12/23 Clips

by David Fucillo on Dec 23, 2006 9:59 AM PST in San Francisco 49ers News

AN uses link dump so I certainly don't wanna be a copycat. If there are any other suggestions for a links title let me know, otherwise we'll just call them the clips. In the meantime,

The big news is that Antonio Bryant is finally getting punished by the league for his DUI earlier this season.

I was surprised to here that Jeremy Newberry thinks he can make it back next season and wants to come back:

"Right now I feel really well," center Jeremy Newberry said on his cell phone Friday while making Christmas deliveries. "I plan on playing next year."

I've always been a fan of Newberry and feel like he's gotten some tough breaks on the football field. I'm no doctor, but microfracture surgery is one of those surgeries you hear bad things about. Best of luck to him and if we could get him back (he's a free agent) I'd be psyched as he could add to our offensive line depth...and completely bump Kwame off the starting rotation.

Glad to see Alex Smith is rewarding his offensive line. I wonder if Gore will take them to Hawaii with him, or if he'll just roll out some nice Rolexes for them?

Now, I have no problem with players celebrating touchdowns. I understand the idea of acting like you've been there before, but this is a game and if you are having a good time, so be it. Of course if you're down 4 TDs there's no need to celebrate a touchdown. I really think THIS, is a case of the media trying to hard to sensationalize things. I think Vernon Davis is just a young exuberant player. Remember he's missed most of this season so this is like week 5 or 6 for him practically. As long as he remains excited to be an NFL player, and doesn't use the end zone marker as a prop!, I'll support him.

And of course, as always, our prayers are with Coach Walsh in his battle with leukemia.

So feel free to add any links you stumble across. If it's unrelated to football but funny feel free to dump away. Starting tomorrow I'll put the links in a diary, although if someone gets here in the morning and the diary isn't up, feel free to create your own.

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user name and password

For some Bay Area newspaper websites, and a multitude of national ones, a free registration is required. We aren't allowed to copy and paste a full article because of copyright laws, however could I create a generic user name and login for everyone at Niners Nation to use? It would not be for the pay sites, such as ESPN's insider stuff, but it would be for free sites.

Any ideas on the legal issues of something like that?

by David Fucillo on Dec 23, 2006 10:19 AM PST reply actions

Thats sooo cool..

that Smith got the linemen plasma T.V's... Yeeeee im sooo excited im going to the game and tomorow!!! Its my first game =]I couldn't sleep at all last night I think I went to bad at like 4, cuz im so excited... o and I have no idea about the legal issues ^

Frank Gore is God.

by Go49ers on Dec 23, 2006 10:39 AM PST reply actions

Newberry and other topics

Newberry has been so oft injured, I agree that if he comes back that it should be in a reserve (mentor?) role.

Vernon Davis is a very exciting player, and it's about time that we have someone here, who wants to be here and wants to do well here. ESPN and others are 24 hour news and radio and have to fill up air time. If you're reading this Vernon Davis, We love you! If you keep scoring TD's, you can do whatever you want.

Best wishes to Bill Walsh who is a class guy and our savior. Lukemia is a real bitch and it will be a tough fight. But, if anyone can do it, it would have to be the man who turned a turd into solid gold and redefined how football was played.

Kudos to Alex Smith for his gifts. Kwame Harris should have gotten a B&W TV with the aluminum foil ears and missing volume knob, though.

Happy Holidays and Go Niners!

Nobody hit like Ronnie

by 42Blackout on Dec 23, 2006 11:12 AM PST reply actions

About the O-Line

I'm so glad to see that I'm not the only one who realizes that all of those sacks, holds, and false starts of the last 2+ years came courtesy of Kwame Harris. I got so excited when Snyder was playing so damn well that Harris would be out of a job, but with the recent rash of injuries it looks like I'll have to deal with him a little longer.

Any word on who's going to be in center this weekend? I hope it's not Baas. I haven't been impressed with him and at the very least don't think he's close to being ready. Snyder is the Frank Gore of the offensive line, though. He makes me happy.

I keep reliving the moment when Steve Young almost fell down... over and over...

by howtheyscored on Dec 23, 2006 4:54 PM PST up reply actions

Wragge's starting

Wragge's getting the start at center...There have been a few interesting features on. Here's one.

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by David Fucillo on Dec 23, 2006 5:00 PM PST up reply actions

Gore has already announced...

that he will be buying all of his lineman expensive watches. No word on if he will be taking any lineman (besides Larry Allen) to Hawaii with him.

by zabat @ Niners Nation on Dec 23, 2006 12:18 PM PST reply actions

Noooooo, Jeremy...

I love Jeremy Newberry, but I want him to stop while he can still walk... :(

by Poppy on Dec 23, 2006 5:17 PM PST reply actions

To Fooch: The constant move to improve.

Fooch, a couple of small suggestions to make the blogging experience more enjoyable.

I'd like an automatic "Re:" feature on the subject headings for comments, because having to type out a subject every single time is a bit of a drag, especially when you forget to and get the page that says "Hey, stupid, I need a subject!" when you try to post.

Also, with the [new] alerts for comments within the threads being in a black font, it's hard to immediately identify which comments are new versus the ones I've already read. Since I'd also also like to see more gold on this site, a nice gold font (or something contrasty, at least) for that specific feature would be great.

Otherwise, the site looks and runs awesome, however much of that is you and however much is SBNation... Good job so far.

I keep reliving the moment when Steve Young almost fell down... over and over...

by howtheyscored on Dec 23, 2006 5:39 PM PST reply actions

improvements

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm still figuring out a lot of the formatting options to get this improved. For instance I still can't find where to change the color of the "NEW" comments. I'm planning on spending much of this evening going through the site figuring out the various options.

But I definitely appreciate AND encourage suggestions to improve the site. I may run things, but the site is here for everyone's enjoyment.

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by David Fucillo on Dec 23, 2006 5:43 PM PST up reply actions

LOL

You can disregard my email... ;)

by Poppy on Dec 23, 2006 5:48 PM PST up reply actions

Font color

So I've been looking around and have a couple thoughts on the font stuff. At the other SB Nation blogs, the threads on the main page have the New in black. For our diaries the number is in red and the New is in gold. I'm waiting to get official word but I think that's the way it's set. I'll find out in the next day or two if any of this can be changed.

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by David Fucillo on Dec 23, 2006 6:10 PM PST reply actions

Donut, ey.

Actually, I'm pretty content with the way that part looks right now. It's the ones when I have a thread open and I'm trying to find the specific comments marked new ([new] shows up in front of the subject the first time you view a comment) that are giving me trouble (when more people join and threads start getting tens of comments it could get bothersome).

I know that at least at McCoveyChronicles, the [new] shows up in a bright red and is immediately identifiable.

I keep reliving the moment when Steve Young almost fell down... over and over...

by howtheyscored on Dec 23, 2006 6:39 PM PST up reply actions

hmmm

What happened to my link? Is the coding different here, and if so, what should I do to make it work? (note: I used <a href="www.sitename.com">link text</a> as my code)

I keep reliving the moment when Steve Young almost fell down... over and over...

by howtheyscored on Dec 23, 2006 6:51 PM PST up reply actions

Weird

No, that's weird because I did another link code in a diary and it worked fine... I must have just done something careless with this one. Anyway, my link as it were. And with preview I realize that I did do something careless before. Note to self: always include "http://".

I keep reliving the moment when Steve Young almost fell down... over and over...

by howtheyscored on Dec 23, 2006 6:55 PM PST up reply actions