The Zac Brown Band has one of the hottest songs right now on 93.1 The River. So, who are these guys? I've been listening to their music on line, and I'm impressed. Here are a couple of links. Be sure to listen to their other songs on myspace

Zac Brown Band - Myspace

Official Website

Racey sent me this email.  It's pretty good.  Give it a read.

-Adam 

New York Timer

Nothing -- not age, injuries, ferocious linebackers, weather, or freak accidents --
has been able to slow Brett Favre since he became a starting NFL quarterback in
1992. For an NFL-record 275 consecutive regular season and playoff games, Favre has
been firmly planted as a starting quarterback, rewriting the league record book
along the way.

However, Brett Favre has never met Bill Callahan.

Callahan, the first-year offensive line coach for Favre's new team, the New York
Jets, looks forward to being the man who finally breaks Favre's streak of
consecutive starts. 

'Anytime you can take a streak of historical significance and personally be
responsible for its conclusion, that's a tremendous credit to the individual
responsible for bringing the streak to its end,' explained Callahan. 'By and large,
I've done a tremendous job ending streaks, and I know in my heart of hearts that I
am more than capable of bringing this one to an end as well.'

In just four historic years as head coach at the University of Nebraska, Callahan's
propensity for ending streaks garnered him multiple entries in the Cornhusker
vaunted record books. For instance, Nebraska had not suffered through a losing
season in more than 40 consecutive years, which was an ongoing NCAA record. That
hallowed streak succumbed immediately to Callahan's touch, as he led Nebraska to a
losing record in just his first year on the job. 

'I made no secret about my ambition to flip that culture in Lincoln,' Callahan
recalls proudly. 'And it took me very little time to do just that. To take a 10-win
program and flip it to a 5-win program within one year's time, I think it takes a
certain level of competence to achieve such a turnaround. Unfortunately, there were
those involved in that particular program who did not have the intellectual capacity
to grasp the difficulty of such a milestone.'

Nebraska had appeared in an NCAA-record 35 consecutive bowl streaks prior to
Callahan's introduction to the program. He quickly erased that streak as well.

'There is only one bowl in the NFL,' Callahan said, 'and I'm not sure if you've
heard of it. It's called the Super Bowl. And I've coached in it. To be particularly
candid and blunt, I have little interest in coaching a football team in any bowl
other than the Super Bowl, and I think my performance has been consistent with that
philosophy.'

Other streaks, such as Nebraska's 36-game win streak over Kansas, fell quickly by
the wayside under Callahan's watch. 

'My biggest personal disappointment is that I was not able to end the streak of
sellouts at Memorial Stadium,' lamented Callahan. 'The streak is clearly the
byproduct of living in an isolated state where intellectual stimulation is difficult
to obtain. Ending that streak would have been a tremendous accomplishment, a feather
in my cap if you will, in terms of changing the atmosphere of that state away from
childish football adulation and into a more sophisticated intellectual scenario.'

Callahan envisions ending Favre's streak by the end of September. Specifically, he
has his eye on the Jets' game at San Diego on September 22, set for a Monday Night
Football telecast, where Callahan hopes his influence can be seen by a nationwide
audience.

To that end, he is introducing his own unique version of a zone blocking scheme that
has, historically, had little to no effect on defensive linemen or linebackers. In
Callahan's opinion, pairing such schemes with the aging legs of a 38-year-old
quarterback make it a matter of when, not if, Favre's streak of consecutive starts
comes to an end.

'Your typical fan or reporter, lay people, tend to focus more on how certain
techniques and alignments appear on the football field to their own naked, untrained
eye,' Callahan explained, 'but they have little appreciation or regard for how
certain zone blocking philosophies appear when diagrammed to perfection on paper. 

'My blocking schemes, and my offensive schemes in general, are certainly a thing of
esoteric beauty. There are those of us who understand them, and to us, they are a
source of pleasure. There are those who focus on overrated minutia such as sacks,
yardage, touchdowns, and victories, and I am frankly not concerned with their
opinions.'

JAY HUNTLEY 

The Chris Cagle concert at the Dawson County Fair was a blast. Reggie Shaw
opened the concert and put on a wonderful performance. After Reggie, Chris
took the stage and everyone went crazy. He put on an amazing show.
At one point in the concert, Cagle took my camera and made his own video.
It was pretty cool! Check it out below!

- River Intern, Leah Rieke