Remember those stories about marooned Japanese airmen who never found out that WWII ended, so they continued to prepare for an American invasion of some remote rock in the Pacific?
OK, maybe that was just a particularly offensive episode of Gilligan's Island.
Still, you have to wonder about the speed of news after peeping this magazine I spotted in Japantown today:
And a sweet Engrish cover line to boot.
From today's "Can't Stop Watching This" file, I give you...
I am off for a long holiday weekend in the Pride of the Nation. My weekend picks (2-2 last week, 6-2 overall for the playoffs): Green Bay over Jersey by a little; New England over the Bolts' B-team by a lot.
(source: KSK)
The wife and I had a fight last night about the New England Patriots. The source: Bill Cowher's contention that some juiced gorilla from another team will probably take a cheap shot at Tom Brady.
The Patriots, you see, haven't exactly been "winning" this seasons Rather, they've been knocking opponents unconscious, then shaving "SLUT" into their heads, drawing obscene glyphs all over their faces with a Sharpie, pocketing their credit cards, photographing themselves crapping on their chests, and putting those pictures on Facebook.
Or as it's known colloquially, "running up the score."
Cowher is one of many recent voices to ponder the possibility of retribution, especially following the Pats' aggro play-calling late in their 52-7 destruction of the Redskins.
The wife is a huge NFL fan, and her primary loyalty lies with her Pats. But beyond her obvious bias, we both realized that she couldn't even process the concept of running up the score. Her conclusion: This must be a dude thing.
I have not read much opinion on male-vs-female perspectives on the NFL. But the sexes do tend to follow the sport as differently as, say, every other topic in the world.
So I explained to her the very manly construct of running up the score, that it's not about how many points you put up, but how you manage a big lead. Her response: Why wouldn't you want to beat the other team as badly as possible? And isn't it more insulting to stop trying?
Wow, the interns were really running the show at ESPN last night, weren't they? And I'm not just talking about the foamy-lipped Ditka-v-Golic debates in the booth.
True, the Niners looked just meh in their win over the Cardinals. But did they really deserve to be demoted a whole year?
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Of all the pleasures of the NFL's opening Sunday yesterday, and there were some, perhaps none was greater than watching the Giants' Jared Lorenzen taking his first NFL snaps. I couldn't find a shot of him from the game last night, but this is from the preseason.
It was a tough night for the Giants, losing multiple key starters to injury. But seeing Lorenzen, the puffiest NFL player in memory, try to scramble for a game-sustaining first down was just... hilarious.
You know why the Giants couldn't come back for the win? Tom Coughlin failed to leave a sweet potato pie in the Dallas end zone.
The great news for football fans is that Eli Manning is probably out for a month. It's Lorenzen time!
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Busted. Here was an actual sequence by ABC's color man in Saturday's Oklahoma-Miami game. Situation: One minute left in the first half. Miami trailing 21-3 with the ball, fourth down inside the Oklahoma 10 yard line. Miami sends out the field goal unit.
"This is the right call. It's tempting to go for it, but you have to get the points. You get this field goal, and you're only down two scores going into half time. You can't risk going for the TD here."
Then, Miami fakes a field goal for a first down.
"Wow, aggressive play-calling, and I like it. You have to take some chances to beat a ranked team like this on the road. I like this decision by Randy Shannon."
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