What will we do now?

It seems that the former Green Bay quarterback with the ego that matches all of the state of Wisconsin has signed with Minnesota for at least two years.
He said his daughter made the decision for him.
I can't say what I really think. Even free speech has its limits. But it wasn't his daughter that made the choice. The QB's out-of-control ego did.
Now that he has a place to play, we can turn our attention to something just as asinine.
Is Michael Jackson still dead?

Leave it alone already

Did anyone else notice a certain amount of glee in the on-field problems of one former Denver quarterback over the weekend? -- you know, the one whose last name sounds like a collection of silverware on the dinner table?
Yes, he did have problems. So did his replacement in Denver. Yes, it's the first game of the preseason.
And, more to the point of this --
No one cares.
The former Broncos QB is a top-notch jerk. But he's not news in this part of the world any more. If the local media want to take a critical look at something, examine the yearly made-up quarterback controversy. But leave the dinner-ware dude out of the discussion.

Eagles land Vick

So jump in with both feet ... good move? Bad move?
First glance says Vick may not get a lot of playing time once he's reinstated. After all, there is some guy named McNabb in front of him who still plays pretty well.

In case you'd forgotten

The Colorado Rockies Web site is still quite adept at throwing people out of the ticket queue on their Web site ... even for regular season games. It happened twice Saturday morning in the span of about five minutes.
That Web site has to be the worst thing about the team, save, perhaps, for that moronic purple dinosaur. It should not be that hard to log on, pick a game, chose seats for the chosen game and make a transaction.

Scully may be finished in 2010

There was an item on the Web Wednesday morning about the retirement of legendary Dodgers' announcer Vin Scully, perhaps as early as the end of next season. If true, Scully will have worked in seven decades and 61 seasons for one team – not to mention doing a host of other things that other teams would do well to follow.
His heir apparent, Eric Collins, was hired this year and does the TV games east of the Rocky Mountains – about 40 in all.
One of the columnists in the L.A. Times, Chris Erskine, ripped Collins in print. While not wishing to be the next voice of the Dodgers after Vin Scully, the writer still pointed out that Collins is "painful and seems to need more seasoning."
Duh.
Anyone who takes on any new job is going to need seasoning. The secret is to give the employee time to make the job his own. All of us have been the recipient of such patience.
I've not heard Collins, but I am sure his style is different from Scully's. Whose wouldn't be? There are two people in the world who can quote Shakespeare, Chaucer and show tunes in the span of a baseball game – Scully and his mentor, Red Barber.
Somebody gave Scully the opportunity to put his stamp on the Dodgers' broadcasts once upon a time. And it worked rather well, I dare say. It would be nice if the L.A. media would be as kind to Eric Collins.

Vick a Bronco?

If you were in charge of the Broncos' payroll, would you sign him?
The floor is open.

Slow days to come

I'm not a big fan of media coverage of every breath taken at anyone's training camp.
But it is August, and everyone and his mother are at Broncos training camp to do their yearly chronicle.
Guess that means I won't be subjected to reports of daily choices of music before practice.
I'm heartbroken.