Comments on: Any Given Business http://www.damonagnos.com/2007/12/07/any-given-business/ Sports, politics, entertainment, and another jackass with his own domain name Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:23:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Damon http://www.damonagnos.com/2007/12/07/any-given-business/#comment-3159 Damon Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:20:04 +0000 http://www.damonagnos.com/2007/12/07/any-given-business/#comment-3159 Thanks for the education, dude! So not only was it funny, but it was a nod to zebras past. Nicely done. Thanks for the education, dude! So not only was it funny, but it was a nod to zebras past. Nicely done.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zkom-6wMnw&mode=related&search=

]]> By: doug http://www.damonagnos.com/2007/12/07/any-given-business/#comment-3144 doug Mon, 10 Dec 2007 05:44:49 +0000 http://www.damonagnos.com/2007/12/07/any-given-business/#comment-3144 [and here's an explanation:] Definition giving someone “the business”: Ah yes, an easy one! “Giving him the business” is an expression I snatched out of pro football history. Back in 1986 during a game between the New York Jets and the Buffalo Bills someone committed a rare kind of violent foul. The interesting twist here was that in a sport heralded for it’s harsh physicality, this play involved Buffalo’s quarterback! Of the dozens of different positions one can play in this game only three are granted any kind of significant protection by the rules of the game and quarterback is one of them. It would have been the sweetest of irony if the quarterback, Jim Kelly, had been the one commiting the foul but poor Jim was on the receiving end. After being sacked (tackled to the ground),Marty Lyons, the Jets player, began repeatedly punching Jim in the head! Although it’s clearly against the rules there is no specific entry in the rulebook against “kicking that guy’s ass”, so the presiding referee expressed himself in the best way he knew how. He clicked on his mic and told the crowd this: “Number 99 of the defense, after tackling the quarterback, was giving him the business down there!” Hilarious. The line immediately became part of National Football League history. Why would I choose that for the name of the site? Because all in that one moment you have a curious, awkward, but funny mixture; one guy got mad (Lyons), one guy got hurt (Kelly), one guy was left utterly speechless (Dreith, the referee), but true to the old adage humor was in the eyes of the beholders. -E [courtesy of http://barber.wordpress.com/ ] [and here’s an explanation:]

Definition giving someone “the business”:
Ah yes, an easy one! “Giving him the business” is an expression I snatched out of pro football history. Back in 1986 during a game between the New York Jets and the Buffalo Bills someone committed a rare kind of violent foul. The interesting twist here was that in a sport heralded for it’s harsh physicality, this play involved Buffalo’s quarterback! Of the dozens of different positions one can play in this game only three are granted any kind of significant protection by the rules of the game and quarterback is one of them.

It would have been the sweetest of irony if the quarterback, Jim Kelly, had been the one commiting the foul but poor Jim was on the receiving end. After being sacked (tackled to the ground),Marty Lyons, the Jets player, began repeatedly punching Jim in the head! Although it’s clearly against the rules there is no specific entry in the rulebook against “kicking that guy’s ass”, so the presiding referee expressed himself in the best way he knew how. He clicked on his mic and told the crowd this:

“Number 99 of the defense, after tackling the quarterback, was giving him the business down there!”

Hilarious. The line immediately became part of National Football League history. Why would I choose that for the name of the site? Because all in that one moment you have a curious, awkward, but funny mixture; one guy got mad (Lyons), one guy got hurt (Kelly), one guy was left utterly speechless (Dreith, the referee), but true to the old adage humor was in the eyes of the beholders.

-E

[courtesy of http://barber.wordpress.com/ ]

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