une 12, 2019 Ditka’s Bears did to the Patriots what the grinder would have done to baloney.

June 12, 2019

Ditka’s Bears did to the Patriots what the grinder would have done to baloney. Ditto the 49ers and the Broncos and the Cowboys and the Bills. The Yankees and the Cubs and the Giants and the Indians leap to mind. Don’t forget Seton Hall/Duke in 1989.

Before he got to South Bend, Lou Holtz coached William & Mary against Bobby Bowden’s NC State Wolfpack. He was beaten like a rented mule. At mid-field, after the game, Bowden refused to accept any blame for running up the score. “Don’t get mad at me because your team wasn’t ready.”

The 1992 Dream Team, and talk about Sherman going through Georgia, was ravaging Angola by more than 70 points when Charles Barkley, now a noted Life Coach, elbowed Obama Fagowi Olatunji with a shot that resulted in a pneumonectomy. He said, after the game, that he thought he was carrying a spear. [Imagine what the Word Police would have done if Larry Byrd, John Stockton, Christian Laettner, or Chris Mullin had said that. Would it be wretched excess if I were to say that they were/are/will be White?]

Back in my other life, when I flew the Concorde and bought my wife an E-Type Jaguar for Mother’s Day, I produced a series of video tapes on Coach Bob Hurley, Sr. He coached basketball at Saint Anthony High School in Jersey City, hard by the Holland Tunnel, to 27 state titles, 12 Tournament of Champion titles, 6 undefeated seasons, and 4 national championships. He is in the Basketball Hall of Fame. Along with Adolph Rupp, John Wooden, and Red Auerbach.

1989, 32 and 0, average winning margin of 27 points, never once ever behind, not even 1 to 0, was the year we shot it. I gave him a plaque that said 32 and 0 – “It ain’t bragging if you can do it.” He won more than 1100 games, more than 90%, and they were all away games because he never had a home court.

The only time he switched from man to man to a zone was when he was coaching against the best man at his wedding. He knew that when he put his last 3 players in, they would play like vampires in front of a blood bank.

The Romans “ran up the score” when they salted the earth around Carthage in 146 BC. When was the last time you heard about Hannibal?

Spruance didn’t have to get the 4^th Jap carrier on June 4, 1942 to have won an astonishing victory, certainly the greatest naval victory in the 20^th century. He did. Move over Trafalgar and Salamis.

Desert Storm was over 2 days after it started. It ended 3 days later.

Which brings us to the USA soccer chicks in the World Cup.

13 to 0 is a score usually associated with the Israeli Air Force and the Syrian Air Force. !3 to 0, and the game wasn’t as close as the score would suggest, was the result of yesterday’s match between the USA and Thailand. I guess there is no mercy rule like in American High School football. Sounds like a wretched excess of White Privilege on roids except goal differential is a tie breaker and as the Imperial Japanese Navy found out at Midway, “Ain’t a horse can’t be ridden or a rider can’t be throwed

Unless there is a 4-corner offense in soccer there was very little that could be done. If you don’t play hard you insult the other team more than by scoring. And, truth be known, I’d rather be the pitcher than the catcher.

Didn’t the government fall when Germany laid a Texas-sized ass whupping on Brazil in the last guys only World Cup?

Plus, there’s this.

“Breathes there a man with soul so dead who

 never to himself has said

This is my own, my native land.

Would it be considered “deplorable” to sing a few choruses of “Over There”?

You go, Girls!

A fuse has been lighted in Hong Kong. It could lead to a God-awful bang. 

Except for those “Libtards” running around in Iowa, does anyone, anywhere give even the smallest brown squirt shit about Global Warming? To be precise, GlobalCoolingGlobalWarmingClimateChangeClimateDestruction as it has morphed from when Professor Paul Ehrlich, PhD, a very smart man who was on the Johnny Carson Show telling us in 1968 that we were all going to be dead by the year 2000, either from freezing or starving or both. And since Trump wasn’t around to blame, he made the Catholic Church the main culprit. I read where in 2008 and 2011 the rise in the water level in Lake Michigan was blamed on Global Warming. Now the drop in the water level in 2018 is blamed, can you believe this, on Global Warming. I know that Global Warming ended the last Ice Age and killed the mastodons who were that period’s drowning polar bears. What difference does it make? According to the Boob McNutte Congresswoman from Queens we’re all out of here in 12 years. Is it time to open the last ’47 Cheval Blanc?

When Karol Wojtyla was elected Pope in 1979 and the white smoke appeared, y daughter, now Courtenay Hanson, now the mother of my three Texas ladies – Caitlin, Caroline, and Julia – called her Mom’s grandmother and said, “Nanny, we have a Polish Pope”. Although she was always her Nanny’s Polish Angel, she became her Polish Angel.

I am as Irish as it is possible to be. Both sides, Galway and Cork.

 My wife, Amy, was Lithuanian, Polish, German, and English, with definite blood connections to an English King and possible blood connections to a Polish/Lithuanian King. The English King, Charles the First, is most remembered for getting his head cut off by a Presbyterian. The Polish/Lithuanian King, Jan Sobieski, is most remembered for saving Western Civilization from radical Islamic terrorists at Vienna in 1683.

My son, Sean, proudly wore his Solidarity button when he was at Seton Hall Prep. Actually, the button read Solidarnocz. No sense being a half-assed ethnic booster., was there?

This morning, the President of Poland was at the White House where he and il magnifico announced the purchase of 24 F-35s by Poland for its air force. Terms were simple: All cash. Let’s not misunderstand this. An airplane doesn’t know which direction to where it is flying. Trust me; These planes will only be flying East on their outward leg. Look at a map

The President of Poland, in the Oval Office, buying 2 dozen of the most advanced military planes in the world.  And then, going out on the lawn and watching one of his new planes doing a barrel roll over the Washington Monument. Hot damn. Plus, he is naming a base after Trump. Fort Trump. Nanny, long gone, would have loved to have gotten that call from her Polish angel.

The first thing Pope JP2 said from the balcony in the Vatican was “Non timere”. And that was only 40 years ago.

It’s been 25 years but is O.J. still looking for the real killers?

Kevin Smith

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