Perhaps some of you read Gregg Easterbrook's ESPN column Tuesday Morning Quarterback.
I do. It's often amusing, but this guy has an ego the size of Montana. He also insists on calling the Saints the "United States Saints". Here's my latest attempt to get him to stop it.
Mr. Easterbrook,
I've been pleading with you to quit calling the New Orleans Saints "America's Team", as they rightfully belong to the Gulf Coast and New Orleans, and nobody else.
Two things you said in your last column clinch this for me.
First, you suggest that Kenmore, NY is a great place to raise kids. The population of Kenmore is 97% white, less than 1% African American. Also, the winters are Siberian. Great for whom, exactly?
Second, you said "When the clock strikes midnight, you belong at home." Obviously, you've never heard music in New Orleans. Sometimes the bands don't even go on until midnight.
I raise my three children in New Orleans because I honestly believe it is the best place to raise children. They will be exposed to brass bands, amazing music, the best food in the world, and, unlike those in Kenmore, great music and black folks.
And, they'll clap on two and four.
The Saints don't belong to LA, San Antonio, or Kenmore. They are the NEW ORLEANS SAINTS.
Oh, two more things: 1) the NFL network already broadcasts flag football, 2) I would venture that "the most influential writer on personal tech" is David Pogue.
Best,
Ashley Morris
New Orleans
Nice one!
Easterbrook's locutions can be "cheap as chips", at times.
Posted by: oyster | 02 January 2007 at 05:05 PM
**snickering** That is good.
Posted by: saintseester | 02 January 2007 at 05:14 PM
Once again, I lead you to Kissing Suzy Kolber: http://kissmesuzy.blogspot.com/2006/12/tuesday-morning-pretentious.html
Posted by: ashley Morris | 02 January 2007 at 06:01 PM
The guy looks like a schmuck and apparently is one too.
Posted by: Marco | 03 January 2007 at 07:41 AM
Easterbrook IS a schmuck. I used to read TMQ, but there's only much time on earth, and I can't waste it on idiots like Easterbrook, who, being neither a scientists nor a lawyer, manages to combine the worst of both in his ever more inane comments on global warming...
His smarmy salivating over young women is also pretty disgusting...imagine a Dick Cheney with a bad hair dye job...or Rob Couhig...
Posted by: Michael | 03 January 2007 at 09:14 PM
Perfect tone, dude. Easterbrook must be schooled in the ways of yatdom.
Posted by: Mr. Clio | 04 January 2007 at 08:04 AM
Awesome.
Posted by: LatinTeacher | 04 January 2007 at 04:52 PM