Public Knowledge

Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.  -William Shakespeare

Public Knowledge:

1.  Now, I am not one to disparage my team.  And far be it from me to knock Manny.  To knock the guy who leads this post season in bombs and RBIs.  The one guy who is actually doing something.  But c’mon Manny.  Did you have to say that?  You are clearly the best hitter in the playoffs.  You won a World Series MVP for goodness sakes.  “It doesn’t happen, so who cares?  There’s always next year.  It’s not like it’s the end of the world.”  That is not what champions say.  When I think of great champions, my barometer is always Larry Bird.  He played like a champion.  He walked like a champion.  He talked like a champion.  If Manny were on Larry’s team, the Legend would have punched Ramirez right in the mouth.  You have just said the secret word, Alice.  You have just won a trip to the moon.  Pow, right in the kisser.  Now knock it off and go out there and win a baseball game tonight, wouldya?  Roll Sox roll!

2.  And Booby Knight.   How ’bout a nice tall glass of shut the hell up.  Stick to beating up kids and leave the baseball talk for the baseball folks. 

3.  Where have all the quarterbacks gone?  Long time passing.  Where have all the quarterbacks gone?  Long time ago.  It doesn’t seem that long ago.  It doesn’t seem that long ago that Jim Kelly, Dan Marino, John Elway, Todd Blackledge, Tony Eason and Ken O’Brien burst onto the scene.  It doesn’t seem so long ago that Joe Montana, Jim Everett, Warren Moon, Boomer Esiason, Steve Young, Bernie Kosar, Jim Harbaugh and Randall Cunningham roamed the earth all at once.  What happened?  I look around now, and yes, I see Tom Brady.  I see Payton Manning.  I don’t see much else.  Cleo Lemon?  Derek Anderson?  Vinnie?  Byron Leftwich?  Matt Schaub?  I know.  I know.  Favre is there.  Romo.  Eli.  But still.  Just gross.

4.  I know I just punched Byron Leftwich in the eye, but he holds a special place in my heart.  What I saw him do one night in Akron, Ohio will forever remain one of the most heroic performances in all of footballdom.  We are Marshall!  Marshall received a devastating blow in the second quarter.  In the second quarter when Leftwich left the game with an injury to his lower left leg.  Left the game only after leading the Thundering Herd to a touchdown.   Then he came back.  Came back and had to be carried by linemen Steve Scuillo and Steve Perretta.  Came back after breaking his shin.  Breaking his shin!  Carried by linemen Steve Scuillo and Steve Perretta down field and carried his team for multiple series as he rallied to a seventeen point comeback.   That my friends, is what a football player looks like.

5.  Sore knee my arse.  I don’t care how good Kobe is.  No how, no way, I want him on my team.  No how, no way.  Not for nothing, the Lakers had Kobe and Shaq.  Should have had a dynasty.  Should have had a dynasty for a very long time.  Soon they will have neither Kobe nor Shaq.

6.  How ’bout them Rockies?  The Rockies win the Pennant!  The Rockies win the pennant!  How about that?  This the greatest run ever for a team on its way to the World Series.  We all know the Rockies are 21-1 since September 15.  21-1 since September 15 and destroying everyone in their wake.  Down go the Dodgers!  Down go the Padres!  Down go the Fightin’ Phils!  Down go the Diamondbacks!  The favorites are taking the mandatory eight-count, and the Rockies are as poised as they can be.  Not since the 1976 Big Red Machine has a team won its first seven playoff games.  Johnny Bench.  Pete Rose.  George Foster.  Tony Perez.  Joe Morgan.  Dave Concepcion.  High company.  Mighty high company indeed.  And not for nothing, did you see that pitch.  That Manny Corpas pitch?  That Manny Corpas pitch to Rockies killer Tony Clark.  A 77 mph mind bending, knee buckling, amazing, stupendous, tremendous slider.  Goodness gracious!  This team has captured the nation’s heart.

7.  Five touchdowns!  Like my main man Tom Landry always says:  Football is an incredible game.  Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.  That’s what Tom Terrific has been.  Unbelievable.  When there is trouble, I’m there on the double.  From Atlantic to Pacific, they know Tom Terrific!  Yes they do, yes they do.  Tom Brady is off to the best start of his career.   Tom Brady is off to one of the best starts ever.  He has just thrown for the most TDs in the first six games of a season in NFL history.  Yowza!  His total of twenty-one is the most by a quarterback in the first six games of any season.  His five TDs tied a franchise record and gave him an NFL record with at least three in each of the first six games of the season.  See what happens?  See what happens when you give this cat weapons.  Weapons of mass destruction.  And you tell me over and over and over again my friend, you don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction.  We may not be, but everybody who faces the Patriots is.  This is the best football team I’ve ever seen.  Tom Brady will be the best quarterback there’s ever been.  A lean mean touchdown throwing machine.

8.  How did we ever do without it?  The yellow line.  The yellow first down line.  The best invention ever.  Ever!  And just so you know, we have John Madden to thank for it.  Boom!  Madden was the first person to propose placing a virtual line at the first-down mark.  Eleven years ago, he suggested it in a television production meeting.  Thank you John Madden.

9.  Zeke loses by forty to my Celtics last night.  Ha ha ha!  That’s the competition?  Ha ha ha!  Zeke:  I think Dickau is going to be a good player on our team when he’s healthy.  Hey Zeke, Dan’s not even on your squad.  Good luck Knickerbocker fans.  Good luck.  Thanks to Stop Mike Lupica.

10.  Houston Nutt:

Peace out homies.  Six two and Even!

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