I hope he has that good fortune for the skins. The more I read about him the more I like him. I hope this guy can do the things we all want him too. I dont care what his numbers look like as long as he gets a 'W'.

Thanks JLC great article. As always.

Great post, J-La, thanks for that.

Safe to say that we can prattle on with our hopeful (and sometimes hysterical) projections of Soupy's greatness without worrying that it will go to his head.

Nice nugget on T-Vince. I feel kind of okay with him or Foxy back there in the secondary. Or maybe that's the booze talking.

Thanks, Jason, for sharing. I love this blog. And after reading that bit, now there's no way to stop the love affair...

Much better than Saved By The Bell: The College Years.

In celebration of Troy returning, I repost this bit of info from the last thread (mostly because I still resent Desmond for what he never did here):

Troy Vincent was picked two behind Desmond Howard. I think getting Vincent even this late in his career he has already done more for the Redskins than Desmond ever did.

I hope he and Winnie get back together.

Good article. Thanks.

Ok, I like where your head's at, Skinz.

And Desmond Dekker brings us right back to ska.

Recall a great story with a similar tone. Coach saying he was having a problem with his top draft pick. So he called the kids college coach at Mississippi Valley State and asked what he should do. The college coach told him that the kid has this crazy work ethic and he should work his rookie harder. So Bill Walsh took the advice, worked the kid harder and ultimately Jerry Rice turned out to be pretty good.

Outstanding, JlaC, thanks. I get downright giddy reading stuff like that.

Skatallites: very good band, good call.

Winnie Cooper? Who also starred in the hit movie Sidekicks, starring Jonathan Brandis and Chuck Norris.

Speaking of Ska-

It makes me think of the Pietasters. Takes me back college, Panama City for spring break. Nothing I could really share on this blog but just put a smile on my face.

She's also dating marilyn manson and taking baths in virgin's blood. Man I miss her. She was the best milkshake sipper re-enacter I ever did see.

PG

I WAS going to resist the urge to repost this, but since this thread has taken a musical turn after all, and it was all the way at the end of the other thread, here it is. Again, my apologies to any who may already have read it.

80's/90's Punk -- Now we're in my wheelhouse. Best DC punk band of the Nation of Ulysses era was, far and away, Circus Lupus, and most of their successor bands (Antimony, Monorchid in the mid-90's, even the Whips now [only the same drummer but Arika is great], Skull Control maybe not quite as much) were also really good. Their records still hold up.

As for JC, I believe he was a big fan of Beefeater and Strange Boutique.

I apologize in advance for posting this both to this thread and the next.

#57

AL - ROFL, that was good! Jerry Rice - "pretty good" - what an understatement :)

Jason - another great post. Like I've said before, I like what I see from Campbell. At least there is hope, where before there was none. I think his talent and unflappable nature is going to be a real boost for the rest of the team. He may hit rough patches (what young player doesn't), but if he can stay cool, and keep improving, I'll be happy.

On a serious note:

I can't believe any teams even showed up to play Cambell's High School. I mean, with a name like that...phew.

WEEEE ARE THE TARTARS
THHE MIGHTY MIGHTY TARTARS

DON'T THINK WE'RE KETCHUP
WEEEE GO ON SEAFOOD!!!

PG

Good read JLC. I am pulling for the kid. Let's hope we have our future QB.

Man I have the FCC checking up on me now. We might be in real trouble. lol

for nate in the PDX:

is there a good bar to watch the skins game in PDX? or are you watchin it at home on sunday ticket?

The name "Tatar" initially appeared amongst the nomadic Turkic-speaking peoples of northeastern Mongolia in the region around Lake Baikal in the beginning of the 5th century.

As various of these nomadic groups became part of Genghis Khan's army in the early 13th century, a fusion of Mongol and Turkic elements took place, and the invaders of Russia and Hungary became known to Europeans as Tatars (or Tartars). After the break up of the Mongol Empire, the Tatars became especially identified with the western part of the empire, which included most of European Russia and was known as the Golden Horde.

I'll have to remember that the next time my dentist says I have to much tartar on my teeth

Tartars -

and this is off the top - essentially they dissapeared in the 13th century, the original group sourced from the Dada or Tata Mongols was either assymilated or annihilated, history treats either with indifference. Then, a bunch of folks in the Steppes, (Bulgars I think) started calling themselves Tartars. For no reason to be proven except availability from what I know.

Whether it is the sauce on my fish sandwich or a bunch of vodka drinkers on the Volga, my song is still the shnit.

PG

PG - I neglected to compliment you on the song.

Jason, you need to ask JC if he can get his old high school to adopt PG's song.

Plaques...HA!

nice work.

maybe there from Kazakstahn?

IS GOOOOD? My seesta, she numba fo prostitute in country? U LIKE?

Volunteers for a mascot?

We go off on tangents so easy. My ADD definitely encourages this.

I'd like to formally apologize to Blondor for my ADD.

I'm sorry Blondor.

PG

Plop Plop Fizz Fizz Oh What A Relief It Is.

Hey! I liked Saved by the Bell: College Years.......

Go Campbell!

Hail!

Thanks Bandwagon. Putting our new QB in the same sentence as Jerry Rice would be wrong. Born and always will be a diehard Skins fan. I live in Bay Area. So I got to see Jerry Rice week in week out. Best football player ever. Though I dont know who is second best. Its nice to know that a talented kid from Mississippi who outworks everyone else can succeed ... maybe lightning can strike twice.

Just bc JC is better than Brunell doesn't mean we can all become complacent! I thought there was a new post bc of the dearth of comments here, but there isn't.

WHERE"D EVERYBODY GO?!!!

Sean Taylor NFC Defensive Player of the Week.

So much for Roy Boy.

AL, I can give you an easy answer for number two - Art Monk.

Jason, who drives a Maybach at the skins park? I saw one on the road the other day by the park and there was a brother that looked like an athlete (judging from his age, non-double chin face, his triceps showing thru his tight woolen jersey and his attitude with windows down in 40 degree weather) but who in the world has that kinda money on the skins team?

and there were no dealer plates neither...

"but who in the world has that kinda money on the skins team?"

(Insert punchine here)

Hey, fellow Portland Skins fan,

I've been going to City Sports Bar, 424 SW 4th St (downtown, obviously). I try to get there by 9:30am to 'claim' the big HD screen behind the bar. Nice place, pleasant staff, ok gameday grub. I'm new to Portland, but while there are a few other sports bars in town, my search ended with this one.

The biggest screen in the place, by the way, goes to the inexplicably large Browns fan club, which actually does a raffle during each game.

Hope to see you there.

Oooooh, I loooooove the Maybach. A friend of mine had a Maybach limo with a (I kid you not) champagne/wine cooler installed in the back. Good times in that car!

I thought everyone on the roster could afford cars like that. Don't they all get $1M signing bonuses?

BTW, I can totally understand the appeal of something as exclusive as the Maybach, but the Maserati Quattroporte is much cooler looking, if you ask me.

I'm not much of a sedan guy, though. I find them too sensible, no matter their price. Anything where a baby seat would appropriate is likely not my kind of vehicle.

5.5 L 12 cyl. engine. mmmm yummmmm!

1/2 a mil on a car? when your career can end any second. that would be just stupid.

A friend of mine had a Maybach limo with a (I kid you not) champagne/wine cooler installed in the back.

boy, "now you're just actin like a jivin fool..."

Maybach? Maserati Quattroporte? Please. Ford Festiva is way better.

But, Dealer, cars hold their value so well........
:)

Campbell will have his best game of the season Sunday against a horrible Atlanta pass defense, provided the coaches open up the offense. Either way, we need the defense to play like they did last week to get a win. I have a feeling they will.

Hard to believe JC was drafted by the gang of clueless, GM-lacking morons and Snyder lackeys I keep reading about here. If only we'd had a real GM like Bobby Beathard, maybe we could have gotten a real QB in the draft, like Ryan Leaf?

Got to love SportsTalk around here--any mistakes are caused by Snyder & Vinny, any good moves are caused by...a nameless force or something. Sounds fair to me.

SportsTalk around here?

Or sports talk radio in general? anyone every been in Boston long enough to listen to the hosts and callers there? Hell, we're all sane compared to Sox fans (who I like to consider our MLB partners -- since we're originally the Boston Braves, we both struggle against the default/evil popular teams (Yankees and Cowboys), both having Red in the name of our mascot and both being the most racist franchises in their respective sports).

It's great that Campbell has always been a winner as a QB. He's not accustomed to losing as many of the Redskins are. We need that winning attitude around here, it's contagious.

Is Swissham even a threat to take Novak's job? Well, hopefully with Campbell in there at QB we should have more extra point attempts than field goal attempts.

editor, diamonds yes, cars, no. :) i'd buy an island if i had that much money.

i wasn't totally serious when i said "it's stupid..." cuz i probly do the same thing too if i got a $10 mil bonus.
but i know what i would NEVER do is build goddang houses the size of castles in the middle of nowhere. (ala whoknew, jason williams' castle).

i once worked with someone who was so ashamed to show her coworkers what she drove because of what others might think of her...but when she told me why she spent so much money on a car(more than 10K) i understood why people buy bling and cars.

you guys ever see that episode where oprah goes to buy a mercedes? she's like i want that one and drives off in it or something without "haggling" with the dealer and gale, oprah's friend goes back and haggles with the dealer and gets $75K knocked off the price without any hesitation.

Yes, sports talk in any sports town is full of this kind of stuff, don't try to say it's just the washington fans that do this. Try listening to sports talk about the Giants right now?! They were talking superbowl 3 weeks ago, now they are calling for Eli's head!!

Mr. Wally, to be fair to my blog colleagues I think most of our venom is spewed towards the LACK OF DRAFT PICKS and FA signings and trades and not towards the actual picks.

Hi Vinny, I hope wifey and kids are well.

I wish Vinny and Dan would meet us for dinner. Just something casual. Hooters, RFD's, or even Mortons if they're paying.

My 1st question:

So, Kathy Ireland at kicker...not gonna win us much...but imagine the jersey sales!???

PG

Great stuff about Campbell. We could have a Friday Night Lights part deux on our hands with the Tartars.

i think i was the only guy my age who didn't like "saved by the bell". i just didn't get it. still don't.

my recent top 5 shows:

1. carnivale
1a. laguna beach (the first year)
2. sopranos (minus the last 2 years)
3. dr. 90210 (still good)
4. prison break (even with bad acting by lead characters, scofield, sara)
5. lost (first year)

I wish Vinny and Dan would meet us for dinner.

and i'd try to sell them a cuban pitcher as the next great nfl QB...actually i think i got the wrong owner. sorry i was thinking about jj.

I thought Saved by the Bell was brilliant. Easily the best show since "Good Times" and "What's Happenin'!"

Though I'm pretty sure that nothing in television history has or will ever come close to the episode when Rog and the gang met the Doobie Brothers. The closest was when Rerun got inducted into the cult that worshipped cabbage.

and this just in from another brother from the U:
"People seen that when we played the Cowboys the first time [a 36-22 Giants win in Dallas]. There is no way they have a chance in hell to beat us

The New York Daily News reported Wednesday that according to a Dallas source, the Cowboys have acquired a copy of Shockey's comments.

wow! just what the girls needed...sorry, but i'll never root for the girls.

P:

"I'm not much of a sedan guy, though. I find them too sensible, no matter their price. Anything where a baby seat would appropriate is likely not my kind of vehicle."...yet.

give it time my friend, give it time . . .

got married the same year the skins won their last superbowl. maybe that's what we need more then a GM, for some of the religiously single guys to decide to get married. . .

yeah, that should get us to the superbowl. . .

one can only hope b/c we're not getting a GM soon . . .

diddy, you lost your head. you're comparing saved by the bell to those two HighLarious shows??? i still LMAO when i watch the reruns. did i miss something with SBTB? what's so funny about it?

give it time my friend, give it time . . .

yeah, p be ridding around his Toyota previa minivan then...

Loved Saved by the Bell too. Lost was awesome in year one. Now it's like a train wreck that I can't stop watching. Hmmm...Lost seems quite synonymous with Redskins this past decade plus

With Diddy dropping a Doobies reference, I must suggest you all catch some Yacht Rock reruns on youtube.

Keep it smooth.

I never got the Saved by the Bell thing either. Just bland, empty, unfunny, lowest-common-denominator kidstuff. Maybe it was so bad it was good. Availability was the key, not quality; didn't it air at a kid-friendly hour?

Man, but what a run that show had, it just droned on and on for years. Like the Norv era.

Golly, I wonder what became of any of the kids on that show, they must be all grown up now!

OKAY! so i'm sittin on the can readin post (sports section of course) and what i see???????!!! "best reader post" from this blog!!! WHAAA!!! when? who? where? how? how come there wasn't a new post informing us of this "competition"? EDITORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

it just droned on and on for years. Like the Norv era.

good analogy! excellente! primo! *stands up and claps* , BRILLIANT!

Oh, terrific, now everyone will be editing themselves in hopes of being post of the day. No more free flow of witty banter and general silliness. I knew it was too good to last. *sigh*

So, is there a cash prize or what?

i'm using word perfect from now on...before i post...only if i'd known. i would've been so insightful, and funny and grammatically correct and coherent(well, it's a computer program not god)..."i coulda been a CONTENDER!"

They should call it something other than 'best reader post.' We've clearly demonstrated that literacy is not required here.

Who cares? It's more funny when you curse anyhow. If you donk's sell out like Green Day, there WILL be hell to pay.

Oh, and in '90, choosing between DJ/Kimmy/and Steph or Lisa/Spano/and Kelli...come on. Even if Screech's brother died of HIV, or whatever the rumor was.

Dealer -

THE WIRE????

ENTOURAGE????

ur lost in your own tele my friend. lost.

PG

Poor Screech...still can't catch a break.

http://www.getdshirts.com/the_story.php

Amen Diddy...that episode w/ the Doobies was the best evah. 2 parter if I remember correctly. They got those bootleggers in the end and Rerun cleared his name.

What predominantly black community goes ape sh** when the Doobies come to town?

makes it even more hilarious.

How can 24 not be on your list of best shows?

Friday Night Lights has been kicking my butt lately. Very emo. Superb acting all around.

jm220- I work with people who don't like 24. Seriously. Can I fire them, even though I'm not their boss?

Just watch the Reaper video again. LMAO when Plex turn to see the Reaper about to lay the wood.

4-12 no you can't fire them. But you can tell them to come close. A little closer. Then smack them in the back of their damn head. lol

lol jm220. I'll go Jack Bauer on their ar$$es

If you like Terry Tate Office Linebacker you got to check this out. My boss sent it to me.

http://www.milkandcookies.com/keywords/terrytate/

You can't just cut the cheese wherever you please! That's just nasty!

I'm about to waste the rest of the day watching Terry Tate, aren't I? Oh yes. Yes I am.

Saved By the Bell a good show??????????

Sorry, gimme WKRP any day -
Q - "How does your team look this year"?
A - "Uhhh, mostly Venezuelan."

"Who will save us from the Godless . . . Tornados"? (the greatest band name never used).

ChI ChI Rodriguez
Chi Hu-a Hu-as
Scum of the Earth

I could go on, but check out You Tube and search WKRP.

PG, sorry i forgot about entourage. hurray to entourage. love arie!

but i just never got into the wire. must be a ballmer thang. or oz. sorry, i saw one scene where this guy licks the spoon...i had to change the channel...

jm, those were my top 5. i was hoping you guys would come up with your own top 5. WTF!!!?! do i have to spell out everything for you? don't you have a f-ing brain? can't you do anything by yourself? do you HAVE to ask me everything? and ohh if i HAVE to ASK for "IT" THAT doesn't count you f-ing RETARD! what's for dinner? are you friggin kidding me?? after i've spent all day cleaning and taking care of you....ohh sorry....

but those of you who don't know what marriage is like...

Saved by the Bell was good hearted show that prob help instilled some type of positive reinforcement in me watching EVERY Saturday morning for atleast 5-6 years (and they were still in High School) compared to any cartoons that come on now. That was my one educational show for a while. And all three chicks were hot!

1. Lisa
2. Jessie
3. Kelly
4. That chick from Valley

Come on guys! I love Entourage, but it's not really a good show. I mean, with the exception of Ari, the acting sucks and it relies on hot chicks and celebrities to keep us interested (not that there's anything wrong with that). We tune in for the "Man, I wish that was me!" factor more than "Wow, this show is really well done. I can't wait to see what happens next!" And yes, I own seasons 1 and 2 on DVD so I'll shut up now.

And I'll take 24, Lost, Friday Night Lights, The Wire and Voltron as my top 5.

you all forgot mighty morphin power rangers.....you all are lying if you didn't think the green ranger wasn't the coolest thing since sliced bread. and yes, i did buy the cereal boxes to get the power morpher toy souveneirs. i had to buy 8 boxes of fruit loops cause i kept getting yellow and pink ranger ones.

okay confession time: i have a super secret crush on larry's wife on "curb your enthusiasm"...i don't know what it is...i dig her man.

posse, entourage is a good show. don't try to compare it to others. it's predictable and shallow but it's rich and cool. i don't know why my brain's going blank but it reminds me of something...

power rangers? yuck! 20something fool! :)

yea yea....i knew i'd take some heat for liking the rangers...but i totally feel ya on cheryl hines....she was on celebrity poker showdown, and i actually watched the whole 2 hour program because of her...not only is she hot, she's funny too.

curb's freakin hilarious also

wow...10:45 pm and tomorrow's articles are already up. SWEET! usually gotta wait till 11:30-12 for them to be posted. thanks to j-la-c. now i can read 'em and hit the hay early.

Tom Friend is hosting a WaPo chat tomorrow. should be intersting to see some of the bloddy pulp fromthis crew splattered over that chat session.

hit em up boys and girls

jm220:

this terry tate stuff is pretty funny. can you please enlighten me on where it comes from?

you are a bad influence bra!

Saved By The Bell is straight dope ... and I have yet to meet a man who does not have some kind of thing for Mrs. Hines. There is some kind of mandatory pull there that I just can't put my finger on.

Yes, Cheryl Hines has the hot stuff. But how about a shout-out for Jeff Garlin, the straw that stirs (stirred?) the "Curb" drink.

I'm wondering if my top 5 are all shows which are off the air or finished their run. Arrested Development. Curb. BBC's The Office and Little Britain, not to mention Ground Force during the Titchmarsh era. Oh wait, they are still making new Trailer Park Boys episodes. Damn, that is a great show. The movie was great, too. Is that more than five?

Hot chocolate time, and I'm not speaking euphemistically. (Unless Wanda Sykes is reading this. I love you, Wanda.) It's a cold night here in Portland, I'm talking down around 30 degrees. Brrrr.

Did anyone see the story about the spate of sea lion violence in California and flash on the brilliant A.D. storyline where G.O.B. accidentally incited his magic act seal's bloodlust, which led to Buster having his hand bitten off by that very seal when he finally overcame his fear of the ocean? I sure did.

Where'd everybody go? Oh, right, it's awfully late out there in Skins Nation.

Last item from the department of non sequiturs: in the Premier League, heroic Portsmouth stole a nil-nil draw away to Liverpool and with that precious point rose to third place in the table. Incredible for this unheralded south coast squad, who are fighting their guts out for good old Harry in spite of an injury-depleted roster. Play up, Pompey!

Jason you ol' dog... you were definately holding out on me with all this JC stuff. You were getting annoyed at us asking for background stuff not because we were wrong to ask, but because it was the ace up your sleeve. Now you're the most popular guy on the streets, selling that candy, getting everyone hooked. Give me more of that JC stuff. Yeah Yeah!

Nothing but love.