Kickoff
Aug 5, 2008 2008 Training Camp, DeMeco Ryans, Frank Okam is an evil genius, Kickoff, RB free-for-all, Super Mario
Look, kids! Haley’s comet! Chris Brown practiced yesterday, meaning that his ruptured labia must be healing nicely. I’m putting the over/under on the number of consecutive practices he makes it to at 3.5.
I got yer “low profile” right here. Want to see the most superficial look at Houston’s training camp? Look no further than this write-up from the Sporting News. For every decent point Greenberg makes, he follows it up with something asinine. Seriously, find me someone who says Dunta Robinson is the best defensive player on this team and I’ll show you someone who is a total dipshit. Dunta’s good, and he might be the “heart” of the defense, but DeMeco and Mario are WAY better respective to their positions than DR is. (Also, if this guy really believes Frank Okam “won’t see the field much” in 2008, he probably also believes that Vince Young is a great QB.)
New rule: If you write fantasy football articles for a living and as recently as yesterday you were claiming that Chris Brown was your “pick to be the opening day starter,” you should probably go into a new line of work. Or, you know, do a little research before you write this crap.
Finally. Caption this pic of Baby Shan.
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August 5th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Hmmm…Abbey Road album cover of the remaining Beatles (Ringo is taking the photo)??
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August 5th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
“I’m busy as a one-armed paper hanger.”
“No, THIS is the way you do jazz hands.”/got nuthin
I do have a nice Shanny story. I was with my kids the other day and we were entering an elevator. My daughter was sporting her Texans cheerleader gear because she is 5 and likes to rock that. We rode up in the elevator with Shan Jr, and I’m sure he saw the kiddo in the outfit because she is unspeakably cute (yeah, I’m mom biased but its true). I recognized him immediately but didn’t want to bug him at all with weird female fan who recognizes Texans coordinators thing. I was just happy he saw this munchkin representing in style.
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I was waiting for the DGDB&D commentary on that SN story. It wasn’t an awful story per se, but it just demonstrates the problem of national people trying to cover a team that they aren’t terribly familiar with. I know I couldn’t do an in depth camp report of a team that would be worth a crap of a team I barely follow.
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August 5th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
“follow me! Follow me… to freedom!”
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August 5th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
“My favorite 80s hit was Walk Like an Egyptian. This is the move right here, beeches!”
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August 5th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Yeah, I was thinking about the Abbey Road thing too (or the Chili Peppers version… hmm, he’s not wearing socks — or is he?). I also thought about the Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto line, but it seemed too stupid. But I think I’ll go with this:
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“No Travis it’s not the tomahawk chop… You just gave up a first down dumbass!”
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August 5th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
“That’s right, punk. Two legs and one right arm and I can STILL kick your bitch ass.”
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August 5th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
“Yup, lost my left arm in Cambodia when that god damned Nixon expanded the war.”
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August 5th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
“Damn it! I can’t get the hang of this hokey pokey song!”
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August 5th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
“The robot move will get any team 10 sacks and a concussion of Marc Bulger when playing the Rams.”
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August 5th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
“And right over here, is where you can blow me Anna.”
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August 5th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
The hokey pokey almost took it, but Shake snagged the last-second win.
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August 5th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
@Matt: I’ll be watching the mail for my gift certificate to Service Merchandise.
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And speaking of caption contests:
http://www.canalstreetchronicles.com/2008/8/4/586820/caption-this-photo-leave-y
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August 5th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
“C’mon guys, there’s no way Bentley should be able to catch you with that load he’s carrying. When it’s hard, it goes out to here.”
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August 5th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
“and if you look to your right, you can see Mario eating a lineman.
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August 5th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
@WillFist4Food: Very, very nice.