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Did Boise St. show up big enough, Arenas likes gun jokes, & Washington gets it's X-mas gift
Thought #1 - Boise State stepped up last night and defeated Texas Christian in the Fiesta Bowl. TCU's defense got all the hype going in, but it was the Broncos who would stag 3 INTs, and with the help of a sweet fake punt, win the game. Now the big question on everyone's mind is could the winner of the JV title game compete with one of the big boys from a BCS conference. Do you want a one word answer for this or a two word answer? Listen the only ranked team other than TCU, who I'm not sure knew they were playing Monday night, who Boise beat this season was an Oregon team who had yet to find its identity.
Have you ever seen the teen movie "Can't hardly wait?" You know it was all about a party and Jennifer Love Hewitt was in it. (You're welcome) Remember the school dork who had one good night at the party, finally getting along with the popular jock guy? The next day the kid shows up and tries to sit at the jocks table and remember what happens? He gets shut down.
Boise you've had a couple of good nights, but that's not going to get you an automatic seat at the big boys table. Listen, running the table in the WAC each year is nice, but it's never going to be an automatic ticket to a national title game so prepare to have to fight your way to a seat every year until that changes.
Thought #2 - Have you ever got caught talking about someone just to find out they are standing right behind you? We all have and what is the only thing you can do to escape the situation? Attempt to convince everyone it was all a joke, you were just playing around.
So, this is the route Gilbert Arenas is taking in order to escape his wild west experience in the Wizard's locker room. Arenas claims it was all a joke, he was just playing around by pulling out a couple of six-shooters in dealing with his gambling debt to teammate Javaris Crittenton. You know unless those guns had flags hanging out of them with the word BANG printed on them in big letters, I'm pretty sure that jokes not going to get a lot of laughs. You might have gotten a couple of chuckles when you hopped into the shower at halftime in your uniform and a few fellas might have laugh when they saw you playing online poker instead of taking pre-game shoot around, but this one isn't going to fly. Come on Gilbert, it's one thing to try and be hardcore in the locker
room but its a whole other thing them try to cover your butt by pretending it was a joke. Now you're just going to be facing a lengthy suspension and you
have no street cred. Congrats and enjoy you're new found hobby of learning the ins and outs of the legal system.
Thought #3 - Lots of debate has surrounded the topic of whether or not starters should play in the last few NFL games of the season when it really has no bearing on their postseason futures. The debated has gotten even more heated this week following the injuries to the Patriots' Wes Welker, torn ACL and MCL, and the Cardinals' Anquan Boldin, who injured his ankle. Now sure it's every coach's right to bench his players late in the season. You can be that coach if they choose to. You know, you can also be that parent who sends their kid out the skateboard with the neighborhood kids wearing ever single pad known to man. Just know that just like that kid, bad things can still happen (in fact they are probably more likely to in the kid' situation. No way he's not getting beat up for wearing shin guards just to ride a bike.) Welker could have just as easily torn that knee up going up the steps, just ask Ron Artest about those tricky things, and Boldin could have twisted that ankle walking out of an ice cream shop in Phoenix. It happens and sometimes there is nothing you can do about it. So do the fans a favor, take off the bubble wrap and play the game, in fact play to win the game.
Thought #4- As you get older you usually know what you are getting for Christmas. Despite that, if you are like me, you probably are not allowed to have your gift until the big day. You're just forced to sit and stair at it sitting, all wrapped up, under the tree.
For the past 3 months Redskins' fans have been looking at their present, wrapped up with a bow and all and sitting right their under the tree. All they have been able to do is dream about the big day when they can finally open it up and see what they know they are already getting. Well Monday started the unwrapping process as Jim Zorn was officially fired as the head coach. Today the rest of the unwrapping process began to take place as contract talks began with Mike Shanahan. Is it just me or have we all not known about this since at least Thanksgiving? They might has well broadcast the contract talks on MSNBC. And by the way, how on Earth did Jim Zorn make it this past couple months? Props to him for riding that boat to the bottom while watching Dan Snyder pour water in from all angles.
Enjoy the present Skins fans, keep the receipt though, Synder tends to wear new toys out beyond their warranties pretty quick.
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