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Peter Schrager
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Every week, FOX Sports NFL Insider Peter Schrager opens his notebook and opines on three of the biggest storylines around the league. Here are his takes heading into Week 8, including love for Jared Goff, Steve Spagnoulo and the Los Angeles Rams.
1. Jared Goff is… Ron Burgundy
I’ve probably seen the movie “Anchorman: Legend of Ron Burgundy” 100 times. If I’m in a funk, “Anchorman.” If I’m sick, the spot that “Price is Right” had in my routine as a kid has been replaced by “Anchorman” as an adult. Long flight? And I’m on many… “Anchorman” never fails.
And over the years, my “favorite” character has changed. I could write a 2,000-word college thesis on the comedic decisions Steve Carrell made in playing Brick Tamland. For a while there, I’d start a dinner party or golf trip with a serious face and explain how Paul Rudd’s greatest role was Brian Fantana, oddly one of his first in a long line of comedic ones in his decorated career. I could sing from the mountaintops about David Koechner’s Champ Kind, make the case for Fred Willard’s Edward “Ed” (I always love how Ed is in quotations) Harken, and think Christina Applegate’s Veronica Corningstone is the perfect character; a comedic foil played subtly with some scene stealers of her own. Even Vince Vaughn’s Wes Mantooth and Jack Black’s role as a motorcyclist are perfect scene stealers.
And yet, on the tenth, twentieth, thirtieth, five hundredth viewing — though it may be trendier or better fodder to say otherwise — I come away just blown away by Will Ferrell’s work as Ron Burgundy. It might not be revelatory or some eyebrow-raising take — but he’s the best in the film. He’s where the list of greatness — and there’s a lot — starts and ends.
So, why the 500-word vintage Bill Simmons (wannabe?) preamble on “Anchorman,” a twenty-year-old comedy, in a football column?
Because that’s how I feel about Jared Goff…
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Publish date : 2024-10-22 21:26:23
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