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When the Saints Go Marching In - Louis Armstrong & Danny Kaye
What a great night it is for the city of New Orleans!
Tolerance and Respect 101, courtesy of the New Orleans Saints’ Scott Fujita.
A vocal supporter of gay marriage, he knows he probably has a different perspective and set of values than Tim Tebow. He also knows there’s plenty of room for differences of opinion in this world, which is more than one could say about many people on both sides of these issues.
Saints Linebacker Fujita Tackles Gay Marriage | Sports | Advocate.com
New Orleans Saints Linebacker Scott Fujita on the Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad.
I’m 100% with him on this one.
Saints Linebacker Fujita Tackles Gay Marriage | Sports | Advocate.com
Maryland’s Greivis Vasquez on the hostile Florida State student section, the “most mean-spirited student section he’s dealt with this year,” according to D1SCOURSE’s Patrick Stevens.
Say what you want about GV but I think at this point in his career, he knows the best way to quiet the opposing crowd is by out-playing their team. And if he scores 23 points, and sinks a few beautiful shots, and Maryland wins, y’all know I won’t have a problem with him throwing in a little shimmy shimmy shoulder shake here and there.
USC football: Rocky Seto not retained by Lane Kiffin | Los Angeles Times
Meh.
Wish him the very best. Hope he sneaks up to Seattle.
ETA: I’d trade Rocky Seto to Pete Carroll in exchange for strength & conditioning coach Chris Carlisle. If I was playing USCopoly or the like.
It's seemingly the end for Kurt Warner, and it makes a good deal of sense now
ESPN The Magazine’s Rick Reilly thinks Warner’s leaning heavily towards retirement, and agrees it’s a good time to walk away:
“What’s left to prove? He’s been MVP twice. He’s played in three Super Bowls. Won one. Been Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year. Set several all-time postseason NFL passing records. His story — the Hy-Vee grocery stocker who lived in his in-law’s basement and wound up torching the NFL for 12 seasons — should be a major motion-picture release. “I pray that God takes away the desire in me to play this game. I’ve loved it for so long. I need Him to take that away from me.” He’s a first-ballot Hall of Famer and if he’s not, they ought to melt it down and start over. Chew on this: His numbers are better then 16 other QBs already in the Hall, including Roger Staubach, Terry Bradshaw, and Joe Namath. His 7.9 career yards-per-pass-attempt is better than Peyton Manning’s or Tom Brady’s. The man is a defense-reading mainframe in cleats.”
Peter King's MMQB Killed It This Week - SI.com
“The moment I liked most from the weekend happened Sunday night, in the bowels of Qualcomm Stadium, where Marty Schottenheimer had coached the Chargers for five seasons, and where he shockingly was fired after going 14-2 and losing an opening playoff game. Marty’s boy, Brian, the offensive coordinator of the Jets, had just done his part Sunday orchestrating an offense with a rookie quarterback and a rookie running back into an upset of the Chargers that left the locals just as deflated as they were in 2006. And as a light rain fell on this crumbling place, Brian took out his cell phone, dialed his dad’s number, heard him say, ‘Hello,’ and son said to father: ‘Dad, this one’s for you.’”
Gotta love poetic justice.
Ed Reed on retirement:
“”I’ve been thinking about it often, and I’m thinking about it now.”
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
(Also, note how he’s holding the ball in this photo. DRIVES.ME.NUTS.)
Photo via nowhammiessports.files.wordpress.com
