Great link from Daring Fireball for the book ’19-0: The Historic Championship Season of New England’s Unbeatable Patriots’. I particularly like the user-added tag of ”dewey defeats truman” (go and vote for it now) and the apparently unhacked fact that users who looked at this also bought “Lost: Season 3”
I’ve tagged this as Sport, but perhaps I should add Hubris.
Update: 5 minutes after I post the page has already gone. But it was a legit Amazon page, honest!
Just finished watching the game (no, I didn’t stay up, I recorded it) and without wanting to sound like Greg Easterbrook, trying to trademark the character sequence (it’s hardly even a phrase) “19-0” is an insult to the footbaling gods, who clearly responded.
Just watching the Packers-Broncos game and noticed a player called Atari Bigby. Atari is a Japanese word meaning attack, but clearly that’s not its most prominent use. Perhaps in another decade or so we’ll have a Nintendo Morris in the league. I’m guessing XBox 360 Jones may not make it past college.
This clip is entertaining enough, but the commentary is great – I can only assume that the commentator had bet heavily on the result.
(HT: Daring Fireball)
In a slightly disorientating experience yesterday, I watched the Timberwolves lose to the Celtics last night on British TV. Not only was I watching it when none of the many Minnesotans I work with able to (they were at work), but KG, the player synonymous with the Wolves for the last decade, was playing for the Celtics.
The oddness of the situation was mitigated by my indifference to basketball; it’s the only major sport we didn’t watch while in the US, and I don’t regret missing the squeaking and the tallness and the back and forth and the squeaking.