“So now you’re ripping off George Carlin. Funny, I hadn’t read anything on the Broncos in about a month, and when I do check in, you’re churning out the same old sterile column, right down to the potshot at one of your favorite targets: Jake Plummer. Feel free to make this another chance to ridicule the “hippy-dippy” quarterback. Explain why you like to ridicule Jake every chance you get. His long hair really seemed to get under your skin, and also shape your opinion of him. I’m curious as to why.”
Eric, the quarterback’s brother
Kiz: There was much for Broncomaniacs to like about the old hippy-dippy quarterback, from his defiant independence to the heartfelt generosity Jake showed victims of 9/11. The silly, unkempt hair never upset me. It was those messy interceptions that drove a lot of people nuts, maybe none more so than coach Mike Shanahan. It was Shanny who dumped Jake as starting QB, not me.
Eat those words
“I don’t get it. Don’t the San Antonio Spurs know that in April you determined and decreed, ‘It’s over for you … The Spurs are too thin, too gray and too vulnerable to be considered real threats to win it all’? Maybe the Spurs don’t read The Denver Post. Maybe we should send Tony Soprano to talk to them.”
Robert, Lakewood
Kiz: Feel free to gloat, while I sprinkle some Tabasco on my words before dining. Funny you should mention Mr. Soprano, though. He and Cheap-Shot Rob Horry both seem willing to play rough, if that’s what it takes to win. In my book, the Spurs don’t deserve to be NBA champs. But, as Tony or Rob might tell you: It’s not what you deserve, but what you can get away with.
Legal muggers
“This year’s Larry O’Brien Trophy needs to be renamed the ‘Stu Jackson Trophy’ since it represents the best-behaved basketball team in the judgment of Mr. Jackson, although I hate to use the word “judgment” in the same sentence with that person’s name because it is inherently oxymoronic. I am a die-hard basketball fan and by all rights should be pulling for the Spurs in the NBA Finals, because they beat the Nuggets. I turned off Game 1, however, and might not turn another one on again this year. San Antonio routinely has gotten most of the breaks in each of its playoff games, even though the Spurs mug people on defense and are as inspiring to watch as the presidential debates. I may now turn my attention to a more worthy sports endeavor, and something that at least has some semblance of suspense as to the outcome (such as the WWF).
Larry, Lakewood
Kiz: Call me naive. (I’ve been called far worse). But you’re talking to the last guy who will buy the conspiracy theory that the NBA playoffs are rigged. Should “Stone Cold” Steve Austin show up for Game 2 of the Finals wearing a Spurs jersey, then we all see him tag-team with Bruce Bowen to stop LeBron James, even I will begin to wonder if everything is on the up-and-up.
Parting shot
And today’s final shot is from a cycling fan who hopes that despite the dirt on the yellow jersey of cyclist Floyd Landis, our embattled Tour de France winner will come out clean in the end.
“Did you actually pay attention during the arbitration trial of Landis? Most experts believe that on sheer technical merits, Landis won. I think he will be derailed by the character issues. But from a scientific standpoint, the drug lab made way too many mistakes. Landis may have done testosterone, but there’s no way the test results prove it.”
Brian, Erie
