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January 15, 2006

'Most disrespected' now: Manning; Patriots fan blues; Video: Hendrix at Woodstock, Monterey; comet dust lands safely in Utah

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Updated 11:48 p.m. Most disrespected, by a mile: Wrath descends on Peyton Manning. After reading these, I almost feel bad about dissing him myself this morning:

Oh, Man-ning: Breakthrough game turned into a breakdown. Joe Posnanski,
Kansas City Star:

Peyton Manning looked like a lost child in the mall. Again. He wore a gray suit, open collar, no tie, and he looked so much younger than 29, and he tried to explain to the cameras and recorders and bright lights how he lost again.

"It's football," he said softly. "I know those words have different meanings."

Let's face it: Peyton can't win when it counts. MSNBC's Bob Cook

If Peyton Manning is considered such a great decision-maker at quarterback, then how come he left Sunday’s playoff game on the lap of his idiot kicker?

Over at the Indy Star message board, the fans' comments are brutal. Here's the survey:

Poll Results: Was this season a failure?
Yes - we lost our chance 792 88.79%
No - look at the 14-2 record 100 11.21%

Updated 4:23 p.m. I am a Steelers fan. They just ended the Colts season, 21-18. I love Jerome Bettis, "The Bus." They deserved to win, and play Denver next Sunday. Yeah.

10:28 a.m.

Journal/ Gretchen Ertl
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady congratulates Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer after losing 27-13 in Denver.

Brady on the rest of playoffs: "It's going to be hard to watch those games. Can both teams lose?" -- ESPN

Patriots impersonators: Who were those guys who played in Denver last night? The faces looked familiar, but they must have been ringers wearing masks. Belichick's band doesn't play that badly. They always find a way to win. Denver only scored three points on their own; the Patriots gift-wrapped and handed them four touchdowns.

Tinker Bell is dead. Did you clap?

It is irrational, I know, to put your happiness into the hands of others. When things go badly for them, things go worse for us, and there's nothing we can do to improve our moods or their fate. Sitting in our homes, friends' homes, sports bars, alternately chewing nails and canapes, dread spreads. Bad gets worse. The dip sits like a lump in the pit of the stomach.

It's a global-warming January and, yesterday's hard spring rain has turned today to cold snow, perfectly mirroring the hearts of Patriots fans. Football Sundays are over for us.

Today, the replays are too hard to watch. The best I can muster is negative -- I'll rouse myself to root against Peyton Manning this afternoon. I feel mean enough now to say out loud there's something about the guy I just don't like, something wussy, like Frank ~~Purdue~~Perdue in the making. I want the Steelers to end his run like Denver ended ours. Given the way this weekend is going, I don't really expect even that crumb.

The Denver Post homepage today leads with all sports: The Denver Avalanche hockey team, and three basketball stories. The Broncos aren't even mentioned. (Nobody could stick around late to update the site?)

Rocky Mountain News:

What the Patriots had was faded reputation, cursed by being less than imagined and fated to have a reach shortened by inevitability. It happens to the greats a little later than to the frauds and New England has had a splendid run.

Oh shut up. Somebody quits, gets fired, gets eliminated, they eulogize their "run." You're not a Broadway show. Get another word.

Bah, humbug.

Video: Jimi Hendrix, Star Spangled Banner, Woodstock, 1969; and Hey Joe. at Monterey, 1967. One more: Red Houseat the Isle of Wight festival, 1970.

Mission Completed: Stardust Capsule Lands in Utah: Space.com.

NASA’s Stardust sample return capsule has returned to Earth today, floating to the ground under billowing parachute. A helicopter team has successfully located the capsule under desert dark conditions.

The capsule is reportedly intact from the helicopter observations. The capsule's unofficial touch down time was 5:10 a.m. EST.

Onboard the small container, a treasure trove of interstellar and comet particles—the collective wisdom of the spacecraft’s nearly seven year voyage through space....

The caption: This image provided by NASA shows the nucleus of comet Wild 2, taken by the navigation camera during the close-approach phase of NASA'S Stardust spacecraft on Jan. 2, 2004, during a flyby of the comet. The Stardust's round-trip, interstellar rendezvous to comet Wild 2 drew to a close this morning, when the spacecraft jettisoned a canister containing comet grains through the Earth's fiery atmosphere to the high Utah desert.

Large photo at NASA of Stardust's "sample return capsule."

Posted by Sheila Lennon at 11:48 PM | Permalink

Comments

One of the defining moments in rock. I'm not big on Hendrix theatrics as I didn't care if he could play a guitar with his teeth; I just wanted to hear him play. In any case, it's a great clip from an incredible time ... even it is presented via Flash.

Thanks for another one!

Posted by: Alan Fraser on January 15, 2006 10:31 AM

Alan, I saw Hendrix in the fall of 1968 at the old Rhode Island Auditorium, the R.I. Reds hockey rink. (Were you there, too, by any chance?)

They put plywood and folding chairs on the ice, and turned out all the lights but those on the stage at one end. I mostly remember my own experience -- the powerful music and free energy that swept up even the police -- and looking around, thinking, "This is not the Providence I grew up in."

I'm glad this stuff is finally surfacing so we can see it. It's our culture.

Posted by: Sheila on January 15, 2006 11:46 AM

I appreciate you hunting them down! The closest I got to seeing Hendrix was having the tickets in my hand, arriving at the hall, and discovering that the show had just been canceled. So close!

Even after all these years, my reverence for Hendrix is undiminished. Many guitarists have tried but none have said it more eloquently than he did.

Thanks again!

Posted by: Alan Fraser on January 15, 2006 1:18 PM

The RI Auditorium show was in the spring 1969. Ya, I was there. Tickets were around $16 which was a lot back then. He delivered the goods, even spraying lighter fluid on his axe and torching it.

You can see the set list here:

http://membres.lycos.fr/manowe/jimi/concerts-68.htm

Jimi also did a show at Brown in March 1968.

Note from Sheila: Thanks for the list! It was the Nov. 27 '68 R.I. Auditiorium show, but I never would have pinpointed the date without that list.

Posted by: david on January 16, 2006 4:42 AM

I have some more hendrix for anyone interested!
stop by and see me

Posted by: Chaz on January 16, 2006 5:13 AM