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Covering every angle of Rex Ryan’s finger
By Ted Berg - Feb 1, 2010 5:30 pm

SNY.tv has you totally covered on The Great Rex Ryan Middle Finger Incident of 2010, and I’d be remiss if I covered a full day of middle-finger related items without linking to Mike Salfino’s excellent take on the matter:
You suffer with your fans and customers when you conduct yourself privately in a way that is [...]

From the Wikipedia: The finger
By Ted Berg - Feb 1, 2010 4:22 pm

Hilariously, the finger — as in the middle finger, the bird, the flip-off — has its own Wikipedia page. And it’s your day, the finger.
From the Wikipedia: The finger.
You already knew that the finger is an obscene gesture created by showing the back of the hand while extending only the middle finger upwards, and that [...]

Middle fingers of yesteryear: John Franco
By Ted Berg - Feb 1, 2010 3:02 pm

For some reason, I was absolutely sure John Franco had flipped off the Shea Stadium crowd at one point or another — or maybe on multiple occasions — but I can’t find any documentation of it online.
All I can dig up is this story about Franco straining a tendon in his middle finger. I’ll just [...]

Great middle fingers caught on video
By Ted Berg - Feb 1, 2010 1:34 pm

Note: The following videos are unsafe for work, if you somehow work someplace where you’d get fired for watching videos of people getting flipped off.
This is the greatest moment in math-teacher history. Every high-school math teacher secretly reveres Edward James Olmos:

Also, great Lou Diamond Phillips work in that scene. And in every scene. My [...]

Rex Ryan eating a dolphin
By Ted Berg - Feb 1, 2010 1:15 pm

I got no response from my PETA-baiting last week, so maybe this will help. This image comes courtesy of Pavan, and I believe it speaks for itself:

Note: TedQuarters does not officially endorse eating dolphins because I live in fear of the dolphin uprising.

Middle fingers of yesteryear: Jack McDowell
By Ted Berg - Feb 1, 2010 12:40 pm

Former Cy Young Award winner and alternative rock guitarist Jack McDowell’s one year in Yankee pinstripes was marked by 15 wins, 157 strikeouts and one extended middle finger.
His was the disillusioned, Kurt Cobain variety of the gesture, the depressed grunge-rocker wildly and ineffectively firing back at a world he felt could never truly understand him.
But [...]

Rex Ryan extends middle finger of awesomeness
By Ted Berg - Feb 1, 2010 11:36 am

So Rex Ryan gave the finger to a bunch of Dolphins fans yesterday at a MMA event outside Miami. This made the back cover of the Daily News, Post and Newsday, because we’re apparently supposed to be all broken up and sanctimonious about it.

What I don’t get is exactly which Jets fan that loves Rex [...]

Items of note
By Ted Berg - Feb 1, 2010 9:49 am

Joel Sherman writes about phonetic phenom Jack Zduriencik, the one that got away in the Mets’ front office.
After reading just about the saddest scene imaginable in Joe Posnanski’s the Soul of Baseball, it’s really good to hear about Willie Mays smiling.
Apparently Pitt is heading to the Big 10. Should make the college hoops season a [...]