As if you needed any other reason to root against the Patriots next Sunday, the Giants' roster contains the lone representative of the Bulldog Nation: tailback D.J. Ware. (The Pats' roster, by contrast, contains 4 Floridians, including Brandon "The Optometrist" Spikes. Just sayin') The link includes a breakdown of college representation in case you want to check up on your secondary or tertiary affiliations.
Here's a fact I posted on the Dawg Sports Facebook page earlier today:
Of the four major professional sports teams in the Boston area (Bruins, Celtics, Patriots, and Red Sox), the Patriots have gone the longest without winning a league championship.
T Kyle King - January 24, 2012
Wow
Hobnail_Boot - January 24, 2012
Yeah, I saw that on ESPN last night.
This is what irks me about the whole “Atlanta fans suck” mantra. Boston fans have had every major sports franchise win a title in the past decade (and this could quickly become half decade).
The Atlanta sports franchises, however, have had one (ONE!) title in a combined 170 seasons of professional sports.
If you have the same amount of success in Atlanta as they have in Boston, I don’t think there’s any doubt the Atlanta fans would be better.
hailtogeorgia - January 24, 2012
Don't forget the New England Revolution... the primary tenant of Gillette Stadium.
They have never won their league (MLS). Though they did win the U.S. version of the FA Cup in 2007, so that can be considered a major title.
Huh? What’s that?
vineyarddawg - January 25, 2012
I just think it would be amusing
for the Giants to beat the Pats again when the Giants once again finished the regular season near .500 and the Pats finished much higher.
Cherokee's Grip - January 24, 2012
I'm trying very hard
not to launch into a lecture on the “amusement” to be had from a CFB playoff. : )
MidnightFrost1701 - January 24, 2012
Bill Belichick
Is enough reason for me to always root against the Pats.
TexasDawg86 - January 24, 2012
I like the Giants' uniforms better.
Therefore, I will be rooting for them (assuming I even watch the game, which isn’t likely since I’ll be working that night and would have to record it).
MidnightFrost1701 - January 24, 2012
I'll be pulling for the Giants because they're an NFC team and beat the Falcons.
Other than that, I don’t have much of a rooting interest. At least it makes me feel better that if the Giants win, the Falcons playoff losses the past two years have been to Super Bowl champs.
hailtogeorgia - January 24, 2012
and the opponent they lost to in the playoffs before that (Arizona) went to the Super Bowl. In the playoffs before that one (2004) they lost in the conference championship to the Eagles, who obviously went to the Super Bowl.
Braves last 2 playoff losses have also been to WS champions….
trend?
skigator93 - January 24, 2012
I'll be rooting
for the eTrade baby to have grown up to at least pre-teen levels so we don’t have to endure anymore of those creepy commercials.
DavetheDawg - January 24, 2012
Or maybe the Geico gecko
and him fight to the death
Dawg2011 - January 24, 2012
No, I'm sorry...
… swordplay with lizards IS FROWNED UPON IN THIS ESTABLISHMENT!
/Vomits
vineyarddawg - January 25, 2012
Team affiliations aside...
If you’re a true fan of innovative, precise football, you have to enjoy watching the Pat’s offense.
On any level of football, I’ll take Belichick as my coach and Brady as my QB.
NRBQ - January 24, 2012
This.
I am consistently amazed by how the Patriots play the game. After all of UGA’s struggles with switching from a 1-gap 4-3 to a 1-gap 3-4, I cannot fathom how the Patriots routinely switch between 1-gap 4-3, 1-gap 3-4, and 2-gap 3-4 during one game. The same group of players can play a completely different scheme on each of three consecutive downs. The alignments all look close to the same, but the offense cannot predict gap responsibilities at all. The level of coaching that goes into that kind of flexibility is astounding.
They also get the most out of the players on their roster. When they need a guy to cover a speedy slot receiver, they use a speedy slot receiver on defense. When it came time to defend a hail mary pass in 2007, Belicheck sent Randy freaking Moss to stand on the goal line and go up and catch the ball. With a wealth of athletic TEs and a dearth of RBs, they use one of their TEs at RB – and it works!
And when the Pats find a play that works, they run it over and over and over again. With Randy Moss, they didn’t even have him run routes in the red zone: he would run straight into the endzone and then jump high and catch the ball. They have a big TE that nobody can cover, so they throw the ball to him. It’s the most amazing thing to see.
first and thom - January 25, 2012
So, what you are saying, is they find solutions to problems in a creative manner?
#firemikebobo
tankertoad - January 25, 2012
Wait...
A play must be successful BEFORE calling it over and over and over again?
#firemikebobo
#tankertoadjokesteal
Jman781 - January 25, 2012
Did they use to call him Danny Ware?
CaptJackSparrow - January 25, 2012
Yes.
I don’t know why or when he switched to “D.J.,” but I think of him as “Danny,” pretty much for the same reason I always said “Hillary Clinton” (without the “Rodham”), “John Cougar” (without the “Mellencamp”), and “Prince” (without the symbol or the “The Artist Formerly Known As”).
T Kyle King - January 25, 2012
"His mama call him Clay, I'mma call him Clay"
Mr. Sanchez - January 25, 2012
Great Eddie Murphy movie or greatest Eddie Murphy movie?
/loyal citizen of Zamunda’d
Spears - January 26, 2012
I liked Eddie Murphy's character.
But he wasn’t as good as Eddie Murphy’s character. Or Arsenio Hall’s character. And Arsenio Hall’s character was pretty funny, too.
vineyarddawg - January 26, 2012
Trading Places has to be in the discussion..
as well as the original Beverly Hills Cop imo. But yeah, I probably like Coming to America better. Just so, so, much greatness in there.
Mr. Sanchez - January 26, 2012
I think there are three movies in that conversation:
“Coming to America,” “Trading Places,” and “48 Hrs.” (the original, not the atrocious sequel).
I’m not sure which way I break on that one, and I’m pretty sure I’m awarding “Trading Places” more points than it really deserves on account of it being the first movie in which Jamie Lee Curtis did nudity, but, from where I sit, those are the three. Y’know, unless someone wants to go to bat for “Pluto Nash.”
I enjoyed “Beverly Hills Cop,” but I thought “48 Hrs.” was a better picture overall. “48 Hrs.” was funny, but it also had a good plot and was a tightly done movie.
T Kyle King - January 26, 2012
Beverly Hills Cop was a BIG deal to me
I was 12, and my fine Christian Mamma took me to a rated R movie. First time. I believe it was at the old Columbia on peachtree. It’s funny because it would barely be an R movie now. That was followed up by a middle school trip to NYC and the continual playing of the Axel Foley theme. Ah, to be a child of the 80s.
tankertoad - January 26, 2012
One thing I never understood re: 48 Hours:
Shouldn’t the sequel have been titled “96 Hours?”
Or at least they should have gone the “Teen Wolf” direction and called it “48 Hours, Too.” (And both sequels were equally atrocious compared to their progenitors, so it works from that angle, as well.)
I gotta go with Coming to America, though, followed by Trading Places, then 48 Hours.
Coming to America was a formative movie of my childhood. It was the first time I’d ever heard anyone use the word “penis” in a sentence that wasn’t spoken at a doctor’s office. But the best thing about that movie? In hindsight, it doesn’t actually portray New York or New Yorkers in a false light. I swear that I would not be surprised at all to be standing in line for the john at Madison Square Garden only to have a drink vendor stop suddenly and start worshipping the guy in front of me. Or, for that matter, to see Samuel L. Jackson robbing a fast food store. That’s just NYC, man.
vineyarddawg - January 26, 2012
"Samuel L. Jackson robbing a fast food store"?
Aw, crap; now the Journal-Constitution is going to publish a story with the headline: “Famous Georgia Fan Has Criminal Background.”
T Kyle King - January 26, 2012
Coming to America is 100% accurate re the feel of NYC.
“I was Joan of Arc in a former life,” doesn’t even break the top 10 craziest things I’ve heard at bars up here. There’s a Kennedy Fried Chicken (KFC) that sells horrible fried chicken from a red-and-white storefront. I’m 80% sure I saw Sexual Chocolate perform at Brooklyn Bowl a few weeks back. (“SEXUAL CHOCOLATE!!!” /drops mic)
Spears - January 26, 2012
Are they still around? Man, I remember when everybody had their stuff back in the good ole' days...
(I was going to GIS “Sexual Chocolate,” but then I remembered that this is the interwebz, and not safe for phrases like that.)
vineyarddawg - January 26, 2012
I made the mistake of Googling "angel" once
when I needed Christmas clip-art.
Cherokee's Grip - January 26, 2012
The military had a problem in the early days with the whitehouse.com (or something) website -
it was not the whitehouse. not suggesting anyone go looking for or at this website, just notice it doesnt end in org or gov
tankertoad - January 26, 2012
yeah, that could have gotten nasty
two girls, one cup level nasty.
Mr. Sanchez - January 27, 2012
The best thing about that movie?
The massive amount of lines that can be spit out in the movie quote game, and fit in context with normal conversation as well.
“Hello, Babar”
or
“What does dumb f*** mean?” (in the second best at-an-airport-hailing-a-cab-scene-ever to Planes, Trains, and Automobiles).
Mr. Sanchez - January 27, 2012
YES!! YES!! F*** YOU TOO!!
vineyarddawg - January 27, 2012
"Just a man I met in the restroom"
Mr. Sanchez - January 27, 2012
Would it change your placement at all
If I told you that someone made a mash up of some of the opening Star Wars scenes with Coming to America sound clips? And that it was titled Coming to Alderaan?
The984 - January 26, 2012
Also...
Life was a very good flick imo, and about the only one of his recent movies to come close. Although, I noticed on his imdb page, he’s the voice of Hong Kong Phooey in an upcoming movie, and I always loved that cartoon.
Mr. Sanchez - January 26, 2012
Some comment on this blog recently addressed the Danny/DJ thing
Said that people who knew him in real life said he went by DJ privately and was only called Danny by the UGA sports media.
The984 - January 25, 2012
Understood.
If I ever meet him, and he’s introduced to me as “D.J.,” I’ll call him “D.J.” However, “UGA sports media” is as apt a description as any of the context in which I have occasion to make reference to him, so, having come to know of him as “Danny Ware,” I’m going to continue to call him Danny Ware. I’m not trying to be contrary; that’s just the name by which I became familiar with him.
T Kyle King - January 25, 2012
Oh, perfectly understood
Bulldog fans know him primarily as Danny because of the UGA sports media. I was just trying to give input as to why he switched names (namely, if that one comment was correct, he never actually switched).
The984 - January 25, 2012
Cool.
Thanks. I just wanted to be clear that I wasn’t trying to be a jerk by insisting upon calling him “Danny.”
I freely admit I’m probably being a jerk by not using the name “Mellencamp,” but that’s mostly because Johnny Cougar rocked and John Mellencamp sucked, at least musically.
T Kyle King - January 25, 2012
A good friend of mine dated him in college.
She used the two names interchangeably. I always called him Danny, and heard him refer to himself as Danny, so I think you’re good either way.
Tom Coughlin calls him Danny as well.
hailtogeorgia - January 25, 2012
Our friends have great dating resumes.
A good friend of mine dated Hines Ward while at UGA. She says he liked to cuddle.
Every time he does something new and impressive (Super Bowl win, “Dancing with the Stars” win, cameo in “The Dark Knight Rises”), I remind her that she needs lessons on which guys are keepers.
MidnightFrost1701 - January 25, 2012
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