barry sanders, my morning jacket, leopards - those kinds of things

yeah, so, next time you catch yourself wishing for what must seem impossible dreams, catch yourself again and think, maybe i should look it up on ebay. just type in what you want and if you're as lucky as me, that impossible dream might come true. i didn't get that particular dvd advertised in that left-justified picture over there because that would just be like a 'you know what would be neat' kind of dream. instead, i found a four-hour dvd of barry sanders running the ball on game day that is taken directly from the fbi-warned nfl property only cbs/fox broadcast television view. so this guy taped these games and then transferred them over to a dvd. and the bestest most dreamed of but most unlooked for part was that he filtered every play to begin at the snap and end just after the tackle if it was a play that featured barry. so basically i get to see every time barry sanders touched the ball and broke a few tackles that day against the bears when he gained say just 80 yards or that day against the eagles when he eluded 8 tacklers but the play was called back because of a holding penalty, etc. so, even more basically, it's like i get to pretend he was on my team all those years and i got to study him and see what he was like every single fucking play. ahh

what do i like so much about barry sanders? i mean, there are other players with admirable characterstics: they could carry a guy into the endzone, they would run tacklers over with sheer heart, or had unbreakable concentration or ferocity, and on, but barry sanders had the freak reflexes of his brain being directly connected to his hips or something. it's all about how that chess guy i talked about and his fixed stance fights against the guy that feigned without moving. see, it's not that barry fakes one way, it's that he goes one way but somehow what is going one way for most running backs is going through three conscious decisions for him. say, for example, you want to step left. you think, step left, and you step left. he thinks, (this is all conjecture of course) begin phase one of stepping left, commence, begin phase two of stepping - oh shit! phase one go right phase two go right, etc.

oh man, i'm a fucking weirdo

so anyway, it's just great.

i can't quite say that about my morning jacket, however i just can't get the new cd out of my car cd player. i very much like it but it doesn't seem like a cd that will really stick with me but seems very important right now. i don't know. i'm just really starting to listen to music and this is kind of like a new category i get to make for cds. it used to be rudimentary, like 'like' or 'dislike'

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