Big Leather Couch

Weather weather everywhere....Some horrible flooding in the Midwest.

Flooding in Ohio and Wisconsin displacing families...

Extreme heat in the South and Midsouth...we are sitting at 100-105 here in Memphis...

Tornadoes in NJ last week...

What the hell is happening?

We hope all in the Midwest are safe and it is only property damage...because property can be replaced...

So, the big DUB is now using Vietnam as an excuse for his continued insistence we stay in Iraq...

Ummm, we thinks that history has shown that our involvement in Vietnam did little to change anything in that part of the world, so maybe he needs to rethink his stance....will be interesting to see the Mid-September report to Congress due by September 15 from U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus.

The big spin begins now as he tried to build some support in the face of growing discontent from the American public.

Gotta tell you, we would be really unhappy if we were a Republican candidate as this is going to weigh heavily on any of their campaigns...

Go on..tell us you agree or tell us you don't...this is how we feel...

TIME TO GET THE HELL OUT!

So, did you see the 30 runs put up by the Texas Rangers yesterday against Baltimore in the first game of a Doubleheader? Most runs scored in a game by one team since 1990!

How would you like to be an Oriole, get your a** kicked in a game and then have to turn around and go back and play another?

OH Brother!

Bill Murray got lost on the way to the 7th tee in Stockholm and was pulled over on the city street while driving a golf cart. The cops smelled alcohol, Murray refused a breathalyser test, the cops took blood and Murray admitted to drinking and told the officer that he could plead guilty for him when/if it comes to trial....

Ah Bill...you crazy wildman you....

But Murray was cited as saying that he had asked a guy named Matt-Man where the next tee was and that is how he got lost...One wonders.....

We just heard this news and it is ripping our TV viewing heart out. Janeane Garofalo is joining the cast of "24" next season.
PLEASE give me a break....argggggggggggggggggggg

We are off to Atlanta today on business...will be there until Monday...gotta just hate these weekend business trips...

Some people get to go away for the weekend to visit a friend...others get to go work....we are the later of those two...

So, if there is no post tomorrow, you will know why. We get in to town and right to the plant and have no idea when tomorrow night will end....

Born on the west side of Chicago, Darryl played running back at John Marshall High School. He was offered a scholarship to play football at Purdue University where he was converted to a wide receiver.

He played at Purdue from 1970 until 1972. He received his bachelor degree in 1992 in a commencement ceremony which was described as “stirring.”

In 2004 Stingley returned to Purdue to be inducted into the Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame.

"The Purdue family has lost one of its treasured heroes in Darryl Stingley," athletics director Morgan J. Burke said. "His strength and courage will never be forgotten. On behalf of the entire university, our thoughts and prayers are with his family."

In 1973, Stingley was the first round draft choice of the New England Patriots of the NFL. He played for the team from 1973 until 1977.

During a 1978 pre-season game against the Oakland Raiders, Stingley was running a crossing pattern. As he went into the air to catch a pass he took a violent hit from the elbow of Jack “The Assassin” Tatum. Stingley fell to the ground immediately.

He had to be taken off the field on a stretcher and in the coming days it was learned that he had broken his fourth and fifth vertebra and was a quadriplegic.

Over the years he gained some use of his right arm which allowed him to use an electric wheelchair.

Tatum never apologized for the hit, continuing to claim it was a “clean hit.” In 1980 he wrote a book titled “They Call Me Assassin” and tried to contact Stingley. Stingley refused to speak to him.

In 1983 on the 25th Anniversary of the hit, HBO tried to get both men into the studio to discuss the play. Again, Stingley refused calling the event a “publicity stunt.”

Stingley became the Director of Player Development for the Patriots. In 1983 Stingley co-authored his memoir entitled “Happy To be Alive” with Mark Mulvoy.

In 1993 he started a non-profit organization to assist troubled youths in the Chicago area.

He was pronounced dead yesterday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital after being found in his home unresponsive. The cause of death has been attributed to heart disease and pneumonia complicated by quadriplegia.

Stingley is survived by his wife Martine and three sons; Hank, John and Derek, who plays defensive back for the Albany Firebirds in the Arena Football League.

THE COUCH NOTE: Jack Tatum would eventually face his own disability as his left leg was amputated below the knee in 2003 due to a staph infection caused by diabetes. Tatum also suffered from an arterial blockage that almost cost him his right leg. He currently uses a prosthetic leg to walk around or a wheelchair. Tatum currently works in increasing awareness of diabetes. To facilitate this goal, he created the Ohio-based Jack Tatum Fund for Youthful Diabetes, which finances diabetes research. Prior to Super Bowl XL, ESPN Andrea Kremer did an interview with Tatum confirming that he still has few regrets about paralyzing Stingley.




All of New England is patting themselves on the back today. The Red Sox bid $51,111,111.00 just to get negotiating rights to “Dice-K” and then signed him to a $52,000,000.00 contract.

The Red Sox $103,000,000.00 pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka stuck out 10 hitters in 7 innings and helped the Red Sox win 4-1 yesterday.

Pretty impressive outing …EXCEPT IT WAS AGAINST THE KANSAS CITY ROYALS!!!!!

The Royals went 61-100 in 2006; 56-106 in 2005 and 58-104 in 2004.