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One of the smartest showbusiness people I've
interviewed is Seth MacFarlane – the writing, producing, directing
genius behind small-and big-screen hits like Family Guy and Ted.
he announced a new TV comedy that he's sold to the Starz network in
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Walter Blunt, played by Sir Patrick Stewart.
One of the smartest showbusiness people I've interviewed is Seth MacFarlane. He's sold a new TV comedy to the Starz network in America called Blunt Talk
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read: 'Blunt is a British import intent on conquering the world of
American cable news.
'Through the platform of his nightly interview show, Blunt is a borderline alcoholic, mad-genius Brit on a mission to impart his wisdom and guidance on how Americans should live, think and behave.
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'Besieged by network bosses, a dysfunctional news staff, numerous ex-wives and children of all ages, Blunt's only supporter is the alcoholic man-servant he brought with him from the UK to join him in Los Angeles.'
I'm obviously outraged. I don't
have an alcoholic man-servant.
I only know one 'Kiefer'. In fact, I think there IS only one 'Kiefer'. And he's currently starring in a new series of the brilliant drama 24
Played golf with a
couple of British actors in LA today, and halfway through the round, one
of them took a phone call.
I only know one 'Kiefer'. In fact, I think there IS only one 'Kiefer'. And he's currently starring in a new series of the brilliant drama 24.
My friend walked off, chatted away for a few minutes on the side of the fairway, then returned.
'That was
'So I gathered.'
'I told him I was playing with you, and he
asked me to tell you that he's really sorry about the CNN thing, and
that he thinks your gun campaigning has been brave and heroic, and he
truly admires you for it.'
My chest spontaneously puffed up, and I
drilled a 7-iron straight on to the green. When Jack Bauer's got your
back, everything seems OK again.
It was the annual White
House Correspondents Dinner in Washington tonight.
A lavish affair
attended by the President and vast swathes of America's finest
political, media and celebrity figures.
An acerbic American comedian
called Joel McHale made the keynote speech, which traditionally lampoons
half the people in the room, to their intense discomfort.
And McHale managed to be even more discomforting than his predecessors.
Even I
wasn't spared his merciless tongue.
Halfway through, he declared: 'At
this point, CNN is like the Radio Shack in a sad strip mall.
'You don't
know how it stayed in business this long, you don't know anybody who
shops there, and they just fired Piers Morgan.'
At which point both
Barack and Michelle Obama's faces creased into uncontrollable laughter.
It's a strange experience seeing the most powerful couple in the world
cheerfully chortling over one's professional demise.
But the more I
thought about it, the more pleased I felt. Just need the Pope and the
Queen caught on camera guffawing over my departure from the airways, and
I'll be the most famous sackee in TV history.
I was the second human being Thierry Henry 'followed' once his account went live on Twitter tonight, after another former Arsenal great, Cesc Fabregas
My phone
''Allo, it's Thierry.'
Very few things over-excite me in life, but the dulcet French tones of Arsenal legend Thierry Henry always get my torso tingling almost as fervently as his goals once did.
'I'm joining Twitter,' he announced.
'It's time.'
I was stunned, as Thierry's always
insisted he'd never tweet.
'I changed my mind,' he said. 'I can see it's
a good way to correct all the ridiculous stuff said about me. And to
say what I want about a few people.'
'Be prepared for a lot of abuse…' I
'I can handle it,' he chuckled.
'I played at Spurs a few
I was the second human being Thierry 'followed' once his account went live on Twitter tonight, after another former Arsenal great, Cesc Fabregas.
He even followed me before he followed the official Arsenal
Short of the four times I've heard the words, 'You have a new
baby boy/girl, Mr Morgan,' and however pathetic and ridiculous it may
sound to non-football fans, it was possibly the greatest moment of my
You'd have to be a die-hard Gooner to understand why.
Four years ago, a young
punkhaired 'hip-hop violinist' called Lindsey Stirling reached the
quarter- finals of America's Got Talent.
She was a crazy performer, charging all over the stage – to the detriment, I felt, of her violin playing.
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- 'Brad made the L sign. My sons later told me, "Dad, he's calling you a loser..."' 22/09/16
- 'I left before the end to avoid having to clap Billy Connolly. We can't stand each other, so why pretend?' 15/09/16
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- 'I'm 55 years old and I'm going to be live on air in my underpants,' said Gary Lineker. 'Yes, Piers, I'm panicking' 11/08/16
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- PIERS MORGAN: I've decided not to mention the Arsenal manager's name again in public 28/07/16
- PIERS MORGAN: 'I could murder Piers,' said Simon Cowell. 'That would get bigger ratings' 22/07/16
- PIERS MORGAN: PR Dave's legacy will be that he smashed the EU and probably signalled the end of the UK 14/07/16
- PIERS MORGAN: Do you feel sorry for Boris?' I asked Robert Peston. 'Not really, he'd have been an absolute shambles as PM' 07/07/16
'There were times,' I pronounced, 'when it sounded to me like a bunch of rats being strangled.'
It remains one of the most withering judging verdicts I administered in my Got Talent career on both sides of the Atlantic.
And a tearful Lindsey was duly booted off the show by the American voting public.
Today, the same Ms Stirling rocketed to No 2 on the Billboard Top 200 chart with her new album Shatter Me, cementing her status as a bona fide superstar.
Asked by CBS about our encounter, she admitted: 'It was so hurtful and humiliating to be crushed in such a negative way. But I ended up using it as motivation. "I'm gonna prove Piers Morgan wrong!" '
Asked if we'd been in touch since her success, Lindsey shook her head and replied: 'No, I'm actually a little sad his CNN show got cancelled because I always wanted to be a guest on it.'
Then she paused, and smirked: 'Actually, inside I'm a little happy it got cancelled.'
Ironically, as I heard these words, I involuntarily made a high-pitched squealing noise not dissimilar to a rat being strangled.
Send your Twitter questions about the rich, famous and infamous to @piersmorgan using the hashtag #askpiers – and every week I'll answer the most amusing
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Wednesday, June 04, 2014
Let me make one thing clear. I have never cheated on my husband. He is A #1 in my book, putting up with me through thick and thin--mostly thick--for almost 40 years. However, I realized I do have love affairs--with food.
Man, oh man, even the thought of breaking off my affair with mashed potatoes, my comforter of choice, sends me running to the local grocery store for a carton of Bob Evans Homestyle Mashed Potatoes. I can, and often do, make a meal of this silky smooth, almost as good as homemade, side dish with an addition of Hormel's Roast Beef Au Jus. These two combined really get my juices going--gastric that is.
Another lover I enjoy is ice cream--especially any mocha or java flavored ice cream. This lover transports me into ecstasy. Alas, the high from our interactions only last a few minutes. Inevitably guilt sets in and I crash. I beat myself up for caving into my desires, for not being strong enough to say "NO!"
None of these affairs of the heart cause me to feel better about myself. On the contrary, I realize they could care less about me. I'm just a piece of meat to them--if even that. So why do I allow them such power over me?
I argue with myself that I don't have to TOTALLY give them up. I can allow myself to meet up with them occasionally and for smaller amounts. But another part of me wonders if I'm strong enough for that. Will a normal portion satisfy my lust for them?
I had to totally break off my affair with another lover--Diet Dr. Pepper. I was out of control in my craving for him. Ahhhh, the cold tingly feeling of those first swallows. The caffeine rush he gave me. I thought I wouldn't be able to live without him. The first weekend without contacting him was awful. I felt sick with loss: headaches, fatigue, dizziness, irritability. A thousand times I thought, "I can't do this" and wanted to run to the store to reconnect. But I stayed strong and true to myself.
Eventually, the headaches and fatigue passed. I still have an occasional craving, but I realize I feel better about myself without him. I'm sure he doesn't miss me at all. Surprisingly, I'm sleeping better. So now I'm evaluating my other affairs of the heart and deciding who needs to go next, and if it needs to be a clean break or can we settle on a friendship.
It's time for me to put my effort into relationships that give back--that take care of me--such as fruits, vegetables; complex carbs. These guys don't try to chain your soul. They really want what's best for me. I can't imagine having the same passion for them as I do my current affairs. But if I switch my allegiance to them I hope to be around a lot longer for the true love of my life--my husband.
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Just came across this blog and my jaw dropped! I have never thought of food like that. I've thought of it like cocaine or a drug, but not an affair. That's really quite interesting and how smart you are to have that kind of intuition. Definitely made me think because every time I read something about giving up my sweet tooth I almost have a panic attack so I get it!! VERY well written. I'm going to hang around and see if you have anymore words of wisdom!
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I've never thought about foods I love as affairs...what a great way to put it! You have got me thinking now and considering what affairs I need to end also. Great blog post!! Thank you!
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shattered hopes of the Cuban people, especially for those who
courageously resist the regime's cruel and arbitrary demands for
obedience and silence.
In May 2008 people around the world observed the first
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It's been a while, but over this Thanksgiving week I was finally able to accompany my family on a short visit with some in-laws in western Missouri. It was a great trip with some wonderful Thanksgiving food and weather. But all good things must come to an end, and on Friday we drove back to the St. Louis area. But shortly after leaving, we made a stop in the small town of Butler, Missouri to grab a quick (we thought - more on that in a second) bite to eat at the McDonalds off of Rt 71/I-49.
As we drove into Butler, we spotted the home of God, Guns and Automobiles - Max Motors.
I've watched the show several times and got a kick out of seeing the owner, Mark Mueller and his brother Mancow (yeah, the radio guy from Chicago) in action. In case you didn't remember, Max Motors is the place that was giving away a gun with every car purchase. Heh. That one didn't go over well with our gun-grabbing friends on the Left. But as demonstrated on GG&A, Mueller isn't exactly concerned about the sympathies of such folks.
After stopping briefly for me to snap off that (rather lousy) pic of Max Motors, we cruised down to the local McDonalds to grab breakfast and take a bio break, which meant we had to (gasp) go INSIDE to order our food.
Bad move.
The second bad move after actually going to McDonalds and going inside was for me to order a breakfast sandwich with egg whites and white cheddar....apparently a request that the crack (/sarc) staff at this McDonalds was not too well-versed at. My wife and I stood a full 10 minutes waiting for the employees to wait on everyone except us. I eventually said to one of the servers/clerks/whatever "Uh, are we going to get our food some time?" To which she responded "Hey, It's not my fault". And to which I responded "Yeah, it's your fault - you work here and represent the business". I then asked for the manager, complained and was met with a deer-in-the-headlights look and NO words. After another 2-3 minutes, the Not My Fault chick hands me the bag...without a single word spoken. I said "Uh, sorry about the wait??" and she failed to respond....after which I turned around, departed with the farewell message "You folks are pathetic" and left. This was, without a doubt, my worst experience EVER at a McDonalds. I suppose if we had a) used the drive through, and/or b) not ordered a food item that was apparently outside their core competency, maybe we would have had a better experience. But apparently it's beyond this bunch to be able to wait on people in person (one of my pet peeves - if a customer bothers to come inside, the staff should treat them with AT LEAST as much attention as the folks who choose to drive through), and to cook/serve things that appear on the actual menu.
Now apparently McDonalds is aware they have problems and are trying to address them. That's nice. But it's not my problem...their bad service IS. Perhaps they should consider a strategy such as that of In-N-Out Burger, who has an extremely bare-bones menu but VERY good food and VERY good service.
Imagine that. Good food, good, fast and friendly service at a reasonable price. Go figure. Take a lesson, McDonalds. I would drive many miles out of my way to eat at an In-N-Out. I would drive many miles out of my way to avoid eating at a McDonalds, especially one in Butler, MO.
So I had about 4-5 hours drive to think about my little McDonalds adventure and how I would frame this abysmal "customer service" experience as part of a Redstate diary. As I pondered the episode, it occurred to me that these folks typify the very bunch of fools who are now DEMANDING a $15.00/hour pay rate - for working fast food. FIFTEEN. I wouldn't pay the employees at the Butler McDonalds fifteen CENTS an hour. But - can you blame these folks for their ridiculous demands? The level of economic literacy in this country is so pitiful that they could not possibly understand that they would simply be writing their own pink slips with such a move. Simply supply-and-demand concepts are apparently beyond the grasp of those who believe that fundamentally unskilled fast-food employees deserve ridiculously high hourly rates. Just what do they think will happen when a store is forced to double the employee salary expense? Here, let me help you out with the answer, Mr./Mrs. Burger Microwaver (at McDonalds, they don't even flip burgers any more) & Coke filler: you will lose your job. The business is not going to take a loss or reduce their profit margin. YOU will be the victim. So instead of $7.50 an hour, you get ... nothing.
Despite all that, it was a great Thanksgiving. It was NOT a great McDonalds experience, but that won't happen again, as I won't be returning to a McDonalds any time soon. But it was definitely a reinforcing moment in my opinion that the $15/hour for fast food bunch are idiots. Not that I really needed any more evidence of that. To anyone passing through Butler, I suggest you bypass McDonalds and make a stop at a locally-owned small business such as Koehn Bakery...which has some of the best pies I've ever eaten.
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Some like it hard, some like it soft, some like it all soaked in oil, some like the oil well drained, some like it crispy but we all like the sweetness of Dodo.
I was wondering if Eve was tempted with dodo in the Garden of Eden how would she have reacted. This is one food item that gets almost finished before it is served on the table. Remember your reaction when a bowl of freshly fried hot dodo is sitting on the kitchen work top as you walk past it?
You take a good look at the bowl, check out the different colours, light brown to dark brown, check to see if you will be found out and then make for your first piece which is very hot, and you are basically eating with your mouth open just to reduce the temperature of the hot food. Dodo is tempting sha I will really like to make a video some day of how people manage eat hot dodo with their mouth open
So today's recipe is for my football-loving friends. The guys like it a lot particularly when they can pair it with their drinks. This is also a great starter to a Nigerian 3 course meal.
The main catch here is the sauce. Enjoy as I bring you a sauce very similar to the popular Agoyin sauce that is used for mashed beans.
Recipe for Agoyin Sauce
1 cooking spoon coarsely ground dry pepper or less based on tolerance level
1 large Onion, blended
1 cup ground smoked prawns
1 teaspoon ground dry ginger
4 cooking spoons Vegetable Oil
Seasoning to taste
Salt to taste
Roasted Sesame seeds for garnishing.
- Heat the oil till hot and fry the onion for a minute.
- Add the pepper, prawn powder, ginger, seasoning and salt to taste and fry sauce till onion cooks well and sauce tastes great.
- Toss the fried plantain in the sauce and serve with sprinkles of sesame seeds.


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Square Enix has been trying to broaden its appeal of late, even going so far as to publish the upcoming World War II strategy title Order of War. Now they may be collaborating with Grasshopper Interactive CEO Goichi Suda, better known as Suda 51.
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The academy product came into the side to replace the suspended Dean Collis in the right centre position and impressed the Wildcats faithful after some big tackles helped his team mates force the winning drop goal by half-back Paul Sykes.
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"To win on my debut, in the way we did, and against the opponents we played is an unreal feeling and a feeling I'll never get again," he said after the game.
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The former Featherstone Lions man actually endured a nightmare start with Tony Puletua scoring after Francis Meli broke clear down Cowling's side of the pitch but he then went onto drag Chris Flannery into touch and force a knock on from Lee Gaskell in the closing minutes and without those crucial tackles it would have been hard to see a Wildcats victory.
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The first clue for Alabama's football team was the smell of coach Nick Saban's coffee brewing inside the visiting locker room of MetLife Stadium.
Coffee and two Little Debbie snack cakes are part of the coach's pregame ritual, and when the players realized just how seriously Saban was taking this so-called "exhibition" game, a hushed silence fell over the Crimson Tide locker room.
Until that point the locker room had been filled with relaxed chatter, most of it about the extraordinary list of sports heroes who had spoken to the team during the buildup to the game, including hockey players from the Miracle on Ice team that won gold at the 1980 Olympics, the 1985 Villanova hoops team and, of course, Bama's own Joe Namath.
But now the room was still, filled with the crackling tension of an imminent electrical storm.
Moments later, all remaining doubt about the seriousness of the task before them was erased when a member of the equipment staff quietly placed the team's cherished WIN bar -- a small section of goalpost mounted on a cherrywood stand that each player taps before heading into battle -- just by the locker room exit.
There was no mistaking that sign. This was huge.
Saban walked to the door, placed his right hand on the WIN bar and then turned around to address his team:
Men, at this moment it no longer matters why we dared to play this game, to take on this great daunting task in order to transcend football and stand for something greater than just ourselves and, in doing so, helping so many people in need.
No, as important as that is, and as proud as I am that we have accepted this challenge, none of that matters.
All that matters now is the opportunity before you. The chance to achieve something that will stand alone in the history of sports for hundreds of years and give this team, and each of you, something greater than national titles, wins, trophies or even millions of dollars ... immortality.
And with that, the doors burst open and the overwhelmingly pro-Alabama crowd roared as Saban and the Tide took the field for the game some were calling the gridiron matchup of the century: Alabama, the best team in college, versus the Cleveland Browns, the worst team in the NFL.
That the game was even taking place on this crisp but sunny Saturday in late January was a miracle in and of itself.
It started out way back in November with South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier speculating that Alabama could probably beat a handful of NFL teams.
Experts on the topic like Seahawks coach Pete Carroll, the former USC coach, rightfully scoffed at the idea. "It wouldn't even be close," he said.
Sure, maybe a handful of skill and speed players in college were ready to compete on a pro level, but they were scattered all over the map. Of the 10,000 college players each year, maybe two or three go on to become decent NFL quarterbacks.
Not that the college kids would have any time to throw, mind you. Scouts were certain that the men who manned even the worst interior lines in the pros would toy with their college counterparts to the point of it being dangerous for the kids.
Oddsmakers agreed, speculating that the line would be astronomical, up around 24 points or higher.
But then, the Northeast, hammered by a string of catastrophic bad-weather events, was in desperate need of funds to rebuild. And, during Roger Goodell's visit to the White House, President Obama half-jokingly suggested to the commissioner that instead of the Pro Bowl, the NFL should give the people what they want and raise money and awareness for storm victims by hosting an exhibition game against Alabama on the open Saturday before the Super Bowl.
Historians were quick to point out that a similar game had been played for four decades in Chicago up until 1976, with the pros winning 31 in the series and the college all-stars nine (there were two ties).
Bama versus Browns was all a big joke, of course, until broadcasters secretly ran the numbers with potential advertisers. Turns out, when it comes to the lure of cold hard cash, the NFL and the NCAA have an awful lot in common.
Someone then leaked the one-day payday of $150 million -- $75 million for humanitarian efforts in the Northeast, $30 million for scholarship funds at Alabama, and $500,000 to each member of the NFL team that volunteered -- and, suddenly, it looked like it might actually happen.
Alabama then rolled to its second straight national championship.
The Browns, meanwhile, finished a dismal 3-13. Facing a full-on fan mutiny after more than a decade of futility, new billionaire Browns owner (and Tennessean) Jimmy Haslam -- known for thinking outside the box, and looking for a way to shake things up, reinvigorate his fan base and broaden his team's appeal -- held a press conference at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Haslam looked into the cameras and, on live TV, said:
"The Browns say: Bring it on, Bama."
Fairly quickly, the anticipation for Bama-Browns exceeded the pregame hype for the Super Bowl.
There was speculation that Saban agreed to play the game because of his roots at Kent State and with the Browns. Others believed he was essentially forced into it by school administrators because of the massive payday.
But the truth is, love him or hate him, Saban knows football. He knew he had a once-in-a-lifetime team that was still sharp, rested and healthy (and already running pro-style schemes better than a handful of NFL franchises).
The Browns, meanwhile, were ripe. They were winless on the road in 2012, losers of 25 of their 31 games under Pat Shurmur, riddled by injuries, dysfunctional and leaderless under the direction of rookie QB Brandon Weeden.
Most importantly, though, they were weak on both lines and had rushed for less than 90 yards a game while giving up more than 140 rushing yards a game on defense.
Not to mention, the team had almost a full month off before the game and had only come together for a series of halfhearted walk-throughs before flying to New York.
The oddsmakers had taken notice. So much so, that in the buildup to the game, the money started to pour in on Bama after the line dropped from 30 to 24, then down to 20.
A bet that quickly seemed foolish when the Browns' Josh Cribbs fielded Jeremy Shelley's kickoff 5 yards deep in the end zone, bolted straight up the field, and then cut to the outside without being touched before being pushed out of bounds all the way up at the Bama 28. Pancaked Alabama tacklers littered the field like confetti.
Luckily for Saban, it was clear at first that the Browns were barely going through the motions, treating the game like a Pro Bowl scrimmage.
To the delight of both crowds, Weeden handed off on first down to former Alabama star and Heisman Trophy winner Trent Richardson, who ran right smack dab into 320-pound Tide defensive tackle Jesse Williams.
After two incompletions, rather than kick a field goal Weeden lofted the ball to the corner of the end zone to a wide-open Greg Little, who dropped what would have been a sure touchdown.
It went on like this for most of the first quarter: the Browns too loose and Alabama too tight.
A nervous AJ McCarron, his feet bouncing and his head on a swivel, misfired on his first five throws, one-hopping a pass that rolled to a stop at the feet of Saban, who kicked the ball away in disgust.
Running backs T.J. Yeldon and Eddie Lacy were no better and looked tentative and intimidated at the point of attack.
The Browns, meanwhile, were moving the ball well at the end of the quarter when junior cornerback Dee Milliner, a likely top 10-pick in the NFL draft, stepped in front of a wobbly Weeden pass, tipped the ball to himself and returned it up the Bama sideline to the Cleveland 31.
Weeden would struggle most of the day and end up 18-of-35 for 165 yards and two picks.
"Milliner could be starting on the Browns right now," said one scout. "And probably on half the teams in the league."
After the interception return, Milliner pinballed through the Bama bench, chest-bumping and head-butting teammates. It seemed to spark the Crimson Tide. Before they took the field to start the second quarter, Saban took a timeout to talk to his team. It was brilliant.
They had had a full 15 minutes to get acclimated, and the longer the game went on, the more confident they were becoming that they could hold their own physically in the trenches.
So, down the line Saban went, tapping his linemen on the helmet and yelling at them, from Chance Warmack to D.J. Fluker to Cyrus Kouandjio, then Yeldon and Lacy.
Do you wanna play in the NFL? Do you? Or you? Or you and you and you? Well, now's the time to prove it.
"Coach wasn't a little upset, he never gets just a little upset," said Lacy later. "He was just reminding us that we didn't agree to this game for the money or the fun of it, but because we thought we could win.
"But I think until that moment, maybe, he was the only one who believed it."
McCarron settled in a bit and completed one crucial third-and-6 to keep the drive alive, and Alabama crawled and pounded its way down the field to the 5-yard line.
Yeldon then walked into the end zone after a perfectly executed draw play caught Cleveland napping to make it 7-0, Alabama. The stadium erupted and the Million Dollar Band blasted away as network cameras caught Goodell inside his luxury suite, furiously biting his nails.
It wasn't just the play on the field. It was the tailgating. The band. The fans. The noise. The enthusiasm. The cheerleaders. The fun. The atmosphere. The NFL was getting schooled, top to bottom, in something it thought it alone had owned and perfected.
Shurmur reacted to the score by feeding the Tide a steady dose of All-Pro tackle Joe Thomas and Richardson for the rest of the first half, resulting in two long and effortless scoring drives that gave the Browns a 14-7 lead at the half.
Shurmur was so annoyed after the first 30 minutes -- both with his team's sloppy play and what he thought was a gentlemen's agreement with Saban to basically stage a made-for-TV walk-through -- that he ran right by the sideline reporter waiting to interview him.
"His message at the half was kinda, 'OK, if they want to play football, we'll play football,'" said Cleveland's leading tackler, linebacker D'Qwell Jackson. "We opened up the playbook. Blitzes. Stunts. Audibles. Double-teams. Special teams. Throw everything at 'em, was kinda the message."
Which, it turns out, was Saban's plan all along.
As crazy as it sounds, Saban believed he had at least four top-50 picks in the draft on his line who could open holes and protect McCarron. He believed his team was more fundamentally sound and disciplined, and not prone to stupid mistakes and penalties. (Issues that plagued the Browns, especially on this day.)
And with Milliner and Deion Belue in the defensive backfield, he was actually hoping Shurmur would turn Weeden loose.
When all that happened just as Saban had told his team it would, Alabama got its swagger back, and in the third quarter the Tide looked a lot like the team that had won three national titles in the last four years.
Three times the Tide put together drives of more than 40 yards and moved the ball inside the Browns' 25-yard line. (Yeldon would end up with 85 yards rushing on 22 carries.)
But on the shorter field, the pro's advantage in strength, speed, smarts and size took over, and Alabama came away with just three points on a 31-yard field goal by Shelley. He missed on his first attempt but got a second chance when Frostee Rucker was called for roughing the kicker, a play that began to ratchet up the bad blood on the field.
With the Browns up 14-10 heading into the fourth quarter, and with all the momentum squarely with the Tide, football history seemed to be unfolding inside MetLife Stadium.
But it was not to be.
When Cleveland's next possession stalled after eight plays, kicker Phil Dawson set up for a 29-yard field goal. There was confusion at the snap, however. Whistles blew and flags were thrown after Bama lined up in the neutral zone.
Yet while the Browns stopped playing, Bama's entire defensive front kept coming, en masse, steamrolling the Cleveland line back onto their butts and then obliterating the 37-year-old Dawson.
The beloved and respected kicker, who has been with the Browns for 14 seasons, lay motionless, face down on the turf, while Alabama players ripped the ball out of his hands and proceeded to dance and taunt their way 70 yards to the end zone.
Fans booed and the Browns' bench exploded onto the field in protest.
Dawson would be fine.
Not so much.
The incident awakened something in the pros. After the penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct, Richardson went over 200 yards on the day, gashing Bama's exhausted defense on three straight plays to put Cleveland up 21-10.
On Alabama's next possession, Jackson came free on a beautifully executed exit stunt blitz. The move tripped up not one but two Bama blockers, and Jackson hit McCarron so hard it sent an audible gasp through the crowd.
Like a cork, the ball popped straight up into the air and seemed to float there for a while until Jabaal Sheard caught it and walked into the end zone, untouched, handing the ball to the Bama mascot, Al the Elephant.
"We had awoken the giant," Saban said later. "The one thing we knew we couldn't do."
Trailing 28-10 with 3:35 to play, McCarron was able to connect with Kevin Norwood twice and move the ball to midfield, operating in Bama's two-minute offense.
On fourth-and-1 at the 49, though, the Browns' defense stuffed Lacy, who appeared to fumble on the play.
"All in all, I think we don't have anything to be ashamed of," said McCarron, who finished 11-of-22 for 174 yards after taking most of the first half to acclimate to the speed and pressure of a pro defense. "We helped a lot of people today and put on a good show but, to be honest, I'm really glad that's over."
Trying to run out the clock with a first down, with fans beginning to file out of the stadium, Weeden hit tight end Ben Watson on a shallow crossing route. At 255 pounds, Watson careened off one would-be tackler, spun, changed directions, stiff-armed a linebacker and then outran the rest of the Alabama defense to the pylon to end the scoring at 35-10.
Asked after the game if he considered running out of bounds or taking a knee short of the goal line, Watson laughed.
"I went to Georgia, man," he said. "And at that point, I still wasn't 100 percent sure we had the game locked up."
Afterward, one of the greatest contrasts of the day was inside the winning and losing locker rooms. Watson and the Browns looked and acted like they had just finished a preseason game, while exhausted Alabama players, most of them bandaged or wrapped in ice bags, seemed to slowly and gingerly drag themselves to the safety and quiet of the team bus.
Later, at the postgame press conference, Saban and Goodell presented New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie with a check for $75 million.
And, in the end, that's what the historic NFL versus NCAA experiment came down to -- relief.
Monetary relief for people in need.
Physical relief for a gallant Alabama team that was able to hold its own against pro players.
Emotional relief for the NFL at avoiding what could have been an embarrassing loss.
And comic relief supplied by Saban and Goodell.
Asked by a reporter if there would be a similar game in 2014 and beyond, both Saban and Goodell chuckled, shook their heads and then answered in unison:
"I don't know about him, but ... we're never doing this again."


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Google reportedly plans to spend more than $1 billion on a fleet of satellites to extend Internet access across the globe.
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Google hasn't announced further details about the project, but it likely will work in conjunction with Google's Project Loon, which will see it taking Internet access to remote areas using networked balloons. However, based upon Google's recent purchase of drone maker Titan Aerospace, it is rumored that these high-altitude vehicles could replace the balloons.
According to the report, 20 people are working on the satellite venture, which will be headed by Greg Wyler, founder of O3b networks, who recently joined Google. The firm reportedly has also been hiring engineers from satellite company Space Systems/Loral LLC to work on the project.
It is thought that if the project is successful, Google will look to double the number of satellites in the future.
"Internet connectivity significantly improves people's lives. Yet two-thirds of the world have no access at all," says Google. "It's why we're so focused on new technologies – from Project Loon to Titan Aerospace – that have the potential to bring hundreds of millions more people online in the coming years."
Facebook is also looking to bring Internet to remote areas of the globe, having also acquired a drone company.
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[2] The driving force of climate change exerts strong pressures on the physical environment, changing the state of marine ecosystems which impact biogeochemistry, biodiversity, as well as socioeconomics, and eliciting responses of mitigation and adaptation [Carmack et al., 2012]. Although there is incontrovertible evidence of strong physical pressures in the Arctic Ocean, there is only a weak description of the time-dependent state of its ecosystems because many observational time series in this ocean are short in duration and conflated by seasonality [Carmack et al., 2010]. As an alternative to a long biotic record which is necessary for robust temporal trend analysis, it is tempting instead to invoke space-for-time (SFT) substitution [Pickett, 1988] for predicting a possible future state of arctic phytoplankton. In other words, assuming a similarity between patterns of spatial zones and temporal sequences, one might arguably infer the future state of the Arctic from the present state of other ocean zones. We shall see that this perhaps may not be the promise of SFT even if we find the similarity.
[3] The traditional application of SFT is in chronosequence analysis of ecological succession in which it is assumed that there is homologous similarity between sequences of spatial zones and temporal sequences [Pickett, 1988]. Increasingly, SFT is being adopted for use beyond traditional chronosequence application, in particular to predictions of climate change effects on biodiversity in which sequences in space and time are tested for analogous similarity [Williams and Jackson, 2007; Blois et al., 2013]. From these studies, it seems that SFT is most effective when focused on structural and compositional features of ecological communities that integrate environmental variance, and not on functional dynamics that are more sensitive to short-term environmental fluctuations. The coarse scale averaging effect of SFT for elucidating regional trends therefore lends it well to a macroecological approach of projections based on spatial zones [Kerr et al., 2007; Fisher et al., 2010]. The spatial zones in the pelagic ocean that are of macroecological interest are those partitioned by physical oceanographic processes controlling the annual cycles of phytoplankton production and consumption [Longhurst, 2007].
[4] In this paper, we examine a short (nine year) record of phytoplankton community structure in the Arctic Ocean in which the passage of time is a surrogate for the operation of functional variables that are the currency common to both space and time in a mechanistic model. A key consideration will be whether there is a similarity between temporal change in a beta ocean which is stratified mainly by salinity and spatial patterns in alpha oceans which are stratified mainly by temperature. Oceans with haline stratification allow only very shallow convection near the poles compared to oceans with thermal stratification, and so the low efficiency of nutrient replenishment to the photic zone is a strong constraint on annual new production in the Arctic Ocean [Carmack, 2007].