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04-27-2003, 06:39 PM
On Friday, we reported that there is "mutual interest" between the Chiefs coach Dick Vermeil and the Rams regarding a possible reunion in 2004, if coach Mike Martz gets the shoe after 2003.
So while everyone else in the Chiefs' organization otherwise was focusing on the draft, Vermeil's personal secretary, Suzette Cox, was firing off an e-mail to us regarding the report.
Said Ms. Cox: "Coach Vermeil was made of aware of your recent column regarding the possibility of him going back to the St. Louis Rams. For your information, that is not going to happen, period."
Hmmm. Might we have struck a nerve here?
Of course, there's no guarantee that Ms. Cox was sending this message at the specific behest of her boss. (But if she decided to contact us on her own, it might be a good time for her to blow the dust off of the ol' resume.)
Assuming that Ms. Cox was acting on an instruction from Vermeil, we can't figure out why Vermeil felt compelled to respond. In our experience, the categorical denial of obscure rumors serves only to give the rumors more credence.
Regardless, we couldn't resist replying to Ms. Cox:
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thanks for your message. i don't expect folks to admit that rumors of this nature are true. we still stand by the report that there's mutual interest between the coach and the rams, in the event that martz gets bounced.
for what it's worth, i suspect that the coach would've had the same reaction if someone had reported his possible emergence out of retirement in '01 months before it occurred.
mike f.
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Our story also caught the attention of St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Bernie Miklasz, who gave the report some exposure, while at the same time implicitly suggesting that it's a B.S. rumor from a B.S. site.
Hey, Bernie, we'd have much more respect for you if you didn't make backhanded insults. Why don't you have the sack to tell it like you think it is?
For example, Bern, if we wanted to make fun of your fat guy dress shirt with a neck line so low that it almost shows your cleavage, we wouldn't beat around the bush -- we'd just say it.
http://profootballtalk.com/rumormill.htm
So while everyone else in the Chiefs' organization otherwise was focusing on the draft, Vermeil's personal secretary, Suzette Cox, was firing off an e-mail to us regarding the report.
Said Ms. Cox: "Coach Vermeil was made of aware of your recent column regarding the possibility of him going back to the St. Louis Rams. For your information, that is not going to happen, period."
Hmmm. Might we have struck a nerve here?
Of course, there's no guarantee that Ms. Cox was sending this message at the specific behest of her boss. (But if she decided to contact us on her own, it might be a good time for her to blow the dust off of the ol' resume.)
Assuming that Ms. Cox was acting on an instruction from Vermeil, we can't figure out why Vermeil felt compelled to respond. In our experience, the categorical denial of obscure rumors serves only to give the rumors more credence.
Regardless, we couldn't resist replying to Ms. Cox:
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thanks for your message. i don't expect folks to admit that rumors of this nature are true. we still stand by the report that there's mutual interest between the coach and the rams, in the event that martz gets bounced.
for what it's worth, i suspect that the coach would've had the same reaction if someone had reported his possible emergence out of retirement in '01 months before it occurred.
mike f.
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Our story also caught the attention of St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Bernie Miklasz, who gave the report some exposure, while at the same time implicitly suggesting that it's a B.S. rumor from a B.S. site.
Hey, Bernie, we'd have much more respect for you if you didn't make backhanded insults. Why don't you have the sack to tell it like you think it is?
For example, Bern, if we wanted to make fun of your fat guy dress shirt with a neck line so low that it almost shows your cleavage, we wouldn't beat around the bush -- we'd just say it.
http://profootballtalk.com/rumormill.htm