Joe Montana Does Interview From Pierce College… About Brett Favre?
Joe Montanta says, "I like money."
Well, in what has to be one of the strangest quasi-local news items I’ve seen in a while, Retired NFL Quarterback and Hall of Famer Joe Montana resurfaced in the media today. Apparently, he was shooting a commercial at Woodland Hills’ Pierce College filming a commercial for Skechers (yesterday?) when he made time to do an interview about Brett Favre.
I can’t remember the last time Joe Montana was relevant, but apparently he said, in essence, that Brett Favre just delays and stalls on his announcements that he will be coming back for another season because he is a lazy old bastard who doesn’t want to go through training camp. I suspect the reason is more likely that Favre wants to put some time between his announcement that he is returning and the last time he completely choked in a huge game – again.
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — Joe Montana says he’s confident Brett Favre will be making another comeback — just before the start of the NFL season, like he’s done the last two seasons.
Montana, at Pierce College filming a television commercial, said he believes it’s only a matter of time before Favre returns to play for the Minnesota Vikings, the team he led to the NFC Championship Game last season.
Favre has remained undecided on his plans for the 2010 season.
“He says he’s not sure [about playing] because he doesn’t want to go to training camp. He’s smart,” Montana said. “I’m sure he already has that agreement with them. Nine chances out of 10 they already know and they’ve already had this whole conversation and they should just let everybody know because they know he’s going to come back.
“He knows he’s going to come back, but the reason they don’t say anything is because he doesn’t want to go through training camp,” Montana said. “If he didn’t have to go through training camp, his decision would already be made, but he should know by now going to training camp isn’t going to be hard. They’d never make it hard on him.”
Montana said Favre’s familiarity with the offense and the talent around him will make the transition from Favre’s couch in Kiln, Miss., to the football field seamless, even if Favre comes back in time for the final exhibition game.
“It’s easy once you know an offense and have been there for so many years,” Montana said. “All you really need is a couple quarters in a game and to get hit a couple times to get back in tune. You can get a lot of the other stuff in practices. It’s just getting used to that movement and feel of the game. You can easily do it if you’ve played enough years.”
While Montana, licking his fingers before firing spirals to extras on the set of a Sketchers commercial, said he wishes he could still suit up on Sundays, he said he never considered a comeback after his retirement 15 years ago. He added that he always wished he could have played a couple of more seasons the way Favre has.
“Anyone who has played the game, once you get away from it, you always want to try and find a way to get back,” Montana said. “You wish you were still playing but you know physically, unfortunately, it’s impossible. I can run a 4.5 in the first 20 yards but that’s it.
“I never even thought about coming back after I retired,” he said. “I wished I would have stayed and played a year or two but once you get past that point and retire there was no way I could have done it.”
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A Few Taft Alumni Launch New Raiders Fight Song Video
A good friend of mine, who is apparently a very big Raiders fan launched a video today on YouTube for a new fight song they’ve written, recorded, produced, etc. I told him I’d do him a favor and post it for him on the blog. Their band is Killroy, and 3 of the four members all graduated from Taft High School here in Woodland Hills. They are James Lane (’81), Thomas Spain (’82), and Eric Troop (’84).
Please feel free to leave a comment and let them know what you think. I’m not sure how I feel about that rock and roll music.
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NBA Wizard’s Gilbert Arenas Went To Taft High School
LA Times Image of Gilbert Arenas (He is making his OJ Simpson face.)
A pretty good article in the LA Times takes a look at the locker room gun drawing situation between Gilbert Arenas and his teammate Javaris Crittenton. I was surprised to recently learn that Arenas went to Taft High School here in Woodland Hills.
A little blurb from the LA Times article:
As a young player at Woodland Hills Taft High, Arenas was overlooked by all the biggies, getting a scholarship offer from Arizona only after another player pulled out.
No matter how high Arenas climbed, which was very high, indeed, it was easy to see no one trusted his success less than he did.
“He’s a very sweet kid, good natured, big heart, very giving when given a chance,” Howard Levine, his coach at Taft, once said, “but he’s got some issues. . . .
“He challenges everybody to, ‘What are you going to do, are you going to leave me?’ ”
Friendly, if loud, betting arguments with teammates and friends were frequent. Action was a way of life for Arenas, who once won a car in a video game with an old friend from the Valley, and collected.
If you’re into sports or the NBA the article is worth reading.
Correction (from the LA Times):
FOR THE RECORD:
Gilbert Arenas’ high school: An NBA column on an alleged incident involving handguns in the Washington Wizards’ locker room that appeared in Sunday’s Sports section said the Wizards’ Gilbert Arenas went to Woodland Hills Taft High. Arenas attended Van Nuys Grant.
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Some Good News For Taft, Kerstetter Dodges Bullet, Avoids Suspension
As previously reported, it was believed that Taft’s Coach Kerstetter would have to sit out the last game of the season. However, according to an article in the Daily News no one at the City Section “followed through,” so the suspension will not happen.
After an agonizing three days thinking he would be suspended, coach Matt Kerstetter of Taft of Woodland Hills will return to the sideline for Friday’s key West Valley League finale at Cleveland of Reseda.
Kerstetter was ejected last Friday after the game for arguing with an official in a 44-32 loss against Birmingham of Lake Balboa, but apparently no one followed through with the City Section, so Kerstetter does not have to sit out the next game.
“I just got an e-mail from John Aguirre, the assistant commissioner, and he cleared me,” Kerstetter said. “He said to chalk it up to a learning experience.”
There article also adds:
Taft (5-4, 3-1) must defeat Cleveland of Reseda (7-2, 3-1) to guarantee a City Div. I playoff spot.
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Taft Football Program About To Get Burned Due To Bercovici Shenanigan
Taft High School
Well, as previously reported, Taft played hard and fast with the City Section transfer rules this season, and got burned.
LA Times’ Eric Sondheimer writes:
Woodland Hills Taft’s football program is facing City Section punishment for allowing ineligible transfer quarterback Michael Bercovici to participate in the program in violation of rules, City Section assistant commissioner John Aguirre said today.
Aguirre has asked Taft administrators to write up an incident report, which will be forwarded to the City Section rules committee for possible disciplinary action.
Bercovici was declared ineligible last month by City Section Commissioner Barbara Fiege after transferring from Westlake, making him ineligible to participate in practice or games. But Bercovici allegedly has been at games on the sideline, participating with the team.
At this point, Taft’s disregard for the rules is pretty staggering. And it’s also sort of hypocritical considering the fracas that was made last week by Taft’s Koach Kerstetter over an official’s ignorance of a tripping rule.
I wonder where the next stop is for Bercovici?
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Taft Hopeful Bercovici Will Gain Eligibility, Hearing Set For Nov 12
Eric Sondheimer writes for LA Times:
Woodland Hills Taft continues to hope that junior quarterback Michael Bercovici, a transfer from Westlake, will gain his eligibility from the City Section.
Sondheimer also told me in a Twitter message this week that Bercovici has a hearing set for the issue on November 12th.
In other Woodland Hills football news, El Camino Real recovers from its loss last week to Taft and defeats Cleveland 19 to 7.
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Taft Coach Kerstetter Gets Ejected, Must Sit Out Season Finale Next Week
Taft got a little complacent after last week’s big win against El Camino Real and lost what should have been a relatively easy game against Birmingham on Friday. Tempers flared up due to a missed ‘tripping’ call and Kersetter ended up getting a post game ejection, which means he has to sit out the game this week.
It was shocking enough when Birmingham of Lake Balboa upset heavily favored Taft of Woodland Hills 44-32 on Friday.
But the aftermath is even bigger.
So upset was Taft coach Matt Kerstetter that he berated an official after the game and was ejected, which technically didn’t mean anything at the time – but now Kerstetter must sit out Taft’s finale Friday at Cleveland of Reseda, per section rules whenever someone is ejected.
Check out the full article for more details.
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