What’s with the coaches and filing cabinets? What the hell do they need so many damned files for? I figure they need a total of maybe three pieces of paper:
1. The team roster that they read off at the beginning of each season.
2. Instructions on how to run the Wing-T (for any sport).
3. List of alibis for when Marty Moon finally turns up dead.
Yet this is not the first time we’ve seen filing action! This time I believe Kaz is filing a bookmark from the first book he ever read (a Nancy Drew mystery…finished yesterday!) I guess that’s just Kaz being Kaz.
Meanwhile a reference to the Jefferson Jeffs allows me to link back again to this stupid post. I guess that’s just Jason being Jason.
Open discussion: Have we seen the last of 6-9 Jeff Ponczak in Gil Thorp? Can I drop the 5-4 from my handle at last?
Panel 1: I think that’s supposed to be Kaz on the left…
“Marty being Marty?” so in about six months Marty will go from being the Hero and Savior of Sports Commentary in Milford to getting, um, traded away (And everyone in Milford being okay with that)?
Panel 2: What football action would take place to allow that sort of a defensive formation?
Panel 3: If “One guy” counts as the defense “swarming”, then sure.
Comment by 5-4 Emptyeye — November 19, 2008 @ 3:30 pm
Existentialism: Marty being Marty. But I prefer, simply, “Marty being.” Or maybe just “Marty.” That says it all. But you know Gil. He’s got to whip out the sports cliches every chance he gets. It is what it is.
Comment by sir douglas — November 19, 2008 @ 3:51 pm
Kaz is looking for booze in that filing cabinet. Or possibly some barbecue sauce.
Comment by laura — November 19, 2008 @ 4:03 pm
Is that Kaz? Until today, he had blond hair. He does have the rock-hard Kazlike build, though. All that powerlifting comes in handy for those rough, tough filing jobs!
I do have to give Whigham props for finally showing a realistic crowd scene at a high school sporting event: half-empty bleachers with a handful of fans sitting on their asses. Not a single bit of confetti in sight.
Comment by johnw — November 19, 2008 @ 4:25 pm
Aw, crap on a stick. We’re back to my pet peeve: both teams wearing white uniforms. No wonder the crowd is so sparse. Why bother watching a game where you can’t tell which team is which?
Comment by sourbelly — November 19, 2008 @ 6:41 pm
#70’s left leg appears to go in 2 different places.
When I played Little League baseball in the 70’s, I wore my number on my sleeve, and on my back. I’ve never seen football jerseys with #’s on sleeves. How can anyone read them from any distance?
No official ever stands where that guy is standing. Ref stands behind the O, umpire behind the D, line judges on the sidelines till the play is over. This guy looks like a boxing or wrestling judge. I even see a BOW TIE! Cripes!
And… both teams have white jerseys…
Comment by Rob — November 19, 2008 @ 6:42 pm
Check out Neal Rubin’s blog, he just posted a little something about coming up with names for characters in Gil Thorp.
Comment by Ned Ryerson — November 19, 2008 @ 7:28 pm
I think Gil’s being Gil by watching lovingly as Kaz bends over to file his bookmark.
Kaz is emulating Andrew Gregory and Tyler Jay with his cute lil spit curl.
Comment by Regina — November 19, 2008 @ 7:30 pm
Panel 1. Please somebody tell me Kaz is not sporting a Mullet!!!
Panel 2. Referee, I thought he was a Chippendale Dancer with the 70’s mustache!
Panel 3. My web hand has escaped my glove… fingers going everwhere!!!! Where did I put that 5th finger!!!!
Comment by el lumpbo — November 19, 2008 @ 9:41 pm
Obviously, Kaz is filing the results from the group medical examination administered by Dr. Wally. Also, Gil’s liabilty insurance policy. And the summons from the lawsuit filed by old country momma Ponczak.
Comment by blondie — November 19, 2008 @ 11:23 pm
Regina: I think you’re onto something there about the filing. It’d explain why Kaz is filing a single sheet of paper in the otherwise empty bottom drawer of the cabinet.
“Say, Kaz, could you file this for me?”
“Sure thing, Gil. Where does it go?”
“Oh, in the bottom drawer. Way down there. You’ll have to crouch waaay down. Yeah, just like that. Ohhh yeah!!!”
Comment by johnw — November 20, 2008 @ 5:06 am
It’s definitely Kaz because he has his barbed-wire tattoo back.
Comment by Scott de B. — November 20, 2008 @ 8:34 am