1682

Wait a minute, PeterK’s post is more interesting than the Chip Kelly news - you live in San Jose but you’re a fan of the Ducks and the Eagles?

1683

It’s too bad the Cardinals will never land a college coach like Chip Kelly. As usually, they’ll choose from the coaches no one else picked, just like the last kids picked to be on the dodge ball team in gym class.

1684

Two reactions: 1) He has never been enthusiastic about jumping to the NFL;

  1. Phil Knight’s money was all the persuasion he needed to stay put.
1685

You might be just a minute or two behind the times, Jason.

1686

Yeah, I was just about to edit my post. No sooner did I hit the submit reply button, then I saw the Eagles’ story. Phil Knight must be beside himself.

1687

I would give real money to have a bug in Phil Knight’s office right now.

1688

This.

1689

I was born in Philadelphia and believe in rooting for the (professional) teams associated with one’s origins. (Philadelphia teams have made me question that belief many times, however.)

My daughter is a student at the University of Oregon at the moment, so I feel like I can legitimately root for them without feeling like a bandwagoner.

1690

Fair enough. I still root for the Saints even though I left Louisiana fifteen years ago.

1691

Manti Te’o did lose his grandmother this past fall. Annette Santiago died on Sept. 11, 2012, at the age of 72, according to Social Security Administration records in Nexis. But there is no SSA record there of the death of Lennay Marie Kekua, that day or any other. Her passing, recounted so many times in the national media, produces no obituary or funeral announcement in Nexis, and no mention in the Stanford student newspaper.

Nor is there any report of a severe auto accident involving a Lennay Kekua. Background checks turn up nothing. The Stanford registrar’s office has no record that a Lennay Kekua ever enrolled. There is no record of her birth in the news. Outside of a few Twitter and Instagram accounts, there’s no online evidence that Lennay Kekua ever existed.

The photographs identified as Kekua—in online tributes and on TV news reports—are pictures from the social-media accounts of a 22-year-old California woman who is not named Lennay Kekua. She is not a Stanford graduate; she has not been in a severe car accident; and she does not have leukemia. And she has never met Manti Te’o.

Amazing.

1692

Wow…

1693

I’m rarely surprised or amazed by things I read on the Internet. This time, I definitely am.

Heisman committee might have dodged a bullet.

1694

I thought it was incredible when George O’Leary was caught lying on his resume. This leaves that light years behind. Is there something in the water at Notre Dame?

1695

Back to Chip Kelly: I wonder if pending sanctions against Oregon persuaded him to follow the Cheatin’ Pete route. I guess we’ll find out.

1696

I was de-Interneted for a good chunk of last night and only saw this today. Sorely disappointed, but I figure he’ll fail miserably in his first try at the NFL like a lot of other college-to-pro jumpers that could be named. It’ll be interesting to see what this does to Oregon next year.

1697

Thomas Menino is still my favorite mayor in America

This is the guy that flubbed Celtics players “KJ” and “Hondo.” It’s so adorable.

1698

Seahawks just lost Gus Bradley, their defensive coordinator. He got the Jacksonville head coaching gig.

And the Browns have hired Norv to be their offensive coordinator. So, odds that Norv is head coaching the Browns in 2 years?

1699

Bite your tongue.

1700

But that’s how Norv works! He’s a shitty head coach who gets fired, but then he always lands an OC gig, does a decent job, so he gets another crack at the big chair, then fails big time again. It’s inevitable, Cleveland! You’re doomed!

Meanwhile, Seahawks replace Bradley with Florida DC Dan Quinn, who was previously the Seahawks DL coach under Pete Carroll before he went off to coach the college kids.

1701

I think Cleveland should just be happy the signed a big name whose proven himself at the position.

That being said, I’m somehow still holding out hope they hold onto Dick Jauron as DC. Not so much because he’s a big name, but the Browns defense was decent last season, and with all the upheaval on the offensive side of the ball, it would be nice to have some stability on defense.