Hey There:
We've just about made it to the end of 2017, a year I have to say I won't be sorry to wave goodbye to. On a programming note, I'm hoping to have two more regular posts, a Christmas Eve special, and our annual Year in Review for 12/31 and 1/7. At least that's the plan.
Let's get to it shall we.....
BENCHED (Part One) Matt Lauer:
FLASHBACK (From last week)
First of all, I don't get it with Matt Lauer. He's not particularly handsome or funny or much of anything, yet he's like the highest paid person on TV. I literally sit there and say to myself, "I could do what he does, and do it for a lot less money." And trust me, I'm not so arrogant as to think I can do any job on TV better, but his I could definitely do.
So as my dad pointed out to me this week, someone at NBC must have been listening to me, because just a mere 3 days after I posted the above words, Today show host Matt Lauer was given the boot by the network. The fact that he was not only untalented but also a perverted creep to boot made his ascent to the top of the TV world even more baffling than it already was.
I'm not going to rehash all the icky things he was alleged to have done, but rather I'd like to focus on possible replacements. As I have previously said, I'd take the gig if offered and I'd do it for half the money. But I'm guessing that's not going to happen, so I'll move on and offer these two alternatives.
1) Ann Curry- Why not give her another shot. Maybe with Lauer out of the picture, maybe her true colors could come shining through. Already a respected journalist, a more relaxed Curry could make the most of a second shot at the big time. Plus it would be the ultimate middle finger to Lauer, to be replaced by the woman whom he helped ouster a few years back.
I'm not nearly the first person to come up with that one, but here's someone I hadn't heard anyone mention,,,
2) Brian Williams- With all these dudes being outed for various inappropriate behavior, isn't time to forgive and forget with Lyin' Brian? I mean, telling everyone you were shot at in a helicopter while in Iraq doesn't seem so bad when you've got Lauer using his NBC office as his own personal brothel. As long as Williams managed to keep his hands to himself and his workplace manor appropriate, I think he deserves a shot at redemption.
BENCHED (Part Two) Eli Manning:
In his Sunday NY Post column, Phil Mushnick asked rhetorically, "If Eli Manning started Sunday and had his knee wrecked, how many would say 'With a 2-9 team going nowhere, why was he even in there?'"
Think about it, the Giants have no offensive line and all their receivers are hurt. I would think by putting Eli on the bench, they are kind of doing him a favor. Let Geno Smith get his a$$ kicked.
I remember when Ray Handley gave the Giants starting job to Jeff Hostettler over Phil Simms. Everybody was up in arms about that too. They dismissed his reasoning, that two of the Giants best offensive linemen had held out of training camp, and Hostettler was more mobile than Simms. No, Handley was a moron who disgraced Phil Simms.
The problem isn't the decision, it's the way it was handled. Just like with Handley, Ben McAdoo came off as a bumbling idiot. Instead of stating the obvious, that the Giants are a lost cause and there's no sense in watching Eli get destroyed back there, he said that it was his decision that Geno Smith is the Giants best option to win. That he wanted to see what he has with Geno Smith and rookie QB Davis Webb. We all know what he has in Geno Smith, a decent backup QB at best.
I like Eli Manning, I really do. He took a lot of abuse before he won those two Super Bowls. He could play on my team anytime. Maybe he'd be better off somewhere else, on a team a QB away from Super Bowl contention. Maybe Ben McAdoo will be left off the plane in Oakland. (That's the rumor as of press time.) I don't see what Eli has to gain by playing these last 4 games, but he deserves to have a say in it, however that shakes out.
Here's some Bar Room BS in honor of Eli...
http://barroombs.blogspot.com/2017/12/jet-qb.html
BTW The Jets won on Sunday. I don't know if that's good or bad, but as someone pointed out to me while I was wearing my Jet jacket the other day, "It's safer wearing that jacket in this town than a blue one."
And who would have predicted that in September?
That's all I got
Have a Great Week
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