Monthly Archive for September, 2007

Thoughts at Random

Published
by
Daniel-San
on September 22, 2007
in College Football, NBA, NFL and Thoughts
. 1 Comment


- Baltimore fans are feeling what Bills fans felt the last few years- that Willis McGahee often seems to not try- often near the end zone. Just watching a couple of Ravens’ drives this season- where Willis just stutters as he doesn’t know whether to take it outside or smash into the line- it makes me feel like a weight has been lifted off my back- and thrust upon Ravens fans.

- Ian Thomsen of Sports Illustrated recently wrote about Larry Brown and his decision to stay in Philadelphia, instead of going to be an “assistant” under Doc Rivers in Boston (or numerous other college jobs).

Thomsen says at one point in the article: “But his meetings with Snider (76ers owner) and 76ers president Billy King convinced Brown to stay in Philadelphia, where he and wife Shelly are raising their young family.”

Larry, you just got like a $40-million buyout from the Knicks- you want to live in Philly? Don’t you have a house in Malibu? You can live anywhere you want in the country- in the WORLD even, and you pick Philadelphia? I have nothing against Philly, I like Philly- but come on, Larry. Your kid could’ve been so much nicer a person.


- I can’t watch Jesse Palmer. Not that he’s an idiot or anything, I just can’t physically look at him. He looks like the epitome of a douche bag. Even the douchiest of the frat boys at Syracuse University or the douchiest wannabe actor I see out at a bar here in LA- they don’t compare with Jesse Palmer. I just want to punch him in the face. Yet, I don’t hate him- I can’t explain it.

- Talked about intensely over 2 months ago, ESPN2 again showed Darren McFadden’s pimped out Crown Vic during the Kentucky at Arkansas game on Saturday. Making it on blogs is one thing, but letting ESPN cameras come and film your ride which has at least $10,000 worth of “extras” on it, seems a bit overconfident. Where is D-Mac getting all this money from? As far as I know, his mother has been in jail and was addicted to drugs, but even if someone in his family has money- don’t flaunt it like that. I’m not saying he’s getting paid- I’m just going to leave saying people in Arkansas take their football seriously.

Rap at Random

Published
by
Daniel-San
on September 6, 2007
in Buffalo Bills, NFL and Rap
. 2 Comments

Back in July, I wrote about an underground rapper named “Ja Skillz”, who also went by the pseudonym “Daniel-san”, the same name I write under.

This “Ja Skillz” berated me in an email in which he demanded that I stop writing under “his” name. We exchanged heated emails and he became more and more interesting to me. Eventually, I asked him for his album and he offered it up to me for the “low price, considering the brilliance, of $35″.

As I said back in July, a week after I immediately turned down that offer, he sent me a rap song about Golf. Fantastic.

He also sent me a rap song about the Buffalo Bills. He mentioned in his, I’m assuming, fake bio that he was born in Buffalo, so apparently he has an affinity for the Bills, as well as the Gentlemen’s Game.

I haven’t heard from “Skillz” in awhile, but the Golf Song and this Bills song, entitled “Norwood Wide Right”- which he called a “slow jam”- have gotten me through a long summer.

First, to preface the song, it was apparently written between 2000 - 2002, during or just after the “Rob Johnson Era”.

Wade Phillips fat references, Kent Hull, the Biscuit, Jim Kelly and Rogaine, Ted Marchibroda, Thurman losing his helmet and Andre Reed getting the unsportsmanlike conduct call in the Redskins Super Bowl right before half-time: this song has it all.

“Norwood Wide Right” - Ja Skillz - link to song