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Should The Cowboys Fire Jason Garrett?
As I’ve mentioned before, I watched exactly one quarter of football this season. I’ve had some TV issues, but mostly I just don’t care. I like NBA basketball, Premier League soccer, Texas Rangers playoff baseball, the RW/RR Challenge, and that’s about it for sports. But, I do have an answer: YES. I also have a list of potential replacements.
A Few Thoughts On the NBA Lockout/My Worst Nightmare
Tim Cowlishaw has a column in today’s Morning News [reg. req.] about the continuing NBA lockout. His thesis statement:
There is only one set of “bad guys,” and those are the owners represented by Commissioner David Stern. I don’t see the players as bad guys in this deal. There’s another word for it.
I believe it’s called “idiots.”
Hm.
A Simple Proposal For Jerry Jones
Hey, gang. Zac Crain here. You may remember me from such time-wasting joke posts as the one about the thing, and all the other ones. We have some fun here, but today, I’m here to talk about something serious. That’s right: a massive, winner-take-all, basketball tournament featuring locked-out NBA players inside the Death Star or Jerry World or whatever we’re calling it now.
The Odd Recruiting Strategy of the George W. Bush Presidential Center
Through his eight years in the White House, President Bush led with courage and compassion — and that leadership continues today as President and Mrs. Bush create the George W. Bush Presidential Center thanks to the support of proud Americans like you.
Today it is a great honor to present to you a 2011 Membership Card from the Bush Center. I am sending this to you on behalf of President and Mrs. Bush, because I believe you appreciate the extraordinary service they gave our Nation and our world during their years in the White House, and that you embrace the values and ideals that President and Mrs. Bush continue to advance through the Bush Center.
Since I’ve had this Membership Card commissioned especially for you, I want to make sure that it arrived promptly, and that you will support the action-oriented programs President and Mrs. Bush are creating at the Bush Center.
So please take a moment to complete the Receipt Confirmation and Membership RSVP I’ve enclosed for you, and send it back to me today along with a tax-deductible gift of at least $25, and help President and Mrs. Bush continue their public service through the George W. Bush Presidential Center.
Sure enough, the letter came with an Official Membership Card — only it had my 12-year-old son’s name on it. In fact, The Honorable Mark Langdale sent the letter to my son. There is no doubt that the lad is a proud American. But I’d be very surprised if he pays the $25 to belong to the Bush Center.
NFL Lockout: Winners & Losers
As you may have heard, NFL owners formally locked out the players recently, as the two sides attempt to come up with a new collective bargaining agreement. It’s still early, but let’s take a quick look at the winners and losers so far.
David Feherty Signs New Deal With CBS for “Stupid Amount of Money”
Sometime D Magazine contributor and CBS golf analyst David Feherty signed a new contract late last year with CBS that pretty much makes him, like, the Irish Oprah. A few details came out earlier this year about a show he’ll be doing for the Golf Channel as part of the new agreement, but in a FrontBurner exclusive that’s so exclusive that it almost stings he’s talking for the first time about his expanded duties.
It breaks down like this: in addition to doing golf analysis, Feherty will also make appearances on 60 Minutes, The Early Show, CBS Sunday Morning — even perhaps Final Four broadcasts. Don’t expect to see him on the court, though. “I’m not going to be an analyst for a sport where the damn hole is in the air,” he says. Instead, he might produce a taped feature that would air during the broadcast. He says it depends on which teams make it to the Final Four and whether a story emerges that tickles his fancy. (For an idea of what such a Feherty presentation might look like, read the transcript of the bit he did about the Elderly Football League prior to the Super Bowl.)
Feherty’s new contract also allowed him to negotiate his own deal with the Golf Channel (which is owned by Comcast). As part of his gig there, he has created a show called, simply, F, about a fictional golf network. Fred Willard will star as his boss. Feherty says, “It’s a show about not having a show,” and that a blow-up doll of Betty White is involved. The first episode of F is slated to air April 23.
So. How about the terms of the new deal? Feherty put it this way: “I was getting paid a stupid amount of money before. Now I’m being paid an amount that is twice as stupid for slightly more work. It’s a great country.”
So, Why Do They Have Super Bowls in Icy Climes?
While the adequacy of DFW’s response to the big storm is debated, Jerry and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell have issued their pronouncements: This week’s icy chaos won’t knock North Texas out of the running for future Super Bowls. Why not? Because there’s just too much dough to be made off attendees at JerryWorld, the conventional wisdom goes.
But, as an ESPN commentator argued yesterday, Super Bowls aren’t just about Super Sunday, but more like three- or four- or five-day festivals–like Mardi Gras. If shopkeepers and restaurateurs and cabbies and event planners and party-going fans can’t count on a decently pleasurable build-up to the game, why not just hold the thing in Southern California or Florida or Arizona every year, where there’s a much better shot at decent weather? (I know, every party needs a pooper …)
Battle for Super Bowl 50: DFW vs. L.A.?
Almost from the get-go, the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee has been angling for multiple Super Bowls at Cowboys Stadium, beginning with the 50th anniversary game in 2016. But now, ESPN reports, DFW has a serious rival for that game in Los Angeles, which may have the better shot at landing it. The first Super Bowl was played in 1967 at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. And plans have just been unveiled for a new Tinseltown stadium called Farmers Field, which is taking its cues from Cowboys Stadium. Maybe Jerry & Co. should pray for an earthquake?
Now John Cornyn Has Given Me Tired Head
John Cornyn says he hates a $1 trillion spending bill because it’s full of earmarks. He’s gone on record as saying he will vote against this bill because of its pork factor.
But there’s one problem: In this bill, which is full of earmarks he purportedly hates, are 48 earmarks he requested, to the tune of $103 million.
So does Cornyn hate earmarks, or just earmarks that are not his? Fair question, unless I’m oversimplifying it. ABC’s Jonathan Karl asked the Texas senator about his insistence on hating earmarks when he has a bunch in there himself, at a presser where Cornyn was railing against the porky bill.
Cornyn insisted that his opposition to the bill was all about a dislike of “sweetheart deals cut behind closed doors,” wasteful spending and business as usual. He said he opposed earmarks.
Karl then asked, “Senator, were you wrong when you put these earmarks in before?”
Cornyn said earmarks were a symptom of wasteful spending, something something something else that sounded like stuff he already said but didn’t answer the question. And then basically Cornyn made my brain explode.
“So I think — I think that’s to me the context. And we’ve said very clearly — we voted for an earmark moratorium. We will abide by that, and we will reject any earmarks requested by us or anyone else, because that’s what the American people told us they want.”
So doesn’t it seem like a lot of work and potential embarrassment to put a bunch of earmarks in with the express intent of voting against them later?
Texas Good, California Bad
I just summarized this piece by Joel Kotkin (anyone around here familiar with him? Didn’t think so) in four words. YOU’RE WELCOME.
Oh, wait, what’s that? It’s a little more nuanced? Fine, go ahead and read it. It’s your Friday afternoon.
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