Trash – Jerkin Crocus Edition

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Well, I have had about enough of that Ayn Rand crap; time to let loose. At Casa de Bmaz, that means margaritas and rock and roll. Today I have whipped out an oldie, but very goodie. From Mott the Hoople’s 1972 classic album All The Young Dudes, its Jerkin Crocus, a thoroughly kick ass song that is mostly forgotten now. Let yer hair down and let’s get down to some football.

Pros: Hmmm, this Atlanta at Dallas game looks interesting. The Dirty Birds are on a roll, absolutely killed the 49ers that had looked so solid prior to last week. It was hard to find a flaw in their game. Dallas needs a signature win to make something of a season that looks shaky at best so far. I do think the ‘Boys are better than people give them credit for; but really do not seem particularly well coached or consistent. The way Dallas has been able to run the ball, and with the game in the new Jerry Dome you would have to give the edge to the ‘Boys. You would, but not me; I’m staying on the HotLanta train.

Two other games of note are New Orleans at Miami and Arizona at the New York Giants. Miamai looked really good last time out with Chad Henne passing, the wildcat offense and a solid defense. The Saints are killing people; the defense is lights out this year and we all know what Drew Fookin Brees can do and does do. There has even been a Reggie Bush sighting. This bodes ill for the Fish. The Cards that closed out the season last year and took the Steelers to the final seconds of the Super bowl have started to rear their ugly heads finally after a slow funk start. They will be running into a pissed off set of Gents still smarting from that egg they laid in the Superdome. It is in NY though and the Cards are famous for not traveling well to eastern cold climes; slight edge to the Gents but this could be a great game.

Oh yeah, there is one other game of interest. That Old Man River dude and his Norske friends are going up to Pittsboig to visit Big Ben and the Stillers. The Steelers have rediscovered their running game now that Rashard Mendenhall has taken over for No Longer So Fast Willie Parker, and Big Ben is throwing the ball all over the field with great success. And they get Troy Polamalu back for the first time in weeks. With Antonio Winfield likely out or hobbled in the Vike’s defensive backfield, it looks grim for the Purple People. Never count out the Old Geezer though. This is a tossup, could go either way and should be a great game. The rest of the matchups are too lame to bother going through.

College Joes: The game of the week is, believe it or not, TCU at BYU. Yeah, yeah, I know, but it really is. The Horned Frogs knocked the Cougars out of BCS Bowl contention last year; and kicked the snot out of them doing it. Bad. BYU would love to return the favor to the undefeated and 10th ranked Frogs this year. The game is in Provo and I will take the Cougs in an upset. Iowa at Michigan State is an upset special; nobody likes playing the Spartans, especially in Lansing. The surprising Hawks should survive though in their last big test of the year before they play Ohio State.

Oregon at Washington and Penn State at Michigan should also be good games. The ducks have been really tough since that initial loss at Boise State. Washington is playing much better this year under Steve Sarkisian, but the Quackers have way too much for them. The JoePas at the Wolvereenies on the other hand, is too close to call. On paper Penn State should win; but they don’t play these things on paper and Michigan could pull off an upset. Oklahoma at Kansas could be close too. Bradford is out and Mark Mangino fields a good squad. Sooners better stiffen up or they will get whacked.

Baseball: It is over. The Dodgers are Bums again and the Phillys are in the Series. It is over in the Junior Circuit too, the Halos just don’t know it. Now all we have to do is wait for a couple of weeks for the World Series to start.

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    • BayStateLibrul says:

      We will know in late, late November..

      •Week 12 – Patriots @ Saints – Mon, Nov 30 – 8:30 PM

      A Monday night live/jive Blog?

    • NadaLemming says:

      Marcie,

      You said the Packers were going to the Superbowl. You also said the Vikings were – what?

      I said: Viking 12-4
      Packers 9-7

      Now, the Queens will probably lose to the Stillers this week with Winfield out. They will win at Lambeau next week, leaving them at 7-1 at the halfway point.

      Who is less delusional at this point?

        • LabDancer says:

          Off like a bit of unintentionally mouldy cheese, unless of course I missed the pre-three-eighths-of-a-season picks thread.

          Also, it appears I might been laboring lo this half century plus of oblong-ball gazing under the delusion that when an NFL team lists one of its players as “doubtful”, it meant something different than “will not play”. But wait…what was Lamonica doing all during the Raiders’ 1970 Blanda run suiting up game-after-game & playing as much as entire games while being listed as “doubtful”? Does we need to pay Grand Old George a visit at the ‘home’ & try to wrest the Bert Bell Award from his bony fingers?

          Fascinating as it continues to be watching the old farvt following in the walker-marks of Y.A. Tittle & Sonny Jurgenson & Blanda & the Doddering Duo of Johnny U & Earl Morrall, twelve-and-four or even better contains very little in the way of truth-in-packaging given the gift schedule the Norske drew this season. And IMO it’s clear that had to have been a big factor in the Metamusil-guzzling Mississipian picking the Norske ship to go out on: he could pretty much mimic Mr Magoo picking a door on The Price is Right straight thru everyone else’s “pre-season” & get most the first half of what’s technically the “regular” season for his own version of Twisting With the Oldies — & still help the Vikes hold the budgetary line by his mid-season shift from the team’s player insurance program to Medicare.

        • bmaz says:

          You been watching so far this year? 1) He has been doing a lot more than Mr. Magooing around out there 2) You think they would be better off with Tavaris Jackson or Sage Rosefels? Meh. Today will likely be a bit of a comeback to earth though; Polamalu and the Stillers at home is a bridge too far perhaps.

  2. Jim White says:

    Oklahoma at Kansas could be close too. Bradford is out and Mark Mangino fields a good squad. Sooners better stiffen up or they will get whacked.

    I’d like to think so, but my Jayhawks seem to have absolutely no defense this year. Their offense is great: very good QB and keep an eye on WR Dezmon Briscoe–he could be the best player not in the Heisman discussion.

    It will be interesting to see if Tebow can get his passes off a bit quicker this week. With 6 sacks last week, it really made me wonder if his brain is still running just a tad slower than usual.

  3. readerOfTeaLeaves says:

    So okay, the Wazzu Cougar lineup is young.
    But they had a week off last Saturday, so here’s hoping they don’t lose by more than 10.
    To be a Cougar fan is to be a relentless optimist… and accept that sometimes, they lose. We just hope ‘not too badly’ and wait for those California teams to come freeze their asses off in the Palouse… (which always increases the odds of the Cougs winning).

    To be a Husky fan is to put a shot of tequila in that margharita down at Case de Bmaz.
    (I’m not that much of a Husky fan, so bmaz and his lovely wife’s margharitas should be safe at least one more night.)

    • bmaz says:

      The Cougs are coming here for Halloween night. downtown tempe is absolutely wild when there is a game on Halloween night; ought to be a lot of fun.

  4. bobschacht says:

    So, the Old Man of the North was born on October 10, 1969, so he’s over 40. Who’s the next oldest starting NFL quarterback? The Old Man of the South (Kurt Warner, June 22, 1971)?

    Bob in AZ

  5. john in sacramento says:

    I have my eyes on Bama v Tennessee. Ol Man Kiffin (Monty) should have a few surprises for the Tide on defense

    And Pete Caroll and SC better not take their eyes off of Mike Reilly’s Oregon State

  7. orionATL says:

    as for the falcons-

    pros:

    – great team togetherness.

    – great coaching staff

    – a team where the players are strongly bound together as a team

    any coach knows that a team like this is as dangerous as a roman legion – any game day.

    cons:

    -a young qb

    -a short defensive secondary

    – trouble inside the twenty

    and

    a running game that takes a LONG time to get goin’.

  8. emptywheel says:

    Granted, the Big 10’s only undefeated team is playing the Spartans this weekend, not the W’eenies (hey, we came close). But I had a great deal of fun trash talking with an 80-something guy in a history/rest stop in IA today.

    So I’m rooting for the Hawkeyes tomorrow, not the Spartans (go figure).

        • person1597 says:

          Well, you know, 1972 was a fun year. College kind of fun… And Mott the Hoople was a big part of that. So where better to reminisce than EPU land? Dude.

          Talk about cars, remember this post from Jane on Biodiesel?

          Pretend the planet is more than just something you piss on from the frat house balcony for a moment.

          Nothing like a server-busting 338 comments to reread! I’ll cherry pick a few at random…

          I highly recommend a diesel vehicle running on biod — just buy the diesel car OUTSIDE of California. Diesel cars in California usually sell for a premium over blue book value because of diesel’s better fuel economy. I could still sell the Jetta TDI I bought a year and a half ago in Oregon for more than what I paid!

          The biodeisel hybrid sounds just about right for the next phase.

          As far as I know America has never sent troops to foreign lands to die for crops.

        • Petrocelli says:

          Thanks for the link to Hoople & Bowie, good times !

          Often at Late Late Nite, we are treated to some great music vids … esp. if newtonusr is around.

          Combining Plug-ins and Bio Diesel, we could have a way to replace fossil fuel until Hydrogen vehicles are easily available. … or Air Cars …

        • bmaz says:

          The “air car” is a joke and if you think Americans are going to clamor to drive around in a shoebox, you are nuts. Ain’t. Gonna. Happen.

  10. freepatriot says:

    JoPa don’t have much luck in teh big house, but I think he gets a win this year

    and Iowa must be the “Rodney Dangerfield” of DIVISION I football to receive such lack of respect

    saints over the fish, cowbangers over the dirty birds

    and I predict an early Halloween in pittsburro, with bret farve passing out treats to every D-Back that rings his bell

  11. Jim White says:

    I’m gonna throw in some political trash talk. The big fun last night on Twitter was the hashtag #oneletteroffmovies, where you take a movie title, change one letter and get something entirely different. Some of the best added a tag line to highlight the change. Here’s one EW should love:

    Veepthroat [Outing a CIA agent is the ultimate porn.]

    • freepatriot says:

      so what, you got a “Tractor Jam” outside spartan stadium ???

      an did anybody notice that bmaz has pronounced the Angel’s dead ???

      that’s a good sign for the Angel’s

      hey, it worked out well for San Diego

      jes sayin is all

      (duckin & runnin)

        • randiego says:

          2-3 for the third straight year. Norv has about worn out his welcome inSD I suspect.

          Their best chance at the Super Bowl was the 2006 season, where they gave the 2nd round playoff game they had dominated away to the Patriots, Marty’s last year. That was when their defense was dominant, like it hasn’t been since. Pretty disappointing.

          Tomorrow is a tough division game against KC.

          PS – If the Raiders had anybody at QB besides Russel they might be sniffing the playoffs. Very solid defense.

        • randiego says:

          hardee har har….
          KC and Denver are tough places to win on the road – no matter how bad the home team is. Yes, KC is bad. But it’s a division game, they are always tough – these two teams have been playing each other twice a year for 50 years.

          Now that the pressure to win is off I assume SD will win, but who knows? You think 2-4 isn’t possible?

        • freepatriot says:

          Al Davis is a real piece of work, ain’t he

          forces Cable to keep an “Al Davis” spy on staff as an assistant (and it’s the guy who led to the dismissal of Kiffen, no less)

          and then, after Cable beats the shit outta Al’s spy, Al tosses the spy under the bus

          The DA says that the victim told several different versions of how the assault happened

          Al Davis has sunk so low that he can’t trust his spies, and his spies can’t trust him

          Al has gone thru the cycle, and the raiders are just about back to where Al found them

          it would be sad, if I had any sympathy for Al Davis and the raiders

      • emptywheel says:

        I took a detour to avoid the tractor jam by the stadium, so I can’t speak to absolute numbers. All I know is I was passed by a whole slew of cars with Hawkeye plates speeding towards Lansing.

  13. bobschacht says:

    Well, at half-time, Nebraska is defeating…Nebraska. Turnovers are killing them. In one play, a Nebraska receiver is streaking towards a touchdown– and fumbles the ball without even being hit (what was he thinking???), and an Iowa State safety scoops up the ball in the end zone. Iowa State’s defense has been very good, except for two interference calls just before halftime. If I heard right, Iowa’s starting QB is out, and a freshman(?) has guided the team to a 9-7 lead.

    Bob in AZ

  18. masaccio says:

    I just want to point out that the Irish are capable of making any game interesting, as they have proved every miserable weekend this year.

  20. john in sacramento says:

    Hello, Beuler? Beuler? Anyone? Anyone?

    Is this thing on? (Tap Tap Tap)

    Here I was going to make an astute comment and I was going to break down the Vikings Steelers game. But I’ve got a dinner to go to and took too long on a diary

    Oh well

    Thumbnail sketch: The Ol Man has a chance. The Steelers are gonna throw and throw and throw, but they are also vulnerable to the pass (see Cardinals, in SB XXXXCVCSWXZJUN? or something like that) Look for the gunslinger to throw some bubble screens against Pitts zone blitz and Adrian Peterson is ready to have a big game again, which he does against aggressive defenses (see Chicago)

    Don’t ever count Favruh out in a big game

    Don’t know who wins, but I’ll take the over

    Maybe they’ll have too many OT’s and reprise their epic tug of war battle on the Super Teams

    http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/091023&sportCat=nfl

  21. freepatriot says:

    Their best chance at the Super Bowl was the 2006 season, where they gave the 2nd round playoff game they had dominated away to the Patriots, Marty’s last year. That was when their defense was dominant, like it hasn’t been since. Pretty disappointing.

    jebus

    you poor bastards are nostalgic for MARTYBALL ???

    an I thought the raiders were fucked up …

    (shakes head)

    so, let’s get down to the serious trash talk:

    anybody got a link to what Bob Griese is apologizin for ???

    I loves me some good train wreck

    an offensive comment about Juan Pablo Montoya and NASCAR ???

    yer better off not lettin me spend a lot of time imaginin what that one was all about, bob …

    (winky)

  22. freepatriot says:

    did that tractor jam get straightened out in time for the hoedown ???

    here’s an update:

    there is a three-combine-pileup at the stop sign on interstate 14 at the Iowa state line

    and local police also report 45 arrests for PUI, (Plowing under the influence)

    • LabDancer says:

      Does this mean fearless leader’s goddess aura so plugged up the neural passages of that old gent into whose hearing aid she was whispering “Rosebud Rose Bowl” he actually thought he heard “Plow job”…?

      [freep: I have reached am past the age at which one ought to stop thinking about even trying both a duck & a run within the same 24 hour period; so if it’s o.k. with you, I’ll just settle here for trying on a few Oregon Ducks & maybe you can do the runs for me.]

    • LabDancer says:

      You say it like that’s a bad thing. Big snot build-up from the first part of the season. Fortunately on the Norske, to this point the Stillers’ offence looks Clevelandish. I think both teams are going to be required to play the entire game before this one’s settled.

  24. randiego says:

    Did anyone see the segment on the Chargers on ESPN pregame? Wow, that was brutal. Ditka called ’em soft. Hard to disagree with the assessment.

  25. bmaz says:

    Adrian Peterson is a beast. But Favre just lost the game with an interception. Arguably it wasn’t his fault as Peterson missed the ball and tipped it in the air, but still Favre threw it.

    • LabDancer says:

      I actually feel better about the Nord Horde after this game than at any time earlier this year. No quit; Harvin’s certainly tough, able not just to play but produce with that bad shoulder; the d-backs showed signs of learning & improvement; Favre’s comment about Sidney Rice is looking credible. A small, superficially perverse prediction: that the Vikes’ power rating according to this goes up following this loss:

      http://www.advancednflstats.com

  27. orionATL says:

    bmaz @10

    damn, bmaz, thanks,

    i thought i was talkin’ into the wind.

    but watching the video i asked myself, “how did russell get so damned OLD?”

    i can’t be that old, can i?

    anyway,

    thanks a bunch.

    i always loved the tremendous intensity of leon russell’s music in the ’70’s.

    in some ways his intensity reminds me of another favorite of mine, marcia ball – cajun piano player/singer without peer. ball has a voice, a piano pounding style, and a sense of humor that , having heard her, you’ll never forget.

    bottom line :-),

    it’s really great to hear music talked about and played on emptywheel.

    “saturday night at emptywheel” – it could become a tradition.*

    *music “traditions” have been known to raise viewership and coin.

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