Login HereFrightning Lightning Bolts at Pats - The Bolts are busted up. Tomlinson has a hyperextended knee. Rivers also has a bum knee and Antonio Gates can hardly walk, but will undoubtedly play fine just like last week, with his famous toe. None of these three have practiced this week, but all are expected to play. Shawne "Gastineau" Merriman is a little under the weather, but has practiced and should be ready. For the Pats, Donte Stallworth and guard Steve Neal have minor pains, but have practiced and are good to go. Now if I am Bill Belichick, I am telling the whole team how the female complainant against Randy Moss is on the Charger's payroll, and a statement has to be made for their oppressed teammate by steamrolling the Bolts and running up the score. The weather forecast is for bitter cold and wind. Not exactly favorable conditions for the beach boys. The Bolts have been playing inspired and excellent football for weeks now, and Norval Turner is off the snide and has actually won a playoff game. Congratulations on the fine season randiego; however, I fear it has come to an end. The Pats win this one easy.
NY Football Giants at The Green Bay Favres - What do you say about this game? It has everything you could ask for as a fan, and more. Young Eli Manning is actually playing like the reliable bulletproof Ecodrive watch he hawks. The Gents running game is strong and deep and the defense tough. Well, except for the secondary that is; where Kevin Dockery, Sam Madison and Aaron Ross are all pretty nicked up, but are available. Good thing they won't be facing a proven quarterback or anything. For the Pack, everybody is practicing and ready to go, although Woodson, Bubba Franks and Nick Barnett are still nursing minor bumps and bruises; but nothing alarming. The frozen tundra, the freezing cold air, the championship banners, Titletown, Lombardi, Starr, Nitschke, cheeseheads and Curly Lambeau. It is all there, and all as it should be. Really, can you picture a better setting and storyline? I can't. Neither can Phred. Both teams have sound running games and strong offensive lines. Both have hot quarterbacks pulling the trigger. The difference is the defensive secondaries, and there the Packers have what looks to be a commanding edge. The Giants deserve to be in this game and are to be commended for getting into it. I am more worried about them than I ought to be; but, as long as Favre doesn't press, the Packers are going to be arriving in Phoenix soon. The kids will keep Brett loose and ready to rock and roll. Ah, the power of cheese!
As there are only two games, if you wish to make a play on the much coveted "Emptywheel Shiny Hubcap Award", you are going to have to predict the points in addition to the winners. Get some antifreeze in you, its cold out there! What do you have to say for yourselves?
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Go PATS. zed. too.
Patriots of course. And in honor of a previous cold weather AFC Championship game involving the Chargers, the final is 27 - 7.
Packers over Jints 21 - 10.
GO PACKERS!!! Is it Sunday yet, huh, is it yet, huh, now maybe, oh
cheesegeez, I can’t wait!bmaz,
Excellent overview of all four teams. Your point about the Superbowl anti climantics sadly is becoming the norm. I’ll be submitting my predictions soon.
30 days ’til Daytona!
Time to leave. I just hate American Football!!!!
To be fair I’m not that keen on soccer either.
It’s forecast to be teens here, with zero windchill, which means it’s likely to be a lot colder in Lambeau (yup: highs of 5 degrees!). The last time we saw Bad Eli–in fact, almost every time we saw Bad Eli this season–Eli seemed as flummoxed by the weather as the other team’s D. So I’m predicting we see some Bad Eli this weekend with Charles Woodson and my new favorite Packer (watchout, phred, I think there’s a spot for him on the Pats), Atari Bigbee, will each get a turnover.
Packers 27, Giants 17
As for the Pats, yes, the Bolts do seem undermanned, and with LT ouchie, the Bolts are no better prepared to deal with crappy weather than the fair weather PAts this year (though it’s forecast to be a comparatively balmy 20 degrees). Well, probably less prepared.
This game pits last year’s presumptive AFC champs against this year’s presumptive AFC champs (the pundits were noting that the AFC seems to have had a one-year delay for its presumptive champs to win the conference). And Shawn Merriman–he will sack Brady once or thrice, which is a key ingredient to any hope of beating the Pats.
Oh, and have I meantioned that if the Pats lose it’ll be Rodney Roids, fault, if not for missing plays (though he’ll miss one or two of those, just to piss me off), then for getting STOOPID penalties for hitting someone after the whistle. Boy, I can’t wait until we pick up Bigbee in the off season.
That said, the Pats have enough weapons, the Bolts are so ouchie, I gotta go with the Pats. (What’s that? You think I was going with the Pats anyway? Um, well, at least I can rationalize that decision).
Pats 27, Bolts 14
Is anyone putting money on the bolts? A linky to the las vegas site would be fun. I am sneaking a peek and can’t look it up myself.
Phred, there is a fellow who has sued Lambeau field. Do not, however, be too afraid. He has also sued Michael Vick and:
George Bush, Malcolm X, Vanna White, Jimmy Hoffa, Google.com, Pope Benedict XVI, Adolph Hitler’s National Socialist Party, the Ming Dynasty, the Statue of Liberty, Michaelangelo, the Hubble Telescope, the Magna Carta, Plato, the Tenth Edition of the Merriam Webster Dictionary, Tsunami victims, the Appalachian Trial, Meals on Wheels, and Tony Danza.
From jail,that is. Time on his hands, I guess.
http://www.ajc.com/falcons/con....._0817.html
Thanks for sharing …don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.
What? This IS a trash talk thread, isn’t it?
I’m going to leak my two predictions slowly over the next 24 hours… No wishes this week, just predictions. I learned my lesson.
Damnit don’t do that again! It makes it hard to find…
So David is going into battle with toes he can’t turn on, knees that will eventually be replaced, his right arm tied behind his back and, oh wait… that’s how he beat the reigning champ Colts from Indianapolis. And now the 32 million fans that watched last weeks heroics scorn at the left coast’s little mutant’s chance against Goliath, the establishment’s darling from the east, who’s biggest handicap might be its hair out of place from the wind at its back. Scoot over randiego, let them laugh a-loud, I’m with you on this one.
The NFC game should be a good one. I’m still rooting for the ol’ man. If it just get a little colder..
Yep, cold weather. Yep, Chargers banged up. Blowout coming, right?
LT banged up? Hello Michael Turner and your 5.5 YPC avg. Gates banged up? hello Manamaleuna and Legedu Naanee. Rivers banged up? Hello Billy Volek - do you believe in miracles?
The Chargers have nothing to lose, the Patriots have everything to lose. Advantage, SD.
Just because the Chargers play and practice in warm weather doesn’t mean they are sissies. Half their players played college in cold weather locations. The big deal about the weather is the wind, not the cold. Wind affects passing teams. Advantage, SD.
Bmaz, it’s Frightning Lightning, thankyouverymuch.
Have you guys ever heard the Chargers fight song? It’s pretty catchy, you can catch it here:
http://www.chargers.com/fan_zo.....r-song.htm
One more thing. Will the refs give the Bolts a fighting chance in this game? You watch the flags, and you tell me.
Long winded rant coming up in 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1
Btw, there’s an NFL.com video of Belichick talking about how much he hates that “super Chargers” song. It could be your secret weapon. Just find a way to hack the Foxboro audio system so it plays over and over and over. You’ll drive Bill Bell nuts, he’ll have to leave the stadium, and the Pats lose their best weapon.
Though it might just make Seau play like a 24 year old, only with wisdom…
Sorry for the long post, but this stuff has been grinding on me all week.
The National media has really lost their perspective on sundays’ Patriots/Chargers game. I’ve heard over and over that the better team lost last weekend, and that Indianapolis was the one team that could challenge the Patriots, why are the Chargers even bothering to show up…. yadda yadda yadda.
By definition, the better team is the one that wins, right? It’s like they didn’t even watch the game.
I’m not saying the Patriots are favored by 2 touchdowns for no reason. They are a dominant franchise, won 3 of 5 super bowls, very well coached, and Tom Brady will go down as the greatest of all time. Watching him put on a clinic last saturday was simply amazing - when he has time, he finds the open guy and you are dead. And they are playing at home.
It’s silly to pick against them, right? But - The Patriots are unbeaten - not unbeatable - and there’s a difference. It’s why they play the games.
OTOH - What have the Chargers done? Not much. They are 2-2 in playoff games over the last 13 years. But, the Chargers are a dangerous team, and while it’s unexpected that they are in the AFC Championship game, it shouldn’t surprise anyone they are capable of it. The Chargers record is 25-7 over the last two years; the Chargers have sent 30 players to the Pro Bowl the last 3 seasons (punter Mike Scifres hasn’t made it yet). All that’s been missing is some adversity to mature them, and the 1-3 start appears to have done that. They aren’t healthy, but everyone saw the depth on their roster last week.
I was curious about the matchup, so I sat down and ran some numbers for you guys over the last 10 games:
Last 10 games:
W/L record:
Pats: 10-0 Bolts: 9-1
record of opposing teams:
Pats: 78-82; .486 Bolts: 84-76; .526
avg margin of victory (or loss):
Pats: 16.7 Bolts: 11.8 (with a 7-point loss in there to Jax, week 11)
avg points scored:
Pats: 34.1 Bolts: 26.8
avg points allowed:
Pats: 17.4 Bolts: 15.0
On paper, those numbers hardly look like a blowout of epic proportions the media would have you believe. The defenses are the key to this game. Late in the season, the Eagles/Ravens/Jags/Giants showed the Patriots defense can be had. Where’s the coverage of that?
National Media Rant, Part II:
ESPN - man there’s something in the water over there. Lots of Rivers bashing this week.
In the last couple of days I have heard Bob Golic compare Philip Rivers career against ELI MANNING - with ELI coming out as the better player! Are you kidding me - Rivers passer rating is like 15 points better over the two years Rivers has been the starter, not to mention his W/L record. Then, Merrill Hoge compared Rivers to RYAN FUCKING LEAF! He’s also been lumped in with TERRELL OWENS. What’s next guys, Rivers compared to PACMAN JONES?
Let’s all meet Philip Rivers, shall we?
Rivers is 26. He married his middle-school sweetheart, has 3 kids with another on the way, his dad was his high school coach and the guy is a model citizen. He is Mr. Middle America. He started all 4 years at NC State.
There’s no unwed mothers or supermodel ex-gf’s in there, no run-ins with law enforcement, no strip bars, or league sanctions, no bashing teammates or coaches, no berating reporters - nada. The coverage of him jawing at fans in Indy is regrettable - what do you expect when the ‘great fans’ in Indy are cheering when a guy gets hurt? He is young, he is a bit immature, he’s a hyper chatterbox, and Charger fans cringe when he gets the media attention for being mouthy. But you show me a QB that’s not confident, and I’ll show you a QB that sucks. I like him being confident and thriving on the adversity. Yes, it would be nice if he just shut up and played, but give me a break. Those two TD throws last week (Chambers and Jackson) proved he has it when it counts.
Hey I’m their biggest critic - Bmaz might remember I said it here in a football thread like 6 or 8 weeks ago – I doubted the Chargers would win even one playoff game. Since then they have found themselves. They are confident but not over-confident, and they are really finishing games.
I said it last week - The Chargers CAN WIN.
PS - Packers over Giants.
Gino Cappaletti sayeth that the Pats have the mo, and the 4th quarter buzz.
I’m predicting
Pats 26 Bolts 20 (in overtime)
Packers 23 Giants 14
The thriller in phoenilla:
Pats 35 Packers 33
Did ya know that Wes Welker was cut by the Bolts?
You mean San Diego has found their voice?
Man with that rant (all of it stuff I agree with), I’d say so.
I just hope NH’s voters don’t spark a surprise win for them…
Chargers fans have, that’s for sure! Can you guys tell I’m a little worked up about this?
But my Christmas with my brothers and dad has been postponed again because the Chargers keep winning. How long can this go on?
EW, the bar I watch Charger games at (the one with the LT shrine) plays the song over the PA every time the Bolts score. I haven’t been able to get it out of my head all week.
Here’s an amusing article about the LT Shrine.
http://sports.uniontrib.com/sp.....hrine.html
Hi Loo Hoo - next weekend is open
I won’t… I was just trash-talking.
I was thinking about the vivid dream you had about Gore offering you a job. You do realize that with your prolific and masterful critical reading and thinking skills, you’d be a tremendous analayst, advisor, policy wonk or consultant for anyone in a leadership position… and that ain’t no trash talk. Do you think you might want to do something like that? Just sayin… you’re the best. And you know, you don’t have to take my word for it.
Another aside, the Jeffs (14-0) play the Jumbos (12-0) tonight in women’s basketball. We, the A Assoc. of Boston, will be there cheering on the Jeffs. There’s a great pizza place around the corner called Boccelli’s. Try the ricotta and spinich.
Easy for you to say. Crikey, can’t they change their names to Smith and Jones? Me thinks you have been working on this a while! EW, if Norval Turner is half as prepared as randiego, the Pats might be in trouble. Fear the Volek vortex!
great thread bmaz.
I just went to get the mail; it’s 13 here in South Dakota with a -9 wind chill. The sun’s out and I almost seized up entirely. So I’m worried about Brett. It’ll be 10 degrees colder there at least and dark. Brrrr. Remember what happened in Chicago? he stopped workin’. For Phred’s sake I hope it doesn’t happen again.
Wow, talk about a charter member of Wingnuts ‘R Us. I would love to know how exactly one goes about suing a piece of paper (Magna Carta) and a building (Lambeau).
bmaz, thanks for adding that wonderful video of the 3rd graders : )
I hope BSL reposts Our Favre over on this thread, it was great…
Having a Pats-Packers SuperBowl in Phoenix seems so utterly wrong. Move the damn thing to Heinz Field.
I have a gig to attendon Sunday evening, which means I’ll miss the back end of the NFC championship, but I honestly can’t see it being decided late. The AFC is another matter, but the Pats have shown their ability to pick out a way to win, no matter what the opposition.
Of course, the Pats and Packers have to get there first. For SD, it’d be practically a home game. And the Giants could invite Good Eli.
What are you worked up about something? I must have missed it… ; )
Aw, let randiego jaw it up a bit. EW says it will be his last chance….
Boy that’s for sure. If they have another game like the one in Soldier Field, I’m liable to have a seizure. Still, they blew a game against Chicago earlier in the season, so I don’t think it was just the cold. As BooRadley (I think it was him) pointed out, Lovey Smith was on a mission to beat the Pack. He succeeded by beating them twice. Unfortunately that fixation didn’t pay off with 14 other games in the season ; )
13 degrees in SD, huh? What would you call that — brisk or bracing? ; )
Oh yeah,
Bolts 34, Pats 31
Packers 27, Giants 17
I call that freaking insane.
Oh yeah, worked on it since I saw that tool Hoge busting out Ryan F’ing Leaf.
btw, very nice writing to open up the thread, and I also enjoyed Evolute’s take @ 11.
Fill ‘um with facts, the creeping nightmare is working. Even the establishment is feeling the dread of a monumental upset.
I’m a Patriot fan, and I do not endorse this supplication
Let us pray?
Our Favre,
Who art in Lambeau,
Hallowed be thine arm.
The bowl will come,
It will be won.
In Phoenix as it is in Lambeau
And give us this Sunday,
Our weekly win.
And give us many touchdown passes.
But do not let others pass against us.
Lead us not into frustration,
But deliver us to the valley of the sun.
For thine is the MVP, the best of the NFC,
and the glory of the Cheese heads,
now and forever.
AMEN
Neil, excellent take on EW - it goes without saying really, but glad someone said it anyway.
Who are the Jeffs and Jumbos?
PS - my gf spent 6 years in Somerville (Boston). We have Pats-fans friends all over the place, including SD. Talk about awkward!
Both winners will have Western Illinois Leatherneck ties:
Rodney Harrison with 1 pick and 1 sack…Pats 34 SoCalScum 17
Ghost of Bag ‘o’ Donuts (Frank Winters) former roommate/amigo of Favre w/2TDs and QB rating above 90…Pack 24 G-Men 13
It’s wicked pissa in Somerville…
Originally from Salem, MA
Thanks! Cheer for the Pats to your heart’s content… Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some prayin’ to do ; )
Now that a prayer if I ever heard one :-)!!
Well, I believe that Green Bay defense will be the key and the Packers will defeat the Giants 27-17.
On the AFC side, it is just hard not to pick the Pats . . . especially at home in the cold! However, San Diego’s defense has greatly improved during the year and since they come in with nothing, and I mean, nothing to lose, they will be more relaxed and cause the Pats’ stadium to watch the most unlikely moment when Norv Turner figures out a way to defeat NE at home in the cold!
Score San Diego 37 - Pats 31 (with at least two San Diego defensive TDs during the game!
sorry… I was gone thawing out my toes. 13 degrees used to be no big deal then I got old. er.
But thanks for reminding me it was mostly a Chicago thing. Not the frozen football. I gotta get my cheesehead straight before gameday.
pats 24 bolts 17 (the pats defense has really woken up once they get out of the first quarter anyways. It’s going to very windy so that will inhibit the long balls to RM.)
gb 31, giants 24.
Rivers listed as doubtful for Sunday.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/.....vers3.html
Pinche - SoCal Scum? Now THAT’S trash talking!
Rivers is so awesome that he doesn’t even have to play to beat the Pats; he can belligerently jaw them to to death!
It’s Rodney Roid. He always slacks off until I get done with visiting egregious or off the radio. And then so long as I’m there abusing him, he remembers that in his youth he was a mean player.
I’ll be glad when we get Atari though.
Can I just say that Atari is a great name?
You keep away from Bigbie… He’s a Game Boy… no that can’t be it, that was Nintendo…
Hey! I warned you to keep your mitts off of Bigby! As he does not appear to be a roid juicer, he isn’t even qualified to play for the Pats…..
Oops. That was in response to EW @45.
Did anyone read that article? Partial-torn ACL, to go along with the sprained MCL. Yikes!
I now believe that Billy Volek will be the starter on Sunday.
I hope everyone has noticed that I haven’t been boasting or predicting a Charger win - I won’t give points or anything like that. My goal has been to point out that this game is a lot closer than folks realize and do my bit to boost the PR effort for my beloved Bolts.
As you can tell, I am pretty annoyed that the reporting and analysis hasn’t been very good (a common complaint around here eh?) and that the establishment seems very ready for The Coronation before the game has been played.
I’m a boy with a Dream. Can you imagine if the Chargers shocked the world?
Well, as the Bolts are the closest pro football team to the Phoenix market, I guess it would be like a home game. Except for the fact that the stands would be full of Pack fans that is. I went to a Packers-Cardinals game here a few years back. There were literally more GB fans than Card fans. Shows you how smart the fans here are….
From a Pat’s diehart:
San Diego’s a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to be a sports fan there…
It’s easy to be a sports fan from Boston these days, that’s for sure!
Don’t cry for me being a sports fan out here. The Chargers have a long proud history in San Diego - a lot more NFL luminaries came out of Don Coryell’s system that people realize. People forget that it was the addition of the AFL that made the NFL what it is these days, and the Bolts were a part of it.
The Padres have been a solid team for several years now and have a nice new ballpark.
Besides, half the people out here are from somewhere else - like what bmaz said - it can be hard to find local fans in any random group of people! That can definitely try your patience!
I can feel a good one coming on!
Ye of little faith! I’m with randiego - the Bolts will Win! 28-24
Why? Because the Cheats can’t go 18-0, and they certainly don’t have the fortitude to hoist the Excalibur of Pro Football, The Vince Lombardi Trophy, in two weeks!
Bolts win because its the Right thing!
The Giants are still laughing over the Dallas game - they’ve already had a Successful Season, and it’s not going to hurt them one bit to lose to Green Bay, 45-21.
Go Bolts!
My only hope of ever winning the coveted hubcap is to play havoc with the odds. Therefore:
Bolts 26, Pats 24
Gents 21, Favres 19
EW, I thought daddy Wheel yanked your U-Tube privs? (you tie him up in back room?) That’s the cheese(head)iest thingie I’ve seen since Gouda…
Gooooo RAIDERS!!!
OT (back to politics for a minute) but over at TPM, readers have found on Hillary’s own website a statement that Reagan is one of her most admired pas presidents!
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/.....w/?id=4674
OK back to the beer.
And go Pats!
Great stuff - we have some close friends that moved here from Boston in May. They experienced the fires in their first year, and have hung out with us on the beach as recently as last week. They absolutely love it and swear they’re never going back. All they need to complete their So Cal experience is an earthquake…
Breaking News: Police are searching the grassy knoll outside of Tom Brady’s residence after reports of a sniper. In between donuts, one officer stated that a wood paneled van, with two surfboards (one long, one short) on top, bearing California tags reading “RANDEGO” has been located and identified as a “vehicle of interest”…..
Yeah, and a 10 hour quick 45 mile trip up the 405.
…In between DUNKIN donuts, one officer stated…
There, fixed it.
OT - whoa, just noticed the $500 tax-rebate thingy. So that’s what Bush was muttering about on TV this morning.
Talk about your bandaid on a gaping chest wound! Won’t this make it worse?
For our kids, you bet, got to pay for that sooner or later; probably can’t hurt in the short term, sure doesn’t seem likely to be of any real help though. That is like putting in a quart of gas when you are on empty and a hundred miles from the closest station. Funny that Bush can champion throwing 150 billion dollars down the drain in a meaningless gesture to make himself and the GOP look like they are actually doing something, but can’t find 20 billion to give healthcare to destitute children. What a despicable excuse of a human being Bush is.
Bmaz, I percieve you’re not seeing the Giants/Packers game clearly. The Giants win this game.
It doesn’t matter who wins the other game. I don’t care about who’s favored or who wins the shiny hubcap. Giants win.
I hope it will be a great game, good luck.
I’m looking for peyton pain, I want Eli to win the jewel encrusted wheel obscenity awarded to the winnah’s! Then Peyton has to stop ninner-ninnering his little brother.
Heaven’s No! randiego, once you receive, you’ll be able to shop harder for Victory!
To quote Vince Lombardi (no roTL, not that fake one up in the emerald city) “What the hell is going on here”? Did you not watch the video above? You all are jabbering on about these Manning chumps when we have the greatest quarterback in the history of the universe taking the field in the Holy Cathedral of Football? Absolute heresy!
Hey randiego, all I got to say is that if Bush is going to slam through this bullshit, please do it fast so I can use my rebate on a ducat to the Pack-Pats game being played here in 16 days!
Scifers should be Boltz MVP — a punter like that flat changes the game.
They beat the favored Colts twice this season — both times by rattling Manning, one of the best in the game. It is possible they could do the same to Brady. not likely, but possible. I think Manning threw half his interceptions this year against the Boltz.
It ain’t about Manning. It wasn’t last week, or the week before that. And while it may end up being about Favre, I don’t see it that way. I think it’s about who can run, and which defense can apply more pressure.
And I’m thinking you already know which team that is.
I’m conflicted between myselves… the sensible one sees a big fat credit card payment. Randiego sees a surfboard he’s been thinking he’d like to have made…
I still think it’s a stupid (and especially cynical) idea - the Walmart crowd will buy into it and think Bush is a hero. He thinks they’re too stupid to notice that the deficit will go up another $150BN, and he’s probably right. It’s amazing how persistent their ‘tax-and-spend liberal’ meme has proven to be.
Hey, I got a question for you. I used to spend my summers during college in Santa Monica working at a family friend’s antique auto restoration shop. At some kind of illicit party, I met these two guys Chris and Jeff. Wild dudes. Can’t at this point remember which was which, but one was a radio DJ and one was a part owner or manager or something of a company named Natural Progression that made surfboards. Way cool guys, and they always had the kind. Is Natural Progression still around?
Well, I’ve just had a bottle of chardonnay, so I’m in a perfect condition to root for my SD Chargers. Of course, I haven’t had the prerequisite sushi (sorry, I’m a veggie), nor the quiche, and I’ve moved to Washington - but I still look for a Bolts victory. They’ve found ways to win, even with injuries, inexperienced quarterbacks. OK, now it really doesn’t sound as likely, but again, the chardonnay…
2nd to last hubcap shot:
Pats by 3 over Bolts
Pack by 4 over Gents
and cap that with Pack by 1 over Pats in SuperBowl
It seems Sunday’s windchill in Green Bay is to be 20-30 degrees below zero….
You are right, randiego.
My brother lives in San Diego, and invited my wife and I to see three
Red Sox v Pads games last summer.
What a ballpark with very nice fans and expensive beers…
Packers 24-14
Pats 35-10
woot !
Dang nice breakdown on the games, EW.
You guys have probably had this up already, but filed under “memories”
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QI6TkS-WN0I
Bart Starr’s qb sneak “on the frozen tundra”
Sadly no. And down PCH a few miles, to my early stomping ground Manhattan and Hermosa Beach, neither is:
Gordy
Bing
Jacobs
Dewey Weber or
Greg Noll Surfboards.
They moved out before it became way hip, trendy, and the land of McMansions on post-stamp lots.
oopsie..see above 79
I haven’t heard of them, but it’s clearly a well-known manufacturer from Malibu in the 70’s. Their old boards are prized by collectors (you’d be surprised what rare surfboards sell for these days).
Someone is making boards using their old logo and selling them in Hawaii. Probably one of your buddies. It’s an old story that the old classic surfboard makers from California drop out and move over to Hawaii.
Pretty cool anecdote - very California.
Bmaz
It seems to me that you are way too involved with this thread. When EW hosts, her postings are rare, pithy and informative. Only Randiego (who I assume is smoking something) has made more comments than you in this thread. Maybe, like EW, you should be working on your next thread, or the one, two, three after that.
Look, the big game this weekend for most of the civilised world is Australia vs India at cricket where Australia are trying to achieve a record 17 wins in a row, but it looks like they may not make it (he says, hopefully).
Of course this is coming from a Canuck, from Winnipeg, which is closer to Green Bay than you are, and if the weather conditions there on Sunday are anything like they are here tonight, the game will be a joke.
John
I went to one of those games… Jenny wore a Red Sox hat and a Padres shirt - same as my buddy’s gf. We were telling Boston fans at the bar that we were stealing their women!
Hi John, please refer to Neil’s comment at 9. Oh and kiss my ass please.
Yeah. Well then. You have a point there; but if you were to wear an extra tall dunces cap, you might could cover it up. Secondly, what randiego and Neil said. Third, perhaps you should invest in a mirror in order that you might recognize your own absurdity. You babble vaingloriously alleging that I babble incessantly. Brilliant.
and replying to Randiego at 84
Unlike chetnolian, I never said that I hated American Football. On the contrary, I will be watching both games, unless Mike Weir is in contention at the Hope, which, based on today’s scores is a reasonable possibility. As far as babbling, I thought that was the operational definition of trash talk.
TGIF! I’m really looking forward to watching football in the snow and cold. I remember a game from my freshman year at Notre Dame, Ara’s first year, against Iowa. Temperature at game time, around 20, 14 inches of snow in the stands. That was a great game. I think we won 28-0. Now that’s football!
When I have no rooting interest, I always cheer for the team with the most Irish. According to wikipedia, we have two playing for the Packers, so I’m a Green Bay fan for this game. Go Pack.
Mike Richardson is the only Irishman in the other game, so I’ll be pulling for the Patriots.
Pretty scientific, huh?
Fair enough. You are right about the weather. The Weather Channel just told me that the temp should be 3 degrees with the wind chill factor at 15-20 below sunday night in GB. You have my condolences on that. It is currently 51 here and it is fucking freezing if you ask me….
By the way, I don’t know dick about cricket but I absolutely love Australian Rules Football with those wacky referees in the silly hats and the wild arm and hand gesticulations.
I’ll register that as 3-0 Pats win, then, and a 56-52 Packers win?
You gotta give the score, otherwise I get to dictate whether we’re playing baseball or basketball…
It was bmaz. I always make him do the trashtalk. He knows more about stolen hubcabs than I–but don’t tell the Bar.
Oh that’s right, it’s a trash talk thread.
Well, I may appear to be smoking something, but you’re a Canadian with a stick up his ass, making his countrymen (who I love, having been born in Toronto) look bad.
Cheers and enjoy the games.
I just tell the Bar that I have no idea where my client got those things, but I assumed it was from the hubcap boutique he swore his mother ran.
man this Philip Rivers thing is contagious.
If you were born in Toronto, that explains everything.
Heh heh, while sitting here babbling incessantly, I am also watching The McLaughlin Group on PBS. I got to hand it to the old coot John McLaughlin. For years, the two panelists “from the right” have been Pat Buchanan and Tony Blankely. No more. For the last couple of months, it has consistently been either Buchanan or Blankely, but only one of them and the other chair filled consistently by Monica Crowley. It is the same conservative drivel, but a hell of a lot easier on the eyes.
Go Jints
Pats 38-6.
Packers 27-13. I think the Giants have the better chance of an upset, but not in G.B. with those temps.
Pats/Packers could actually make one of the better SB’s of recent times. I say the Pats finish it out: 31-27.
Oh, scores. Looking at the forecasts, I now have a feeling that the game in Green Bay is going to be looow-scoring. 14-7 GB. And no matter what the score, zilch field goals. Pats? Beat the spread.
First a slight correction at 79- I checked my facts (OK, I went to the Karl Rove school of math - and opened my mouth with self-absorbed conviction). Hap Jacobs sold his PCH shop in 1971, when back-yard production collapsed the market, opting for sword-fishing out of King Harbor in Redondo Beach for the next 15 years. He started shaping boards again in 1990 and now has an outlet at 717 Valley Dr., Hermosa Beach.
Dewey Weber also went into the sword-fishing business and Greg Noll went into the crab-fishing business. But with the abundance of transplanted inlanders discovering the joys of surfing and willing to part with hard eared cash like randieago, both Weber and Noll came back to putting their name on surfboards as well.
Was your Natural Progression bud a guy called J. Roger Horsey? If so click here
The Bolts strike on Sunday.
Actually the bolt is bitting my a** right now. I’m trying to link to http://jrodgerhorsey.com/Bio.htm
But no workie for me. Help!!
Scratch that last paragraph. The preview failed to link, but the real thing seems fine. New kid on the block , what can I say?
I noticed [via a link on FDL] that KO posted on the Great Orange Satan. Perhaps if he knew how articulate and knowledgeable we were on football, he’d become a regular here.
Has anyone invited him?
I’m hoping for a Pats/Jints super bowl. The Cheesehead and Favre things are old plus another opportunity to smack NY and the most ignorant sports fans in America.
Really now. Was that nessessary?
Did you hear Pat Kuntz is academically ineligible for spring football.
I take strong issue with your comment. The most ignorant fans in America are clearly the ones that actually pay for tickets to see the Arizona Cardinals, a not very professional football team. This does, of course, not apply to nice, handsome intelligent folks that will go to one of their games every now and then if you give him a free ticket and offer to buy the beer…..
Naw, it wasn’t the Horse. I think I know who that guy is, not positive, but I think he was already a bit of an absentee or erstwhile founder/owner. I was not a surfer; tried, but man did I suck. I was 5′8″ skinny white kid; not a natural athlete, but pretty competent at most sports, b