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Wide Right with Paul Calvisi, In The Chips
But let’s focus our thoughts north of the border and what Wide Right spotted on Tuesday. Look, over there, an AZ Cardinals O-Lineman tip-toeing just outside the locker room carrying 3 bags of…chips?! That’s right, we’re talking the quintessential lineman moment here.
When pressed for details, backup center Nick Leckey admitted that we caught him red-handed, almost literally. See, these weren’t just any chips held in Leckey’s tight grasp. Instead, these bags contained the coveted Ketchup Chips from Old Dutch, a Canadian import. Growing up, Leckey would visit his Dad in Canada and feast on the Ketchup Chips.
“Looking back, that’s probably why I am what I am,” noted the 300 pounder. “The best part of ketchup chips is the crumbs because they get on your fingertips.”
So, how did Leckey get his fingertips on a fresh supply? Turns out, when the Cards traveled to Seattle, Leckey’s cousin made a run for the border. But, when Leckey talks about having to “put a towel over ‘em to sneak ‘em out of there,” he’s not talking about customs officials. He’s talking about his teammates! Unknown to his fellow lineman, Leckey has been hiding the chips above the top shelf of his locker with those same towels draped over the bags of Old Dutch. Call it the “Ketchup Caper.”
But wait, forget about the lineman. What if the trainers find Leckey with bags of chips that he readily admits have no nutritional value whatsoever?!
“They’d have my head,” acknowledges Leckey, while keeping that head of his on a swivel to pick up an approaching trainer like a blitzing linebacker.
BIG PROPS FOR BIG RED
Wide Right would like to extend a honkin’ huge shout out to Cards mascot Big Red. As we all know, mascots don’t talk. But, they do huff, puff, gasp and wheeze.
With Mexico City sitting at an elevation of approximately 7300 feet, players on both sidelines regularly left the game to hit the oxygen tanks. But, all the while, the mascot with the name “Pajaro Rojo” stitched on the back of his Cards jersey, continually cavorted up and down both sidelines. Something tells Wide Right that Big Red’s face was a nice shade of rojo!
QB Q&A
Once again, Wide Right busts out the wide angle when launching into a line of questioning. Hence, here’s the question to QB Josh McCown this week: “Who has the best sense of humor on the team?”
Josh: “Here’s the thing, you judge the best sense of humor when you come in on travel days and you look at somebody’s clothes. Because I think that will tell you who has the best sense of humor right there. Some guys, they wear things, maybe including myself, that are laughable. So, maybe they have the best sense of humor.
Wide Right: That’s unintentional on their part?
Josh: You hope so.
Wide Right: So, what’s funnier: the clothes or the commentary that results from what they’re wearing?
Josh: Oh, the commentary! You get a guy wearing something that’s crossing the line fashion-wise and you get around guys like Anquan Boldin and Bryant Johnson and they’re going to wear them out. They’re not going to let it ride. That’s what’s fun about this group of guys, you can joke back and forth and have a good time.”
Q-Tip of the Week
Speaking of the Cards player featured in this week’s episode of “6 Days to Sunday” on the NFL Network, Anquan Boldin continued his multi-media ways by also shooting another edition of his Q-Tip segment for Maximum Cardinals, the weekly TV show seen in AZ on Channel 15, FSNAZ, and AZTV.
With an all-access pass, Q takes viewers behind the scenes to ask those questions only a teammate can ask…or answer. Case in point, Q stopping Robert Tate, coming off an interception and a forced fumble vs. the 49ers, and asking Tate what it was like to play in Mexico.
Tate: “It’s really good to get outside the world.”
Q: “Outside the world?! That is far, dude.”
Next stop for Q? How ‘bout the locker of Neil Rackers, NFC Special Teams Player of the Week.
Q: “Do you think that a kicker can win NFL MVP?”
Rackers: “Anything is possible. But when you’ve got Anquan Boldin on your team, that’s probably not going to happen.”
Q: I’m going to buy a Neil Rackers jersey and put “MVP” on the back.
Finally, Q couldn’t put down the mic without asking Bertrand Berry about picking up the flag of Mexico at the end of Sunday night’s game.
Q: What was waving the flag all about?
Berry: I had an enchilada dinner the night before that was the bomb.
Q: So that dinner made you wave the flag?
Berry: I had to show ‘em love, you know. Everything was on point. No, for real, I just wanted to show the people that we appreciated them coming out and supporting us. I just wanted to show ‘em some love and let them know that we tried to represent for them.
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Instead of an NFL report, Wide Right is here with a NAFTA update. Operation “Futbol Americano” can be officially termed an international muy bueno, right down to the holy cannoli sighting of a Heath Shuler jersey at Estadio Azteca. Actually, on second thought, that might’ve been the former Washington Redskins QB himself.But let’s focus our thoughts north of the border and what Wide Right spotted on Tuesday. Look, over there, an AZ Cardinals O-Lineman tip-toeing just outside the locker room carrying 3 bags of…chips?! That’s right, we’re talking the quintessential lineman moment here.
When pressed for details, backup center Nick Leckey admitted that we caught him red-handed, almost literally. See, these weren’t just any chips held in Leckey’s tight grasp. Instead, these bags contained the coveted Ketchup Chips from Old Dutch, a Canadian import. Growing up, Leckey would visit his Dad in Canada and feast on the Ketchup Chips.
“Looking back, that’s probably why I am what I am,” noted the 300 pounder. “The best part of ketchup chips is the crumbs because they get on your fingertips.”
So, how did Leckey get his fingertips on a fresh supply? Turns out, when the Cards traveled to Seattle, Leckey’s cousin made a run for the border. But, when Leckey talks about having to “put a towel over ‘em to sneak ‘em out of there,” he’s not talking about customs officials. He’s talking about his teammates! Unknown to his fellow lineman, Leckey has been hiding the chips above the top shelf of his locker with those same towels draped over the bags of Old Dutch. Call it the “Ketchup Caper.”
But wait, forget about the lineman. What if the trainers find Leckey with bags of chips that he readily admits have no nutritional value whatsoever?!
“They’d have my head,” acknowledges Leckey, while keeping that head of his on a swivel to pick up an approaching trainer like a blitzing linebacker.
BIG PROPS FOR BIG RED
Wide Right would like to extend a honkin’ huge shout out to Cards mascot Big Red. As we all know, mascots don’t talk. But, they do huff, puff, gasp and wheeze.
With Mexico City sitting at an elevation of approximately 7300 feet, players on both sidelines regularly left the game to hit the oxygen tanks. But, all the while, the mascot with the name “Pajaro Rojo” stitched on the back of his Cards jersey, continually cavorted up and down both sidelines. Something tells Wide Right that Big Red’s face was a nice shade of rojo!
QB Q&A
Once again, Wide Right busts out the wide angle when launching into a line of questioning. Hence, here’s the question to QB Josh McCown this week: “Who has the best sense of humor on the team?”
Josh: “Here’s the thing, you judge the best sense of humor when you come in on travel days and you look at somebody’s clothes. Because I think that will tell you who has the best sense of humor right there. Some guys, they wear things, maybe including myself, that are laughable. So, maybe they have the best sense of humor.
Wide Right: That’s unintentional on their part?
Josh: You hope so.
Wide Right: So, what’s funnier: the clothes or the commentary that results from what they’re wearing?
Josh: Oh, the commentary! You get a guy wearing something that’s crossing the line fashion-wise and you get around guys like Anquan Boldin and Bryant Johnson and they’re going to wear them out. They’re not going to let it ride. That’s what’s fun about this group of guys, you can joke back and forth and have a good time.”
Q-Tip of the Week
Speaking of the Cards player featured in this week’s episode of “6 Days to Sunday” on the NFL Network, Anquan Boldin continued his multi-media ways by also shooting another edition of his Q-Tip segment for Maximum Cardinals, the weekly TV show seen in AZ on Channel 15, FSNAZ, and AZTV.
With an all-access pass, Q takes viewers behind the scenes to ask those questions only a teammate can ask…or answer. Case in point, Q stopping Robert Tate, coming off an interception and a forced fumble vs. the 49ers, and asking Tate what it was like to play in Mexico.
Tate: “It’s really good to get outside the world.”
Q: “Outside the world?! That is far, dude.”
Next stop for Q? How ‘bout the locker of Neil Rackers, NFC Special Teams Player of the Week.
Q: “Do you think that a kicker can win NFL MVP?”
Rackers: “Anything is possible. But when you’ve got Anquan Boldin on your team, that’s probably not going to happen.”
Q: I’m going to buy a Neil Rackers jersey and put “MVP” on the back.
Finally, Q couldn’t put down the mic without asking Bertrand Berry about picking up the flag of Mexico at the end of Sunday night’s game.
Q: What was waving the flag all about?
Berry: I had an enchilada dinner the night before that was the bomb.
Q: So that dinner made you wave the flag?
Berry: I had to show ‘em love, you know. Everything was on point. No, for real, I just wanted to show the people that we appreciated them coming out and supporting us. I just wanted to show ‘em some love and let them know that we tried to represent for them.
