The time has come for TMQ to go after…well, not exactly a gnat, maybe an amoeba…with a sledgehammer.
Actually, we were thinking of something different, but we’ll take that one and run with it after the jump…
“Attending an NFL game is so expensive, crowd members should be free to boo or burst into a medley of Broadway show tunes.” We agree. We’d love to hear 70,000 people start singing “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina
Greg Schiano is a jackass. 442 words down.
Sweet: Pittsburgh – Jets, Arizona – New England. Sour: Tennessee – San Diego. Both: Buffalo – Kansas City.
Pulaski Academy lost to West Memphis. TMQ doesn’t tell us the final score: in case you were wondering, it was 30-21. Pulaski is 1-2 so far; is it time to start talking about a TMQ curse?
Did CERN find the Higgs boson? Reply hazy; ask again later.
“…Vick should have been flagged for grounding.” Our understanding of the rules is that the officials are not supposed to call grounding if there is physical contact with the quarterback that would influence the direction the ball is thrown in. We don’t much like Vick, we didn’t see the play, and we agree that the NFL needs to settle with the real refs, but this is hardly the best example of a badly called play.
2,061 words on what a load of nonsense the new “Hawaii 5-0” is. Two. Thousand. Words. You can skip this item, but we’ll pull some things from it for hilarity’s sake.
“…it would take quite a while — probably hours — to kill someone using two plastic airline knives held together with a rubber band.” Does TMQ know this from experience?
“Plots regularly involve automatic-weapons fire on the streets of Honolulu.” Ah. So Honolulu is just like D.C. or NYC.
“The good guys get key info from a stoolie who always knows everything about every criminal in Hawaii, yet is never retaliated against by the criminal element — although police officers regularly meet him in broad daylight at Waikiki Beach”
We’re happy that he’s getting work, and even more happy that he moved to temperate Hawaii from…whatever city “Police Squad” (“In Color!”) was set in.
“Although escaping from prison is so easy in “Five-0″ — like calling a cab — it’s not clear why the Hawaii Department of Public Safety bothers to maintain a Corrections Division.” We would commend to TMQ’s attention The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison
“Air shafts galore”. Is it just us, or would it save a lot of time if someone were to introduce TMQ to TVTropes?
“Two seasons so far have depicted perhaps 200 murders, an equal number of bad guys shot and killed by police, dozens of law enforcement officers gunned down, the murder of the governor, multiple car bombs, mass kidnappings, huge explosions, three plane crashes, sarin gas (“sarin brokers are looking for new customers,” a CIA officer says casually), a tsunami and a plague described as able to kill a third of the population of the world.” Easterbrook may have a point here about “Hawaii 5-0” overstating the amount of crime on the islands. Then again, we remember (as part of the original series) attempted murders of the governor, multiple car bombs (some of which targeted McGarrett), at least two (fake) tsunamis, a plague described as being able to wipe out the entire population of the world, plenty of bad guys being shot by the police, several law enforcement officers being gunned down (many of whom were friends of 5-0), at least one terrorist attack on an airliner, a plot to detonate a nuclear bomb in downtown Honolulu, and Ghu knows how many Russian agents. Plus Wo Fat.
“Fake badges can be purchased in a costume store, and criminals pretending to be police are a long-standing problem. ” Thanks for noticing, TMQ.
We don’t watch the current “Hawaii 5-0” and hold no brief for it. We like the original series; it is cheesy, and we have lots of problems with Jack Lord’s anti-gun politics, but much of it holds up well even 30 years later. And there ‘s nothing wrong with criticizing entertainment for being unrealistic. But when you go to this extent, Gregg…it is only television.
“Fake badges can be purchased in a costume store, and criminals pretending to be police are a long-standing problem. ” Thanks for noticing, TMQ.
“Why was Belichick content to play for a 42-yard field goal attempt? New England might have run at least one snap, maybe two, to move the ball closer.” We’d suggest it is because New England has a good kicker. Seriously, that was an odd and unusual miss for old whats-his-face.
In other news, maybe the Saints need someone other than the practice squad coach, and Peyton Manning is beatable.
We knew that the NCAA gets almost all of its income from March Madness, but that’s because we read Taylor Branch’s excellent “The Shame of College Sports” in the Atlantic Monthly. It delights us to see this mentioned in TMQ as well.
Speaking of the NCAA, why are they okay with the University of Utah Utes and their logo, but the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux and the William and Mary logo send the organization into conniption fits? If you guessed “money”, congratulations.
“How can a team go 1-for-5 in the red zone yet still win?” By playing Tampa Bay.
Chicken-<salad> kicks: Kansas City, Oakland.
Concordia University Chicago 63, Hope College 47. Wabash 35, Denison 2. $400,000 is the “customary rate for Presbyterian to play an SEC or ACC team”. And the final score of the Akron – Morgan State game was 66-6.
Single worst play of the season so far: Josh Morgan’s unsportsmanlike conduct penalty in the Redskins – Rams game.
Next week, who knows? Tune in. We’ll find something.