Posted in Blogroll on January 7th, 2010 by Michael Tillery
NFL Playoff Power Rankings later. There will be no Tiger Woods/Vanity Fair commentary here. Like I said in the comments, Vanity Fair ain’t paid me shit. For now, I give you Jay Electronica. If you haven’t been through anything, you might not get the brotha. Strong, deep…tough and talented. Been out for a minute (he has many genius tracks), but this is for those who don’t know. One of my favorite lyrics of all time is spit in this track. You will know it when it smacks ya.
Posted in Blogroll on January 4th, 2010 by Michael Tillery
NFC East crown handed to the hated Cowboys. No pressure on Tony Romo. 4 sacks of McNabb. Passes dropped by young receivers. Passes thrown behind receivers. No Michael Vick. No competent blitz package. No intensity. No sense of urgency. No pride. Andy better have his crew locked and loaded. Playing in a hostile new arena or playing home? I’m taking the home game…although getting Westbrook’s legs now instead of resting another week could be key. This will be a rough week for the Eagles in the Philly media in that the season accomplishments will not matter. Everything will be negative. Personally I think they will respond because it sure as hell can’t get any worse. They did it last year (victory in NY). I hope they come out in the black jerseys…
Posted in Blogroll on January 3rd, 2010 by Michael Tillery
This day last year was magical for any Eagles fan. Watching the 1:00 games in the Eagles press room beforehand was a good experience and everyone knew the playoff possibilities. Stephen A. was giving it to Favre and it was a peace NFL real rappin’ with Hugh Douglas, Ike Reese and Calvin Hill.
The playoffs beckoned…
Chicago and Oakland had to win for the Eagles to get in. As the scores were announced and both teams were victorious, Brian Dawkins emerges out of the tunnel to a mad eruption of fan cheers. Sick atmosphere that resulted in a 44-6 Eagles win…but that was last year. Dallas won here this year 20-16 and Miles Austin caught the eventual game winner on a double move despite being bottled up all game. This is a big contest in the rivalry that possibly will be remembered long after any of us are alive. The stakes are just too high.
I don’t know if any of you followed the story last week out of DC that Gilbert Arenas allegedly stored unloaded guns in a locker room in the Verizon Center and handed then over to authorities. His reasoning was he didn’t want the guns around with three young children in the house. Makes sense right?
Well…
Details (The best piece yet on the subject after David Aldridge’s great reporting set the bar high earlier) are emerging that Arenas and Javaris Crittenton were involved in an incident involving those three guns. Gilbert speaks of it and another incident on his Twitter timeline. He seems to downplay this as a joke gone awry. We are probably not going to get the full story on what exactly went down, but Jones’ piece is the most we’ve gotten so far. Gilbert Arenas is beloved in DC and does so much for the community but having guns in the locker room…loaded or not…was not smart. Abe Polin, R.I.P., would be sick. How this plays out will have a lasting impact on the franchise.
These are the stories that tend to get out of hand and I’m honored to say that David Aldridge, Mike Lee and Mike Jones have all done a great job reporting this as accurately as possible. Mark Stein on the other hand was digging deep into the demographic by actually including a preposterous reference to the 2004 incident in Detroit.
No.
The two have nothing to do with the other. There will also be writers speaking about the number of players who own guns.
Do you see why we do what we do here? There shouldn’t be any generalizations in dealing with what went down in DC because this is a situation all of its own so please reporters, stick to the script. Thank God the NY Post piece wasn’t the sole source. Thank you brothas for hopping on as quick as you did.
This is the reason why we need diversity in journalism.
Do you get it now? It doesn’t have to be all about snark. Good work fellas.
A recent (A DC win vs. Cleveland) locker room presser with Gilbert and Antawn (his first game back).
Posted in Blogroll on January 2nd, 2010 by Michael Tillery
You know we bang anything Native Tongues around here and while on twitter I came across Talib’s timeline that linked to his Year of the Blacksmith site. The above mixtape is linked as well. It’s free. 28 tracks past and present. I’m nodding my head all jazzy swervvve to The Blast remix featuring Erykah Badu now. Dig it by clicking on the pic. Please support this talented, concious and true to Earth real brotha.
