NBA Quiz: [Football is over] Name the four teams that have posted the most seasons with a .500 record or better since 1992-93 (20 seasons). [Hint: 17 or more] Answer below.
Baltimore 34 San Francisco 31
Joe Flacco 135.8
Colin Kaepernick 65.9
Baltimore led 21-6.
And then all hell broke loose. Jacoby Jones of the Ravens took the second-half kickoff back 108 yards. 28-6. Game over. I’m thinking of going to bed.
But the power goes out. After a 34-minute delay, San Francisco comes roaring back, 28-23, then it’s 31-29, but the Niners miss a two-point conversion to tie. Baltimore kicks a field goal with 4:20 left…34-29. San Fran needs a touchdown. Kaepernick throws a beautiful pass off Vernon Davis’ fingertips. But the next pass goes to Crabtree for 25. Then Frank Gore runs it 33 yards to the Baltimore seven. But it gets to 4th and goal at the five…Ravens stop!
Game over. But late intentional safety by the Ravens screws up all the boxes!!!
Joe Flacco’s spectacular postseason ends with him throwing 11 touchdown passes and no interceptions.
One Harbaugh celebrates. The other fumes. Ray Lewis goes out a winner. Many of us hate that. Ends up being a fascinating game.
Super Bowl…random musings
Actually, the Cars.com spot with the wolf was a good one.
Most of the car commercials were great, especially Hyundai’s and the Jeep/USO one with Oprah.
I’m not a Beyonce or Destiny’s Child fan…I couldn’t name one of their songs…but, boy, do I love the look with the knee socks. And, boy, did I love the other dancers.
I understand what Budweiser is trying to do with their new brand, Black Crown, but the last thing I want to do is party with the cast of those commercials. Beck’s Sapphire was better.
Now Bud’s Clydesdale spot was super.
College Basketball Review
Another big shakeup in the top 25 is on the way…
No. 1 Michigan lost in Bloomington to No. 3 Indiana, 81-73, in an outstanding game. Indiana coach Tom Crean then rushed off to watch his brother-in-laws, the Harbaughs, coach in the Super Bowl.
No. 2 Kansas fell to Oklahoma State 85-80.
Pitt defeated No. 6 Syracuse in Pittsburgh, 65-55; the ninth time in the last 11 meetings between these two that the Panthers have prevailed.
No. 10 Oregon lost its second straight, 58-54, to a highly mediocre California squad.
No. 14 Miami moved to 8-0 in ACC play with a 79-78 win over stumbling No. 19 North Carolina State (5-4) in Raleigh, 79-78.
No. 15 Wichita State lost its second straight, this one a very bad loss to a poor Northern Iowa team, 57-52.
No. 22 San Diego State lost to Air Force, 70-67, as the Aztecs not only shot just 2 of 19 from downtown, but also played without point guard Xavier Thames a second time this season, both losses. Air Force is 5-2 in Mountain West play, SDSU 4-3…very frustrating campaign thus far.
While I’m not all-in with Murray State like I was last year, I follow them closely and ended up watching a fair amount of their game against lowly Austin Peay. Somehow the Racers pulled it out in overtime, 75-68, but they should have lost. At 16-5, 7-2 OVC, a disappointing season for Steve Prohm’s boys. Prohm could have moved up in the coaching ranks after last year’s effort. I’m guessing he kind of wishes he had. Doubtful teams will be knocking on his door this off-season unless they win their conference tournament and make a run in the NCAAs.
So a few weeks ago, I was saying that Wake Forest needed a signature win to save Coach Jeff Bzdelik’s job, specifically targeting upcoming contests against Top 20 N.C. State and Duke.
The Deacs then defeated the Wolfpack, only to get rolled the next time out by a dreadful Georgia Tech team, 82-62. Then they go home to face Duke and put up a game effort last Wednesday but lose 75-70. Then on Saturday they get blitzed in College Park as Maryland not only wins 86-60, but shoots 67.3% from the field for the game (68% from downtown)! It’s the best Maryland shooting percentage since 1986.
So what do you do with Bzdelik, now 3-6 in conference play with nine left? Beats me. Some of the freshmen have talent, and recruiting is apparently going well. But the alumni can’t take these blowouts by so-so opponents.
One other Wake note…Phil W. asked me if I was going to be attending the ceremony on March 2 when Wake retires Chris Paul’s No. 3 at halftime of the Maryland game. Ah, I don’t think so; your editor still not ready to forgive Paul for his cheap shot on N.C. State’s Julius Hodge that cost us a No. 1 seed in the NCAAs, 2004-05. Instead we got a 2 and lost in the second round to No. 7 West Virginia in one of the best NCAA tourney games of all time, frankly, 111-105 in OT. We should not have been playing WVU then.
So, no, I will not be attending Chris Paul’s ceremony. Plus how many times do I have to say, he only played two years at Wake! You don’t retire someone’s uniform like that.
NFL Bits
—Bill Parcells was selected for the Pro Football Hall of Fame along with offensive linemen Larry Allen and Jonathan Ogden, Cris Carter, Warren Sapp, and senior candidates Curley Culp and Dave Robinson. I loved Culp in particular.
Back to Parcells, he is the only coach to lead four teams to the playoffs and of course had his two Super Bowl wins with the Giants.
Michael Strahan failed to make it in in his first year of eligibility. He’ll get in next year.
–As expected Adrian Peterson won the AP’s awards for both Most Valuable Player and Offensive Player of the Year.
Peyton Manning earned Comeback Player of the Year honors.
Robert Griffin III won the top offensive rookie award.
J.J. Watt took Defensive Player of the Year honors.
Bruce Arians became the first interim coach to win Coach of the Year after leading Indianapolis to a 9-3 record while Chuck Pagano was being treated for leukemia.
–This weekend’s celebration of football, though, was shadowed by the intensifying debate and legal issues surrounding the sport’s violence. As a piece in BloombergBusinessweek put it, the topic actually goes way back.
“In 1903, before the NFL existed, the New York Times compared college football, then the top of the line, to ‘mayhem and homicide.’ The following year, 18 campus players died from head injuries. In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt summoned college representatives to the White House to demand reform; rules began to change. Introducing the forward pass and the 10-yard first down led to a more fluid, less dangerous contest. Over time, protective equipment improved.
“Football remained savage, though, and from time to time honest observers wondered aloud whether the entertainment was worth all the human wreckage. In 1978, Sports Illustrated warned: ‘As football injuries mount, lawsuits increase, and insurance rates soar, the game is headed toward a crisis.’ Sixteen years later, in 1994, SI again sounded the alarm about ‘disturbing statistical and anecdotal evidence that concussions are the silent epidemic of football.’ Head injury has never been a secret to anyone who played, or even closely watched, the game. Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach retired after suffering 20 concussions, the SI piece said. Ex-Philadelphia Eagles passer Ron Jaworski counted 30.” [Paul M. Barrett]
This week, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, in his annual State of the NFL address at the Super Bowl, said he remains committed to promoting player safety and doing whatever is necessary to address growing concerns on this front. Goodell hinted that could mean increased suspensions for players repeatedly violating the rules when it comes to tackling techniques.
“Suspensions get through to the players,” Goodell said. “We have seen an escalation in the discipline because we are trying to take these techniques out of the game. I stand by our record because I think we have made those changes and have made the game safer.”
For their part, the NFL Players Association said 78% of players polled do not trust their medical staffs.
Jerry Izenberg / Star-Ledger (columnist emeritus…he has been around since I was a kid)
“These are the best of times and the worst of times for the National Football League, a Sunday football experiment born on the rough-hewn playing fields of Canton, Ohio; Muncie, Ind.; and Rock Island, Ill.; that grew and grew and grew until it captured the soul of America.
“The best of times because its showcase event continues to produce the most profitable one-night sports event on the entire Continental Land Mass…the worst of times because even as the mere thought of the approaching 47th Super Bowl holds this nation as a willing hostage, everything the league had created is slowly being threatened by the very violence inherent in the nature of the beast.
“The threat is strong enough that it led its commissioner, Roger Goodell, to candidly and publicly ask the question:
“ ‘When there is risk associated with playing tackle football, why do people continue to play? And for parents, should I let my kids play tackle football? These are valid, important questions.’…
“In fairness to the NFL, it is reacting both scientifically and educationally. The new concussion rules sideline players suspected of having suffered concussions until they get medical clearance. The league is working with helmet manufacturers, the Players Association and with a panel of distinguished medical experts to examine not only concussions but a serious variety of other football injuries. On Thursday, that group held a seminar for some of the writers here for Super Bowl XLVII and chronicled its past efforts and current plans.
“And ominously hanging over this major effort is the documented fact that there have been a dozen proven suicides of National Football League players in the past 25 years. There were probably more. A shadowy link to CTE is there, and over the years a number of retired NFL players believe it has seriously affected them. A judge in Philadelphia will hear a class-action suit about it in April….
“But on Wednesday, another dimension and very possibly another solution to these troubling problems surfaced at the seminar.
“In its way, it is the most far-reaching area in impact on the lives of a significant number of retired players. The man who explained it is a retiree.
“Eric Hipple played quarterback for the Detroit Lions for a decade….He is neither a psychiatrist nor a psychologist. He is a father whose son committed suicide at age 15…
“ ‘I want to talk about Junior Seau. He did not die because of CTE. It was depression that killed him, and so we have to focus on that.’…
“ ‘NFL guys are tough. You knock one down, and he will always get up. I have no doubts about that. But physical toughness is not the same as mental toughness.
“ ‘When a player leaves the game, the fact is that away from that locker room he loses his support system. He loses his friends and his income. All those are factors, and yet we don’t talk about that.’…
“He’s right. From the time they were 12, there always was a locker room and a structure and a familiar world. Then it’s gone. Without them, there is a sudden, unexpected and painful void – unless they’re ready.
“These guys are competitors. Hipple is right. With the right help, they can adjust to a new playing field. It could save their lives.”
–In the Sports With Alternatives To Steroids (S.W.A.T.S.) case, co-owner of the company Mitch Ross gave a bizarre hour-long “press conference” outside the Super Bowl media center. Ross listed players he claims were customers for items such as deer-antler spray, including Ray Lewis, Brett Favre, Terrell Owens, BCS teams Auburn and Alabama, Johnny Damon, Vijay Singh and Giants punter Steve Weatherford.
Weatherford, like most of the others, angrily denied ever knowing or meeting Ross. Personally, as an observer of the punter over the years, I’m not in the least bit surprised his name surfaced.
–I’m guessing Dan Marino was a little uncomfortable when word leaked out he had sired a baby with a CBS Sports co-worker, “paying the mistress hush money and keeping his…bosses – and even his longtime lawyer-agent – in the dark for seven years,” sources told the New York Post this week.
Marino then had to tell his CBS Sports boss and crew that he had been hiding this since 2005, a daughter bearing the name Chloe, who was born four months after Marino was voted into the Hall of Fame.
The story hit Wednesday and Marino had to come clean once the Post told him it was running it. That day was also his 28th wedding anniversary.
Golf Balls
—42-year-old Phil Mickelson won his 41st PGA Tour title in going wire-to-wire for only the third time in his career, shooting 256 at the Waste Management Phoenix Open/TPC Scottsdale.
Incredibly, Phil has still never been No.1 in either the world rankings or on the money list. But how good is it that Tiger and Phil have won back-to-back events?! And if you thought last year’s success by Brandt Snedeker was a fluke, all he’s done is have three top 3s this year already (five in his last 8 events going back to 2012).
–Back to the S.W.A.T.S. case, golfer Vijay Singh admitted to taking deer-antler spray, but in doing so claimed he had no idea it was a banned substance under PGA Tour guidelines. As Golfweek writer Jeff Rude noted, however:
“Singh not only violated the Tour’s anti-doping policy, he violated one of the Tour’s most important unwritten tenets: When there might be an inkling of doubt, don’t be in doubt.
“That applies to the Rules of Golf or the drug policy. Call an official. Ask for clarification. Get a ruling.
“In Singh’s case, he admitted to using deer-antler spray, which contains a banned substance called insulin-like growth factor, or IGF-1, which is said to contain an anabolic hormone that stimulates muscle growth.
“Singh violated another simple principle: Read.
“That idea should have been rammed home to players after Dustin Johnson didn’t realize he was in a bunker at the 2010 PGA Championship despite postings and packets explaining that all sand would constitute a hazard.”
Singh turns 50 on Feb. 22. He withdrew from the Phoenix Open, citing a bad back, but this may have just been an excuse to avoid further scrutiny for the PED admission to Sports Illustrated. The Tour maintains the back injury was real. But the Tour is also now reviewing the situation and will decide within 45 days whether or not to suspend Vijay. It needs to.
But at least Singh admitted very openly to his mistake. Unlike, say, err, A-Rod. Or Barry. Or Roger. Or Rafael….
–I love the stat that Angel Cabrera has just three top-3 finishes on the PGA Tour, but two of them are majors…the Masters and U.S. Open.
–Golf Digest had its annual list of the top earners in the sport for 2012, both on-course (including all tours) and off-course (endorsements, appearance fees, corporate outings, etc.)
1. Tiger Woods…on-course $9,124,386…off-course $77,000,000…$86,124,386
2. Phil Mickelson…$5,335,267…$40,000,000…$45,335,267
3. Arnold Palmer…$40,000…$36,000,000…$36,040,000
4. Jack Nicklaus…$47,000…$28,000,000…$28,047,000
5. Rory McIlroy…$15,582,782…$7,000,000…$22,582,782
Since 1996, Tiger has earned $143,129,092 on-course…$1,090,050,000 off-course. Even after his fall from grace, he obviously still does pretty well in the latter. That income peaked in 2008 at $109,600,000.
Ball Bits
–We note the passing of 1971 National League Rookie of the Year, Earl Williams, 64. Williams played in the big leagues from 1970-77, starting off with Atlanta, but his first three full seasons, ’71-’73, were his most productive when the catcher/first-third baseman racked up years of 33 HR 87 RBI, 28-87 and 22-83, the last one with Baltimore. For his career he hit 138 HR and drove in 457 while batting .247.
But it was during spring training 1978 that he was waived by the Oakland A’s, at the young age of 29, so that June he took out a job ad in the New York Times.
“Employment wanted by baseball player…Excellent Health – No Police Record. HAVE BAT – WILL TRAVEL – WILL HUSTLE.”
I always heard about Earl Craig Williams Jr. because he was born in Newark and grew up in nearby Montclair. The problem was that he was perceived as being indifferent, a malcontent. He arrived late for games, yelled at umpires and heckled fans. Williams once said, “Being a black person has to have an effect on everyone’s career.”
Williams, by his own admission, was “pinned (with) the label ‘undesirable.’”
That label, he once wrote, “haunted me to the end of my major league career.”
“Never one to make speeches, Musial was distinguished by his basic decency. As (George) Vecsey recounts in his biography of Musial, during a taxi ride in New York on the way to the Giants’ Polo Grounds, ‘One of his teammates noticed a Jewish name on the cabbie’s placard and started speaking in a crude version of a Jewish accent.’ Musial told him to knock it off. ‘When they got to the ballpark, the teammate tried to pay for the ride, as if to make amends, but Musial insisted on paying.’ Musial then told his teammate ‘to never get in a cab with him’ again.
“Americans like their heroes to be bigger than life but also to have enough flaws to keep them from being too out of the ordinary. Musial’s ‘problem’ is that, while a truly exceptional player, he also led an exceptionally sane and happy life. There was no tragic demise or flaw that brought him low or made for an interesting movie or, for that matter, even a memorable line in a song. Maybe that’s why Stan Musial is arguably the most underrated baseball star of all time.”
Teri Thompson, Bill Madden, Christian Red and Michael O’keeffe / New York Daily News:
“Alex Rodriguez’s troubles just got much worse than a sloppily administered steroid injection.
“With Major League Baseball’s investigators ramping up their probe following reports that ‘biochemist’ Anthony Bosch had provided performance-enhancing drugs to Rodriguez and other players, a new report surfaced Friday saying Bosch provided A-Rod with special star treatment, including personally injecting the slugger with testosterone and human growth hormone.
“According to an ESPN report, Bosch was summoned by Rodriguez to the third baseman’s waterfront mansion on Biscayne Bay to administer injections of the performance-enhancing drugs.
“ ‘Only Tony handled A-Rod,’ according to a source in the report.”
A-Rod quickly denied the ESPN story through a spokesman. Major League Baseball is expected to interview as many as 20 players, including Rodriguez, identified in a Miami New Times story last week.
As for the Yankees being able to get out of paying A-Rod $114 million over the next five years, it seems the only avenue they have is if MLB finds evidence of criminal activity, such as the Miami New Times’ angle that A-Rod purchased the PEDs in addition to using them. Regardless, as I noted the other day, the Yankees can probably collect 75%-80% of A-Rod’s contract through their insurance policy should he not play again due to his second hip surgery.
NBA Bits
–Players Association executive director Billy Hunter was placed on indefinite leave, the first step towards removing him, as all manner of conflict of interest accusations surface. A New York law firm has been conducting a nine-month investigation into union practices. It seems since 2001, the union has paid almost $4.8 million to Hunter’s family members and their professional firms, while Hunter’s compensation of $3 million per year was never officially ratified.
–I’m keeping my fingers crossed over the extent of the injury suffered by the Spurs’ Tim Duncan on Saturday…his second knee issue in the past two weeks after he had been playing lights out this season. We’re pulling for you, Timmy!
–So my Knicks are 30-15, tied with the Heat for first in the Eastern Conference, and what is so encouraging is the comeback from knee issues by Amare Stoudemire. On Saturday, as the Knicks crushed the Kings 120-81, Amare was 10 for 10 from the field and has now hit 36 of his last 49. As Ronald Reagan would have said…not bad, not bad at all.
–January 31, 1943…70 years ago…the Battle of Stalingrad ended with the surrender of Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus. Ceremonies were held on Thursday in what is now known as Volgograd. For likely the last time, Russian and German veterans met.
As many as two million people were killed or wounded in the five-month battle that began with a bombardment from the Luftwaffe in August 1942.
Of 100,000 Germans taken prisoner, 27,000 died within a few weeks. Barely 5,000 eventually made it home when they were freed from their labor camps…but not until 1955, a decade after the war ended.
“Even today, there is not a bridge built, nor a road repaired, without a digger turning up chunks of skeleton or a coal-scuttle helmet.”
“For Germans, it was when the country realized it would have to pay for its sins….The Germans are still haunted by the stories of Christmas 1942, the frostbite, the snow madness, the dark rumors of cannibalism.
“For Russians, Stalingrad is a symbol of endurance, of national redemption through human sacrifice.”
Mikhail Kirillov, who joined up at the age of 17, attended the ceremony.
“One of the German officers we captured spat in my face and called me a verfluchte Schwein, a damned pig! After what they had done to my Stalingrad, I wasn’t going to take that and so I spat back – with my pistol.” He blew out the German’s brains.
–Former field goal kicker and punter Russell Erxleben, a legend at the University of Texas who later played some in the NFL, was charged last week with one count of securities fraud, five counts of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering. He faces up to 140 years in prison if convicted on all counts. In a nutshell, Erxleben operated a Ponzi scheme. As noted in Investment News:
“Part of the alleged plan involved investing the funds in defaulted German gold bearer bonds issued in the 1920s and ‘30s to help finance reconstruction in that country after World War I. The German government never paid off the bonds, and their status remains unresolved.”
So Erxleben, who back in 1977 kicked an NCAA record 67-yard field goal in a game against Rice, was going to package the bonds into an asset-backed security and in marketing to institutional investors, promised returns of “100% or greater (annually) for up to 30 years.”
Erxleben also allegedly raised money to purchase a Gauguin that he said could be worth as much as $58 million. I know my Gauguin. His work blows.
–I saw a tape of Winter X Game participant Caleb Moore’s crash, where he was able to walk off with help, seemingly just suffering from a concussion, so it was surprising to learn he later died. But he developed bleeding around his heart, was flown to a hospital in Grand Junction for surgery, and then had a complication involving the brain.
There’s a lot I want to say but I’ll bite my tongue. Sympathies to his family and friends.
–Phil W. asked whether or not I will be providing school closings and traffic updates as we get closer to next year’s Super Bowl in the Meadowlands.
Phil, as you know the game is on Sunday, but I can tell you now that all Essex and Hudson County adult schools will be closed that day due to the snow and ice storm that will wreak havoc on the area, plus religious education classes at St. Teresa’s in Summit will also be postponed.
Around August 10, I will be providing Monday school closure lists for the day after the big game so that parents can begin planning accordingly; such as they can put in for a vacation or personal day ahead of those who won’t have this knowledge.
“Why are you telling me you’re taking a personal day next February when it’s August, Doreen?”
“I follow the Editor implicitly and he’s saying the forecast is going to be very dicey and that Bobby is going to be off school. Knowing this, trying to find a baby sitter will be impossible. Might as well just stay home.”
–We note the passing of Barney, former first dog – the black Scottish terrier that took America on video tours of the White House during the George W. Bush years. The former president said:
“He never discussed politics and was always a faithful friend. Laura and I will miss our pal.”
Barney was a gift to Laura Bush from Christine Todd Whitman, then governor of New Jersey, for the first lady’s birthday in 2000.
—Speaking of dogs…from Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods / Wall Street Journal
“With half as many neurons in their cerebral cortex as cats – and half their attitude, some would say – dogs are often taken to be the less intelligent domestic partner. While dogs drink out of the toilet, slavishly follow their master and need a chaperone to relieve themselves, cats hunt self-sufficiently and survey their empire with a regal gaze.
“But cats beware. Research in recent years has finally revealed the genius of dogs.
“Like other language-trained animals – dolphins, parrots, bonobos – dogs can learn to respond to hundreds of spoken signals associated with different objects. What sets dogs apart is how they learn these words…
“In 2004, Juliane Kaminski from Britain’s University of Portsmouth and her colleagues published the results of (an) experiment with a dog called Rico who knew the names of hundreds of objects.
“Dr. Kaminski showed Rico an object that he had never seen before, along with seven other toys that he knew by name. Then she asked Rico to fetch a toy using a word that was new to him, like ‘Sigfried.’ Just like human tots with the word ‘chromium,’ Rico was immediately able to infer that ‘Sigfried’ referred to the new toy. Since the report on Rico, several other dogs have also been shown to make inferences this way. Dogs are the only animals that have demonstrated this humanlike ability.
“Based on the ability of cats to hold a grudge, you might think that they have better memories than dogs. Not so. Several years ago, Sylvain Fiset of Canada’s University of Moncton and colleagues reported experiments in which a dog or cat watched while a researcher hid a reward in one of four boxes. After a delay, they were allowed to search for the treat. Cats started guessing after only one minute. But even after four minutes, dogs hadn’t forgotten where they saw the food.”
But the secret to the genius of dogs? “It’s when dogs join forces with us that they become special.”
“Nowhere is this clearer than when dogs are reading our gestures. Every dog owner has helped her dog find a lost ball or treat by pointing in the right direction. No other animal – not even our closest relatives, bonobos and chimpanzees – can interpret our gestures as flexibly as dogs.”
–But we also had this big story this week, from research conducted by the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Cats are responsible for the deaths of 1.4 to 3.7 billion birds and 6.9 to 20.7 million mammals every year.
Now I have reported on similar figures over the years, and I have no problem with cats killing mice, but I love my birds!
If cats killed geese, on the other hand, I’d praise that….but they don’t. They are killing the sweet types who enrich our lives.
Dr. Peter Marra of the Smithsonian estimates that “1 in 10 birds are taken by cats every year.”
Well, I’ve had it. Cats have generally been placed in the No. 60 to 80 slot of the All-Species List, rather than 150ish, mostly because I don’t want to tick off too many of my cat-loving readers, but unless cat behavior improves, they are facing a lengthy suspension. In other words, a harsher penalty than the double-secret probation handed down to the beaver…which the beaver can emerge from in the spring.
The International Web Site Association, in alliance with the All-Species List Board of Directors, will be making a decision on cats by June.
–One more….notice who was helping in the rescue effort at the site of the horrific explosion at Pemex’ headquarters in Mexico City the other day; rescue dogs. As Johnny Mac first noted years ago, you never see any rescue cats.
–Here again our irregular feature “Sex Chat,” ripped from the pages of Men’s Health.
“Lap dance dos and don’ts from our new friend Addison, a dancer at the Sapphire Gentlemen’s Club” in Vegas.
“Don’t…Come in after smoking stogies and sweating all day on the golf course. ‘Bad hygiene and cigar smoke are the worst.’
“Do…Catch a free ride. Most Vegas strip clubs offer free limo service from your hotel, so why bother with a cab?”
Hey, guys…I didn’t know this. When I was there celebrating my 50th with….oops, better not go there….some of my friends’ wives might be reading this…
“Don’t…Blow on her neck. Apparently this happens a lot. ‘It’s so gross. It’s like the guys are trying to be sexy. It just doesn’t work.’”
–So I’ve been listening to a ton of Nash-FM, the new country station in New York at 94.7. These guys must be raking in the ratings. But I need to keep the station’s web site on because it is so hard to differentiate the voices in today’s country (as it has been for over a decade now). Love Luke Bryan’s “Drunk On You,” by the way. Also like Brad Paisley’s “Southern Comfort Zone.” And 94.7 is playing a lot of Montgomery Gentry!!
Top 3 songs for the week 2/3/68: #1 “Green Tambourine” (The Lemon Pipers…once paid good money to be able to use this in my first commercial for the site…) #2 “Judy In Disguise” (John Fred & His Playboy Band) #3 “Chain Of Fools” (Aretha Franklin)…and…#4 “Spooky” (Classics IV) #5 “Bend Me, Shape Me” (The American Breed) #6 “Woman, Woman” (The Union Gap featuring Gary Puckett) #7 “Love Is Blue” (Paul Mauriat) #8 “Nobody But Me” (The Human Beinz) #9 “Going Out Of My Head/Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” (The Lettermen…this one cracks me up…the applauding in the middle…) #10 “I Wish It Would Rain” (The Temptations)
NBA Quiz Answer: Four teams with 17, .500 or better records last 20 seasons.
San Antonio…19
Utah…18
Lakers…17
Houston…17
Orlando…16
Phoenix…16
Portland…16