It’s being reported today that Mike Sherman has been offered and has accepted the position as head coach for the Texas A&M football program. In nearly successive years Sherman has gone from head coach of an NFL team to assistant coach of an NFL team to head coach of an amateur team.
With his excellence as a coach well established in both Green Bay and the almost cinderallaesque story of the Texans this year (perched high above the Miami Dolphins at 5-6 so far this season), it’s only fitting that Sherman is expected to begin the job search process for a good Pop Warner program in North Dakota in the coming months.
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You won’t if you live outside of Dallas, Green Bay or Milwaukee and don’t have the NFL Network as part of your cable package. Almost nobody does.
This means that the most highly anticipated game (for the NFC) in the last several years will be viewed by about a million people, instead of the fifteen or twenty million that would probably tune in if they could.
Nice.
My solution? Live blog the game so that I can share the excitement with those who aren’t fortunate enough to be in a market that is allowed to televise it. It’s just my way of giving back to the Green Bay Packer community at large.*
My regrets to those of you who will have to watch the evening news or ESPN to catch a few highlights.
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* In all seriousness, there’s no freakin’ way I’m blogging during the game. I type like two chickens fighting over the last grain of feed, and if I’m blogging I’m probably missing a big part of the game. Sorry if I got you all fired up for nothing.
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What kind of monopoly player are you?
When I was a kid I wasn’t very good. Not that I didn’t understand the value of land or utilities, or that I didn’t build houses and then hotels. I did. As soon as I could I’d have all my properties built up. Big.Â
It usually wasn’t long before I was collecting big jack from everyone landing on my properties. I would often find myself in possession of a lot of the currency of the game as well as additional properties, given to me in leiu of rent.
I was poised to win.
But then a funny thing would happen. I’d let those landing on my property negotiate lower rates at my hotels, just so they could stay in the game. They’d get to stay alive, and I’d get to feel like I was the King of the World, coasting on easy street.
That’s what the Thanskgiving day game looked like to me. A team that had fought hard early to establish themselvesand take a nearly commanding lead only to ease up. To feel like the Kings of Football while the Lions squirmed under their thumb?
There were a few times when I ended up losing monopoly after having such a huge lead, either because I was too generous or too vain. The Packers almost did the same thing yesterday.
I hope they learn the lesson I did; when you have your foot on your opponent’s throat, you don’t ease up. You push down. End it right now before they have a chance to figure out how to turn the tables.Â
The battle for NFC supremacy happens in a week, and I hope the killer Uncle Warbucks mentality pervades the Green Bay lockerroom by then.
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