REAR ENTRIES: Short Stack

June 30, 2009 at 10:26am by Scott   •  No Comments »

JUREVICIUS SUES BROWNS: Old news, but Joe Jurevicius has sued the Cleveland Browns for keeping their training and therapy areas filthy and riddled with disease, much like Brady Quinn‘s bedpost, and causing him a staph infection that has essentially ended his career.

An NFL physicians survey of the 32 clubs determined there were 33 MRSA staph infections leaguewide from 2006-08. The Browns had at least six players stricken with some sort of staph infection in recent years.

If your team is responsible for almost 20% of all staph infections league-wide, guess what. You’re gross and you deserve to be sued.

The legal filing in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court included an affidavit by Dr. Bonnie Bock, an infectious diseases specialist from Newport Beach, Calif., who said her examination of the case showed that the player’s staph infection was due to circumstances outlined in the suit.

“Sterile techniques were not at all times used at the Browns training facility,” she said. “Therapy devices commonly used by multiple Browns players were not properly maintained, disinfected or cleaned, if at all at the Browns training facility.”

You like that “if at all” part? Ewww. It’s time to wipe Bernie Kosar‘s sweat off the benches. It lost its mojo.

TRENT DILFER WINS SOMETHING: Trent Dilfer has won the Brodie Award, a prize which recognizes the winner’s “accomplishments in both a chosen profession and in the sport of golf”. And if you can think of a more meaningless award, I’d like to hear about it. I mean besides a Golden Globe.

The award is named after John Brodie, who replaced Y.A. Tittle as the 49ers quarterback in the early 60s. Apparently Dilfer and Brodie have been friends for a long time, so this award has special meaning for him. Here’s something else I didn’t know.

When Dilfer joined the 49ers as a quarterback in 2006, he was granted a special request to wear No. 12 (Brodie’s retired number) as a tribute to his mentor and friend.

I was pretty sure Brodie’s number had been retired, but I didn’t remember that it was #12 when I first saw Dilfer in it, so it never registered that he had requested to wear it. Dilfer’s special request doesn’t bother me like Jerry Rice‘s did when Rice requested to wear Steve Largent‘s #80 in Seattle. Obviously Dilfer and Brodie had a relationship and Dilfer wanted to wear it as a tribute. Rice didn’t give two shits about Largent, he just wanted to wear the number because he had been associated with it for so long in other cities. And then he goes and wears #19 in Denver’s training camp because he doesn’t want to approach Rod Smith about switching? That’s why no one was sad to see you retire, Jerry. Damn, that still aggravates me.

I can’t find a third story worth a damn, so here’s something to look at instead.