What happens if you mix the biggest news story of the week with the NFL?
Here's the deal: Politics, pop culture and sports aren't supposed to mix, right? Yeah, right. Just ask Steve Largent, Jesse Ventura, J.C. Watts, Jack Kemp etc., and probably Tom Brady sometime in the future. Oh, and Ronald Reagan used to announce baseball games, while George W. Bush owned a baseball team.
Politics is sports. Sports is politics. And it's all pop culture.
So, somewhere between the greatest radio show ever - Imus in the morning - and Leigh Montville's legendary hilarious NFL predictions column in the Boston Globe in the 1980s, lies the goal of this column - make you laugh and maybe even make you think.
As for the NFL - I am the only predictions columnist in the universe with the guts to admit I don't know what's going to happen in the NFL. I am clueless. I predict the games anyway.
And just to show you that this column understands how to operate in modern times, I shall now speak in the third person...
Brian Tarcy, the co-author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide To Football" by former Super Bowl quarterback Joe Theismann, as well as a dozen other books (www.briantarcy.com), has a new book coming out in fall 2007 - The Complete Idiot's Guide To NASCAR. (His favorite driver is Clint Bowyer.)
This column, which originated as "What's Gonna Happen" at the legendary NFL.com, also ran at bootlegsports.com and in recent years was a feature of the scout.com network of NFL sites, especially the Cleveland Browns site.
Tarcy has a few of his own schticks including song lyrics, the column is always "Home of" something, he ALWAYS picks his favorite team (the Cleveland Browns) to win even if he knows they are going to lose, and the column is always sponsored by something absurd, such as "your ability to read." (Plus smart readers will notice the fate of Ray Lewis week to week.)
Tarcy has authored or co-authored 14 books and counting...Including books about both professional and amateur sports, (as well as sports medicine) with luminaries of the sports world: Football's Joe Theismann; Baseball's Tom Glavine; and Hockey's Cam Neely. He has also written business books on strategic planning, business management and corporate leadership, (including projects with the founders of both Monster.com, and The North Face) as well as a book about opening a restaurant. He has even written novels for people who had an idea for a novel.
He has appeared on radio stations across the country including with including with Jim Scott on WLW700 in Cincinnati and with Quinn & Cantera on 94WHJY in Providence, RI.
His journalism has appeared in many publications including The Boston Globe, Boston magazine, Teaching Tolerance, Boston Business and USAIR. For five years in the 1980s, he wrote a humor column for the Cape Cod Times. He has collaborated with sixth grade students at Morse Pond Middle School in Falmouth, MA on "Lunchroom Radio Mystery Theater."
He lives in Falmouth, Massachusetts, and has the four best children - now young adults - in the world.
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