WHISPER JETWHISPER JET - Isaiah Brisco is the two-time Cape Henlopen Delaware state champion in the 100-meter and 300-meter hurdles. Last football season, when Cape ran the I formation behind a big line, Brisco rushed for 1,600 yards and was named first team All-State. Ike also started on the basketball team, was inducted into the National Honor Society and is in the band and takes honors classes. He also holds a job on the weekends.
And last Friday night on the last play of the first half in a game tied at 21-21, Isaiah broke off right tackle and smoothly accelerated toward the end zone. The man who has been “The Man” the last two years in Cape football and track could not be stopped - he could only be caught. And a quiet hero from “no program, no lineup“ visiting Dover did catch Isaiah and knocked him out of bounds at the four-yard line. Brisco was set up for kidding after the game, but he is such a warrior and of such uncomplicated high character that not even the slow lineman busted his chops. Isaiah wants to go to Georgetown University and become a nurse. Now I may have to bust on him for that!
HEY JOE - “Knock! Knock!” Erin Andrews interrupted Joe Paterno’s octogenarian halftime jog to the home locker room last Saturday and asked Joe what adjustments he planned to make at halftime.
There was a long pause - too long – (Joe was in another place), but then Joe came back and started talking to the feisty Erin like she was Hilary Clinton at a Democratic debate.
“Well, if you tried something and it didn’t work then you just try something else until you find something that does work. I mean that’s the way it works.”
Erin was like, “OK. Sure, I get it!”
Later in the day it was Charlie Weiss of Notre Dame’s turn to be a short sentence talking, overpaid ain’t got no game plan coach under long term contract.
“The only thing I know about this game today is they scored two more points than us,” Weiss said.
Thanks, Charlie. You have access to an entire nation of football fans including recruits and that’s your A game?
WAYS WE CAN LOSE - I used to bring lawyers into my classroom and they would all refuse to tell kids the best way to proceed when arrested or after an arrest.
“We don’t want them to think we are encouraging bad behavior,” they would tell me. I would counter, “But what if they are innocent of all things not legal; you should tell them what to do.”
I was the same way when coaching football. I was an innovator because I actually practiced how to give games away. I thought that Friday night when Dover was at the Cape 12 and the game was tied at 28-28 game with four minutes left. It was Dover’s game to lose so why not practice it? It’s called implosion therapy confronting your flubups.
“No passes, no holding and no jumping offsides on the first two downs. Just straight ahead to the end zone!”
Two plays and Dover was third and 15 finally settling for a field goal that was blocked. Then they rolled up on tight coverage in the face of Dominique Thomas and a quick pass and 74 yards later Dom was in the end zone and Cape won the game.
James Madison had a game blow up in its face in the final minutes fumbling the football, and Delaware State has taken advantage of late-game miscues to win the last two weeks.
Why not practice “how to get home” without giving the game away?
SNIPPETS - All Sen. Larry Craig jokes aside, last Sunday night I was in the press bathroom at The Link standing next to Calvin Hill, former great running back for the Cowboys who rushed for 1,000 in 1972 and 1973 and is father of NBA player Grant Hill. Calvin Hill’s wife, Janet, was Hilary Clinton’s college roommate, and so by comparing scores, if Delaware can beat Notre Dame then I have a chance of being elected president of the United States.
Levitra is no long a sponsor of the inflated tunnel used to introduce the Eagles before the game. One Jumbotron at The Link is bracketed by sponsor Avodart on one digital panel and Diet Pepsi on the other, so if you do have a “going problem” at least you won’t get fat going.
Andy Reid had a cold as he faced the press following the Eagles’ “roll over and play dead” performance against the Cowboys last Sunday night In Philadelphia losing 38-7.
But the coach was just flat out whipped going through a charade not stepping up to adversity in his life while crumbling like a three-week-old Tastykake.
It was sad, and virtually all media types have shouted down from the mountain of no contact that “the season is over” when it’s only half over.
If Philly is such a blue-collar tough town, then why are people so quick to give up?
