Fiedler To The Falcons?

Jay Fiedler to the Atlanta Falcons? It's been rumored the NFL team is interested in the 35-year-old quarterback out of Dartmouth and now those rumors have been confirmed. Fiedler will work out for the team according to this Atlanta Journal Constitution story that spells his name wrong throughout. (The spelling will probably be corrected on the web at some point, but here's the funny part. Early in his career his name was often written Fielder, as in the old baseball slugger Cecil Fielder. The AJC put a new spin on things, spelling it Feidler.)

Feidler -- oops -- Fiedler has low mileage for an NFL quarterback. Coming off a nasty shoulder injury and surgery, he hasn't taken a regular-season snap since the third game of the 2005 season.

College football and the FCS (nee Division I-AA) has lost a legend with the passing of former Grambling coach Eddie Robinson at age 88. Click here for a story.

When a friend told me yesterday about trying to come up with a list of the nation's top-10 college football programs I asked if I could share it here on a slow day. Welcome to a slow day ;-).

The list-maker is a lawyer, which is why it was only natural for him to explain his decision-making this way:

"Applying no criteria other than that which the Supreme Court applies to pornography ('I know it when I see it'), I came up with (in alphabetical order):"

• Alabama
• Florida State
• Miami (Fl.)
• Michigan
• Nebraska
• Notre Dame
• Ohio State
• Oklahoma
• Texas
• USC

Who else deserves mention? Florida? Penn State? Georgia? Tennessee?

Thinking about that ought to waste a little of your day ...

We woke to a covering of snow up here on the mountain this morning and it's a harbinger of things to come. The forecast is calling for 3-to-8 inches of the white stuff. A certain Hanover 7th grader was pretty ornery this morning at the realization that the first day of his baseball practice was probably going to be called off. If you've been following the blog for a while you know he was the starting catcher for the Connecticut Valley Little League championship team last spring. He's moving up to 90-foot bases this year but I'm staying behind to once again help coach his old team. I thought about moving up with him but there's a certain relief in coaching a team without your child on it. ...

A certain Hanover High freshman got her varsity softball uniform earlier this week and I'd have to say the shirt is quite possibly the ugliest thing I've ever seen. It's charcoal-colored and shines when it catches the light like an Italian suit. (As if I have a clue what an Italian suit is like.) On the front of the shirt is a maroon (the dominant school color) H outlined in white. The numbers on the back are maroon outlined in white. They are a font similar to what Kansas has on its basketball uniforms. I have only one question: Whatever happened to a nice pinstripe? Yeesh. ... They were working the certain freshman out at catcher early in practice but have moved her to center field, which was where she was stationed (in addition to shortstop) playing baseball with the boys last year.