The Berserker Time Draws Near
The everlasting universe of things
Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves,
Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom--
--Percy Shelley
For a die-hard football fan, there are two seasons to life: the season and the other part. For some of us, the season calls for and creates an entirely different personality and lifestyle than the other part. Everything in the mind works differenty. Attitudes toward time are affected. Mood swings become dependent on football action far outside your control. The people close to you start to see you different, and if you bother to see them at all, they seem different too. It is the Berserker time.
And it starts soon. The blood-madness begins.
Viking Quarterbacks, Past and Present
Sports Illustrated (specifically, Dr. Z) are picking the Dolphins to win the AFC. Let me just say this, Dolphin fans: enjoy Daunte Culpepper. Enjoy the 400 yard games. But also enjoy the 3 turnover games. Enjoy the games against good opponents where the blitzing and coverage schemes force Culpepper into all sorts of "what the hell was that?" moments for you.
For some reason, the rest of the world is pretending Culpepper isn't the quarterback that threw 6 touchdowns and 12 interceptions in the first 6 games of 2005. Or that he's the quarterback with 81 career fumbles in 81 career games (well, I guess not everbody--obviously John Bolster is aware of it of I would have nothing to link to there). Or that he's had 6 seasons as a starter and has 2 playoff wins on his resume.
Basically, I don't see Daunte rising to help the Dolphins defeat competent defenses like New England or Pittsburgh in the playoffs.
But the Vikes have a new quarterback: Brooks Bollinger! Does this mean that the long statewide nightmare that is Mike McMahon is over?
I like Jeff George
So he hasn't thrown an NFL pass in years. He's not too old. Let's not forget he only came into the league a year before Brett Favre, and if Favre isn't too old to be a good starting NFL quarterback...wait, Brett Favre is too old to be a good starting NFL quarterback. Um...ah...look over there!
(You may ask yourself right now, "Hey, PV, your favorite team is starting Brad Johnson. How can you make fun of Favre for being too old to be any good?" And my answer is: an old Brad Johnson doesn't suck).
okay. i like how you turned against cully. last year we were heavily debating whether or not cully was the greatest quarterback of our generation or some such nonsense. now you're using all my arguments. haha. so you're a homer and that's fine.
ReplyDeletejeff george has been out of football for five years. he sucked in 2001 and in 2000 and he sucks now. he's won about 30 pct of his career games. he could throw fine but that's it. i know you wrote all that just to knock favre and that's fine.
So it's a bad thing to evolve, change one's mind, re-examine evidence, etc.? It's better to stay stubbornly devoted to whatever you believe at a specific point no matter what evidence develops to make you change your mind?
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure George has ever sucked.
you should stay the course on all things cully.
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