Let’s be honest. Newspapers are so 2001, and the blogosphere is just too big to sift through every day for your football fix. We have you covered with the latest stories, topics and opinion from the World Wide Web here at the Goal-Line Stand with our Lunch Links.
+ More fallout from the punishment handed down to the USC football program and the novel concept that Reggie Bush and Pete Carroll are essentially getting off scot free: Mike Florio writes in a column for SportingNews.com that Carroll should lose his job with the Seahawks. This is, of course, ridiculous — Seattle knew all about Carroll’s shady history when it hired him. Nothing has changed. Oh, and Carroll continues to remind us of a river in Egypt:
+ Shutdown Corner also has some solid analysis on Carroll’s involvement in Trojan shenanigans.
+ The headline from this piece by Bear Goggles is enough to intrigue me: “Bears Fans Get Screwed in the Parking Lot.” Couldn’t they have at least shown some class and used the bathroom? But no, turns out my boy Boomer was using a metaphor. In actual fact, the Bears will be offering alcohol-free tailgating this year. Everyone’s wondering if such a measure is really necessary.
+ I can’t even imagine what it must feel like to be Thomas Davis right now. I mean, sure, you’re rich and locally famous and you have a pretty damn cool job — but losing back-to-back seasons to separate knee injuries must be tough to swallow. The guys at Musket Fire make a very good point: Davis’ experience should be a cautionary tale for Wes Welker.
+ It looks as though Aaron Schobel will indeed retire. How important is Schobel to Bills fans? This Buffalo Rumblings post on his expected retirement garnered 164 comments.
+ Someone tell Andre Johnson that he’s not only hurting his own reputation by exhibiting no understanding of leverage, but he’s now killing a large chunk of whatever leverage his good friend Reggie Wayne might have had.
+ Sort of boring but fairly important: the Jets are reducing the prices on 18,000 personal seat licenses at their new stadium. PSLs — which are a bigger rip-off than a night on the town with Ben Roethlisberger — have been a large point of contention surrounding this new venue and are expected to become commonplace at new stadiums across America in the coming years. This is a small victory for the fans.
And we digress
+ While football is still 58 days away, we can at least fill the next 30 with futball. You know, the boring version of the best sport in the world. They’re playing a big tournament with a bunch of countries. Need to brush up on “The Beautiful Game”? The Onion has you covered.
Oh and yes, the title of today’s post was quite randomly inspired by Lloyd Christmas:
