Wade Phillips Had "Tumor The Size Of A Volleyball"
by Tim on Jan 2, 2012 9:46 PM CST
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PrintWith the holiday weekend, the regular season finale, and the upcoming playoff game, you, like me, may well have missed that Bum Phillips was inducted into the Texas Bowl Gridiron Legends on Saturday. That's noteworthy in and of itself.
What's even more amazing, however, is this story from the Port Arthur News. Seems that Bob West, a reporter for the PA News, visited with Bum and learned that Wade Phillips, beloved defensive coordinator of your Houston Texans, may well be one of the toughest SOBs around. After all, it's not often a guy with a "tumor the size of a volleyball" is back at work in less than two weeks.
Texans fans are fired up about Wade Phillips returning as defensive coordinator on Sunday, and rightfully so, although he will be working from the upstairs coaches’ box. Listening to Bum talk about Wade’s recent health issue, and seeing him briefly Saturday morning, left me convinced he’s really pushing himself to return so soon. According to Bum in remarks at the Gridiron Legends reception, Wade had “a tumor the size of a volleyball that encompassed his kidney and his gall bladder, so he had them all taken out. He’s got a scar about this long.” At that point, Bum held his hands about a foot apart. Bum also said the tumor was not malignant. In visiting with Wade, it was obvious he’s lost a lot of weight. He said he’d be restricted to working from the upstairs for as long as the Texans season goes . . .
Incredible. Chuck Norris has nothing on Wade Phillips. Nothing.
Tip o' the cap to mjmtx18 for pointing this bit of news out to me.
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Daaaayum
Dallas Cowboys, all hat and no cattle since 1996.
"Will it never be noon?" Duke of Orleans to the Dauphin and Constable of France every Sunday before the Texans play.
by Jonathan Fosburgh on Jan 2, 2012 9:52 PM CST reply actions
Who do you think knows more about running a defense?
Frank Bush or Wade Phillips’ tumor?
Damn you vile woman, you've impeded my work since the day I escaped your vile womb ...
by JMFC on Jan 2, 2012 9:56 PM CST reply actions 26 recs
Let this be green.
Dallas Cowboys, all hat and no cattle since 1996.
"Will it never be noon?" Duke of Orleans to the Dauphin and Constable of France every Sunday before the Texans play.
by Jonathan Fosburgh on Jan 2, 2012 9:58 PM CST up reply actions
Breaking: Wade Phillips' tumor has been signed by the Tennessee Titans to coach their Linebackers for 2012.
“Hell, it couldn’t get any worse—I can’t figure out what we were thinking hiring that other guy.”
-Mike Munchak
by Karsh on Jan 2, 2012 10:19 PM CST up reply actions 7 recs
Awesome.
"You mean, besides two chicks at the same time?"
by Ezekiel 25 17 on Jan 3, 2012 11:11 AM CST up reply actions
and goo'd
"The greatest danger in planning for tomorrow is using yesterdays logic."
Marc Kahlberg
"Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them." - George Orwell
I think we will learn that the Bo$$man was right
by Barryfromtexas on Jan 3, 2012 1:39 PM CST up reply actions
Rule 8008.5(d)'d
'Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.' -Frank Herbert
Did you mean nothing on wade phillps tim?
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by Carter Liles on Jan 2, 2012 10:10 PM CST via mobile reply actions
nice catch...
'Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.' -Frank Herbert
Had to have been.
Bum doesn’t sound to good these days. Chuck would probably kill him just by walking in the same room.
Damn you vile woman, you've impeded my work since the day I escaped your vile womb ...
Damn that's crazy...
And I know this is off topic, but I just laughed watching the Simpsons now. It’s the Canyonero episode. It always reminds me of Battle Red Radio now lol
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by RaY210 on Jan 2, 2012 10:15 PM CST via mobile reply actions
virtual fading into virtual fading into virtual...
'Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.' -Frank Herbert
i swear kareem is bigger than a volleyball.
- Feeling the five stages of grief since 2002.
"It's either gonna make you a man or a coward. One of the two. I'm a be a man. I ain't never seen a coward, heard a coward, coward not in ma vocabulary." - Lawrence Vickers
by NoSafetiesNeeded on Jan 2, 2012 10:17 PM CST reply actions 8 recs
But he's much harder to remove
A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.--Washington Irving
by Foster Child on Jan 3, 2012 6:08 AM CST up reply actions 2 recs
Not to impune the veracity of the statement by the Honorable Ambassador to the World Phillips, but...
I can’t imagine Bum exaggerating a little talking to a gathering of Gridiron Guru’s, can you?
'Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.' -Frank Herbert
I'm starting to think that Bum is hilariously revealing things people aren't supposed to know
He broke the news about TJ’s AC separation and now he’s telling everyone what’s up with his son.
Agreed
That’s why I had to create a special tag to pay homage to Bum’s candor about other people’s medical issues.
Looking forward to a day when being a Texans fan doesn't mean that April is the highlight of my season...
He's a living breathing HIPA-violating legend.
"Each in turn... volunteered his suggestions, his invaluable suggestions."
Snitches get stitches, Bum.
Can’t tell that dude anything….
Damn you vile woman, you've impeded my work since the day I escaped your vile womb ...
Thank god it was benig
And not malig nant.
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by tehGrindCrusher on Jan 2, 2012 10:46 PM CST via mobile reply actions 7 recs
I'm just glad
it wasn’t in his esso-faygus.
I have not yet begun to defile myself.
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by MDC on Jan 3, 2012 9:33 AM CST up reply actions 5 recs
So glad that he HAD a tumor
Instead of the present tense form HAS
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by JayRedd on Jan 3, 2012 12:11 AM CST up reply actions 2 recs
I believe in him.
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by tehGrindCrusher on Jan 3, 2012 8:00 AM CST up reply actions
Coming back so early? Must be the arrogance.
by jkcheng122 on Jan 3, 2012 10:00 AM CST up reply actions 6 recs
i lol'd
- Feeling the five stages of grief since 2002.
"It's either gonna make you a man or a coward. One of the two. I'm a be a man. I ain't never seen a coward, heard a coward, coward not in ma vocabulary." - Lawrence Vickers
by NoSafetiesNeeded on Jan 3, 2012 11:39 AM CST up reply actions
yepper'd
'Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.' -Frank Herbert
I thought he looked slimmer
PS…when Chuck Norris jumps into a pool, Chuck Norris doesn’t get wet, the pool gets Chuck Norris!!!
by Its Gonna Happen on Jan 3, 2012 1:04 AM CST via mobile reply actions
You guys have to be careful
I remember Bum from the good ole days, and he is massively prone to exaggeration, and even sometime just outright tweeking the media.
If everybody was somebody, then nobody would be anybody - Gilbert and Sullivan
^^This.
Loves me some Bum, but he is a classic, country-boy bullshitter. I mean that in a good way—he is just having fun—but it would be entirely out of character for Bum to just tell the straight facts about any story.
The 64-year-old Phillips tried to keep the extent of his medical condition private, but his dad Bum Phillips told the crowd at a weekend reception for the Texas Bowl Gridiron Legends that his son had "a tumor the size of a volleyball that encompassed his kidney and his gall bladder, so he had them all taken out," as reported by Bob West of The Port Arthur News. Bum Phillips also held his hands about a foot apart and said Wade Phillips had a scar “about this long,” according to West.
Now, Bum Phillips can embellish a story better than anyone. But even if the old Oilers coach isn’t exactly 100 percent precise on just how big the tumor in his son was, it puts a new light on just what the defensive coordinator who’s changed everything for the Texans is going through. Bum Phillips did say the tumor wasn’t malignant, which matches with one of the few public remarks Wade Phillips made on his condition — that it wasn’t cancerous.
http://austin.culturemap.com/newsdetail/01-03-12-atx-old-school-tough-houston-texans-wade-phillips-comes-back-from-tumor-only-asks-for-a-better-damn-chair/
Whatever - I hope they sort the "comfortable chair" issue for Wade up in the box
I’m waiting for Mattress Mack to offer up a laz-e-boy
by Kidaster on Jan 3, 2012 5:04 AM CST reply actions 5 recs
Maybe Terry Bradshaw can lend him his
"All our lives we're taught to get in line. The ones who conform never discover." - Undrafted Free Agent and NFL Rushing Leader Arian Foster
Haha I've been gone a long time from Houston...I didn't even realize he was still there
That dude was doing commercials in the 70’s
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Wade battlefought the hell out of that tumor
just like the Texans are going to do to the Bengals Saturday.
A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.--Washington Irving
I have this image of Wade loaded up on percoset
happy, oblivious to the outside world, coaching his best game ever.
"Each in turn... volunteered his suggestions, his invaluable suggestions."
"Fuck it. Cover zero all game"
Damn you vile woman, you've impeded my work since the day I escaped your vile womb ...
"Sweep the leg Kareem, sweep the leg."
“swear to God I’ll get something out of you this game”
"Each in turn... volunteered his suggestions, his invaluable suggestions."
meh.
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Easy fix
Stop eating razor blades.
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by tehGrindCrusher on Jan 3, 2012 12:08 PM CST up reply actions
I thought about that reply
But determined it was far too easy.
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by Jonathan Fosburgh on Jan 3, 2012 12:11 PM CST up reply actions
twss
"The greatest danger in planning for tomorrow is using yesterdays logic."
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"Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them." - George Orwell
I think we will learn that the Bo$$man was right
by Barryfromtexas on Jan 3, 2012 1:38 PM CST up reply actions
and rec'd
- Feeling the five stages of grief since 2002.
"It's either gonna make you a man or a coward. One of the two. I'm a be a man. I ain't never seen a coward, heard a coward, coward not in ma vocabulary." - Lawrence Vickers
by NoSafetiesNeeded on Jan 3, 2012 2:40 PM CST up reply actions
...it's the jalapenoes...
Remind you just how alive you can be.
'Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.' -Frank Herbert
old line from Grumpy Old Men actually.
should’ve referenced it…
but explaining the obscure takes away from the joke. lol
http://www.hark.com/clips/xzlzzlrtrh-farting-razor-blades
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Gob: It's not like envy, or even hungry...
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by MeMongo on Jan 3, 2012 12:37 PM CST reply actions 12 recs
always gets a rec!
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