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Paul Daugherty
Paul Daugherty has been an Enquirer sports columnist since 1994 and has been chronicling Cincinnati sports since 1988. He has covered almost every major sporting event in America, as well as five Summer Olympics. Along the way, he has been named one of the country's top-5 sports columnists four times, and Ohio columnist of the year on seven different occasions. Last year, he was voted 2nd-best sports columnist in the country, by the Associated Press Sports Editors.

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Monday, January 15, 2007

Three-Dot Lounge welcomes Phil Simms

Why do football announcers feel they have to say "the football'' every time they refer to the ball being used? Phil Simms did it 35 times in the 1st half yesterday. I counted. You know: This is a big play in this football game. He needs to take better care of the football. Great football players make great football plays. Is that right? Do they think that we think the football is a cantalope? Do they think it makes them sound smarter? You don't hear baseball announcers talk about the baseball. Simms is by far the worst offender...

Nice stories over the weekend about Indy stealing the Colts. Having grown up in MD, albeit as a Redskins fan, I remember the pain Bawlmer felt. To get a sense of what the Colts meant to Charm City, rent the movie Diner. Not only is it among the greatest guy movies ever, it pays loving tribute to Colts devotion, circa 1959...

You could see Schottenheimer's throat compacting in the 4th quarter yesterday... Brady has reached Montana status when the money is on the table... but Indy will beat New England, because its defense has come to play. Imagine doubling Harrison and Wayne with, gulp, Artrell Hawkins... and it's too bad a second-rate team like the Bears will make the Super Bowl, but that seems likely...

Been here since '88, can't remember another year when UC, X and Miami all mediocre or worse. Stanley Burrell so perfectly defines the Muskies, his face ought to be on their jerseys.

This is the sort of weather that makes people move to Florida. Google Seasonal Affective Disorder, see a street map of us.


15 Comments:

at 12:19 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

doc,
i read and saw several stories on Irsay and those terrible Colts. the one thing that kept running through my mind, and by golly nobody brought it up, is the fact that the Ravens are just like the the Colts. Now, if we're comparing teams based on history, legacy and owners with no ethics, the "old Browns" rank right up there with the Colts. tom sucietto

 
at 1:23 PM Blogger Paul Daugherty said...

Jay, so strong you can give me a Diner line... Is there something going on we don't know about?

 
at 3:39 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's not just Simms who thinks viewers cannot remember they're watching football. Every player-turned-talking head is so afflicted.

 
at 4:20 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Another phrase that always bugs me – mostly said by Chris Berman (whose awards have gone to his head) – the New York FOOTBALL Giants. There hasn't been another team called the Giants in New York for how many years now? I'm almost 50, and I don't remember any other team there.

 
at 5:53 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Robert Irsay is dead and has been for about a decade. The Ravens won a Lombardi Trophy in this century. I'm sure losing the Colts stung and still stings in Baltimore. (William Gildea's book, "When the Colts Belonged to Baltimore" is one of the greatest pro football books ever written.) But it's way, way over the top for 3 year olds to wear "Irsay Sucks" t-shirts in 2007. Peyton saw more middle fingers in Baltimore this weekend than Francis Scott Key saw in 1812. Hell, the the Colts have played in Indianapolis almost as long as the Colts played in Baltimore. Baltimore stole the Browns. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Chip Lapp
Kenwood OH

 
at 6:56 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Any football coach I have ever been around refers to "the football game", or "hold on to the football", or "they are a good football team" or "let's have a good football game."

 
at 6:57 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

I can't believe Toast Hawkins is still in the NFL.

 
at 8:29 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Paul - this epidemic also crosses over into golf... Commentator: "that was a fantastic golf shot"... really? cause for a second, i thought Sergio Garcia attempted a 3-point shot.

 
at 9:19 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Paul..

When was the last time UC lost 5 in a row? Just curious...

 
at 12:58 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm not sure Phil Simms is the worst offender Paul...you ever watch NFL Live on ESPN? Just listen to what Mark Schlereth says. Every word out of his mouth involves Physical football teams and physical football players.

 
at 5:11 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

If Artrell was such an awful player ,me thinks he would not be playing for the Pats.As far as five game losing streaks ,the last time that happened is after the next game.In fact U.C. will not win again this year.

 
at 9:34 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Diner - What a great movie and cast. Bacon, Guttenberg, Daly, Mickey Rourke, Paul Reiser?, and the girl with the great sideways smile whose name escapes me (was married to the Revlon financier). I especially liked how Guttenberg threatens his Mom with a butcher knife and then she cooks him breakfast and of course the Colts TEST, where he calls off the marriage because his fiance missed a few questions. If anybody out there is too young to have missed this gem, pick it up. A classic.

 
at 9:44 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ellen Barkin. Sorry, had to look it up it was driving me nuts. The actress in Diner with the sideways smile.

 
at 8:25 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nobody is a worse "football" offender than our own Dave Lapham. I once heard him use the word 3 times....in the same sentence.

 
at 9:43 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Paul:

UC is awful--they will have NO POSTSEASON

Miami is awful--they will go to the NIT

XU isn't half bad--they'll go to the NCAA

Checked the record books on the Bearcats--they'll have to lose 10 in a row to crack the losing streak record set in 83/84 under Yates. If they can do that, that's REALLY saying something...

 
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