Easy Football Drawing Where Does Kid Owner Take Place
The 2 O'Clock: You might enjoy Thursday Night Football, but your average NFLer thinks it stinks
OK, the week is rolling along beautifully. Of course it is; after all, this is Desert Island Songs Week here at the 10 and 2 O'Clock blogs.
By now you're familiar with the concept: I have 10 songs I can take with me to a desert island. It's never fun to be stranded — I'm skinny enough, don't know how long I'd last — but at least I would have 10 great songs with me that I could just put on a loop until they, the relentless sun and the lack of fresh water would drive me to madness.
The first three songs are already booked: Frankie Goes to Hollywood's The Power of Love, Dire Straits' Brother in Arms, and the latest entry from this morning: Band of Horses' No One's Gonna Love You. All magnificent.
So on to the fourth song, and I wrestled with this one. I really wanted to pick a Bob Dylan song, but couldn't decide which one. My short list included about 10 Dylan songs from the 1960's, another five from the '70's, a couple from the past decade. So I'm surprised that a song from 1984 should sneak up and make its way onto the list. Like The Power of Love, there is religious imagery and lyrics in Dylan's Jokerman. But really, I just always loved the melody and Dylan's singing.
I certainly enjoy the original more than the New Wave version he sang on David Letterman, an appearance noted because Dylan was usually quite abysmal on TV (and really often not that much better in concert; I do recall one pretty uninspiring performance at the Orpheum several years ago). And guess who played guitar? Yep, Mark Knopfler — already honoured once here at Desert Island Songs Week.
THEY'RE NOT READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL
So, the Houston Texans and Jacksonville Jaguars are a combined 5-19 this season. Things have not gone well for either team. Figure they're also pretty beaten up. Is that a fine time to stick them in prime time this Thursday night? The whole Thursday Night Football issue is front and centre today for the Monday Morning Quarterback's Robert Klemko. Seems the players don't like it very much. Like, say, the Texans' heralded receiver Andre Johnson. His opinion? "I don't like them. I guess because they don't play in the league office, they don't understand how your body feels." And as Klemko writes, the NFL understanding how one's body feels is probably not the NFL's chief concern. There is plenty of money tied up in the Thursday games package; that's what's important.
CHARTERS? EXTRA LEG ROOM? CATERED AIRPLANE FOOD? SIGN US UP!
There's plenty of build-up to Friday's 2014 FIFA World Cup draw in Sao Paulo, and loads of storylines. One of them, writes Sports Illustrated's influential Grant Wahl, is the travel. Just as important as the teams in your group? How far you might need to go to play your games. One of the venues is a place called Manaus, which Wahl refers to as an "Amazon outpost." There's no doubt about it: Brazil is a big country and its venues are spread out. Welcome to North America's issues. The fact is, if any team complains about their travel, they're obviously traveling by donkey. It's a pretty modern world out there, and the athletes are no longer the chain-smoking, McDonald's-eating slobs they once were. Still, you know it will be a story.
ALGONQUIN ENFORCER'S FIGHTING SPIRIT
It's only been a few weeks since we, and you, saw Gino Odjick on the ice at Rogers Arena, celebrating his buddy Pavel Bure's jersey retirement. But now the Journal de Montreal is reporting that the former Canucks enforcer was admitted to the pyschiatric wing of a hospital in Gatineau, Que., to deal with the brain injuries he may well have incurred playing pro hockey. Here's the story. Odjick is a good man. Here's hoping he'll get the help he needs.
FINALLY, A FEW QUICK HITS
You might have noticed that last weekend's Tsumura Basketball Invitational at the Langley Events Centre once again featured Nevada's Findlay Prep, the top high-school team in the U.S. But as John Walters of Newsweek writes, Findlay isn't exactly a high school. (Which is also why the TBI's hometown challengers to Findlay Prep were all-star teams, not any given high-school team from this area.)
Down in Seattle, a few college football fans are reeling over the news that University of Washington Huskies head coach Steve Sarkisian has bolted for the sunnier, warmer pastures of USC. So who will replace Sarkisian? Larry Stone of the Seattle Times has a solid idea, and you don't have to look far: Jim Mora, the second-year head coach of the UCLA Bruins. After all, Mora went to high school in suburban Bellevue — and then played college football for the Huskies — while his dad was the defensive line coach for the Seattle Seahawks. "Mora might well decide the best place to continue to (recruit and motivate) is at UCLA, a program on the rise nationally, and sure to open up its resources to keep him," writes Stone. "Or he might listen to his heart, tugging him toward the job he always yearned for."
And speaking of the Seahawks, they are off to San Francisco this weekend in a game that, a couple of months ago, looked like it might determine who'd win the NFC West. Now that the Seahawks are 11-1 and the 49ers are 8-4, that no longer seems to be the situation. And it seems that even if it were, the San Francisco Chronicle columnist Ann Killion suggests the outcome of the game isn't that critical. After all, she points out that none of the past three Super Bowl winners — the Baltimore Ravens, New York Giants and Green Bay Packers — even had 11-win regular seasons. They all had to play in the first week of the postseason — which the Seahawks almost certainly won't.
Finally, Rick Morrissey of the Chicago Sun-Times has some issues with first-year Bears head coach Marc Trestman, the former Alouettes boss. Namely, that he feels Trestman has made some questionable judgment calls. His most recent questionable judgment call was attempting to kick a long field goal in overtime last weekend against the Minnesota Vikings, when the Bears could have used a couple more downs to get better field position. The kick was no good; the Vikings came back to win. And just like that, the Bears' chances of making the playoffs are in serious jeopardy.
See you tomorrow!
Source: https://theprovince.com/sports/the-2-oclock-you-might-enjoy-thursday-night-football-but-your-average-nfler-thinks-it-stinks
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