Northeast Ohio residents hoping to take advantage of Papa John’s 23-cent pizza offer as their evening meal better have Domino’s on standby.
The CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER serves up news that the pizza chain may run out of pies by dinnertime. Today’s 23-cent special was in response to Papa John’s sponsorship of LeBron James’ “Crybaby” shirts during the Cavs’ first-round series vs. the Wizards.
But those hoping to snack on a Sicilian Classic while watching tonight’s Game 2 against the Celtics better find alternate eating options:
We were lost in one of those YouTube excursions recently that inevitably led to watching 45 minutes of Peter Cetera and then searching for video instructions on building a time machine to prevent him from ruining Chicago which led to an hour of watching Mr. Peabody and Sherman and so on until you’re down the rabbit hole and your family lights a candle in vigil for your return.
And that’s when we found this:
We became disoriented, confused, and possibly self-soiled by the combination of white people attempting some kind of disco move imitating the American Bandstand clip on the scoreboard, Celtics and Bulls players ignoring the coach (wise in both cases), and the prevalence of men wearing a shirt simply stating, “Gino.”
We did what we always do in cases of Boston Sports Fan Culture Shock: we turned to our trusted Boston sports expert, Texas Gal of OUT IN CENTER FIELD. We’re no less disoriented and no one’s changed our adult diaper, but we’re less confused now.
Mike Woodson is still the head coach of the Atlanta Hawks until June 30th, when his contract expires. Not many coaches ever reach that point in their contract; they’re usually fired or extended by that point. Still, there he is with a 37-45 record hovering over his shiny scalp, waiting for Canada Day and his first unemployment check.
(”Do you have any ideas on how to stop them?”)
Stretching the lauded Celtics to a seventh game added sheen to the ol’ Woodson noggin, but his efforts at image reclamation dulled in the 99-65 thrashing at the hands of Doc Rivers’ boys. We regret we didn’t grab a screenshot of the enduring image from the ‘contest’: Mike Woodson’s huge mitt rubbing his bald head and staring blankly at the action like it was the last act of ‘2001‘.
Game changer? We were actually thinking more along the lines of diaper changer. Those cubicled kids at ESPN need to cook up some graphics for Red Kerr and Heinsohn if they really want market penetration.
Speaking of unwitting endorsers, Mark Murphy of the BOSTON HERALD reports on the pill popper Dr. Feelgood of the Boston Celtics: Coach Doc Rivers. Read more…
The juggernaut Boston Celtics, led by the trio of Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, and Kevin Garnett, assembled a tremendous 31-10 road record during the NBA regular season.
In the playoffs, they’ve played exactly three road games–and lost them all.
It looks like the city of Boston is really getting into the thing we like to call the Celtics.
So much so that WEEI-AM has a photo of Boston Mayor Thomas Menino (apparently) showing his support for Paul Pierce by making the same gang sign that Pierce denied he made during the Celts’ series with the Hawks (and was fined $50K for by the NBA).
The radio station also has a pic of another of Boston’s favorite drunks sons, Tommy Heinsohn, making a similar hand gesture.
• The LADIES… will be our special guests this weekend with live wall-to-wall bloggage of this NFL Draft. In the meantime, they share the story of a college wrestler looking to chokeslam cancer.
