Thanks to Mark's super-sleuthing, we're able to avoid a fairly embarrassing faux pas. Just ignore anything that was posted about adopting a team earlier this year.We're honoring A Doofus Abroad by dropping a post in his inimitable style, though we'll likely spell everything correctly.
For now, at least, we welcome Fiorentina as our adopted Serie A side. The Gigiliati (lilies, in Italian, and doesn't that fit us perfectly) are currently tied for third in the league table, holding onto Italy's final Champions League spot. As far as we can tell.
Montenegran striker Stevan Jovetic leads Fiorentina with 8 goals, despite only playing in 13 of the club's 18 Serie A matches. We're also partial to Azzuri stalwart Luca Toni, who's scored 6 times in just 9 matches since rejoining La Viola after stints with numerous high-level European clubs. Obviously, given our history, we like him because we can make a
Doug Marrone...Bills saw a lot in that Pinstripe Bowl win.
ReplyDeleteBet Zoltan can't wait for quotes like this, "I would like to direct this to the distinguished members of the panel: You lousy cork-soakers. You have violated my farging rights. Dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin iceholes... like yourselves." at Bills pressers next year.
ReplyDeleteJiggle-a-lot-i?
ReplyDeleteThere was lots of positive chatter in favor of Marrone on Two Bills Drive, but most of the peoPle who post there are hopelessly optimistic. Can this hire really be worse than the previous 5.5?
Marrone was named "America's Friendliest College Football Coach" by ESPN the Magazine. In light of that I'm all in.
ReplyDeleteBabdabupi
ReplyDeleteDid you guys read the WaPo Magazine today? There's a band called Yacht Rcok Revue? They are playing at Maryland Live Casino next Saturday
ReplyDeleteThe band Three Sheets to the Wind is playing in Norfolk, VA on Jan 26. Get some.
ReplyDeletewow, that's some coincidence.
ReplyDeleteAnyone else working today? No? How much hoopla did Ray Lewis get? Was there any mention of his murder charge?
ReplyDeletequiet, subdued tribute, as you might expect.
ReplyDeleteKinda working. Responding to emails and stuff. While i watch football. In miami. At a hotel. In a cabana. With a beer. And a cigar. And my wifes full support. Hopefully that is what you mean by working?
ReplyDeleteDanimal- if I send you and Rob a few BCS related questions via email do you think you can manage to get them answered for a BCS CG post?
ReplyDeleteI will do my best.
ReplyDeleteIs Rob coming to game?
Yeah Ravens!
No. But Rob insists we believe he's. a passionate Bama fan. Whatever.
ReplyDeletehaiku, danimal?
ReplyDeleteand i'm not passionate about anything, mark. except filibuster reform. and overtime playoff hockey.
ReplyDeleteFine Rob. And you?
ReplyDeleteYour wife is going to be psyched to hear that, Rob.
ReplyDeletethis is a family blog, for fuck's sake.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what that means.
ReplyDeleteFilibuster? I hardly know 'er!
ReplyDeleteRay Lewis is praising God while rocking a Psalms 91 sleeveless tshirt. Does no one remember that he helped kill a man? Vick will never shake the dogfighting rep but Ray Lewis is made of Teflon.
ReplyDeleteI just looked up Psalms 91 and, disappointIngly, it isn't the passage that Jules Winfield recites in Pulp Fiction.
ReplyDeleteI believe that's Ezekiel 20:13.
ReplyDeleteSkins look good. RG3 might day today though.
Ray Lewis is a murderous piece of shit
ReplyDeleteSo I just listed to the "Feels Good" for the first time in years and I'm struck by how much the horns sound like they came from the Creature Cantina. Raphael Saadiq wouldn't truck with that today.
ReplyDeleteListening to Skins/Seahawks on an iPhone via 980 in a Florence apt. Vacation is the best.
ReplyDeleteSooooo...from what I'm hearing/reading, the Skins have a cripple at QB right now?
ReplyDeleteOuch, Skins.
ReplyDeleteskins have got to take rgIII out -- poor guy. and people will never forgive you if you hurt dogs. people? no big deal.
ReplyDeletei told you so. one season and out for him b/c they played him when he was hurt.
ReplyDeleteOw ow ow ow ow
ReplyDeleteMaybe he can borrow AP's knee.
ReplyDeletei just replayed that knee injury from four weeks ago. egads.
ReplyDelete2nd qtr beginning now for danimal.
ReplyDeleteMark...my goal is to have your questions answered by noon tomorrow.
Everyone who is not a Skins fan can shit the fucking fuck up regarding RGIII and his knee. We know.
ReplyDeleteI watched the loss at a friend's house and got into a fender bender on the way home. With an off-duty cop. And had to run a field test.
Neat.
I passed! Let's celebrate little victories!! Hooray!!'
All hail the underdog.
I watched the game from a co-worker's laptop in a conference room. Rapidly approching hour 12 in same room.
ReplyDeleteLife isn't all ham & plaques.
nobody said writing the new egyptian constitution was going to be easy, greg. you hang in there.
ReplyDeleteI watched the game while having sex with a supermodel on top of a big pile of money.
ReplyDeleteYou won't believe what passes for a bi-camel legislature in the Sinai.
ReplyDeletei see what you did there, greg.
ReplyDeleteyou, too, jerry.
ReplyDeletewell, i didn't really see it. that'd be weird.
no weirder than the whole sex-on-money thing, i guess, but to each his own.
I was on top of Jerry. He was the Quimby.
ReplyDeleteI must confess, Robert that my prose is neither spare nor true.
ReplyDeleteNo subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
ReplyDeleteAnd also, thanks for all the well wishes for me not spending the night in the pokey. Maybe if I didn't relay it in such a d-bag way, I might've engendered some sympathy. Sorry about that.
ReplyDeleteWay to not spend the night in the ol' hoosegow, Clarence!!!
ReplyDeleteAlso, Clarence, thanks for picking up the Hemingway reference. I feel affirmed.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, Greg. And thank you. I could say that I was afraid tonight, but all cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing. And when the man who is brave and true looks death squarely in the face like some rhino hunters I know, or Greg, who's truly brave. It is because they love with sufficient passion to push death out of their minds, until the return that it does to all men. And then you must make really good love again. Think about it.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I was very afraid. Until I thought of Greg. And I would say Hi Gheorghies now, but it is not sufficiently late to say hello to you people.
Morning gheorghies. Clarence, happy to hear you avoided jail.
ReplyDeleteThough the question needs to be asked: that late in the evening, with you obviously not at the top of your game, why was Kirk Cousins not handed the keys to guide you home?
This sounds like a job for Lowell "The Hammer" Stanley.
ReplyDeleteThe expected results of RG3's MRI, based on the level of media outrage, is that he has Phase 69 AIDS-Cancer of the knee. His knee will be taken to a vacant lot and blown up, and then buried at sea.
ReplyDeletein theory, a bcs preview is forthcoming. it promises to be whatever is the opposite of trenchant and insightful.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Alabama and Notre Dame fans, these teams have combined for 669 national championships in the 125 seasons that college football has been played...
ReplyDelete...and twice as many Heisman trophies.
ReplyDeleteJust hangin out. Drinking a beer and watchin some Maury.
ReplyDeleteThis is probably the first time that Fiorentina has been swapped out for Gophers basketball in any context.
ReplyDeletelotta monkeys banging on typewriters out there, jerry.
ReplyDeleteA certain level of genius can't be replicated by infinite randomness.
ReplyDeletethe griffin news filtering out in dribs and drabs does not sound positive. the forthcoming shanny/danny conversation will be fun.
ReplyDeleteBCS Championship post is up.
ReplyDeleteA great song indeed! Just surprised that I thought of it after so long. amanda vanderpool model
ReplyDelete