Been there, noted that. …
Tough times for Rex Grossman. He loses one Super Bowl, and they want to run him out of Chicago. What part of “it takes time for quarterbacks” don’t they get? The kid has played in 24 regular-season games. In those 24, he has completed 54.4 percent of his throws for 27 touchdowns and 26 interceptions. I know a certain other quarterback who lost a Super Bowl in his fourth NFL season. And how did John Elway fare in his first 24 games? Try 52.8, 24 and 24. …
Grossman may have a lot to learn about playing quarterback, but at least he knows how to shrug off a loss. According to Las Vegas Review-Journal snoop Norm Clarke, Grossman was spotted last week hanging out with the Bunnies at the Playboy Club in The Palms. …
Judging from the e-mails, Cowboys fans aren’t too thrilled about the hiring of Wade Phillips, a perceived retread from the good-ol’-boy network. Apparently, they missed the memo about the Chargers being 4-12 before Phillips’ arrival as D coordinator and 12-4 in his first season on the sideline. …
By the numbers: The 1988 Broncos allowed 352 points and finished 8-8, prompting Dan Reeves to clean house on his defensive coaching staff. A year later, after Phillips was hired as D coordinator, they allowed 226 and went to the Super Bowl. …
Count PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem among those not happy about The International’s demise. Turns out Finchem has a home in Eagle and likes to tee it up in the Vail Valley. “When I retire, my goal would be to spend the vast majority of my time in Colorado,” Finchem tells The Post’s Tom Kensler. “I love Colorado. … I feel a special attraction to Colorado.” …
My newest hero in sports? That would be “King of Queens” headliner Kevin James, who sliced his first drive at last week’s Pebble Beach pro-am into a nearby house. For the record, that’s B material compared to some of my storied tales from flog spelled backward. …
Then there’s former big-league player and manager Hank Bauer, who died last week at 84. Bauer once told The Kansas City Star why he decided to forever hang up his clubs: “Only time I ever hit to right field in my life was on that golf course.” …
Um, Melo? To paraphrase my man Dean Wormer, rich, skinny and losing more home games than you win is no way to go through life, son. After defeating the Warriors on Monday night, the Nuggets have a .500 (14-14) winning percentage at the Pepsi Center. They played .488 ball (20-21) at home in 2001-02, when they finished 27-55. …
Enough already with this “If the Nuggets were in the East” business. If the season ended today, they’d be the No. 7 seed in the West – and in the East. …
Just wondering: When NBA scouts put out a report on Ohio State uberprospect Greg Oden, how do they fill in the section labeled “shooting range”? All I’ve seen the kid do is dunk. …
Must have gotten lost in the mail. Yeah, yeah, that’s it. My invitation to Michael Jordan’s Las Vegas birthday bash, that is. For the record, he turns the Big Four Four on Saturday. …
Add Jordan: What to get for the man who has everything? If I’m M.J., all I want is to book Charles Barkley’s blackjack action for a night. …
The Chicago Sun-Times, quoting Rush Limbaugh on his nationally syndicated radio show on all the post-Super Bowl Rex bashing: “The media, the sports media, have got social concerns that they are first and foremost interested in, and they’re dumping on this guy, Rex Grossman, for one reason, folks, and that’s because he’s a white quarterback.” …
Come again? First and foremost, every sportswriter I know spent Monday wondering what the Nuggets were serving in the press lounge.
Staff writer Jim Armstrong can be reached at 303-954-1269 or jmarmstrong@denverpost.com.
