Today we are going to talk about football...The NFL to be specific...To be more specific, we are going to talk about a fan base that is overrun by idiots...I'm talking about the Pittsburgh Steelers...Generally I just try to ignore them...I grew up in Cleveland and in my lifetime, the Steelers have dominated the Browns and in general had a better run...Seriously, the last 30 years for the Browns has been fucking awful...
But if you come across one of these idiot Steelers fans, you'll quickly realize they have no clue when it comes to the history of the sport...If you ask them, nothing counted before 1970...They will hang their hats on the fact that their beloved team has more Super Bowl wins then any other team...6...For some reason they don't count NFL Championships...Maybe because they won nothing before 1970!
Steelers fans, you aren't the franchise with the most wins, most titles, or most championships....The Green Bay Packers have 13...The New York Giants have 8...The Chicago Bears have 9...The Patriots, Redskins, 49ers and Cowboys are on your heels with 5...Even the lowly Cleveland Browns have 4 as they were a power in the 1950's and 1960's...
But no one in the media or even in the NFL's ivory tower calls bullshit on the Steelers and their fans...Well, I'm here to say fuck you! Read the history...Stats and records are kept for reasons...One of those is to show the history of the sport...To keep a tally of the winners...To be able to reference the past...To be able to win trivia contests...Like who won the 1945 NFL Championship?
The Cleveland Rams beat the Washington Redskins 15-14 at Cleveland Municipal Stadium.....YES, the Cleveland Rams!
The history is also kept so I can say 'hey Shittsburgh, You aren't the best...As a matter of fact, you got a long way to go!
No, I am not on the Garbage Time with Katie Nolan payroll...I wish I was....But as long as Katie Nolan is going to be blasting Greg Hardy and the Dallas Cowboys, along with taking the mainstream sports and news media to task, I will continue to share bits of what she is doing...It's great to have a refreshing voice in the media, calling people on their bullshit....
So, in case you missed Wednesday's show, I have picked a couple clips to share...First: Hardy...
Seriously? When is this dummy going to learn? More importantly, when are the Cowboys management and PR department going to shut this dolt up?
Second: The media, Especially that fucking blowhard, Peter King...
Wow...That stings a bit doesn't Peter? You got exposed as the gasbag so many of us assumed you were...Piece of shit!
I thought after Katie Nolan's second SPANKING of the Dallas Cowboys, that maybe the organization would take notice of how they and their players act...But no...They need a much greater spanking...
Sunday, against the the Seattle Seahawks, this happened...
At the 1:30 mark, Dez Bryant is seen walking across the 40 yard line, he has his helmet off, is pointing, and of course he is talking...Do you know what he said?
I think over the last year, I have made it completely clear, just how much I hate the NFL...And the last month we have seem nothing but idiot bullshit come from the Dallas Cowboys...Once known as "America's Team"....What they are is a microcosm of everything that is wrong in our society, so I guess they are "America's Team" in a way...America's shitty team....Our bad neighborhoods, our, punks, and drug dealers, and wife beaters, mixed with the billionaire CEO who cheats on his wife with gold-digging co-eds and strippers, and he is surrounded by his little red headed yes man, who does whatever big daddy says, even though he knows it's taking the business in the wrong direction...
I don't know how many times I have heard Dez Bryant "gets a bad rap" or that he is just a "passionate player"...Really? Honestly, you can say that? The fucking asshole hit his own mother! So if you defend him, fuck you! He's a flat out, and asshole...I knew that before Sunday, when he was talking shit, trying to start fights, and saying, "that's what you fucking get!" while Ricardo Lockette laid motionless on the field...
When Bryant was asked after the game if he said, he said, "I got on one knee and prayed for that man. Don't put clips together and do that." Then asked, by a reporter, "Did the Seahawks accuse you of saying something?" Bryant said, "Nah man, ya'll did man, bullshit media did."
I didn't see him down on one knee praying...I saw him yell, talking shit, and finger pointing, in his typical fashion!
I have had many wishes in my life...And very few have come true, but a few important ones worked out...I have a new wish....fuck that...I'm better then Greg Hardy, Jerry Jones, and Dez Bryant...I'm not going to wish AIDS on that entire organization...I just wish that this time next week, I'm writing about Dez Bryant and Greg Hardy's career ending injuries...Fuck them...Fuck the Cowboys!
-Moving on to college football...It didn't even take the ACC 24 hours to throw their refs under the bus...Hell, the refs took longer doing the review then it did for the ACC to suspend the officials...Miami returned a kickoff to beat 30-27, but the return, which it should have been easy to see during the 9 minute review period, should not have counted...The ACC said one of the Miami players knee was down before one of the 8 laterals on the play...
The ACC suspended the on-field officiating crew, and the two replay booth officials...But they aren't overruling the call or overturning the game's outcome...
ACC Commissioner, John Swofford said in his press release,"The quality of our officiating program is of the highest importance to the league and its schools, and the last play of the game was not handled appropriately. Officiating is an extraordinarily difficult job but our players, coaches, programs and fans deserve the best that can be offered. We will continue to strive to meet that standard." So the "players, coaches, programs and fans deserve the best that can be offered." So how the hell can the ACCC say the officials shit the bed, they're suspended, bu we aren't going to give the game it's proper outcome? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I fucking know, 'the human element is part of the game'....It's such a fucking part of the game, that the NCAA and NFL, and MLB, and NHL have all added instant replay and replay officials to correct all the nearly never ending, fuck-ups caused by "the human element"...So if fucking up and in this case, fucking up royally is part of the game, ( "the human element" ) then shouldn't righting a wrong be part of the game too...Duke got fucked in the ass...the ACC admitted it...Now they should pull the big cock out of Duke's ass and stick up Miami's ass...All John Swofford needed to add was, 'Duke wins, Miami loses, our guys fucked up royally...We're sorry it took them 9 minutes to get it wrong, when people at home figured it out in a minute and half.' Or something like that! -On the home front, we got swamped on Halloween...The new neighborhood gets down for trick or treat, and we ran out of candy at 7:20...Trick or treat hours were 6-8...And we dumped most of what Molly got, (the stuff she doesn't like) into our pass-out bowl...I even boosted some from the boy, and told him to go hit another street. He was fine with those marching orders...
It was just a couple weeks ago Katie Nolan, the host of Garbage Time, went viral after ripping the Dallas Cowboys, Greg Hardy and the media to shreds...Well, Wednesday night/Thursday morning, Katie Nolan had some more to say about Hardy and his behavior Sunday, as well as how the Cowboys organization backed up Hardy and supported his antics...
So, here for your viewing pleasure...Katie Nolan, crushing Hardy and teh Cowboys!
The sports media, and really the news media need more people like Nolan who are willing to call bullshit!
Just like in this next video, where comedian Jim Norton calls out the News media, because they decided that a stupid tweet from a stupid college girl, should be considered news...
My God the news media has gotten really stupid and really lazy...
We're really going down shitty road...Hopefully these few voices of reason like Nolan and Norton will wake people up!
I was thinking about how awful the even more orange new Browns' helmets and new uniforms look...And I got to thinking about the other NFL helmets...I figured why not do a post about it...Our post aboutMLB LOGOS was a hit, and helmets are cool right...So, what's the best, current, NFL Helmet?
When I did the MLB Logos post, people commenting threw out their top five, so I'll go at this post using that method...
There are certain Helmets that are just iconic...The Dallas Cowboys pops in your head immediately...The Packers, the Bears...Those are old school....The classic look is almost always a good thing...The Steelers...It's a boring fucking logo, and it's only on one side of the helmet...But it's tradition, and you know what it is when you see it...Being a Clevelander, the Browns plain, boring, stupid orange helmet is another iconic, filled with football history helmet...But it doesn't make my list...Wasn't a huge fan of it, and they made it worse...
There is a part of me that wants to put the Washington Redskins in my top 5, just to piss off the overly sensitive gas-bags out there...But I'll be honest...It's a classic look, but it doesn't make my list...
#5...The San Francisco 49ers...I don't like the team and their criminal players...But I like the gold (most be the Notre Dame fan in me)...I like the red...the black trim...the intertwined "SF"...I'll always dig a intertwined letter logo...
#4...The Houston Texans...Again, not so much a fan of the team...I like their coach Bill O'Brien's attitude...But since the teams birth, I've always liked their logo...And it's hard to go wrong with Red, White and Blue as your colors...
#3...The Seattle Seahawks...First off, it was a few years back when I was a free agent, that I signed my fandom to the Seahawks...So you kinda gotta like your teams gear right? The logo isn't thrilling, but it's unique...I love the shade of blue, (again unique) with the grey/white, and that little hint of neon green...
#2...the Green Bay Packers...It's classic...My high school alma mater based it's logo and colors off of the Packers...And the Packers have always stayed true to it...They never tried to mix in black or chrome, like nearly every other team has...Why mess with success!?!
#1...The Buffalo Bills...
Again, it's hard to go wrong with Red, White and Blue...Going back to the White helmet as opposed to the Red, looks so much better...It's got a real old school vibe to it...I can't explain it more then that...I just like it...
...And to my numerous friend who are New England Patriot fans...If the Pats got rid of the screaming chicken looking Pat the Patriot, and went back to the old school...It would be the winner hands down...
How's everyone doing out there? I have to say, after having a very rare 4 straight days off, I'm really not feeling this getting back to the grind thing...I had too much fun with the kids...And too much fun enjoying Notre Dame beating USC, to go undefeated...You can read all about that, and the other college football headlines HERE...
Friday I wrapped up Thanksgiving, and SHARED a few views...The one that seemed to get a bunch of attention on facebook was the fact that I'm not a fan of the Dallas Cowboys...That I'm tired of the amount of media coverage this overrated, underachieving team gets...And that the title "America's Team" bothers me...I don't know how they got this name, but it's crap...I have to admit this though..In my youth I was a Cowboys fan...I loved Tony Dorsett, and those guys back then...How could you not like Tom Landry? As time went on, it was hard not to like Emmitt Smith and Troy Aikman...But it was easy to not like Michael Irving...He started the trend of asshole Cowboys players...Drugs, hookers, guns, stupid shit, and show-boating....All stuff owner Jerry Jones seemed okay with...Why wouldn't he? He seems like a show-boatin' kind of guy himself...
I grew up, and I didn't want anything to do with what the Cowboys became...Give me Bill Bates any day over "Pac-Man" and "Prime-time"...
Besides the big win for Notre Dame at USC Saturday...The Fighting Irish had another big match up this weekend...The University of North Dakota went to South Bend for a two game hockey series...These are two top programs and it was sure to be a good couple of games...
Friday night North Dakota won 2-1...But Saturday the Irish came back and and won 5-2 lead by Anders Lee's 2 goals and 1 assist...
North Dakota has been dealing with a bit more than just Hockey...They've also been dealing with a bit of an identity crisis, after the NCAA got another thing wrong, in their long line of mistakes...The NCAA made them remove their Fighting Sioux, and then Sioux nickname and logo...They aren't allowed a new one until 2015...But they never should have had their name ripped from them...You can read more about it HERE...
They'll always be the Fighting Sioux to me...
Browns fans are happy because the Browns beat the Steelers...Listen, the Steelers were out there with their old, 3rd string QB, Charlie Batch...And then the Steelers just played horribly sloppy football...Turnover, after turnover, after turnover...They were shit...
So the Browns fans are feeling positive, and maybe there is something to build off of...So I ask this...Should the Browns fire coach Pat Shurmur after the season, like so many fans and talking heads have suggested...While I don't like the guy much, I tired of rebuilding every two-three years...Hey, look how Bill Belichick turned out...He never stayed from what he tried to do in Cleveland, and it paid off...Maybe SHurmur is till figuring it out, and Browns fans/ownership needs to be patient...Let me know what you think...
The Browns weren't the best part of my Sunday...Taking the kids ice skating was...I got little Beeze his first pair of skates, and we hit the rink...Kid was big-pimpin'...He was doing okay, but did some acting...He was laying it on with his struggling to figure it all out...SO what happens...He had two little girls helping him, holding his hand, and giving him pointers...Kid was smooth!
This week, we're starting with a new lady to top Monday Monaing...A special request from a female reader...Viewers/Readers, I give you Melissa Debling...
She loves that little lip biting thing there...I don't blame her...I like it tooo!
Now, one would expect me to be going all Notre Dame is #1 crazy...But I handled that YESTERDAY...I'm thrilled about it...But they still need to beat USC who would love to spoil the Irish party....But this is some other excellant Notre Dame news...The Fighting Irish Hockey team went to Michigan this weekend, and swept the series against the Wolverines...It was the first time Notre Dame has swept a series at Yost Arena since 1978...The Irish won the first game 3-1...Then they took the second game 4-1...It doesn't matter what sport, it's always nice to beat Michigan!
And for the time being, it looks like the only Hockey talk you're going to get out of me is College Hockey...If the NHL labor dispute wasn't bad enough, now commissioner Gary Bettman has suggested that the two sides take a two week break in talks...If the bullshit between owners and players wasn't bad enough, now the commish his going to hold up the mess even longer...I swear to God these assholes are trying to kill the game...Well boys, you may just succeed....
So my weekend, besides following college football and hockey, I spent getting ready for Thanksgiving...Yes, I'll be spending my day away from the kitchen at work, in the kitchen at home...After the grocery store Saturday morning, the menu was set...Turkey, Stuffing, Mashed Potatoes, Colcannon, (an Irish masher with cabbage and scallions mixed in) Sweet Potatoes, Corn, and a Brussel Sprout-Corned Beef-Redskin Potato Hash...Apple Cobbler and Pumpkin Pie for dessert...
Sunday was time to clean...People are coming over, and these three kids make a mess...And I'm not any kind of neat freak either...Both the kids rooms got cleaned and organized...The big project was the basement room...Little Beeze has taken it over, and destroyed it....The amount of shit we found down there was unreal...We filled 5 garbage bags old toys...Broken toys...and other accumulated shit from over the years...If none of us were looking for it in the last 2 years, fuck it...Get rid of it...I also repainted a Monster shelving unit I built when we first moved in...This thing is made out of 2x8's...I wasn't screwing around...
Things were coming along well, when I went to throw in a load of laundry, and I was smelling gas...I got everyone out and started checking around...It only seemed to be leaking while the dryer was running...I called my uncle who works for the gas company...He stopped by...Found a valve where the leak was at...He tightened it up, and put my mind at ease that it wasn't anything that was going to make the house go "Vertical"...He's going to be back in a day or so to replace some stuff...After that he had beer, and was having a blast with the kids...It was great seeing him play with the kids, and bust my oldest daughters chops about a boy she likes...It took me back to when I was kid, and he did the same thing with my brothers and me...He's that fun, goofy uncle, who one time decorated my family's Christmas tree with empty beer cans...We all laughed, while my mom just shook her head...I never thought I'd have a hint a grateful feeling after finding out I have a minor gas leak...
We did take few minutes to talk about the Browns...I had it on in the background...He said he planned on not wasting the time, but then he did anyways...The Browns were in Dallas and they lost 23-20 in overtime...ow As I look at this I wonder...Are the Browns getting better...Did they really push the Cowboys that hard...Or are the Cowboys this bad...The Browns sacked Romo 7 times...How much of that is on the Romo? How much is on his O-line? How much is on the Browns D? I just don't know...There are things I see from the Browns, mostly on defense...But I just don't know what to make of them...And everyone here in the Cleve expects Pat Shurmur to be fired after the season...While, I'm not totally opposed to that, I'm sick of this team constantly hitting the reset button...No matter what happens, I hope guys like Joe Hadden and TJ Ward stay here for awhile...I love how TJ hits...
Thanks WFNY...Some have already called this a helmet to helmet...No, that's a shoulder to facemask...There's a difference!
That's it for now...My laptop keeps freezing up, and screw it...I'm tired...Have a week...
Yeah, Pittsburgh, Jesus hates you!!! Sunday in a battle of his demons and better angels, Jesus picked his side...St. Tebow's side! Holy shit, it's like God reached down, and loaned Timmy boy his son Jesus' arm...All the sudden kid could sling it...Of course he was down there helping the defense again, and the Holy Spirit was handling the kicking duties...But let's keep it real...Just ask ESPN...CBS...And the NFL Network...It was all Jesus Tebow! The coaching staff and their game plan had nothing to do with...God told them 'Open the playbook, Jesus Tebow has this one!'
Now you know I'm not a Tebow fan...Nor am I a fan of religion being slammed in my face...Or athletes acting like God chooses sides in a game...Hell, after all my years of Catholic education, and corruption, and cover ups in so many of the diocese, I have had many questions and doubts about my own faith...But if I'm gonna pick a side between Tebow and Co. vs the Shittsburgh Steelers...I'm going against the Steelers...So I enjoyed seeing the Broncos open up the playbook...They had a plan on Offense and Defense to go after the Steelers, and it worked...Now I can't wait to watch the Patriots put Tebow back in his place!
As for this weekend's other football games, I didn't bother...I expected Saturday's games to be let-downs, and they were...Yeah, the Lions were in that game for the first half, but then the Saints got things firing on all cylinders...Instead I was watching some quality College Hockey...
Now I know some of you must be thrown off...This is the first time in probably two years, that Monday Moaning didn't have some T&A starting it off...Don't worry, I brought some...I had an extra holiday Rosie Jones shot I wanted to use, so why wait for next year...
Now, in case you missed it, You Gab Sports handed out the TOOL_OF_THE_YEAR to everyone's favorite creep...Yes, it wasn't a shock this year, but it was much deserved...
Now, here's a couple other thoughts I have...
~How can the Cowboys be America's team when they aren't even the best team in their own state?
~Can we not call it the Cotton Bowl, since it wasn't played in the Cotton Bowl!
Here's one thing I want to touch on about the Winter Classic...Most it has been talked about, but I want to say this...Scott Hartnell of the Flyers is a real fucking shit-dick...After Mike Rupp did his mock Jagr salute after scoring a goal, Hartnell trashed him saying "he's only got two goals in his career"...Actually he has 52...Oh, and he has a Stanley Cup Game Winner...How many Cups has Hartnell won? Oh yeah...ZERO!
Hartnell then got in Rupp's face and said, "Have some respect, Jagr is a Hall of famer." I was hoping Rupper would lay him out, but he kept cool at that moment...I want to know this...If Jagr is "Hall of Famer" (which of course he isn't yet but all expect him to be) then why the fuck did his pussy ass sit on the bench for two periods...Fuck him, and fuck Philly for overpaying his old ass...And fuck Hartnell, especially trying to start some cheap shit after the game was over...Got could die from AIDS today, and I'd laugh!
My last thing is the Pro-Bowl...Like any "All-STAR" game, it's bullshit...But I expected better from the NFL since idiot fans can't stuff the ballot box...I guess I have to stop expecting much from anyone...WHY? Because these assholes some how didn't put the Leagues two leading tacklers in the game...London Fletcher, and the Browns D'Qwell Jackson...Yeah, the Browns sucked balls all year, but you can't argue that this poor bastard didn't have a great year...A great year after being out for a year and a half do to injuries...A middle linebacker, with 158 tackles, 116 solo, 3.5 sacks, 1 fumble forced, 3 fumbles recovered, and an interception...Dude killed it on a horrible team, but instead Ray 'accessory to murder Lewis with his 95 tackles is going...Fuck the NFL!
Oh, and JDIN827 fuck you for waiting until the end of the season to half-heartedly say what I've been saying for 2 years...Eat a dick, and drop dead!
