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Bizarro Rams St. Louis could be giving Vermeil bad case of insomnia
Posted: Sunday January 30, 2000 09:18 PM
ATLANTA (CNNSI.com) -- The Halftime Ten Things I Think I Think at the Super Bowl: 1. I think this is amazing. Can you believe this? Can you believe how the Rams are screwing things up? In the first 30 minutes, they're up in yards 294-89. In the first 30 minutes, they had five legitimate touchdown shots. In the first 30 minutes, Mike Horan and Jeff Wilkins are the goats of the game. If they lose this game, Dick Vermeil will not sleep for the rest of his life. 2. I think that maybe it's because I'm a little sensitive today to the plight of black coaches in the NFL -- of the last 30 head-coaching hires, only Ray Rhodes has been black -- but it really hits you when you walk up the ramps at a Super Bowl how the crowd is 98 percent white at a sporting event where the players are two-thirds black. I think the league has to do something drastic about its outrageously poor record of black head-coaching hires. 3. I think I wish I could figure out why ABC's pregame show featured a bunch of flying rocks at the top of the show and rocks and spaceships and flying flashlights (or something silly like that) in and out of the commercials. Is this the Super Asteroid Bowl, fellows? 4. I think maybe I'm a sucker for Ditka commercials, but the one of him shilling for Blockbuster made me laugh out loud -- especially the part when he's handing a tissue to his buddy while watching "Runaway Bride." 5. I think not many Americans could have watched the story of Dan and Claire Marino and their adopted Chinese daughter and not cried for joy for the Marinos and for the beautiful little girl.
6. I think Tennessee's Jeff Fisher said it all about the value of coaching in the NFL last week, when I asked him about the first-round-pick compensation the Patriots paid to the Jets for Belichick. "I think the question is whether Steve McNair or Eddie George or Jevon Kearse is more important to our success than I am. It's hard to say." It might sound cocky, but would anyone argue Fisher's value as the Titans have hopscotched from Houston to Memphis to Nashville over the past four years? Look for the Titans to make Fisher the league's fourth $2-million-a-year coach this offseason. 7. I think I will say this about the Super Bowl pre-game show: Tina Turner does indeed rock. 8. I think, walking into the Georgia Dome about 5, I was touched when Howie Long grabbed me and thanked me for my (limited) roles in voting him into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. "I'll never forget it," he said. And I told him: "You deserve it. Easy." 9. I think Titans defensive tackle Josh Evans is the defensive player of the game in the first half. 10. I think Rams quarterback Kurt Warner is the offensive player of the half with 277 yards passing in the first half. Too bad he doesn't have any help.
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