February 03, 2007
She Got GameSports
I can’t say that I’m brimming with enthusiasm about the Super Bowl, what with (a) my team not being in it, and (b) the two-week break that precedes it, which really kills the post-season viewing momentum in the name of cramming in seven more days of bullshit corporate hype. Having said that, though, this seems an appropriate time to spotlight the work of Aditi Kinkhabwala, a real-life desi woman sportswriter, who had a Super Bowl-related piece this week at Sports Illustrated’s website. In it, she proclaims her love for Indianapolis Colts linebacker Gary Brackett, whose path to football stardom was several times barred by family tragedy:
Less than a week later, [Brackett’s father] Granville passed away, his heart finally having given out.
Brackett finished that season with 25 tackles. Then shortly after the Super Bowl, in February 2004, [Brackett’s mother] Sandra was rushed to the hospital for an emergency hysterectomy. She never left, an operating-table stroke putting her into what would be a fatal coma.
Brackett went back out to Indy that summer, until, just before mini-camp, he found out his brother Greg had leukemia and needed a bone marrow transplant. Gary told head coach Tony Dungy the outside shot of staving off Greg’s leukemia was more important than fighting for a roster spot and he skipped the camp.
A few weeks after he made the donation Brackett fought his way onto Dungy’s roster. He again played special teams, before pounding Denver for 11 tackles in his one start in January. And before Greg, despite the transplant, succumbed to the cancer in February.
The other reason Aditi loves Brackett, besides his triumph over the odds, is that he played his college ball at Rutgers. In addition to her column at SI.com, Kinkhabwala is a staff sports writer at the Bergen Record in New Jersey, where her beat is Rutgers sports. She covered the unlikely success of the Scarlet Knights football team this past season, and is now deep in the men’s and women’s basketball seasons.
Though she’s a perfectly fine beat writer, the sister’s most interesting pieces have been quirky ones on SI.com where she covers unusual athletic activities or angles. Her previous piece, two weeks ago, was about a grandmothers’ basketball league in Iowa. Check it out:
And it’s all done in the middy blouses, stockings and black bloomers women hoopsters wore in the 1920s.
“Are you kidding?” McPherson said when asked about this-century clothing. “The uniforms cover up all our flab. Who would want to wear shorts?”
Now at eight teams, the league plays roughly once a month from January through May, in high school gyms. Except for the Cedar Rapids Sizzlers — they play in a church.
The youngest player is 50, the oldest is 81. There’s the Hot Pink Grannies (yep, they wear hot pink socks) and the Ossian Good Old Girls and the Centre Point Curvaceous Chicks, who are sponsored by Curves. …
The league allows everyone to go to the “State Tournament” because, McPherson said, “in Iowa, every girl’s dream was to go to the state tournament.”
An archive of the sister’s stories is here. I’d be curious to know what other desis are out there covering sports in the US mainstream media.
siddhartha on February 3, 2007 07:59 PM in Sports · T·r·a·c·k·b·a·c·k address · Direct link · Email post
hehe... brown girl who writes about sports! awesome times..
p.s. GO COLTS! :)
not an American, but Canadian Adnan Virk (of Bollywood Boulevard [OMNI2] fame) is currently an anchor for The Score [both OMNI and The Score are owned by Rogers]
http://www.thescore.ca/bio/Adnan_Virk.asp
GO BEARS!!!
that is all.
Wow -- this is big time..
Excellent post, Siddhartha. My younger sister just began her journalism career at a CA paper, so for ages I'd been searching for/pointing her to TOTBs in the field. Sure enough, in true desi-style, a brown friend of a brown friend of a brown friend is a full-time sports reporter at the Chicago Trib: Avani Patel. Here's one of her latest. So badass.
[TOTB = Think Outside the Box].
I'm as big a sports fan there is, the only desi I could think of was Adnan Virk which already covered in post #3.
I'm not a Colts or Bears fan, but due to Peyton Manning and Tony Dungy I will be pulling for the Colts. Manning is gonna end as one of the great Qb of all time, yet call him choker. And what can I say about Tony Dungy other then he is class man. All of ex-players speak highly of him, unlike the coach in New England Bill Belichick who may be a great coach, but is a lousy person. Just today I saw a major story about ex-pats LB Ted Johnson in the New York Times. It talks about how Belichick didn't care that Johnson had a concussion and made him play. Now Johnson said due to health problems is life is a living hell.
Raj Mathai is my hero.
all those sportscasters/sports writers are my heroes. remember anish shroff who was in espn's 'dream job' competion a few years back? now that is a reality show that i will/and have watched, and wouldn't mind trying out for...
Yes, yes, I was thinking about Raj too. I met him once in an awkward place when he first got the gig. T'was at his girlfriend's apartment (no, not like that) and Raj was in pj's commenting on a college Indian culture show video. And no, I wasn't delivering pizza's =)
Hold up. I saw a guy with not one but two Emmy's in his pj's! I hope 5 years from now someone comments on a blog about seeing me in my pj's with an exclamation point. Then I'll know I've made it baby.
By the way, as a kid I was convinced that I was going to be the first Indian in the NBA. Then I got to high school and realized that in park & rec leagues you don't learn a damn thing about defense. Feh. Who needs defense when your nickname was Air Jeet.
The fact that Aditi brought this news to the world is the other reason she rocks as a sportswriter.
We have a local newscaster on channel 12 down here named Ray Daudani. (He's the sixth face from the top in the link.) He covers a variety of stuff but usually crime stories.
I believe he is desi.
this female rocks!!
Totally off topic, but had to say it.
Rest in peace Molly Ivins.
"She loved Texas like a parent loves her child even after that child has gone on a three-state killing spree."
Trying to raise my own little Aditi, I bought Miami Dolphins season tickets for my daughter and me two years running. The first year was highly unpleasant because of the drunks uttering foul words at every Dolphins mistake, of which there is no shortage in our underachieving home team. The second year we moved to the family section, where drinking is not permitted but arriving drunk is. To make matters worse, my little ABD never took to football.
So now this football fan has switched to a giant screen TV at home. A lot cheaper, no foul words except those in my head, no alcohol except the occasional single malt that goes oh so well with football.
Can't wait for tonight. As an ex-Chicagoan, I still am in love with the Bears. Who would have thought that this team would go to Superbowl again? Hooray for the Midwest, too. Two Midwestern cities only 180 miles apart are in the Superbowl.
If there is any "sepia mutiny" reason to cheer tonight, it is that two African American head coaches are in the big game. In a sport dominated by African Americans, the brainstrust has always been white. This is how glass ceilings are shattered.
If there is any "sepia mutiny" reason to cheer tonight, it is that two African American head coaches are in the big game. In a sport dominated by African Americans, the brainstrust has always been white. This is how glass ceilings are shattered.
You said what's been on my mind for years. Enjoy the game.
Read the Home News Tribune for all your Rutgers updates. Aditi Kinkhabwala writes for a competing paper of mine. So boooo.
Just Kidding! Just Kidding!
GO BEARS!!!!!!!!
Go Colts!
There's too much parity in the NFL these days. Every team is really 8-8, give or take a few games. No one dominates. The colts and the bears have some serious holes in their game, especially the bears at the all-important QB position. I miss the days of the dominant steelers of the '70's, who were not only all-around great, but had great competion bringing the game to new levels...the cowboys, vikings, broncos, and raiders. The weak teams died early and did not live to make the playoffs like the pathetic ny giants.
but the nfl rewards mis-management with revenue sharing, poor play with easy schedules. The result is 2 seriously flawed teams in the super bowl. european football is more capitalistic. will someone please tell Tagliabue the berlin wall is no more.
in an age where there are no michelangelos, and random dots of paint on a canvas is considered profound, we look to sports to fill the void by illustrating human greatness, dominance, and conquest...as in jordan and the bulls, federer, or bernard hopkins. the nfl disappoints.
Manju, I have to disagree with you, I think the balance in the NFL is what has made it great and has passed baseball as America game. 20 years ago baseball was the National game, but now it is the NFL. Just ask fans in Kansas City, Pittsburgh and Milwaukee/Green Bay about how they have more faith that there NFL teams to win then they do with there baseball teams.
Just look at the American League East in baseball. I think for the last 8 or 9 years it been the Yankees, and Red Soxs with the 2 biggest payrolls always that are always winning. The other 3 teams Toronto, Baltimore and Tampa Bay have fan bases that think that there teams have no chance of winning and that why's those 3 teams are in bottom of baseball in attendance.
Manju #20 "as in jordan and the bulls, federer, or bernard hopkins. the nfl disappoints. "
Of course! I, too, miss the era of the dynasties because the dominating teams had organically evolved due to their own efforts, which is what sports should be. NFL today is first and foremost a business, and all its recent rules of free agency and salary caps - especially salary caps - are designed to promote the conglomerate that is NFL, with monetary fallouts disbursed to all teams regardless of their merit.
"european football is more capitalistic"
I would say European football is more individualistic. It is NFL that is more capitalistic. The ultimate goal of capitalism is the propogation of the "company," not the individual franchises, with the assumption that the benefits will definitely trickle down to the lowest rungs.
Manju, you mentioned the Steelers of the 70's. I once shared a table with Rocky Bleier in 1996, when he was long retired and on the speaking circuit. He entertained us all evening with stories of the 70's Steelers including one of the most famous plays in football, "The Immaculate Reception." He confirmed that Terry Bradshaw was never too bright. He just knew how to win games. He also told us that as famous a running back as he was in 70's, his salary was never more than $50,000 a year, in a job that comes to an end when one is not even 40. He was on the speaking circuit (I think his rate was a mere $5,000 for the gig) just to put food on the table.
Clueless,
I have to disagree with you, and you just hit one of my favorite pet peeves. A lot of studies (Baseball Prospectus does it best) have shown that: a) there is more parity in baseball than ever before in its history; b) given the construct of the game (smalelr number of teams in the playoffs), there is more parity than any other professional sport in the USA.
The reason why teams like Kansas City, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh have horrible records, and attendance is down is because of gross mismanagement. St. Louis, for example, has the same market size as these three franchises but has had much more success and a higher payroll potential because of Walt Jocketty and how well he's managed the team. There were period of time not that long ago when Baltimore and Toronto had bigger attendances and payrolls than the Yankees until their teams were mismanaged.
The parity in baseball is overated. Look at some of the teams like the Marlins and Diamondbacks won one year and then didn't do anything else. Two small markets teams like Minnesota and Oakland have been in the playoffs alot the past few years but if they were in the same divison as the Yanks and Soxs the teams would finish 3rd.
Look at the A's they had the big 3 of Mulder,Zito and Hudson. But they could not afford to keep any of them.
Before the salary cap started in 94 you had the Cowboys and 49ers play 3 years in NFC champship game and those 2 teams were better then everybody else, and it made the NFL not as fun as it is now.
From 1983 to 1994 only 2 of 12 super bowls were close. The other 10 super bowls were blowouts.
From 1995 to 2005 5 of the 11 super bowls want down to the final minute and 3 other super bowls were 1 score games before the winning team scored late to win by a safe score margin. And only 3 of the 11 super bowls have been blowouts.
european football is more capitalistic.
I think Manju nailed it here. NFL is a beautiful synchronization of market forces and welfare state though Manju of course does not like the outcome.
I would say European football is more individualistic. It is NFL that is more capitalistic. The ultimate goal of capitalism is the propogation of the "company," not the individual franchises, with the assumption that the benefits will definitely trickle down to the lowest rungs.
Not really. The companies here are the 32 NFL teams. NYGiants dont gain squat by sharing revenues with Cincinnati Bengals. Revenue sharing, draft choices, salary caps, collective bargaining agreements with players are all designed to run the NLF like a Scandinavian welfare state.
Kahanirecently did a story on Sweeny Murti. He's a reporter with WFAN, the 24-hour all-sports radio station in NYC. His beat is the Yankees baseball team. As a Red Sox fan, it oh so pained me to publish his story...PS: Sweeny is short for Srinivas
will someone please tell Tagliabue the berlin wall is no more.
Maybe Condi will fix that!
Ooops. Sorry. That's Kahani.
One thing about the NFL is with parity, is more fans still caring about there teams, it means higher Tv ratings which lead to higher tv revenue and that means more money for every team.
http://baseballanalysts.com/archives/2006/09/parity_and_the.php
http://www.bizofbaseball.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=297&Itemid=39
The Yankees and red Sox have the payrolls because they are good. The Orioles had this advantage in the mid-1990s (I know, I lived in Baltimore), and then squandered it away
Hari the Yankees can make a bad signing and if does not workout they can just write it off. But if team like Kansas City signs a big player and he a bust, then they are screwed.
Also if Yankees lose a star like Jeter or A-Rod they can just trade for the best player avilable no matter what the cost.
Clueless,
The same revenue sharing exists in baseball too. It's a different story that the David Glasses of the world prefer not to plow that money back into the team and are happy to pocket it. And let's not even start about how being horribly run as a franchise has more to do with the Royals abyssmal play- they have no decent system for valuing players and get screwed over in trades. The Royals did have a great run a couple of years ago, btw.
As far as Oakland & Minny finishing 3rd in the AL East, a team's record is a function of the league they are in. E.g., the AL West is more competitive than the AL East, so teams there will on average have worse records than the AL East where everybody beats up on TB & BAL due to the unbalanced schedule which sees you play 19 games with each team in your division. You can't extrapolate as you have...
Sorry for the rant, but I love the incredibly statistical game of baseball and get POed any time I see it compared unfavorably to the "parity" of the NFL.
Even if David Glasses put all his money in the Kansas City Royals there is still only so much he could spend to compete with the Yankees. Yes I agree that management is important, but I team like the Yanks and Soxs could make mistakes that smaller market teams.
Also the Twins's and A's don't play in the AL East. If you put Oakland/Minnesota in the same divison as the Yanks/Soxs. The Yanks and Soxs would be in huge advantage over the twins/a's.
Last year when the Yanks traded for Bobby Abreu, they also had to take Cory Liddle contract as part of the deal. For the Yanks it was no big deal. But alot of smaller market teams could not make that deal.
Clueless:
My second paragraph dealt with the AL East/West issue. Have you seen the Sox/Yankees record vs AL West teams? Not quite the blowout you'll expect.
If you want to find fault with payroll parity, it's more in the bench- the Red Sox and Yankees can have slightly washed up grade A players on their bench because they can afford it. The KCs of the world cannot afford that which is why even when they have a great young core, they're done in by September when their regular young players are tired/injured and they have AAAA players on the bench who can't really get it done (many Cinderella stories in MLB end badly because of this).
Anyway, sorry all for the threadjack- back to Indian sportswriters.
another desi sportswriter: vinnie iyer
http://www.sportingnews.com/experts/vinnie-iyer/index.html
he's a distant cousin!
Your cousin Vinnie??? :)
To add to the list, Raja Mishra of the Boston Globe does some Sports coverage.
We've covered Iyer here.
Go Bears.
hehe.
COLTS baby.
SUPERBOWL Champs!!!
The best Colts Player: Grossman ;).
Kudos to Manning and double kudos for Dungy being the class act that he truly is.
Whatever. At least they should have given the MVP to Joseph Addai, who was the key to Indy's season and playoff wins, as well as their key offensive player today.
Joseph Addai -- a Ghanaian?
all i gotta say is that the colts play slip and slide fairly well...and manning shut up all the non believers, including the ehem.. patriot fans.
Addai and Rhodes ended up taking votes from each other for MVP. Look at Brady in super bowl 36 he won MVP by passing for 146 yards and he won MVP. Manning had 100 yards more today when he won MVP then Brady had in super bowl 36.
I bet Manning get less then 50% of the votes the award.
I like at the end when the Colts carried Dungy off the field. I can't ever recall Belichick ever being carried off the field.
I just want on the espn nfl message board, and New England fans are having a heart attack. I never understood there hate for Manning. It like a disease or something.
I found the game to be one big anti-climax. It just wasn't that great a game.
agreed it was sloppy football...the rain added to the craziness of it all... with prince in an aunt jemima kind of hairwrap... (thank god he took it off midway, ironically during purple rain)... but the final outcome was what i wanted, so i'm not complaining...manning got what he deserved, and tony dungy shows that nice guys can finish first and retain their classiness...(albeit the bears coach is a good guy as well)
Why all the hate towards the Patriots? If anybody should hate the Pats, its me. I hate the Pats. I hate them even though the Pats have been a patsy franchise for 6/7 of their existence. Remember this logo? It's weaksauce. Like I said, I hate the Pats. I hate them so much I don't even have to mention my team to clue you in to my hatred. I just have to say 'Tuck Rule'. Nonetheless, I give mad props to the Pats for what they have accomplished in the modern NFL. Brady is our generation's Montana. And I hate Montana.
The Pats are good. It took a record comeback for them to lose. It's only 2007, there's probably 3 more Super Bowl's in Tom Brady. But I still hate the Pats.
I am getting a little sick of Dungy and his public expression of his hyper religiosity. Its really tiresome. The creeping religiosity in sports is such a turn off. In Dungy's words, the Super Bowl had 'two Christian coaches', Yippie!
I am presuming Jesus didnt really hates Lovie Smith as his team lost.
I meant: I am presuming Jesus
didntreally hates Lovie Smith as his team lost.welcome to my southern world every single day.
i think i've become numb to it, so it just sounds like white noise at this point.
1222 days and 10 hours till the World Cup. Booyakasha.
1222 days and 10 hours till the World Cup.
Which World Cup would that be?
The game yesterday wasnt too bad. Lots of turnovers and a great running game from the Colts. I thought Manning's play selection was awesome and he was wise enough to realize that running was the way to go. The game could have been way way more interesting if the Bears had put more pressue on Manning or atleast tried some trickery to confuse him. The Bear's defense was way too cautious and conservative. It was pretty unbelievable that this was a one possession game till the very end.
Patriots: I dont like the Patriots. Kinda hate them actually. But one has to say that Brady boy is the very best when it comes to performing under pressure. They certainly are the most gutsy team of the 2000s.
Yes Dungy's invocation of the Lord for all matters large and trivial does get grating. I have no major problem with religiosity but let's have a sense of proportion. Dungy said that when Devin Hester returned the opening kick-off for a touchdown, that's when he (Dungy) remembered that sometimes the Lord makes things hard for you. I mean come on! Perhaps the Lord was having an off day from dealing with Iraq, the floods in Jakarta, global climate change, Darfur, and all the other matters on His plate, and maybe He decided to pick the Superbowl winner. But I don't think He had anything to do with Hester's runback. Surely the Lord is too busy to worry about missed tackles on special-teams.
minor subversion... seeing as this post has brought the sportsmen out... the india-pakistan match in toronto just before the world cup. dust off your passports and leave your scimitars at home.
game on.
maybe this is a hint to the lingus to host the pre-game show.
Is this game derived from rugby?
I can't get over how much armour and padding they wear. I think rugby players are way tougher than these guys. All Blacks rule!
Clueless you seem to have a deep, abiding, irrational hate for Belichick (GOAT)...are you perchance related to Drew Bledsoe? Or Jets management:)
I just don't like the way Belichick treats his players like Ty Law, Lawyer Millroy, Deion Branch, Willie McGinest, etc. These were the players that played a key part in the Pats winning 3 superbowls yet when they want to get paid, he get rid of them. And then there is the Ted Johnson and the way he treated him.
He may be a great coach, but that does not make him a great person. As I said earlier Dungy was carried off the field, yet I can't recall Belichick ever being carried off the field.
Clueless...the way the Pats operate financially is VERY Conservative as per their owner Robert Kraft. They always underpay..even BRADY is underpaid by league standards...and they never re-do contracts..Belichick will likely win 2-3 more superbowls before the end of his career and he will surpass Lombardi as the GOAT. But I concede your point...he is a hard-ass. But he is the Bobby Fisher of the league and the Rodney Harrison's and Corey Dillon's of the league will always want to play for him to get a ring....
No Von Mises you sound like a Raiders fan (tuck rule) :)!
I just don't like the way Belichick treats his players like Ty Law, Lawyer Millroy, Deion Branch, Willie McGinest, etc. These were the players that played a key part in the Pats winning 3 superbowls yet when they want to get paid, he get rid of them. And then there is the Ted Johnson and the way he treated him.
The Patriots organization is built around positions and not players. Every position has a salary tag and you either fit in the system or not. Hell, Brady had to take a salary cut to get what he wants. I love the way the Patriots run the organization. If you want to be a part of that winning Jaggarnath, you better swallow your ego and pride and accept whats best for the team.
The Patriots also have some of the smarter players in the NFL. Thats their style and they are pretty damn successful at it.
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When you win championships the value of your players on the market goes up. Under the salary cap system, you can't keep them all unless you are prepared to underpay people further down the roster. It's all about how you allocate a fixed amount of money. The Patriots rarely break the bank for a top of the roster player (the only current exception is Richard Seymour) but the result is that they pay more dudes more money lower in the roster. That's why they have solid back-ups who seemingly materialize out of nowhere and make plays. One guy who understands this well is Tom Brady, who accepted to get paid a lot less than Manning or even some inferior QBs in the interest of having a better team all around. (Don't cry for him, he's still making plenty $$, as well as shagging Gisele Bundchen.)
The NFL is a highly regulated marketplace with some weird rules not found out there in the market economy. The Patriots have figured out a way to perform well year in and year out within this marketplace. The only comparable is the Colts, now that they've won the big one, but they are earlier in the curve than the Patriots are. If they win one more with this personnel they're going to get bled too. They'll have to make tough choices and people who pin all these things on the coach, as opposed to the whole organization with its owner, general managers, and business analysts, will fall off their chairs in shock that Dungy let some key player go.
Yes indeed. I quite agree on this. But this is an endemic problem, growing throughout the league, and the pattern of avoidance and disregard starts from the top. Read Selena Roberts' column in the NYT yesterday. And see how the announcers and hype people for the game yesterday steered clear of the whole topic. You'd never know this was a problem from the celebration of the crunching hits on the field.
I'm about to jump ship. I can't take another year of that narcissistic senile geriatric in a tracksuit.
"I'm about to jump ship. I can't take another year of that narcissistic senile geriatric in a tracksuit."
abandon Uncle Al?!!...I swear he's going to have his head in a jar Futurama style.
Peter King of Sports Illustrated in his column today said that because of Ted Johnson, some free agents will have some doubts about wanting to play for the Pats.
I can recall that earlier this season Brady was upset with the Pats cause they did not pay Deion Branch who was his favorite Wr and one of his best friends on the team.
This seems like the appropriate time/place to give a shoutout to my cousin, who covers sports for her college paper, The Daily Illini.
She's got next!
AMFD & Siddhartha:
If you're going to believe in mermaids, you might as well believe the mermaid will make you successful and rich. There are noble lies in this world, as plato instructed; what works is not necessarily true.
I can't get over how much armour and padding they wear. I think rugby players are way tougher than these guys. All Blacks rule!
That little dance the All Blacks are doing at the beginning is a Maori war dance, known as haka. One of my fondest possesions is an All Blacks jersey I picked up on a trip to New Zealand in '04, though the mood was funereal - the favored All Blacks did not live up to expectations in the previous World Cup.
As wonderful as Rugby is, don't be dissing the NFL. Those guys are massive, and just as importantly, fast. Imagine a 280 pound guy running a 40 yard dash in 4.5 seconds - your flattened ass will learn Newtonian physics the hard way.
I hate the Pats. I hate them even though the Pats have been a patsy franchise for 6/7 of their existence.
Kinda like Chelsea, my dear anti-Austrian economist? :) That six points between you and Man Utd. is looking like a gaping chasm, with what, twelve "fixtures" left? :)
It is annoying as hell. We need separation of church and sport in America.
OTOH, it does seem that today one of the easiest ways for the despised colored minorities of America to gain some semblance of acceptance with the white mainstream is to vigorously profess the religion of the majority: christianity. Look at the african-americans Clarence Thomas and Barack Hussein Obama or the indian-americans Dinesh D'Souza and Bobby Jindal, for example.
BTW, how do these agressively christian coaches deal with the handful of muslim players in their teams? Was that player named Mohammad booed during the team introductions because of his name/religion?
Not so long ago white supremacists were flattering themselves with the thought that while there were many blacks in the NFL, none was "smart" enough to be a quarterback. Unfortunately for these neo-nazis we have seen a black quarterback, Doug Williams of the Redskins, winning the Superbowl and now we have an african-american coach (coaches are supposedly smarter than quarterbacks) who has done the same.
Ominously for the euro-centrics, the number of black quarterbacks in the NFL is growing rapidly and there are plenty more in the pipeline: many of the best college quarterbacks are black. And so is the number of coaches (not just head coaches) in the NFL. For example, 9 of the 17 coaches of this years Superbowl winners, including the head coach, are black; as are 7 of the 19 coaches in this years runner-up, also including their head coach.
A little more than a century ago these same racist fools were claiming that east asians did not have what it takes to run modern factories! Now the japanese, koreans and chinese are having the last laugh....
BTW, I noticed how the winning african-american coach Tony Dundy looks quite a bit like Adolf Hitler. I always thought Adolf's nose didn't look germanic :)
Was that player named Mohammad booed during the team introductions because of his name/religion?
I believe the crowd was chanting 'Muuu'. Also Muhsin Muhammad is not a Muslim. His dad was a Muslim, hence the name though Muhsin Muhammad himself is a practising Christian.
go colts !!
go brackett !! go RUTGERS !!!