Don’T Lick A Frozen Flagpole
It’s a good thing Seattle Mariners pitcher Freddy Garcia and outfielder Shane Monahan aren’t enrolled in Wenatchee schools. They could have been suspended for the stunt they pulled this week.
Garcia, Monahan and Mariners coaches Gerald Perry and John Moses engaged in a snowball fight with kids who came out to see them at Wenatchee High School on Tuesday.
Snowball fights are not allowed at schools or school bus stops, Wenatchee school superintendent John Gordon said.
“We do everything we can to let people know this is not acceptable,” Gordon said.
“We tell kids it’s not OK, then they (the Mariners) model that it is, and that it’s fun.”
Well, the Mariners are right. But any snowball fight should be conducted only under adult supervision.
Just another one of Jerry’s kids
Randy Galloway of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram writing on the new Dallas Cowboys coach: “Jerry Jones introduced his new puppet yesterday, which is not a personal indictment of Mr. Dave Campo.
“But like it not, true or not, it’s the perception Campo will now have to live with, locally and nationally… . Such is the pox Jerry has placed on his own head-coaching house.”
Translation: Expect more sickening play from the Cowboys next season.
It’s about time he made it to Super Bowl
Jeff Fisher was a starting cornerback for USC in 1979 and 1980. The other regulars in the defensive backfield were Ronnie Lott, Dennis Smith and Joey Browner.
Think quickly
Dave Kindred of the Sporting News has some of his own Super Bowl recollections, such as:
“Super Bowl VIII: My wife asked me what I’d done that day and I said, `Well, I spent an hour or two with Fran Tarkenton,’ and my wife turned chilly when she asked, `And just who is she?”’
Even the Mavs have their limits
“You have to draw the line somewhere,” writes Ron Rapoport in the Chicago Sun-Times, regarding the Dallas Mavericks concessions in their negotiations with Dennis Rodman.
“He can ride an Exercycle in practice, he can skip pregame shootarounds, he can show up for games half an hour later than anyone else and he can wait until after the Super Bowl before suiting up. The Pro Bowl is out, however.”
The last word …
“The only drinking problem I have is when I’m hanging upside down from the ceiling.”
- Redskins fullback John Riggins in a Super Bowl XVII news conference when asked about an alleged drinking problem.