This was the epitomy of this week’s Monday Night Football game.
This is such a heart warming story.
By the way, I used to think The Onion was so lame, but they’ve really got it going on as of recently.
Thanks: Tommy O.
No need to waste too many key strokes on this story, but after yesterday’s injury to Ricky Williams (although the announcers say it was incidental, I believe it was malicious), Ricky is out for the year. Whatever.
Hulk Hogan’s life really sucks right now. His dirtbag, white trash 17 year old son has been arrested on charges of drunk driving and speeding, which resulted in an accident that left his friend in a coma for the past few months. Now, his wife Linda Bollea is divorcing him and demanding half his money ASAP.
Blurb:
Linda is seeking to split the couple’s assets, which include the 17,000-square-foot Bel Air mansion where the family primarily lives and a 3,474-square-foot home in Clearwater Beach, Fla., as well as a condo under construction in Las Vegas. The two existing homes alone are worth nearly $9.5 million.
Gentlemen, if this teaches you anything, it should be "don’t marry a platinum-haired, stipper-looking bitch". Poor Hulk.
I wish the NFL and NCAA gave referees more discretion to be more description in their announcements of penalties. Check out this refs explanation of a penalty that occured in the Maryland Terps game this past Saturday. Amazing!
There’s no point in posting about the Sean Taylor story as news, because by now, there isn’t a soul who doesn’t know the details of the incident.
When I first heard what happened, that he was shot in the leg and at some point he supposedly clenched his fist in the hospital, showing signs of life, I thought he’d be back in the league next season. I can’t even explain how shocked I was this morning to find out he didn’t make it.
In a 12 month period of time, the University of Miami football family has dealt with three major tragedies:
1. Bryan Pata murdered outside his apartment,
2. Kevin Everett’s neck injury, and
3. Sean Taylor.
I realize that UM’s "Thug U" reputation is likely one of the first thoughts in most peoples’ minds as they think about this incident, but it really shouldn’t be. Aside from from a fight and a rap song, UM has been a clean program, but I don’t even want to get into that now because this should be about focusing on Sean Taylor’s rememberance.
From a personal standpoint, Sean Taylor’s last season at Miami was the year I graduated from undergrad there, and was one of my favorite players. Struggling with Brock Berlin at the helm, Sean Taylor had big game after big game, and helped the ‘Canes to an 11-2 record in 2003. Taylor was one of the biggest hitters the Hurricanes and the new generation NFL have seen, and was a rare type of player who could actually take a game over from the safety position.
Whether or not there was some type of foul play involved by Sean Taylor either in this incident or leading up to this incident, being murdered in cold blood, albeit in his own home with 18-month old child nearby, is one of the most despicable acts I have learned of in a long time.
My prayers are with Sean Taylor’s family and friends.
Great up to date story: CNN.
Video:
Given the option, I would eat every meal for the rest of my life off that ass on the right.
This has been one of the most exciting weekends of football I can remember, starting Friday at noon and ending at about 11:30 Sunday night.
Unfortunately, this (Monday) morning I must visit the Miami-Dade Juvenile Detention Center to recruit do a mock interview for a law school class, so the morning updates will be non-existent. However, a couple things involving college football (and mainly Ohio State) have been bugging me, and it’s been amplified immensely since this weekend.
1. Don’t tell me the college football regular season is already like a playoff. Off the top of my head, we’ve seen the likes of Nebraska make it to the BCS Championship after getting blown out in their last regular season game to Colorado (while not even making it to the Big 12 Championship), Oklahoma make it to the big dance after losing their last game, and we’re possibly on the verge of seeing Ohio State make it to the big game while sitting at home, after losing their second to last game.
As it is, the BCS favors teams who play in shitty "Big" conferences (Big 12, Big 10, Big East), which also coincidentally don’t schedule very difficult out of conference games. Looking back, Missouri, West Virginia, and Ohio State have had cake schedules. Check out the schedulesof some of the two and three loss teams from the SEC, who not only have to get through their tough in conference opponents, but then they have to go out of conference and play solid teams that are out for blood and motivated like hell to beat them.
2. Don’t tell me Ohio State vs. Michigan is the Big 10 Championship game. Firstly, we’ll all assume that Michigan doesn’t blow ass chunks and that this could be a competitive game. With that assumption, other teams who do play conference championships actually play other quality opponents prior to said conference championship. Essentially, Ohio State’s regular season consists of all preseason games until their one big game against Michigan. Then, they make it to a bowl game and either:
a. get blown out, or
b. ensure they have a referee in the game on payroll to throw a yellow flag in a very necessary spot.
One example of a team that could benefit from a playoff system is Virginia Tech. This is a team that started out slow, who happened to play an LSU team that started strong, and got killed. Then, a few weeks ago lost another game that they dominated for 58 minutes that included onside kicks and prayers by Boston College. Had V-Tech played an Ohio State-like schedule, they would scratch LSU off the list, and be looking at one unlucky loss, and probably be sitting at number 1 in the current BCS standings. If V-Tech plays Ohio State tomorrow, the Hokies win by at least a touchdown 7 out of 10 times.
Look at this schedule. Ohio State played two opponents that are currently ranked in the Top 25, and none are higher than 15. How can Ohio State be deserving at a another chance at the championship game but a team like Hawaii isn’t? Look, I’m in no way politicing that Hawaii should be playing in Louisiana come January, but wouldn’t it be fun to see them give it a shot in a playoff, and possibly stick it to the Buckeyes?
People, don’t be fooled by the fact that we are going to have an entertaining championship weekend and National Championship game. This system still sucks and needs to be changed. The best chance we have at a change is Missouri losing this weekend and WVU blowing OSU out 66-10 in the National Championship. As great as it’d be, I just don’t have it in me to root for to get a shot at the game.
Oklahoma, do what’s right, throw the game.
Should Michigan even want Les Miles? Methinks no.
Let’s visit his coaching stumbles this year:
1. Why not start with the loss? Triple overtime against Kentucky. Benjamin Franklin said the definition of insanity is the doing same thing over and over and expecting different results. Miles decides to run the ball up the middle (with a white guy nonetheless) four straight times, and Kentucky wins the ball game.
2. Auburn. My memory is a bit fuzzy because I had a sick afternoon hangover from the Miami vs Florida State game, but I remember Les Miles calling for a deep pass with barely any time left, while down by one point, when all they needed was a field goal to win the game. Granted, they won the game, but the consistent bad calls show up.
3. Arkansas. I’m not going to complain about Dorsey not being on the field for the majority of the end of the game, because at this point, I don’t know whether or not he was injured, but I can call Miles out on a few awful calls in this game. First of all, with just over two minutes left, LSU had 4th and 1 at around the 50, and they call a play action throw to the left that may have been behind the line of scrimmage. Whatever, they got it.
Then, with 55 seconds left in the game, they have third and goal with three timeouts left. . .at this point, the game is coming down to these next two downs. Miles is running onto the field, breaking his f-cking wrists to call timeouts, on both third and fourth down, giving Arkansas time to have a chance to win it.
Miles, let the 25 seconds run down, then call your time outs, so you have about 15 seconds left for your final two plays. Thankfully, Arkansas is a one man band and even McFadden wasn’t enough to give them a last second field goal to win the game in regulation.
The bottom line is that Miles has a team full of a ton of seniors who shoud’ve coasted to the National Championship this year, but with games against Auburn and Florida, he’s looking at a possible 8-4 season. Yeah, the SEC is the best conference in football, and if you argue against that, then you’re just trying to force your favorite team’s conference into the mix. For some reason, everyone thinks Miles is a god. But the truth of the matter is that he’s only in the talks for the Michigan job because a clause in his contract proves that he wants job. I think he’s going to get it, but I think he’ll be a disappoint. Nothing could be worse than Lloyd Carr, so it may be a minor improvement, but Miles isn’t the guy for the job. On the flip side, the Big 10 is a butt awful conference, so even someone with as little coaching experience as my grandmother could run the table, but Miles just isn’t that great.
PS I’m drunk as I post this.
