Showing posts with label Brandon London. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brandon London. Show all posts

Friday, July 10, 2009

I Wish I Had More Free Time... (!UPDATED!)

...or do I? While I wish I had enough time to get the posts that I want up (yes, believe it or not, I have loads more stuff than what I've been posting), but due to work and the time-intensive nature of these postponed posts, I've been unable to. But the Dolphins veterans have loads of free time right now, and it's starting to show, as the video below could only be posted by someone (Brandon London) with too much time on their hands.

Warning: There is some loud music at the beginning and a couple of F-bombs, so be careful at work.



You know, I consider myself the ultimate multi-tasker, with the ability to blog while my boss is giving me instructions, or the ability to eat a Krispy Creme Burger while changing my clothes in my car doing 75 down the freeway and rocking out to Boston's 'More Than A Feeling' (which, btw, is exactly what I get from the K.C. burger - more than a feeling). But the one thing I can't multi-task efficiently is editing video.

And that's exactly what I need to do to get this next wave of blog posts up. That's the bad news. The good news is that NO ONE ELSE is editing video for their blogs right now, so even if I'm behind, I'm still ahead (twisted logic, I know, but what do you expect from a guy who lives on a steady diet of Donut Burgers and Stadium Rock?).


In a surprising twist, after I wrote the blog about the rookie contract rumblings, the Palm Beach Post's, Edgar Thompson wrote this blog about, well, the rookie contracts, and gave actual updates on the status of each player. This is the most in-depth report we've gotten so far from the 'big 3' but since it comes from the mouth of Jeff Ireland at a charity event, it has to be taken with a grain of salt.

Still, it's something, and it's important to note that the fact that Chris Clemons is getting negotiated this far after Patrick Turner and John Nalbone
could suggest he has more incentive bonuses in his contract which could suggest that they expect him to have more playing time. All speculation, I know, but generally the most important and the longest contracts take the most time and most attention to detail.

In any event, I will break it down here when it happens, and I will also do a blog topic suggested by lemmus, the breakdown of projected special teams contributors (for the sake of brevity, I will limit it to 11 players, but they will be from all crews of the S/T unit, i.e. kick return, coverage, field goal, etc.), but before all that I will do my best to get that first video up on the weekend.

Until then, I've got to get some work done! ;) Ciao!


UPDATE - Since I'm getting all these questions about it, I thought I'd address it here in the blog. No, Krispy Kreme doesn't serve burgers and I have never eaten such a thing. However, there does exist many places around the country where you can order one. It is a Bacon Cheeseburger, but instead of being on a traditional bun, it is served inside a krispy kreme donut that has been cut in half. It has become a sort of Tinshaker-running joke but to be honest, I have been known to try anything once when it comes to food, so while I'm not seeking out the KK BCB, I would try a sample (don't think it would taste good)

Sunday, March 8, 2009

May The Source Be With You

I tend to take the weekends off from the blog, as well as the newspaper blogs, but lately I've noticed that the stuff I bring up on a Wednesday ends up on the newspapers on a Saturday/Sunday. If it shows up at all.

Case in point, Miami Herald's one-liner extraordinaire, Barry Jackson, who never claims a source but often publishes the one-line stories that we've been waiting to hear, printed this story on Saturday.

Whereas I mentioned Darius Butler as the top Dolphin CB prospect on Wednesday.

I meant to publish this story about prospects I had confirmed were getting interest and meetings with the Dolphins on Wednesday afternoon as well but put it off until Thursday. In it I mentioned CB Sherrod Martin from Troy University. And I mentioned that the Dolphins had sent not lowly scouts but coaches and higher-up management to view and meet with these prospects.

In any event, since Barry Jackson doesn't like to reveal his sources, I'll tell you for him. It's ME! LOL.

My sources on the other hand were from scouring the web looking for prospect-local reports, and Rob Rang and Chad Reuter from NFLdraftscout.com who recently joined forces with CBSSports.com which I am not too happy about.

[Update: Now (Monday) Omar Kelly of the Sun-Sentinel has reported the same Brandon London story I posted on Friday. He said he was unaware of Brandon London's modeling career until he saw him on BET's Rip the Runway concert on TV yesterday. Really? Completely unaware? He also failed to mention that Gibril Wilson, also a member of the same Super-Bowl winning Giants team that London won a ring with, is also a model. Maybe he wasn't on the BET special...]

Friday, March 6, 2009

Catch the Ball, then Run, Run, Runway!

So many of you probably know that Brandon London is not only a Miami Dolphin, he's also a fancy New York City fashion model. You may have seen a magazine ad in the last six months and thought to yourself in passing how the model looked familiar. I forget which magazine it was, but I actually had this happen to me. I think he was modeling a watch or something while not wearing a shirt (I don't know about you guys but I generally remove watch before shirt in my undressing ritual).

Anyway, so the reality is that BET the network thinks that football player/models are interesting enough to have their own reality show. The show follows a group of these hybrid players (did you know Gibril Wilson is one of these hybrids?) through their dual careers, and probably through some inane, mundane, and staged moments as well. In addition to this show, London is apparently working on ANOTHER reality show, essentially promoting himself. This guy is apparently Jason Taylor with a 'use once open' label on it. At least we got a career out of JT before he went Hollywood. Seems like London is trying to get there before he makes a name for himself in the NFL.

But I digress. In love with the camera so much, Brandon also had the producer from the previously mentioned show follow him to his workout and film it for the purpose of sharing it with his fans. Someone needs to tell him he has no fans. I appreciate someone trying to market themselves, but someone needs to tell him he got the job and now needs to get on with it.