CBS Sunday Morning profiled Daniel Day Lewis, one of my favorite actors of all time. Amazing how good he is, really, and oddly enough the CBS folks did not mention his role in In The Name of the Father, which seems particularly relevant these days. Probably didn’t want to be accused of liberal bias or something.
At any rate, the Steelers lost, I am NOT in mourning as I expected this outcome, and now someone else can get curb-jawed next week by the Patriots. Consider this an open thread.
myiq2xu
How’s yer head feel this morning John? My Grandaddy said good booze doesn’t cause hangovers. Is that true?
Didn’t Daniel Day Lewis star in My Left Foot?
He’s obviously a leftist.
srv
Run, do not walk, to There Will Be Blood.
Jay
Having done some undergrad work at “Rand University”, I’m in complete agreement with Randy Moss being the Gazette-Mail’s athlete of the year and I hope this year gets him in the Hall of Fame.
They may not be our team but their sure as hell fun to watch and I’m just tickled to death to be able to witness it.
Jay
Speed also kills: “they’re”.
myiq2xu
Lame-ass hotdog had alligator arms with the Raiders. Best move Kiffen made as coach was kicking his ass outta Oakland. He’s a cancer.
Jay
Yeah, he’s a real anchor around their neck. The Raiders have really come into their own since they got rid of him. Heh! myiq.o2xu. If it weren’t for Moss the Pats would be breaking records left and…. oh, wait.
Like the Phoenix going straight from the ashes to a highlight reel reception. Feel the burn, dickhead!
myiq2xu
We doubled our win total from last year. One of our biggest problems last year was Moss. When he wasn’t stirring up trouble he was dropping 1st down/TD passes.
You want him, you can have him.
Dickhead!
Jay
2+2=4?!?!?!
HAHAHA… HOHOHOHO!!!!! Please make it stop!111!!! I’m dying over here!!!! Oh God!!! My side hurts!!!
Bob In Pacifica
I knew the Steelers weren’t that good when they only pummeled the Niners in week four.
Re: Randy Moss. myiq2xu is right. Moss was worthless in Oakland. Granted, the team sucked, but Moss making faces on the sidelines and putting his thumbs in his ears and making the wiggly antler sign when Art Shell had his back turned was a bit much. If karma exists there’s a meter maid just around a corner in her go-cart waiting for Randy to cross the street.
Randy Paul
They didn’t mention “in the Name of the Father”, but they did show the poster from it.
IanY77
Neither team played a full game. But yeah, who cares given that NE is waiting, at home, with two weeks rest.
Jay
They just keep coming!!1 I swear to God I’ve got tears running done my face from laughing.
Reminds me of the Yardbirds: “We’re really going to cook now that we’ve gotten rid of those Clapton, Page, and Beck losers!”
The Wiggly Antler Sign!1! OHHH HAAAAHAHAHAHAAHA!!! I’ve got to go lay down!!!!
A different matt
Moss doesn’t have a great deal of character – he can’t rise above his environment. But he’s a phenomenal football player, and the Raiders either made a huge mistake getting rid of Moss, or turning around and drafting a qb’s whose one virtue is chucking hail mary’s.
Mike
“Randy, we have no quarterback, no offensive line, and we’re going to sit our other wide receiver because Mr. Davis doesn’t like him any more.”
“You mean, trade him.”
“No, that’s what he wants. We’re going to sit him, to teach him a lesson.”
“What lesson?”
“I don’t know, but Mr. Davis is mad at him, and that’s good enough for me. We may also try suspending him without pay, if we can goad him into giving us an excuse. Now you’re with us 100%, right.”
“Yeah. Sure.”
“Glad to hear it!”
Cassidy
Randy Moss is only good if he’s winning. I’d take TO, Chad Johnson, or Hines Ward over him any day of the week. OTOH, the Packers were idiots for not giving up a 4th round pick to get Moss.
serge
To get back to Daniel Day Lewis, I agree that In the Name of the Father should always be mentioned as a highlight of his career. Please forget that I’m 100% of Irish stock, so you won’t feel I’m compromised…
Not that I’m anti-British justice (I am, of course, and we’re seeing a surpassing likeness here in the USofA), it was just a crackling good movie. And, sometimes *justice* does happen.
Spork
GO HAWKS!!!!
myiq2xu
JaMarcus Russell has a phenomenal arm. He can throw a strike 40 yds downfield like he’s flipping it 5 yds over the middle.
No matter how much talent Moss has, he’s a prima donna and was a cancer in the Raider locker room. Unfortunately he wasn’t the only one.
Moss isn’t a pimple on the ass of the best WR ever – Jerry Rice.
Spork
We just stomped the Skins, on to GB. I think the hawks D can stifle Favre, so I’m thinking onward and upward. BTW, I noticed that throughout the game, the announcers called the Washington team the “Skins”. I don’t think I heard the full “Redskins” once. Wonder if having a patently offensive team name is having some effect?
Jay
How dare Randy Moss bring his childish antics to the Hallowed Halls of Class and Decorum that is the Raiders Organization!!
Randy Moss has given more back to his community in 5 years than Jerry West has given in 50 years. I know, I’ve lived in one of the two most of my life.
John M
I had never seen In the Name of the Father until about a month ago. I commented to my wife that if the movie were released today, it would be criticized by the right as a transparent attack on the Bush Administration. And it’s so directly on point that if it were released today, such a criticism would be plausible. Considering that the movie is 15 years old, it’s devastating to the pro-torture position.
myiq2xu
There is a big difference between the antics of Moss and the antics of the Stabler-era Raiders. The old Raiders delivered on the field.
Moss is a Tin Man – no heart.
What the fuck does Jerry West have to do with this?
myiq2xu
Court-ordered community service maybe.
rawshark
Moss is an outstanding receiver in the eyes of everyone but Raiders fans and you can see their point if you’re honest. He made them look bad when he ‘played’ and even worse when he got traded for practically nothing.
After watching those passes fall to the ground last year I’m just so happy to have Moss and Welker and Stallworth and even Gafney. All those years of my team being the league joke makes this so satisfying.
buzzrd
“curb jawed”
Ahh please, don’t use this imagery. I was watching the movie American X until I saw that scene and it gives me the willies every time I have thought about it since.
Jay
Moss comes from a small, shitty town just across the river from the small, shitty town that West came from. I’ve lived in both. Moss charters several bus trips a year for the kids of Rand to go to pro football games, pro baseball games, etc…things they would never get to do if he didn’t. He comes back every summer and brings fellow NFL stars for autograph sessions just for kids from the Kanawha Valley. Last year he helped his friend build a dirt track race car and chartered several buses to take people from his home town down to Beckley to watch the first race. When the idiot crackers that populate those places saw bus-loads of blacks emptying, they started a fight. The only person seriously hurt was a 9 year old black girl who was hit on the head with a piece of a brick!
West has never done anything for his home town. They asked him to help by auctioning off autographed basketballs to raise money for a youth basketball league and he basically told them to get fucked.
Moss definitely has problems, but his heart is in the right place where it really counts. So you can see how I would be unimpressed with “The Wiggly Antler Sign”.
D-Chance.
Playoffs this afternoon… if you want the definition of “business-like fashion”, the Giants performance against the Bucs is a damn fine example. Still 11 minutes to go in the game, but the Cowboys will have their hands full next week.
The late game SHOULD be a slaughter. I’m not seeing the Titans putting up much of an offensive fight with Young’s thumb and no Bo.
myiq2xu
I don’t care what an athlete does with his money, if earned it, he can decide how to spend it. But I expect him to earn it. Kudos to Moss for doing those things, but the reason he had the money in the first place was that he was being paid to play football. While he was with the Raiders, he wasn’t earning his pay.
He skipped practices and basically quit on the team. He even admitted that he was unmotivated because the team was losing. He was 5th worst in the league for dropped passes, most of which were 3rd down throws that would have been drive-extending 1st downs or TD’s.
Long before the steroid issue, the rap on Barry Bonds was that he was rude and surly with the press. My feeling was “fuck the press” because Bonds delivered on the field.
Moss was a cancer in the Raider locker room, but that doesn’t mean he would be a cancer everywhere. The Raiders are better off without him, and he is better off where he is.
That’s a win-win.
D-Chance.
So if (when) the Chargers get shut out, who’s the scapegoat this year? They don’t have Schottenheimer to kick around…
myiq2xu
I wish that mo-fu had coached most of his career somewhere other than the AFC West – He hated the Raiders and put more effort into beating them than anyone else.
If he hadn’t been an Elvis fan he would have won the Super Bowl.
He started Elvis Grbac and left Rich Gannon on the bench until Grbac got hurt. KC was somewhere around .500 at the time. Gannon led them to the playoffs and then Shittenheimer benched Gannon when Grbac came back in time to start the 1st playoff game, which Elvis lost. Then he let Gannon go free agent to the Raiders.
One of my fondest memories was sitting in the Colosseum watching Gannon dismantle the Chumps (led by Elvis.)
Gannon with the Raiders – 1st year, lose in playoffs to Pats (tuck-rule game) 2nd year, Gannon pancaked by Siragusa in playoff game against Baltimore and is out of the game, but comes back in time to set record in Pro Bowl; 3rd year Gannon leads Raiders to the promised land. Unfortunately, Gannon had his career worst game in the Super Bowl. 4th year; Gannon injured and eventually retires.
So- 3 out of 4 years Gannon and Raiders lose in playoffs to Super Bowl Winner.
Elvis? He left the building.
norbizness
One of Daniel’s first roles, if you go back and watch it, is as a young Afrikaner thug in Gandhi. He’s the one who confronts the present and Gandhi, and it ends with his mother yelling at him.
norbizness
Confronts the Anglican preacher, that is.
horatius
Yup. Having all the refs on your side helps.
Sock Puppet of the Great Satan
“Amazing how good he is, really, and oddly enough the CBS folks did not mention his role in In The Name of the Father, which seems particularly relevant these days.”
The Boxer is another similarly-themed DDL film. Even more so, given it’s focus on the way terrorist organizations oppress the community they supposedly defend.
dj spellchecka
pittsburg’s coaching staff lost that game. bad play calling when it counted. and kick the frickin extra points, already.
HyperIon
My Beautiful Laundrette.
the guy is an amazing actor.