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Pat Patriot

The legacy New England Patriots logo of a minuteman center about to hike a football (that looks suspiciously like an eggplant) is officially known as Pat Patriot. ¹ When I was at Super Bowl XLII in Arizona as a guest of the NFL, I was gifted an awesome distressed / vintage white Reebok retro t-shirt featuring Pat Patriot. It was my favorite t-shirt. It was accidentally incinerated in an industrial furnace several years ago — it’s a long story — and I’ve never been able to find another one exactly like it. I’ve looked far and wide, Googled and eBayed repeatedly, set alerts, but no luck. I’ve seen a red version a few times on eBay, but never the same white one I had and loved. I can’t even find an image of the same shirt anywhere online!
Questlove created a trailer for the 50 Years of SNL Music documentary and it is completely mind-blowing. You have got to see it.
When our TV enters screensaver mode, it shows images from Google, including the artist’s credit. One cute photo prompted me to search for Aravind Krishnaswamy and we were delighted to discover he has a plethora of pleasing penguin pictures.
The latest issue of Culture of Sport (from David Skilling) examines why paying $7M for a 30-second Super Bowl ad is, incredibly, still a good deal.
The entire global cosmetic Botox industry is supported by an annual production of just a few milligrams of botulism toxin. Pure toxin would cost ~$100 trillion per kilogram. – via Tom Whitwell
TV & Movies
- We watched Mr. Popper’s Penguins recently and it was a big hit. It’s a great kid movie, especially if your kids are infatuated with penguins. (And it’s Jim Carrey acting like a [mostly] normal human being, which is my favorite version of him.)
- We have finally started watching Skeleton Crew, the latest Star Wars series. I read somewhere last year that the concept was supposed to be The Goonies, but Star Wars, and they nailed it. So far I think it’s phenomenal and I regret not having started it sooner.
- Fly Me to the Moon (Apple TV+) was a pretty fun family movie, but should have been at least a half hour shorter. It was campy and painfully predictable, but the kids liked it. Woody Harrelson was great.

¹ I would guess that the “new” logo (that looks suspiciously like a windswept Elvis) is probably officially known as Pat Patriot, too, but that’s a different issue.

#FridayFive: Favorite NFL Teams

View the Friday Five from July 12th, 2013

I can’t really imagine Tom Cruise in Footloose. But I guess I can see Johnny Depp as Ferris Bueller.
The University of Florida Gators won yet another national title— in bass fishing.
The Football FAQ should be required reading for just about everyone.
UCLA crushed everyone to win a NCAA National Championship in Gymnastics at a competition held at the University of Florida O’Connell Center last Friday night.
This year marks the first time since 1974 that the Patriots have had a draft with three players from the same school selected, as they’ve picked outside linebacker Jermaine Cunningham (second round, No. 53), inside linebacker Brandon Spikes (second round, No. 62) and tight end Aaron Hernandez (fourth round, No. 113) — all from the University of Florida. The NFL Draft is approaching the end of the fifth round and no team has more draftees than Florida’s nine.
I have been a Patriots fan since at least ’83, but Thursday night, like Dan, I was instantly converted into a Broncos fan.

2024-09-05: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

The Five Worst Losses in Gator Football History

General Stuff
- If you’re taking any medicine for any reason at all, you should read this article.
- Abusive relationships like this one just suck.
- Perspective
- Wired has a great article all about craigslist, if you like that site.
- Whole Foods has crazy expensive groceries, but terrific thoughts on healthcare reform.
- I had no idea that the word avocado comes from the Nahuatl word ãhuacatl (“testicle”), a reference to the shape of the fruit.
- Think that we’re not living in the future yet? Read The bright side of sitting in traffic: Crowdsourcing road congestion data from Google. Or take a look at how you could use your iPhone as a restaurant HUD. And start saving up for that jetpack.
- Here’s your cute kitten fix for the day.
- You can convey quite a bit with just three frames. (The ones from Jaws, The Goonies, and Jurassic Park are my favorites.)
Gator Stuff
- Bill Belichick presents a stone face to the world, but succeeds in part because he is open to change. For the past two years, the Patriots have run an offense that is all but identical to Urban Meyer‘s Florida spread.
- Stopping Tim Tebow isn’t easy, but it is possible.
- Kirk Herbstreit on Tebow
- Boom! – must-watch YouTube vid of big Gator hits
- “Tim Tebow’s proficiency as a passer and rusher have placed him among the all-time greats after only two seasons as a starter,” according to statistical analysis done by Sports Illustrated’s Stewart Mandel.
Techie Stuff
- Oh, hey! I didn’t realize you could create animated images with Photoshop!
- Apple did a very smart thing when it priced Snow Leopard below the cost of a typical family visit to the movies.
- Do you use any of the out-of-touch computer terms on this list at your office?

2024-01-15: Dead links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

Tom Brady and the NFL

Will the NFL collapse without Brady?

Last season, the Colts won the Lombardi in part by establishing a pass-wacky attack that defensive coordinators were obsessed with stopping, then gradually shifting toward the run in the postseason, then rolling out a rushing-based game plan in the Super Bowl that took everyone by surprise. … Belichick is among the best-ever students of the sport, so don’t be surprised if he remembers and attempts the same switcheroo. Of course at this point, don’t be surprised if Belichick suddenly rips off his prosthetic human face and reveals himself as a hideous reptilian space alien come to spearhead an invasion fleet.

Los Angeles’ TimeWarner cable — previously known as Adelphia — is rotten. It is quite possibly the worst cable company in America. Two years ago they dropped the ESPN Gameplan, so there was no way for me to watch the Gators unless I hauled my butt over to Westwood to catch them at the UGA

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