Bye Week Notes and Quotes

[Patler]

They didn't call him "nutty Joe" fer nothin'.

The punch was Angelo's "receipt" for a legendary dirty hit from a Grey Cup championship game 48 years ago!

Ya, but Kapp first presented him a flower as a peace offering, in return was told to "stick it up his ass" and then was hit with a cane before he punched him. Kapp took a lot of bad press for it, but he didn't start the physical confrontation.

[denverYooper]

He's becoming Nick Barnettesque in his ability to run 10 yards backwards to make a tackle.

At one point earlier in the game he was gushing over Briggs/Urlacher--saying how Briggs stopped the play and Urlacher cleaned it up. The reality was that Grrrlacher came in at the end of the play and jumped on the pile.

[Fritz]

He could run, maybe, but gawd his passes were ugly. Wounded ducks.

[mraynrand]

Tell the truth, Patler. You're just aching for Bobby Douglass, aren't you?

The funny part about all this is that we're now seeing a couple of young QB's who run the ball rather well - RGIII and Cam Newton.

How about Otto Graham? Lots of mostly very short TD runs, but very effective indeed. 7/10 in championship games.

[Fritz]

Fran Tarkenton. How I hated that bastard.

[Freak Out]

Aaron Maybin was cut...any reason at all to bring the guy in off the waiver wire at this point?

[Patler]

Aaron Maybin was cut...any reason at all to bring the guy in off the waiver wire at this point?

Most definitely! They will need stadium shovelers in GB anytime now.

[swede]

Fran Tarkenton. How I hated that bastard.

I was still a lad fresh from Minnesota as Tarkenton, Foreman, Dave Osborn, Ahmad Rashad, and the aging D-line were busy racking up yards and losing Super Bowls. I liked Fran the Man a lot as a kid. He was on TV for a while hosting some kind of bad show and he always seemed pleasant enough, but when I hear him talk now he seems very, very bitter about being an afterthought when the great quarterbacks are discussed.

I mean really bitter.

[Patler]

I was still a lad fresh from Minnesota as Tarkenton, Foreman, Dave Osborn, Ahmad Rashad, and the aging D-line were busy racking up yards and losing Super Bowls. I liked Fran the Man a lot as a kid. He was on TV for a while hosting some kind of bad show and he always seemed pleasant enough, but when I hear him talk now he seems very, very bitter about being an afterthought when the great quarterbacks are discussed.

I mean really bitter.

Ya, he does come across quite bitter about a lot of things now, but he really shouldn't. He is in the Hall of Fame. What more does he want, or expect?

[Guiness]

Aaron Maybin was cut...any reason at all to bring the guy in off the waiver wire at this point?

I can only assume that's tongue in cheek.

Looking at his stats, he looks like he did play ok, for the first time in his career, last year. He dropped right off, and the Jets cut him despite what I think was a vet minimum salary. I doubt very much we're going to get more out of him than they did.

[Freak Out]

Yes.....I was just fishing really....I had forgotten he was still in the league.

[mraynrand]

Is the football season still going on?

[Iron Mike]

He was on TV for a while hosting some kind of bad show.

[Freak Out]

Nipples.

[Freak Out]

I always wondered if he and Davidson doubled teamed that.