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5 ‘Fab-YOU-lous’ Hot Chick Items
COMING UP TUESDAY:
CHICK’S LIST OF 27
DECEASED BENGALS
NOW READ ABOUT JUSTIN TUCK,
WVU’S CHOKE-JOB, RYDER CUP
AND ELI MANNING’S ‘POPS’
1. Coming to LUDWIG AT LARGE on Tuesday, Sept. 23, at 9 a.m.: Chick Ludwig’s list of 27 deceased Cincinnati Bengals players.
2. Thirty-two NFL teams missed out on Justin Tuck — TWICE! — in the 2005 NFL draft. The Bengals selected David Pollack (No. 17) and Odell Thurman (No. 48) in the first and second rounds. Tuck went No. 74 overall — the 10th pick in the third round — to the New York Giants. Tuck has five sacks in his last three games (including Super Bowl XLII).
3. West Virginia’s clock management in a 17-14 OT loss at Colorado on Thursday night, Sept. 18, was the worst I’ve ever witnessed in a college football game.
The score’s tied at 14 … the Mountaineers drive to midfield with more than a minute to play … they have two time-outs to burn. AND THEY DON’T USE THEM! Worse, they’re runnin’ the ball and throwin’ the ball, and STAYING IN-BOUNDS! What’s up with that?
Finally, they call a time-out with 4 seconds remaining and Pat White’s Hail Mary falls woefully short of the end zone.
In OT, the ‘Neers drive to the shadow of the Buffaloes’ goal line, but settle for a field goal attempt — severe left-to-right angle — that splatters against the left upright.
Colorado boots a FG to win it and every student from Boulder to Fort Collins to Grand Junction is on the field, celebrating a win over No. 21 WVU as if the ‘Neers were Bud Wilkinson’s Oklahoma unit that won 47 straight games from 1953 to 1957,
WVU coach Bill Stewart — who just signed a six-year contract that will pay him $800,000 this year with an annual increase of $50,000 — looked as confused as a first grader boarding a school bus for the first time. And I give a huge Thumbs Down to Pat White’s draft stock.
Stewart & White reminded me of Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels in “Dumb & Dumber” (1994).
4. Does anybody actually give a rat about the Ryder Cup? I can’t watch it today because I know in my heart that if I start, I won’t be able to stop. However, I’m as confident about a kick-butt European romp as I am about a Giants’ blowout victory over the Bengals on Sunday at the Meadowlands.
I TOTALLY AGREE with Andy North: The Ryder Cup captains — Paul Azinger and Nick Faldo — get way, Way, WAY too much attention. Last I checked, neither cat was teeing it up.
I’m much more concerned about what’s happenin’ at the Viking Classic at Annandale Golf Club in Madison, Miss. My main man Frank Lickliter II needs a big Fall Finish to keep his Tour card and avoid Q School. (p.s. When you spell check “Lickliter,” it comes out “Wildcatter.”)
5. Love this quote from Giants QB Eli Manning when asked about his dad, Archie, the immortal Ole Miss and New Orleans Saints star: “I don’t talk much football to Pops any more, But he’s there to keep you updated a little bit with what might be going on. I don’t read the paper much, so he keeps me up with what’s kind of happening.”
I dig Eli. He’s got that aw-shucks, corn-pone demeanor. But underneath that blue No. 10 Giants jersey beats the heart of a football quarterback killer.
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By THTYGR
September 19, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this
RE:(p.s. When you spell check “Lickliter,” it comes out “Wildcatter.”) Hey Chick….you think that’s great….spellcheck LeBeau.