http://www.profootballblogger.com/random-stuff/the-vegas-flu/ Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:53:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.profootballblogger.com/random-stuff/the-vegas-flu/comment-page-1/#comment-943 A Win-Win at Indy | Football Blog Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:21:37 +0000 http://www.profootballblogger.com/?p=167#comment-943 [...] My first problem with this line of thinking is the linguistic problem of calling something a moral victory. I don’t think you can use the term victory when they in fact lost – it isn’t like the Broncos’ record is now going to be 7-4-1 like they had on overtime loss in hockey. And what do morals have to do with anything? He played great in a loss so all of Brandon Marshall’s off field transgressions are forgotten? Does that make Peyton Manning immoral? If that is the case, is every loss by BYU by definition a moral victory? Interestingly, there seems to have been an entire alternative definition of moral created just to support the phrase. How can I get that kind of help when I make up non-sensical phrases – like The Sproles? [...] [...] My first problem with this line of thinking is the linguistic problem of calling something a moral victory. I don’t think you can use the term victory when they in fact lost – it isn’t like the Broncos’ record is now going to be 7-4-1 like they had on overtime loss in hockey. And what do morals have to do with anything? He played great in a loss so all of Brandon Marshall’s off field transgressions are forgotten? Does that make Peyton Manning immoral? If that is the case, is every loss by BYU by definition a moral victory? Interestingly, there seems to have been an entire alternative definition of moral created just to support the phrase. How can I get that kind of help when I make up non-sensical phrases – like The Sproles? [...]

]]> http://www.profootballblogger.com/random-stuff/the-vegas-flu/comment-page-1/#comment-727 Shadow Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:39:24 +0000 http://www.profootballblogger.com/?p=167#comment-727 Just remembering Turner yelling out increasingly bizarre phrases while trying to get a face card dealt on top of his ace at blackjack makes me smile. What started out as "Boom!"...a shortened version of Turner's popular "Boom goes the dynamite!", quickly turned into "Monkey!" (popularized by the movie '21' which Turner has never seen, but trusted me that it was the right thing to yell). From there things got trippy as Turner incorrectly surmised you could just yell random things and get an ace. Hence a procession of "Ape!", "Chinchilla!", and at one point, "There's always room for Jello!". Ah, Vegas. We'll see you next year. (and I WILL see the Strippermobile...dammit!) Just remembering Turner yelling out increasingly bizarre phrases while trying to get a face card dealt on top of his ace at blackjack makes me smile. What started out as “Boom!”…a shortened version of Turner’s popular “Boom goes the dynamite!”, quickly turned into “Monkey!” (popularized by the movie ’21′ which Turner has never seen, but trusted me that it was the right thing to yell). From there things got trippy as Turner incorrectly surmised you could just yell random things and get an ace. Hence a procession of “Ape!”, “Chinchilla!”, and at one point, “There’s always room for Jello!”. Ah, Vegas. We’ll see you next year. (and I WILL see the Strippermobile…dammit!)

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