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10 ‘Hot Chick’ items: Are Chad Ocho Cinco and The Cosby Show’s ‘Rudy’ hookin’ up?
CHAD & ‘RUDY’
ROMANTICALLY
LINKED; IS SHE
WEARING A ROCK?
===LUDWIG AT LARGE alert: Coming Saturday, “The Chickster’s” Pugilistic Pigskin Preview of the Cincinnati Bengals-Houston Texans game at Reliant Stadium.===
ONE — LOVEABLE LOVERS?
An Orlando Sentinel sports celebrity blog,and MediaTakeOut.com are reporting that actress Keisha Knight-Pulliam and Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ocho Cinco are linked romantically to the point where they may be engaged.
Keisha Knight-Pulliam
The actress played “Rudy” on the Cosby Show as the loveable daughter of Cliff and Clair Huxtable.
MediaTakeOut claim the two are dating and has pictures of her wearing an engagement ring. She’s even visited the home of Ocho Cinco’s grandmother.
For more, go to:
http://blogs.trb.com/sports/columnists/jimbaumbach/blog/2008/10/isrudihuxtableengagedto_oc.html
TWO — NOT ‘ONLY’ IN AMERICA …
NFL Films narrator John Facenda — AKA “The Voice of God” — announced … “Professional football in America is a special game, a unique game; played nowhere else on Earth, it is a rare game. The men who play it make it so.”
John Facenda
Well, that’s not true anymore.
The Arizona Cardinals beat the San Francisco 49ers, 31-14, in front of 103,467 specators at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City on Oct. 3, 2005 — the NFL’s first regular season game on foreign soil.
On Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008, the San Diego Chargers face the New Orleans Saints at Wembley Stadium in London, England (capacity 86,000).
It breaks my heart to see the NFL go global. It’s supposed to be our game, America’s game. But the NFL chooses to give it away.
For more football “catchphrases,” go go:
http://www.vagazette.com/orl-fbtabbestcalls2407aug24,0,1836095.story
THREE — CHAD’S JERSEY SAYS “JOHNSON”
Speaking of Chad, he’ll keep “Johnson” as the nameplate on his jersey for two reasons. The first is monetary. The second? “Stupid politics,” he said.
For more on Chad Ocho Cinco, go to:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hGo5dk1UtBJDC0sicPpi-v8fIDvAD940CCCO0
FOUR — MIKE BROWN’S ALMA MATER
Bengals quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick’s greatest day as a pro came on Nov. 27, 2005, when — as a rookie seventh-round draft pick from Harvard — he rallied the St. Louis Rams to a 33-27 overtime victory over the Texans at Houston’s Reliant Stadium.
From the Associated Press game story, written by Kristie Rieken:
The seventh-round pick from Harvard stayed calm by thinking back to his freshman year and first college start when he rallied the Crimson from a 21-0 halftime deficit for a 31-21 win over Dartmouth. At the time it was the biggest comeback in Harvard’s 128-year history.
“I was actually thinking about that game,” Fitzpatrick said. “The biggest thing when you’re in those situations is you need to get everyone around you fired up.”
Bengals president Mike Brown is a proud graduate of Dartmouth.
FIVE — ‘BEARER OF BAD NEWS’
Last Sunday (Oct. 19), in the locker room after the Bengals’ 38-10 loss to Pittsburgh, I informed left offensive tackle Levi Jones that rookie linebacker Keith Rivers suffered a broken jaw and was out for the season after absorbing a vicious block from Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward.
“Oh, wow,” Jones said. “For the rest of the season? Oh, man, that’s too bad. That is too bad. If (Ward) was on our team and he was doing it to other people. we’d be happy for it, and we’d be getting a boost from it. Wow, that’s pretty bad. Keith Rivers out for the season.”
Jones placed his hand on my shoulder and said: “The bearer of bad news.”
SIX — DID BENGALS DISSOLVE?
Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis said his team “dissolved” in the fourth quarter against Pittsburgh. The Bengals were within 17-10, and then the roof caved in as the Steelers scored 21 unanswered points the final 8:17.
Did the Bengals dissolve?
“I don’t know,” wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh said. “The final score does look bad, but I don’t think guys flat out quit. It was just a matter of Pittsburgh almost Steve Spurrier-ing us and running up the score, you know?
“They were up by however many and they’re still play-action and throwing the ball down the field and it made it look bad. Football is fun. And so, when you go out there everyone wants to compete, everyone wants to win their individual battles and that’s what you do until the final whistle, and I don’t think Marvin thought that was the case.”
SEVEN — STADIUM VIOLENCE
I gotta admit: If I weren’t getting paid to cover the Cincinnati Bengals for the Dayton Daily News, I’d think twice about attending a game in person — at home or on the road.
I feel much safer in my living room than inside a stadium full of 65,000 fans. Too many kooks are in the crowd, looking for trouble.
I’ve found that the nicest fans are in Kansas City and New England.
The absolute worst fans, the meanest and nastiest of all, reside in eastern and western Pennsylvania.
I can’t stand living in a world — or cheering in a stadium — without love.
EIGHT — DAYTON TIES
Houston Texans General Manager Rick Smith is a graduate of Dayton Meadowdale High School and Purdue University, where he was the starting strong safety and defensive captain for the Boilermakers as a senior in 1991.
Rick Smith
Jon Hoke
Smith, who was named GM on June 5, 2006, signed a contract extension through the 2012 season.
Jon Hoke is the Texans defensive backs coach. A graduate of Fairmont East High School in Kettering, Ohio, Hoke attended Ball State and spent one season (1980) with the Chicago Bears.
NINE — BEST ATHLETES ON THE FIELD
LUDWIG AT LARGE loves the Houston Texans cheerleaders almost as much as he loves the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.
Check ‘em out at:
http://www.houstontexans.com/tv/index.asp?mmfileid=2629
TEN — WOMEN: ETERNAL MYSTERY
I love women, but they continue to mystify me.
Women like brand-name stuff. Men hunt for bargains.
Women remember what you said and did, and how you said it and did it, 12 years, 6 months and 3 days ago. Men can’t remember yesterday.
Women want a knight in shining armour. Guys want a pizza, a beer and the remote so they can watch a ball game.
Women are difficult. Men are easy.
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