Monday Moaning

There's a meaning to that picture...But I'll get to that in a bit...I have to get into the "Super Bowl" blah, blah, blah, first...The Ravens won...The 49ers were down 28-6 at halftime, and managed to get back in it, only losing 34-31...The key notes to the game....Ray Lewis was a total and complete non-factor in the game, except for CBS constantly putting his ugly mug on camera...Never once mentioning the missed tackles, and over-all shitty play...

Joe Flacco was given the MVP, even though everyone in the free world, who paid attention to the game, knows that Jacoby Jones should have gotten it...Just after halftime, after Jones returned the opening kick for a 109 yard TD...The lights went out...We had to sit through a 35 minute delay, just after sitting through that god-awful Beyonce shit!

Sorry Beyonce fans, that was crap...Bitch sang a little, but mostly shook her ass and randomly yelled into the mic while the backing tracks did the singing...Then she brought out her old friends from Destiny's Child, but had their mics down low, so their voices wouldn't show her up...Fuck Beyonce! Put a marching band out there and call it a day!

And we can't not mention the fucking commercials...Lets start by saying this...Over 50% of the ads were for CBS programming...Which means CBS had a hard time selling ad time...Who were winners...I don't know...I went for more chili, or checked on Molly and Little Beeze during a lot of them...They were in another room playing, watching AFV...My oldest, and wife were all in on the commercials...This one got my wife to cry...





I'm going to say this next one is my winner...




The Cars.com baby wolf one was good too...The Paul Harvey, "Farmers" commercial was good, but as my wife summed up, "It was touching until they cut to the Dodge truck the ad was for."

Enough of that...The game was good...It looked like a clunker, but turned around...San Fran fans should be happy they fought back...They've got lots of young talent, and they'll be back...They just need some help in that secondary...Their so-called running QB passed for over 300 yards...Kid is going to be real good...And Alex Smith is about to have some teams asking for his services....I wonder if the Browns will make a play for him? 

I was rooting for the 49ers...For no other reason than I predicted they'd win...BY all rights, the stands they I have taken, defending Art Modell, I should be a Ravens fan...In all respects that is my team...But Ray Lewis, his antics, and his hypocrisy make me sick...I'll thank my God that Ray is no longer playing...

And yes, 99% of Cleveland is overjoyed that Art Modell was shutout from the Hall of Fame...I AM THE 1%...For all the good Modell did for the NFL...For charity...For Cleveland and Baltimore...One thing is held against him...One thing defines his legacy...moving HIS team...The team HE OWNED...I was a fan...I didn't own it...The city didn't own it...You didn't own it...HE DID...We are a capitalistic, free-market society, and he did what he had to for his business...Many people would agree with that statement, until it involves the team they root for...Fucking nonsense!  Well, Art got another notch on his belt...While he is dead, and no longer owns the Ravens, his team won the "Super Bowl" again, while wearing patches with his name on their uniforms...Lead by the work of Ozzie Newsome, The first black GM, hired in the NFL, by Art...Who's first draft pick, just got selected to go into the Hall of Fame...Modell's legacy isn't as bad as the voters and Clevelanders make it out to be...

Okay...Enough football...Shit's over...Let's get to that picture...

Saturday the wife and I got a couples massage...We've done this before...And after a spill I took last week at work, I needed some work...I pointed out a knot in my back and left shoulder that was killing me...I asked this woman to focus on that...Little did I know, this horny old bitch only wanted to work on my ass...While laying face up, she got way to close to the goods...To the point where I sat up and stopped her...Laying face down she spent at least 15 minutes on my ass...Hardly anytime on my back...I was pissed...Everyone in the place knew it...I was kinda loud...At the front desk I was asked what was wrong...I explained how there is still a huge knot in my back and shoulder, because that old hag, wouldn't stop rubbing my ass, and that I had to stop her from rubbing my junk...They took off half of our total...They offered me $10 off with some one else, and said they would handle her...

Listen, if I wanted to go to a jackoff place, we all know where those are...And they're cheaper...And I wouldn't bring my wife...What the fuck bitch!  So here I sit...Pissed, uncomfortable, and a heating pad on my shoulder...And occasionally icing my ribs...Yes, that fall I had cracked a rib, bruised a couple...Fucking yeah!

All those girls I groped and felt up in high school are laughing their asses off as I'm the victim now!

To take my mind of it, my daughter and I went to the rec center, and watched the St. Edward Eagles ruin Senior night for St. Ignatius, as the "Holy War" took to the ice...

The Eagles won 5-2, lead by Gabe Lampron's 2 goal effort...Bringing a smile to my face...I know his dad...He's weighing is options between taking a Scholarship offer, or taking a shot juniors...Kid is good!

That's it for now...Have a week...

The Beeze.

Monday Moaning ( a 2012 Recap)

 

 

It's New Year's Eve...2012 is coming to an end...What will we remember this 2012 for?  A year with crazy weather...Intense heat waves...Wild fires and droughts...Extreme tornadoes...Epic storms...Yep, that all happened in 2012...What else?  The world didn't end right before Christmas, as many thought the Mayans predicted...Though there were many lives lost just before Christmas...The mall shooting in Oregon...The horrific massacre at Sandy Hook changed so many lives, and as an outsider looking in, it really shook me up...

But the shooting didn't stop there...Another nut-job randomly opened fire in PA shortly after...followed by an asshole who set a house on fire Christmas Eve, in NY just to open fire on the fire fighters...But in that time from December 14th up to Christmas, there were over 60 people shot in Chicago, and the media seems to ignore that...Mental health and gun control debates were sparked because these events along with the Colorado movie theater shooting...Maybe we'll be able to remember 2013 for being the year that there was some serious change to prevent these acts from being some common...

In 2012 we saw the legacy of  Joe Paterno shattered...And we saw the monster know as Jerry Sandusky locked up after years of abusing and raping kids, and years of Penn State officials and Paterno covering it up, and letting it continued...And while the media was so proud to cover this story, they turned a blind eye to THIS horrible story...ESPN didn't say shit about it until more than a month after I did...Speaking of ESPN...After trying to act like the PSU watch dog, they turned around and aired every PSU football game this year...Scumbags!

In 2012 Ron Santo was finally inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame...Too bad it was two years after he died...That place can burn...I'm sure Santo was happy, but he deserved to deliver that speech himself...

What else happened? The Hostess Company went in the tank...No more Twinkies...Who the hell saw that coming?

Art Modell died, and people in Cleveland still hate him, and really lack a clue about how important he was to the NFL...I tried to set them straight HERE...

Speaking of death...in 2012 we saw the LA Kings win the Stanley Cup...And since then, we've been watching the NHL kill itself...

From the looks of it, in 2013 we'll see a number of NFL teams with new head coaches...Including the Browns...

We found out Lance Armstrong was full of SHIT or PEDS...

I started fighting my fight for DADS to start getting some credit...

We saw a big hype about getting that Kony guy...Where are you #Kony2012 people...Fucking guy is still out there...You haven't done shit have you? 

At least the Occupy people lasted a little longer...They showed some conviction...But then they gave up too...Hard to have movement bring any real change, if your movement lacks leadership and direction...And when the media only shows the wack-job wannabe hippies, no one takes you seriously...

In 2012 my kids turned 11, 8, and 2...Holy crap time flies...But it's been fun...They have been the biggest part of my life this year...Going ice skating with them during Browns games may have been the smartest thing I've done...And this weekend, with all the snow we got, we mixed in some sledding too...




Watch him at the bottom of the hill in this next one...




I love hearing my wife in the background, laughing as she says she's "gonna kill him"...We're the best parents!

2012 has had a lot of ups, and probably even more downs...I've seen people wishing the year away...I can't do that...Try to learn from the bad spots, and cherish the great stuff...And one of those great things I'll hold onto is Notre Dame going undefeated in 2012...And hopefully next week, they'll start 2013 with a win...Fuck Sports Illustrated and their prediction...Fuck the haters...Notre Dame is going to make Alabama earn every point they get...And all you Alabama/SEC people, and ND haters are going to be surprised when the Irish win it all...

My prediction is 2013 is going to be a good year...

Have a week...

The Beeze.

Monday Moaning

Yeah, that's about the best Browns relayed thing we're going to see this year...The Cleveland Browns opened their season at home, taking on the Philadelphia Eagles in what could only be described as The Toilet Bowl...


The Browns hit another milestone as this game started...Sunday, the Browns started Brandon Weeden at Quarterback...Their 17th QB since 1999...


Look at that list of shit...Just one bust after another, or castaway after another...Well Weeden fits right in...He ended the game with a 5.1 QB rating, after only completing 12 of 35, for 118 yards and 4 interceptions...And even after he sucked that bad, and #3 overall pick Trent Richardson wasn't very impressive, the Browns almost won...Yes, they lost 17-16...The Defense scored the Browns only touchdown...The defense was pretty damn good...They were all over Michael Vick's ass, all day long...Just kept drilling him...They also picked him off 4 times, but it wasn't enough...

Nothing sucks like watching your teams defense play their balls off, while the offense looks like fucking school girls...Weeden, a 28 year old rookie, looked like a 18 year old...So many bad throws...So many over-throws...Missed wide open guys...Just horrible...Anybody else thinking the Browns would have been better off betting the farm on RG3?


All he did for the Redskins was pass for 2 TD's and 320 yards, and also rushed for 42 yards...Good call Holmgren...Your star running back who missed most of the pre-season didn't do too much for ya...

Local media dolts were all clamoring when Trent Richardson put his head down and blew an Eagles defender's helmet off...Well, that was about it for Trent's highlights...One tough run, and then the Eagles locked him down...

We should have known...Browns once again came out in their stupid all white uniforms again...Where the hell have the brown jerseys been for all these years? Why not change the name to the Cleveland Whites? I bet that would piss off Al Sharpton!

Sunday, the rest of the NFL paid their respects to Art Modell...That didn't happen here in Cleveland...Why, well because people in Cleveland haven't gotten over Art Modell moving HIS team to Baltimore...And most of them refuse to acknowledge the FACTS...

Now normally this would be the part of the show where I would normally be pumping out some Notre Dame, and College Football talk...Well from now on I'll be posting my College Football Wrap_Up on Sundays...

Not to get too political, but I have always found the gay marriage topic, to be a bullshit issue...One of those distractions to keep us from paying attention to the important shit...I'm all for gay marriage...I actually go along with that line about "All men are created equal." Now if you're opposed to gay marriage, that's your right, to have that opinion...I think it's stupid, but oh well...

Then Maryland state delegate Emmett C. Burns Jr. got all up in arms because Ravens LB Brendon Ayanbadejo openly supports gay marriage...Thankfully Vikings punter Chris Kluwe TOLD Mr. Burns what an ass he is...I don't know where Kluwe stands on the economy, or defense, or medicare, but I know I'd vote for him if ran for public office, just because of the way he let Burns have it...The DC douchebags could use some real people in there, telling it like it is...

That's it for now...The wife leaves for her training this morning, and 2 of my 3 kids have colds, which should make this first of two weeks as a single dad, awesome!

Have a week...

Later, The Beeze.

A Rare View from Cleveland

Wednesday night news broke that Art Modell was gravely ill...I had posted on Facebook when the news broke, "Art Modell is "gravely ill" is the lead local news story...How many Clevelanders first response was a slight grin?"

By morning he was dead...Through the night, and all day Thursday, there were plenty of people admitting to being happy Modell had died...Even those who don't wish death on people, were still glad he had died...Clevelanders take what happened to their Browns very personally...And that's fine...I know I was pissed when Modell moved the Browns to Baltimore...But as time has gone on, and I looked at the whole picture, I don't have that same hate for Art Modell, that most Clevelanders do...Yep, you're about to witness a guy from Cleveland, defend Art Modell's legacy...

Back in the day, The Cleveland Indians sucked...But their owner knew how Cleveland loves it's sports teams...They also knew that city leaders were tired of the "Mistake by the Lake" jokes...So for a couple years, Dick Jacobs kept threatening to move the Indians...The City decided to give Jacobs what he wanted...His own stadium...Completely funded by the public...All Jacobs paid for was the sign that put his name on the place...

The City officials also thought this would be even better if they could get the Cavs to move back to downtown Cleveland, instead of playing in the sticks of Richfield...So they build Gordon Gund's Cavaliers a new arena right next to Jacobs field...Again, Gund, that blind bastard, only paid to put his name on the place...The city was all a buzz about what was dubbed, "The Gateway District"...This shit was going to bring us back!

Modell, who's Browns always sold out the 70,000 plus Municipal Stadium, waited patiently...He had just lost his tenant, the Indians...The Stadium was old, and surely the City would take care of their number one draw...But they didn't...Eventually Modell had to go to the mayor...He never went to the media like Jacobs, and made repeated threats to move...The city officials made it clear that there was no way they could afford to give him a sweet deal, and new home, like they did for the Indians and Cavaliers...Modell, was losing money...No one in Cleveland fought for him or the Browns...He was in debt,and got an offer from football starved Baltimore...We always hear about sports being a business...Well, Modell made the smart business move, and took HIS team to Baltimore...

In 1995 Modell told The Wall Street Journal, "The reason I'm taking so much heat now is every politician is covering his backside for failing to do anything at all. They took me for granted."

Yes they did...It wasn't until news broke that Modell was moving the team to Baltimore, that people finally took action...All the sudden the fans spoke up...Suddenly elected officials were trying to do something...Too little, too late...All this time fans have been pissed at Modell...They've had nothing but hate for him, when really they should have taken that out the mayor, councilmen, and the media, who cried to save the Indians, but didn't say anything about taking care of the Browns until they were already packing up...

And while Art is hated in Cleveland, he deserves the praise he is getting from around the country...He is one of the few key people, who made the NFL what it is today...He Pushed for the NFL/AFL merger, and he and Pete Rozelle were the visionaries that saw that TV was where Football had to go...Modell almost single-handedly strong armed his fellow owners into the first TV contract...Letting them know, that if they really wanted to make the money that they dreamed of, that TV was going to get them there...And then later, it was Modell, who strong armed the Networks into ponying up the BIG money, to put the NFL on their airwaves...You can also thank Art for Monday Night Football....

There are mountains of NFL history that couldn't have been written had it not been for Art Modell...The man belongs in the Hall of Fame...And Cleveland, he also deserves some respect for the countless acts of charity he contributed to during his life in here...

After much talk about the NFL having Modell Honored with a moment of silence before this Sunday's games, The Modell family has asked The Cleveland Browns to not pay him any Honor...The Browns were planning to keep it short, knowing the fan reaction would be bad...This takes any worry off the Browns...But it bothers me that pretty much everyone in the world knows that, a moment of silence to pay respect to one of the men that built the NFL into the monster it is, would be greeted in Browns Stadium with a chorus of boooo's...

This may be odd for a sports blogger to write...But it's just a football team people...There is really so much more to life, then to carry that kind of hate around for all these years.

Fuck Pittsburgh!

Later, The Beeze.