HOME TOWN CONFIDENTIAL: Tyler Hansbrough and I both have one – a bona fide Home Town. Such an identity can be “risky business”. Local boy making Good = GOOD. Local Boy getting hit with 51 federal indictments = Not So Good.
EUREKA! I found the Missing Link! …… Every legal, and otherwise, soul across the fruited plain is convinced that our partisan differences have ZERO tangential points. I, BobLee, have found one! The one commonality between “people like me” and those who don’t like “people like me” …… Guess what it is? (NOT a partisan political rant!)
….. Country music fans lament “Hank Williams you wrote my life”. For athletes it was Clair Bee who wrote the scripts. In Bee’s classic “Chip Hilton” novels Chip, like Frank Merriwell, and his buddies ALWAYS won the big game in incredible nail-biting fashion for Coach Hank “The Rock” Rockwell. Clair Bee was NOT in Pasadena Thursday night.
.. I saw a movie once about “the elephant graveyard” in Africa. Some secret sacred place where old elephants went to die. In 2008 it was called Congress, but I digress. Is there such a place for old quarterbacks? ….. the eagerly anticipated YA Tittle column! …… AND The Curse of Francis Scott Key!
. It’s one-armed paperhanging time here at BobLee Media Central. Lord have mercy, I can’t keep up with the lunacy. I haven’t given Harry Reid his due and now there’s Lane Kiffin, Skip and even John Edwards (yawn!) stacked up like the 5PM arrivals at O’Hare. What’s a smart ass to do with so much rich material? ….. and BobLee has A NEW HERO!
…. I received an e-mail picture today from a good buddy showing Obama committing a serious diplomatic faux pas …. Or was it? My friend’s final comment was “if it’s real”. Reminding me to remind you it’s 2010 and you can no longer trust “your lyin’ eyes”. ….. Every kid has pretend dreams of being “a sports hero”. Ben Hartman had them too. ….. and a plethora of other stuff.
Rush Is A-OK …. He was released from the Hawaiian hospital at 4:15 PM Friday. Should be back at the Golden EIB Microphone on Wednesday ready to resume kickin’ butt & takin’ names. No heart damage at all. ….. and Mike Leach stuff too.
…… Urban Meyer has few fans here. Most of you dislike him because (1) he is not with your team of choice and (2) he wins A LOT. Regardless, Urban is a classic victim in The Era of Instant Information. And BobLee reveals his LLM Theory to help TSA be AOK ASAP.
….. It’s that time of year when over-caffeinated fans explode over football coaching moves. Every “sleeping giant” (burp) deserves Urban Meyer or at least Bill Bellichek “because”. Every AD MUST pay “whatever it takes” to snare the current guru de jour. Agents finagle with Headhunters as prima donna coaches “lie to dem boys” ….. and BobLee’s obligatory Tiger update.
You know goofy Uncle Max taking out his glass eye and setting it on the counter? You know silly Aunt Rose doing her version of Meg Ryan’s Harry Met Sally at every family get together? Are your eccentric relatives in the Basketball Hall of Fame? Ol’ Roy2Rings is …..
….. Over the past six months your humble Internet Legend has “gone yard” on “I told you so’s” at a pace that even Josh Hamilton would envy. Do I have more Deep Throats among my contacts than Tiger does in his speed dial? Do I use a magic eight ball? How do I do it.. And a bunch more stuff ….. And a God-lovin’ Baby Jesus Birthday reminder of the season.
…… You know your goofy Uncle Max that insists on taking out his glass eye and setting it on the kitchen counter? You know silly Aunt Rose that does her version of Meg Ryan’s orgasm from When Harry Met Sally at every family get together? Are your eccentric relatives in the Basketball Hall of Fame? Ol’ Roy2Rings is …..
…… Get me Lou Gehrig’s sound system. I, BobLee, “am the the luck luck iest man man on the the face of the earth”. Reverberations aside, my Christmas came early thanks to Tiger and Roy. Imaging writing “people do really dumb stuff” columns and have these two Naughty Nike Guys fall in your lap. I mean REALLY. ….. and like an artichoke, the more you peel this stuff the foolishier it all gets. …… (We’ll do a video later)
What do you and I, the fetching Ms Decker and “Captain” Jack Sparrow all have in common? Each of us has some sort of opinion about Tiger Woods. What’s curious is not my opinion or yours, but that we ALL have one. It’s 2010. How broad is your G.A.D. Zone?
Every parent does it. Gaze at a new born. Will he/she be a doctor, lawyer, butcher, baker, Biggest Loser winner, quarterback, nickel back? Does ANY parent wish their child to be “an Intellectual”.? Would even an “intellectual” wish such fate on an infant.