My old girl Britt wins the Super Bowl coolness competition. Before the game, she wrote, “I am a nervous wreck today..excited, anxious, full of adrenaline..so many emotions..then I looked down at my mood ring and all was right…” They did it. They won three games no one picked them to win. They did it with a back-up quarterback who took the reins in...
[Editor’s Note: As part of the 2018 Ominous Seapods Reunion festivities, Jay went into the vault, and with the help of South Catherine Street Jug Band archivist Nate Pelton, released three more live archival recordings from the Golden Age of the Ominous Seapods under the “North Country Freakouts” series. Today, Volume 2: 06-17-94 Waterhole 3...
All year long for this? PATRIOTS-eagles?? Most of the country is shaking their head over this stinker of a Super Bowl. This one is like voting for President – you hold your nose, pull the lever, and hope for the best. If Ernesto had hands, he’d throw them up in frustration. As it is, he’s sticking his tongue out and hissing, partly because of the...
[Editor’s Note: As part of the 2018 Ominous Seapods Reunion festivities, Jay went into the vault, and with the help of South Catherine Street Jug Band archivist Nate Pelton, released three more live archival recordings from the Golden Age off the Ominous Seapods under the “North Country Freakouts” series. Today, Volume 3: 11-19-94 Waterhole 3...
FAIRFAX, CA – Call it the Machu Picchu of golf. From far below, in the hippie town of Fairfax, one can look a thousand feet sheer up the cliff-side to the shallow, mountaintop bowl where the verdant fairways of Alister Mackenzie and Robert Hunter’s Meadow Club lie, serenely etched between fescue-clad rocky slopes. Indeed, the first time I saw Meadow Club...
Having been, at various times, both the celebrity in the pro am as well as a player, I can attest to the bedlam, mayhem, and chaos a pro am round can devolve to. I once watched a guy playing in a pro-am in Jamaica smack a stone tee marker in front of him, (a giant tiki…decorative and festive, but bad idea for a tee marker) and had the ball catapult into the...
It’s one of the greatest courses in the world, and a personal favorite of both myself and Tom Doak, (who did terrific work there, by the way). A HUGE thank you to Golf Course Trades for making my article on Garden City Golf Club look so good! From the article: “Garden City is one of those courses that materializes out of the mists of time like a reverie...
It was one of the greatest plays in NFL history. It was a bit of a fluke, to be sure – two defenders colliding when one decides to go airborne – but the Vikings will take it. After all, they were on the receiving end of that in 1975 when Roger Staubach and the Cowboys shattered their hopes with the original “Hail Mary,” also in the divisional...
Scott Bernstein and the good folks over at JamBase ran my guest article on the Ominous Seapods reunion shows. I drew the first night show, and my review is here. From the article: “These weren’t just reunion shows or a revival that Ominous Seapods threw down for a pair of nights at the Cohoes Music Hall outside their former hometown of Albany. They were a...
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Kansas City Chokes. There’s no other way to describe losing to a hapless bunch of dink and dunkers like Tennessee. Andy Reid’s crew did not come ready to play for 60 minutes, and that’s all there is under discussion. The Chiefs sent Ernesto the Prediction Iguana down with them – he went 2-2 last week, winning neither...
So, 2017 was a turbulent year in the world of sports, but we all weathered it quite well. Now that we have a minute between New Year’s champagne and golf on Hawaii, let’s take a look back at the best, worst and zaniest of the year, and not just in golf. PLAYER OF THE YEAR – JUSTIN THOMAS PGA Championship + FedEx Cup + Five Tour wins + Prez Cup hero...
As usual, Week 17 – a.k.a. Bookie’s Revenge – took everyone to the cleaners, including Ernesto the Prediction Iguana. Always the toughest week of the season to handicap because you don’t know which teams will rest what players, our intrepid King of Animal Prognostication went 1-3, 0-2 in teasers, depressing the otherwise solid regular season...
Ernesto the Prediction Iguana tread water through a 3-2-1 week, 1-2 in teasers after the Panthers barely got past the Bucs, the Bills get robbed by the refs (again in favor of the Cheatriots), and the Giants got blanked by a milquetoast Arizona team. That puts the season totals at 58-19-1, 22-17 in teasers. happily, Week 17 Ernesto saves up his energy for the...
“And then an angel of the Lord appeared to the shepherds, and they were frightened. But the angel said, “Fear not. For I bring you glad tidings of great joy. For today in the city of David, a savior is born.” And then suddenly a whole Heavenly host of angels appeared in the sky and sang “Glory to God in the highest, and on Earth, peace, good...
Erneesto’s return to the helm of our NFL Picks here at AWITP and GNN saw him tally a solid 5-1 week, 2-1 in tesaers. That swells the season totals to a sterling 55-17 overall, 21=15 in teasers. Of course one critical win was due to dumb luck – The Steelers beat the Patriots yesterday, but the Cheatriots beat the Steelers. The lone loss was the Chargers...