Before we jump into this week’s TMQ, we thought we’d mention D.J. Gallo’s list of the worst college basketball blowouts in Division I history. “Long Island 179, Medgar Evers 62”. It took all of Long Island to defeat one guy? And “Texas 102, San Marcos Baptist 1”. “San Marcos Baptist Academy was — and is — a boarding school for teenagers.”
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“The Giants-Patriots Super Bowl rematch is likely to be a fabulous sequel.” You can now skip the first 430 words of this week’s column. And we’ll take “The Godfather: Part 2” instead. (Heck, we’ll take “The Godfather: Part 3”, too.)
All hail the Harbaugh brothers.
Olivia doesn’t do much for us. This Oliva does, though.
Sweet and sour: Baltimore – New England (Cundiff’s kick), San Francisco – Giants (the problem wasn’t Kyle Williams, it was poor coaching decisions that put Kyle Williams in that position), New England – Baltimore (the Lee Evans strip).
Chicken-<salad> kicks: San Francisco.
The protocol of titles. “A man who turned an honorary title into a livelihood.” Really, Gregg? We kind of thought Harland Sanders turned a fried chicken recipe into a livelihood, and probably would have done the same without the “Colonel” honorific.
Giants – San Francisco: San Francisco needs wide receivers — badly. (“Don’t shoot food.”)
“Adventures in Officiating”: Ahmad Bradshaw and the forward progress rule. And let’s dump the celebration rule, please?
Wacky disclaimer: “So we want to protect the environment more than we want to protect children.” Well, that seems like a pretty accurate description of the modern environmental movement to us…
Cosmic thought time. Land animals may have appeared farther back than we thought (“Science magazine recently reported the atmosphere may have held a significant amount of oxygen at least 500 million years ago”). And “Recently Michael Waters of Texas A&M led a team that found evidence of tool-making at least 15,500 years ago, near what is now Buttermilk Creek, Texas.” According to the linked article, the archeological site in question is near Austin. So not just Texas, but Austin itself, is the cradle of human civilization. This fills us with delight. (We are tempted to say we knew this all along. But we won’t.)
We missed the passing of Byron Donzis, but we do vividly remember Dan Pastorini and his vest. TMQ’s combined tribute to Mr. Donzis/explanation of the current state of the vest is well worth reading.
Baltimore – New England: Gronkowski, good offensive line play by New England, and the unfulfilled promise of the Ravens.
Indeed. This why we encourage our readers to support The Center for Class Action Fairness. And we continue to remain surprised that TMQ does not mention this organization when he brings up class action suits.
“Can Anyone Own Stats?“. The short answer is: no, but contracts with the various stats providers require crediting them in any case.
“… perhaps NASA should consider how much a company would be willing to pay to have its name on a device likely to provide the most stunning images of our universe yet”. Yeah. NASA tried that once. It didn’t go well.
(Speaking of “Last Action Hero”, we’ve noticed a movement on FARK and other places to reconsider this movie; it seems that there are a fair number of folks who believe it isn’t as bad as it was made out to be. Not that we’re part of this movement; we just find the existence of it interesting.)
Bruce Willis will be 58 when the next “Die Hard” movie opens, according to TMQ. But will Guyz Nite do a fifth verse for their song?
Tune in next week for the Super Bowl gap column. After all, TMQ is unstoppable, much like Eli Manning and his…(ack!) (thud!).