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Posted on 09.01.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 11:04 pm
A year ago come Oct. 1, I uploaded to YouTube a 31-second news clip titled “Worst Football Play In History” and embedded it on this blog along with two other amazing football videos. The clip I posted was modestly popular at the time but by no means a viral hit. The last time I looked at the stats a few months ago, the clip had been viewed more than 10,000. But it hit the viral big time last weekend when Prep Rally, a Yahoo sports blog, embedded the clip in a story about the latest gridiron embarrassment. Comparing the clip I posted last fall with the new one, the blog concluded: “Amidst all the horrendous bloopers of past years, that Vermont finish seemed like the worst play ever … until today. Even champions have to retire some time, and the Vermont clip will always know it went out to, truly, the worst play in high school football history.” I’ll let you decide the winner after watching both videos below (mine is the first one), but all I care about at the moment is that I’m now the proud digital papa of my first viral video. Thanks to Yahoo, the clip has been viewed nearly 725,000 times. That’s not going to break any YouTube records — the fresher clip currently has more than 1.7 million views — but it’s still cool. Filed under: Sports and Technology and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 08.24.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 6:58 pm
This message is aimed at football fanatics everywhere — except those of us who bleed blue and gold for the West Virginia University Mountaineers. Let’s go … Mountaineers! On a more serious note, Jason Hardin used the video to make an excellent point at his blog, Imagine Man As God Envisioned (IMAGE): “There is an epic reality that must overshadow and define sports as nothing more than meaningless games. Let’s raise our children with that sort of framework. To search for lasting happiness and true fulfillment in the outcome of a game is vanity and a striving after wind.” Filed under: Culture and Religion and Sports and Video and West Virginia Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 08.23.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 10:43 pm
Bad things happen when rednecks “think outside the box” — bad things like Marshall University’s band ending its tradition of playing “Take Me Home, Country Roads” at the behest of unenlightened Athletic Director Mike Hamrick:
Taking “a different direction” than “Country Roads” in West Virginia is like traveling the wrong way on a one-way street. Marshall has gone to the dark side, giving West Virginia University alumni like me yet another reason to despise the Thundering Herd. But that’s OK because no band performs “Country Roads” better than WVU’s band. Now the master musicians in the Pride of West Virginia will have the tune all to themselves. I hope they play it with an extra dose of passion when we beat Marshall on the Thundering Herd’s home field come Sept. 11. Filed under: Music and News & Politics and People and Redneck Music and Sports and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 08.12.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 12:26 am
Here’s a sample of the praise being heaped upon the man who brought to life the message of “Take This Job And Shove It“:
That’s right, act like a child and commit a crime in the act of quitting your job and you, too, can be a global hero. Or how about this spin? “It’s refreshing when someone decides to flourish his way out of a job instead of taking the now-cliche mass-murder suicide route.” Have we sunk so low that the only two options for quitting a job are mass murder and obnoxious, self-indulgent behavior? I behaved that way once. The band director in high school rightly scolded a few classmates and me for talking out of turn on the field at the end of practice. I had been ready to quit band at the start of that season anyway and was surprised and embarrassed by the lecture. So when the band director publicly invited any of us who couldn’t stop talking to leave and not come back, I walked. I thought I was so cool at the time. A few of my classmates did, too. But most of them knew what I refused to see until years later when I recounted the story to my wife and she enlightened me as to what I really had been: a stupid 17-year-old kid and a disrespectful punk. Filed under: Culture and Human Interest and Media and News & Politics and People and Pets and Sports and Video Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 08.06.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 12:37 pm
Word came down yesterday that my alma mater, West Virginia University, allegedly violated NCAA college football rules over a span of five seasons. There were five major and one secondary rules violations:
I wasn’t totally surprised by the news because the investigation of WVU football has been well-publicized for several months. The violations encompass the tenure of former head coach Rich Rodriguez, and he hadn’t been at Michigan as head coach long before the NCAA alleged violations against him there. Rodriguez’s reputation is mud. What does surprise me about the allegations against WVU is that they didn’t stop when Rodriguez, now exposed as a bad boy of college football, fled Morgantown, W.Va., to Ann Arbor, Mich., in the middle of the night. Current WVU coach Bill Stewart apparently followed Rodriguez’s bad example. Filed under: News & Politics and Sports and Video and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 07.10.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 10:18 am
Cleveland went ballistic over what it saw as a betrayal. The city’s newspaper, The Plain Dealer, dedicated its front page to a full-length photo of Lebron and this biting commentary: “Gone. 7 years in Cleveland. No rings.” What a bunch of “homers“! Bitterness ruled the day in Chicago and New York, cities that Lebron rejected as his new basketball home. And Miami celebrated the anointing of a new sports king. Lebron fever even hit the hills of my home state, West Virginia. The reason: A couple of weeks before Lebron decided to go to Miami, the Heat drafted West Virginia University all-star Da’Sean Butler. So if Butler makes the team, he could be playing with not only Lebron James but also Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, two other NBA all-stars headed for Miami. Filed under: News & Politics and People and Photography and Sports and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 04.04.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 9:07 pm
I won’t dare say this duo is enlightened because people who use their brains don’t try deadly stunts. But there is no disputing these dudes are rednecks having a great time on high-powered adult toys. Filed under: Sports and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 03.27.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 10:18 pm
Kentucky’s No. 1 ranking wasn’t enough to the stop the Mountaineers from rolling on to Indianapolis for the Final Four — our first appearance since Jerry West led the team there a half-century ago! It’s time for a celebration, WVU-style. For all of you rednecks who weren’t enlightened enough to attend West Virginia University, the song playing during the couch-burning scene is the WVU anthem. Mountaineers fans are notorious for burning couches in the streets of Morgantown after big sports wins. Filed under: Sports and Video and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.26.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 12:04 pm
It’s time for another addition to the “Redneck Hall of Shame.” This time, it’s the entire Canadian women’s hockey team for the total lack of class and sportsmanship they showed after defeating the United States 2-0 yesterday to win gold.
Other entrants into the “Redneck Hall of Shame” courtesy of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia: U.S. half-pipe bronze medalist Scotty Lago, who left town after racy celebration photos surfaced; and Canadian Jon Montgomery, who after winning gold in the skeleton race “marched triumphantly through the town, guzzling beer straight from the pitcher.” Filed under: News & Politics and People and Redneck Hall Of Shame and Sports Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 02.15.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 12:21 pm
All of you enlightened rednecks who think it’s a good idea to propose to your would-be spouse in a very public way must watch this video: The hat tip goes to Ed Morrissey of Hot Air, who offers these words of wisdom: “Unless you’re sure of the answer, prospective suitors should consider the YouTube age before popping the question at a sporting event.” UPDATE, 2/16: The whole thing was staged, which means both the man and the woman are losers. Filed under: Just For Laughs and Sports and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.14.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 10:12 pm
The game was played two days after the Blizzard of 2010 that walloped the Washington area, so we snapped some great snow pictures in addition to shots of ‘Nova superstar Scottie Reynolds, who attended church at our congregation when Anthony was a baby, after the game. I got half of what I wanted from the trip: Scottie had a great game, but my alma mater lost to his team. But somehow seeing my Mountaineers lose wasn’t as depressing as usual because I got to see a friend win. The bonus: Scottie autographed a basketball for Anthony. The entries below this one feature snapshots from our road trip. Filed under: Family and People and Photography and Sports and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.14.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 10:04 pm
After the WVU-Villanova game in Morgantown, Rick Reynolds took my son Anthony, my brother Mark and his son Niko, several Villanova fans, and myself to the VIP section outside the ‘Nova locker room so we could see Scottie. It was great to see Rick interacting with Scottie Reynolds’ teammates. He’s a people person, and he has passed that personality trait along to his son, which will serve Scottie well if he goes pro. Filed under: People and Photography and Sports Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.14.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 10:00 pm
Scottie Reynolds sent the Villanova Wildcats to the Final Four in 2009 with a drive down the court that ended in a last-second layup to win the game against Pittsburgh. At the 2010 WVU-Villanova game in Morgantown, W.Va., Scottie signed copies of a black-and-white photograph that captured the moment. Here’s a snapshot of Scottie signing one of the pictures for the Villanova fan who brought them to the game: Plus two more shots of Scottie outside the locker room in Morgantown: Filed under: People and Photography and Sports and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 01.01.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 10:00 am
I never learned to solve one Rubik’s Cube, let alone three of them in a few minutes. But this kid did it under the pressure of trying to win a challenge against a sportscaster. Filed under: Human Interest and Sports and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 12.17.09 by K. Daniel Glover @ 2:13 pm
From The New York Times:
Henry’s bizarre death was the tragic end to a troubled life:
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