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March 4, 2016Happiest of Fridays to you all. I’m psyched for the weekend and I’m leading off with Cleveland Browns quarterback talk, so you know it’s off on the right foot.
On Peyton Manning and the Cleveland Browns…
Once upon a time we thought Peyton Manning might join the Cleveland Browns… as an executive. Now, thanks to the fact that he doesn’t appear to want to retire and Denver will almost assuredly move on from the elderly Super Bowl winner, it must be discussed, apparently. So it goes for a team that hasn’t had a consistent quarterback since Bernie Kosar and enough salary cap space to sign a second team if they were granted the roster spots.1 I’m not going to do it though. I refuse, you know, other than this little post right here saying I’m not going to talk about it. Why? There’s no point.
Should the Browns sign Peyton Manning? No. Will the Browns sign Peyton Manning? Maybe. Will we talk ourselves into it if they do? Absolutely. Will we root for him if the Browns sign him? Yes, until we start calling for his backup, even including one-game starter Connor Shaw, potentially.
If nothing else, we’re a predictable bunch. We also have no control over the situation. So, rather than spending a whole lot of time talking about it, I’ll just hang back here and wait to see what actually happens.
(I’m still hoping for RG3.)
UFC 196 has me pretty amped up for the weekend…
Part of the expansion of the UFC has been a watering down of the events. I am a fan, and I don’t want to be harsh, but it’s just kind of the nature of things. We’ve seen it with Marvel movies too. What was once special is now so commonplace that it necessarily loses its status of being rare. Even with that state of things, UFC 196 is one that I’ll be ordering and watching for sure because of Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz.
I’m too old at this point to really buy into Conor McGregor or any other fighter. I was once really bought into Chuck Liddell and other fighters that came after him, but unless it’s hometown fighters Stipe Miocic or Jessica Eye, I don’t find myself invested the same way I used to be. That said, there’s something about McGregor and his constant trash talking and then backing it up that has me intrigued this weekend against Nate Diaz.
Nate Diaz is a late replacement for Rafael dos Anjos who broke his foot in training, and that alone should have taken the luster off the fight, but it hasn’t. Nate Diaz is a crazy person and a pretty brilliant fighter in his own right. The 30-year-old isn’t necessarily at the top of his game anymore, only having won two of his last five fights, but he’s still very dangerous (with those two wins coming over Michael Johnson and Gray Maynard). The only fighter he lost to in the last three? Rafael dos Anjos. Did I mention that Nate Diaz is a little crazy, too?
Nate Diaz called out Conor McGregor in December on Fox with a profanity-laced tirade on national television.
And I don’t think this is all about talk. These guys are both talented fighters who have the potential to give us one of the most entertaining fights we’ve seen in years. These are some of the feelings I used to have with other UFC events before they became so common. And I didn’t even mention Holly Holm defending her title for the first time since winning it over Ronda Rousey. I feel like I’m selling it now, but I’m just so excited for it.
Your weekly moment of soccer zen…
I was cruising soccer Reddit and ended up just being mesmerized by this clip of all the goals scored in one day. It’s a goal scoring superclip.
If we said things like this, we might say the Foo Fighters won the Internet…
It’s a good thing we don’t say things like that though. The Foo Fighters might be your least favorite band on earth, but they’ve probably done enough to earn your respect. Now they’ve done it again. Amidst rumors that they’re breaking up, they announced that they want to give the world a break from themselves, but they did it in truly amazingly entertaining fashion. If you haven’t seen it, wait for the end of this video for the surprise ending joke. So great.
- I’m exaggerating, but you know that… [↩]
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if anyone has 7 minutes to watch that and let me know what happened, thatd be great. I owe I owe so off to work… aw crap Im already here
hmmm … i wouldn’t be against manning playing QB here for one year … he still has it “upstairs” & his arm is not what it used to be , but if mack & schwartz leave, any QB playing behind our O-line is going to take a beating … i don’t think he would hold-up for a whole season in cleveland.
i don’t think he’d settle for being a back-up , he’d probably want to go to a contender & he probably needs to play somewhere where it’s warm or they play in a dome … but who would be willing to take him on ? i am also curious as to what kind of salary he would “settle” for just to be a starter somewhere ?
my guess is the houston texans …
overdosed on soccer zen … good stuff.
I’d be surprised if anyone signs Manning as a QB this year.
“The Foo Fighters might be your least favorite band on earth”
I feel like this is confession time.
I just discovered the Foo Fighters. Yes, I know this is insane, but you have to understand that the ’90s did not really exist musically for me. Those were a bunch of years transitioning from one Army base to the next, living in the south amongst the country scene (which I actually enjoyed), and a bunch of other unexplainable things like just not caring about popular ’90s stuff (much like I don’t care about popular things today).
I like the Foo Fighters.
I am not ashamed of this.
no need for shame. They’re one of the last real “rock” bands, and like Craig says, like them or not, they’re worthy of respect. Dave Grohl’s career is pretty amazing if you think about it. Also, I bet they’d be a whole bunch of fun to party with
http://img.pandawhale.com/87496-dwight-schrute-thank-you-gif-T-WuUy.gif
Seriously. Nirvana to Foo. Drummer, Guitarist, and lead. Great range of talent. Dave Grohl is just awesome, and he’s an old man dad rocker now and so his level of DGAF keeps going up, which is great.
Dave Grohl is pursing a solo career… just him and his prerecorded keyboard beats.
After considering Prince and Phil Collins, Foo Fighters replace Dave Grohl with Nick Lachey
Woman I work with and her husband were in NOLA last year or whenever and just happened to be in a bar Grohl was in. I guess there was a rock festival going on there. He was very willing to discuss rock etc. and they talked for a couple hours.
This, and the other projects he’s done, put him way up there for me. I love guitar rock. He obviously does too.
Haven’t checked them out but will. I started watching Grohl’s Sonic Highways series (on HBO I believe), and it was pretty interesting if you’re into music history a bit. I didn’t get through much of it…kids and time and all.
Great post Craig!
Many of the plays in that European football vid are what makes you appreciate how talented those guys are.
Peyton? LOL.
Dave Grohl is awesome. Foo Fighters not bad at all.
Haha apparently some of us don’t even need to follow Craig’s formula above and jump straight to “believing”.
Saw parts. Really liked Foo Fighters/Zac Brown cover of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs. Such a tight sound. It’s on Youtube.
anyone is better than Phil “The sleeping pill” Collins
John Paul Jones play bass, so hell yes I do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8oL-XCH43I
great Friday music
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