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Making funnies during Ravens game

Solomon Wilcots, who knew?

During today's Ravens-Bengals game, CBS' cameras caught a boy in the stands holding up a little Bengals banner, but he had it upside down. Wilcots said: "I think he knew exactly what he was doing."

Later on, when a graphic showed how some prominent quarterbacks performed when starting as rookies (to illustrate Joe Flacco's accomplishments this season), it included a photo of Boomer Esiason -- now a CBS commentator -- as a Bengals rookie. Taking note of Esiason's then-fashionable hair-parted-in-the-middle 'do, Ian Eagle added that what looked like a wispy mustache was just the residue of dessert: "That's pudding."

Posted by Ray Frager at 4:31 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

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Solomon Wilcots needs to ease up on the term "unflappable." He uses it about twice a quarter when talking about Joe Flacco and his poise. Every game at least 4 to 6 times a game.

Posted by: bmoreaggresive | November 30, 2008 8:36 PM

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About Ray Frager

Ray Frager joined The Baltimore Sun’s sports department in 1985 and has been an assistant sports editor for more than 15 years. This is his second stint writing a sports media column for The Baltimore Sun. Most sequels aren't as good as the original, but then, the original wasn't all that great either.

Frager, born in 1957, grew up in northern Delaware (graduating from a high school that since has shut down) and received his bachelor's degree in journalism from Rider College in Lawrenceville, N.J. He worked as a reporter and copy editor at The Trenton Times and The Dallas Morning News before coming to Baltimore.

Surprisingly, if you look at his accompanying photo, Frager is married and has a son and daughter. He enjoys playing basketball and has organized pickup games among members of The Baltimore Sun staff for many years, which means they don't get too mad at him for shooting way too much.

He has a good beat and is easy to dance to. I'd give him an 85.