The Emptywheel…It’s Now Sunday!…Football Rumble
[Okay, it is hard when you have to start on Thursday. So, here, for the second week in a row!….is repurposed Thursday Trash. Tear it up same as always. And Phred and I thank you for all the congratulations to the CheesePackers. Go Cards! Also, watch the damn video, Tab Benoit and Janiva Magness really rip it up]
Choose up yer sides, and do it now. Cause we are about to have a failure of communication (for those of you who know Cool Hand Luke), as Marcy’s Lions are hosting my beloved Cheeseheads tonight.
That is pretty much nuff said. But I am worried about Mr. Rodgers, who is decidedly not himself lately. A bad stretch? Sure. O-Line hurt? Yep. Running backs and receivers out and/or underperforming? Yep, very much that too. But it is MORE than that. Something is wrong. Not making excuses for him, but dude is too good to just suddenly have the happy feet, indecisiveness and aversion to contact. And the Cheese defense is suddenly like Swiss.
Eh well, on the other hand, the Kittehs are on a serious roll and lately looking like the team everybody thought was coming this year. Including the much maligned Matt Stafford. I have always thought Stafford to be a very capable QB on a team that didn’t hold up to what he could do. I still do, but the Lions are really starting to jell under new Coach/General Manager Martha Ford.
Music again tonight involves my old friend Janiva Magness because, other than Peterr, you all did not give her enough love last weekend. Shame on you. Granted, Janiva does nothing but play the washboard on this cut, but Tab Benoit had her there for a reason. Also, Tab Benoit fucking kicks ass and takes names. Give it a listen for some Creole from down on the bayou.