MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Then too, we're embarrassed: San Mateo, California won the Super Bowl—again!
We're almost tired of all the winning. Let's count the wins again.
We start with the man called Terrific—with quarterback Tom Brady. The pride of San Mateo's Serra High went to ten Super Bowls, emerging with seven wins.
In three of those wins, Julian Edelman served as a star receiver. He was MVP of Super Bowl LIII. We'll let the leading authority fill you in:
After high school, Edelman spent a year attending the College of San Mateo. There, he threw for 1,312 yards and 14 touchdowns and rushed for a school-record 1,253 yards and 17 touchdowns.
Edelman was a quarterback then. Back on the Serra High beat, Lynn Swann had already won Super Bowl XIV with the Steelers, back in the early days.
With that, we move ahead to our coaching tree; we'll start with Dick Vermeil. He was the young head coach at Hillsdale High when we ourselves were a mere student at brand-new, down the road, arch rival Aragon High.
The young man moved on to UCLA, then to the NFL. As head coach of the Eagles, he actually lost Super Bowl XV.
Decades later, he returned as head coach of the Rams, winning Super Bowl XXXIV.
Along the way, College of San Mateo (CSM) became known as the "junior college of coaches."
As the leading authority notes, Bill Walsh played quarterback at CSM for two years, then went on to win three Super Bowls—XVI, XIX and XXIII—as head coach of the 49ers.
John Madden won Super Bowl XI as head coach of the Raiders. What explains his coaching success? The leading authority tells us:
A football star in high school, Madden played one season at the College of San Mateo, in 1954, before he was given a football scholarship to the University of Oregon.
Madden grew up in Daly City, at the northern end of the county. His childhood friend, Coach John Robinson, graduated from Serra High. As head coach of the Rams, he went to two NFC title games, never reached the Super Bowl.
(He did win a national championship as head coach at USC.)
Finally, let's not forget Sean Payton. As head coach of the Saints, he won Super Bowl XLIV. He didn't stick around very long, but the authority tells us this:
Payton was born in San Mateo, California, and raised in Naperville, Illinois.
San Mateans have almost grown tired of all the Super Bowl wins. Yesterday, the sun-splashed city won again as the blowout loss by the Chiefs stifled a great deal of highly offensive, "Who's the GOAT?" talk concerning Mr. Brady.
We do have one problem in the county. That problem involves Serra High.
A certain "cable news" star also went to Serra. We'll be discussing his latest astounding performance all through the course of the week.
It's hard to know how so much (ugly) journalistic disorder could have emerged from such a sunny land. In fairness, who's to say that the team he has agreed to serve hasn't already secured a win in the fight to end a certain 236-year experiment?
The other team is playing for keeps, or so it appears at this time. It seems that this Serra grad has signed on to work for that team—and in fairness, the money is good.
Forgive us for wasting your time with this crap; nostalgia makes its demands. We'll get back on track tomorrow.
That said:
To our eye and ear, this fellow's undisguised (journalistic) lunacy is part of a "night attack." Over here in Blue America, we've all agreed to avert our gaze from what this imitation of life has been doing in recent years helped along by his circle of friends.
We've all agreed to avert our gaze from the sheer stupidity and from the nightly ugliness. In this way, have we Blue Americans already earned our way out?
Our team is vastly self-impressed. Borrowing from Professor Knox, a "night attack" is underway. Have we already lost?
What is this disjointed mess? Is Bob hitting Cecelia's bottle?
ReplyDeleteAnonymouse 4:44pm, no. Maureen Dowd’s.
DeleteSomerby doesn't seem to understand that there is no similarity between football and politics and the media. Gutfeld is neither enhanced nor diminished by the existence of Tom Brady. Neither is Somerby.
DeletePersonally, I find it hard to respect a QB who cheated the way Brady did. It doesn't surprise me that he is not doing a good job as a footbal commentator -- stupid people cheat. Exhibit A is Trump himself.
Trump didn't go to San Mateo. He was too stupid and too unruly to succeed in a public school. His dad sent him to a Military school because he wouldn't listen to or obey his teachers. There, he learned The Art of the Bully. That has shaped his interactions in business and his personal life ever since. He, of course, learning cheating from his father. It was not "bred in the bone" by being born a sociopath. It was learned from his Nazi asshole father.
Delete"Maureen Dowd's"
DeleteDrink!
8:41,
DeletePlease refer to the current President as "longtime failed businessman, adjudicated rapist, and self-admitted sexual predator, Donald J. Trump", when discussing him on TDH.
I don't want Somerby blaming you for the demise of the republic.
Suppose you're a FEMA administrator and you have the power to spend government money. Suppose you spend many millions of dollars putting up your friends and relatives in a luxury hotel. You used that money illegally. I imagine that would be a crime. theft? misappropriation? embezzlement?
ReplyDeleteNow, suppose instead you spend that money to help some people you feel sorry for, but who you are legally prohibited from helping. Is that a crime? Is it even a firing offense?
Of course, this is not theoretical. "Musk is accusing the Federal Emergency Management Administration of spending $59 million last week to house illegal immigrants in violation of the law."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/musk-claims-fema-sent-59-million-to-hotels-to-house-illegal-immigrants-in-defiance-of-trump-order/ar-AA1yL1QO
The underlying problem is that bureaucrats are spending TRILLIONS of dollars of federal money without adequate oversight. Naturally a great deal has been misspent. And, probably a lot was stolen. Thank Goodness Musk is investigating!
DeleteBTW I understand that the thieves and misspenders are attacking Musk. But why are other Dems attacking Musk? Why are they on the side of the thieves? I think the Dems are making a political mistake as well as a moral mistake. Of course everyone in government should favor exposing and ending wrongdoing. Dems should be just as aghast as Reps about the wrongdoing exposed so far.
Dems can temporarily get away with their immoral position, because the mainstream media is on their side. It's downplaying or ignoring much of the wrongdoing. But, as more and more wrongdoing is exposed, it will become widely known. Dems will be seen to be on the wrong side.
The SCOTUS will put a stop to their corrupt anti-democratic obstruction hopefully with sweeping remedies.
DeleteDemocrat Rahm Emanuel kinda agrees with me that Dems are on the politically losing side of the AID debate.:
DeleteTrump occupies the high ground in this fight, which is probably why he and Musk picked it. If voters dislike anything, it’s bureaucracy and foreign aid. And USAID is a 10,000-employee bureaucracy—housed in a palatial building on prime downtown real estate—that spends $40 billion a year on other countries.
“You don’t fight every fight. You don’t swing at every pitch,” as the former Democratic Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel told Politico. “And my view is—while I care about the USAID as a former ambassador—that’s not the hill I’m going to die on.”
Skepticism about foreign aid is one of the most consistent and durable findings of public opinion research. In a 2023 AP-NORC poll, 69 percent of respondents thought U.S. government spending in this area was “too much”; 20 percent, “about right”; and just 10 percent “too little.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/defending-usaid-is-political-suicide
The issue is whether vigilantes are allowed to investigate and impose punishment on people they think are committing crimes, or whether they should turn any suspicious information over to the people who are both trained and authorized to deal with crimes. Trump fired the Inspector Generals without ever proving they weren't doing their jobs well. He removed them as improperly as Musk is now meddling with computer code in our payment systems.
DeleteTrump is not a King. He has to follow rules as surely as anyone else in our country. Congress must deal with suspected corruption and the IGs do the investigating and present info to Congress so that it can act. There is no proof, no information being provided to any legitimate authority in this situation. This is a president who thinks he's God and a subordinate who is wildly out of control doing whatever he pleases with a bunch of hackers being given unauthorized access to important national data. This is wrong from beginning to end.
These are acts that Trump should be impeached for doing and that Musk should go to jail for, along with his accomplices. That this is not happening, either at Congressional instigation or by removing Trump, suggests that there is a successful coup in progress. We are becoming a banana republic in every sense of the word.
We citizens watch in dismay and wonder who will protect us when there is no longer rule of law.
Impeached and jailed under which law?
Delete@8:36 - You support the rule of law. Th rule of law supports Trump firing IGs without giving grounds. Whether or not that's good policy, it's unquestionably legal. The law gives the President that power.
Delete("Banana republics" are countries that become corrupt after foreign corporations exploit their resources.)
Delete@8:36 - The President is more or less the "God" of the Executive Branch. According to the Constitution, the President IS the Executive Branch. The millions of people in all the various Departments all work for the President. Of course, there are civil service laws and some other laws restricting the President's power. But, absent such laws, the President does have absolute power over all the Executive Branch departments and all the employees. You may not like that law, but that is what the rule of Constitution
Deletesays.
You are completely wrong about Trump’s usurpation of powers that reside with Congress and Trump is not God or like God.
DeleteDavid wants oversight, and he won't be happy until the SEC, FAA, USDA, FDA, FCC, etc are disbanded.
DeleteLOL.
Don't kid yourself. David hates the government because the government can enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
You can tell right off that DavidinCal didn't attend College of San Mateo.
Delete@10:13 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
DeleteIt is a firing offense in this Administration.
Delete“The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says it will fire the individual—or individuals—responsible for paying $59 million to New York City for illegal immigrant housing in contravention of an executive order issued by President Donald J. Trump. According to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which revealed the illegal payments on Monday, one of the hotels receiving the FEMA money is the Roosevelt Hotel, which the Pakistani government owns through the state-run Pakistani Airlines.”
fanny burp
DeleteWhat's "illegal" about ignoring the Emoluments Clause?
DeleteDon't ever expect a good faith response from Dickhead in Cal.
DeleteDavid in Cal is very polite, when you ask him how he can tell the difference between Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and the fine people on the Right.
DeleteDavid is a "good Jew", he would never be so impolite as to insult a neo-Nazi or white supremacist.
DeleteGoogle Maps shows the Gulf of America's correct name now.
ReplyDelete“People say he’s crazy and maybe he is, but you do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.”
DeleteIf Trump is stupid, he must be the luckiest man in history. Somehow he got elected twice as President against great odds, established a Social Media platform now worth $10 billion, had a hit TV show for years, and was a best-selling author. In just 3 weeks as President, he ended DEI, cut wasteful government spending by tens of billions of dollars, got a cease-fire in Gaza, and reduced illegal immigration by 90% etc. Hopefully his luck will continue throughout his Presidency and work for the American people.
DeleteDickhead: he also falsified multiple business records in a devious scheme to conceal damaging information from American voters about paying off the star of Anal Fever 11.
DeleteDavid, Hitler was lucky from 1920-41.
DeleteBut then he lost 1942-45.
12:56,
DeleteIt's not luck. Trump, like you and I, knows Republican voters won't pretend to care about inflation, if you give them the bigotry they crave.
12:56,
DeleteIs Trump lucky that there is no such thing as a Republican voter who knows anything about economics, or was that part of Trump's genius?
Make Government Efficient Again.
DeleteIgnore the middleman, Trump, and deal directly with Putin.
David in Cal,
DeletePlease refer to the current President as "longtime failed businessman, adjudicated rapist, and self-admitted sexual predator, Donald J. Trump".
I wouldn't want Bob Somerby blaming you for the longtime failed businessman, adjudicated rapist, and self-admitted sexual predator, Donald J. Trump, being elected President.
Trump's ability to look at a situation and see what everyone else sees, in this case, that Republican voters care only about bigotry and white supremacy, is what makes him lucky.
DeleteTrump was able to build a social media empire worth the same price as a shopping cart of groceries under his Presidency.
DeleteLucky bastard.
It feels like food prices have tripled since January 20th.
Delete8:37,
DeleteDavid in Cal is an out of touch coastal elite, who doesn't care about the people in flyover country struggling to feed their families.
Better luck next time.
I recommend ignoring the troll little fascist cunt, Dickhead in Cal. He is just trying to stir the pot.
ReplyDeleteSusan Collins is a yes for RFK, Jr.
ReplyDeleteSomeone saw Trump’s eye-popping poll numbers.
Her furrowed brow has "economic anxiousness".
DeleteRFK, Jr's brain worm learned its lesson.
Delete8:01 - anything above 20 is eye-popping to you dorks.
DeleteHello casinositezone!
ReplyDeleteWould you like to meet Mr. Fanny?
If so, please respond in the affirmative and I will arrange for a magnificent experience.
Football damages brains.
ReplyDeleteMy two comments this morning have been removed.
ReplyDeleteApparently TDH loves the worst republican troll on here filling this place with bullshit all day.
Bob removes any comment that describes the Republican Party or Republican voters accurately.
DeleteLike this one:
DeleteAnyone who isn't a bigot, or isn't perfectly fine with bigotry, left the Republican Party almost a quarter of a century ago.
DeleteYour Soros-bot confessions are too boring, Soros-bot. Ask USAID to get you some new ones.
I'm pretty sure Bob posts under the moniker "David in Cal" at TDH.
DeletePro tip for 8:24:
DeleteIf you want something done right in this country, you ask an immigrant.
Anonymices talk about migrants like British aristocracy opined on the most competent nationality for their servant class.
DeleteHow does British aristocracy opine on the most competent nationality for their servant class, Cecelia? Which nationality eats the pets if you don't watch them closely?
DeleteAnonymouse 9:10am, any class, nationality, or ethnic group will eat pets if their country/society is in turmoil, hunger, and chaos due to a quasi takeover by an organized band of thugs.
DeleteGet a clue.
Especially if they are hardworking with good jobs in Springfield, Ohio. Fuck off, lady.
DeleteAnonymouse 9:23am, sure bro. Why not just let Haitians in willy nilly and take no precautions. No screening. They all look alike anyway.
DeleteYou're right, crazy lady. It is either we let them all in willy nilly with no precautions or we accuse them of eating our cats and dogs just to incite hate. Fuck off.
Delete9:38,
DeleteTrade them for bigots.
Anonymouse 10:15am, who has the middle ground here? They’re coming by boat and crossing in via the southern border. That’s been the case for a lot of people who needed screening. That’ was the point that managed to get total obscured by the phony media outrage.
DeleteAnonymouse flying monkey 9:38am, not a problem. Go pack. Bon voyage.
DeleteOh, that good old reliable conservative bullshit whining about the phony media.
DeleteThe phony media, you mean like the republican Governor of Ohio, that phony?
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Sunday decried former President Donald Trump's baseless claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield were eating dogs and other pets as "garbage" but stopped short of directly condemning Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, for spreading the false claims.
“There’s a lot of garbage on the internet. You know, this is a piece of garbage that was simply not true. There’s no evidence of this at all,” DeWine said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week” when he was asked whether it’s responsible for Trump to push the false claims.
Asked what he would say to Trump after he pointed out that there is no truth to his claims, DeWine condemned groups that have marched in Springfield as part of a hate campaign against Haitian immigrants and went on to praise Haitians as hard-working people who have brought “positive influences” to the town.
You're so full of shit it's coming out of your ears, crazy lady. Fuck off.
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DeleteAnonymouse 10;59am, you’ve got something in your ears, but little between them. Who argued that this tale was true AFTER it had been revealed to be wrong? The argument I made was that it was not “unbelievable”. Haiti is in chaos.Haiti is a shite hole. Haitians were coming over the southern border illegally. For folks who claim to want debate and an airing of ideas, you jump to name calling before someone has completed a sentence. You were recently blaming Comma La’s loss on black and brown men who you claimed are inveterately misogynistic. That’s what you do because you are at war.
DeleteComma La lost because Cecelia refused to endorse her.
DeleteCecelia, you first had to wait for this "tale" to be revealed to be wrong (actually a contemptible RACIST smear intentionally injected into a national TV debate without any basis in reality), and then to your everlasting shame you decided to vote for the lying hateful bastard anyway. Got it.
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