More 1984 greatness

Allen Covert

Talk about a great name for a character actor. He truly is the definition of who you know, not what you know. He's a good actor, but geez...


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Actor

• Strange Wilderness (2008)...Fred
  
• "Slacker Cats" - The Wood (2007) Trevor Dagdale
  
• I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007....Steve
  
• "The King of Queens" .... Dave / ... (2 episodes, 2004-2007)
  - Mild Bunch (2007) TV episode .... Dave
  - Multiple Plots (2004) TV episode .... Towel Guy
  
• Grandma's Boy (2006) .... Alex
  
• The Longest Yard (2005) .... Referee
  
• 50 First Dates (2004) .... Ten Second Tom
  
• Anger Management (2003) .... Andrew
  
• Eight Crazy Nights (2002) (voice) .... Old Lady, Bus Driver & Mayor's Wife
  
• Mr. Deeds (2002) .... Marty
  
• Little Nicky (2000) .... Todd
  
• Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) .... Vic
  
• "Freaks and Geeks" .... Greasy Liquor Store Clerk (1 episode, 1999)
  - Beers and Weirs (1999) TV episode .... Greasy Liquor Store Clerk
  
• Late Last Night (1999) (TV) (as Alan Coert) .... Coked Guy
  
• Big Daddy (1999/I) .... Phil D'Amato
  
• Never Been Kissed (1999) .... Roger in Op/Ed
  
• The Waterboy (1998) .... Walter
  
• The Wedding Singer (1998) .... Sammy
  
• Bulletproof (1996) .... Detective Jones
  
• Happy Gilmore (1996) .... Otto
  
• Heavy Weights (1995) .... Kenny
  
• Airheads (1994) .... Cop
  
• "The Ben Stiller Show" .... Waiter #1 (1 episode, 1993)
  - A Few Good Scouts (1993) TV episode .... Waiter #1
  
• "Ferris Bueller" .... Steve (1 episode, 1991)
  - A Night in the Life (1991) TV episode .... Steve
  
• "Roseanne" .... Man #1 (1 episode, 1991)
  - Vegas Interruptus (1991) TV episode .... Man #1
  
• Going Overboard (1989) .... Bartender
  

Producer:

• The House Bunny (2008) (producer)
  
• I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007) (co-producer)
  
• Grandma's Boy (2006) (producer)
  
• The Longest Yard (2005) (executive producer)
  
• Anger Management (2003) (executive producer)
  
• A Day with the Meatball (2002) (producer)
  
• Eight Crazy Nights (2002) (producer)
  
• Mr. Deeds (2002) (associate producer)
  
• Little Nicky (2000) (associate producer)
  
• Big Daddy (1999/I) (associate producer)
  

Let's see.... 26 credits as an actor, 13 of which star Adam Sandler.
12 credits as a producer, 11 of them star Adam Sandler.

I'm sure the guy is great, and he was funny and good in Grandma's House...
Now that I know who he is, it's funny to see him in all of Sandlers movies!

My favorite joke

An unemployed man applies for a job with Microsoft as a cleaner. The manager there arranges for an aptitude test. After the test, the manager says: "You will be appointed on the scale of $30 per day. Let me have your e-mail address, so that I can send you a form to complete and advise you where to report for work on your first day."

Taken aback, the unemployed man protests that he is neither in possession of a computer nor of an e-mail address. To this the manager replies: "Well then, that really means that you virtually don't exist and can therefore hardly expect to be employed."

Stunned, the man leaves the Microsoft office. Not knowing where to turn and only having about $10 left, he decides to buy a 10kg box of tomatoes at the supermarket. Within less than 2 hours, he sells the tomatoes singly to office workers in the city for their lunch, at 100% profit. Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost $100 before going to sleep that night. That's 3 times what he was offered as a cleaner, so it dawns on the man that he could quite easily make a living selling tomatoes.

Getting up early and earlier every day and going to bed late and later, he multiplies his hoard of profits in quite a short time. Not too long thereafter, he acquires a cart to transport several dozen boxes of tomatoes, only to have to trade it in again shortly afterwards for a pick-up truck. By the end of the first year, he is the owner of a fleet of pick-up trucks and manages a staff of several hundred former unemployed people, all selling vegetables.

Considering the future of his wife and children, he decides to buy some life assurance. Calling an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances. At the end of the telephone conversation, the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order that he might forward the documentation.

When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the adviser is stunned: "What, you don't even have e-mail? How on earth have you managed to amass such wealth without the Internet, e-mail and e-commerce? Just imagine where you would have been by now, if you had been connected from the very start!" After a moment's silence, the tomato millionaire replied: "Sure! I would have been a cleaner at Microsoft!"

It's a form of a story written by Somerset Maugham. I took a survey course on Maugham my final senior year at A&M. The Verger. Read it if you have a chance here.

How you know you're not wanted...

Dallas Cowboys cut guard Adam Stenavich today.

Why?

To sign veteren gaurd Larry Allen.
To a 1 day contract.
To retire as a cowboy.

I'm sorry Adam, we're going to have to let you go. Larry needs to retire.

Larry Allen, the original Manimal.

Cowboys finish the preseason 2-2

Thoughts on the Minnesota game...

• Hurd getting hurt is major. That's the 3-4-5 receivers getting hurt in back to back to back weeks. Perhaps they should've drafted a WR. I wonder if the talks with AZ and Boldin will resume.


• Barbie Carpenter played like one. It's not his fault he was drafted in the 1st round, but he still sucks.


• Tellus looked good. Missed a block on a linebacker in the first half, but made a couple of great catches.


• Nick Folk is not an attractive man. Thank God God blessed his right leg.


• Do they pick up Davis?


• Jefferson or Amendola?

Not much else to talk about..

McGuffie starting for Michigan

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Rich Rodriguez fully expects to play freshmen this fall. Not just one or two, but probably 10. While playing them on the offensive line might be a necessity, playing TBs Sam McGuffie and Michael Shaw will be a reality because they're both very good, very adept at the offense and already look seasoned. Running backs coach Fred Jackson has profusely praised both, even saying McGuffie has speed like ex-Michigan back Justin Fargas . While Brandon Minor and Carlos Brown entered camp as the favorites to handle the bulk of carries, this will be a tailback-by-committee situation, and McGuffie and Shaw likely could be at the head of the table.

Now, the comparison may be true, but off all the tailbacks in the history of Michigan, they compare him to the whitest looking one of the bunch.

It never ceases to amaze me why our brains cannot compare black athletes to white athletes, vice versa.

Hard Knocks Stream of Consciousness 2

Predictions: More Martellus redemption, more Campo, more Amendola, Lowber... Somebody hams for the camera.

• I love the intro music...gets you in the mood for some football insight, whether it's accurate insight or not.
  
• Wade takes the blame for mistakes, and he needs to do a better job. Gotta love a man like that.
  
• Here comes the fiesta at the practice last Wednesday in the Farewell to Texas Stadium tour.
  
• Ramiro loves Tony unconditionally. How sweet. Parcells didn't love Ramiro.
  
• Tony knows the scrubs by name and where they went to school... gotta love that.
  
• More TO catching the ball against his body.
  
• TO seems to be a great mentor when he's happy.
  
• Who will get cut? I think I'll cry? Lowber, Tcehtard, or murderer jr??
  
• I wonder how Dat feels working with traitor Reggie herring? ;)
  
• Tour of the spaceship from helicopter...that thing is amazing. It dwarfs the ballpark.
  
• That dude, walking on the top of the stadium, he's not getting paid enough.
  
• Martellus Bennett's license plate: FFP 191. His dog grew!
  
• Nice one hander Tellus
  
• Garretts giving him props. Pushing for a lot of playtime! Taking over 2nd string. He seems to be working hard, and gets it. No mouthing off this week.
  
• Props from Witten. In today's paper, there was a quote that Tellus didn't think Witten liked him. Witten thinks he needs to be broken down, and then brought back up.
  
• Stewart is the first guy to get fired from this staff.
  
• Crayton naked at the meeting...
  
• Jean Jacques Taylor, least athletic looking black man ever.
  
• Carpenter is my least favorite Cowboy. He sucks ass.
  
• Ellis: Great guy... but as long as he's not whining, I love him. And Wade is right about the Achilles. I thought his career was over.
  
• Jerry has a tiny head.
  
• Spencer: I guess he hasn't hurt his knee yet..opps...there is the injury. Not rehabbing...Wade is too nice. I'm going to fine you, but the most important thing is to get well.
  
• Those guys are working on quick twitch muscles in the weight room...awesome.
  
• Roy: Moved out of the dime package so "he's fresh for the second half" I have to laugh at that comment.
  
• Zach Thomas is the manimal, again. Learn it, know it, live it Carpenter.
  
• Is it just me, or does he look like Dee Snider??
  
• Gene Upshaw dies, Wade cries...touching moment. TO was shocked and upset.
  
• Good editing on the equipment set up...reminded me of Pink Floyd's Money?
  
• Danny Amendola is short, which makes him a long shot. Height discrimination. He needs to be smarter than everyone else, and his error on the INT in Denver didn't help.
  
• Anyone know what the chain on the bench press is for?
  
• Wait, Bruce Read may be fired before Stewart.
  
• TO gets the ham award, but he's funny.
  
• Great...rednecks representing Texas.
  
• Cowboys serious about the Silver Boot.
  
• Jessica was at the game. No WONDER he threw that INT in the endzone. Damn bitch messed with his head. Didn't show it. Jessica was in his head.
  
• Wait, that was a TD pass with Jessica at the game.
  
• Game looks about 10x's faster at ground level on NFL films. Unbelievable.
  
• Isiah had the ball way loose. And then he hurts his shoulder.
  
• Nice catch by Amendola.
  
• Carpenter bagging on Tellus. Another tackle. Nice catch and run.
  
• Fumble Felix Jones!
  
• Why did Parcells draft Carpenter in the first round??
  
• Wow...that guy was good with painting the grass. I wonder how many times he's done that.
  
• #$@! that, we're not doing that anymore.
  
• More Tellus love.
  
• Danny getting some love, but is he big enough, and enough technique.
  
• Lowber, 1 play, Missed assignment. He's just lost.
  
• Lowber and Keon are talking, and I'm not sure everything they're saying.
  
• Cuts: Here comes the Turk. Bruce Mays. He has hair implants. I saw him at restaurant in Lewisville once. 5 players that haven't been on Hardknocks yet. At least Wade gets to do the deed, and not Jerry like in 2003.
  
  

Who says Tom Coughlin can't motivate...

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The most intriguing sidelight locally was the pre-game talk by Coughlin before the Giants-Cowboys playoff game. He told his team that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones put two tickets to the NFC championship game on the stool of each player.

"They've already won this game," said Manning, reflecting on Coughlin's words. "Why do we need to show up?"

After the Giants upset the Cowboys 21-17, Coughlin told his team: "I don't want anybody talking about this in the media – but Jerry just sent the tickets over, so we're all set."

For the record, Jones didn't leave any tickets on player stools. Label this one a motivational ploy.

Of course, if Cowboys block someone and Crayton doesn't choke, it's all moot.

I don't know why I find this hilarious, but it is...

Amy Dickinson's unintentional funny…

Dear Amy: I'm responding to the letter from "Anonymous," who said she and her husband did not want children. Now, all of a sudden, she doubts her decision not to have kids.

Let me tell her: "Don't do it!" I didn't want any children, and after just one exposure I had a baby.

It doesn't end there, because they just keep coming. I raised my child. I raised the grandchild, and now I'm raising my great-grandchild.

How many times a day do I say to myself, "We should have used a condom."

––Also Anonymous

Dear Also: Your letter illustrates the unfortunate consequence of raising an unwanted child, who in your case evidently stayed unwanted.

I take the fact that you raised a grandchild and are now raising a great-grandchild as evidence that your attitude toward children filtered down to your own child––and your grandchild, as well.

When you found yourself pregnant after one "exposure," you could have placed your baby for adoption and at least given it a chance of growing up with motivated and loving parents. Two generations later, it seems unfortunate that you didn't make this choice.

Unlike you, "Anonymous" wants to have a baby, though she says her husband doesn't. One can only hope that if she chooses to have a baby, it will be cherished.

Top 5 Movies of 1984

In no particular order...

Can Sherman be successful at TAMU?

What do these numbers mean?

He's going to win regular season games.

He's a proven winner in the regular season. In 26 seasons, he's only had 6 losing seasons. He's won .617 of all games he has coached.
As a head coach, his winning percentage is greater than Jackie Sherrills.

Mike Sherman had a long climb to get to where he is today. He worked his way up, working in the trenches coaching OL and TE's. He not only knows where the game is won and lost, but he has the technical savvy to teach the intricacies of line play.

Where Mike Sherman has failed, is at the NFL level. And that was one season in which his top 2 WRs and top 4 running backs were hurt. He had a good run, was in a role as coach and GM that many people have not succeeded at. Jimmy Johnson, Bill Parcells, Mike Holmgren, are all Super Bowl winning coaches that are unsuccessful in a the duel HC/GM role.

The difference between the NFL and the NCAA is that in the NCAA, success breeds success. The NFL makes it harder and harder to maintain the success the longer you have it.

Lets put it simplistically: Imagine that the Cowboys have the worst record, and the Texans have the best record. Assuming that there are no trades and compensory picks...

Cowboys
1
33
55
87
119
151
183

Texans
32
54
86
118
150
182
214

It doesn't take a genius to figure out which team is going to have a better draft if they make wise decisions. Of course, you can still end up with better players if you're the Texans, but you have a much larger pool if you're the Cowboys. Every year that you do well, you have bad draft positions. Teams get around this by being smarter than others, but the very nature of the slotting handicaps success.

Also, the NFL, based on your record, has a system to determine which teams play which. One portion of the determination, is that first team teams play first place teams. Makes better television.

In the NCAA, there is nothing like this. In fact, success truly does build success. Winning games in the NCAA is the true snowball rolling down the hill. The better you get, the easier it is to get better. At some point you plateau, but it's easier to stay at that point than it is in the NFL, which is why the same programs stay at the top over the years.

Win games get on TV more. Get on TV more, recruits see you more. Fans see you more, and unbiased football fans become fans of the program. Everyone wants to jump on a bandwagon, and you get more t-shirt fans. It snowballs.

My only concern looking at his history is his playoff and bowl game wins.


Even if Sherman maintains the .375 winning percentage in post season, it is better than the .200 Texas A&M has had since 1989. Instead of winning 3 in 18, they'll win 6in 18, and hopefully one of those will include a Big 12 and Bowl game championship.

Sherman, to be successful, needs to have the success of his first coach in DI football, Jackie Sherrill. Jackie had a career winning percentage of .593 and .571 in bowl games.

Who is Mike Sherman?

Wikipedia says:

Michael Francis Sherman (born December 19, 1954 in Norwood, Massachusetts) is the head coach of the Texas A&M Aggies football team. Prior to coaching the Aggies, he served as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers from the 2000–05 seasons. Sherman led the Packers to five consecutive winning seasons from 2000–04 and three divisional titles in 2002, 2003, and 2004. Before he started an NFL coaching career, Sherman served as an assistant coach at five different colleges, including Texas A&M, where he coached the offensive line for seven seasons.

Let's look at Sherman's career.

He started his coaching career at a public high school in 1980. He coached there for one year and moved to the prestigious prep school Worcester Academy. Worcester is the stereotypical movie NE prep school. Think School Ties. In fact, scenes in that movie were filmed there. Interesting tidbit: Rick Carlisle, Dallas Mavericks head coach went there. So did Donnie Nelson, President and GM of the Mavericks.

In 1981, Sherman joined the Jackie Sherrill's staff Pittsburgh as a GA. He was there for 2 seasons. Pitt was a top notch program and they went 19-3 in regular season and 1-1 in bowls. Interesting tidbit 2, Wikipedia says that he didn't have a room to rent, and slept in the stadium, a la Rudy.

In 1983, Sherm left Pitt to go to Tulane to coach the OL under Wally English. Tulane was bad, and in the 2 years they went 5-17. Can't blame all that on the OL coach. Interesting tidbit 3, Mack Brown became the head coach at Tulane after Wally English was canned. Mack got them to .500, and the left to take over North Carolina. Greg Davis became the head coach there. Greg is fired after 4 years, and joins Mack in Carolina. They've been bosum buddies ever since. Betcha didn't know that.

Sherm then finds himself without a job and ends up at Holy Cross. Yes, back to Rudy. I wonder if he had a room to rent there?? He starts there coaching the OL and does that for 3 years. They have a bad first season, but in those 3 years they go 25-7, including a perfect season of 11-0 in 1987. I'm sure the OC at Holy Cross was given a head gig somewhere, and Sherm is promoted to his first gig as an OC. They go 9-2.

Meanwhile, in Aggieland, Sherms first NCAA boss is ran out of Aggieland chased by NCAA investigators, and RC Slocum is made HC. Big money of Aggieland comes calling, and Sherm flys to Houston, and drives the lonely road up Hwy 6. Along the way he thinks, "Where the bleep am I?" As he takes Business 6, and gets to the top of the hill and sees Kyle field in the distance thinks, "Ok, not so bad." (Note, this is the authors extrapolating thoughts to Sherman.)

We all know the regular season success of the Aggies in this period. From 1989 to 1993, the Aggies go 39-8-1 in regular season. However, 1-4 in bowls. That one victory can be seen here. Aggies, when they're feeling down, think about this game with a smile.

Compliments of Doug Keegan with the Pearl Jam soundtrack. Not bad for a VCR and a Commodore 64.

Sherman is decides that he needs to act, and where else do you learn to act? LA. In 1984, Sherman joins Terry Donahue's staff at UCLA, and things didn't go so well. I don't profess to know any details, but the team only goes 5-6. He also failed at acting, and couldn't even get the role of Coach Harris in Revenge of the Nerds and Sensei John Krese in The Karate Kid. Back to Aggieland.

This period in Aggieland was the beginning of the end of RC's tenure at TAMU. He's again the OL coach, and they go 15-9, with 1 bowl victory.
Following the 1996 season, RC promotes Sherm to OC. Sherm, however, gets an offer from the defending Super Bowl Champions to be the TE Coach. Tough decision...in his own words from Wikipedia, "There is absolutely no other college job I would have left Texas A&M for and only one professional job that I've ever had any interest in and that being the Green Bay Packers. I've enjoyed the small-town atmosphere of College Station for my family, and Green Bay offers that same atmosphere. If the truth be told, there is not a whole lot of difference between an `Aggie' and a `Cheesehead."

He serves as TE's coach for 2 years. They go 13-3 and 11-5, and lose a Super Bowl. Overall, they go 24-8, and 1-2 in playoffs.

Mike Holmgren leaves Green Bay because he was not allowed to be both coach and general manager, and takes that role in Seattle. He takes Sherm with him, and makes Sherm his OC. Ok...so Sherm hasn't been OC since 1988 at Holy Cross, and now he's OC with the Seahawks. Seattle has a good year, go 9-7, and make to the playoffs and lose in the wild card. 0-1.

Now, here's the shocker. Green Bay doesn't give Mike Holmgren the job as GM and Head coach, but after hiring Ray Sherman as HC, they need some help. In 2000, the Green Bay Packers hire Mike Sherman to be Head Coach, and then in 2001 when Ron Wolff leaves, they make him Head Coach and General Manager. They didn't give that job to Holmgren, who is a Super winning head coach, they give it to Sherman, who hasn't had a head coaching job since 1980.

From 2000-2004, the Pack go 53-27 with a winning percentage of .663. The offense is off the charts, and Pack are winning regular seasons, but they only win 2 play off games and lose 4, including the 4th and forever in 2003.

In 2005, Sherman is demoted out of the General Manager role, and Ted Thompson is brought on board. The Pack go 4-12, and are are completely decimated by injuries. They lose their top 2 WRs, and their top 4 RBs. Sherm is shown the door.

Sherman goes to work for his old buddy from Aggieland, Gary Kubiak with the Texans as Asst. Head Coach. In 2007, he serves as the OC. The Texans go 6-10 in 2006 and 8-8and 2007 and were generally on an upward trend.

On November 26th, 2007 Sherm becomes head coach at Texas A&M. That day shall be forever known as Sherman Day.

Coming next: Can Sherman be successful in Aggieland?

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Hardknocks Stream of Conscious blog

Predictions: Martellus is redeemed! Lowber looks like he'll make the team for making a great catch.

Show Comments:

• Traitor Herring loves the Manimal Thomas.
  
• Tony Romo love...
  
• Troy texts a funny..."I saw where Favre turned down $25MM to stay retired. Ask Jerry where my check is."
  
• Fake sweat poured on Witten's face for photos. Was it for vogue?
  
• Peter King doesn't do well in HD, and they need not to eat popcorn while miked.
  
• TO love: I think he catches the ball against his body too much.
  
• I can't understand TO when he's talking to his friends. "Excuse me Miss, I speak Jive."
  
• You gotta respect the short man, Dave Campo. Making excuses for Pac not doing well in zone. Pac's mama, "What the bleep are you doing!"
  
• Just noticed one of Pac's "great" breakups was a flag in a game.
  
• Sam Hurd love: I like this guy. Like his number, like his hands, etc. He's really helped by Miles Austin hurting his knee. I think Miles won the number 2 job out of camp. Of course, the knee injury isn't til later in the show. I don't like Austin's voice.
  
• Rowdy: He needs to be cut.
  
• Remind me to do a history of Wade Phillips like I'm doing on Aggie Coach Mike Sherman, which hasn't been posted yet.
  
• Amendola and Lowber.... do they make it past waivers? I'm thinking that Amendola doesn't, and Loweber does. It's amazing how Hardknocks can make fans love mediocre NFL talent.
  
• Ray Sherman,"If you don't want to be here, don't get on the bus!" Imagine that in corporate world. Nothing ever so blunt in Corporate America.
  
• Ware: He's a great guy....I think if I had to give my baby up, it'd be to DeMarcus.
  
• Tellus: Looks like an ass clown again, arguing with the coach about his shirt and being tucked in practice. Coach has a point, but Tellus needs to shut and say, yes coach. Looking at the other players, everyone has a shirt like Tellus.
  
• Here's the redemption. Look, a compliment from Garrett.
  
• Stewart: Is he playing for the camera's, or is he really going off on those guys? Carpenter looks hot with his bun.
  
• Keon:definite practice squad...bet he clears waivers.
  
• Gotta love the music when it's in slo-mo.
  
• Hochulie: Loves to get on TV. I wonder how many penalties his crew calls versus the rest of the crews.
  
• Greg Ellis' famous speech. Go to the fundamentals.
  
• Austin is about to hurt his knee after that great catch. 4-6 weeks, announcer. This injury could be huge. I really think he's the reason they didn't draft a WR. It's huge.
  
• More Tellus redemption: Makes a tackle on the kickoff. Makes several great blocks and a great catch and run. Holy Christmas! He's healed!
  
• Here comes Lowber's catch! He pushed off. ;)
  
• Lattimore's redemption: He's going to make the team, but he'll be crushed when he's cut. Then, he'll be excited when he's signed to the practice squad.
  
• Amendola: his fault on the INT? Probably. Maybe that'll keep him from being picked up by another team.
  
• This Miles Austin injury really highlights how hard it is to play in the NFL. He works his ass off for so long, and a freak injury can affect everything.
  
• Trump is a tool, and I don't want him to build a goff course in Scotland.

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