For those of you who are past afficionados, I just wanted to announce that Tuesday Morning Quarterback is back from the long Pro-Football offseason, and can be found here.
For those of you not so informed, Tuesday Morning Quarterback is a pro-football column. This, by itself is only vagulely interesting. The interesting part is that it is a Football column written by Gregg Easterbrook, a member of the Brookings Institution, Senior editor of "The New Republic", and Contributing editor of the Atlantic Monthly, who's other publishing credits tend to be about environmental and public policy or space science. He brings an interesting slant to the game, and by now (his fourth year I believe) he has brought with him a ridiculous amount backstory, including new names for almost all of the teams (highlights include the Seattle Blue Men Group, the Tennessee Flaming Thumbtacks and of course the Chesapeake Watershed-Area Indigenous Persons) and several "Running Items" included in each column (like the New York Times Final Score Score, This Weeks Star Trek Complaint, and Obscure College Score of the Week.) By this point, the column stretches across several screens. Its an interesting read, especially if you follow football at all, despite the daunting length.
One of the more interesting features is that his column has moved (mostly unchanged) to at least four different homes (Originally formed on Slate (I think, it's where I found him anyway) then to ESPN, then to Football Insiders, and then finally to NFL.com.) So the interesting question will be, can he make it a whole season at NFL.com or will he move again?
Notes:
Easterbrook Bio Page
Easterbrook was also the other of the excellent "Easterblogg" hosted on The New Republic. Unfortunately he gave up on it after about a year, but it would not be unfair to say that I have tried to approach my writing here with some of the same spirit he had in his blog. So for that, at least, I thank him. Which isn't to say I didn't disagree with him quite often (I did) and which isn't to say that I'm not still burned by his failure to correct some errors in his description of gravity in his November 10th article, and which isn't to say that his take on Kill Bill and the furor following it wasn't embarrassing. But it was a great blog.
Posted by ktismael at August 16, 2004 3:27 PM