Quick Thoughts On Carson's Quip

Earlier this week I linked to a clip of Carson Palmer talking smack about Ohio State. His comments were made on the show of his former teammate/roommate, Petros Papadakis, and quickly made their way around the country. He backed off a little bit (see video above), and was clearly just trying to have some fun with the big game.

Another USC alum, Arash Markazi, had a pretty good take when he placed Palmer at No. 2 on the Sports Illustrated Pop Culture Hot List:

We're loving this new Carson, who is about as witty as the old Tonight Show host. Back when we were in college he was famous for offering up more clichéd quotes than a politician, now he's calling out the home town college football team.

I'm not sure if I would call the remark witty, but it certainly was fun. I had class with Palmer and remember him as a quiet dude. It's always good to see people get fired up and kind of cool to see that side of him. Maybe Petros was rubbing off.

On the other hand, take a look at what Thomas Bonk has in today's morning briefing:

Trivia time
 
What quarterback who played college football in Los Angeles and was a first-round NFL draft pick and said at his introductory pro news conference that he hardly ever read the local sports page or watched the TV sports because of negativity, said the traffic drove him crazy and was "ready to get out of L.A. [because] it's too up-tempo for me"?

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Trivia answer
 
Carson Palmer of USC in 2003.

Go figure. Bonk also notes:

At least Bengals owner Mike Brown got the joke. Kicking off the team's preseason news conference, Brown said he had an announcement to read.
 
"It says, 'Go Bucks,' signed, Carson Palmer."

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Sports Illustrated writer Austin Murphy has a lot to say about Carroll in this podcast: http://blogs.colgate.edu/2008/07/si-writer-austin-murphy-83-say.html