REALLY dumb things

Overheard on the Sunday night game between the Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings: "When you've got defensive linemen coming free around the ends, and tackles rushing unblocked up the middle -- that's a problem for the quarterback".

Well dang, Cris Collinsworth, you're a GENIUS!!. Give that man a raise, or at least a gold star on his forehead. We'd have NEVER figured that out.

Next thing ya know, CC will be telling us a tornado setting down in the middle of a trailer park doesn't always produce the optimum results for the residents there. A regular Einstein in the making, that one.

A local sports columnist, himself a grad of Michigan State, penning a Sunday article about how Michigan didn't look so good while defeating Indiana by only 11 points, but totally ignoring his alma mater getting unceremoniously dumped at lowly Nebraska. Ah yes, he can deny it all he wants but that green blood still courses through his veins.

And I know he reads this blog, because all too often in the past, the gists of my posts seem to magically appear under his byline a day or two later, tweaked ever so slightly. Can you hear me now CP? Once or twice I can pass off as coincidence. Perhaps even "great minds, ahem -- lol -- think alike".  But after 10, 15, 20 times, I began to smell a rat. Didn't they teach you anything about crediting your sources in journalism school? Bet I don't see this one showing up in your column any day soon.

So OK, Lebron James made the big leap to LA-LA land. No doubt, he'll get paid another bazillion dollars, hang out with movie stars, and probably get a few roles of his own.

But if he thinks he can whip that rag-tag bunch into any sort of NBA title contenders, he's dumber than the whole premise of this post.

Speaking of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, consider Hue Jackson and Marvin Lewis. The former has been a loser his entire life, starting way back when he was player at Pacific. After bouncing around losing organizations in the NFL, we know him from his infamous reign as head coach of the Cleveland Browns. In three years, he compiled a record of 3-36-1, by FAR the losingest percentage in the history of the league. Finally, mercifully, for their fans at least, the Browns finally gave him the boot. No matter who they brought in next, he couldn't possibly be worse than THAT guy.

So what happened? Enter Marvin Lewis, long-time head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals. Dear Marv's been there fifteen -- count-em -- FIFTEEN years -- and hasn't won a playoff game. Even the sad-sack Detroit Lions don't put up with incompetence for that long. (Though they'll just hire the NEXT incompetent, bound for the trash heap in a few years).

Lewis then -- incredibly -- took Jackson in as a "special assistant" to himself. How in the world hiring a lifetime loser can possibly help another long-time underachieving coach and team would seem to be a very good question.

Or maybe it's just plain dumb.

REALLY dumb.

And I think that's where I came in, so.....

I'm out.