| 15 October 2009
It's little gems like this that never fail to amuse me on an otherwise slow news day in football:
Before Sunday's annihilation of the Jacksonville Jaguars, coach Jack Del Rio was quite apparently getting his team fired up. His intense demeanor is already no secret amongst other players and coaches throughout the league. Just ask Mike Sims-Walker what happens when you so much as go out for "a late-night rendezvous with a lady friend" before gameday. (Presumably, she was a Seahawks fan.)
But Del Rio's pre-game antics on Sunday distinguished him to TJ Houshmandzadeh as one of a kind when it comes to getting his team ready for battle -- even if all that comes of it is David Garrard being incapable of doing anything but throwing a screen pass while Aaron Curry does something worthy of a restraining order to him in the process. But here's what TJ told Danny O'Neil he witnessed before the game:
"It was just kind of crazy, man," Houshmandzadeh said. "Jon Ryan was out there punting, and I guess he may have been in Jacksonville's area. And he (Del Rio) just grabbed the ball and threw it and was like, 'Get the [expletive] on your side of the field.' "
"I think he was just trying to get his guys pumped up. It didn't work."
Between Owen Schmitt's face-to-helmet episode and Del Rio's colorful, friendly attitude toward the opposition, the field was a hotbed of craziness before the game started Sunday afternoon, wasn't it? And speaking of Schmitt, this is quite possibly the best thing ever: GET SCHMITT-FACED!
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