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I have some thoughts I would like to share about the direction Marvel has chosen to take Cyclops in recently. Cyclops was once one of my favorite X-men. To my younger self, Cyclops was the epitome of leadership. He was someone that I aspired to be like. Unfortunately, ever since Messiah Complex, Marvel has been progressively turning Cyclops into more and more of a complete and utter douche bag He was supposed to be the heir to Professor Xavier's legacy, but now it seems as though he has become more of Magneto's protege, and it disappoints me. I find it deplorable that Cyclops isn't still in prison. Possessed by the Phoenix Force or not, he did some messed up stuff during AvX. He murdered Professor Xavier, one of the foremost leaders of the mutant race, in cold blood. What kind of message does it send that he's already out of prison? Yes, I know comic book readers are mostly adults, but younger kids do read these books and they do look to superheroes as a moral compass and I think it sends the complete wrong message to them that Cyclops isn't being punished for his actions. Most of you probably know this, but during the original Phoenix/Dark Phoenix saga, the original ending of the story involved Jean being permanently depowered and going home with the X-Men. Upon seeing this, and upon learning that Jean destroys an inhabited star system, Jim Shooter, who was on the editorial staff, found the ending unacceptable from a storytelling standpoint and from a moral standpoint. He and X-Men writer Chris Claremont had a heated debate over the story and the repercussions of Jean's actions, which lead to them agreeing to break an in-house rule at Marvel that said main characters were not to be killed off permanently. So the ending to the story was changed so that Jean committed suicide due to her actions, and she was supposed to be dead permanently. Obviously this did not stick, only because up and coming writer Kurt Busiek thought of a way to bring Jean back while also absolving her of the atrocities she committed as the Phoenix. Should we not hold Cyclops to the same standard? Clearly he shouldn't have to commit suicide, as he only killed one man, not an entire galaxy. But why is it acceptable now for him to not be imprisoned, when thirty years ago, when the Phoenix was first introduced, it was not acceptable for Jean to even be alive after what she had done? Does it have to do more with the characters involved, the circumstances, or maybe even the gender of the "villain"? Or is it simply an unfortunate result of the desensitizing of the American people? It doesn't really even make sense from a storytelling standpoint. With the five original X-men coming to the present day in New X-Men, there will be an active Cyclops out there anyway, so is it really so unreasonable to expect Cyclops to suffer the consequences of his actions?
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yea buddy your "30 years ago story" is all fine and good but again it was "30 years ago" and comics have changed SOOOO much, not saying rather it's wrong or right but you got to look at the body as a whole. I am not saying your wrong on rather Cyclops should or shouldn't be punished so please read what i'm writing and not make assumptions on what i am saying. because what i am saying is this, Comics have changed and if Cyclops needs to be punished then so does Scarlet Witch, Iron Man, Captain America, Punisher, Wolverine, and ALOT of other marvel heroes. I totally am glad to have cyclops free and i agree with alot of the things he did as it's such a totally different circumstance then most things. However if you just want to hold the comic book heroes to Jim Shooters standards then let's not start here lets go back and fix the problems that came before. All of X force need to be in prison or even dead, Punisher needs the boot, Cap and Iron Man's little debacle during the civil war needs to land them some jail time.
And the new Face's of Marvel Deadpool & Wolverine both need the Chair or some sort of Capital punishment (yes i know they are both in X force but they have do so much on their own as well) and i am sure i am leaving some out, and i am very sure I am leaving a ton of people out. Point being Comics (especially marvel) has bent this rule for decades now (or at least the last decade) so you can't start enforcing it now and call it fair. If you want a Jim Shooter Story their is one about Wolverine too and how he made Clairmont go back and state that Wolverine has never killed anyone during his time with the X men, how he just knocked them out and blah blah, and that if he didn't go back and make it clear he would force him to turn wolverine bad or some shit (found it on the same website i read the one you mentioned on 'uncanny xmen.net you prolly found it there too) but that has been tossed out the window ten fold, Wolverine is the Face of marvel comics and has tons of blood on his hands. I think most of the problem with this whole story is the double standards found for it. Sure punish cyclops to some extent he deserves it, but if you plan to do that punish everyone else too.
Also try to space something as long as what you typed out a bit more, makes it easier to read and seem like less of a rant ;D
your comparing the destruction of an inhabited star system to the events that occurred in AVX? What happened on earth is not even a fraction as bad as the destruction of a star system.
- Wanda wasnt punished so why should cyclops be punished for this?
- Under the power of the Phoenix, cyclops did a lot of good. It was only in retaliation to the Avengers that any lives were lost.
if you hit me, am i wrong for hitting back?
Not only was cyclops under the influence of the Phoenix, but was under the assumption that the Avengers were there to kill him.
The most powerful telepath in the world trying to shut your brain down and the Avengers are trying to "kill" you, all while under the influence of the Phoenix, and things are bound to get out of control.
if cyclops is to be further punished, then we would need to see everyone being punished for all the wrongs they committed that led to putting cyclops in to the circumstances he found himself under. Many of which were beyond his control.
we would need to see tony stark jailed (putting the earth in danger by recklessly splitting the phoenix)....captain america (invading a country; and putting to action a plan that endangered the planet)...and especially Wanda (mutant genocide)....till then...leave him (cyclops) be
Cyclops got completely screwed by AvX. He was entirely benevolent in solving the world's problems but the Avengers deemed he needed to be taken out, seemingly just because 'you need to earn the power to do such good' and they were unhappy that the Avengers had done nothing to solve any problems in the world. All of Cyclops' violence was in self-defense from the random Avenger attacks.
So no I disagree, I'm glad he's free. He shouldn't even have been jailed in the first place.
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He did not murder Xavier in cold blood. It was in the middle of a fight of cyke vs about 30 others. Whether he meant to kill him or not at the time does not define killing in cold blood. Cold blooded murder is planned IN ADVANCE of the act, e.g. a serial killer choosing targets, a soldier killing an enemy in the middle of a firefight is not even classed as murder.
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That was the good notice. The bad was that her star was rising from the ashes of one of the biggest theatrical bombs of the 1980-81 season—a play the reviewers had gleefully laid into as if public flogging had never been outlawed. "An appalling fiasco," thundered one. "Vulgar and misbegotten," sniped another. Lolita, it seemed, had something to offend everyone. Among those most outraged: several dozen female pickets who gathered outside the theater to announce, in a mimeographed manifesto, that the play "panders to male sexual interest in little girls and treats incest and child abuse as a dirty joke." To nobody's surprise, Lolita was quickly scheduled for euthanasia—just nine days after it opened.
To some observers, the miracle was that Lolita hung in that long. Panned in Boston when it opened there in January, the show still did turn-away business, mainly because the allegedly blue-nosed burghers of that city seemed eager to glimpse a scene of suggested oral sex in the first act. By the second act, though, audiences were fleeing—and Donald Sutherland, who played Humbert, thought he knew why. "The second act is flawed," he said. "It was supposed to have been rethought, and it never was." Playwright Albee returned the compliment, telling reporters that he had scuttled some of his best scenes because they were "too difficult" for Sutherland. "He hasn't been onstage for 17 years," snapped Albee.
Both men reserved some of their bile for the show's producer, Jerry Sherlock, a former fabric broker whose next major artistic venture this year will be a film entitled Me Irving, You Gladys. Plagued by financial problems, Sherlock had to take out newspaper ads last fall to attract new backers. When Sherlock threatened to cut his wrists if the show flopped, Sutherland coyly told an interviewer, "At least something good will come of this."
Ultimately the star and the producer could see eye to eye on only one thing: Blanche Baker. "She's incredibly professional, flexible and imaginative," raves Sutherland. "She's a good actress," Sherlock agrees. Ironically, Baker almost didn't get to play Lolita at all. Until director Frank Dunlop stepped in last fall, Albee and Sherlock were interviewing only preteenage girls for the role. "Over 13 need not apply" read their ad in Variety—and that, Baker believes, would have made the play truly obscene. "The part would be offensive if you had some little girl up there wiggling her ass," says the 5'4", 100-pound actress. "Onstage you really have to have technique and training."
Baker clearly has both, as well as the advantage of theatrical genes. Her father, Jack Garfein, is a concentration camp survivor who worked in movies and went on to become an artistic director at the Harold Clurman Theater in Manhattan. As a child, Blanche, whose parents divorced in 1969, was anything but enamored of Hollywood. "It's dangerous to grow up there," she says. "There were days when I just wished I was in a small town in Oklahoma." She remembers vividly that each Christmas her parents gave Hedda Hopper a bigger present than they did to either Blanche or her younger brother. Fortunately, at the age of 9, she was enrolled at a Swiss boarding school, where, she says, "I had time to be a child." Blanche insists she never became the kind of jaded nymphet that she played in Lolita and, indeed, is offended by today's cult of adolescent sexuality. "I think it's terrible that these kids are on the covers of magazines," she says.
Even two years at Wellesley and a stint with the Yale Repertory Theater did not prepare Blanche to play the sultry Lolita. "People didn't believe it," she says with a laugh, "but I was a virgin when I arrived at Wellesley." Later she turned down a chance to re-create her mother's steamiest role in a remake of the 1956 sensation Baby Doll. "I've always stayed away from sexy parts because I didn't want to be associated with my mother's career," she says. After landing the role of the sensuous preteen, she studied the generational mannerisms of up-and-coming nymphets by loitering outside New York junior high schools for weeks, watching little girls munching pastries and slurping milk shakes.
Far from being devastated by Lolita's crash landing, Blanche is taking its failure with the resilience of youth. "I'm going to go right back to my life," she says, "and I won't be sick about it." Currently her life includes friendly relationships with both her mother and father, but definitely not any Humbert Humbert-like older men. "They don't have enough energy," she says.
Nor, in fact, does she have the time. Shortly before Lolita opened, Blanche ended an off-and-on four-year relationship with an actor one year her senior. "I didn't even have time to have proper fights with him," she laments. Now she shares a one-bedroom apartment high above Manhattan's West Side with a Persian cat named Camille, but she is hardly sitting at home spreading Kitty Litter. Instead she is studying acting with Uta Hagen, sculpting for fun and, she says, "writing poetry which is really dreadful." Her raves from Lolita have given her career an exhilarating momentum, and she looks to the future with but one tiny qualm. "The minute I start looking even 20," the ersatz nymphet says with a grin, "I'm going to be in real trouble."
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Super Bowl GameBlog – 2.5.06
The Final Verdict: Now I understand why the Fred Swearingen call on the "Immaculate Reception" haunts John Madden's very soul more than thirty years later.
Now I understand why Dan Jenkins wanted to quit writing about professional football after witnessing the officiating in Super Bowl XIII.
Now I understand what it is like to watch the team you care about go through so much in a season, overcome so many obstacles, get to the world's biggest stage, only to have their dreams upended. Not by their opponents, but by a part-time beer-league flunkie referee and his eight stooges.
Now I understand that in the hands of the NFL's current referees, the integrity of professional football will be called into question. I understand this because I am one of the people who will call it into question.
When asked about officiating in the National Football League, and what would need to happen for real and sweeping reform to take place, I've always said that having the wrong team win the Super Bowl would be about the worst, most graphic thing that could happen…the NFL's "Code Black".
Now we get to find out if that's the case. Journalists and talking heads are already blasting Bill Leavy and his goon crew, and it's only going to get worse. We shall see if the Seahawks get anything more than another meaningless apology out of this, or if they will be seen years from now as the heroes who fell on the grenade which caused the NFL to hire full-time referees, begin far more severe physical and rules training for their officials, and bring far more severe disciplinary action when those officials err to this degree.
Were that the case, it would almost be worth it. But if Mike Pereira worms his way out of this one on Total Access, if Leavy is fined half a game check or let off dead-solid free…the NFL will have far more serious issues to deal with than the upcoming status of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
It will, instead, be fighting for its very integrity. And the fans will go away if they cannot possibly believe that everything is being done to insure fair competition.
Right now, I want nothing more than for Bill Leavy to feel the same measure of pain that he has caused every Seahawks fan. But in the long run, what I need from this – what we all need from this - is for Paul Tagliabue to wake up to the ticking bomb in his kitchen, and do something about it.
If he doesn't, he'll be singing, "Nobody's Fault But Mine" sooner than he could possibly imagine.
Fourth Quarter: The Seahawk drive that began with 2:41 left in the third quarter was where things began to get very, very interesting. Seattle began from their own 2-yard line after Peter Warrick let a Chris Gardocki punt go by him for some reason, and they took charge from the start of this march.
It's just too bad they weren't allowed to finish it fairly.
Hasselbeck was surgical on the drive until the 11th play from the PIT 19, when Sean Locklear was called for holding on an 18-yard pass to Jerramy Stevens, which would have put the Seahawks one yard from a touchdown that would have put them in the lead. Replay showed no hold from Locklear, but we had learned at this point that actual penalties would have no bearing whatsoever on what would actually be called. The ball was moved back to the PIT 39. Two plays later, Hasselbeck threw an interception to CB Ike Taylor, and was called for an absolutely ludicrous low block when all he was doing was trying to tackle the man with the ball.
At this point, it was almost humorous.
On Pittsburgh's next drive, Roethlisberger pitched the ball to Willie Parker. Parker handed the ball off to Randle El, who threw a 43-yard TD pass to Hines Ward. When the play went back to the right before the TD pass, Roethlisberger threw a block which looked very close to the knees. Pittsburgh 21, Seattle 10.
Them, on Seattle's next drive, Hasselbeck ran 18 yards from his own 16 to the Seattle 34. He was touched by linebacker Larry Foote as he was going down and lost the ball after he hit the ground. Nonetheless, the play was called a fumble, and Leavy appeared to be very, VERY quick in his "Not down by contact" ruling. Holmgren challenged the call, and perhaps this one was just too obvious - Leavy reversed it.
From then on, the result was academic. America got what it wanted.
Final Score: Pittsburgh 21, Seattle 10.
Third Quarter: Second play of PIT's first drive, and Fast Willie Parker choogles 75 yards for a TD. I only half-saw it, because I was busy trying to think of ways I could describe the officiating in the first half without getting fired. This is the longest rushing play in Super Bowl history. Pittsburgh 14, Seattle 3.
The...uhhh...coronation of Jerome Bettis is certainly going along to plan, isn't it? My, how very neat and orderly.
(I have to note that I'm typing up the second half from my notes after the game, and thinking what I think now makes it somewhat difficult to discuss actual game action. If the subsequent writing is a bit stilted, please understand.)
After a Josh Brown 50-yard miss, PIT began driving the ball down the field with 11:40 left in the third quarter from their own 40. Roethlisberger throws a little dinky out pass to Cedrick Wilson which was picked off by Kelly Herndon at the SEA 4-yard line. Herndon returned the ball 76 yards to the PIT 20 - the longest interception return in Super Bowl History, surpassing Willie Brown's 75-yarder in Super Bowl XI.
At 6:45, Jerramy Stevens caught a 16-yard TD in front of Polamalu to make the game 14-10, Pittsburgh. Seemingly, Seattle had seen the momentum shift back in their favor. This was validated by the subsequent Steeler drive, another 3-and-out. The fourth quarter would begin with this score...and so much drama yet to come.
Second quarter: Warrick's punt return for 34 yards to the PIT 46. Special teams in Seattle's favor so far - who woulda thunk it?
Hasselbeck emplying quick rollouts and play action to brilliantly offset PIT's defenseive sets. Only one sack for PIT in the first half. First drive of the quarter ends for Seattle with an incomplete pass to Jerramy Stevens from the PIT 47 - this looked very much like a fumble.
PIT's fourth drive is marked, at first, by Seattle's continued ability to get good pressure with four - I said this would be the key to a Seattle victory before the game. Seattle doesn't have to employ the blitz and get out of their game. PIT's first first down comes with 11:09 left in second quarter - Roethlisberger to Randle El for an 8-yarder at the PIT 30. Next play, Hines Ward takes a reverse left end for 18 yards.
Momentum shift? Not so bleedin' fast, as Mick might say...Michael Boulware picks off Big Ben on the nest play, jumping impossibly high over Randle El at the SEA 17.
Pittsburgh's next drive is where things got really interesting. Remember - all we've been hearing all week is how great and accurate Bill Leavy's officiating crew is...this is, quite frankly, a bald-faced lie. Seattle should be up 10-0 at halftime, and it's Leavy's fault they aren't. Pittsburgh takes the ball on an impressive 11-play, 59-yard drive. The last three plays of the drive went like this - Bettis up the middle for 2 to the SEA 1, Bettis for no gain...then, on 3rd and goal from the 1, Roethlisberger ran left and came just short of the end zone. Or, at least that's what everyone not named Bill Leavy thought. Leavy called a touchdown, and ruled on review that there was not conclusive evidence to overturn the call.
Once again, an officiating crew uses inconclusivity (is that a word???) to save its collective butt, and the wrong team scores, in the biggest game of the year.
Pittsburgh 7, Seattle 3.
Seattle seemed affected by the call on their next drive - they were able to move the ball, but Hasselbeck rolled off 35 secods from :48 to :13 at the PIT 40. Alexander then ran to the 36, and Josh Brown missed a 54-yarder to essentially end the half. Holmgren was Van Goghing Leavy coming off the field, and he had every right to.
Halftime: Pittsburgh 7, Seattle 3.
What It Should Be: Seattle 10, Pittsburgh 3.
First Quarter: Seattle calls tails, wins, and receives. 3:27 - Jeff Reed kicks off to Scobey. Scobey 15 yds to the 18.
First SEA drive: Two quick passes to Jackson. Hannam blocking great at the line - obviously accounting for the LBs. Alexander running well to start - 8-yarder. Drive ends with a Hass over throw to Jackson and a Locklear declined holding call on a Haggins sack. First PIT drive starts with a false start on TE Heath Miller, then a run to Packer that goes nowhere, a screen to Parker that goes nowhere, a false start on T Max Starks, and a Roethlisberger scramble.
The Steelers just got the first taste of the defense they - and America - have been underrating.
Seattle's second drive was punctuated by Hass' 110-yard pass to D. Jackson to the PIT 45. Seattle got as far as the PIT 23 in an 18-yard pass from Hass to Jackson, but a holding call on Chris Gray pushed the ball back to the SEA 49. Rouen then had to punt.
PIT went run, run and inc. pass to Ward. Second 3-and-out.
Warrick punt return to the SEA 49 on next play . Seattle's driving down the field, and Hasselbeck throws a 16-yard touchdown to Jackson with 2:08 left in the first quarter. Jackson was called for off. pass interference on a pushoff which looked pretty legal to me...this was a bad call. Seattle has to settle for a Josh Brown 49-yard FG with 27 seconds left in the first quarter. Seattle 3, Pittsburgh 0.
Seattle's defense is playing at a supernatural level.
3:09 PM: Seahawks introduced as a team, just like the 2001 Pats. I was hoping they'd do that...and the Steelers did it, too. I think that typifies the approach of both teams - no B.S., just get on the field and play.
3:08PM: The following ceremony brought out many of the past Super Bowl MVPs. For some reason, Franco Harris walking out onto the field gave me goosebumps. Must be a childhood thing.
3:00 PM: Just saw the first pan through the stands after the amazing Stevie Wonder performance…and there are terrible towels EVERYWHERE.
The inactives:
CB Michael Harden
FB Leonard Weaver
T Wayne Hunter
RT Ray Willis
DE Robert Pollard
TE Itula Mili
DT Rodney Bailey
David Greene is the third quarterback.
CB Willie Williams
LB Arnold Harrison
LB Rian Wallace
G Chris Kemoeatu
T Trai Essex
WR Lee Mayes
DE Shaun Nua
Tommy Maddox is the third quarterback.
With Williams inactive, Pittsburgh has nobody on the field with Super Bowl experience. This will be mitigated by the HEAVY pro-Steeler crowd. This is as one-sided a "neutral" site as I've ever seen in a Super Bowl.
11:45 AM: Got a call a few minutes ago from our very own Todd "ArosNET" Breda - he and Mark "rockhawkx" Olsen are in Detroit Hawk City and having a blast. They will be uploading tons of pictures and their own Super Bowl experiences in various blogs next week.
As for me, I'm going to go grab some lunch - I'll be back for the pre-game and GameBlog.
8:30 AM: The first 20 minutes of Sunday NFL Countdown: SteelersSteelersSteelersSteelersSteelersSteelersSteelersSteelers.
The next 10 minutes of Sunday NFL Countdown: (seahawks)BrettFavreBrettFavreBrettFavreBrettFavreBrettFavreBrettFavreBrettFavre.
Sounds about right.
ESPN's Ed Werder did sneak in a report this morning that Mike Holmgren told his team to "go out and prove everyone wrong" in last night's team meeting after the Seahawks watched the NFC Championship game. Holmgren also unveiled a display of one-dollar bills, showing the $30k difference between the winning and losing Super Bowl player shares. Werder reported that this is what Holmgren did for his Packer team before they won Super Bowl XXXI over the New England Patriots, 35-21, on January 26, 1997.
Werder's Seahawks report was cut short by "technical difficulties" which reminded me of Otter's abbreviated plea in student court on behalf of the Deltas in "Animal House".
6:55 AM: Ten (well, five!) Things I Think I Was Thinking While I Was Thinking Of Other Things to Think
(Note: This part of the GameBlog should be enjoyed to the accompaniment of a girls' field hockey fight song and a half-decaf, triple-tall bacon fat latte.)
1. Seeing Warren Moon make the Hall of Fame was a wonderful thing. Has anyone had a better week than Mr. Moon? First, the team he works for gets to the Super Bowl after a 30-year drought, then he gets his piece of immortality. Well-deserved, sir.
2. Thinking about different matchups, and I believe it all comes down to what Seattle's front four can or can't do. If they can get pressure with four (or five at the maximum, and that extra guy cannot be Lofa Tatupu – ne needs to be free to read in coverage as well), all they have to do is play the game they've done throughout the postseason and I don't think Pittsburgh has an answer for that. The Steelers' defense is fantastic, but people aren't giving Seattle's offense enough credit (gosh…what a shock THAT is!). Matt Hasselbeck has enough weapons at his disposal to take that defense on…and maybe enough to take it apart.
3. Speaking of Hasselbeck…everyone's talking about Ben Roethlisberger, and there's no doubt the kid's been as good in his first two years as any QB in NFL history. But I'll counter with the same numbers I've been reciting for the last two weeks: Seattle's quarterback has completed 36 of 54 passes for 434 yards, 3 touchdowns, no interceptions and a 109.7 passer rating in two playoff games. In his four games in the final month of 2005, Hasselbeck completed 76.1% of his passes – the best percentage of any quarterback in NFL history who played in at least four games in the month. His 135.5 December passer rating tells the tale – 67 completions in 88 attempts for 777 yards, 10 touchdowns and one interception.
I don't care if he hails from "South Alaska"…those numbers are just ridiculous.
4. An interesting number of people who really do their homework (Mike Sando. Andrea Kremer, Aaron Schatz) are picking the Seahawks to win by 3 or 4. Sando and Kremer by 4, Schatz by 3.
5. Speaking of Mr. Schatz, I wanted to thank him once again for his exclusive interview this week with Seahawks.NET. Aaron's site, www.footballoutsiders.com, is an amazing "think tank", where advanced statistics are invented and discussed. He took time out from writing his own lengthy game preview for FoxSports.com to talk to us, and he didn't hold any information back. I think the last five "things I think I think" should instead be highlights from that interview:
6. "The thing about Seattle versus the Pittsburgh defense - people feel like the Seattle offense should be shut down by the Pittsburgh defense - is that Seattle just made it to the Super Bowl by beating the teams that ranked fourth and second in our defensive rankings for the season and now they're playing the team that's ranked third. So it's not like they haven't played strong defenses in their last two games of the playoffs and done fine against them, but they haven't seen the 3-4 defense with the complicated blitzing. While they have played 3-4 defenses earlier in the season and not just Dallas, obviously they whaled away on San Francisco and Houston."
7. "Because Seattle is not quite as good at running DVOA as they are at line yards, that does indicate there are some longer runs against them as opposed to Pittsburgh who is really strong in all of our run defense stats. I don't think it's just the front-four. Leroy Hill, in particular, is very strong against the run. He's stronger against the run than he is against the pass. Seattle's defense was number two in preventing runs around the right end."
8. "The thing about Roethlisberger is that people have talked about how he's come out this year and been so amazing – he was this good last year. This guy has been this good for two years. His rookie year compares to the greatest quarterbacks of the last 25 years. If you look at similar rookie years you get Tom Brady's first year as a starter, Joe Montana's first year as a starter and Brett Favre's first year as a starter. There's no quarterback that's comparable to him at this point in NFL history, because he gets so many yards per attempt, but throws so few passes and he's so young."
9. "The Pittsburgh running game isn't nearly as good as people think, and Seattle's run defense is one of the best in the league. Pittsburgh runs and they run and they run and they run and they ran more than any other team. They don't run more in first half than other teams, but in the second half, when they get a lead, they stop passing. Other teams will mix in the pass a little even if they're running out the clock - I mean, Pittsburgh just stops passing and they run all the time. But their running game is not actually that good. They were 11th in DVOA and what is interesting is to look at the split between the two halves. Pittsburgh in the first half had the second-lowest yards per carry in the league. The only team that averaged fewer yards per running back carry in the first half was Arizona."
10. "This offensive line is better than Washington's or Carolina's. Nobody's 43 years old – nobody played for the St. Louis Cardinals on this offensive line (laughs). Pittsburgh's line has been sort of inconsistent this year – part of that was that they had a rookie (Trai Essex) playing left tackle some of the time when Marvel Smith was injured, but Marvel Smith is healthy now. And (guard Alan) Faneca, despite being a Pro Bowler…I saw some games this year where he was just getting run over, but a lot of the time, that's when he had Essex playing next to him. So, while I think he was inconsistent, he's obviously played well in the playoffs. This is not the offensive line that Seattle has faced in their last couple of games. This is one of the better offensive lines in football. Not as good as Seattle's offensive line, or Denver's…but then again, Denver's right tackle got smashed last game, so maybe they're not as good as we think!"
6:04 AM: The Press is a Mess!
Seeing the inattention and laziness of the national media when discussing the Seattle Seahawks over the last two weeks was disappointing, to be sure. Big-name national columnists wrote like five-year-olds, voting with their hearts (Steelers) instead of their heads (Hmmm…how about analyzing the game and picking from there?) Perhaps the most disappointing coverage (I can't call anything ESPN does "disappointing" at this point – I just expect the worst) came from the NFL Network, because their pre-coverage of this Super Bowl has been an absolute nightmare.
From Rich Eisen's inability to get the names of Seahawks right (and his whiny NFL.com column about the reactions he got to it), to Lincoln Kennedy's "HUH?!?!?" moment when he made up an entirely new name for Sean Locklear and was never corrected, to Rod Woodson's smothering homerism (he should have been taken off the broadcast...all he's done is pimp the Steelers and provide no analysis whatsoever), this last two-week period has pretty much demolished my enthusiasm for a network I once begged Comcast to carry. If this is the future of this network, boot it off my cable box and I won't miss a thing.
The craven coverage of the Porter-Stevens verbal battle was a "shining" example of tabloid "he said/she said" yellow journalism. "Playbook" this week has been nothing but smack talk and a few unrelated, disembodied highlight clips. It was certainly obvious that Sharpe and Baldinger were too busy trying to out-yell each other to do any homework..."If Seattle's defensive line wins the line of scrimmage battle, Pittsburgh's running game could be impacted!" Stop the presses. Nobody would dream of such insight!
I swore that if I heard "Hasselback" one more time, I was going to scream. Some of their field reporters are half-aware, and one in particular is just vacant. I like Paul Burmeister, and Eisen has his moments, but they need more people who can actually run a half-decent interview, and more people who can explain basic terminology.
Where were the guest coaches? Where were the people who could get inside the heads of Holmgren and Cowher and tell you what they might be thinking, based on their experiences? All we had was Jim Mora, his "SeaHacks" cracks and his struggles to get Bryce Fisher's name right.
I only hope that when the combine rolls around later this month, they'll get back to business. But I have seen some ugliness...the potential for the NFL Network to lower itself to ESPN's level, where nothing but "blah, blah, blah" emanates from the idiot box.
Given the potential this network has for providing crucial and intelligent information to fans abandoned by ESPN's demise, it would be a tragedy if they stopped trying to do it the right way.
File it all under the "Just My Humble Opinion" category, but I was saddened and disgusted by my favorite channel this week.


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The Friday death of a 7-month-old Birmingham boy is being investigated as a homicide, authorities said today.
Ashton Stringer-Jones was pronounced dead at Children's Hospital Friday morning, two days after he arrived there unresponsive. Jefferson County Chief Deputy Coroner Pat Curry said today Ashton died from blunt force trauma to the head.
Authorities said the baby's mother, a 22-year-old Miles College student, left Ashton in the care of a friend Wednesday morning to attend class. When she returned to pick up her son, he was wrapped in a blanket and she was told he was asleep.
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Re: Culture of Martial Mediocrity?
Since the usual line is that "There are no counters to Aikido" nobody ever really feels the need to work on their technique, as long as it's good enough to pass the grading they assume it's going to work out in the real world.
First off, before I respond to an earlier request,
WHERE or IN WHAT DOJO is that "the usual line?" (I'd like to know, so I can avoid visiting there.) In 20 years of Aikido, I've never heard it said. Countering a poor technique is the simplest way to show the nage that they are doing ineffective aikido, in my experience. Every technique has a counter
-- if you're willing to pay the price (as uke). Why else learn and teach henkawaza and kaeshiwaza?
Second, anyone who assumes "good enough to pass" means "this works for me in the real world" is dangerously deluded. We all should realize that a gokyu-level test is not likely to demonstrate dan-level aikido. Passing the test means you have a certain level of understanding of the technique -- it
be real-world effective at Ikkyu; at Yonkyu it might not. (Remember what "assume" stands for?)
End rant.
Could you elaborate upon what was incredible with Yamada's visit and also how it is related to a notion of "excellence." - please/thanks.
Sure, David.
Yamada brought the "martial" back into what are thought of as "basic" techniques, by teaching them in a dramatic but wholly aiki way. And he didn't just demonstrate them and pray that people were watching closely -- he taught, observed whether or not it was being absorbed, worked with individuals as needed, and stopped the class to demonstrate fine points that were being consistently missed.
Here's an example:
Yamada-san was teaching a variant of iriminage from gyaku-hanmi katatedori in a series of lessons... Style: he would demonstrate, then we'd break off into pairs, and he'd roam and individually correct us. (Note that this was the extra Friday night class before the Yudansha-only seminar, so the mat was full of 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Dans from all over the US, but some lowly Kyu ranks like myself were present.) Each successive technique in this series built on the ones before it:
First: practice the entrance - get into a very close, deep irimi-tenkan entrance that shifted uke's weight forward, out and down
Second: practice the choke-hold available at that position (!) to control uke's head and off-balance them - make it an effective choke
Third: progress from the choke-hold to a hip-shifting, head-taking, center-destroying iriminage.
Fourth: Yokomenuchi strike, countered by the same style of iriminage (if I remember correctly).
Yamada-san was careful to emphasize the roles of both nage, and uke in the technique -- both are active, with uke actively resisting the choke, which enables and powers the iriminage. And that took most of the first hour, giving us plenty of time to practice at each point and improve.
Thats what I mean about an excellent seminar - excellent teaching of excellent martial arts, not just a "show and try - this works for me" aikido variety show.
An excellent seminar is one that helps you "polish the mirror."
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Worcestershire are hopeful they can finally unleash Sohail Tanvir when they travel to face Midlands/Wales/West Group leaders Somerset in the Friends Life t20.
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Darren Aronofsky joins the line of directors that have taken on bringing biblical stories to the screen. His Noah is not a literal rendering of the story of great flood, but it contains both interesting and poor choices in story telling.
The movie begins with God creating the world. It moves up to the point where Adam and Eve sin and Cain kills Abel. These two acts are at the center of the story.
How Aronofsky transitions into the story of Noah is based on the fact that after Cain killed Abel, there remained only two sons of Adam and Eve: Cain and Seth. Cain creates a technologically based society, which lays waste to the world God created. Cain's descendents are aided by a group of fallen angels called the Watchers.
These Watchers share the secrets of technology with Cain's family, which grows in power and might. Before long they cover the earth with wastelands from using all the resources of the planet.
Seth's family follows God's way. At the beginning of the movie there is only one son left from the line of Seth — Noah. His father, Lamech, gives him the blessing to walk upright before God. But before he can give all that he has to Noah, Lamech is murdered by Tubal-cain.
As we move further in time, Noah (Russell Crowe) is married to Naameh (Jennifer Connelly). They have three sons, Shem (Douglas Booth), Ham (Logan Lerman) and Japheth (Leo McHugh Carroll). They spend their days taking what they can from the almost barren earth to live, while hiding from other men. The family of Noah exists apart, for men are ruthless and live without concern for others.
One night, Noah has a vision from God, who shows him that God is going to destroy the world because of the wickedness of men. This stirs Noah to seek interpretation from his grandfather, Methuselah (Anthony Perkins).
As Noah's family journeys to the place his grandfather lives, they come upon a group of people slaughtered by Tubal-cain's followers. In the rubble they discover an injured girl, who has been struck in the stomach. Ila (Emma Watson) joins the family.
Methuselah describes how his father, Enoch, predicted the time would come when God would destroy the world because of human sin. He asks Noah how God might destroy the world. Noah replies by water. Then he is asked how God is going to save creation? Noah declares by an ark.
What follows is the building of the ark. This leads me to a criticism of the story told in the movie.
Directors and screenwriters have to use creations and devices in storytelling to move the narrative forward. The story of Noah presents problems. One is, how does Noah build an ark large enough to contain two of every animal with only himself and his three young sons?
Aronofsky turns to the Watchers. These fallen angels are portrayed as rocklike creatures. They help Noah build the ark and protect his family. The way these figures are constructed and how they function in the story did not work for me.
When the ark is nearly completed, Tubal-cain (Ray Winstone) lays claim to it. Noah resists, telling him there is nothing for him there. This sets up a battle which is launched just as the rain begins. This great battle underscores the trouble that Noah and his family have in beginning the journey from death to life.
This movie is flawed. Some of the devices used to tell the story got in the way of my enjoyment of it and some of the points Aronofsky wanted to make.
One interpretation was valuable. Aronofsky presents Noah as a good man, a righteous man, but still a man with flaws. One of the largest is that he becomes overzealous about what God wants done. That zeal drives a wedge between himself and his family.
Noah feels justified in taking any action because he believes he is doing God's will. If that ends with him destroying his family, then he will do just that.
With all its problems, Noah is a noteworthy film. It will cause those outside the confines of our churches to raise questions we should be willing and able to answer. Those of us in the church should use the as a point of engagement with those outside.
That engagement should not be about what is wrong with the film, but what it is saying about how we live out our faith and our determination to do God's will. It forces us to deal with the issue of overzealous believers. What do we say about those that use God's will as motivation for their behaviors?
Rated PG-13 for violence, disturbing images and brief suggestive content
Directed by Darren Aronofsky. Written by Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel
With: Russell Crowe (Noah), Jennifer Connelly (Naameh), Anthony Hopkins (Methusaleh), Ray Winstone (Tubal-cain), Emma Watson (Ila)


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Blamed for a heinous crime and banished from his tribe of Jaguar shifters, Adriano will do anything to buy back his rightful place-even steal a priceless artifact. First, he'll have to seduce Sophie Martin, an archaeologist researching the temple ruins and the one person who stands in his way.Sophie wants to uncover the artifact as well-not to sell it, but to study it. It could unlock all the secrets of an ancient and mysterious civilization. But it's hard to focus on her work when the distractingly sexy Adriano is nearby. What begins as a seduction quickly turns into mutual passion as Adriano's touch awakens a side of Sophie she'd kept hidden-and arouses his Jaguar instincts. To preserve his people's secret and earn his redemption, Adriano needs the artifact. But when a rival thief kidnaps Sophie, Adriano will be forced to choose-between the people who rejected him in the past, or the woman who could be his future... 50,000 words
The Shape of Temptationby Eleri Stone
He once controlled her fate; now she holds his heart-and his body-in her hands...Living in a humble village at the edge of the Sarian Empire, Kailey is a gifted but untrained mage with an affinity for stone. She believes herself well beyond the reach of the guild that controls all magic within the empire until Benim, an unwilling guild soldier, appears at her door. She's part of his quest to assemble gifted citizens for entrance to University.As Kailey struggles to navigate the strange society of the Sarian upper class, she's tasked by a guild master to create a masterpiece for the emperor. And when Benim is commissioned as her model, Kailey comes to crave the hard-bodied soldier she spends her days sculpting inch by intimate inch.Benim cannot resist the warmth of Kailey's spirit nor the comforts found within her body, though he knows that a poor soldier has no place in a mage's world. But he and Kailey will have to overcome more than just class differences in order to remain together. For someone has made Kailey a pawn in her mentor's ambitious play for power...Book two of the Spellcraft series43,000 words
Threads of Desireby Eleri Stone
Guild-trained weaver Ily is furious her rival Kal, a smug yet wickedly sexy rug merchant, outsells her at every turn. She knows her magically crafted rugs are far superior to anything he can produce, but can't compete with his charming personality.When Kal fixes his lusty attentions on Ily, she is reluctantly aroused by his interest. She knows he desires her and against her better judgment, she wants him too. A chance encounter leads her to make him a scandalous offer: her body in exchange for enough money to leave the city. She sees their time together as a temporary erotic adventure...until Kal reveals that what he truly wants from Ily is more personal-and more dangerous-than bed play. And she must choose between taking her chance at a new life or risking it all for a man she never meant to love.36,000 words
Witch Boundby Eleri Stone
Book two of Twilight of the GodsRaquel Lindgren knows what her future holds. An arranged marriage. A new home in Ragnarok, Iowa, with another clan of refugees from Asgard. She should be happy. But there's a mental block preventing her from tapping in to her true abilities as a witch. And she's more attracted to the best man than she is to the groom...Fen can't believe he's falling for his best friend's future wife. As a hound, a wolf shifter, his duty lies with the pack. He's seen too many hounds destroyed by love, and he's sworn never to take a mate, never to have children of his own. He can't deny his desire for Raquel, but she deserves more than he can offer her.Raquel's been raised to trust in magic, her clan and her destiny. But when a vengeful demon threatens to break out of Asgard and destroy the clan, Raquel learns she must trust in love if she is to take the future into her own hands.For more tales of modern-day Vikings, check out Demon Crossings.73,000 words
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