Just tuned into MNF

[muck]

Yeah, Antwaan Randle El is the most widely known college-QB-turned-NFL-WR ...

 

WRONG-O, Mr. Theeeezman.

 

Hines Ward holds that title.

 

...next...

 

I'm loving Kornheisers' comment about the college-QB-turned-NFL-QB's needing to be short... "Hey, Joe, how about that guy, can't remember his name (yeah, right!), that came out of Arkansas a couple of years ago...he was pretty tall, and pretty quick, wasn't he?"

 

Joe T. is a dufus. And, I'm trying to be nice here...

[Big Score 1]

From PFT

ON FURTHER REVIEW, WE LOVE TONY

 

Though we don't know whether ESPN's Tony Kornheiser stuck it to Joey Sunshine on Monday night for his 180-degree reversal regarding Terrell Owens, a bought of insomnia had us tuning back in for garbage time of the Packers-Bengals game. In so doing, we witnessed an exchange that, in light of our new mission to persuade the folks in Bristol to relieve Joe Theismann of his duties, has caused us to pull a 180 of our own regarding Kornheiser, who given that he was in Cincinnati will be dubbed "Kornholer" for the remainder of this specific item.

 

After Cincinnati receiver Reggie McNeal caught a touchdown pass from Doug Johnson, a discussion ensued regarding college quarterbacks who become wideouts at the next level.

 

Here is, verbatim, the key portion of the conversation regarding the requirements for a successful conversion. (Thank you, TiVo.)

 

Sunshine: I think you need a guy who's short, vertically challenged, maybe five-foot-nine, five-foot-ten with a lot of 'quicks' that can double as a kick returner. Those are the guys that can transition into professional football. To come in and just try and play the wide receiver position --

 

Kornholer (incredulous): He has to be short?

 

Sunshine: Well --

 

Kornholer: This is a prerequisite, to be short?

 

Sunshine: I think you need to be short and quick. I think that gives you an opportunity --

 

Kornholer: What if you were big and quick?

 

Sunshine: You don't have the 'quicks' when you're that tall.

 

Kornholer: Correct me if I'm wrong because you watch a lot more college football than I did [Editor's note: Tony, you'd make a great lawyer], wasn't there a quarterback recently from Arkansas who was the quarterback who then became a wide receiver in the NFL?

 

Tirico: Matt Jones.

 

Kornholer: Matt Jones, right? And he's big. Big and quick.

 

Sunshine: But not at the kick returning position.

 

Kornholer: (Makes barely audible noise connoting "Is this guy f--king serious?")

 

Sunshine: No.

 

Tirico (changing the subject): It's 48 to 17. . . .

 

Tony, you've found your niche. It's to call out Joey Sunshine wherever and whenever he says something stupid. That's your calling. Your destiny. Through your weekly badgering of Theismann, he'll eventually be exposed for the fraud that he is, or he'll quietly resign and find a fifth-tier gig on CBS where the play-by-play man doesn't have the brains or the will to thoroughly and completely dismantle his stupid-### assertions.

 

So thanks, Tony. We underestimated you. And we're rooting for you to mentally do to Theismann every Monday night that which Lawrence Taylor accomplished only once physically.

[ROYALWITCHEESE]

Yeah, Antwaan Randle El is the most widely known college-QB-turned-NFL-WR ...

 

WRONG-O, Mr. Theeeezman.

 

Hines Ward holds that title.

 

...next...

 

I'm loving Kornheisers' comment about the college-QB-turned-NFL-QB's needing to be short... "Hey, Joe, how about that guy, can't remember his name (yeah, right!), that came out of Arkansas a couple of years ago...he was pretty tall, and pretty quick, wasn't he?"

 

Joe T. is a dufus. And, I'm trying to be nice here...

 

 

 

Ward didn't play QB at Georgia. He's 3rd in UGA history in pass receptions:

 

Pass Receptions - Career

204 - Terrence Edwards, 1999-2002

182 - Brice Hunter, 1992-95

144 - Hines Ward, 1994-97

131 - Lindsay Scott, 1978-81

124 - Andre Hastings, 1990-92

120 - Juan Daniels, 1993-96

114 - Charley Whittemore, 1968-70

99 - Shannon Mitchell, 1990-93

95 - Hason Graham, 1992-94

80 - Harry Babcock, 1950-52

80 - Tony Small, 1995-98

80 - Larry Brown, 1995-98

Edited August 29, 2006 by ROYALWITCHEESE

[CaP'N GRuNGe]

From Wikipedia:

 

College career

 

As a wide receiver for the University of Georgia Bulldogs (1995-1998), Ward's 144 career receptions for 1,965 yards landed him second on the school's team history. He also played tailback and quarterback, and totalled 3,870 all-purpose yards, second only to Herschel Walker in Bulldogs history. Coming out of college it was discovered that Ward was missing an ACL. Some say this negatively affected his position in the NFL draft. He received his bachelor's degree in consumer economics from UGA, where he became a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity.

[Swiss Cheezhead]

I was unfortunately asleep when Kornheiser made those comments.

 

Nonetheless, this is the Tony K I've been waiting for. I knew it would happen.

 

[Randall]

I was unfortunately asleep when Kornheiser made those comments.

 

Nonetheless, this is the Tony K I've been waiting for. I knew it would happen.

 

 

 

ESPN has "send Tony comments" for the game.

 

Joe why are you such a lying putz?

[Savage Beatings]

Anybody else catch the exchange when they were talking about how long it takes to rehab an injury. Theismann starts saying that "we" have an advantage... including himself in the category of athletes, as opposed to "regular people" who have to work for a living.

 

I think I could actually feel Tony's eyes rolling in the back of his head as I was listening to this has-been try to relive the glory days of his own injury.