Did anyone else just witness NFL history?
 

A missed 52-yard Jay Feely field goal attempt for the New York Giants was recepted by Devin Hester (#23) of the Chicago Bears. He hesitated for a couple of moments, the Giants figured he was making a fair catch and taking a knee for a touchback, and then he just took off going 108 yards, from near the back of his end zone, all the way for a touchdown. It's the longest play in NFL history.

What is it about sports teams from Chicago and the number 23?
What is it about the number twenty-three in general? Any Robert Anton Wilson heads out there reading?

Hehe

John Madden just made an apt comment:

"I'll tell you one thing, you don't wanna play poker with that guy. He fooled everybody."

I think of 23 as a Burroughs/Psychic TV thing.
And spectator sports are lame.

Jay Feely is a ne'er-do-well.

was MJ #23 when he played for the White Sox?
don't remember...

Yeah, and they were reading Robert Anton Wilson, no doubt haha...fucking hippie philosopher...he is entertaining though and there's some brilliant stuff in amongst the overall half-truth.


Picasso liked sports, so did Rauschenberg. Malkmus and Nostanovich are big sports fans; Lee digs his tennis.

And so do I. I'm very much enjoying some ATP tennis at the Masters Tournament in Shanghai, but the above Sunday Night Football occurrence was worthy of turning the stereo down for and hearing the commentary. Federer just won and now Roddick has a match.

actually, he wore #45 when he went back. and then changed it back to 23.

I cherish that I got to see most of Jordan's games in his prime and before that, with the North Carolina Tarheels. Add to his nearly peerless athletic prowess that he's a man who could meld art with commerce tastefully and that he is a very ethical person, yet not uptight.


I think Feely is a pretty damn good kicker.
Unfortunately though, he seems to only fuck up under the pressure in big mass-audience games, thus earning the bad reputation among quite a number of people like yourself. Oh, and SNL did that funny sketch about him.

Yeah I was watching......the Sunday night games have been way better than the Monday night ones.

The fact there are a lot of cool people who like sports (some of whom are on this very board) is not enough to convince me that sports are worth my time. I have never understood the appeal. Then again, I'm just a "big fucking poseur with a stick up his ass and an axe to grind" anyway, so my opinion isn't worth much.

My opinion is worth much more than anyone else's on this board and I agree with you, Clone. Sports are fucking lame.

The only good thing about sports is the latently (or otherwise) homoerotic post-game showering rituals.

i witnessed no such thing, i was busy plotting the invasion of botswana when the phone rang

SC, When it comes to The Beatles, yeah, you're that all right.
There's a lot of headcases about here. A club in which I'm not only a member, I'm also the president.

Just excuse me here.

What is the Jenny Holzer slogan/aphorism?

Men develop rituals so that they can touch each other.

I like the NFL as a kid, and I've been a tennis fan since high school. Then, for a few formative years, I didn't pay much attention to sports either because there was always so much going on and I used to have to work a lot harder and put in long hours from time to time at various jobs.
And then by the time I was in the latter half of my twenties I became a sports fan again.

Jenny Holzer is super lame.

I don't follow football but I might start since the fuckin flyers are turnin my hair gray

Well, that's not how you sounded in your first post:
No one is trying to convince you that you're not cool if you don't like sports.
You start off so nicely qualifying everthing articulately "I (just myself personally) think of (whatever it is being discussed) as" ...you do this so politely, and then you immediately go into:
You write that sentence like it is some pronouncement by the demi-god Savage Clone.
Why is it that naerly every time sports are written about there's always this same bullshit? One thing explains it:

Well, the "spectator sports are lame" line is purely personal opinion.
Like I said, I know plently of cool, smart people that like sports for some reason.