Godspeed, Bobby Sippio

Well, the puppy-devouring overlords at the Bankingdrome may have blocked WordPress, and Joe may be trapped under something heavy, but we must not let the fact that Chicago Rush Touchdown Machine Bobby Sippio is now Kansas City Chiefs Roster Invitee Bobby Sippio go unremarked-upon. Of course, I have a rehearsal to be at in 30 minutes, so this is basically all the remarks that we’ll be making. Other than this: it’s about damned time. Too late to be in Madden, but what the hell. Plus, it gives me a chance to try to embed the following, which never extremely gradually gets old.

Never fear, extended family of Brett Dietz, I’m sure your son/nephew/second cousin/in-law (congrats, by the way) is on someone’s list. I’m almost kind of serious about that. Hope you’re enjoying the archives.

Out of Our Comas…

Briefly, anyway. Sooooooo… Yeah: that happened. We were up on Deadspin, and didn’t actually report on the game, because we did enough of that here. In any event: whee, yay fun.

The plan for this week was to recap what we got out of going to New Orleans (besides free food and carpal tunnel), as well as to decide what we’re going to do next. Unfortunately, real life got in the way. I know my esteemed co-editor is swamped at work, and my office has decided to block wordpress and any other blogging sites. That puts a crimp in the ol’ plans. So, if anyone wants to hire some random dude with a theatre degree, you know where to find me.

I’m going to get into a recap of the season eventually, but suffice it to say that we entered into this project for the purposes of having a regular target to make fun of, and ended up rather liking the sport. It was sort of weird, how it happened. We still won’t pretend to know what we’re talking about, but our setting of “Ironic Detachment (Cruel)” has shifted to “Ironic Semi-Detachment (Fondness)”.

What to do in the long months until the nets go back up? The title “It’s Still Football” could just as easily pertain to our alma mater, so we may throw up a post about Northwestern now and again, and if we come across weird football things that fall through the cracks, we’ll put them up. Of course, when Bobby Sippio gets picked up by the Bears, or something, we’ll weigh in. But we don’t really know what to do with ourselves. So, check in every now and then, and hopefully we’ll have something funny to say. Of course, if anyone out there has a suggestion, we’re open to it.

And, like I said, we still haven’t given the 2007 season the wrap-up that it’s due, so this isn’t a “signing off” post, or anything like that. I’m just ruminating because I can’t when I’m at work. Bastards.