What's neat about that NBC link, is they have 5 different camera angles you can pick from. So on the game-saving 4th down goalline stand, they had that wire-fu camera directy overhead. You could see an arm reach across the Eagle's RB chest, which kept him out.
It's funny/weird/bizarre/unusual, but when I heard former-Giant Dick Lynch had died this past week, I was like "oh. ok. who ?"
Today, pulling up WFAN on the internet to hear the Seahawks-Giants, and hearing the eulogies and memories, and finally hearing his radio calls, I was like "OH SHIT !!! THAT GUY ?!! DAMN."
He was the marble-mouthed Harry Caray/Phil Rizzuto of Giants Broadcasts. The heart and soul of Giants radio broadcasts. He was nowhere near as good as Meryl Reese of the Eagles, but he was pretty damn good and loved the Giants and their fans more than anyone.
When I say he'll be missed, I mean I'm really going to miss him. He had an ability for when things went shitty for the Giants (quite often this past decade, which only made that final pass to Plax to feel like-and continue to feel like - a fantastical daydream,) to not blame the players or coaches and just stoically accept defeat and move on.
Apparently his son had died in the WTC on 9/11. Bob Papa, the main host, said how Lynch was the type of guy that when you went up to him to express your condolences, he knew how much pain it caused you to see him in so much pain, and Lynch was the one who'd put an arm around you first.
Extraordinary guy and broadcaster. No announcing skills, no polish, no great voice, but all heart.
Washington Redskins players marvelling at Philly phans displying their fine sense of stoicism, dignity, manual dexterity and gentlemanly conduct this past weekend as the Redskin's bus drove under an overpass...
During his appearance on Elliot In The Morning today, Chris Cooley discussed yesterday's egging of his team bus by Eagles fans in admiring tones:
"You know what, though, they're good shots," he said of the Philly fans. "They've been practicing. You could see them coming in; they were leading the bus. It was good egging." The Redskins Blog told a similar tale. Herewith, the Redskins discuss yesterday's performance from the Eagles fans and their love of eggs.
"Oh yeah, they just come raining down when you pull in there," Casey Rabach said. "You know, I don't know how many we got hit with, but it looked like a hailstorm."
"They were lighting it up," Devin Thomas said.
"I'm talking about whoop," Malcolm Kelly said.
"I'm talking about the middle of the bus, like, bammmm, like busted and everything," Kedric Golston said. "I ain't never been thrown eggs at. I mean, at Philly, they throw everything."
"My bus only got hit with one egg, but I had my headphones on listening to music, and it was like two windows back, and all you hear was thump," Mike Sellers said. "Everybody starts cracking up, it was like, 'Oh we got here, here it comes.'
"It must have been one of those big ones too, an ostrich egg," Golston said.
"It was crazy, though, because the egg was actually thrown in front of the bus," Kelly said. "It was like a quarterback almost; you throw it to where the receiver's gonna be at. I was very impressed."
"Very impressed," Thomas agreed. "If they ever had a replacement [team] in Philly, they'd have to get that dude for quarterback, because he hit that thing on point."
"You would think it would probably happen in Dallas or something," Sellers said, "[but] they're nicer fans than Philly fans."
"The only thing we ever had happen in college was they tried to rock our bus and stuff," Thomas said.
"Nah, that happened to us: OU-Texas game," Kelly said. "They were throwing nachos, drinks. Everything, everything you could name."
"We didn't get no eggs," Rock Cartwright said of his bus yesterday. "I just know we got flipped off. By everybody, kids and everything."
"You've got the six -year olds flipping you off, and the dad's patting them on the back," Rabach said.
"They give us the bird, we wave," Sellers said. "The universal greeting, I guess, for Philly."
"Grandma's mooning you," Jon Jansen said.
"Oh yeah, definitely," Rabach said.
"I've had some old ladies moon us, oh yeah," Jansen said.
"It's hard to tell from the backside, to tell you the truth," Rabach said.
"Oh, you can tell," Jansen said. "When it's an old lady, you can tell."
"Even all the fans after the game were flipping [us] off, and we had a couple guys that were gonna moon 'em," Cooley said on Elliot. "We were flipping 'em off back. Our windows are so tinted, I really don't think they can see us."
"That just makes 'em happy, that they can [tick] you off," Rabach said.
"All they're looking for is a rise out of you, a reaction," Jansen said.
It's not that the Saints suck, it's just that they're so fucking annoying. They dominate games, make idiotic decisions along the way, come up with some shitbombed fuckups at the worst times, have bullshit calls go against them at the worst times, and they figure out how to lose when there's no way of losing other than being a bunch of stupid fuckups who love fucking up more than winning.
I learned many, many years ago that you don't bet for or against the Saints, no matter who they're playing unless you like losing money. Even if they win a game, they won't cover the spread.
Whoops, New Orleans gives up a 35-yard TD, misses a FG with 2 minutes to go (Gramatica again,) and gives up a 45-yard pass interference call to put Minnesota at the 10 with seconds to go on a 27-27 game.
30-27 Vikes with :13 seconds to go.
Bollocks as they say, or as they will say when the Saints choke in London.