Proving once and for all that it really is the No Fun League, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has reportedly banned teams from using their cheerleaders to distract visiting teams.
According to Charley Casserly's report on the CBS pregame show, all 32 teams were sent a memo that stated, "No longer will (cheerleaders) be allowed to warm up in front of the visiting team locker room or do their stretching in front of the visiting team locker room. … The reason? Some players feel they were being a little distracted."
What? Look at that picture at the right. Are you telling me that's going to distract a professional from, um, doing … um, the job, you know … um, he's being paid for, hmmm …
Something tells us this won't be the last time Anucha Browne Sanders v. Isiah Thomas puts in an appearance here in the Weird World of Sports. But that being said, the former Knicks exec's lawsuit against the team's coach is making a very impressive debut.
Browne Saunders testified that cheerleader Petra Pope told her about the incident, saying, "What (Pope) told me was that Isiah asked her to go into the referees' locker room and make them happy."
What Browne Saunders doesn't account for in her testimony, however, is that even cheerleaders are hardly immune to the raw animal magnetism of Joey Crawford.
Truth be told, we don't really know whether Crawford was working the Nets-Knicks game in question. And we don't really care that much, either. We just really wanted the honor of being the first (and presumably the last) person to use the phrase "the raw animal magnetism of Joey Crawford."
In his capacity as deputy managing editor for FOXSports.com , Todd Behrendt takes sports very, very seriously. But he also fully realizes their capacity for being just as surreal as the rest of life. If not more so.
And no, Todd is not Rainbow Man. But he was hard pressed to find an image that more accurately conveyed the intended spirit of this blog.
