So we’ve reached the last TMQ of the interregnum. What pressing questions were you hoping TMQ would answer? “What does Bin Laden’s death mean for U.S./Pakistan relations?” “Trump: serious contender or joke?” Nope…
…many readers have asked whether, if there is no NFL, there will be TMQ.
Signs point to yes. And if there’s TMQ, there’s a TMQ Watch.
TMQ’s draft review: like last week’s mock of the mock drafts, we don’t see much point in going item by item through TMQ’s draft summary. A few thoughts and highlights (we’re going somewhat out of order here, for the sake of continuity):
- “The Bills haven’t reached the playoffs in a dozen years and are the worst team in the conference, and a core reason is bad draft after bad draft.“
- TMQ uses the Cowboys draft of 307 pound Tyron Smith to beat the drum, once again, about the ever-increasing size of linemen, and the detrimental effects of same.
- We were glad to see TMQ note that the Raiders will be playing in Overstock.com Coliseum, and the fire-sale price Overstock paid for the naming rights.
In other news, “Is ‘Friday,’ by Rebecca Black, the worst song of all time?” We listened to “Friday” on a dare, and we have to say it is pretty dire. But worst song of all time? Worse than “My Humps“? We say “Nein!””
“Fringe Event! News Story from 2015 Travels Backward in Time to 2011“. We hold this item up as an example of why TMQ needs a strong editor.
Will “creep” continue if there’s no NFL season?
This is the first of two “Well said, TMQ” moments in this week’s column.
SF TV show bashing: “Fringe“, which TMQ calls the “best sci-fi series on television”, and states “yours truly was hoping the show would be canceled”.
The other “well said, TMQ” moment in this week’s column is TMQ’s debunking of the SI/CBS News story about criminal records of college football players. The key points: there’s a difference between “being arrested” and “having a criminal record”, and the 7% arrest rate for players from the Top 25 programs compares favorably to the 16.2 and 12.6 percent arrest rates for the key demographics as a whole.
TMQ’s annual “review of absurd specificity“.
Note to self: if I’m ever a guest at TMQ’s place, bring a good book
That wraps things up until August. We’ll sign off with some words of wisdom from a great figure:
“The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is difficult to verify their authenticity.”