I know I could have done well in [Coach Gibbs's] offense
That’s what Shuler says in this article in the Washington Post (from October) titled "Seeking a 2nd Term in Washington."
The highlights, outside that he thinks Gibbs is a better coach than Norv (well, duh):
They let him visit Redskins Park. We would think that there would be an electrified Shuler Fence around the entire complex. Brunell [...]
Read moreIs Heath Shuler against free speech?
As we mentioned earlier, we freaked out when Shuler’s official site intimated that he was a great quarterback, and posted a comment on his blog. The comment was up for a few days, but now, it has been removed. It wasn’t anything TOO obnoxious (just a little obnoxious), but apparently, they prefer the sucking up [...]
Read moreThat sound you heard was our heads exploding
Well, Heath Shuler relaunched his campaign website today, and, objectively speaking, it is a big improvement (unless you liked white text on a red background). We think it’s great that he has a blog, although we were a bit disappointed that the "Multimedia" section didn’t have video clips of all 33 of his NFL interceptions.
But [...]
Finally, someone we can vote for
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Read moreShuler in the New York Times
Let’s start off by saying that we don’t like the New York Times. We don’t like it mostly because of the New Yorkers we know — who love to talk about how great the Times is, how they can’t get any decent bagels in this town, and that Eli Manning is the second coming of [...]
Read moreProps to Deadspin
The popular sports blog Deadspin discovered StopShuler.com today, so a lot of you probably just discovered us as well. Welcome.
One thing we noticed from our referrers — did the Hotline do something about the site? We’re not important enough to have a subscription, so we would appreciate it if one of our Hill colleagues could [...]
Officially up and running
Like Heath Shuler and his bid for Congress, the StopShuler.com site is making it official. In the coming months, look for personal recollections on the Shuler Era in Washington, up to the moment news on Shuler’s campaign, and maybe some generic whining about Norv Turner thrown in for good measure.
You can read the post about [...]
Sugar Coating Shuler’s Career
It is interesting to see when people gloss over how awful Shuler was as an NFL quarterback. For example, this article makes the ridiculous statement that “his NFL days were short-lived because of a foot injury.” No, his NFL days were short-lived because he wasn’t any good. The foot injury just made it official.
His bio [...]
ESPN Calls Shuler The #17 Biggest Flop Of The Last 25 Years
ESPN places Heath below the Clippers, but above Jordan trying to play baseball. Fan voting moved him up to #15.
Please note that there are no people elected to Congress on this list.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/espn25/story?page=listranker/25biggestflops
Great College Career?
Many articles about Shuler talk about his great college career — but was it really so great? Without spending a lot of time researching the issue (which is the way we prefer to do things), here are two points:
The QB to follow him at Tennessee, Peyton Manning, was, um, slightly better.
He was runner up to [...]