>PPS -- I see the Browns have hired another head coach. Are they determined not to win? Maybe Rod Chudzinski is a diamond in the rough. Vince Lombardi was not well known when he went to work for that team in Wisconsin. Supposedly fans still make pilgrimages to the small house he lived in and ask if they can play touch football on the lawn. Chudzinski, I'm not so sure. His chief credential is he was the offensive coordinator for the Panthers. They ranked 15th, which I guess is better than the team as a whole did.
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>There is major drama here about the Bears' new head coach. I am among those who wonder whether it was fair to fire Lovie Smith after leading the team to a 10-6 record and missing the playoffs on a tiebreaker. There was just a sense of Lovie fatigue after 9 seasons with only one trip to the Super Bowl. There were also some Chicago sportswriters who were actively trying to run him out of town. Jerks. Chicago has the most vicious sports media this side of Boston. What have they missed in Bears history that makes them expect the Bears to be perennial Super Bowl contenders?
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>Here's to a 2013 postseason in which da Bears and Browns meet in the Super Bowl ;-)
Chud is a local boy and has a history here but I think locals are underwhelmed. If Mike Lombardi is the next hire (most likely) it is going to get nasty and most of the optimistic good will for new owner and especially Joe Banner will evaporate, especially if the plan is to change the D back to 3-4 and get rid of Jauron. Honeymoon is over.
I heard you are getting Trestman from Montreal. Would have preferred him here. (also a history here) Cerebral. I think he'll be successful, but his personality is definitely not Ditka-esque.
No plans to see 0-Dark 30. Will see Les Mis first then Django. Too much good stuff on TV Justified started up again this week and Shameless and House of LIes are back this month. Just caught up with Treme on HBO Go ( got a Roku box) and am working my way through Netflix streaming on the Roku trying to not get distracted by rewatching all things Joss Whedon or BSG/Caprica.
And the reading list grows ...
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
