Personal Observations of Longshore After the Picks

Note from blogger:

I brought my extremely high-powered binoculars to the game Saturday, and zoomed in on Nate Longshore after each interception. After the first pick, he chatted briefly with Kevin Riley, then walk up and down the sideline. Many of his teammates either patted him on the back or shoulder, apparently giving him encouragement.

After the second interception, I didn’t see anyone but Kevin Riley speak to him, and he no longer was given any pats on the back. After approximately 30 seconds of pacing, he headed over to Cameron Morrah, and Nate was gesturing with his hands to him, as if he was blaming Cameron for a botched play. It’s interesting to note that in the above article, Jon Wilner writes “The first interception was a bad throw into double coverage; the second interception was an awful pass into quadruple coverage (it didn’t look like Morrah, the intended receiver, even realized he was the intended receiver).”

From my crappy vantage point, it looked like a horrible pass, so I’m not sure how Cameron Morrah could have changed that.

Here are a couple of photos from the game that Beth, a reader of this blog, emailed me. If you have any of your own, feel free to forward them and I’ll post them.

On a final note, I thought it was interesting that Jon Wilner wrote "Meant to have this posted hours ago but had technical difficulties … I always have technical difficulties in Strawberry Canyon. Maybe it’s Dumpster Muffin sending off bad karma." I intended to post numerous photos and updates to this blog during the game, using my iPhone on AT&T. It was a disaster. I think the network was simply overloaded. It took numerous attempts, and over a half an hour, to send one photo. I constantly got error messages telling me that no network could be found. I thought it was very odd, then, the the announcer was constantly advising the fans to text message their votes for some fake game on the videotron using AT&T, further clogging the network.