Old Men in Sweats! TM
By: Tommy T. & Barry D.
Volume 17
BLACK MONDAY!
• What is it?
• The Monday after the NFL regular season ends.
• It’s when the coaches get fired.
• They started calling it Black Monday a few years ago.
• But that’s going to have to change when you take a look at who’s getting
fired on the Monday after week 17 this season.
• Vance Joseph…BLACK.. and gone. FIRED!
• Steve Wilks Arizona Cardinals… BLACK… and gone. FIRED FOR SURE.
• Todd Bowles… the African American HC for the Jets… GONE! FIRED!
• Marvin Lewis… 16 years HC for Cincinnati…BLACK… and GONE!
• The NFL has to change this.
• It’s a bad look.
• Or more like a bad sounding day.
• People just coming up on the scene might be thinking… “What the
HELL! Does the NFL only fire black HCs? And they call it BLACK
MONDAY?!?!”
• Of course there are going to be other firings this year.
• Dirk Koetter might get the axe after 3 playoff-free seasons in Tampa
Bay.
• Jay Gruden in Washington
• Ron Rivera in Carolina… what if they fire Rivera on Tuesday? What are
they gonna call it? Mexican Tuesday?
• Or if they fire Marrone on Wednesday? What… Italian Wednesday?
• Black Monday doesn’t work for me.
• I don’t like it.
• Too many black HCs get fired because they’re given a shorter leash than
most.
• But that’s a conversation for another time.
• Marvin Lewis was given 16 mostly mediocre seasons…
• But Steven Wilks and Vance Joseph were given 1 and 2 seasons
respectively.
• That’s a travesty if you ask Tommy T
BOWL GAME CANCELLED!
• The First Respnder Bowl in Dallas Texas at the Cotton Bowl was
cancelled with 5 mins left in 1st quarter.
• Severe weather storm came through downtown Dallas.
• Lightning strikes for 3 hours near the Cotton Bowl stadium.
• Get this… 1st bowl cancelled by weather.
• Last cancelled bowl game????
• 1941
• Hawaii’s 2nd postseason game of that season against San Jose St was
cancelled
• BECAUSE OF THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR DEC 7 1941.
• Crazy!!!!1
BOWL SEASON!
• We’re almost through the Toilet Bowl season
• All these awful football games with worse names.
• Today there’s the Cheez-It Bowl at Chase Field in Phoenix AZ.
• Cal vs TCU
• The Cheez-It Bowl! Really? Seriously?
• I grew up with the Orange Bowl… Nebraska or Ok always playing a
Florida school
• Also grew up with the Rose Bowl… Big Ten powerhouse Michigan/Ohio
State always going out to Pasadena and getting slaughtered by the
Pac-10.
• And now I have to live through the Cheez-It Bowl
• Or the Camper World Bowl Friday between Syracuse/WVU
• Or the Belk Bowl Saturday between South Carolina/Virginia
CFP PLAYOFF!
• Finally some real games Saturday night
• The CFP playoff
• Clemson vs Notre Dame at 1PM PST in the Cotton Bowl Classic at
Jerry’s World
• Then Alabama vs Oklahoma in the Capital One Orange Bowl @ 5PM
• In the “what’s in your wallet?” game.
• I can’t wait to watch a college football game where the score actually
counts.
• Because like today in the First Responders Bowl the score counted so
little that…
• THEY CANCELLED THE DAMN GAME.
• Gimme some real games will you College Football?
• The most overrated sport in our country are college sports.
• Who cares what these schools do in bowl games?
• Nobody except the people who are stupid enough to live in
Nebraska, Oklahoma, Ohio, Michigan, Alabama, or Northern
Florida.
PITTSBURGH STEELER ON THE BRINK!
• I was all over the Steelers this year.
• Right from the word go.
• I knew they had a super talented team and wouldn’t do DIDDLY POO
with that talented team.
• And where are the Steelers heading into week 17?
• Praying the Cleveland Browns can go into Baltimore and upset the
Ravens.
• Because that’s the only way the Steelers are getting to the playoffs.
• I called it way back in week 2…
• I told you the Leveon Bell situation was far worse than the Steelers were
making it seem.
• I called out Big Mouth Ben Roethlisberger several times this year for
calling out his teammates or coaches.
• They blew their last game in New Orleans and of course they’re blaming
the game on poor officiating.
• Well Steelers let me give you a quick headline news flash…
• EVERY TEAM IN THE NFL BLAMES THE REFEREES WHEN
THEY LOSE.
• So get in line at Mazzaferro’s Meat Market and grab a number for the deli
line.
• The Steelers talked their way out of the playoffs this season.
• Oh wait.. the Steelers have one more chance to get into the playoffs.
• If Tennessee/Indianapolis tie then the Steelers will nab the last WC.
• Ayyyyy good luck Steelers.
• Big Mouth Ben and his band of crybabies.
HEAD COACHING CAROUSEL IS BEGINNING TO SPIN
• Broncos’ Coach Vance Joseph is gone.
• And guess who John Elway is eyeballing like a big fat turkey leg?
• Mike Shanahan
• Yup his old OC in the late 80s
• And his Super Bowl winning head coach in the late 90s is in the
conversation to return as Broncos’ coach.
• Elway is trying to bring back the old band.
• With him, Shanahan, and his former backup QB as a player and SB
winning coach Gary Kubiak in the front office with Elway.
• Ravens are bringing back John Harbaugh
• Just finishing his 11th season as HC
• SB winning coach Harbaugh will be back for the 2019 season
• And the Ravens say they are working on an extension beyond the ’19
season.
• You know why the Ravens are bringing back Harbaugh?
• Aside from his being an excellent coach
• A no-nonsense coach
• A defense-minded coach
• But the main reason they’re bringing back Harbaugh???
• Because Harbaugh will be employed for all of 10 seconds.
• That’s how long it would take any number of 10-15 teams to scoop up
Harbaugh.
• Broncos in a second
• Cardinals in 2 seconds.
• Jets in 3
• Even the Cowboys would grab Harbaugh in the 10 second timeframe.
• Bucs
• Panthers
• Redskins (stays in the same neighborhood)
• Bengals
• Browns
• Packers
• Jaguars
• And Dolphins
• That’s 12 teams that would realistically re-shape their entire coaching
staff just to have the presence of square-jawed, steaming mad John
Harbaugh take over the reins of their franchise.
• The Ravens have been lucky as sin to have him there for a decade.
-OMIS
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