Knocked off your game…

So on Election Eve it’s only fitting that MNF is played in our nation’s capital. In fact while writing this we’re only moments away from our Arizona and Illinois senator’s final pleas for your hanging chad.

Pregame discussion surrounded Big Ben’s tough times this year and his sieve of an offensive line. It delved into what one too many hits from the blind side can do to a quarterback and his career. The crew brought up the stories of Jim Everrett(click the link, trust me), Jeff George (troubled in other ways as well admittedly) and now JaMarcus Russell who suffer not from a lack of ability, but the inability to have time to showcase it.

The beauty of football is the teamwork that it demands. Basketball can win with 1-2 superstars, baseball can pull it off with a great pitching performance, but football requires all 22+. Safety blows an assignment? TD. WR slips and allows the CB to intercept? TD. Offensive lineman not able to handle the bull rush resulting in a fumble and a return for a…TD? Yup, not good. No other sport reflects life more accurately.

Where am I going with this? No team is going to win without a team effort, and no team is going to win without their top QB. How do you keep your QB safe? Keep him from getting hit. Allow that backside end in a few too many times…allow Joey Porter to run free on a delayed blitz…here come Brian Dawkins, uh-oh! Get hit enough times and all the sudden your internal the clock is a bit shorter, you start throwing off your back foot, you don’t follow through as well…aka you’re hearing ghosts.

The mental game of sports is just as important as the X’s and O’s. As easy as it is to ask your players to have a short memory, human nature is to flinch…it just is. Hit a good man enough and eventually he’ll break. Some make it back…good job Kurt Warner, and then 5 years later, Kurt Warner…but most don’t. Then again though, life isn’t much different…but that’s a different post all together I guess.

Demoted!!!

If this is the end of the road I'm going to miss it

The NBA Draft...it's FAAAANTASTIC!!!

Cheesedoodles anyone? Oh, how I've been waiting for this day. Finally it's here. The NBA Draft, when we get to see the new YouTube video of these guys giving our old friend Stephen A. the business. Quite frankly I'm more excited than Stephen A. when he finds a way to use Sasha Vujacic, Vladimir Radmanovic and Rasho Nesterovic in the same sentence...enjoy

What Happened to SNL?

In the event you are short on time, I found a condensed version of my favorite skit.

The list of skits that make us pee our pants are endless....until now. SNL has lost its touch. Unlike George's suggestion of Seven as the name of his child, it has no cache. Long gone are the days of Beluchi, Murphy, Myers and Farrell.

What prompts this? I just turned SNL on and the guest is Tina Fae. No offense to Tina Fey, her friends and family, but where does your once National Icon of a show rank when it's star guest is a former cast member of a recently detested era?

Loran Michaels, you've brought us laughs for years and years. Mr Robinson's Neighborhood, Matt Foley and his motivational speeches, Leon Phelps and the junk in a box. WTF is up. You can't tell me American comedic talent has dried up. Perhaps its political correctness. Perhaps the war on drugs. I don't know, but something has caused us to not have a SNL episode that is even barely watchable airing in the past 10 years.

Here's to the re-incarnation of Beluchi and Farley to save us all and NBC's failing show...please don't tell me The Office is the best we can do these days.

Why We Watch

Hours upon hours spent watching pre-game shows, mundane performances, post-game highlights. Day after day we watch, mothers don't understand, girlfriends complain, wifes divorce. Yet still we watch. Why? To witness greatness. To see the impossible. Goosebumps and an uncontrollable pre-pubescent scream...only sports.

Figures, right after I complain about nothing to write about, here comes Tiger. I couldn't look away Saturday, Sunday or MONDAY!!! 91 holes boys and girls, and then to find out today he's having season ending reconstructive ACL surgery?! You have to be f'n kidding me. He won our national championship with a blown knee? Oh, btw, with 2 stress fractures in his tibia too.

Thanks for the show and get better Tiger...I'm sure you'll have the best care money (the networks, USGA and Nike) can pay for!

All Hail the Champs!

Congrats to the Celtics, first NBA Championships in 22 years!

If there ever was a shining example for hard work, perseverance, professionalism and dedication to the cause they are it.

Certainly a case can be made for the ex-Celtic Kevin McHale getting an assist on this one, but nonetheless a 66 win season and NBA Championship is in the books. Congrats boys.

Oh, and for those of you not keeping count, 6 championships in 6 years for Boston. Next stop, WS Trophy :)

Happy Fathers Day

In honor of all those daddies out there, we present to you some of the daddiest there are. Enjoy!

Ugh...

I'll admit it, my blogging these past few months has sucked. As my buddy Mike says, it deserves a "Meh" minus at best. I couldn't agree more.

One thing I've learned in the past year, is from a product development standpoint companies need to follow what the user does, not what they say. So I've gone and applied this same philosophy to figuring out why I haven't been blogging well. I thought it was my hectic work schedule, my lack of material, or maybe just that this blogging thing was a passing fad like my pet rock.

Then it came to me.

Even though I'm from Boston and enjoy a certain level of misery in life, this is a joke. The economy sucks. I am not too into politics. Companies not making money are being bought for millions. The whole Yahoo thing has just gotten annoying now. Worst of all, the sporting world, where my contributions are the greatest, is nothing short of miserable.

Wait, you say, how can this be? TVI, your Pats made the Super Bowl (still stings), your Red Sox are in first and your Celtics are 1 win away from from winning their first championship in 22 years!

Let me tell you...the list is long:

• Tim Donaghy - Scumbag, yes. Convicted felon, yes. Trying to save his own ass by regurgitating what has already been widely speculated, yes. Right, unfortunately yes.
• David Stern - De-Nile isn't just a river in Egypt. Arrogance will be his downfall. To simply dismiss such egregious claims, now coming from the inside, where as it has come from several others over the years, is the worst possible reaction. Its to the point it makes me sick to listen to him.
  
• OJ Mayo - (head shaking) Saw this one coming a LOOOOONG time ago.
• Looming Beijing Olympics - Typically I love the Olympics...can you think of a worse place right now? Baghdad Summer games? Just think of the marketing possibilities, "Join us for the Summer games in Baghdad, they'll be a blast!"
• No Football - I'm officially in withdrawal, so much so that I almost turned Area Football on the other day...almost.

Have no fear though, help is on the way. A great summer lined up followed by my defense of my latest Fantasy Football title. The Pats are primed to defend their honor, if only our defense was 5 years older at each position. The Sox look like they are going to cruise back to the series and see what happens from there. (Cubs v. Red Sox anyone?) Even my BC Eagles are looking good at most positions, even QB where Chris Crane is replacing Matty Ice who went #3 overall to the Falcons.

Just to be Clear

This doesn't happen in ANY other city...gotta love Beantown.

Ever just have one of these days?

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Well today is it for me....thanks Mike!