Mikey, good horror, NBC green, work PC
Following up on my Bengals post, there was a Q&A with none other than Mike Brown in today's Cincinnati Enquirer. This is perhaps the most comical example of front office football buffoonery ever recorded.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention in the previous post that the Bengals do NOT have an official GM. When he took over the team as president in 1992, Mikey was basically the GM/President. When asked during this Q&A if he would hire a GM, he said no, we currently have a 3-headed GM consisting of himself, his daughter Katie Blackburn, and his son-in-law Troy Blackburn (Katie's husband).
Here are some choice samples:
Q: Do you have Lewis take a look at his coaching staff?
A: Every year we talk about everything. That includes what is served for lunch and who works here and why. That's a season-ending thing to talk about it. I'm not going to open that Pandora's Box. ... You can be a great coach just like you can be a great cook. But without the rabbit it's hard to make rabbit stew ...
What's served for lunch? Right you tight-ass, gotta check the prices on the vegetable tray.
Q: Do you need a playmaker on defense?
A: We would be better if we could get a guy or two who makes people pause. There aren't many King Kongs. It's an accumulative thing (on defense). And together they become something special. Examples are Pittsburgh and New England. You talk about the Steelers defense, what you talk about is the whole. I'm not sure it's any different than that with New England. ... We have a start, of course, on defense. Yet some of it is sidelined right now. ...
King Kong, rabbits...my head is spinning.
Q: How about Chad's relationship with Marvin Lewis?
A: Marvin's the ringmaster. Every so often, one of the elephants doesn't do his routine. He has to get on him and get it right, and I think he has.
Jesus, now elephants too?
Q: You have to say that T.J. Houshmandzadeh is one of the best receivers you've ever had here, right?
A: If productivity counts, he measures pretty well in the group. Who's that guy from Pittsburgh, No. 86, Hines Ward? He's our Ward. He's reliable. He plays tough.
You're not sure who Hines Ward is? It's kind of important seeing how Pittsburgh is in your division.
Q: You have had your top two home crowds in the past month. What do you say to your frustrated fans?
A: We have great fans. We're very indebted to our fans. They show up. They support us ... They are behind us. They want us to get back on track. My message to them is we are trying to do that. We want to please them. That's what this is all about. Nothing would make us happier than to do that. When we don't, we are a little glum about it.
Awwwwwww, he's glum. 
Finally a decent horror moive...from 27 years ago. After the crap movies I saw for Halloween, I finally saw a decent one this weekend. "The Burning" is a classic summer camp slasher from 1980. In a word, awesome. I love the free-wheeling, PC-free attitude of those times. Kids at summer camp swearing, smoking, running around with beebee guns shooting at people. In other things that would get you expelled and sent to a social worker these days. The story involves a mean summer camp caretaker who is horribly burned in a prank gone bad. Of course he exacts his revenge with hedge clippers. Fuckin A.
During NBC's laughable green segment during the SNF halftime show, Matt Lauer referred to Al Gore as one of the "best minds" on Climate Change. Best minds? What exactly is his science degree in?
So the purpose of the segment is turns off the lights in the studio for the halftime show to demonstate being green. I'm not kidding. They had candles on the desk. Yet their generators were certainly still going, the giant plasma screen was on behind Costas' head, all the power necessary to video link to Lauer on the other side of the world was not shut down. This had to be an SNL skit, right?
We got our email notice about a Holiday Party at work today to take place December 14th. That's right, Holiday Party, not Christmas Party. Earlier this month we received an email about the Thanksgiving Luncheon that will take place November 14th. Ah PC split personality, I love it. Why is it OK to willy nilly use the word "Thanksgiving", and yet "Christmas" must NOT be used. Everyone knows it is because of Christmas that we have this party, but we must not name it so.
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