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.
ONE TWO THREE FOUR:
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Are you also playing golf later with David Duval at Indian Wells?
Comment by Beast44 — April 24, 2025 @ 2:59 pm
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The Black Kids - a Jacksonville band getting some love on EDSBS. Nice.
Comment by LL — April 24, 2025 @ 3:01 pm
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@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.
Comment by Holly — April 24, 2025 @ 3:02 pm
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The singer in that video sounds exactly like Robert Smith of the Cure. Its ridiculous how similar he sounds.
Comment by PTTO — April 24, 2025 @ 3:06 pm
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whoo hoo.
That real job has it’s perks doesn’t it orson?
Comment by ThreenOut — April 24, 2025 @ 3:08 pm
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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.
Comment by Coop — April 24, 2025 @ 3:19 pm
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“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.”
Comment by DC Trojan — April 24, 2025 @ 3:28 pm
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Coop…end of season one, start of season two if I remember correctly.
Comment by Ryno — April 24, 2025 @ 3:53 pm
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Is that Jamie Lee Curtis?
Comment by Cardiac Kids — April 24, 2025 @ 4:01 pm
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That was a darn fine show.
Comment by ThreenOut — April 24, 2025 @ 4:05 pm
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Jets fan repellent = a can of Lysol. Also, literature.
Comment by Dave — April 24, 2025 @ 4:11 pm
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#4 - Even though I was looking at the video, I thought it was the Cure. Maybe Robert Smith in some horrid costume or something.
Comment by Last Dragon — April 24, 2025 @ 4:27 pm
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I had an “I survived draft day at sportsnight” shirt made last year. I will be wearing it Saturday.
Comment by Chicago3 — April 24, 2025 @ 4:40 pm
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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?
Comment by Will — April 24, 2025 @ 5:10 pm
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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……
Comment by Mr Pelican Pants — April 24, 2025 @ 5:28 pm
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Q: Jets fan repellent?
A: Soap!
WAKKA WAKKA!!
crappy, unfair, untrue jokes aside, . . .
Um . . .
I’m kinda at a loss here.
Comment by That 5.0 Guy — April 24, 2025 @ 6:12 pm
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That 5.0 Guy beat me to it. I was going to say a shower and a clean shirt.
Comment by Harris — April 24, 2025 @ 6:26 pm
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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.
Comment by John F — April 24, 2025 @ 6:47 pm
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Possibly gold rings?
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN2319603620080424
Do with this what you will, sir.
Comment by COB — April 24, 2025 @ 8:05 pm
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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.
Comment by Jim Harbaugh Scramble — April 24, 2025 @ 8:06 pm
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Damn, that’s the best Cure impersonation I’ve ever heard.
Comment by JB — April 24, 2025 @ 8:27 pm
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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.
Comment by J-skool — April 24, 2025 @ 8:52 pm
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The NFL is having a draft?!
Comment by Pac10dude — April 24, 2025 @ 9:03 pm
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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.
Comment by DevilGrad — April 24, 2025 @ 9:20 pm
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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…
Comment by adam — April 24, 2025 @ 10:02 pm
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I had no idea that Barack Obama was in a band in the 80s.
Comment by baconboy — April 24, 2025 @ 10:28 pm
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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.
Comment by karlhungus12 — April 25, 2025 @ 8:54 am
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Fuck yes! The Black Kids are the tits.
Comment by Matt — April 25, 2025 @ 10:19 am
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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.
Comment by John Cocktosin — April 25, 2025 @ 10:44 am
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damn i miss Sports Night…
Comment by Excuse me Stewardess, but I speak jive — April 25, 2025 @ 12:37 pm