Just met Jerraud Powers
by MonkeyBusiness on Feb 25, 2010 11:17 PM EST
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So a lady friend of mine and I are at the Pacers game tonight, and she had to take a quick call from work. I was checking Twitter, and saw that Jerraud Powers was at the game. I tweeted him, asked if we could say hi, and he tweeted back sure.
Well, we didn't know where he was or what he was wearing or anything, so we're looking around Conseco trying to figure out who he is. We go up to this one guy, ask if he's Jerraud Powers, and he's like, "Uh, no." So, dejected, we go back to our seats. We start looking around the arena, and basically start stalking random people.
Anyway, we see this one guy get up. He's got a Yankees cap on, pulled low, and is walking out. We figure, might as well try, so we go outside and see him in the hall. I go, "Excuse me, are you Jerraud Powers?" and he goes "Ha, yeah, you Monkey?" We laugh, introduce ourselves, shake hands, and make some small talk. He signed some programs for my date and I. Said that because he usually hangs out with Brackett and Bethea, most people don't even notice him. He just got braces, so I gave him a little orthodontic advice, and wished him a good night.
Basically, he was cool as hell about the whole thing. Got a good laugh, a great story, and an autograph out of it.
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he's from Alabama and went to Auburn
I disapprove of his yankee fandom. Freeney I give a pass for being from Connecticut and going to Syracuse, but why Jerraud why?
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by shake n bake on Feb 26, 2010 12:33 AM EST up reply actions
Cubs fan would have been worse :)
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by TheAngelsColts on Feb 26, 2010 12:42 AM EST up reply actions
Hey!
Nothing wrong with my loveable losers ;)
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As a former resident of Wrigleyville let me say this:
There is absolutely nothing wrong with Wrigleyville.
There is a lot wrong with the Cubs, starting with being “lovable” losers. Let’s just drop the “lovable” and call it what it really is: “heavily drinkable”.
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by MonkeyBusiness on Feb 26, 2010 10:11 AM EST up reply actions
As a current resident of Wrigleyville let me say this:
Love the place, hate the team, and don’t pity the fans one bit.
I might get drunk one night and accidentally blow Wrigley up.
Mock drafts are stupid and pointless.
lol
Great signature line, btw.
"I throw, you catch. It's NOT that hard!"
Peyton Manning, SNL, 2007
by peytonsthebest on Feb 26, 2010 3:55 PM EST up reply actions
Your sig. line made me laugh, love it!
"You can't defend the perfect throw, what can I say?" Peyton quoting Marino
"As I grow older, the list of people who can kiss my ass grows longer"-Ancient Hoosier Proverb.
I'm with Lori and PTB...
That sig line is great! Seriously, who gives a shit!? Some people have way too much time on their hands…
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Freeney is a front runner
He was wearing a Mets hat at minicamp that one year they franchised him when he was there as a spectator. No true Yankee fan wears a Mets hat. Ever. It’s not even a hated rivalry type thing. It’s just wrong.
Mock drafts are stupid and pointless.
Well yeah. There’s no such thing as Yankee fans. It’s the only pro sports franchise comprised entirely of, as ’Sheed so eloquently put it, “Bandwagon Ass Cats”.
/Mets fan
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by MonkeyBusiness on Feb 26, 2010 10:13 AM EST up reply actions
I am not going to try and find the link, but...
Saw an interview of Freeney on Rome once and he said that he is a Mets fan but wears the Yankee’s hat purely for fashion reasons.
Dun nuh nuh nuhhhh!!!! Super Mathis
by hoosier in sodak on Feb 26, 2010 11:05 AM EST up reply actions
ugh
It embarrasses me to be a fan of a team whose logo is apparently a fashion statement, as well as a player who would admit he does such a thing for fashion reasons.
Dwight, that is one step up from admitting you love playing for the Colts because you look so good in their colors. Come on, man.
Mock drafts are stupid and pointless.
Those of us that are non-bandwagon asscats would rather you just choose another team. :)
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by MonkeyBusiness on Feb 26, 2010 3:52 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Indeed!
The Yankees are worse than the Pats, Cowboys, or Redskins when it comes to trying to buy championships…
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and how do the pats buy their championships???
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They love picking up those "big name" free agents, that's how...
Moss, Seau, J. Taylor…I think Brady and Faulk are the only big names that they actually drafted themselves.
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even I will defend the Pats here
I don’t think it’s possible to buy a championship in a sport whose league has a salary cap. By your logic, the Redskins would be champs in recent years, not the Pats.
How can you not love a team that does this?
The Skins would be champs...
If their owner and former GM weren’t complete imbeciles. Furthermore, I said all those teams try to buy championships. I never claimed any of them succeeded or that it was even possible. Just an observation that some (better) teams choose to draft well and build their players up, other teams choose to cherry pick the big names.
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more like throw away players
Moss was traded for a 4th rd pick, Seau was going to retire when the Pats called him, J Taylor…no one wants him except for the fins and the pats. Rodney Harrison…he was cut by the Chargers who thought he was on the decline.
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And all three of those are why the Pats got blown out in the first round, and the Colts went to the Super Bowl.
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by MonkeyBusiness on Mar 4, 2010 10:18 AM EST up reply actions
well i beg to differ
Mike Vrabel…got cut by the Steelers,
Rodney Harrison-got cut by the Chargers.
Rosevelt Colvin- got cut by the Bears
were the building blocks of the Pats dynasty.
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That Moss trade is one more evidence
that Belichick has junk on Al Davis. Unbelievable.
by coltsfanawalt on Mar 4, 2010 6:47 PM EST up reply actions
we all know Al Davis
is senile. Richard Seymour is one of the best 3-4DE/4-3DT in the game but he is also 31 years old. If i was the Raiders, i would have traded my 2nd round pick but never a 1st rounder……then again this moron drafted a kicker in the 1st round.
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Very belatedly: You just opened up a whole can of worms.
Don’t start in on that “Yankees buy their championships” nonsense. They’ve had the highest payroll for the last 10 years, yet they haven’t won every year. Maybe because money is just one factor of many in baseball?
Fun fact: the Yankees 2009 payroll was LESS than their 2008. Why wasn’t anyone whining about the Yankees buying 3rd place in the AL East in 2008? When they win it’s because they bought it. When they lose it’s because they’re chokers. Haters gonna hate.
lmao good point!
I should’ve been more specific :)
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The Yankees most definitely bought their championship this past season. They were the only team with a payroll north of $200 million. Actually, the Yankees payroll was greater than the bottom four payrolls combined. They spent $50 million more than their closest competitor (the Mets). They basically took the Mets payroll, and added the Pirates payroll on top of it.
The reason no one was whining about the Yankees buying 3rd place in 2008 is because they were too busy laughing at them spending $210 million for third place.
Also, prior to this season, they hadn’t won since 2000. So I guess it was just a question of how much money Steinbrenner was willing to throw at the problem.
Basically, I hold the Yankees up as an example of why the Salary Cap is a good thing.
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by MonkeyBusiness on Mar 4, 2010 10:17 AM EST up reply actions
ZING! Again!
You’re full of ’em, MB!
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Ugh. Agreed
Not much you can do about it, though—the NYY logo is like the golden arches or the Nike swoosh—iconic, global, a brand that goes way beyond the team. Win or lose, the NYY logo is a very strong global brand and will always sell. I hate that I don’t have a Yankee hat yet cannot bring myself to buy one (unless it’s as a little league coach—this year my oldest is a Mariner, so I will get one of those.)
This is hard for me as a Pirates fan first (don’t ask) but as a Met-hater who lived a short subway ride away from my season seats at The (old) Stadium, and from a family of 99.9% Yankee fans (Gramp used to play cards with Yogi and Scooter—I caddied at their country club but never met them). I like the Yankees, but it’s a lot more casual than my Colts fan relationship, which is probably second behind my family… generally. Sometimes, well, uh, never mind.
But DWIGHT, MAN, no self-respecting Met fan would wear NYY, and vice versa. (Mets/Dodgers and NYY/BOS are worse, but still….) I once saw an awesome t-shirt at The Stadium that read, “My two favorite teams are the Yankees and whoever is playing the Mets.” So that is a truly weird thing for 93 to say. CT is generally divided by NYY fans to the south and west and BOS fans to the north and east. Upstate NY is (or was when I was a local) NYY territory.
Freeney is clearly in need of some serious psychiatric help.
But for somebody from elsewhere, wearing it as a fashion accessory is reasonable.
I hate Joe Namath. That's how long I've been a Colts fan.
I guess it’s because I didn’t grow up down in the greater NYC area, but I never understood the Mets hate. I don’t hate the Mets at all. I find their current regime and their foolishness hilarious, so I kind of root against them for now, but it’s not like they’re great rivals or anything. The Yankees are much better in every way, always have been, and always will be. For that reason, I understand why the Mets fans hate the Yankees. But there’s no reason to care one way or the other about the Mets if you’re a Yankee fan. So why go out of your way to wear a shirt declaring your hate for them?
Red Sox, sure. Hate away. Though I’d still argue that expending any energy hating them just makes you like one of their inferiority complex-having fans, but at least they’re division rivals and it makes sense to hate them.
Mock drafts are stupid and pointless.
Freeney's actually a Mets fan
He just likes the Yankees logo/colors better. I fogive him for both baseball transgressions because he eats QBs.
by Reds_Colts1975 on Feb 26, 2010 10:13 PM EST up reply actions
freeney is a ny lover being from CT?
i would have thought he would be a red sox lover….heck even Brady likes the Yanks.
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Hartford is the middle of CT, about where the boundary lines are drawn
W and S CT has a lot of people who commute to NY for work or school or NYers who have 2nd homes in that part of CT.
East and NE CT tends to have people who have more Rhode Island and Boston connections.
I hate Joe Namath. That's how long I've been a Colts fan.
Perchance...
His father was a Yankees fan.
It’s the reason I am. I grew up in a household in Indiana that loved the Yankees (and they sucked for the vast majority of it until ’94).
Donald Arthur Mattingly was and remains my baseball hero.
53% of statistics are made up on the spot.
awesome
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by TheAngelsColts on Feb 26, 2010 12:08 AM EST reply actions
Nice man.
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Very cool.
I hope you told him how much we love him! ;-)
"I throw, you catch. It's NOT that hard!"
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by peytonsthebest on Feb 26, 2010 10:54 AM EST reply actions
That's really cool.
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Random fact of the week from the empty void that is my mind: This is one of the most underrated shows ever.
Did you scold him for not being at home watching game film
Peyton would have….
I am really glad we have Powers—he pulled out fat out of the fire this year with the CB injuries, and also broke our “curse of the 3rd round pick.” He’s like a big silver bullet embedded into the tip of a stake driven through the heart of a creature that’s half werewolf and half vampire bat and half zombie—yes, three halves—it was freakin’ huge before Powers killed it.
I hate Joe Namath. That's how long I've been a Colts fan.
Nice story,
I like Powers, Twitter comes in handy sometimes doesn’t it?
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Yeah. With the prevalence of smartphones amongst the general populace, I’m surprised this kind of thing doesn’t happen more often. That, and I fully expect there to be a lot more digital stalking cases being reported.
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by MonkeyBusiness on Mar 1, 2010 8:40 AM EST up reply actions
That's a really awesome story.
Powers sounds like a great guy. How fun is it to tweet a pro athlete at an event in order to say hi in person? Viva le technology!
The whole thing was actually a little nerve wracking. I mean, c’mon, he plays for the Colts! Why would he even pay attention to me? Still though, really neat experience and a funny story.
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by MonkeyBusiness on Mar 4, 2010 10:19 AM EST up reply actions
I love that some of the players
are so accessible to the fans. I’ll miss Brock’s tweets.
I guess I should catch up with the 21st century and sign-up for twitter….grumble, grumble.
"I throw, you catch. It's NOT that hard!"
Peyton Manning, SNL, 2007
by peytonsthebest on Mar 5, 2010 8:43 PM EST up reply actions
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