- (Hat-tip to my anonymous friend on this first one.) The Jacksonville Jaguars may just have hit rock-bottom. They have just pulled something out of the debut of Michigan J. Frog on December 31, 1955... They have resorted to advertising for free beer at their games if they can just get a few people to masquerade as Jaguar fans for three hours at a time. This was part of a Twitter promotion over a three-hour period Thursday for this Sunday's tilt with Indianapolis... Oh dear God... 10-Cent Beer Night, anyone?
- EA Sports is now officially out of the college-football video-game business (at least, for now). EA simultaneously announced a settlement (late sources are saying in the area of about $40,000,000 -- pennies, frankly, as many would suggest) with the Ed O'Bannon class action on compensation for player likeness, and also announced that this year's NCAA Football 14 would be the last edition. This is if you believe the NCAA (the only remaining defendant) is going to lose, in a catastrophic manner, the main O'Bannon lawsuit. It might well be only wishful thinking on my part, frankly. A compelling argument is made that, if a couple sports fans (read: losers and dupes) are put on the jury if this goes to trial, and told politely that there will be no more March Madness if the NCAA loses (even with a $750M/year television deal, not implausible, given the desire to take the major conferences and create an NCAA division consisting solely of them), that the NCAA, at worst, gets the NFL treatment vis-a-vis the USFL. Stay tuned.
- Fuck the two San Francisco Giants fans on Third and Harrison a couple of nights ago. FUCK -- YOU -- HARD. You'd think we'd have learned by now, after the Brian Stow incident in Los Angeles, not to take the fucking Giants-Dodgers rivalry so fucking seriously. Why all the expletives?? Because a Dodger fan has now DIED in San Francisco because of the rivalry. Jonathan Denver (ironically, the son of a security guard for the Dodgers!) was killed on Third and Harrison Streets near the Giants' ballpark. I can say, from experience, that's not the safest area of town most any time. A suspect is in custody and will be charged with homicide.
WHEN ARE WE GOING TO FUCKING LEARN???
I mean, dear God... This is supposed to be an escape. This is supposed to be... OH, I DON'T KNOW... FUN???
I posted this video for a reason. It is a homage to the oldest rivalry in the Neanderthug Felon League.
But, even in the song, is the following part of a verse, which Giant-fan now needs to take as seriously as Dodger-fan should've (and may well have!) after the Stow incident:
"We don't really hold a grudge 'cause this is all in fun...
As far as football rivalries, we're both Number One..."
(Then, a playful stab at seeing Mike Ditka get run over by a truck, but I think one SHOULD be able to tell that was in fun too!)
Every team has it's rival. Every Harvard, it's Yale... Every Stanford, it's Cal... Etc., and so on, and so forth...
WHY THE FUCK DO WE KILL EACH OTHER OVER THIS BULLSHIT? That's the kind of stuff we slam the unwashed over in Europe for!!
And it really seems like these were, more truly, hooligans. It's apparent they didn't even attend the damn game in the first damn place!!
But, oh, let the talking of shit begin, and out come the knives.
That's more what we claim to be better than... Stuff like this:
(And that's 2013 video -- it's gotten no better over the years.)
Now, you've got a guy who can't even enjoy the Dodgers getting a shot at the World Series.
HE'S DEAD!
Because two Giants fans had to bring out the knives after the talking of shit was not enough!!
Back to the list before I have an aneurysm:
- Two more deaths before their time in the NFL this week. Days after the death of Damon James due to a helmet-to-helmet hit (the school's season has been ended as a result), we got one former NFL player dead due to a heart attack, we lose Paul Oliver, formerly of the Chargers, to suicide. And every damn time we see these players go far too early, the thought of repeated blows to the head and CTE comes to the table!
- And then this gem of insanity: If you were an NFL player and died before 2006, you get no money from the concussion lawsuit. More and more every day, $750 million (about one NFL week's worth of profits" of "Go The Fuck Away"!
- Thank God for one sane coach. Utah high-school football coach Matt Labrum (Union High School, Lawrence, UT) terminated the football program (at least temporarily) for team-wide disciplinary issues including cyber-bullying. I know, Mr. Labrum, that the last thing you want this to be about is you. The "problem" with that is that this is so unheard of (and so deserved in a massive number of schools) in the day and age where the sole existence of the high school is the enforcement of a hierarchy toward the football team and the community rallying around same. Stubenville? Penn State?? (OK, that's not a high school, but same difference!) You've not only done the right thing, you just made yourself a lot of enemies in that town. My remaining and continuing concern is that this goes far beyond the football team and you've got an "unable to proceed in education" situation in that school.
- Bud Selig retiring next year? Many years too late!! Na na na na...
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