CardinalChris
Big Man Himself
Now, let me start by saying that I am not for firing mid-season, but a change needs to be made. Anybody read the article Michael Lewis (Moneyball author) wrote about Bill Parcells in the New York times?
Link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/s...em&ex=1162180800&en=30052628a57571c2&ei=5087
Here is an exerpt that caught my attention and was pimped on the Herd this morning.
"Parcells didn’t see the Hart-Antuofermo fight in person but was told about it, years ago, by a friend and boxing trainer, Teddy Atlas. It stuck in his mind and now strikes him as relevant. Seated, at first, he begins to read aloud from the pages: how in this fight 29 years ago Hart was a well-known big puncher heavily favored against the unknown Vito Antuofermo, how Hart knocked Antuofermo all over the ring, how Antuofermo had no apparent physical gifts except “he bled well.” “But,” Parcells reads, “he had other attributes you couldn’t see.” Antuofermo absorbed the punishment dealt out by his natural superior, and he did it so well that Hart became discouraged. In the fifth round, Hart began to tire, not physically but mentally. Seizing on the moment, Antuofermo attacked and delivered a series of quick blows that knocked Hart down, ending the fight.
The Redskins video is still frozen on the screen behind Parcells. He is no longer sitting but is now on his feet. “This is the interesting part,” he says, then reads:
“When the fighters went back to their makeshift locker rooms, only a thin curtain was between them. Hart’s room was quiet, but on the other side he could hear Antuofermo’s cornermen talking about who would take the fighter to the hospital. Finally he heard Antuofermo say, ‘Every time he hit me with that left hook to the body, I was sure I was going to quit. After the second round, I thought if he hit me there again, I’d quit. I thought the same thing after the fourth round. Then he didn’t hit me no more.’
“At that moment, Hart began to weep. It was really soft at first. Then harder. He was crying because for the first time he understood that Antuofermo had felt the same way he had and worse. The only thing that separated the guy talking from the guy crying was what they had done. The coward and the hero feel the same emotions. They’re both human.”
When Parcells finishes, he says: “This is the story of our last game. We were Cyclone Hart.”
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Arizona Cardinals have quite. Maybe not individuals, but as a whole, as a team, they have played the past two weeks as if their season was over when Chicago won. Without 53 guys who refuse to accept this season's continued losing as their fate, we will end up 1-15. It is a reflection on the coaches when players accept defeat instead of fight it.
Link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/s...em&ex=1162180800&en=30052628a57571c2&ei=5087
Here is an exerpt that caught my attention and was pimped on the Herd this morning.
"Parcells didn’t see the Hart-Antuofermo fight in person but was told about it, years ago, by a friend and boxing trainer, Teddy Atlas. It stuck in his mind and now strikes him as relevant. Seated, at first, he begins to read aloud from the pages: how in this fight 29 years ago Hart was a well-known big puncher heavily favored against the unknown Vito Antuofermo, how Hart knocked Antuofermo all over the ring, how Antuofermo had no apparent physical gifts except “he bled well.” “But,” Parcells reads, “he had other attributes you couldn’t see.” Antuofermo absorbed the punishment dealt out by his natural superior, and he did it so well that Hart became discouraged. In the fifth round, Hart began to tire, not physically but mentally. Seizing on the moment, Antuofermo attacked and delivered a series of quick blows that knocked Hart down, ending the fight.
The Redskins video is still frozen on the screen behind Parcells. He is no longer sitting but is now on his feet. “This is the interesting part,” he says, then reads:
“When the fighters went back to their makeshift locker rooms, only a thin curtain was between them. Hart’s room was quiet, but on the other side he could hear Antuofermo’s cornermen talking about who would take the fighter to the hospital. Finally he heard Antuofermo say, ‘Every time he hit me with that left hook to the body, I was sure I was going to quit. After the second round, I thought if he hit me there again, I’d quit. I thought the same thing after the fourth round. Then he didn’t hit me no more.’
“At that moment, Hart began to weep. It was really soft at first. Then harder. He was crying because for the first time he understood that Antuofermo had felt the same way he had and worse. The only thing that separated the guy talking from the guy crying was what they had done. The coward and the hero feel the same emotions. They’re both human.”
When Parcells finishes, he says: “This is the story of our last game. We were Cyclone Hart.”
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Arizona Cardinals have quite. Maybe not individuals, but as a whole, as a team, they have played the past two weeks as if their season was over when Chicago won. Without 53 guys who refuse to accept this season's continued losing as their fate, we will end up 1-15. It is a reflection on the coaches when players accept defeat instead of fight it.
