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Posted 10.27.09 | 7:16 PM

Monday Mourning: Week Seven

NFL Week 7: Gatorade baths, babysitters and UFC
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By C.L. Lovett
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After the NY Jets beat the Oakland Raiders 38-0 on Sunday, Jets players gave their offensive line coach, Bill Callahan, a Gatorade bath. Yes, the Gatorade bath. The one usually reserved for winning the division, clinching a playoff birth, or becoming a Superbowl champion. Callahan's players felt it appropriate to soak the coach in sports-drink, as Callahan was fired from the Raiders after the 2003 season.

...Fans of the University of Nebraska football team, where Callahan also coached, would probably also like to Callahan's head under liquid... but maybe dunked IN the Gatorade... That's right; I'm suggesting that Nebraska Fans would be pleased if Bill Callahan were to be murdered. In public. By the players he coaches... by being drowned in Gatorade.

The city of Green Bay, Wisconsin, recently posted a link on the city's web site asking for creative ways to "welcome" maligned (in Green Bay) Vikings QB Brett Favre back to Lambeau Field this Sunday.

Green Bay mayor, Jim "smells like" Schmidt, is going to announce the top four welcome-back ideas later this week. My idea?: Have Mark Chmura baby-sit Favre's daughters during the game. List your idea here.

New England went to Old England and routed Tampa Bay in London's Wembley Stadium, 35-7. NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell mentioned that the league has interest in putting a team in London.Given the state of the US economy, even the NFL is looking to pinch pennies, and by hiring brits to play football, they could save thousands on mouthpieces; there are no teeth worth protecting in London.

University of North Carolina: You win the latest "my owner is an idiot award." This is the first time the award hasn't been won by some lonely old woman who puts her cats in Arbor Day sweaters. Good job.




The event that stole a little bit of college football thunder on Saturday night was UFC 104. Ultimate fighting is about as profitable as it gets, and I'll be the first to admit that I know next to nothing about advertising... but is this the best place to market condoms to the "homo-phobe, alpha-male" crowd?

102809mourning-inset.jpgAlso, one of the contestants that fought Saturday was Ryan "Darth" Bader. Yes. You're reading that right... If it were me, I would gone with "Master" for the nickname.

Hey, Dan Hawkins it IS division one football. Why are you still here?...Take solace in this, though, Dan, you're probably the winningest coach in college football history with 23 chromosomes.

Nebraska just turned it over again...

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