Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Someone asked me who I was rooting for this weekend in the NFC championship: Minnesota Vikings or the New Orleans Saints.

I answered New Orleans.

Knowing my deep-seeded dislike for Mr. Favre, the counter-point was offered that if the Vikings won the Superbowl, he might finally retire.

This places me between a rock and a hard place. I would love to see Brett give it up. I'm sick of the dramas he causes. I watch football because it's generally pretty drama-free (well not-really but you don't need to follow the drama to enjoy the game).

But there is no way that I want Brett to go out on a high note. Gosh, they might give him a job as a reporter or something and then I'd be stuck with him FOREVER.

Yes, that might happen anyways... but less likely if he goes out unhappy, whining like he always does when he doesn't get his way.

So in honor of my favorite vacation/city to visit (New Orleans) and my distaste for BF, I say woodat?!

Prince Likes Football????

Who'd thunk it? So much so he was at the Dallas-Vikings game. Oh wait, there's more... not only did Prince end up at a football game (I'm a little jealous)... but he re-wrote "Purple Rain" to "Purple and Gold"...

Wow.

Football on the West Coast

My company sent me to Las Vegas for a trade show event and the hardest jetlag I experienced was related to football.

I am a sleeping master (enough to rival Rip Van Wrinkle) so I had no problem adjusting to the time changes. I eat at bizarre enough times already (if at all) in the day so there was little problemo there...

My biggest challenge was the fact that the "1pm game" (EST) was really at "10am". I honestly don't know how these West-Coast-peeps do it! I'm usually not even awake at 10am on a weekend. HAH.

Bizarro World

Bizarro World is the time and place where the NY Giants look awful in the last few games of the season... and the Jets (without really trying) make it to the AFC Championship...

WTF?

Houston Texans (5/32)

January 3rd 2010

Matchup: Houston Texans (w) vs. New England Patriots

Setting: 

• Endzone seats

Game Highlights: 

• Wes welker tore ACL
• Patriots blew lead in the fourth quarter
• We stayed at tiny hotel near by.
• Ran into a player in the lobby of our hotel
• Matt Schuab and Tom Brady
• Met up with Justin (friend)

Trip Memories: 

• Rented car to visit NASA
• City was empty! 
• Late night trip to downtown to go to aquarium restaurant

Award: Worst Injury We've Witnessed

Texans vs. Patriots!!!

In accordance with our life goal to see all 32 NFL teams play in their home city, Stevers and I took a trip to Houston, Texas! It was New Years weekend and pretty deserted (no cars or people around... very creepy) but we enjoyed the trip regardless. Great time at NASA... but most important a fantastic experience at the Reliant K Stadium.

Unfort for Stevers, the Patriots didn't have such a good day (Wes Welker's knee injury in particular).

Here's some photo highlights:

Mangenius' Inflated Self-Image

According to this NFL blog, Eric Mangini puts himself in the same boat as the Beatles and Conan O'Brien.

I love football and it's a high-profile sport, but to call yourself the Pete Best and Conan O'Brien of music and comedy respectively shows that your self-image is clearly inflated... not to mention your logic is flawed.

While I can't speak for the details of Pete Best's contributions to the Beatles pre-Ringo Starr, I can pretty much tell you Eric that you probably had very little to do with the Jet's success this year.

Why don't you take some time to focus on your current team and improving such a terrible record such as 5-11?

More Drama from the Baby

Who is running this team anyway? If you've missed the media coverage, you must have forgotten to pay your cable bill because somehow this is the big story of the week...

Childress vs. Brett Favre

Dear Cowboys, What Planet Do You Live On?

Goshdarnit Jerry! What are you smoking? $90 pizza in the new stadium? PLAIN!?! What possible justification is there for this cost? Did you learn NOTHING from the Yankees debacle this year? Over-priced seats were one thing... $90 pizza is another... I don't care if you're in a luxury suite box.

Newsflash Jerry - there is ZERO ROI for a business to take a client (or potential client) to your client to a luxury suite, pay additional for tickets and on top of that get charged $90 for a plain pizza.

Get Real.

Thanks,

NFL Sah

Learn more here.

PS. I searched google images for a picture of a pizza and every image had toppings...can't even FIND a plain pizza now-a-days.

SERIOUSLY SHAKIRA, GET A TEAM!

First Gloria... now Marc Anthony and JLo... Shaki, what are you waiting for???


Marc Anthony is now minority owner of Dolphins. Read more>

Big Ben...Ahem, Ahem

Big Ben Roethlisberger is being sued for sexual harrassment... are we surprised? Do you feel a bit of doubt? Would you have felt same doubt if it had been Plaxico accused? What if it was Chris Johnson accused? Just asking!

Why Shakira Should Own an NFL Team

The reason is simple. Shakira is so much cooler than Gloria Estefan. I can only hope that through this deal, Gloria brings more hispanic fans to the NFL and increases the popularity of the sport even more.

Small Change but Big Impact

NFL had always posted headlines and links to their articles in the top right-hand corner of their site. They recently updated the site so that instead of only being able to display the last couple of articles, now you can sort them by "most commented" and "most recommended" (in the last 2 days). Simple, but brilliant. I love you NFL.com.

Business of Baseball...???

For my loyal readers out there, you must know what I think of baseball... for those of you who don't, it's easy to guess. However, some bizarre piece of my brain thought it would be a good idea to use 5 vacations day from work to attend a 5-day intense bootcamp on the "business of baseball" at NYU.

On Day 1, it was clear to me within the first 10 minutes that I was probably the second least knowledge-able person in the room when it came to baseball... I wondered how I would survive and fare through the next few days.

The answer: amazingly. Because I know enough sports I was able to pick everything up fairly quickly. Additionally, I have been the third top contributor to the discussions.

And yes, it's true. I have now found even more evidence why Football surpasses baseball in every single way. I have more ammo than ever!! mwahahaha