Friday, November 5, 2010

Calling Nick Saban's Wife

In this post, I relayed a story told to me from an Alabama fan regarding quality  vycontrol that Nick Saban’s wife Terry had undertaken on statues produced honoring her husband.

I am thinking that the University at Texas in Austin is wishing they had a Terry Saban right about now. Seems that UT contracted an Asian company to produce a series of statues honoring Longhorn greats in all sports. The results are comically bad. It is almost a textbook parody on racial stereotypes, poor craftsmanship, and cheap production. For an example, refer to the statue of Vince Young (or Al Jolson in black face) to the right.

To get the full breadth of the Longhorn fan base’s disgust at these products, I encourage you to read this entire thread from ShaggyBevo.com. This is the funniest thread on a sports message board that I have ever encountered.

Of course the inevitable Photoshop geeks kick it in and take it to a whole other level. Check out these Photoshop renditions of the terrified Colt McCoy statue. Awesome.

WORLD TRADE BOMBING

I especially enjoyed the posts discussing plans around destruction of these blights:

Let's give it a few weeks/months for the hoopla to die down, then get 4-5 guys with huge pickups with brush guards and go to town. I can get at least 2 pickups down there, along with some sledgehammers. I'm thinking 5-10 minutes tops.

Finally, just to keep everything in perspective, this post:

Top 3 Worst People in the World:

1. Pontius Pilate
2. Whoever approved these motherf***ing statues
3. Hitler