Tag: Bono

Giants owner John Mara joked Brian Daboll can’t go from ‘Bono to Bozo’ as he gets more popular

This is pretty great advice for New York Giants coach Brian Daboll.

New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll is apparently fitting right in with his fellow New Yorkers.

While discussing Daboll at this week’s NFL owners meetings, Giants co-owner and team executive John Mara talked about the celebrity status that Daboll has achieved in the Big Apple.

The former Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator led a Broadway revival of the franchise last fall and put the Giants back in the playoffs. He also helped right the career of quarterback Daniel Jones, who signed a big extension this offseason.

While Mara certainly seems very pleased with his coach, he offered Daboll some very witty wisdom for how fan temperament can go in this business.

“Right now, he’s Bono walking around New York City,” Mara joked during an interview with Sirius XM’s NFL Radio. “But I’ve told him…in this business, it doesn’t take long to go from Bono to Bozo. So don’t get your head too big right now.”

Mara added that Daboll is getting frequent standing ovations from New York Rangers fans when he attends hockey games at Madison Square Garden and gets put up on the jumbotron.

“It’s a pretty cool thing to see,” Mara said.

Jrue Holiday, de los Bucks, solo necesitaba 8 segundos para cobrar un bono de $306K bonus

Parece que los Milwaukee Bucks tenían más cosas que ganar al perder la final de la temporada regular este domingo, pues caer ante el sembrado No. 3 del este les hubiera evitado un enfrentamiento potencial en primera ronda contra los Nets. Así que el …

Parece que los Milwaukee Bucks tenían más cosas que ganar al perder la final de la temporada regular este domingo, pues caer ante el sembrado No. 3 del este les hubiera evitado un enfrentamiento potencial en primera ronda contra los Nets. Así que el head coach de los Bucks Mike Budenholzer armó una alineación para abrir el partido que pudo haber sido un partido del afiliado G de los Bucks, el Milwaukee Herd.

Eso sí, hubo una excepción notable: Jrue Holiday estaba en la alineación abridora, pero en realidad nunca iba a jugar.

El contrato de Holiday establecía que si podía jugar 67 partidos esta temporada obtendría un bono por $306,000 y solo necesitaba un juego más para llegar a esa cifra. Budenholzer eligió mandar a Holiday a la duela para que obtuviera su dinero. Lo único que necesitó fueron ocho segundos.

Vean esto:

Traducción: Hoy, Jrue Holiday abrió para los Bucks para que pudiera llegar a 67 partidos jugados y asegurar un bono de $306,000.
Holiday jugó ocho segundos antes de cometer una falta y dirigirse a la banca.

 

Los Cavaliers ganaron el salto inicial, Holiday cometió falta inmediatamente y lo mandaron a la banca. Pero oigan, consiguió su bono. Este gesto también dijo mucho de que Budenholzer estuvo dispuesto a dejar jugar a Holiday con la única intención de que obtuviera su bono. Esto nos recuerda un poco a Tom Brady con Gronk.

Fueron los $306K que Holiday ganará en toda su vida. A sus compañeros de equipo y a los fans de la NBA pensaron que fue genial.

Y así fue como reaccionó Twitter:

Traducción: El mejor día en el trabajo: Jrue Holiday se pone el uniforme para cometer una falta e irse, y ahora es ~225,000 más rico porque alcanzó el número de partidos jugados en su contrato para poder obtener ese bono.

 

Traducción: Felicidades a Jrue.

 

Traducción: Ni siquiera estoy enojado ve por tu dinero.

 

Traducción: Para evitar que pasara esto, los dueños de la Major League Baseball se hubieran asegurado de que Jrue ni siquiera estuviera en el estadio.

 

Traducción: Lo que hace una organización maravillosa.

 

 

Artículo traducido por Ana Lucía Toledo

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The Niners used to be a Chiefs quarterback feeder system

For a while, Rutgers was a feeder system for the New England Patriots – or at least it felt that way because Bill Belichick liked every defensive back who went to New Jersey State University. Some general managers and coaches like to use specific …

For a while, Rutgers was a feeder system for the New England Patriots — or at least it felt that way because Bill Belichick liked every defensive back who went to New Jersey State University. Some general managers and coaches like to use specific schools as feeder systems because they feel comfortable. The Chiefs kind of used a feeder system from 1988 up until Patrick Mahomes graced the sideline at Arrowhead Stadium. That feeder system was the San Francisco 49ers.

Steve DeBerg quarterbacked the Chiefs from 1988 to 1991. He was drafted by the Niners in 1977 and played there until 1980. He started full-time in 1979. DeBerg had a few stops before he ended up in Kansas City.

It’s funny because Joe Montana took over for DeBerg in San Francisco in 1980. We don’t need to go over Montana’s great Niners career because it’s well known, but Montana did end up in Kansas City in 1993. There was only one season between the DeBerg era and the Montana era for the Chiefs. Montana stayed in Kansas City for two years. He was replaced in 1995 by Steve Bono.

Guess where Steve Bono played from 1989-1993 . . . yup, it was San Francisco. Bono only held on with the Chiefs for two years before they went to Rich Gannon and Elvis Grbac. Grbac was drafted by the Niners and backed up Steve Young until he went and signed with the Chiefs. That’s essentially four Niners quarterbacks in a row for Kansas City. Grbac stayed with the Chiefs until 1999.

Finally, the Chiefs took a little break from former San Francisco quarterbacks. They went with Trent Green who did know play with the Niners at any point in his career. That was followed by Brodie Croyle and Matt Cassel, but after that, it was time for the Chiefs to return to their roots. Those old 49ers’ quarterback roots.

Enter Alex Smith. Smith was extremely serviceable and led the Chiefs to multiple playoffs berths, but at this point, it had to be getting weird. Quarterbacks who had been drafted or played with the Niners had more playoff wins than quarterbacks who were drafted by the Chiefs. In fact, Mahomes is the first quarterback drafted by the Chiefs to win a playoff game in ages.

Now Kansas City probably doesn’t have to worry about getting a quarterback from San Francisco. That’s a good thing because Mahomes isn’t going anywhere and neither is Jimmy Garoppolo.