Bad Yardage Markers: Was the field crew drinking?

Look closely at this picture

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For some reason, this brings to mind the old Snickers commercial where the guy painting the yardage markers puts "Chefs" in the "Chiefs" end zone.

Whichever member of the grounds crew at Jacksonville's Everbank Stadium painted the lines for Sunday's game vs. New Orleans, made a bit of a boo-boo.

Look closely at the picture. The yardage markers usually point the same direction. However the ones in the stadium's north end zone. Not so much. Look again...the arrows on one side point in one direction, the ones closer to you, the other. That would be incorrect.

Small boo-boo and worth a good laugh, so we'll share.

In case you are wondering about the Snickers commercial:

Fedun Injury Reignites No-Touch Icing Debate

For the four-billionth time...

Here's the play...
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Fedun is a rookie that had a decent chance of sticking with the big roster, but now with a broken right femur, he's done for quite a while...

And it brings up the furor AGAIN about no-touch icing in the National Hockey League as we get ready for the Thursday season opener for the 2011-2012 season.

"Hoping for the best with Fedun. Need to get rid of touch icings. If not this kind of thing will keep happening," Oilers sophomore Taylor Hall said via Twitter, and former Oiler Kurtis Foster even had the same thing happen to him.

Foster lost 58 games to the injury and reached out to the team and to Fedun to give him support.

The HQ wishes that no-touch would be the way, since it is in practically every other league ON THE PLANET, but we're not holding our breath on this one either.

"North Dallas Forty" Author Gent Dies At 69

Peter Gent was a Michigan State basketball player and stayed for five years as a receiver for the Dallas Cowboys after graduation- having not even played college football.

He died in his childhood home in Michigan after heart problems at the age of 69.

Four years after retiring, he wrote "North Dallas Forty" which was made into a movie in 1979.

Here's one of the HQ's favorite scenes with Mac Davis as a quarterback...
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Way to go, Poot...

As an aside, Gent's "The Franchise" was way ahead of the curve and should have been made into a mini-series... we still have the paperback...

Firefighter's Son Throws Out First Pitch

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The HQ, admittedly, is going backwards a little bit here...
But we still think this is a cool story...

The Texas Rangers honored the Stone family before Game 1 of their ALDS with Tampa Bay. You all remember the firefighter who dove for a ball back in July at a home game in Arlington, falling to his death in front of his son in the process.

6-year-old Cooper Stone is a really big Rangers fan and got to throw out the first pitch to his on-the-field hero, Josh Hamilton, before the game. The family has weighed the idea of going back to the ballpark all this time since Cooper's mom, Jenny, is still dealing with the death of her husband Shannon.

Team president Nolan Ryan has been in constant contact with the family since the accident asking if they needed anything and has rightfully shielded them from the media since.

Game One was their return and a really cool moment...


The Rangers are in discussions to possibly even erect a statue in front of the Ballpark in memory of Shannon and Cooper...

TWTW: Bama Rolls In Boomtown

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The larger problem here is for the Gators...
John Brantley took a rather nasty twisting fall and had to be removed from the game at quarterback in the second quarter of the 38-10 loss to the Alabama Crimson Tide.

There is no doubt that Will Muschamp has his hands full at QB since the other two he has on campus are either ineffective or, in the case of Trey Burton, now at split end.

The Gators are still waiting to hear on the severity of the injury itself and should know more later Sunday.

Alabama went a little old-school in the win, seeing if the Gators could stop the Alabama running game- and they had their issues in doing that...

Don Hawes look rather nattily-attired in The Swamp...


And, no, the HQ was not going to make some kind of Padawan reference...
Yet...

TWTW: Sakerlina Wrap- Clemson For Real, Gamecocks Jury Still Out

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Clemson Head Coach Dabo Swinney is still winning ((much to the dismay of TBH after the smack he ran after beating Auburn earlier this season))... they're off to their best start since 2000 after going into Blacksburg and beating Va Tech Saturday...

Holding them to only 3 points, even...

Here's your post...


Over at the Fairgrounds, Auburn OC Gus Malzahn pulled the Lutzenkirchen throwback out of the rear of the playbook. It was good enough for a 16-13 upset win and it gave the OBC pause to reflect on his quarterback situation since Stephen Garcia went all of 9-for-23 in the loss.

Here's them talking as well... led off by Coach Spurrier himself...
Who is still looking for more time to be put on the clock...

Developing: Mike Heimerdinger passes away

Heimerdinger with Jeff Fisher

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Former NFL assistant coach Mike Heimerdinger passed away Friday night in Tijuana, Mexico after battling cancer for the past year.

Heimerdinger, 58, had been diagnosed with a "Small-cell, fast moving" cancer in November while serving as the offensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans. He missed one game and came back to finish the season.

He had been receiving treatments at a couple of hospitals and went as far as Tijuana to get treated for the disease.

Read more from the Tennessean.com RIGHT HERE

Funeral arrangements have not been made for Heimerdinger who spent most of his career with the Titans. He briefly left to coach with the Jets and Broncos before returning to Nashville.

He was very popular with his players and a close friend of former Titans coach Jeff Fisher, who told the Tennessean, "I lost a really, really good, true friend".