Morning Roundup
July 30, 2007 at 11:17 am by Wayne GarciaI met Death today. We are playing chess:
- Bergman. Snyder. Who will complete the trio?
- Behnken’s Sunday piece on property investment shenanigans in Midtown.
- Obama: The Early Years.
- Aside from the college football schedule, here’s my favorite fall lineup.
- “You don’t go grabbin’ somebody else’s, somebody’s husband’s balls, you understand me? That’s very disrespectful.”
- Charlie and the meat locker.
- The Herald and the Baptists are attacking Charlie??
- Obama not only would talk to Chavez and Castro, but he is already talking to Christian conservatives.
- America’s leading cause of death: Liberalism.
- Hyperlocal really means hyperpersonal.
July 30th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
THe third would be Bill Walsh. FAther of the west coast offense and coach of the Niners… died today at 75 from Leukemia.
July 31st, 2007 at 6:24 am
Wow…a whole new meaning for “Tug” McGraw.
July 31st, 2007 at 8:35 am
Bruce — I saw the Walsh death in the afternoon after I posted and marveled at how quickly the Gods of the Trio Deaths worked. Was also fascinated by the play the three deaths got in media: for the most part, Walsh was the top story, then Bergman and then Snyder. If only Ingmar had won that Super Bowl ring …
July 31st, 2007 at 8:36 am
And at what point do we get over our grief about Walsh and blame him for inventing the West Coast Offense that sent Gruden to our fair city to fuck up our fair football team?
July 31st, 2007 at 9:35 am
Walsh didn’t invent the WCO, he mastered it and coaches like Chucky have been copying it ever since. My fondest memory of him is singing “Blame it on the Bossa Nova” in a karaoke bar on an AmEx commercial back in the day. RIP Coach.
July 31st, 2007 at 12:02 pm
I stand corrected.
July 31st, 2007 at 12:02 pm
but maintain my dig at Chucky.
July 31st, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Don’t blame Walsh for Gruden. If it wasn’t the west coast it would have been the run and gun or the pro set.
I was most affected by Tom Snyder. I spent my teen years watching him late at night. He had the best interview show ever.
August 1st, 2007 at 4:59 pm
I’d like to correct my earlier idiotic reference: It was George Seifert, not Bill Walsh, in the karaoke commercial, and it was for Visa not AmEx. This is what I get for relying on my feeble memory when I should be double-checking myself against the “inner nets.”