to actually, you know, go to the game.

I know i’d gladly shell out a couple hundred bucks to see Rutgers play Iowa State in 20 degree weather.

“an unbelievable stroke of synchronicity,”

What grade of booger sugar is Pete Carroll? I would not be surprised in the least bit if it is discovered that Carroll doesn’t sleep at all and all he does is coach football, participates in extreme sports, and then hangs out in Watts and Compton all night talking to the kids. I used to not like the guy by default and I still don’t like USC, but Pete Carroll fascinates me to no end.

@21 – yeah, good point.

and fair point, orson: i’m not thinking of the fans as much as the players – it’d just be nice for northern teams to have something resembling home-field advantage for a change…speaking as a northern fan, used to freezing his ass off in november.

C’mon people, a “yes, we went 7-5” Big East team vs a “yay, we went 6-6” Big 12 team isn’t a “college bowl game” It’s something to watch on TV beside Christmas Story for the 137th time, and nothing is more amusing than sitting in your warm living room watching a football game between 2 southern schools in a blizzard.

I’m sure the lucky (?) players who get to go to the Outback Bowl and spend a few days doing team activities and PR in Clearwater Beach don’t really care about the cold weather “home field advantage” bit

But I still see what you mean. Maybe we can trick fans into thinking that mediocre QB’s can throw 110 yard passes in the new Yankee stadium since the ball apparently travels easily there and it’s such a great park for hitters.

@24

You’re right. These games are just crapshoots designed to stimulate the local economies. I could’ve walked to the St. Pete bowl last year, but that would’ve implied that I wanted it back for another year.

I think the idea with the NY game is that you’ll have tens of thousands of rubes from Real America flying in to stimulate the economy of Times Square Red Lobster – they’ll be so enamored with the big scary city they won’t notice their balls are frozen.

I sure hope California Hospital Medical Center is better than it was in my days at USC. I got taken over there from the practice field at USC when I broke my leg playing rugby. I got stuck in a hallway for a couple of hours while they were dealing with some gunshot victims and a brawl between two cops and a woman who must have been on some serious drugs. I finally got X-rays which confirmed the snap I’d felt when I was tackled but the orthopedic guy was just going home. So he told me that yes, the leg was broken and that I should keep off of it and come back tomorrow.

Did Jayhawk just use the word rubes? Don’t see that everyday. Jayhawk, you must be the only civilized person in the midwest.

Orson, that article only relates to dementia in NFL players, so Tebow has nothing to worry about until he begins to make the transition to tight end.

There were conflicting reports on whether or not Tebow lost consciousness? Really? Anyone who watched the game could tellyou he was out cold. Dude didn’t move an inch for what seemed like forever. Unless you count the rigidity you saw in his arms. That doesn’t seem like something you would do while conscious. I was terrified he was paralyzed.

Why do we care about Tebow’s long-term career anyway? He ought to just ascend straight to heaven after the 2009 BCS game.

Or go be a doctor. The NFL is too boring of a place to put someone like that.

@17…ummm, you do know WHERE Bart Starr is from, and where he played his college ball at right?
Hint: Montgomery, AL and..umm…the University of Alabama.

So, what’s your point? That you take ass-kickers at 72 degrees (Starr and Favre and -honorary Cracker Namath!) and they kick the bejebus out of you in the snow too?

So, if CBS Sports is doing the countdown until the UF/LSU game on their website – and it shows 10 days, 2 hours (as of 1:30 EDT), I am assuming we won’t have to worry about LSU’s nighttime record at Death Valley since CBS is scheduling it as an afternoon game….

In other words, LSU fans will have to start drinking much earlier during the day. I may be wrong but I don’t think that will be a problem.

That clock is wrong, DEAD WRONG.

The game will be at night. Kick-off at 7. No more of the “playing under the sun” bullshit.

But, hobeg8ter, I have already been invited to 2 special tailgates for the Florida game, both staring Friday evening.

@33 – also a great point. i was just thinking of iconic cold-weather football games, and the ice bowl and bart starr sprawled acrosss the goal line immediately came to mind.

“Hi, I’m George Steinbrenner. Thinking about going to Boise for the upcoming bowl season? Well why not instead come to New York City, where you can watch two teams from the bottom half of the Big 12 and Big East battle it out in a godforsakenly cold outdoor stadium with bad football sightlines and incredibly high priced concessions? Sure, Kansas State and Louisville might have losing conference records, but at least they beat most of their patsy non-conference schedule and earned the 6 and 7 win seasons that earn their passage into Yankee Stadium. So come celebrate with us, and leave the Smurf Turf to the fools in the WAC!”

A bowl game in New York is a great idea. You may be putting a little too much emphasis on the weather. So it’ll be cold. Put on jacket. You won’t find another city with more to see and do than New York, and I think football fans will enjoy spending a weekend there,