I noted several years ago that the degrees of separation between me and ACC Basketball were increasing exponentially. That has increased to leaps and bounds. I’m sure It and I will both survive.
It’s Sunday and ESPN is running a Butch Davis Marathon. There’s Butch – The Miami Years on 30/30 simultaneous with Butch – the UNC Scapegoat on OTL TWICE. Is there a Butch – The Cleveland Years somewhere?
I did not attend any of the numerous Watch Parties held for Butch Does ESPN’s Outside The Lines Show. ESPN had two employees – “The Butcher of Kenan” and “The Right Reverend Mack Brown” being queried by some guy from OTL.
If I had a nickel for every time, over the past several years, I’ve been asked “So BobLee, what’s eventually going to happen at Carolina?” Boy, would I have an awful lot of nickels. If I got a quarter I would be in Ken Wainstein’s tax bracket.
Yesterday saw the Dawn of a new American Tradition…. “Where were you when The First Final Football Four were announced?” Will this latest made-for-TV spectacular go the way of other eagerly anticipated BFDs?
Unless you’ve been off-line and outta this world the past few weeks, you have been Ferguson-ized. Here at BLSays we measure the saturation of any news event or pop culture blip thru the simple Does Albert Know Factor.
It’s a brand new week so lets deal with brand new piles o’ crap. Lately Piles O’ Crap re: UNC are “like gloves” – they come in pairs. So far this week (its just Monday) we have ONE involving UNC’s stumblebum administrators and ONE involving Larry’s Bad Boyz.
One of The Great Questions has now been answered. Q: How much did UNCCH pay TeamKen? A: $3,100,000. That leaves still unanswered: (1) What Will Happen To Roy?…. (2) What is a Chicken Nugget?…. and (3) Why did Julia Roberts marry Lyle Lovett?
I’m a pretty good judge of the Plum Foolishness Factor of UNC’s Glorious Mess. I thought last week’s Trifecta of Dumb (Tydreke), Dumber (Matt&Bryn), Dumbest (Dartmouth) would carry us all through Thanksgiving….. but Noo.
“BobLee’s 60-Second Sound-Off” is a new segment on this season’s Good Sports’ pre-game show. I offer up an incredibly insightful “can he say THAT on the radio?” rant about something hopefully related somehow to UNC Football.
The Great Unpleasantness has become unpleasantier. It wasn’t “all over” with those unpaid parking tickets way way way back when…. or with The Martin Report…. or with Ken’s Report. There are children entering pre-school who were unborn when Marvin hit SEND. Those children are now old enough to ask: “Mom, what kind of name is Tydreke?”
AND NOW…. To paraphrase Bogey’s Rick Blaine: “Of all the gin joints (colleges) in all the towns in the world….. a cheating scandal has erupted involving a Sports Ethics class – specifically designed for athletes at a “harming little elite Ivy League institution in Hanover, New Hampshire. BobLee, you don’t mean DARTMOUTH? Yep….
Of course this Dartmouth incident has nothing to do with a certain charming little Chancellor in South Bldg. But who can blame those bloodthirsty ABCers for ROTFLTAO? ….. C’mon Man!
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It was a classic scene in a classic movie. “Sheriff Brody” was chumming off the back of The Orca when Bruce The Shark popped up with massive jaws agape. “…. (we) gonna need a bigger boat.” Brody proffered to Quint and Hooper.
I suppose every municipality has a bunch of’em. States like Texas, Louisiana, Maine and California grow’em by the bushel. A “Mayberry” usually only has one or two at most. That makes’em special. Ours was “Butch”. Mayberry’s was Ernest T. Bass.
I recently listened to a book – A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving. Irving’s signature opus was The World According To Garp. That phrase bounced around inside my head as I seized the Good Sports’ mic last Saturday for 60-Second Sound-Off….. Dick Crum said:
UNCCH’s Great Unpleasantness has left Earth’s gravitation for a larger galactic stage. Meanwhile a faction of Tru-Blues are behaving much like Madeliene Albright. NOT a good thing…..