In the News: Jan. 4No Broncos or NFL information contained herein; that’s for this afternoon:
Headlines for a midday:
AP: Oklahoma City Mayor Puts City on a Diet
The Oklahoma Legislature designated an official state meal in 1988. The menu also includes fried okra, squash, barbecue pork, biscuits, grits, corn, strawberries and black-eyed peas.
Sounds like an afternoon snack at my family reunion.
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Tuesday Questions and Answers: Because I Love a Good Argument …Every Wednesday when Parliament is in session in London — and at other times in some other nations of the Commonwealth — noontime begins the Prime Minister’s Questions, when members of the House of Commons can query the nation’s leader about all matters, from the ones that are global in scope to more trivial and local concerns like signage along the M1.
Since Tuesday is the players’ day off here … and since this usually brings some time for me to answer questions … I’m going to bring that tradition over here to the blog. While I’ll answer as much as I can throughout the week in the comments section or on the pregame podcast — available Saturdays on DenverBroncos.com — whatever I can’t get to there, I’ll take here.
So keep your comments rolling on the blog posts, or e-mail me, as we begin another Tuesday question-and-answer session … which I will begin with the return of an old antagonist to our blog sanctum. I’m talking, of course, about LetPlummerPlay:
And since compelling drama requires antagonism … and since I love a good written scrum … I’m only too happy to dive in and respond to this individual:
Wow, it’s been a while since I stopped by old Andrew’s blog. After being reprimanded more than once by Mr. Mason, I just stuck to our infamous letplummerplay.com website.
Three words:
Let.
It.
Go.
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Questions, Answers, Tight Ends, Rookies, Soccer … and FoxBienvenidos from the basement-office bureau of DenverBroncos.com, where I find myself decamped in order to meet a deadline on a game-program feature for the Chargers game, compose my as-promised response to numerous blog comments and write another blog entry about this morning’s heavily-attended kickoff event at the Broncos Boys and Girls Club.
Which brings me to one of the stars of the morning, Domonique Foxworth, and his little blog-based salvo …
As for my Blog Master, it’s not no stinkin’ Andrew Mason. I’m in direct competition with Andrew Mason. My blog is consistently better than his blog. I get more attention and I give more quality insight, so I wouldn’t dare let Andrew Mason be the one who transcribes my blog.
Oh, Foxie, Foxie, Foxie (or is it “Foxy,” perhaps?) … where do I begin …
Better? Well, you have your moments, my friend. Your work is decent, but it would be nice if you actually wrote the thing instead of dictating it.
Having someone else transcribe … that’s poseur blogging. I know you’re better than that. I know you’ve got it in you. If Jack Nasty can write his stuff, so can you. No hiding behind a “Blog Master” over here, my friend; this blog here is all me … right down to the occasional late-night ramblings from the comfort of home.
But in general, I’ll give you a free pass on that one, Foxie. I’ve heard many worse insults tossed my way.
Seriously, I enjoy the blog. It’s a different perspective, one we haven’t seen too often in recent NFL annals.
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Opening Night: Music, Fireworks, Loud Noises … and a GameAh opening night.
A nationally-televised concert, fireworks … and, oh, yeah, there’s some football too. Pretty fair matchup.
I guess we’ve come a long way from when halftime shows meant calling up the university band whose team had a road game within two hours’ drive and asking whether they wanted to come down and perform a halftime tune or two.
Let’s see … they’ve got John Mellencamp, Faith Hill, Kelly Clarkson and Hinder. I know the first two; rather like Mellancamp, actually. Plenty of his stuff in the Morsels’ iPod. Clarkson? Can’t recall a song she’s sung; just know that she’s got a good voice, she’s cute and she probably wants to slap you if you remind her of her performance in From Justin to Kelly, which I think was seen by fewer people than your average rec-league slow-pitch softball game.
Then there’s Hinder. What in God’s name is Hinder?
It’s a band, moron. Here’s the Wikipedia link.
Wrong, it’s a verb. (And as Robert Goulet once said of Tim Duncan’s surname, it’s a “baaaaad verb.”) It can also be an adjective.
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Better Late Than Never …Ahoy-hoy from Dove Valley. Virtually no football contained herein, so if you’re looking for Broncos news, wait for the midday report or keep scrolling for other entries …
Back to work and back to practice after a day off spent moving boxes, hooking up televisions, tossing old clothes into a pile to be given away and grilling two steaks … most importantly, it was a day spent away from the computer, for the most part, which I desperately needed.
And, of course, there was how I spent my Saturday night, watching The Simpsons Movie. I have never been so certain walking into a theater that I would enjoy a movie, and I was not disappointed. Granted, I can see why some people would think the movie is overlong; they’re used to getting Homer and the gang in 22-minute bursts. But if I had the time, I could sit down and watch 35 episodes on end, so a movie that checks in under 90 minutes is nothing at all.
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I Can’t Get Away from Work …This isn’t hard-core Broncos news. It isn’t even a warm and fuzzy Broncos story. It’s pretty much about me. So if you don’t want to read this slice of self-indulgence, that’s fine. Just go to another blog entry; there’s plenty of other tidbits around here.
OK …
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That Photo in the Top RightOkay, allow me to explain.
It’s day two of the draft. I’m functioning on roughly four hours of sleep the night before and approximately 20 for the previous six days. The Broncos have just picked Marcus Thomas; I’ve just completed a hastily-written piece focusing on the mea culpas he offered for his dismissal from the University of Florida during a fairly extensive and cathartic Scouting Combine press conference two months prior.
At this point, photographer Brett Wilhelm — who has constructed an elaborate, studio-style setup from which to shoot stills of the first-day draft picks — asks if I can stand in so he can get an idea of what the photos will look like. Despite being a good 12 inches shorter than the draftees, I agree and proceed to start hamming it up in my punch-drunk, exhausted state.
What resulted is the photo you see in the top right. But you’re not getting the full effect of that picture up in the top right with the crop that was made.
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