Bostickler Trophy

[sharpe1027]

Bostick's fuckup was not in decisionmaking. It was in execution. The entire Seahawks collapse began because the team got passive at the end of the game. Bostick being passive in that situation would ha e actually led to a Packer victory. But the ball is headed right to him. Why be passive? Catch that shit and head home. Instead he shits the bed. He shit it with his nerves, not his logical brain.

I was screaming for players to be more agressive during that game. I'm glad Bostick tried to win the game instead of just being there and hoping not to lose. Sucks it didn't work.

It was all about decision making. His job was to ignore the ball and block. He decided to catch the ball instead. Bad decision, even if he catches it.

[sharpe1027]

This is why Janis deserves the Bostickler. The ball was clearly sitting there, silent, unmoving, but Jeffy had to go flying into it. If he, like Leon Lett and Brandon Bostick, had left the ball alone, it would've worked out just fine.

I can agree that he is the most deserving of the week, so give him the award.

However, the ball was not sitting there, it was bouncing the first time he touched it and it looked like it was going to cross the goalline the second time.

[3irty1]

The types of plays this award was conceived for are the types we all commit to our own personal memory banks and color our perception of players. Its about time we gave this award a name and began awarding it collectively so we can quantify the chronic fuckups on our team.

After careful consideration I think the award committee fucked it up and the award should have gone solely to Dickrod. If the fuckup in question can't be immortalized in a single embarrassing moment its just not Bosticky. So first Dickrod had two bad moments in a row and our shorterm memories shouldn't count against him but one of those moments could make a sufficiently embarrassing poster commemorating undisciplined Packer football. Lets have a look at the Janis moment:



If he had his eyes closed and mouth open here we'd have something worthy of Harlan's piece of shit trophy.

I'm going with the hands to the face penalty that knocked us out of field goal range. That's an image you can burn into your brain. None of the plays in question here were worthy of mentioning in the various game recaps but if any were it'd be this. Big graphic fuckup in a relatively big moment.

[Smidgeon]

Why trivialize the Bostickler with a game by game trophy/winner[loser]? It's such a paramount feat that identifying someone in every game that ruined your season makes the reward in and of itself meaningless.

Janis doesn't merit the Bostickler. He was doing what he was supposed to do, but was unsuccessful.
"RailRoad" Richard Rodgers doesn't merit the Bostickler because he was doing what he was supposed to do, but was unsuccessful.

Let's not allow the Bostickler to rest on someone who was just unsuccessful. Let it rest on those players who are given a task and then ignore said task and make a grievous error resulting in either a game being lost or something nearly as dire.

An example in my mind is Kuhn last year who got a notorious special teams penalty. I don't remember the specific context, but it was atrocious at the time.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Big graphic fuckup in a relatively big moment.

Backoff, mofo. I made that trophy at 2 AM, erasing pixels using a laptop touchpad, lying in bed with eyes half open. If you & Rand think you can do better .... oh wait, never mind.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Why trivialize the Bostickler with a game by game trophy/winner[loser]? It's such a paramount feat that identifying someone in every game that ruined your season

As Rand said, we acknowledge that no moment will be as inglorious as the Big One. It's just a symbol, dude. And the point is not to condemn a player as a no goodnook: hall of famer Brett Favre had many interceptions that were DOH! moments and would certainly merit nominations. I am President of Jeff Janis Support Society, I hardly think his little brain fart means he can't play, even if a few morons babbled that. The purpose of the trophy is to have a laugh at an embarrassing moment, nothing more. Eventually, Saint Rodgers may get one too.

[Maxie the Taxi]

I am President of Jeff Janis Support Society...

What the hell? I thought I was the President of the Janis Support Society. Harlan, seriously, I see this whole thing as a preposterous and outlandish power grab on your part. Please cease and desist. (PS...I was even going to ask you to fotochop an image of Jeff Janis' supporter because of your expertise and that area, but now just....well, just forget it.)

[Harlan Huckleby]

You are President of Jeff Janis Jock Sniffers After School Club

Outlandish power grab? Yes! Outlandish power corrupts outlandlishly ....... HAAAAAAAAAA !

[Maxie the Taxi]

Can't we all just get along???

[ThunderDan]

I nominate Zook or Zookeeper! We now have giant cue cards on the sideline that say PUNT that they hold up on 4th down.

[sharpe1027]

You are President of Jeff Janis Jock Sniffers After School Club

Outlandish power grab? Yes! Outlandish power corrupts outlandlishly ....... HAAAAAAAAAA !

Enjoy it while you have it. You never know when some lowlife will start the "Official" Bostickler Thread.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Enjoy it while you have it. You never know when some lowlife will start the "Official" Bostickler Thread.

Thanks for heads up, but not to worry. I'm tight with the forum owner, the fat brown man's got my back. He'll surely nix any attempt to snatch-away the little piece of happiness of which I am so proud.

To make it official:

[gbgary]

i nominate someone from a different sport...elvis andrus for his catastrophic inning.

[Maxie the Taxi]

Thanks for heads up, but not to worry. I'm tight with the forum owner, the fat brown man's got my back. He'll surely nix any attempt to snatch-away the little piece of happiness of which I am so proud.

To make it official:

I think awarding one trophy to two individuals is in itself worthy of an unhonorable Bostickler mention...especially since both individuals have demonstrably bad hands.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I tried the King Solomon trick, but all parties are happy with cutting the trophy in half.