..like a BOSS, the 2012 Ford Mustang Boss 302.
Found on Jalopnik.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Breakfast Granola for 8/13/10
As the NFL preseason begins, there is a list of top players that I happen to take issue with:5. Reggie White – At 6-foot-5, 300 pounds, White had a defensive tackle’s body and the speed to play defensive end. He finished his career with 198 sacks despite playing primarily at left end, as opposed to the right side where most speed rushers play. If White hadn’t spent two years in the USFL, he might still hold the sacks record.Author Jason Cole has already taken flak for his list, but here's my two cents: as he claims to be an LA Rams fan from his childhood, I argue that he's not a very good one if he doesn't remember one of the greatest Rams of all time. Stipulated, Reggie White was a great player, but I believe Deacon Jones is the superior defensive end and should get at least the #5 spot.
Jones lists as 6-5/272, but was probably closer to 290, yet insanely fast. When he arrived in the NFL, there was nobody like him, least of all for his aggression and ruthlessness. Defenses of the era were about immobility and delay, but his innovation was to take the attack to the offense, making tackles from sideline to sideline and destroying quarterbacks with gleeful prejudice. Without him, there would be no "sack" statistic for White to collect.
Keeping in mind that Jones played one less season than White -- 14 vs. 15 -- Jones unofficially amassed between 173.5 and 180.5 sacks, depending on if you ask Pro Football Weekly or John Klawitter, who examined George Allen's records while helping Deacon write his biography, Headslap. Also keep in mind that seasons were only 14 games long, and Deacon unofficially collected 26 sacks in 1967. If recognized, these stats would place him 3rd in career total and 1st in single season.
Unfortunately, the "sack" was not recorded until 1982, despite that NFL films is probably able to corroborate Allen's meticulous notes, and thus, Deacon Jones goes overlooked.
But how many rules does Reggie White have named for him? In my estimation, that's a high mark of effectiveness.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Succinct and to the point
Best characterization of the end of The Return of the Jedi. EVAR!Ewoks dancing in the forest like a "teddy-bear luau."Gary Kurtz quote from io9.
Breakfast Granola for 8/12/10
Just in case Jeff is still looking for another job, I hear there might be an opening at Disneyworld...While visiting Epcot Center in Florida, a Pennsylvania woman alleges that a Disney employee dressed as Donald Duck grabbed her breast and molested her after she sought an autograph.Found on The Smoking Gun.
After the alleged groping, Donald Duck made gestures--apparently with his snowy white hands—“indicating he had done something wrong,” according to a lawsuit filed last month by April Magolon. The Upper Darby woman, 27, was visiting Epcot with her children and fiancé in May 2008 when the incident reportedly occurred.
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According to Magolon’s complaint, she has suffered “severe physical injury, emotional anguish and distress including, but not limited to post-traumatic stress disorder” as a result of the run-in with Donald Duck. She also contends that the incident was “one of a long line of continuing, long standing, similar prior incidents” involving the groping of patrons by costumed Disney employees.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Mysteries of the universe
This is Florencia "Floppy" Tesouro. Unless she was less than firm before the boob job, I don't know how she got that nickname. But she won Miss Reef Argentina, so she must necessarily have some caboose going for her.Found on Busted Coverage.
Breakfast Granola for 8/11/10
Add another car to the WANT stack...Can't afford your own F1 team? Perhaps you can afford the Lotus Exos Type 125 ($1 million). Powered by a 650 HP Cosworth V8 and weighing in at just 1,433 lbs., the buyers of this racing car will be enrolled in the "Exos Club," which offers extensive drivers training, mental and physical preparation, and then a five-race series across Europe in 2011 for all 25 owners. Some say it's a way to get around the F1 testing ban, but we say it sounds like a helluva way to blow those extra lottery winnings.Found on Uncrate.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Was the iPad made for Jeff?
A Japanese expert says yes: Hayao Miyazaki compares iPad use to masturbation:"For me, there is no feeling of admiration or no excitement whatsoever," Miyazaki said about the iPad. "It's disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying."
Breakfast Granola for 8/10/10
Guitar-shaped Nilanti Narain wearing two bras too many is what's for breakfast today.Because I'm having dental surgery this afternoon, I'm going to need something soft in my mouth. Twice.
Found on Hip Hop Wired.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Jungle love
Jordan Carver in leopard and tiger print is what this Monday gets for after-Breakfast snack.Found on Hollywood Tuna.
Breakfast Granola for 8/9/10
On this day of consecutive alignment, we commemorate the Madden NFL 11 Pigskin Pro-Am that preceded the Hall of Fame Game.Shannon Elizabeth, shown, was a participant. As a defensive end, I'm relatively certain I'd have set a record for sacks, tackles, penalties, or restraining orders versus that tight end.
From the Ore Archives.
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