O Canada

With the end of the winter olympic games for this go round, I was left with a few lasting impressions:

If you saw the gold medal hockey game between Canada and the USA (the one that involved the men...the women's match was more exciting during the post game celebration by the lady Canadians)...you saw one of those rare occurrences where you don't have to be a fan of the sport or participants, you just have to be watching in order to be captivated. It featured a fast paced game where the US pulled its goalie in order to have an extra attacker in the last minute (standard hockey move) only to score a game tying goal with 25 seconds to go. The OT featured 4 on 4 play (apparently an olympic rule only...standard 5 v 5 in OT in the NHL) with Hockey's BEST player (Sidney Crosby) scoring the game winning goal in front of the host country's (Canada if you didn't know) fans. There is no shame in the U.S. losing that game at all. I still will not watch hockey during the regular season (just thought I should point that out)

I think being a play by play hockey announcer has to rank just above being one of those fast auctioneer types but just above being Dikembe Mutombos translator as the hardest jobs that soley rely on your ability to speak.

I watched curling for a full hour and I still dont' know what to make of it. I know the point and the scoring, finally. Its just anticlimatic. I watched a team perform the last throw that clinched a medal in their matchup and the reaction was similar to finding out you won your money back on a $1 scratch off ticket.

And at what point does it become determined whether you are a thrower or a sweeper?

This just in, the USA had the most participants in the olympics and won the most medals as well. Is captain obvious needed to draw the parallels there? We can stop sayin we "dominated" the medal count when I saw at least 20 countries walk out with less people than the Jackson 5.

Who's Got Answers?

I was thinking of scaling back the blog to biweekly...wait, that's bimonthly I think...either way, not as much, but a few of you bastards actually read this thing and thought I was abducted so you're on the hook for more of my idiotic perspective on things. With that said, in the past week a few random questions have come to my mind and i'm looking for answers...so feel free to give them to me!

Was that the worst dunk contest in the past 10 years? (I'm not joking when I say I've done 70% of the dunks they did)....and while we're on it...FYI NBA, watching people play horse is like watching people bowl, it ain't fun if you ain't the one participating.

If you buy a ticket to view an event in the new Dallas stadium and you're sitting so far away you need binoculars to see the seats in which you'd NORMALLY use binoculars in...shouldn't you just watch at home?

Does it take on the same meaning if I give up football for lent? (50/50 chance some of you won't get that)

Recently saw Book of Eli...to quote my cousin "I didn't know what to expect, yet, it wasn't quite what I expected". My somewhat unrelated question: If you were the last person on earth...would you spend your days looking for some other person, figuring out how to survive as long as possible...or attempt to "get off" this earth as quickly as possible?

While we're here, at what point do you break down and start eating things you wouldn't normally eat (I'll not get into specifics)?

Would it be strange if women's bball players had male cheerleaders?

Is it weird that I would like to be this guys friend?
(He was annoyed by everybody bringing laptops to class)
Video


I don't really have a question here....I just thought this video was awesome. Maybe next time kermit


Lastly, I ask this in all seriousness, what in the blue hell was Darryl Dawkins thinking wearing this in public? This is a special kind of ugly

All Saints Day

I'm sure by now you've heard the good news. The Bless you Boys aka New Orleans Saints are the World Champions. I've been a fan of the New York Yankees, North Carolina Tar Heels basketball and other teams that have won championships in recent years but I always felt like I was a bandwagon fan. It's not hard to root for a team that has double digit championships before you were born. The Saints winning makes me feel like I had 200 shares of Apple stock from when the floppy disk was hot and never sold out. When Tracy Porter intercepted Manning's pass and took it to the house, my phone essentially exploded. People I hadn't spoken to in YEARS were sending congrats and asking if I was crying YET, drunk YET etc. I actually wasn't any of the above. I didn't know how to react. I'll admit, fluid was sitting on the edge of my eye like a first time parachuter but there was still 3 min + before the game was over. (It's quite possible I pulled a throat muscle but yelling louder than I did the time Hulk Hogan appeared unannounced at a wrestling show I attended). But, when it was all said and done, I didn't know whether to run into the streets slapping people with a fleur de leis, get somebody to pour gatorade on my head, or check my bank account for a sportsillustrated/nflshop.com/anything-superbowl-saints related run which, lets face it, is as inevitable as at least 20 kids being named "Drew" in Louisiana 9 months from now. The focus now shifts to next season and instead of "we need x, x, and x in order just contend"...the talk now is centered around what's needed to repeat. That is a problem every saints fan has been waiting for. Who Dat!

Here is a video of Drew Brees teaching the crowd (after victory parade) the pregame chant at a local bar.


Vegas has the Saints at 7 to 1 odds (4th best) to win next year....if you're into that sort of thing.

The Last Step...

The jazz song written long ago states all I want for Christmas is...the Saints in superbowl. Well, we got there and hopefully the song can get remixed with the version that speaks of them winning the superbowl. To the Cowboys fans that dare ask me if I question the validity of the previous game against the Vikings because of "questionable" calls in the 4th qtr...I do not care if Reggie Bush drove an F-150 over all 11 vikings into the endzone and all the officials faked an eye seizure during the winning play...we are still going to the superbowl.

There was nothing more odd than the halftime pro bowl dual interview with Drew Brees and Peyton Manning. At one point I thought the host was going to ask them to comment on the size of each other's "manhood". What do you expect those two to do sitting side by side other than trade compliments??

I'm not one to bite on late night commercial advertisements....but I was 2 buttons away from calling and ordering the magic hangers!


In my attempt to broaden my readers horizons. Check out these 2 clips from the Winter X games....try to not gasp too loudly.




My superbowl rant has been a long time coming. This is the week we are to be inundated with stories from Katrina to Archie Manning's allegiance to his son over his former franchise to ankles that are sprained and everything in between. The story that catches my eye, and quite frankly is starting to piss me off, is these "experts" have all but written the Colts name on the trophy. I agree the Colts should be favored slightly, but to think the Saints are dead in the water before kickoff is beyond me. Call it irony, but I think there is a strange reason the Saints have a chance to participate in a superbowl, against the Colts, and in Miami (look it up). This was the exact scenario 4 years ago when the Colts beat the Bears. Throw in my affinity for the #44 and I'll call it fate. The keys to the Saints winning are:
1 - Disrupt Manning. You don't have to sack him, just make him throw before he's ready
2 - Take advantage of EVERY mistake the Colts make. Fumbles must be recovered, tipped balls must be caught
3 - Keep Brees' jersey clean and light up the scoreboard

Superbowl Pick: New Orleans Saints