“Just call the plays. I’m going out there and playing f***ing football.”-Jake Plummer to Mike Shanahan, during a game. No, really. He said it.
One of our favorite foosball sites, Kissing Suzy Kolber, has just received a copy of a new book, on shelves now. It's by Stefan Fatsis, entitled A Few Seconds of Panic. The book details the writer's short but eventful publicity stunt stint as training camp place kicker for the Denver Broncos and his subsequent coverage of the team for the 2006-07 season. This, of course was the season in which rookie Jay Cutler succeeded the mighty Jake Plummer at quarterback, among other things. Subjects covered include the Darrent Williams tragedy, the writer shanking all sorts of practice kicks and the not-so-surprising revelation that (and we directly quote the KSK reviewer) "Jake Plummer's a badass."
Well, duh.
We'll definitely be picking up a copy of this as soon as possible and maybe even post a short synopsis/review of the parts pertaining to the Snake. Before we call it a day, we hope you all enjoyed a happy Independence Day (the holiday, not the movie) and we'd like to leave you with a Jake quote from Mr. Fatsis's book, regarding offseason workouts:
Jake: “Yeah, I missed some workouts. And you know what? Mike Shanahan, you can kiss my f***ing ass for being pissed at that… I don’t want to be here every f***ing day in the offseason.”
...
Come back, dammit.
1 comment:
What a great book! I think I'll spend my morning typing out only the parts that pertain to Jake the Snake for quick future reference (or perhaps on which to base a new religion) then go out and find a "Good Morning Douchebag" coffee cup. ALL HAIL JAKE THE SNAKE!!
aloha
LD
Post a Comment