Smokey: Week six was a week of statements, be they declarations of domination, or yips of putridity. After completing three-eighths of the season (math!) we’re able to accurately the gauge where the season’s at, and we have a better idea of where the season’s going. For some, this is an encouraging time of the year; [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Carolina Panthers’
NFL Week 5 Status Meeting: Party in the USA
Mickey: When the Panthers schedule came out in the spring, I reviewed it and immediately emailed Joseph to ask, “Charlotte road trip October 11th?” That’s right, we signed up for the first official Cubicle GM field trip. Besides the inevitable epic battle betwixt the Panthers and Redskins that would pit the two of us against [...]
NFL Week 3 Status Meeting: Fandom as Masochism
Mickey: Three weeks in, and you should know the shape of your team. For me, tonight, this is incredibly disturbing. The Carolina Panthers have limped into the 2009 season, standing as one of six teams sitting at 0-3. In the eight games the Carolina Panthers have played in 2009 — one playoff game, four preseason [...]
NFL Week 2 Status Meeting: A Master Course in Schadenfreude
Smokey Week two of the National Football League’s regular 2009-2010 season wraps up tonight with the Miami Dolphins’ home opener against Pey Pey and the Colts. Regardless of what ESPN would have you believe with their constant barrage of advertising, I don’t much care about tonight’s game. My Monday morning status report shows I’m about [...]
NFL Week 1 Status Meeting: Shell Shock
Smokey: There’s this priceless moment in David Mamet’s film “State and Main” where the big Hollywood star played by Alec Baldwin crashes a car with a 15-year-old fan, and when he gets out of the mangled wreck his response is a drunkenly gleeful, “So…that happened.” The numbness of his understatement is a feeling I know [...]
NFL Oh-Nine Previews: NFC South
Back when Mickey and I were doing our own thang at the Sports Brethren, we would double-team a weekly post about every Carolina Panthers game. We might not see eye-to-eye on everything, but we always brung the heat and the passion in our weekly chronicles of the NFL’s greatest team. Here at the Cube, we’re [...]
NFL Oh-Nine Previews: AFC North
Back when Mickey and I were doing our own thang at the Sports Brethren, we would double-team a weekly post about every Carolina Panthers game. We might not see eye-to-eye on everything, but we always brung the heat and the passion in our weekly chronicles of the NFL’s greatest team. Here at the Cube, we’re [...]
The Calm Before the Storm
On ESPN2 Baron Davis is watching Roger Federer toy with some Amadeusian Mozart looking guy in the US Open and dressed like a flasher, and I’m watching it. There’s an actual meaningful baseball game on ESPN; a game I wouldn’t care much about had I not just spent a long weekend in Florida, hanging out [...]
Living the Euro Life
This may end up being the first part of a multi-part piece, but it just as well may not, so we’ll see what happens. August. August in America is a sticky wicket in both literal and figurative words. It’s balls hot regardless of where you are, but with the humidity and short tempers comes football [...]
NFL Oh-Nine Previews: NFC East
Back when Smokey and I were doing our own thang at the Sports Brethren, we would double-team a weekly post about every Carolina Panthers game. We might not see eye-to-eye on everything, but we always brung the heat and the passion in our weekly chronicles of the NFL’s greatest team. Here at the Cube, we’re [...]
