CP's Bad Shrimp
A wise reader e-mailed me the following wise questions about the radio reports of Portis vomiting during the Bears game because of bad pre-game fried shrimp:
What??? Was he hanging out with tailgaters? Do players often/ever sample the fixins on their way in the stadium? Were they Bears fans? Gorillas? Did Smoot have some? Was the filet tender, at least? Isn't this the sort of thing that happens when you eat seafood from a parking lot out of season?
Indeed. Portis's regular media availability isn't until Thursday, but I got in some important shrimp questions this afternoon.
"My mom and them had pulled up in the parking lot and I hadn't ate anything," he told me. "I usually eat right, but I was running late and I didn't get a chance to eat. So I asked my mama if she had anything, and that's what she had. I won't eat that [stuff] no more."
His mom is famous for her pre-game meals, and I said I thought she would have brought homemade food.
"That's what I thought she was going to have," he said. "But for some particular reason she didn't cook that day. Well, she didn't bring what she cooked; she did cook."
Other important nuggets:
* When it was announced that Todd Collins was getting ready to address the media from the staircase, the media sprinted.
"Don't get trampled, don't get trampled, don't get trampled!" Randle El screamed. "Run, run, run. 4.4 speed."
* Somehow it emerged that Todd Collins likes to sniff footballs. Read more about it in tomorrow's Examiner.
* Fred Smoot loves National Geographic. Let me quote him.
"I love National Geographic," he said. "I read 'em every day. Anybody in here that knows me will tell you, I keep in the National Geographic."
The cover story in his locker? "Big Bad Bizarre Dinosaurs."
"That's good reading right there," he said.
* Demetric Evans's nicknames include "Sweet Meats" and "Buttercup." Somehow in the course of learning this, Comcast SportsyNet's Chick Hernandez began making fun of me, and Mike Sellers then said "any dude that's got a nickname 'Chick'..." and Sellers then began offering CSN employees $200 to find out Chick's real first name, and when he did he began screaming "Hey everybody, meet [name redacted to protect the innocent]."
By Dan Steinberg |
December 12, 2007; 3:11 PM ET
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Posted by: gidge | December 12, 2007 3:18 PM
"Anybody in here that knows me will tell you, I keep in the National Geographic."...Now that's funny!
Posted by: smooters | December 12, 2007 3:43 PM
Fire Bubba Tyer
Posted by: onside kick | December 12, 2007 3:47 PM
I love it. Thanks for the real scoop on the Skins.
Posted by: bobzmuda | December 12, 2007 4:12 PM
I'm with Smoot - who doesn't like dinosaurs?
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Posted by: Chris | December 12, 2007 4:15 PM
My hard-earned postal money was on "Cosmo". Cosmo Hernandez.
Posted by: Newman | December 12, 2007 4:16 PM
You do realize that you now have a license to kill right? I mean... if Sellers has your back... you can do anything you want.
Who's gonna tell Sellers' boy "no," I ask you? WHO!?!
That's what I thought...
Posted by: BucktownSkinsFan | December 12, 2007 4:24 PM
Fried Shrimp as a pre-game meal? Ouch.
I don't even eat Fried Shrimp before a pre-game p**p.
Posted by: WaPoLiveFan16 | December 12, 2007 5:11 PM
So it's Carlos then? Are we going with that?
Posted by: Nationalcoholic | December 12, 2007 5:12 PM
Wow, Mike sellers has your back. Time to take on JLC about those blloyd comments. I bet JLC posts a nice retraction in redskins insider.
Posted by: Oklahoma Skins Fan | December 12, 2007 5:20 PM
My hard-earned postal money was on "Cosmo". Cosmo Hernandez.
Posted by: Newman | December 12, 2007 04:16 PM
***
Actually, I'm thinking it's Keith. As in "I'm Keith Hernandez".
Posted by: EdTheRed | December 12, 2007 5:31 PM
Actually, I don't think Mike Sellers even knows who I am. He was more interested in picking on Chick.
Posted by: Dan Steinberg | December 12, 2007 5:41 PM
Gaylord Hernandez it is.
Posted by: Geoff | December 12, 2007 5:59 PM
I've heard Czaban and Buckhantz on the radio call him Carlos
Posted by: Adrian | December 13, 2007 10:52 AM
I wasn't making fun of you Danny boy.. I was just uncomfortable with one man calling another man "sweet meats"..
My name is Dan Steinberg Hernandez
Posted by: Chick | December 16, 2007 12:18 PM
Chick's name IS Carlos...1981 graduate of Montgomery Blair High in Silver Spring...Check the yearbooks of 1979 - 1981 to verify. Played varsity football, and baseball.
Posted by: Bill in S. S. | January 6, 2008 8:48 PM
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Pretty sure I've heard Jill Sorenson call out Chick as Carlos once.