Though he may not mean to, Dan Shanoff's conducting an interesting experiment in blogger/mainstream media information dynamics today. The background: the genius pottymouths at Kissing Suzy Kolber posted a just-plausible-enough "hearsay"-based item about the possibility of Tom Brady considering retirement after this season. KSK plays it straight, only tipping their chicanery in the 'tags' portion of the post.
Shanoff has written for ESPN.com in the past and is now employed by The Sporting News, so he's got an iota of big media cred. On his self-titled blog, he wonders aloud whether the mainstream sports media will pick up the Brady "story", couching it just enough to let the reader know that he knows, but not giving it away to anyone making a quick-click beeline to KSK.
I'm on the phone with Vegas to see whether I can bet on Colin Cowherd to "break" the news. And I'd say it's a better than 50/50 proposition that someone in the semi-serious media asks Brady about the issue during the runup to the AFC Championship.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
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It seems your subject line scared everyone off.
yes, that may have been an unfortunate choice of headlines.
Somehow, G:TB is the link for footnote #1 on Jared Jeffries wikipedia page. Strange.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Jeffries#_note-0
A newly proposed Virginia bill would make it illegal to display male genitalia (real or imitation) hanging from your vehicle. Yes, that's right. Sorry, guys.
I guess I thought this was another Internet hoax, but this site confirms the problem, boggles the mind, and leaves me wondering about my fellow Virginian drivers.
The attention to anatomical correctness is particularly baffling.
Driving back from Richmond after Christmas, I saw a 60ish woman driving a Ford F150 with a pair of immitation testicles hanging from her bumper.
there are very few more direct indicators of one's douchebaggery than faux testicles hanging from your car. i think this is a crap piece of legislation, as it deprives the rest of us of a valuable early-warning system. we'll have to go back to the tried and true calvin pissing on fill-in-the-blank as a guide.
What was Pacman Jones' Wonderlick score?
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3197653
I was with my wife in the car last summer, stuck in a traffic jam. A pickup truck in front of us had the axle sack. It was unbelievably disturbing. The car would roll and then stop, and the berries would dangle back and forth, ten feet in front of us. We were forced to look at it because the truck had big wheels. Gross.
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