Did you know that you can find much of the 90s British sitcom “Chef!” (it was all over PBS for a while) on YouTube?
What does that have to do with TMQ? We’ll find out in this week’s TMQ after the jump…
Archive for the ‘NFL’ Category
TMQ Watch: October 29, 2013.
Tuesday, October 29th, 2013Your loser update: week 8, 2013.
Sunday, October 27th, 2013NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Jacksonville
Tampa Bay
TMQ Watch: October 22, 2013.
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013We were vaguely hoping TMQ would address the Grambling State situation this week. We know that sounds weird, but we were hoping he might have an original or interesting take on it. Or, failing that, something we could mock.
We also thought maybe he’d have something to say about Bum Phillips. Or Bud Adams. He’s usually pretty good about doing tributes to significant NFL figures who have passed away.
Nope.
So what does TMQ write about this week? After the jump…
Your loser update: week 7, 2013.
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Jacksonville
Tampa Bay
1,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.
Monday, October 21st, 2013Bud Adams, owner of the Tennessee Titans, previously known as the Houston Oilers, and the man who fired Bum Philips and traded Earl Campbell for a “sack of doorknobs” (to steal Lawrence‘s phrase), has passed away at 90.
Wow. What timing. I’ll wait until tomorrow and see if there’s anything amusing in the HouChron.
(Required link for any mention of “Ironic”.)
Edited to add: Oh, why wait?
Edited to add 2:
I realize he didn’t die under a doctor’s care, and protocol must be followed, but that’s just oddly phrased to me. I guess they just want to make sure he wasn’t whacked by a disgruntled Oilers fan? Speaking of which…
Adams lived alone and was found in the office at his River Oaks home. He had not been seen since Saturday, Houston police at the home said.
Which is mildly interesting, since the HouChron published a tribute to Bum from “Tennessee Titans owner K.S. ‘Bud’ Adams Jr. and the Titans organization” on Saturday morning. It seems like they were posting tributes to Bum as quickly as they got them and could edit them. Wouldn’t it be even more deeply “ironic” if Bud’s last act in life was writing a tribute to the man he fired?
Obit watch: October 19, 2013.
Saturday, October 19th, 2013O.A. “Bum” Phillips, legendary head coach of the Houston Oilers (and later the New Orleans Saints).
Edited to add: More.
TMQ Watch: October 15, 2013.
Tuesday, October 15th, 2013Let us start off with one of TMQ Watch’s patented musical interludes. This one even has a small amount of relevance to this week’s TMQ:
You’ve got to love YouTube comments:
stephen scazzafavo 2 weeks ago
thumbs up for REAL COUNTRY none of this new age shiit
Yeah. About that, Steve.
Anyway, with that diversion out of the way, let’s get into this week’s TMQ, after the jump…
Your loser update: week 6, 2013.
Sunday, October 13th, 2013TMQ Watch: October 8, 2013.
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013Offensenitivity! In this week’s TMQ, after the jump…
Your loser update: week 5, 2013.
Sunday, October 6th, 2013NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Pittsburgh (bye week)
Jacksonville
NY Giants
Tampa Bay (bye week)
And Cleveland is 3-0 after the trade from hell?
WE’RE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS HERE, PEOPLE!
TMQ Watch: October 1, 2013.
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013We apologize for the delay in this week’s TMQ Watch. Allergies or a cold or something are still kicking our butts. It is our profound hope that, when science perfects the uploading of consciousness to machines, they choose not to emulate the human sinuses.
(Drainage!)
(On the other hand, are the sinuses necessary to fully emulate human consciousness? Is consciousness itself a chaotic system, with a sensitive dependance on initial conditions? Would leaving the sinuses out of the emulation change the nature of the emulation?)
But we digress. After the jump, this week’s TMQ…
(Worth noting before the jump: this week’s TMQ, and by implication, this week’s TMQ Watch, may contain possible spoilers for “Breaking Bad”, “Under the Dome”, and “The Bridge”.)
Obit watch: September 30, 2013.
Monday, September 30th, 2013Marcella Hazan, noted cookbook author and proponent of Italian cooking.
Your loser update: week 4, 2013.
Sunday, September 29th, 2013NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Pittsburgh
Jacksonville
NY Giants
Tampa Bay
And Cleveland has won two games in a row, which foils my plan to offer them Matt Schaub for next year’s first round draft pick.
In other news, the Astros played their last game of the season this afternoon, took the Yankees to 14 innings…and lost, 5-1. Houston finishes at 51-111, with a .315 winning percentage and having lost the last 15 games in a row.
TMQ Watch: September 24, 2013.
Tuesday, September 24th, 2013Your loser update: week 3, 2013.
Monday, September 23rd, 2013NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Pittsburgh
Jacksonville
Washington
NY Giants
Minnesota
Tampa Bay
Notably absent from this list: Cleveland.
I don’t pay that much attention to sports news during the week. I check FARK’s sports tab, but that’s about it. (Well, and TMQ in season, but I’m not sure I consider that “news”.) So the first I heard about the Richardson trade was a text message from one of my relatives in Cleveland, who was absolutely apoplectic to the point where they planned to sell off their season tickets. They (and I) were convinced that the Browns were tanking the season, again; everyone expected this to be their year, or at least for them to do something decent. Heck, I think folks would be happy with 8-8; that would at least show some improvement. And trading your first round draft pick after just a year? That’s crazy as a soup sandwich.
Or is it? When FARK got around to posting their thread, I read through it. And there are actually some good arguments in the other direction. CavalierEternal’s comment early in the thread specifically made me rethink my position; his argument is that Richardson didn’t do that well last year, is injury prone, shows “major signs of being a bust”, and trading him now while they could still get value for him was the best thing the Browns could have done.
So who’s right? I don’t know, but the Browns won yesterday. Quarterback change? The Richardson trade put the fear of God into the remaining players? Or, conversely, the remaining players are putting in maximum effort, hoping to get traded out of this chicken-(stuff) outfit?
Or are the Browns so inept, they can’t even suck for first pick in the draft correctly?