Monday, February 14, 2022

Super Stuff

A couple of reTweets from Super Bowl Sunday to start the day.

First, from Dartmouth head coach Buddy Teevens, who might have had a bit of an in for tickets having coached Tony Pastoors, the Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams' Vice President, Football & Business Administration:


And this one from Dartmouth offensive coordinator Kevin Daft, who saved me the trouble of going back to our recording of the Super Bowl and pulling up this nod to Cincinnati Bengals owner Mike Brown '57, recognized here if you listen closely as a former Big Green quarterback standout:

 

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A couple of quick notes from the game . . .

Former Brown defensive lineman Michael Hoecht made three starts this year for the Los Angeles Rams and finishes the season with a Super Bowl ring.

And check out this from a 2017 ESPN story about Super Bowl MVP Cooper Kupp, the NFL receiving triple-crown winner this year (LINK):

Kupp wanted to go to Yale, an Ivy League school he had the grades for. He thought he had impressed the Bulldogs.

"The coach that was recruiting me, his dad was actually at [a] game," Kupp said. "So I felt like, 'OK, this is going to be a thing for me. I have a good shot of going here.' That week, after that first game, the coach called me and said that they were going a different direction with it. So, right in the middle of the season, I lost the only interest that I had."

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We were a little late to the Super Bowl, watching Scottie Scheffler win the WM Phoenix Open in a three-hole playoff while having the big game recording. .  . . When we finally turned football on we fast-forwarded through much of the pregame stuff but unfortunately watched Dwayne Johnson's absurd and way-too-long intro to the game. What is this, the XFL or WWE? . . . I think I'd give the commercials on the whole a "C-minus." . . .  Thumbs up to the Toyota Paralympic commercial. . . . I had to laugh at the oysters bit at the end of the commercial with Colin Jost and Scarlett Johhansson. Just don't ask me what it was for. . . . Could have used captions on the commercials with so-called famous people in them because we didn't have a clue who most of them were. . . .Wow, were there ever a lot of electric car ads. Maybe we're ahead of the curve a little here at BGA headquarters. . . .  If there were any commercials during the halftime show we missed them as we hit "fast forward" to speed through from the end of the first half to the start of the second ;-)

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There are reports that former Dartmouth defensive back Matt Burke '98 will be the new defensive line coach for the Arizona Cardinals. He's making his way around much of the NFL with coaching stops already with the Titans, Lions, Bengals, Dolphins, Eagles and Jets.

Burke has been called "The most interesting run game coordinator/defensive line coach in the world," having "proposed to his wife while hiking with gorillas in Uganda" and climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro among other adventures. (LINK)

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EXTRA POINT
With Saturday afternoon being sunny and 45 degrees the two miles of narrow dirt road between here and my daily hiking trail devolved into a muddy mess that was almost impassable for anything but four-wheel drive cars and trucks. When the mercury plunged to single digits overnight Saturday that mud froze in place, leaving ribbons of hardened ruts 12-15 inches deep. I almost turned back on my way to the trailhead yesterday out of concern that if the temperature rose and the sun came out while I was hiking the road would soften enough to make getting back home with my two-wheel drive car scary at best. I'll be heading out for my daily hike shortly but today I'm better prepared. This morning I traded cars with Mrs. BGA. She drove our EV to the park-and-ride and I will do battle with the ruts or mud in her four-wheel drive.

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