Daytona 500
Big happenings down here in Florida this weekend: The Daytona 500
I don’t watch many races, but I follow Nascar enough to know the drivers. The races I do watch are mainly the super-speedways, but I loves me some Bristol – 1/2 mile oval, super-tight, lots of rubbing. Anything can happen.
Anyway, if you’ve tried to get a hotel room within 75 miles of Daytona, you’re SOL.
That’s Shit-Outta-Luck, to those of you that weren’t brought up right.
Anyway, Dale Earnhardt Jr. lit up the track this week, and he always does well at the super-speedways, so I expect him to be right in there. New car, new crew, it would be a nice way to start out.
Enjoy the races, y’all!
Dwight Howard is Superman
The Orlando Magic’s Dwight Howard put on a show – you gotta love it when a man puts himself out there like Dwight does in this video, then comes up BIG!
Time to give Fred Taylor his due
Without much hype or countdown outside of Jacksonville, Fred Taylor reached a milestone equaled by only 21 other men in the history of the world: 10,000 NFL rushing yards.
To give you some perspective on this accomplishment, here’s some numbers:
Number of people to climb Mt. Everest: @ 660
Ok, I’m too lazy to go find more numbers. But that one makes the point pretty well, doesn’t it?
Anyway, for a guy tagged with the nickname “Fragile Fred” early in his career, he’s certainly proven dependable and productive. Plus, he’s a Florida Gator, so there’s that, too.
Finally, did you know Fred Taylor has never been to the Pro Bowl? Such is the result of playing in the AFC. Had he been a Tampa Bay Buccaneer, he’d have led the NFC in rushing a number of times and been a perennial pro-bowler. While it is debatable that he’ll have the numbers this season, he’s shown a tremendous amount of professionalism in providing leadership to a young running back corps for the Jaguars, including another possible pro-bowler, Maurice Jones-Drew. For this reason, as well as his career accomplishments, y’all need to get over and vote for Fred Taylor for the Pro Bowl.
You Gators – this is mandatory. You Seminoles and ‘Canes – show some class and give credit where credit is due, unlike with your test grades.
Are you a Sports Trivia Junkie?
I have to admit – I like my trivia and think I’m pretty decent at it. I mean, I’m no Fab or Colleen, but I can hold my own.
So, I was checking out a sports trivia site called Triviafix, and figured "Why not make it a challenge – I’m a Jags fan, so let’s try Tampa Bay Buccaneer’s Trivia". I’m trucking along – Q. Seattle vs. Tampa Bay, 1976, was called? A. Expansion Bowl; Q. Which Bucs player was named MVP at the 2006 Pro Bowl? A. Derrick Brooks; Q. What number did Gaines Adams wear?
Huh? Who’s Gaines Adams?
So yeah, it’s challenging.
Questions are submitted by Triviafix community members. Members can compete head to head or create teams and have team competitions. There are scoreboards for every category and subcategory page, so if you’re a Tampa Bay expert you could top the charts for Tampa Bay trivia even though you may not have broad sports trivia knowledge. What’s so cool about that?
Triviafix awards prizes to top players in all the sports categories.
Yes, you get a chance to win something for all that so-called useless information your wife or mother tells you is a waste of your time!
Football – Jacksonville Jaguars vs. Denver Broncos
Oh, it was quite a big football weekend here in North Florida!
We’ll get to the Gators shortly; for now, I wanted to point to an article about the Broncos by Woody Paige at The Denver Post. He ain’t pullin’ any punches folks:
They were lucky the first two Sundays. They were lucky on the third Sunday they didn’t lose by the 1,000-0 score I predicted.
It was rather difficult for the Broncos to kick a winning field goal on the final play when they were behind by nine points. And on their behinds.
The previous week there was a half-hour postponement because of lightning. The Broncos needed an invasion of locusts Sunday.
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Afterward the Broncos offered more excuses than the boy without his homework. The dog must have eaten their playbook. The Broncos said they have to look at the films. Wes Craven wouldn’t release those horror movies.
The final implosion occurred when the Broncos had fourth-and-5 at their 9-yard line with 4:19 left. They were within a touchdown. Jay Cutler threw down the middle to tight end Daniel Graham, who was more wide open than Wyoming.
Graham clutched the ball, then dropped it. "It’s a play I should make," he said. The 76,463 who got up to leave would agree.
Looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes.
- Elton John…
Which brings up the special teams, whose play would bring up lunch.
Domenik Hixon, as mentioned here the week before, should not be returning punts or kickoffs or pop bottles. It will be mentioned here again. He fumbled the second-half kickoff. Jacksonville recovered at the 18 and kicked a field goal for a 20-7 lead.
The Jaguars had a 42-yard kickoff return in the second quarter – without a fumble.
Jacksonville attacked Denver where it hurt – up the middle against defensive linemen and linebackers who were playing as if they had motor oil on their hands..
How important was that 12 minute drive in the first half? If the Broncos have one minute, two minutes moe in the fourth quarter, do they go for that idiotic 4th and 5 or do they punt? I don’t know about you, but I saw some momentum swinging their way after the Jags had a series of disasters in the red zone. And if the Broncos had converted that 4th down and marched downfield for the score, winning 21-20, it’s Del Rio on the hot seat for that 3rd down spike at the one – talk about completely losing track of where you are in the game!
I said it before and I’ll say it again: Winning solves sports marketing problems. The Jags will sell a few more tickets thanks to this game, for which they should thank the Broncos.
Really? Penny Hardaway?
“Hello? 1996?”
“This is the Miami Heat calling. Could you send us a guy that pissed off our star center, acted like a primadonna when he didn’t have the skills to back it up, got a championship coach fired, and now hasn’t played competitive basketball in YEARS?”
As my brothers and I used to say when we were kids, “Smooth move, Ex-Lax”.
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