Archive for September 6th, 2006

Oklahoma running back Adrian Peterson racked up 139 yards and scored two touchdowns againt UAB in Oklahoma 24-17 win this weekend. Offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson said it wasn’t good enough.

“I said, ‘Hey, that ain’t close to what you need to play,’” Wilson said Tuesday. “He goes, ‘I know.’”

“I told him after the game, ‘If you’re a man, you need to go in and tell those guys you didn’t play your best.’ He was dancing too much early, he’s looking for big plays instead of sticking it, being decisive and making great cuts,” Wilson said.

Instead of that, here’s an idea: have an offense that’s prepared to produce, even if your corrupt program loses it’s star quarterback because he was taking money he didn’t earn. As an offensive coordinator, maybe, if he’s a man, he’ll go in front of his team and say, “Well, without Bomar, we’re only good enough to score 24 points against UAB, and that’s only if Adrian Peterson bails us out with two second-half touchdowns, and that’s because I didn’t coach my best.”

I understand him getting on Adrian Peterson. Sometimes, you get on your stars and leaders more than anyone else, but keep that private. Peterson’s a good player, and a smart player, he knows what he can improve. You can tell him about it, but I don’t know why want to make him hear about it on ESPN, too. Why say this to the media?

And why does Peterson have to go in front of the team and apologize for his performance? Is anyone apologizing to him?

How embarrased is that kid right now? His dad was just on every news show in the country, flipping out because his son took a little bit of a late hit. Now he’s going to get picked on all the time, and the other kid can say, “What are you going to do, have your dad beat me up? Yeah, maybe when he gets out of Chino.”

I believe the team in black was losing, so the big kid probably made the hit on the little guy out of pure frustration. That happens, they’re youngsters. The kid who took the hit got right up, wasn’t injured, he’s fine … throw the flag, 15 yards, we all move on.

But here come daddy (an assistant freaking coach, even) like a bolt of lightning. He runs and puts a leaping knee into the kid, knocking him down… and then my favorite part, he starts backing up like he just saw Godzilla. He’s man enough to hit a 13-year-old, but when a ref steps in his direction, he starts backing up like a little girl. Yeah, he’ll do well in the joint.

This is just fantastic. How insane does a guy have to be for something like that to happen? Maybe the guy just picked this particular day to start up a cocaine habit. He actually escaped the scene, bit the police, through some amazing detective work, were able to track down the guy with the use of the videotape, his son, the other coaches on the staff, and the hundred or so witnesses that all knew exactly who he was.

I know we’ve beaten this thing to death, but just one more time … Zinedine Zidane is a pussy. Marco Materazzi revealed yesterday what it was that set Zidane off at the World Cup, and if you believe Materazzi… yeah, Zidane’s a pussy. Even if you don’t believe Materazzi, Zidane’s a pussy. Here’s what Marco said:

In Tuesday’s interview with the Gazzetta dello Sport, Materazzi disclosed that after he held his opponent’s shirt, Zidane said: “If you want, I’ll give you the jersey later.”

“I responded that I preferred his sister, it’s true,” Materazzi said. “It wasn’t something nice, true. But luckily there have been dozens of players who have confirmed that a lot worse things are said on the field.”

Well, here’s hoping that Zidane never ends up sitting in the front row at an Andrew Dice Clay performance.

I just can’t imagine that Zidane hasn’t heard worse than that. Either Materazzi is lying, guys just don’t talk trash to Zidane, or he was just overwhelmed with the pressure of playing in the World Cup, and the flipped out. I’d really be shocked if Zidane hadn’t heard worse than that before, but at the same time … that would be pretty consistent with everything that both Zidane and Materazzi said about the incident.

If he’s going to head butt someone’s chest because of this, then I don’t think the guy could even have a conversation with me. About 20 minutes ago, I accused a very close friend of mine of giving a handjob to a dead elk, for no good reason (as if there could be a good reason for something like that). Let’s just hope these two crazy kids can make up.

“He has not apologized to me and I certainly don’t have to apologize to him. If anything, I owe apologies to his sister, although I swear, before all this mess I didn’t even know Zidane had a sister,” he said.

Materazzi said that he thought the two could put the incident behind them.

“If peace can be made after terrible wars can Zidane and I not make peace? A peace between men, without much publicity, certainly yes.

“The door of my house will always be open to him and if he wants, Zidane knows how to find out my address,” said Materazzi.

The perfect way for this to end, obviously, is for Materazzi to put his Italian sausage down on Zidane’s sister.

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