From Bill Simmons’ football column this past week:
Bucs (+3.5) over SAINTS Clint from Milpitas, CA asks, “I was riding an exercise bike during Jets-Saints when I THOUGHT I heard Joe Theismann say he thinks Jim Haslett ‘deserves to be Coach of the Year.’ Should I get a cat-scan? Can this man say anything negative about anyone? How does he feel about Josef Stalin?” Well, Clint, I think you heard it correctly. New York reader Ernie Goodwin elaborates: “Did you hear Patrick and Theismann on Sunday night? Patrick said that Haslett has done a ‘remarkable’ job coaching the Saints this year. Yes, they were 2-8 at this point. Theismann followed with, and I quote, ‘Haslett deserves to be Coach of the Year.’ I thought I was dreaming and I was thinking to myself, ‘Ernie, haven’t you been smoking peyote for like the last 3 days, and maybe this is all in your head?’ Turns out I was wrong, it was indeed actually said. Good times. I’m off to free-climb Mt. Vesuvius.”
So did you hear them this week? Who is going to be coach of the year? Three names were mentioned, I believe, one of them being…Mike Tice. I will now try to catch my computer monitor in my mouth as if it were an M&M.
