But I'm glad you brought this up - I've been thinking about this whole Vinatieri thing, and the real problem isn't that he's leaving, but that he's going to be absolutely impossible to replace. SG: I have to admit, I let out an audible, "Noooooooo!" yelp that ranked right up there with seeing Al Davis in HDTV for the first time.
Q: So, let me be the first (or 1800th) person to ask: Where in the hell did Vinatieri signing with the Colts rank on the all-time ESPN "ticker shock" moments? I'm guessing somewhere above "Doc Gooden violates probation" and under "O.J. As always, these are actual e-mails from actual readers. In the meantime, let's break open another mailbag. (By the way, I spent more than an hour figuring this out. I don't know about you, but I'm starting to realize that this BRAD PITT graphic was a once-in-a-lifetime event, not just because of the odds but because of the male-female ramifications in every household. and those two names aren't even remotely in Brad Pitt's class, nor would they have gotten your average female viewer to scream excitedly at the screen. Playing the mix-and-match game, there are two possibilities: Either a Jacksonville-Bucknell game (JACK BUCK) or a Troy-Brown game (TROY BROWN). So I went to 's page that lists every college hoops team and wrote down every possible name that could fit into one of those spots for a graphic: TEX (Texas), RICH (Richmond), PITT (Pittsburgh), BRAD (Bradley), PENN (Penn), BROWN (Brown), BALL (Ball State), CAL (California), JACK (Jacksonville), SAM (Samford), BUCK (Bucknell), KEN (Kentucky), KENT (Kent State), RIDER (Rider) and BROWN (Brown). Well, I racked my brain trying to come up with one match-up so Dan didn't have to lose the 30 bucks. Can you come up with any? I don't feel like losing $30." I bet each of my buddies $5 that I could think of another one besides BRAD PITT. "This made me wonder if there were any other match-ups in any sport where the abbreviation would be a celebrity's name. But the BRAD PITT saga led to an intriguing question from Dan in Villanova: Was this some sort of sociological experiment by CBS? Were they trying to increase the number of domestic violence incidents during that first weekend? Nobody knows. I giggled and continued to point him out every 10 minutes until the games ended." After a while I let her know it was just the score in the upper left corner: BRAD 74, PITT 66. My favorite e-mail came from David Rushall in Denver, who noticed the graphic before his wife and reported afterward, "I kept telling my wife 'Look, there's Brad Pitt!' She could not believe I could pick him out of the crowd during live play, so she continued to scan the crowd. She says in the most excited voice I have heard from her during televised sports and tells me that the box score says "Brad Pitt." Only a woman would notice that.Īnd so on. In the spirit of your Sports Gal/Sports Mom NCAA Tournament brackets, my wife had the following comment during the Bradley/Pitt game. the screen says Brad Pitt!" Yet another reason to ban all women during tournament time. Wife walked in while I was watching Bradley-Pitt in the second round, looked at the score in the bottom right of the corner, and said, "Wow. I guess the tourney really has something for everyone. While watching the Pittsburgh-Bradley game for 2 hours, my wife sits down on the couch and within 3 minutes asked why it says "Brad Pitt" on the screen. At least 50 male readers e-mailed me just to say that their wives or girlfriends noticed the exact same thing. We’ve got to win one game and then we’ll see what happens.Was Brad Pitt paying attention to the BRAD PITT game?ĭon't worry, Vicki - you weren't alone. Hopefully we get a good feeling in our room and start to rebuild ourselves. “Having to sit in a hotel room all day tomorrow and stew on that one, you would have a lot of guys burning inside. “I think it’s great for us right now, to be honest with you,” Wheeler said.
The Jets hope coming back to play Game 4 right away will work to their advantage.
It’s going to be an incredibly difficult task, but not impossible. So the Jets will try to stave off elimination Monday against a team that hasn’t trailed in the last six games, going back to its comeback win over the Toronto Maple Leafs in Round 1. And we’ve got to get the inside of the bar, not the out.” “So there’s shots that are being taken that are the right ones to take. “We hit a couple of crossbars,” Maurice said. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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