Orange and Teal

Future of Orange and Teal

Hey everybody. Sorry to be so out of touch the past few weeks. Let me assure you it has nothing to do with the Dolphins play as of late, which has been good until yesterday. As for the future of the site I think I’m going to mothball it for the rest of the season. Work commitments and the other two blogs I run are a bit more pressing. Plus, I like just being a fan of the Dolphins without the constant commentary. I got burned out on writing about music in the same way but that took about eight years. This was about eight months. Not good.

Anyway, I apologize to those out there that were so supportive since launching. Thanks for all the kind words along the way. And if you really miss me commenting and complaining you can always check out www.firejeffzucker.com and www.fightingthesuburbs.com.

A/V Set-Up, Perfect for Watching the Dolphins Lose

Here’s an update on my new home theater set-up for those tired of reading about the Dolphins’ woes. I’m really not jazzed to be blogging about the team right now. I’m sure everyone notices my anti-excitement. I’d rather just fast forward to the end of the season and talk off-season moves, draft etc. Is that wrong?

Moving Hiatus Over Tomorrow

Hello readers. We apologize for taking so long to update the site but we’re in the middle of a hellacious move (soon to be discussed on a new blog) that should be over, meaning the Internet will be back, tomorrow. Thanks for sticking with us through our own technical difficulties.

New Place, Dave’s Media Report

OK guys, I’ll do a full install report later, but so far everything I’m waiting to get installed in the new place is ordered or in already. Check it out here.

Dave's Back

Hey guys. Sorry to be so out of it lately. Living out of a suitcase is getting to me and even though I’m at work an hour earlier than usual I have been backlogged with stuff. But now I’ve got an area for blogging games live which is nice. I also am commish of my fantasy league and we had our draft Sunday. So if any of you know the feeling I’m a bit wiped out.

As I mentioned before we have a keeper league and I used a blog on TypePad to do it with comments being the picks. It worked great! Went a little long, almost three hours but that was because of one newcomer and me having to update the blog and pick for two absent teams and myself. Crazy. Anyway click below for my draft. Non-bold players were kept. I picked 9th out of a 10 team league. We had two last day drop-outs too!

Dave Update

Hey everybody. Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I’ve been busy moving and have been without home Internet access since Sunday. It’s like living in the dark ages I tell you. I’ll try and post more from now on.

Otherwise quick thoughts on the first pre-season game:

Culpepper looked good…handing off. But seriously I don’t care how he looks in the first game of pre-season, I care how he looks the first week of the regular season. More important was Joey Harrington’s passing. He looked solid. If Culpepper wasn’t our starter I’d want Joey to get the chance to prove to Detroit it wasn’t all his fault.

My biggest rave goes to Will Allen. He was everywhere it seemed. Hopefully he too can redeem himself in the eyes of his NY Giant detractors. Jason Allen, he has a lot of work to do but what can you expect from him missing so much camp. Time for a rookie cap people!

Alright, back to getting my fantasy team together.

The Not-So-Wild Dolphin Off-Season

I don’t even have to tell you that football anticipation is now sky high across the country. Training camp starts Saturday and then it’s only a week until the Hall of Fame Game. A week! That means it’s time to offer my musings on this long and laborious drought of Dolphins joy called Summer.

Besides Ricky Williams getting hurt in Canada there has been little violence revolving around the Dolphins. While teams throughout the league we’re dealing with felon players, yeah I’m talking to you Bengals, the Dolphins roster stayed relatively clean. And they live in South Beach’s backyard where so many other NFLers get in trouble. Yeah I’m talking to you Santonio.

The only exception to the rule was Siddeeq Shabazz being “investigated” for assault…at a Wal-Mart. That’s quality right there. You know it's quiet when a star player getting a divorce (with no domestic abuse involved) is the big news. Otherwise the overwhelming impression has been how quiet our off-season has been. Saban is running this ship tighter than William Bligh and it doesn’t seem anyone is even whispering mutiny. To me that is the best indication of how we’ll do this year.

What’s in store for Orange and Teal in 2006? I’ll be moving so that means a new flat screen TV.

Otherwise we’ll be doing some live blogging during games. Showcasing more photos from Dolphin Stadium and you even get Away coverage from the Bears game! I’m looking forward to it.

What To Do When There’s No Dolphins News

Sorry that the blog is so sparse. I know you guys are all waiting on news. Well, there isn’t any. I have a secret correspondent/photo journalist ready to report on training camp so stay tuned for that. In the meantime I’ve started a new full time job at cars.com running their new blog for car buyers.

I also launched a new TV themed blog that my wife and I edit called firejeffzucker.com. So that’s how we keep busy around the house.

Funny Dolphin story: One of the higher ups at cars.com here in Chicago is a huge Dolphins fan and used to live in South Florida. He still has season tickets! We’re everywhere. Everywhere!

Where’s Dave Today?

I’m heading up to Road America in Wisconsin for the annual Spring Rally for Midwest Automotive Writers (I’m a Midwestern automotive journalist before Dolphins blogger). It’s a pretty nifty program. The automakers bring out most of their new vehicles for the journos to flog on a very fast track. So fast that they actually close off the severely dangerous parts so we don’t kill ourselves.

I’ll be reporting on it over on Jalopnik on Wednesday. Needless to say I’ll be too busy racing to blog about the Dolphins that much. But please email me if anything crazy breaks.

DIY OAT Widget For Widget Fans

The wonderful Chris Whitehurst has created a customizable rss widget so that anyone can create an Orange and Teal widget and not have to keep coming back to the site to check out the latest news. Simply go here, download the DIY widget (if you’re not familiar with widgets they are cool little tools that hover over your desktop and report on the weather, news et al. Yahoo has an easy to download program here to get you started).

After you download the DIY widget, paste in the code for OAT, http://deadlinepublishing.typepad.com/orange_and_teal/index.rdf, into the preferences and you’re set. Shoot the default color is even orange.