Random Thoughts: This May Be The Elderly Hillbilly's Year After All
Random thoughts while wondering whatever happened to Paul Assenmacher:
No matter if you are a Bear fan, a Lion fan or a fan of whomever, you have to appreciate the effort last night by the Elderly Hillbilly. After Denver tied it in the final seconds forcing overtime, the Fudge Packers won the toss and promptly untied it from the first play from scrimmage. At 38, this guy may be playing the best football of his career considering his supporting cast is far less than it was back when he was going to the Super Bowl and taking massive quantities of beer and Vicodin. No question, this is one player that makes a team better. And no, kids, I have not will not now or ever drink the Fudge Packer kool-aid (although it's being force fed to me by the gallon up here.) Looking at how the NFC is so bad this year, it is plausible that the Fudge Packers could work their way into a scenario where they go back to the big bowl game, only to have history repeat itself as no one is going to beat New England. Except maybe Indy.- Bears coach Lovie Smith says forget about the first half. We have Lovie. In fact, we've forgotten about the playoffs.
- In a curious move, Milwaukee Brewers manager Ned Yost has hired former Brewer Ted Simmons as bench coach. In the past three years, Yost has had Robin Yount, Dale Sveum (who has returned to third following the firing of Nick Leyva) and now Simmons. Never mind that Simmons has more executive experience then he does on the field experience. You'd think Yost, who literally must make the playoffs to keep his job, would pick somebody with serious managerial experience or bench coach experience (Don Mattingly.) But no, he keeps picking his buddies and former teammates. Sounds to me like Ned might not even last the season.
- Speaking of the Brewers, someone else will put their uniform on Jeff Jenkins next season. He's a great role player, but he's not going to help you win a championship as a starter. Still, Kenny Williams, it might be worth checking under the hood if he wants to play for incentives. I mean, the Tigers are already tuning up.
- J oe Girardi, welcome to hell. Meanwhile, Joe Torre may be turning blue. Wonder what LaSorda thinks of that?
- Demarco Hall will put his money where his mouth was... to the tune of $50k. That's a big mouth.
- Dale Earnhardt Junior begins to prepare himself for a team whose engines don't blow up every week.
- Some outstanding humor from our friends at Kissing Suzy Kolber.
- NASCAR admits that water got into it's gas causing at least one wreck and probably determining the outcome of the Atlanta race. I hate water in my gas.
- The Prime Minister of France must have studied NFL coaches press conferences as a way to communicate effectively with Americans. I'm surprised he didn't finish his tirade with "The Iranians are who we thought they were. Crown their asses!."
- The top two Halloween costumes this year are Hilary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani. Hillary is no surprise. Witches have been a popular part of Halloween forever.
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