Jethro Pugh, former player for the Dallas Cowboys.
And yes, he did play in the Ice Bowl.
I missed this one, so I’ll direct you over to Lawrence for Lee Israel.
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Obit watch: January 9, 2015.
Friday, January 9th, 2015TMQ Watch: January 6, 2015.
Wednesday, January 7th, 2015Sex! Gambling! After the jump, this week’s TMQ…
TMQ Watch: December 30, 2014.
Tuesday, December 30th, 2014We hope everyone had a good Christmas – or, if you do not celebrate Christmas, a good version of whatever seasonal observance you do celebrate.
In this week’s TMQ, the purge.
No, not that one (though we commend to your attention the “The Purge” episode of “Phil and Lisa Ruin the Movies”), but the annual NFL coaching purge, or as we call it, “Bloody Monday”. After the jump…
More blood for the blood god!
Tuesday, December 30th, 2014The hapless Jacksonville Jaguars have fired offensive coordinator Jedd Fisch.
In other news, am I allowed to laugh maniacally at the idea of Gary Kubiak coaching the Jets?
Bloody Monday.
Monday, December 29th, 2014This is your official NFL firings thread, which will be updated through the day as more people get the axe.
Jim Harbaugh was well reported yesterday (I was out and about). Technically, they’re making noises like it wasn’t a firing, but I still count it as one.
Rex Ryan and John Idzik (the general manager) are confirmed out at the Jets. No great shock.
Mike Smith is out at Atlanta: the press conference is at 11 AM Eastern, but ESPN has the press release.
Marc Trestman and Phil Emery (the general manager) are both out in Chicago, according to “sources”.
TMQ Watch: December 23, 2014.
Wednesday, December 24th, 2014Before we jump into this week’s post-bye TMQ, a tweet from Easterbrook:
JAX TN combined record 4-24 one of worst games in NFL history. so whole nation sees! Most California wont see DAL IND, combined record 20-8.
— Gregg Easterbrook (@EasterbrookG) December 18, 2014
Dear Greggles:
The “whole nation” saw Jacksonville – Tennessee because it was a Thursday night game and the only game on. It may be true that California didn’t get to see Dallas – Indianapolis, but that was a curb stomping; the San Diego – San Francisco and Oakland – Buffalo games were close thrillers.
After the jump, this week’s TMQ. Warning: spoilers ahead for “Ascension”.
TMQ Watch: December 16, 2014.
Tuesday, December 16th, 2014Since we are seeing some activity, mostly around older TMQ Watch items, we thought we’d throw up a general reminder (along with the sash): TMQ is taking a bye this week, and will be back next week.
Obit watch: December 16, 2014.
Tuesday, December 16th, 2014Fred “Fuzzy” Thurston, former Green Bay Packer.
Thurston was a key element in Green Bay’s implementation of the sweep:
In the sweep, sometimes called the Lombardi sweep for the coach’s fine-tuning of a play that originated in an earlier football era, the two guards are required to pull. That is, instead of pushing forward against the defensive players lined up in front of them, they race in tandem along the line of scrimmage toward one sideline or the other before surging upfield, one ideally blocking a linebacker and the other a defensive back, providing an avenue for the runner behind them.
With Hornung and Taylor carrying the ball behind Thurston and Kramer, the Packer sweep was close to unstoppable, even though opponents often knew it was coming. Generally speaking, guards are among the most anonymous players on the field, but the Green Bay sweep was iconic enough that Thurston and Kramer became well known to football fans.
TMQ Watch: December 9, 2014.
Thursday, December 11th, 2014For reasons we’re not clear on, Lawrence has been giving us a little bit of grief recently about why we continue to write the TMQ Watch. Frankly, we’ve been wondering that ourselves, and the best answer we can come up with is: “Got to. This America, man.”
But it does give us a little bit of pleasure to be able to cross the streams this week:
…and yes I was tossed off the masthead of New Republic by Chris Hedges too! Dear Chris — my Internet column gets 175K unique views/week
— Gregg Easterbrook (@EasterbrookG) December 9, 2014
After the jump, this week’s TMQ…
TMQ Watch: December 2, 2014.
Thursday, December 4th, 2014This week’s TMQ, after the jump…
TMQ Watch: November 25, 2014.
Wednesday, November 26th, 2014Two of our new favorite things in the world:
- Kickended, an archive of failed Kickstarter projects. And when we say “failed”, we don’t just mean “didn’t meet their goal”; these are projects that attracted no pledges at all.
- The Clickbait Headline Generator. The real genius of this is the “View This as a Fake Website” function.
We actually want to write the “Three Types of Fun You Should Never Have With a Freelance Nurse” article, as we have some ideas for that. Unfortunately, those ideas make us cringe so badly we can’t bring ourselves to start writing.
In other news, this week’s TMQ, after the jump…
TMQ Watch: November 18, 2014.
Thursday, November 20th, 2014This week’s TMQ, after the jump…
Your loser update: week 11, 2014.
Monday, November 17th, 2014NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Oakland.
The Raiders play Kansas City at home on Thursday. I’m a little nervous about this one.
And in other news, Philadelphia is the only team that has a chance to finish the NBA season 0-82. (Currently, the 76ers are 0-9.)
For the record: Will Muschamp out as coach of the University of Florida Gators. The Miami Herald is representing this as a resignation; reading between the lines, it sounds like he jumped before he could be pushed.
TMQ Watch: November 11, 2014.
Thursday, November 13th, 2014This week’s TMQ, after the jump…
Historical note, suitable for use in schools.
Tuesday, November 11th, 2014On this date in history, 40 years ago, the Minnesota Vikings beat the L.A. Rams 28-24 on Monday Night Football.
Of greater historical significance, my younger brother was born during halftime of this game.
Happy birthday, Doug.