Why are the Denver Broncos wearing yellow and brown unis today? What kind of color is BROWN for a football team? Unless it's your team name, of course, but then that begs the question -- what the heck kind of name is the Browns?
But back to the Broncos: I'm always happy when weenie Tom Brady and his dickhead cheater coach get bested, which is what just happened. Belichick is a known and admitted cheater -- why is he even allowed to take one step onto a football field?
Sunday, October 11, 2009
The Boys of Winter
I'm still on west coast time, and out of Lunesta, so I'm not ready to sleep yet...
I think nearly every team in the NHL was playing tonight, and while cruising my digital cable menu, I made the happily accidental discovery that Time Warner is either running a free promotion or -- gloria in exelsius! -- I actually have the NHL Network.
Woo-hoo, right?
Well, it was a pretty "woo-hoo" moment for me -- I thought I was going to have to either go the entire season watching the Rangers, Islanders, or (God help me) the Devils, wait until the playoffs to see my favorite team in action, or become a high-functioning alcoholic cruising the sports bars of the West Side in search of Penguins hockey. You die-hard football fans only have to worry about one night a week for your sports fix; do you know how many hockey games there are in a season? Jesus wept.
Tonight the Penguins played at the Maple Leafs (Toronto). It was a rout by the Pens, of course, who have brought forward most of their Cup-winning line from last year (minus Cup-clincher Max Talbot who is out recuperating from shoulder surgery -- better now than later, I say -- big Hal Gill, and Miroslav Satan, who is in free agency now and has yet to be picked up by another franchise...I'm a little bummed about that, but mostly because now I won't be able to get a T-shirt with SATAN written across the back).
Coach Dan Bylsma seemed to be working his different lines, mixing and matching throughout the whole game, so we saw all the key guys getting plenty of ice time. The Pens played hustle hockey tonight, which is good to see after they were surprised by Phoenix last week ("what the -- ?") and then had a struggle to beat the Flyers.
Honestly, it wasn't much of a challenge for my boys, it looked like a pre-season scrimmage at times, with a lot of blue jerseys standing around while the Pens shot past them. At the end of the first period the Pens were 14-2 shots on goal. And after both goals scored by Toronto, the Pens came back to score within 30 seconds. Two goals for Crosby.
It was like watching one of those old Harlem Globetrotters games, and the Leafs were the Washington Generals. I kept waiting for Sidney "Meadowlark" Crosby to pants someone and Evgeni "Curly" Malkin to toss a bucket of confetti into the audience.
Colton Orr (Toronto) lived up to his goon rep and was up to his old tricks, starting not one, but two fights -- on two different face-offs! -- and spending a good chunk of time in the box.
Nice to see Billy Guerin putting in his shifts when it was optional tonight. He admitted he was going to sit this one out but got shamed into playing by his teammates. He's a former NJ Devil, but I don't hold that against him.
We didn't get to see much of badass Brooks Orpik because he took a hit that put his face into the glass and sat him down for the rest of the game. After he got himself up on all fours with his eyes spinning in his head, you could practically see the birds tweeting around his head all the way back to the bench.
I'll be watching big Jordan Staal this season -- the kid is just growing and growing, and is a superstar in the making.
Penguins, 5-2
Afterthought; How will the loss of Johan Franzen affect the Red Wings this year? He's out for at LEAST four months with a torn ACL.
Well, the Little Cat is giving me her bedroom eyes, so I think I shall retire with Dr. HS Thompson and his bitter musings on sports and life in post-9/11 America.
I think nearly every team in the NHL was playing tonight, and while cruising my digital cable menu, I made the happily accidental discovery that Time Warner is either running a free promotion or -- gloria in exelsius! -- I actually have the NHL Network.
Woo-hoo, right?
Well, it was a pretty "woo-hoo" moment for me -- I thought I was going to have to either go the entire season watching the Rangers, Islanders, or (God help me) the Devils, wait until the playoffs to see my favorite team in action, or become a high-functioning alcoholic cruising the sports bars of the West Side in search of Penguins hockey. You die-hard football fans only have to worry about one night a week for your sports fix; do you know how many hockey games there are in a season? Jesus wept.
Tonight the Penguins played at the Maple Leafs (Toronto). It was a rout by the Pens, of course, who have brought forward most of their Cup-winning line from last year (minus Cup-clincher Max Talbot who is out recuperating from shoulder surgery -- better now than later, I say -- big Hal Gill, and Miroslav Satan, who is in free agency now and has yet to be picked up by another franchise...I'm a little bummed about that, but mostly because now I won't be able to get a T-shirt with SATAN written across the back).
Coach Dan Bylsma seemed to be working his different lines, mixing and matching throughout the whole game, so we saw all the key guys getting plenty of ice time. The Pens played hustle hockey tonight, which is good to see after they were surprised by Phoenix last week ("what the -- ?") and then had a struggle to beat the Flyers.
Honestly, it wasn't much of a challenge for my boys, it looked like a pre-season scrimmage at times, with a lot of blue jerseys standing around while the Pens shot past them. At the end of the first period the Pens were 14-2 shots on goal. And after both goals scored by Toronto, the Pens came back to score within 30 seconds. Two goals for Crosby.
It was like watching one of those old Harlem Globetrotters games, and the Leafs were the Washington Generals. I kept waiting for Sidney "Meadowlark" Crosby to pants someone and Evgeni "Curly" Malkin to toss a bucket of confetti into the audience.
Colton Orr (Toronto) lived up to his goon rep and was up to his old tricks, starting not one, but two fights -- on two different face-offs! -- and spending a good chunk of time in the box.
Nice to see Billy Guerin putting in his shifts when it was optional tonight. He admitted he was going to sit this one out but got shamed into playing by his teammates. He's a former NJ Devil, but I don't hold that against him.
We didn't get to see much of badass Brooks Orpik because he took a hit that put his face into the glass and sat him down for the rest of the game. After he got himself up on all fours with his eyes spinning in his head, you could practically see the birds tweeting around his head all the way back to the bench.
I'll be watching big Jordan Staal this season -- the kid is just growing and growing, and is a superstar in the making.
Penguins, 5-2
Afterthought; How will the loss of Johan Franzen affect the Red Wings this year? He's out for at LEAST four months with a torn ACL.
Well, the Little Cat is giving me her bedroom eyes, so I think I shall retire with Dr. HS Thompson and his bitter musings on sports and life in post-9/11 America.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
My Idea of Happiness
My flight boarded on time, and we landed 45 minutes early. I sat across the aisle from Evan Lysacek (yes, I am a figure-skating geek, too). Wished him luck in Vancouver as we got off the plane.
Greeted with feline joy upon opening my apartment door. The little cat has glued herself to my side. The old man, too.
Transferred 9 days of dirty laundry from my suitcase to the laundry bag to be dealt with tomorrow.
Craig Ferguson had Gerard Butler as a guest and ended his show with a farting kitten. Maybe you had to see it to appreciate just how funny it was.
Bravo is showing "Goodfellas."
"Please stop feeding the dog from the table from the plate on top of it." (Spoken by the brilliant Lorraine Bracco)
My pleasures are small ones and I am glad to be home.
Oh, and our President won the Nobel Peace Prize. Maybe, just maybe, we will finally get to see Rush Limbaugh "explode like a bag of meat dropped from a helicopter." (Bill Maher)
Greeted with feline joy upon opening my apartment door. The little cat has glued herself to my side. The old man, too.
Transferred 9 days of dirty laundry from my suitcase to the laundry bag to be dealt with tomorrow.
Craig Ferguson had Gerard Butler as a guest and ended his show with a farting kitten. Maybe you had to see it to appreciate just how funny it was.
Bravo is showing "Goodfellas."
"Please stop feeding the dog from the table from the plate on top of it." (Spoken by the brilliant Lorraine Bracco)
My pleasures are small ones and I am glad to be home.
Oh, and our President won the Nobel Peace Prize. Maybe, just maybe, we will finally get to see Rush Limbaugh "explode like a bag of meat dropped from a helicopter." (Bill Maher)
Friday, October 9, 2009
Keep Those Warrantless Wiretaps Coming
You know what? Back when all of that FISA stuff first happened, in the darkness of the Bush-Cheney years, I was almost violently opposed to this whole "warrantless wiretap" thing. It's unconstitutional, right?
But still...
Now that threats against our President have increased by 400%, a poll appears on Facebook asking "Should Obama be killed?" and shit like this appears ALL THE TIME, I say, warrentlessly wiretap away, FBI! CIA! SECRET SERVICE! NSA!
I hope that everyone who pulls this unpatriotic bullshit is tracked and tagged like a rogue coyote so the US Government knows where they are at every moment. In fact, I hope the TSA has their little travel records marked so they get the extra special "bend over and cough" searches every time they try to get on an airplane.
Frankly, I'm scared of these crazy people.
On the other hand, maybe they'll just die out at their own hands, like these two maroons.
Coupla dead gun nuts?
NO BIG LOSS
But still...
Now that threats against our President have increased by 400%, a poll appears on Facebook asking "Should Obama be killed?" and shit like this appears ALL THE TIME, I say, warrentlessly wiretap away, FBI! CIA! SECRET SERVICE! NSA!
I hope that everyone who pulls this unpatriotic bullshit is tracked and tagged like a rogue coyote so the US Government knows where they are at every moment. In fact, I hope the TSA has their little travel records marked so they get the extra special "bend over and cough" searches every time they try to get on an airplane.
Frankly, I'm scared of these crazy people.
On the other hand, maybe they'll just die out at their own hands, like these two maroons.
Coupla dead gun nuts?
NO BIG LOSS
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Jesus Edited out of New Conservative Bible for Being Too Liberal
All of that loaves and fishes to feed the multitudes, and helping poor people and sick people, throwing the moneylenders out of the temple crap is just too liberal, I guess.
WTF?
WTF?