Showing posts with label failure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label failure. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

These Pictures Have To Be Worth More Than A Thousand Words

Just some shots off of the TV from last night's LSU beatdown of Ohio State. You get to relive Todd Boeckman getting clotheslined off of his feet, and you can pinpoint the exact moment when an OSU fan's heart breaks. All in all, good stuff!

Yeah, when your team gets stomped in the championship game for the second year in a row there's not much else to do but plug your nose, close your mouth, breathe really hard and hope that your head explodes.


The school band is supposed to be eternally optimistic. You know, doing things like playing the fight song when the team gets a late touchdown, and makes the loss a respectable 70-7. When they've seemingly given up hope you know things are bad.

This picture really doesn't offer much outside of it looks sort of like Kumar is at the game wearing gaudy Paris Hilton glasses.

Just another OSU fan looking despondent. I was surprised they didn't have more shots of the crowd, but after last year they must have decided to tone it down a bit. Like that lamp reflection? I told you we were dealing high quality stuff here!

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I watch this loop with the following commentary accompanying it: "Hey, look at that! Ohio State did something gre...uh...wait a minute...ah damn it." I love how he just disappears in the last frame.

And finally, Todd Boeckman took some shots last night, but this one was probably the worst. Ali Highsmith is obviously working on his form for Summer Slam.

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Saturday, June 02, 2007

Tony Romo Would Like To Reward Your Failure

Somehow I missed that Tony Romo was a judge for last week's Miss Universe pageant. This guy has risen from relative obscurity(outside of Texas at least) to somewhat of a superstar. Though, becoming the starting QB of "America's Team" does have its perks.

Anyway, Romo commented on Miss USA's fall during the pageant, and how he knows what it feels like to fail in such a public event.

"I can definitely understand when someone on a national stage doesn't do exactly what they wanted," he said Friday. "She performed well, she got up and did a good job."

Yeah, yeah Tony. We know, you fumbled the snap, made a mad dash for the end zone and got dragged down from behind. The part of his comments that caught me a bit offguard, though was this:
"But she composed herself really well," he said. "I gave her a little bit, probably, a better number just because of the way she composed herself when she got up."

Whoa, so you rewarded her for her slip up? It's one thing to pity her, but to give her a higher score because of the stumble? That sounds a little, I don't know, wrong. Sort of like if you, Tony, would have been given a second shot at holding for that field goal because the officials felt sorry for you. Oh well, they didn't, and now you get to relive this moment for the rest of your life. Enjoy!