We thought telemarketers were real pain
Give Buffalo Bills General Manager Buddy Nix credit: He sure knows how to go along with a prank.
On Thursday afternoon, two 20-year-olds called Buffalo’s publicly listed front office number, said they were Tampa Bay GM Mark Dominik and asked to be transferred to Nix. They were, to their surprise, and hung up, according to Deadspin.com.
That would have been the end of it except Nix, 73, called them back and then kept calling into the next morning. Finally, they came up with the idea to call Dominik and say they were Nix.
Nix called them again while Dominik’s secretary was on the phone and was then patched through to Dominik. The pranksters put the call on speaker and recorded the conversation, which lasted around six minutes.
The call, which started with Nix saying, “Dadgum, son. I’ve called you back a hundred times!,” ranged from a discussion of their impending free agents, the new three-day negotiating window for impending free agents (both hate it) and problems created by not having a franchise quarterback (foreshadowing the release of Buffalo’s Ryan Fitzpatrick).
Next time they call, they can discuss the problem with not having caller ID.
Fighting words
Although it appears to be OK to mess with NFL GMs, you don’t want to make British boxer Curtis Woodhouse mad.
Woodhouse, a former soccer player, set off to find a Twitter user who had been abusing him viathe social media site following his English light-welterweight title loss Friday.
Woodhouse tweeted: “I’ll give 1,000 [pounds] to anybody who provides me with an address and picture of this man. Knock, knock.”
The boxer apparently even showed up on the person’s street in northern England, tweeting: “He never came out to play so I’m going back home. It was maybe a bit daft what I did today but sometimes enough is enough.”Hazardous hole
Mark Mihal, a 43-year-old mortgage broker, found a hazard the hard way last week on a golf course just southeast of St. Louis.
Mihal was playing the 14th hole at Annbriar Golf Club near Waterloo, Ill., when he tested out an indentation in the fairway and ended up falling into an 18-foot-ºdeep sinkhole, dislocating a shoulder.
“It didn’t look unstable,” he said. “And then I was gone. I was just freefalling. It felt like forever, but it was just a second or two, and I didn’t know what I was going to hit. And all I saw was darkness.”
His golfing buddies didn’t see him vanish into the earth but noticed he wasn’t visible, figuring he had tripped and fallen out of sight. One of them heard Mihal’s moans and went to investigate.
“He just thought it was some crazy magic trick or something,” said Mihal, who was hoisted to safety with a rope after about 20 minutes.
Mihal said it was a real downer on what had been a fine outing, but he doesn’t think he’ll go back to Annbriar to see if he can recapture the magic.
The 20-year-old course proclaims on its website that “each year new golfers are tested by our challenging 18 holes of golf.”
However, there’s no mention of its most challenging hole.
Quote of the day
“It’s life. Things happen
that you don’t have any control over.” Arkansas-Pine Bluff senior forward Terrell Kennedy, on missing out on the Southwestern Athletic Conference Tournament because of a postseason ban stemming from low Academic Progress Rate scores
Sports, Pages 24 on 03/13/2013