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September 5, 2009

Vikings choose to keep only 3 Quarterbacks on the roster

Filed under: Football — Tags: MinnesotaVikings, NFL — Nicholas @ 21:21

. . . but to my surprise, and possibly to the dejection of sportscasters nationwide who will now not have the opportunity to announce that “Coach Childress just made a Booty call” . . . the team chose to keep Tarvaris Jackson and released John David Booty, to get down to their 53-man final roster:

DB Colt Anderson, QB John David Booty, FB Nehemiah Broughton, DE Martail Burnett, OL Chris Clark, OL Brian Daniels, OL Juan Garcia, DE Otis Grigsby, S De’von Hall, LB David Herron, DT Antoine Holmes, RB Ian Johnson, DT Tremaine Johnson, OL Andy Kemp, CB Marcus McCauley, TE Garrett Mills, WR Nick Moore, TE Jake Nordin, WR Vinny Perretta, OL Drew Radovich, DB Marcus Walker and WR Bobby Williams.

The Vikings could still try to re-sign Booty to a practice squad spot next week, if he’s not picked up by another team. You’d have to assume that his performance in Friday’s game was a determining factor in this decision.

Update, 7 September: Yep, Booty was indeed signed to the Vikings practice squad, along with “safety Colt Anderson, offensive tackles Chris Clark and Drew Radovich, running back Ian Johnson, defensive tackle Tremaine Johnson, tight end Garrett Mills and wide receiver Nick Moore”. Unfortunately, free agent Jon Cooper who’d made the 53-man roster was cut to make room for Kory Lichtensteiger who was cut by Denver.

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Chicken chicken chicken

Filed under: Science — Tags: Absurd — Nicholas @ 18:23

H/T to Susan Fox for the link.

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Obsession takes many forms

Filed under: Randomness — Tags: Addiction, iPhone — Nicholas @ 10:50

I guess the “collector” urge can manifest itself in almost any form. As proof, here’s iPhone case collector “WyldCeltic” and her collection of cases:

And I was feeling guilty about thinking of getting a second case for my iPhone.

Oh, and on the general topic of the iPhone, you AT&T haters may be blaming the wrong group for all the problems:

For years, AT&T’s iPhone customers have endured dropped calls, slow connections, and crippled service, especially in crowded areas such as New York and San Francisco. And for this, customers pay a higher rate than most other phone users. If you own the iPhone, hating AT&T is practically written into the two-year service contract.

I think AT&T’s getting a raw deal. The company has to shoulder the complaints of people who use their data plans way more than anyone else, sucking up bad blood while other carriers are viewed as knights in shining armor. Oh sure, let’s fantasize about a Verizon Wireless iPhone, but are we sure that Verizon can handle iPhone users, and the ten times more traffic they consume than other smartphone owners?

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Scientific head-scratchers

Filed under: Environment, Science, Space — Tags: GlobalWarming, NASA — Nicholas @ 10:30

Courtesy of Roger Henry, a list of oddities from New Scientist:

2. Dark Flow: Something unseeable and far bigger than anything in the known universe is hauling a group of galaxies towards it at inexplicable speed.

3. Eocene Hothouse: Tens of millions of years ago, the average temperature at the poles was 15 or 20 °C. Now let’s talk about climate change.

4. Fly-by Anomalies: Space probes using Earth’s gravity to get a slingshot speed boost are moving faster than they should. Call in dark matter.

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Rosenfels doesn’t dispel the doubts

Filed under: Football — Tags: MinnesotaVikings, NFL — Nicholas @ 10:18

Last night’s final preseason game against the Dallas Cowboys could have gone better, both for the team and for Sage Rosenfels, who is fighting for the backup QB spot behind Brett Favre:

Brad Childress knows he has his starting quarterback now that Brett Favre is wearing purple. But with eight days until the regular-season opener in Cleveland, the Vikings coach cleary isn’t happy with his quarterback situation as a whole.

That became clear after Sage Rosenfels and John David Booty threw third-quarter interceptions that were returned for touchdowns in the Vikings’ 35-31 loss to Dallas on Friday night in their preseason finale before an announced crowd of 62,334 at the Metrodome.

“At times [the quarterback play] was embarrassing,” said an upset Childress, who rarely is critical of his players in his postgame news conferences. “I’ll end up putting that on myself. Not having them ready to come out of the locker room at halftime. But all the quarterbacks I’ve ever coached have some regard for the football, and you can’t throw it to them.”

I’m still hoping that the Vikings hang on to Tarvaris Jackson, rather than cutting or trading him. He showed that he’s still got lots of potential:

Jackson started and played through the Vikings’ first series of the second quarter, completing two of four passes for 42 yards with a touchdown and a 127.1 passer rating. Rosenfels entered in the second quarter and finished 7-for-15 for 115 yards with a subpar 45.1 rating; Booty was worse, going 7-for-13 for 85 yards with a 42.1 rating. Childress said he benched both quarterbacks after their interceptions, meaning Booty replaced Rosenfels, threw one pass and then was lifted for Rosenfels.

“It always seems like you want to take back one play, and I wish I could take that one back,” Rosenfels said of a pass that was picked off by Cowboys cornerback Pat Watkins and returned 23 yards down the near sideline for a touchdown. “It was just a bad play by me. Other than that, I felt real comfortable out there, and I thought I did a pretty good job executing the offense other than that one play.”

Today is the worst part of the season for aspiring young players, or for veterans trying to catch on with a new team: it’s when teams have to cut down to their 53-man roster.

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