If you have ever coached football, you probably have had a play not work out exactly as you planned. There are many reasons for failure, but probably poor execution is the primary cause a play does not work. Here is a link that provides an example of really bad execution:

Worst HS football play ever?

That's all for today.

Jeff
 

As the only highly paid sports reporter on this site, I am proud to announce the following extra special, earth-scattering sports news, perhaps the greatest single sports happening of the 21st Century to date, and it is a YouGab exclusive:

Brett, it is official, you have been voted as the greatest athlete that has ever graced the screen at ESPN.  Babe Ruth, hell he was dead and buried almost 30 years before ESPN first hit the cable channels.  Michael Jordan, Kobe has stated many times that you couldn't fill his jock and we believe him.  Wayne Gretzky, that game you mastered was only hockey.  Wilt Chamberlain, your womanizing record was easily toppled by the pick-up lines of Tiger Woods.  Tiger, you are a mere sand trap of your former self. 

Brilliant Rocket Scientist Lew Troop put it the most succinctly, "The odds are 50/50 that we will discover other alien life-forms within the next 25 years.  To find a better athlete, teammate, and all-around good guy that Brett Favre in that time-frame would be more like a billion to one".

All this excitement was, of course, generated by Favre's marvelous back-peddling in those four magnificent plays that he was involved in in last evening's Vikings and 49er's exhibition game.  It was obvious that 49er coach Mike Singletary had put a bounty on Favre's carcass for the game.  It was more obvious that Brett's happy feet were a result of his memory of his last play in last season's NFC Championship game, where Brett was sandwiched by the Saints' defense like a triple-decker deluxe BLT  (minus the cheese, he left that in Green Bay). 

Terelle Owens had 12 million reasons not to kill himself a couple of years ago, Brett has 8 million more reasons than that just to play this season.  Of course, he isn't in it for the money.  Look at it this way, when he lands on the disabled list in a New York minute just as soon as the regular season starts, he can double his pay while announcing babble, dribble, and dreck as a color man for Sunday Night Football.  What a guy, what an athlete, what a teammate,  what a country.

P.S. Brett...you are not even close to being the oldest quarterback to play in the NFL, George Blanda was 46.  Sachel Page pitched in the major leagues when he was 58.   

To say I’m not surprised we’re here is an understatement, this has obviously been coming for a while, a few of us predicted it, a couple of us have written about it only to be told we don’t know what we’re talking about. However, when you watch the numbers and have at least half a sense of how business works it was pretty clear to see that a website that did everything it could do to piss off its customer base was bound to end up either going in a different direction or folding.

When TSN announced this week that they were disbanding the site in its current form many immediately came out and started exchanging their emails and messages of goodbye. They also voiced their displeasure over the call.  Now they might be eliminating the community there in the current form it is in, but whatever it is they’re planning is not going over very well. The rug was pulled out from under many who have called that place home for sports commentary and camaraderie from as far back as 2004, and from the looks of the site that they’re installing there’s not much chance that’s really what people want. Was it a bad business move? I think so. Jeff Price, the new president of TSN thinks what people really want is sports on the go, which is another way to say he’s banking on the Blackberry crowd for a lot of traffic. I’ve looked at the current posts up by their writing staff and only one had any “LIKES”, which in translation means so far no one is interested in the idea of promoting this format at all.  

Personally I’d like to see the research Price used before he came to this decision, because from what I’m looking at right now it makes me say –“I’m not getting it”, I understand the concept, I’m just not sure it was wise to begin a networking format when the whole idea behind it depends on reader’s promoting it and the very reader’s you’ve counted on for years are being shafted so it’s hard to fathom they’d stay around to do you a favor. It also seems the demographic they’ll be reaching are those in the 17-25 age group with the launch of Rowdy.com and that as of now isn’t even complete. So it’s safe to say they didn’t learn anything from the 2.0 debacle that blew up in their face. What a mess that was if you recall.

But from one’s loss is another’s gain,  we’ve learned a few of the member’s at TSN are launching in the coming month or so their own site and we wish them all the luck in the world with that, and we also have seen some rollover from TSN as well. If the powers that be would like to know where all their traffic went, all they need to do is click to a few outside places and they’ll see where they went, because they aren’t there. When they stop by here I’ll personally hand Jeff Price and Marcus DiNitto (when he makes his way back from Santa Monica, where he was sent to work with Yahoo on TSN’s behalf) their very own Gold Plunger by Binford, because this week “Sporting News FEED” is the “YGS Tool of the Week”!!!

The runner up in this week’s voting was Antonio Cromartie from the New York Jets, who has so many kids, mostly three year olds, that he has trouble remembering their names on command. There are only a couple of reasons I could see this happening; one, he hasn’t ever met them, so out of site out of mind, or, he’s just not in the practice of writing their names on the memo line of his child support checks. Either way, it sure looked pretty bad on camera for this year’s Hard Knock’s show on HBO. There he was, eye’s rolling, trying to name them and count them on his fingers, pausing between names like he was asked to name the 50 states alphabetically…what a dolt. I don’t know what’s worse, that he had an over-active libido that produced numerous offspring in ’07-08, or that he never thought to consult Larry Johnson first before he went without purchasing at least one box of Trojans. For Antonio, we at the Gab have a real special surprise; Antonio gets to choose from one of these two gifts, we’re donating either a lifetime supply of stickers that say “HELLO, My NAME IS…” or the cost of a vasectomy. We’ll let you all know what Antonio says when we hear back from his agent, if he can remember who it is.

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