Week 12 Fine Blotter: First on-field suspension of the year

Ndamokung Suh is a BIG TWO-TIME LOSER, but it'll be three weeks before he can make it three.

He's been suspended for two games, the first on-field suspension of the year (all others have been drugs or conduct) for his Thanksgiving Day stompfest.

Frankly, I'd have gone with five, the Albert Haynesworth precedent. However, one person I've talked to on the subject brings up a very good point: Had Goodell gone over the "TO Rule" limit of four games, he risked this getting tied up with the players' union.

Of course, if Commissioner Limpdick had an ounce of balls, he'd paint the union into a corner and force them to openly accept thuggish and violent play beyond the rules.

He will also be fined $50,000 (though not entirely clear as to whether that's the league or the Lions).

More fines will be forthcoming, including a prediction of three more players at least from Packers-Lions.

EDIT: Because of his cockamanie contract being so option-ladened (he got a $17,400,000 option bonus this year), his actual salary is only $1,400,000. Hence, he loses $164,000 in pay, on top of the fine.

One more thing to chew on: The league has reversed!

After a first six weeks which were the highest scoring in the recent history of the NFL, we now sit with a situation where this Week 12 is the lowest scoring since at least 2001, and probably much further. It's the lowest scoring since 2001 by a sliver.

What does this represent? Probably many changes in the NFL's agenda, and, oh by the way, with the average score still over 43 a game for the season, God's Team won with a total of 29.

You know, it gets silly when I can almost script it myself...

After my business today, I went over to the local K-Mart to check out the TV section (and it's NFL coverage).

They had Denver-San Diego on, and, lo and behold, Tebow Time was in full effect with a 4th quarter comeback. However, just after the 2 minute warning, they had to settle for a tying field goal.

So Rivers and crew get the ball back and make one nice first down -- only to get sacked on a BLATANT HORSECOLLAR TACKLE WITH NO CALL!

The sacking Bronco puts his hand right inside the neck collar of Philip Rivers and uses that to help down Rivers. If that's not a Horse Collar, that's definitely Roughing the Passer.

At that point, both teams kinda agree to overtime. Denver wins the toss, the ref can't get the rules straight, and, after a couple of tries, San Diego looks to be in position to win, until they get so conservative that they turn a 48 yarder into a 52 yarder.

Missing that, I don't need to tell you. Tebow for one first down, McGahee for a second, 16-13, and the Broncos are 5-1 under Tebow.

And I called it and people laughed at me. They stopped laughing with about 30 seconds to go in the overtime.

Week 11 Fine Blotter: Ten more...

• Denver Broncos: Von Miller: $25,000 for roughing the passer. That's TWO TIME LOSER in three weeks for the same offense, hence the increased fine.
• New England Patriots: Logan Mankins: $7,500 for unnecessary roughness.
• Philadelphia Eagles: DeSean Jackson gets $10,000 for that little stunt that cost his team a huge gain last week by throwing the ball at the other team's coaches.
• Also for the Eagles: Trevor Laws gets $7,500 for a late hit on Eli Manning.
• And a THIRD for the Eagles, the big losers of the week: Another $10,000 unsportsmanlike conduct fine for Brian Rolle, who celebrated a big play by a machine-gun gesture, a move banned by the league.
  
• Seattle Seahawks: Russell Okung: $7,500 for unnecessary roughness.
• Miami Dolphins: Tyrone Culver: $20,000 for unnecessary roughness. (defenseless player/helmet)
• Second one for the San Francisco 49ers: Patrick Willis: $7,500 for unnecessary roughness.
• Arizona Cardinals: DeMarco Sampson: $7,500 for a flagrant face-mask.
• And also for the Cardinals: Daryl Washington: Same $7,500, this time for grabbing the helmet.

That's 14 players for $195,000. Nice work throwing away your money being dirty out there. Really classy for The Shield.

Fine Blotter Week 11: Well, I did find the first few...

While looking on footballfuture.com's NFL Forum for reactions on the dirty asshole in Detroit, I find the first fines for week 11...

• Seattle Seahawks with a TWO-TIME LOSER: Back-to-back weeks for Kam Chancellor, this one costs him $40,000. $60K in two weeks and no suspension, Goodell...
• Tennessee Titans: William Hays: $15,000 for roughing the passer.
• Carolina Panthers: Captain Munnerlyn with an interesting $5,000 uniform fine -- he says he's worn the shoes that got him fined every week this year, and was told by a league official that they were legal. The league disagrees.
• San Francisco 49ers: Dashon Goldson, $25,000 for the ejection and punches he did, but he will not be suspended.
  

Well, I think we have our first TWO fines for week 12!!

The rest of the fines, after Coach Ryan's 75K, for this week have not been released to the sites I usually pick them up from. When they do, I'll grab them.

But we have another MULTIPLE-TIME LOSER for next week -- and it's the first guy you'd expect: Ndamukong Suh got TOSSED from today's game for kicking a Packers (reserve) offensive lineman and grinding his face into the turf!!

I've always been worried that the Lions would attempt, with their two dirty knuckleheads (Suh and Fairley), to do the one thing which could stop 16-0: Take out someone like Aaron Rodgers.

Packers up 24-8, 8 1/2 to go in the game.

EDIT: Here's the incident from YouTube. Word is that at least a (EDIT SUNDAY) 2-game suspension plus a hefty fine, if not a fine and more games, is in Suh's forecast.

This is the guy who had to go to the damn league to learn the fucking rules. This -- guy -- CANNOT -- play -- cleanly. You are asking the impossible. Toss the bum out of the league.

EDIT as the game is about to end with the Pack going 11-0: That wasn't the only ejection from the contest. Pat Lee, a CB/Special Teams player, got tossed for an incident on a punt.

EDIT on the Lee ejection: Forget two fines, there could be three on that play alone. Watch this! The guy gets horse-collared, grabbed, held, double-teamed, appears to take a helmet to the shoulder... Send that entire tape to the league, and you might get three or four suspensions for next week. The DQ was justified -- he punched the guy.

Some more evidence that this whole Tebow nonsense is scripted/scriptured...

I said last week that I really felt that the Thursday night 17-13 win over the Jets was one of the most obvious scriptings in recent memory.

Like to show you a few things about "Tebow Time" in the NFL:

• Three of the four wins were 18-15 (OT over Miami), 17-10 over Kansas City, and 17-13 over the Jets. The average NFL game this year averages about a total of 44. They got drilled 45-10 by Detroit, and defeated Oakland 38-24, in a game where Tebow had 13 carries for 118 yards.
• Thursday night, before the final drive (which netted 95 yards and four first downs), the Denver Broncos had achieved three offensive points (a pick-six was the other touchdown), 134 yards and seven first downs.
• Tebow carried the ball only twice before the final drive. He carried the ball SIX TIMES in the final drive for 57 yards, almost half the entire night's 125 total for the team.

Now, if you wish to continue to believe the delusion that something is not up in Denver, remember that this was the guy that a "family values" group put forth for a Super Bowl ad to forward their cause (while the NFL oh-so-conveniently denied a gay-marriage advertisement on political grounds).

I almost expect to hear "Jesus Christ Superstar" in Indianapolis in February.

Week 11 Score Report

Weekly: 2011 (all games): 43.93. 3rd since 2001. (2005: 44.25. 2010: 45.56)

(The Detroit-Carolina 49-35 game is now the highest-scoring of the season.)

10 week average (all years now equal amount of games except 2001): 44.069. 3rd since 2011. (2008: 44.281. 2010: 44.325.)

And more for Week 10's Fine Blotter

• New England Patriots: Rob Gronkowski: $7,500 for taunting after a touchdown.
• Baltimore Ravens: Joe Flacco (yes, the quarterback -- second one this week!): $7,500 for a horse-collar tackle!
• Jacksonville Jaguars: Derek Fox: $7,500 for a flagrant face-mask.
• Seattle Seahawks: Kam Chancellor: $20,000 for probably using his helmet or hitting a defenseless player.
• Tennessee Titans: Michael Griffin: $7,500 for unnecessary roughness
• Baltimore Ravens: Arthur Jones: $7,500 for same.
• And, finally, a 3-pack of Carolina Panthers, all getting $7,500 fines for personal fouls: Charles Johnson, Byron Bell, Jordan Gross
  

Fine Blotter Week 10: As expected, Lions-Bears dominates the early fines...

One other fine first:

• It took eleven weeks, but the Dallas Cowboys finally have their first fine of the season (at least from what I have found: DeMarcus Ware: $15,000 for roughing the passer.

This now leaves the Indianapolis Colts as the only team in the NFL not to be fined so far, at least from all the information I've been able to glean.

The number of fines from the Bears-Lions game has grown to at least six!

• For the Bears: Earl Bennett: $10,000 for a TWO-TIME LOSER uniform violation IN CONSECUTIVE WEEKS (same illegal shoes).
• DJ Moore: $15,000 for the scuffle.
• For the Lions, the fines are now at four! The hit which precipitated the scuffle by QB Matthew Stafford was deemed illegal and costs Stafford $7,500.
• Rob Sims: $7,500 for his role therein.
• Kyle Vandenbosch: $7,500 for a late hit.
• And to absolutely NO ONE'S SURPRISE: Nick Fairley: $15,000 for roughing the passer.

There will be more from other games, and I'm not so sure the league is done with Lions-Bears either!

If there is a soul left who honestly does not believe the NFL is scripted...

I submit to you the most obviously rigged game in probably the entire history of the league.

It was so rigged that this old codger all but called it as it was happening.

Tim Tebow and his Blessed Broncos have done it again -- 4-1 under God's Quarterback and another last-drive comeback win for Christ.

This was a team who had 135 yards of total offense before Tebow and crew got the ball with about 6 minutes to go in the game.

12 plays, 95 yards, and 4:56 later, Tim Tebow scores the game winner in a 17-13 Denver win, to get the Blessed Broncos to 5-5!!

Tebow had six rushes on the drive, threw five passes, and they had four of the game's eleven first downs for Denver on that drive.

And then the Jets do just enough forward to get a chance that people believe they can do it, but enough self-destruction that they fall to the Quarterback from God.

ARE

YOU

KIDDING

ME???

Couple of NFL notes...

Not that I think the Pack needed any referee help in the 45-7 win over the Vikings (and the 7 was basically a direct result of a punt muff on the part of the Pack), but it is interesting to note that the Vikings were called for 10 penalties in the game. The Packers? ONLY ONE. A false-start on the first snap of the second quarter.

HOW IN THE BLUE HELL DO YOU GO AN ENTIRE NFL GAME IN THIS DAY AND AGE WITH ONE PENALTY AND THAT KIND OF DIFFERENTIAL?

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This whole Tim Tebow phenomenon has got me thinking and watching.

Thanks to our friends at Pro Football Reference, I decided to search all games in which the winning team had 8 or fewer passing attempts.

Other than the Tebow Bowl on Sunday, here are the only times since 2000:

• New England 13 - Buffalo 0. 12/28/2008. Last game of the season probably had lots to do with it, as Matt Cassel went 6-8 for 78 yards.
• Dallas 32 - Washington 13. 12/10/2000. Real odd one here, as two quarterbacks split duty to only have 8 passing attempts. (Troy Aikman had 3, Anthony Wright had 5.)
• Carolina 10 - Atlanta 3. 12/24/2006. Chris Weinke, 4-7 for 32 yards and the only touchdown of the match. DeShaun Foster and DeAngelo Williams combined for 49 rushes for 184 yards.
• Finally, San Diego 21 - Cleveland 0. 12/19/2004. Drew Brees, 4-6 for 85 yards and a score. San Diego, led by LDT, had run the ball 51 times. (LDT: 26 for 111 and 2 TD's.)

So only four other times (five total) in the league since 2000, and never, in any of those wins, outside of the month of December.

The next time it happened before that, that a team won with 8 or fewer pass attempts, was December 12, 1982. New England beat Miami (in Foxboro) 3-0, Steve Grogan 2-5 with a pick. I think you can guess that there were probably contributing factors. (Yes, this was the famous Snow Plow Game.)

There have been two pro football games since 1940 in which the winning team attempted no passes. One in 1941, one in 1950.

The March of "God's Quarterback"...

Start getting real scared. The Broncos are 3-1 with Tim Tebow starting, and, with this country taking a hard lurch to the Right...

Here's the kicker: Tebow won the game, playing the whole game, completing only TWO passes out of EIGHT attempts against Kansas City.

Denver is now 4-5, one game behind the Raiders in the division.

Ruh-roh.

(Hattip to Brian Tuohy, though I've heard no end of this already and was probably going to post this anyway.)

Sounds like the NFL offenses have been told to pack up for the week...

Sunday nighter was the highest scoring game of the week so far, and Monday night is the Aaron Rodgers Show in Lambeau, so this might change a bit more.

But week 10, at 39.27, was the lowest scoring week 10 since at least 2001, and by almost two full points, even with the Sunday nighter totalling 53. Last year averaged almost 52 points a game. The next-lowest since 2001? A 41-even average in 2007.

As a result, the average NFL game this year now only averages 44.03, behind 2002 (44.18), 2010 (44.19), and the new leader, 2008 (44.49).

PS: You can expect a significant Fine Blotter this week. Chicago and Detroit got it on a couple of times in this game. Two consecutive clips, one with a brawl and the second with new knucklehead Nick Fairley roughing the passer in the end zone.

Fine Blotter: Week 9 -- the "I almost forgot about THIS farce" edition

• Baltimore Ravens: "Murderer" Ray Lewis: $20,000 for a helmet-to-helmet that knocked Hines Ward from the game. The refs called no penalty on that play.
  
• Pittsburgh Steelers: Ryan Clark, a TWO-TIME LOSER, making the fine for his hit on Ed Dickson worth $40,000.
• Chicago Bears: Earl Bennett: $5,000 for illegally-colored shoes, a uniform violation.
• Denver Broncos: Von Miller: $15,000 for roughing the passer.
• Cleveland Browns: Josh Cribbs: $7,500 for a flagrant facemask.
• Two Oakland Raiders add to the reputation of the league's dirtiest team for fouls against Tim Tebow: Aaron Curry draws $20,000
• Jarvis Moss, $15,000.
• Miami Dolphins: Marc Colombo: $7,500 for a late hit
• New York Giants: Antrel Rolle: $5,000 for an illegal University of Miami logo on his eyeblock. The fine now makes Rolle a THREE-TIME LOSER with the league this season.

There was talk James Harrison was going to get fined this week, but he escaped, apparently.

And here's a kicker for you: It has been learned today that the NFL may be about to fine eleven players (suspending one of them) for violations of the substance abuse policy with recreational drugs.

(Source: Yahoo! Sports.)

College football shows true colors -- again

How a college football game can be contested involving Penn State University today (or any time soon -- read: 2-4 years) is beyond any sense of my comprehension.

But it's money and it's basically to tell people that even men fucking boys is to be ignored, as long as we can tee it up on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday to forget it all.

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And Boise bows to reality again. Probably knowing it gets no better than about #5 or #6 anyway, it loses to TCU at home, probably ending even getting in a BCS game at all.

Even if ranked higher than Houston, Boise must win their conference to get the automatic BCS berth. Houston has that now.

PULL THE GODDAMN PLUG NOW -- or you risk losing the entire fabric of football...

Look, I know I've said a lot of things about how the fabric of football has gone beyond repair, but we may now have evidence of that being so true that the only option is to shut the whole mess down.

If you haven't heard it yet, you are definitely going to want to sit down and grab something solid.

Mark Madden, certainly a controversial radio host in his own right, was a guest on The Dennis and Callahan Show this morning (Thursday, November 10). And he was asked what the next shoe to drop would be...

He said something that, if true, the Federal police are going to have to make sure I never set foot in State College, Pennsylvania.

Mark Madden claims that there are two prominent columnists now researching a rumor (and he later stressed on his Twitter that, to this point, the only credence he can give it is the prominence of the columnists involved).

Mark Madden, today, has stated that there is the real possibility that this is an open pedophile ring involving rich donors at Pennsylvania State University.

Let that process... Take time for vomiting if you need it.

He's stating that he believes that Jerry Sandusky was not only participating in pedophilia, but that he was a pimp for young boys, shopping them out for sexual favors to major donors at Penn State (I assume football donors!).

The kicker is that he believes the entire college football community knew, and, well, I'll let what I consider to be the "Money Quote" from this on the table:

"My opinion is when Sandusky quit, everybody knew -- not just at Penn State," Madden added. "I think it was a very poorly kept secret about college football in general, and that is why he never coached in college football again and retired at the relatively young age of 55. [That's] young for a coach, certainly."

It almost sounds as if he's implying that participation in these types of events goes far beyond Penn State.

If I were to give anything more about what I would like to see happen if this is true, they'd take down the blog and probably send people to jail or shoot me. I've been six shades of PISSED OFF over this to begin with, but it really makes me wonder if the "Showbiz Manipulations" Brian Tuohy talks about in his book are really a cover for the most depraved of acts.

The Penn State football program must be shut down -- and, if this is true, the only solution left is Teddy Roosevelt's.

Paterno FIRED. Spanier FIRED.

The Penn State University Board of Trustees refused the resignation of Joe Paterno, instead FIRING him immediately and adding University President Spanier to the carnage.

Source: Yahoo Rivals

No word yet on Saturday's game.

This has now become a safety issue -- retiring Joe ain't enough -- PULL THE GODDAMN PLUG

EDIT 11/10 1354: This post was made BEFORE the riots, and BEFORE the statement that Mark Madden made.

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You know, it takes a lot to get my jaded self as angry as I am now. I am reminded of a discussion I had with a friend this week about how much worse things are in this out-of-control sports world these days.

But this whole situation out of Penn State is just beyond the pale.

Joe Paterno has decided to retire, but only effective the end of the season.

Not enough -- and word I had as of about an hour ago indicates University President Spanier is already a foot and a half out the door.

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But it got me to thinking: The Nittany Lions would (if they didn't do the right thing and close the program down for the year) have three games left. Their last home game is this Saturday vs. Nebraska, and then they have to go to Ohio State and Wisconsin.

I want to ask you something: How in the Hell do you think it would be possible for those three games to take place without violence (from the other players or from the opposing fans) being effected on the current Nittany Lion football team?

Here's a hint: Forgeddaboutit. There's no way those three games can feasibly take place. Someone is going off on the team. Someone on the team might go off in response.

It's clear that Penn State (though most believe their undefeated conference record to be fraudulent) is going to be rigged to lose at least those two road games.

Why chance that it gets ugly, on top of it? The Big Ten is NOT going to allow Penn State to soil, perhaps permanently, their new conference championship game in football.

If it takes the Big Ten, if it takes the NCAA, if it takes whoever is going to be in charge at Penn State come 8 AM Thursday, if it takes the Feds (who probably should investigate this -- especially when you add that the original district attorney who was looking in to this (and chose not to charge Sandusky back in 1998) disappeared and is now presumed dead!):

Close down the football program at least for the season at Penn State, or risk an even further debacle up the line.

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ON EDIT: I've contacted Chairman Michael McRobbie, the President of Indiana University, who is also the Chairman of the Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors, the "ultimate authority and responsibility for Big Ten Conference governance".

I phrased it a bit more delicately than here, but I basically asked if the conference has the ability to pull the plug themselves.

It's official: Something is up with the Green Bay Packers...

I alluded to it earlier in the week, when I did the score update post: The Green Bay Packers have three of the five highest-scoring games of the year, and, in the Worldwide Leader's "Year of the Quarterback" and with the NFL promoting scoring unlike we've seen at least in this millenium, it's no secret they are 8-0.

However, it's pretty clear that the entire game between the San Diego Chargers and the Green Bay Packers last Sunday had several fairly openly scripted moments. Follow along on the NFL Network's/NFL.com's Packer/Charger highlights.

1. 00:10 - 00:26. Much like the Patrick Peterson game-winner for the Cardinals over the Lambs (whom I believe we can now officially put on the "Suck for Luck" chart, even if it's for the boatload of draft picks he'd bring), watch this first interception return for a touchdown and tell me that the San Diego team is even remotely trying here to tackle the Packers' Charlie Pepper. 14-7 Pack.
   
2. 00:28 - 01:11 Tremon Williams. Are you serious? Watch, especially, the replay breakdown on this pass (00:41 onward). Tremon Williams is so locked into that "jump the seam route" Pick-Six that the only way that Philip Rivers could've thrown that ball was damn near with the INTENTION that he had literally locked eyes with Williams and that Williams was going to take it to the house. 21-7 Pack.
3. 01:15 - 01:32 (And let's please never mind showing the San Diego highlights that cut that 21-7 lead to 21-17 in the second quarter, NFL Network, on top of this monstrosity.) Aaron Rodgers, two minute drill, less than 25 seconds to go in the half, TOUCHDOWN PASS to Jordy Nelson. 28-17 Pack, after review... EXCEPT HE DIDN'T CATCH THE BALL!! (Freeze it at 01:28. If you get it properly, you see that ball being trapped to the ground by Nelson, all but being juggled the whole way, and the replay still awards the touchdown.)
4. 02:28 - 02:41 Chargers now down 45-31. 7 1/2 minutes to go, onside kick. Watch this CLOSELY. VERY CLOSELY. Jordy Nelson again, after the ball appears to contact a Packer player in front of him, bats the ball directly to a Charger for the recovery. Drive leads to a touchdown, Packer lead now only 45-38, adding to the already-highest scoring game of the year.
5. 03:36 - 03:49 44 seconds to go, still 45-38. Chargers on that last-gasp drive, 3rd and 10, pass is nowhere close, but there's a flag on Charles Woodson for his second pass-interference call. He may have obstructed the path, but he was going straight and the receiver was cutting into him. Here's the kicker that clip doesn't tell you: If you had watched the game on television or the play on NFL Network's Red Zone: The flag was thrown by an official on the TWENTY YARD LINE! Twenty-five yards from the play! (Brian Tuohy also questions the other PI call Woodson got on him in that game, but I have no clip of that to show you.
6. Next and final part of the clip. Two plays later, Rivers overthrows the only receiver near the ball by ten to fifteen yards for the pick (and almost an inexplicable pick-six!) to seal the win. Thanks for coming, thanks for watching this entire production (andthecommercials) of the National Football League.

You know, someone said to me last night, when ESPN aired a documentary of Alabama-Auburn, that I was effectively the guy who poisoned Toomer's Corner. (Hint from my blog: No shit.)

I said to him that the only reason I haven't been arrested for sporting violence is that I am fully aware that the games are not legitimate, for the most part. Look at that clip and tell me the NFL didn't have something planned for the Packers.

ON EDIT: NFC Offensive Player of the Week for that week: Aaron Rodgers.

That's the third time this season he's gotten the weekly award, and he just got the monthly award for October!

Am I glad to see this, because it means I'm not the only one thinking it...

Look, I'm all for understanding that the kids on this year's football team are all-but-certain to be uninvolved in everything.

Still, there's only one solution for this situation, at least vis-a-vis the current season, and Hayes Carlyon of the (Jacksonville) Florida Times-Union has the answer, at least for present, and I'll let you read his blog from mine:

Penn State should forfeit their remaining games of the season and shut the program down for the year.

But everything pales in comparison to the news out of Pennsylvania...

I don't even know where to begin with it. And this is far worse than even what the situation with the two Georgia high schools is turning in to.

A three-year investigation at Penn State University has led a grand jury to charge the university's (now former) Athletic Director and (now former) head of Business -- who was also the head of the Campus Police Department at the time -- with perjury and obstruction of justice.

That's bad enough. When it's compounded with what they were covering up, you've got probably the single most sordid example (of many I've found) as to why the sports culture in this country is diseased beyond repair.

This all stems from the case of former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky, who was indicted on November 6 of 40 counts stemming from a years-long habit of pedophilia.

This guy is accused of fucking kids under the color of the Penn State football program under Joe Paterno.

Just a couple days ago, they added perjury and obstruction charges to then-AD Tim Curley and vice president for business and finance Gary Schultz (who was the head of the campus police, at the time). Both have since stepped down from their posts, Curley to administrative leave, Schultz to retirement.

The worst part of this is that Paterno was not touched.

How in the Hell he could have an assistant coach under his employment who had been fucking kids for a period of 15 years and that Paterno could not have known about it is INCONCEIVABLE to me.

And then, to openly have the university's head of police AND the Athletic Director LIE to authorities over this is just stupid beyond all sense of description.

This clearly extended back to when Sandusky was on the staff. At least one incident is reported to have surrounded a kid near the team at the 1999 Alamo Bowl.

That ALONE should end JoePa's career. That single statement should put to rest the feasible ability of Joe Paterno to be able to successfully discern good character to bed.

Sandusky is being accused of fucking kids for FIFTEEN YEARS. There is ZERO CHANCE that I believe that people at Penn State didn't know, and that the aura around the Penn State Nittany Lion football program was going to cover this up, not unlike the Holy Roman Catholic Church and the "Holy Scepter of God" many of these pedophilic male priests believe is between their legs.

Joe Paterno should be arrested on the same charges that the other two guys just got: Perjury and obstruction, because to handle this in-house (which is what Paterno did) is basically begging for this to die. Of course, had this come out earlier, his career probably was over anyway.

This is probably fatal to the football program at Penn State, in one way or another. Maybe not this year, but soon...

But I had the following to say to the President of Penn State University, Graham Spanier, whom you can contact at the e-mail address: president@psu.edu

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Subject: Act Now on Paterno, or Join Him

To the President of Penn State University, Graham Spanier:

I can understand this is a difficult time for you.

But you are completely and utterly negligent in your duties as a University President if you do not do one thing, right now -- and it's the last thing that you would ever want to do at Penn State University:

Joe Paterno either retires immediately, or he is fired.

You basically, for the foreseeable future, are going to be seen as "Pedophile State University". Paterno's reputation as a college football legend -- GONE. Your university's positive reputation -- DESTROYED.

If, hypothetically speaking, I were a student at Penn State, I'd be looking into transferring out, as soon as I could.

You've got two choices:

You either rid the athletic program of Joe Paterno, and every person who may have been involved in this (and if you think I believe this is just Curley, Sandusky, and that vice president of business, you're fooling yourself!)

or

You quit as the President of Penn State University, and a successor is named that has half an ounce of integrity.

The only reason I would not call for you guys to decline any bowl bid you would receive this year is that I am not clear at all that (beyond that Paterno has no business coaching this team whatsoever now) it involves this team on the player level in any respect. But what punishments could be put against your university that would be sufficient, I cannot say because I do not know.

Michael Falkner

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And people wonder why I am so disgusted with sports these days. There's more of this going on -- LOTS more...

And there's lots more to this story too.

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5 PM PST: Unscientific philly.com poll:

4-to-1 that Paterno needs to go.

Well, I can see I'm done purchasing Mars products for a while...

NASCAR fined Kyle Busch $50,000 and put him back on probation today for the remaining races of 2011.

We can only hope Joe Gibbs has the sense not to let him in the car, or there WILL be a wreck.

But after this comment from Mars, Inc., sponsors of Kyle's car:

"The recent actions demonstrated by Kyle Busch are not consistent with the values of Mars, Incorporated and we are very disappointed," the news release said. "We do not condone this behavior and expect those who represent our company and brands to abide by the same values our company stands for. We have expressed our strong concerns directly to Joe Gibbs Racing."

I have only this response:

"This isn't a question.

This is effectively a boycott.

Until your company fully dissociates itself with Kyle Busch, I'm not knowingly purchasing another product from you.

NASCAR appears completely unwilling to do anything reasonable to the man for the incidents he's done, and I'm sick of half-hearted promotional saves on the part of companies like yours.

GET RID OF THE GUY. PERIOD."

Week 9 Score Report

Got a couple of bad ones here to talk about in a bit...

Let's get the score report out of the way for week 9, Monday nighter pending...

2004: 47.93
2007: 46.71
2009: 46.46
2010: 45.92
2011: 43.54
2008: 42.57
2001: 41.80
2006: 40.21
2005: 39.93
2003: 39.64
2002: 39.07

Nine-week averages to this point:

2011: 44.50
2008: 44.21
2002: 43.98 (after a long time at #2)
2009: 43.49
2010: 43.35
2007: 42.58
2004: 42.10
2003: 41.57
2006: 41.34
2005: 41.28
2001: 40.52

Interesting factoid: The Green Bay Packers have been involved in the two highest-scoring games of the year. The 45-38 win over San Diego this week is the highest-scoring game of the year. #2 is the season-opening 42-34 win over the Saints. The next highest-scoring games are 2 at 73 and 1 at 72 (the Packers' week 4 49-23 win over the Broncos!).

So the Pack have been involved in three of the five highest scoring games of the season, and are 8-0, and probably will be 10-0 when they go to Detroit to open the Thanksgiving Turkey-Fest. HMMMMMM....

Oh my God, NA$CAR showed some balls and finally parked the motherfucker.

About four and a half months ago, I posted this diatribe about why Kyle Busch was not parked for a number of offenses stemming from and subsequent to his probation earlier in the year for an altercation with Kevin Harvick.

Well, what do I see today on ESPN?

THEY PARKED THE SON OF A BITCH!!!

Banned from both races for the weekend after being parked after basically trying to kill Ron Hornaday in the Truck Race.

Busch deliberately wrecked Hornaday during the first caution period of the race on lap 14, after the two got into it on a three-wide situation.

He deliberately took Hornaday and spun him into the wall violently, ending his race and probably his championship hopes.

Time to ban this shit-head until at least Daytona. (There's only three races left, and this finishes off him in the Chase. I would not want this guy on the track to wreck someone to decide the Chase, and don't think he wouldn't!!) A season or life ban would not be out of line for this. That was about as bad as one gets.

And another example of an out-of-control team being rewarded...

Saw this one in Yahoo! Rivals today, and the entire story is here:

The principal of a Maryland high school pulled the plug on his team's soccer season on the basis of a flagrant taunting of a rival school they had just defeated in their state quarterfinal match.

After defeating their rivals from Dulaney High, Perry Hill High's soccer team went into the "Bernie", a gyrating conga line made famous in the movie "Weekend at Bernie's".

Many complaints were filed (some should've been against the officials, as every player on the Dulaney team should've been booked for excessive/inciting celebration (it'd be roughly the equivalent of taking off their shirts to incite the crowd), and the principal pulled the plug, ordering the forfeit of the state semifinal match...

... only to lose his testicles and reverse his decision later. My guess, frankly? The state association would've penalized the school much more harshly had they gone through with it. Remember: The only reason the miscreants get their sports is how much money the sports make -- even at the high school level.

The game was scheduled for Friday, re-scheduled for Saturday at 2 PM Eastern.

May they lose about six-nil.

NFL Fine Blotter Week 8: Wait for it, and here they come...

Lots of fines in the Friday Fine Blotter:

• New York Giants had two for personal fouls: Linval Joseph drew a $7,500 for sanction for his.
• while Antrel Rolle drew $15,000 for his, because that makes him a TWO-TIME LOSER.
• Minnesota Vikings: Percy Harvin: $7,500 for facemasking another player in a scuffle. He probably was ruled instigator, as the other player was not fined.
• Carolina Panthers: Legedu Naanee drew the same $7,500 fine in the same game and the same manner for a different scuffle that HE started. The Viking player who was also flagged in that scuffle was not fined.
• San Francisco 49ers: Justin Smith: $15,000 for a head/neck roughing the passer shot.
• Kansas City Chiefs had THREE players fined for illegal shoe colors: $5,000 (presumably) each for Brandon Flowers (making him a TWO-TIME LOSER), Dwayne Bowe, and Brandon Smith. They all painted their black shoes red, illegal under the rules.
• Cincinnati Bengals got two: Andre Caldwell: $5,000 for a personal foul for unnecessary roughness.
• and Domata Peko: $7,500 for a similar foul.
  
• New England Patriots get two: Kevin Faulk: $7,500 for a chop block.
• and Patrick Cheung: same amount for a personal foul -- which makes him a TWO-TIME LOSER. (So why is the fine not doubled, Commissioner Goodell, much less a suspension?)
• Houston Texans: Duane Brown, $7,500 for punching somebody. (Not to mention where's the thumb and a stiff additional fine?)
• St. Louis Rams: Bryan Kehl: $15,000 for violation of the Defenseless Player Rule
• and the San Diego Chargers with the last two I could find: Steve Gregory: $10,000 for a dirty hit.
• and Bront Bird: $7,500 for a late hit.

That's 18 players this week I could find, for $157,500.

Listen, you guys: Play by the fucking rules, or if you're that dead-set on throwing away your fucking money, just send some of it to me, then, since it seems your dirty hits and rulebreaking are more important than your pocketbook.

Here's a hint why: Eight weeks into the year, only TWO teams have not received a single fine from the NFL. The Dallas Cowboys, and the Indianapolis Colts.

Week 8 Fine Blotter: An early and slow start...

Only a couple fines I've seen so far:

• Tennessee Titans: Anthony Smith: $7,500 for a cheapie on the quarterback.
• And for the sixth game in eight, the Pittsburgh Steelers have drawn a fine: Ryan Clark: $15,000 for a helmet-to-helmet late hit.

Chris Keomatu could've become a two-time loser himself, but, like the guy from last week, got off easy, apparently.

Since I have a moment, here's to Bernard Pollard, who believes the fines are "killing the game"?

Would you rather see cheap-shot-ball killed, or a human being??

Wait, you've been in the NFL, haven't you?? I know that answer now!!!

Never mind...