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Fred Smoot Talks Love Boat Scandal With Dan LeBatard (Video)

Dan Zinski — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:13:46 +0000

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Why am I posting a video of Fred Smoot talking to Dan LeBatard about the infamous Love Boat scandal? Honestly, I don’t know. The very sight of Fred Smoot makes me angry. Maybe I just like being angry. In the interview Fred says the activities on the Love Boat got blown out of proportion and that the whole night was overrated. If there’s one thing Fred Smoot knows all about, it’s being overrated. (Video after the jump)

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Childress vs. the Pack – All About Frustration

Dan Zinski — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:35:37 +0000

There are plenty of negative things to point to in Brad Childress‘s resume, but perhaps the most damning is his 0-5 career record against the Packers. Five game losing streaks to the cheesebrains are just not fun. And it’s not like the Packers were that great his first year – they were only 8-8 (the same year we were 6-10). Two of those five games were at the Metrodome, a place that often became a house of horrors for the Packers in the old days, but in neither case did homefield advantage translate into victory for Chilly. A quick jog down memory lane for the fun of it:

November 12, 2006: Brad Childress’s first home shot at Green Bay. The Vikes come in 4-4 after a sloppy 9-3 loss to the Niners (and two weeks after getting shot down and field dressed by the Patriots). The Purple fall behind 10-0 after the first but two Billy McMullen TDs in the second quarter, one after he recovered a Chester Taylor fumble in the endzone, make it 14-10. Brett Favre hooks up with Donald Driver for an 82-yard TD to give the Pack a 17-14 lead going into the half. This would be the end of the touchdown scoring for the day. The Pack manage two field goals in the second half and the Vikings one, and the game ends with a 23-17 Packer win. Favre’s statline: 24/42, 347 yards, 2 TDs, 0 INTs. Donald Driver finishes with 191 yards and a TD on 6 catches. Brad Johnson ends up 18/30 for 257 yards, 1 TD and 1 INT (I bet the Cowboys would take that about now). And to those who lament the lameness of the current Vikings receiver corps: The Vikes’ three leading wide-outs that day were the aforementioned Billy McMullen, Bethel Johnson and Travis Taylor.

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Viking Age on Cat Crave Radio

Dan Zinski — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:13:44 +0000

John White of Fan-Sided Blogs‘ Carolina Panthers site Cat Crave was kind enough to have me on-board for this week’s edition of his popular podcast Cat Crave Radio. We discussed my feeling about this weekend’s match-up with the Panthers and my opinion on the Vikes in general…and I managed to slip in a diss of Fred Smoot, who was infamously undressed by Steve Smith the last time these two teams met. Anyway, if you want to hear how my idiocy sounds in audio form rather than written, head over to Cat Crave and download yourself episode 28 of Cat Crave Radio (also featuring Brian Miller of Phin Phanatic).