'Everyone is Doing It. How bout you?

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Finally! This is why Boozer needs to touch the ball.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo and Caption by: Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News

Jazz forward Carlos Boozer likes to get his hands on the ball during breaks in action and every time he takes the floor.

Utah Jazz: Carlos Boozer likes to touch the ball — and other creatures of habit

Published: Sunday, April 25, 2010 12:00 a.m. MDT

By Tim Buckley, Deseret News

SALT LAKE CITY — They're hard habits to break.  Not necessarily bad habits, but habits nonetheless — and, for some with the Jazz, borderline obsessions.  Like C.J. Miles' pregame pullup.
Like Kyle Korver wanting a short shot or two every time he enters the game between whistles.
And, perhaps most noticeably, like Carlos Boozer touching the ball during most breaks in action and virtually every time he takes the floor.

"I never noticed how much (Boozer) does it," Miles said, "until ... someone asked me, 'Why does he have to touch the ball after every free throw and every dead ball?'

"I was like, 'He doesn't do that.' Then one game I had the ball a couple times ... he was like, 'Yo.'

"That's his thing," Miles added. "Just getting a feel for the ball, I guess."

More like becoming one with the ball.

"It's one of those habits you just get into," Boozer said, "and at the same time it's superstitious."
He's done it as long as he can remember, though perhaps not nearly to the degree he has recently.
Boozer walks onto the floor — after a timeout, say — and immediately goes for the ball.
No rebound is at stake, no points are to be scored. He just needs the ball. Desires the ball. Has to have the dang ball.  There really is reasoning, though, behind the madness. "Sometimes you don't get to touch the ball much as a big man," Boozer said, "so you just go touch it to see what it feels like."  As if he might have forgotten in the 60 seconds or so since he touched it last.

"He (Boozer) just wants to touch it," Korver said. "He doesn't care if he shoots it."  Korver, however, takes things to another level.

He needs to get up at least one shot, and — more importantly — see it drop. Even if the NBA's most-proficient 3-point shooter this past season is banking them in from grade-school distance.
"(Boozer) just wants to feel the basketball," Korver said. "I just like to get my elbows straight, and make one or two."

Korver's habit comes with cause, too — mostly because he comes off the bench rather than starting the game.

"You warm up, you get a lot of shots up, you find your rhythm — then you sit there for however long," he said. "There's just something about touching the ball and seeing it go through the basket."

Miles feels much the same, but for him the ball is his head.  His pregame routine once ended with a Deron Williams-fed dunk off the backboard. These days, though, Miles simply does a pullup — with his head popping through the net and ultimately the rim.


"It's kind of like seeing the inside of the basket," he said. "I joked to (a friend), 'I want to see the inside, because the ball's got to go in there.' "

For Boozer, a touch has become a must. Opponents sometimes are jealous, because referees realize what the length of games would be if everyone took a turn.

"One time," Boozer said, "someone — I'm not sure who it was; it might have been Juwan (Howard) — was like, 'How come you get to touch the ball and I don't get to touch the ball?' "

Boozer does it so frequently, though, it's not just teammates who know now to hand over the orb.
Occasionally players from the other team will, perhaps just to move the game along.  And some referees seem, well, trained.

"They know," Boozer said. "Most of them just give it to me now — just throw it to me as I'm walking over there.

"They just tell me not to shoot the ball. They hate it when you shoot it."

Korver has come to realize that as well, but he feels a need to get one or two up anyway. "Most refs are pretty cool about it," he said, "but some, if they don't like you, might not give you the ball right away."
If they don't get their way, Jazz players somehow survive. But they will go to great lengths to make sure their habit doesn't hit a hitch.

"If I didn't do it, I don't think it would mess me up that bad," Miles said. "But I guess I'm gonna have to do it every game now that you asked me about it."

Girl, nine, & her father were shot dead by 'anti-immigrant vigilantes'

What is wrong with people?! The article below really bothers me.

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'Please don't shoot me:' Girl, nine, begged for her life before she and her father were shot dead by 'anti-immigrant vigilantes'

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:38 PM on 26th January 2011

A nine-year-old girl begged for her life before being shot dead along with her father by an anti-immigrant vigilante group, a court heard.

Brisenia Flores was gunned down at point-blank range in her own home in Flores, Arizona, as her terrified mother Gina Gonzalez, who had also been hit, played dead on the floor.

She sobbed as the court was told how she had heard Brisenia's desperate pleas as her killer stood over her.

'I can hear it happening,' Mrs Flores told the court describing how her daughter said: 'Why did you shoot my dad? Why did you shoot my mum?'

'I can hear her telling him to "please don't shoot me."'

The prosecution alleges that the child and her father Raul Flores Jr were murdered in May 30, 2009 by a group of vigilantes set up to tackle Mexican immigrants.

The shootings took place 200 miles from Tucson, the scene of the gun massacre earlier this month in which another nine-year-old girl died.

Shawna Forde, the head of the Minutemen American Defence group, is on trial accused of two charges of first degree murder.

She is allegedly orchestrated the attack on the Flores family with two male accomplices, due to face face court in.March.

Police claim that Forde believed Mr Flores was a drug trafficker and would have cash and goods in the house which they could use to fund their patrols.

She reportedly led the raid and gave instructions to the male accomplices.

Mrs Gonzalez told the court that her husband woke her up just before 1am on May 30 and said that the police were at the door.

The couple went to the front room - where Brisenia had spent the night on the sofa to be near her new dog - and spotted two people outside.

Both were in camouflage. Mrs Gonzalez said one was a heavy-set woman while the other was a man whose face was blackened with greasepaint. He was armed with a rifle and pistol.

The mother-of-one told the court the pair had demanded to be let in, claiming the family were harbouring a fugitive.

They then burst into the house. The man told Mr Flores: 'Don't take this personal, but this bullet has your name on it.'

He then opened fire, hitting Mrs Gonzalez in the shoulder and leg.

Her husband was hit multiple times before the gunman turned to her daughter.

She described hearing the murderer reload his weapon as he ignored Brisenia's pleas for mercy and then open fire.

The gunman and his accomplice left but as Mrs Gonzalez called 911, she heard him returning.

Desperately wounded, she dragged herself through the house to find her husband's gun and exchanged fire with her assailant, who police say is Jason Bush.

He was injured and fled the scene. 

Forde was arrested shortly after the shooting. She had Mrs Gonzalez's wedding ring and other jewellery, according to police.

Investigators said that she was originally a member of the anti-immigrant Minuteman Project but left to form a more extreme breakaway group.

Members claim that it is their civil duty to protect the Mexican border with weapons as the authorities are unable to do so. 

Forde allegedly funded her by group by robbing the houses of suspected drug dealers. When she reportedly proposed one such raid to two potential accomplices, they phoned the FBI - who did nothing because they believed the suggestion was too ludicrous to be true. 

Prosecutor Kellie Johnson said: 'Not only will the state prove to you that Shawna Forde was in that house that night, barking orders and telling people what to do, the state will prove that Shawna Forde organised and planned this offence.'

Forde's lawyer Eric Larsen told the court that she was not at the house and that much of the evidence was circumstantial Forde denies murder. The trial continues. If convicted, she faces the death penalty.

Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric don't know what the Internet is.

This is classic.  Let's go back to 1994.  Back to the days before e-mails and websites. Back when you had to use an encyclopedia for your term papers.  Back when the Dewey Decimal System was your best friend.

I'm willing to bet if you're under 20 you never used  an encyclopedia and you have never heard of the Dewey Decimal System.

Too Big Too Strong Too Fast Too Good

Just heard this audio on facebook via my buddy Eric C.  Good stuff.  Kudos to the Score 670 Chicago.  Well done.  Originally aired on the Jason Goff show on 1/27/11 produced by Chris T.


Derrick Rose Montage by CosmRoks

For Air Personalities, Facebook And Twitter Are Now Mandatory

by Phyllis Stark / phyllisstark@radio-info.com

 

If you’re a radio air personality, it’s no longer enough to go in, host your four hours, and check out. For most jocks these days, it’s not just what happens on the mic that makes them successful. How they interact with their listeners on social networking sites, particularly Facebook and Twitter, can go a long way toward making their show popular, and many say it has become a required part of the job.

They’re finding these sites are not just a vehicle to promote their show, but a tool to solicit feedback, test out potential on-air topics, and engage their fans on a whole new level. And while social media interaction is time consuming, jocks say the benefits by far outweigh any downsides.

“Anyone who doesn’t take time out of their day to engage their listeners, even briefly, in a medium they have all incorporated so thoroughly in their lives is totally missing out,” says Randy “Mudflap” Wilcox, OM/PD and morning man at WEGX Florence, S.C. “A few conversations during the day goes a long way to convince people that you are people too, and not just some monolith pumping out country music. Depending on how you use it, it can incite tremendous passion for your brand. Plus, it’s a ton of fun to just randomly drop in on [listeners’ Facebook] walls and respond to something they said. They get a huge kick out of a ‘celebrity’ acknowledging them. As my daughter likes to say, it’s full of win.”

KMLE Phoenix afternoon driver “Big Shoe Stu” Evans agrees. “I love the immediate feedback, and the occasional one-to-one conversations,” he says. “The social media explosion can be extremely helpful with an immediacy of information and feedback that we’ve never had. I compare it to times when I’ve done plays or stand-up [comedy]. The audience is right there, for better or worse, and you can ‘feel’ the performance, and how it’s going.” 

WUSN Chicago afternoon driver Drew Walker is active on Facebook and, particularly, Twitter, and says, “I try to be as transparent and responsive as possible.” He makes sure his interaction with listeners is “always a two-way exchange. I use Twitter more for information and pictures … or passing along items that I think are of direct interest to listeners,” he says. “I use Facebook more for conversations, but I do reply individually on both.”

Walker believes his social networking greatly benefits his work, and calls the networks “truly an extension of my show [and] tools to continue the conversation with my listeners and make it easier to connect. Especially with the tight formatics of the new PPM world, there is a lot of good fun that doesn’t always make it on-air outside of morning drive. Now, it happens online.

“My ultimate goal is create a sense of community [where listeners want] to come back often and check in,” adds Walker. “If the listener feels like they have a connection to me, I believe they’re more inclined to tune in during the show, and PPM is all about getting more tune-ins, more appointments, more repeat listening opportunities.”

WCOS Columbia, S.C., morning co-host Kelly Nash is also active on both Facebook and Twitter. “The way we use them is a supplement to the phones, and to test out subject interest,” he says. “For example, I posted a video of a small riot happening in an IHOP in a suburb of Columbia Tuesday before I left the office. By Wednesday morning, I could see a bunch of comments including some good one-liners, so we know our P1s are into this. When we went on the air, we were able to use calls and mix them in with Facebook/Twitter comments.”

“When an event like the Grammy Awards is on, I’ll tweet or Facebook a bunch of my thoughts and comment on a bunch of other people’s,” adds Nash. “I can see some of my better lines will be re-tweeted or shared, introducing me to a potentially new audience.”

Wilcox, too, is a master at engaging his fans during televised awards shows, posting a running commentary that draws lots of listener feedback, which he also then comments on in a way that can make listeners feel like he’s right there on the couch next to them.

Several air personalities note that listeners now simply expect them to be active on social networks, particularly during their air shift.

WMIL Milwaukee morning co-host Karen Dalessandro says, “We’re most active on both Facebook and Twitter while we’re doing the show. We’ll send topic ideas out to get feedback before we even present them on the air. Or we promote an upcoming giveaway with the time it’s going to happen so those online can be tuned in. Producer Radar is [online] constantly during the morning, but any one of us will jump on if there’s a ‘conversation’ going on that we want to be a part of.

“Off air, we’ll upload pictures and video at our appearances in real time,” she continues. “We’re able to invite listeners to that exact location. If they can’t make it, they can check out the photos online and still be involved. Social networking is a great tool that definitely enhances what we do on the radio.”

“I use Facebook and Twitter, mostly in the hours I’m on the air or if I’m at a station event or concert to share station stuff—behind-the-scenes things that might happen while the mic is off,” says WFRE Frederick Md., PD and afternoon driver Jess Wright. “Facebook, Twitter, texting, e-mail, etc., are all now an integral part of the show.

“From 3-7 p.m. each day, I keep Facebook open in one tab and my Twitter mentions page open in another,” says Wright. “I always try to respond to listener comments and engage them in conversation. I look at it the same way as answering listener e-mail. It’s important, and even if I can’t get to it right this second, I’ll have time later in the show.

“Also, listeners love hearing their names on the air, and reading back some of the more interesting responses tends to make more people post responses too,” Wright continues. “It’s sometimes better than the phone in that respect because you don’t have to count on them being good speakers or having to edit out big, gaping pauses and irrelevant information. It makes the show more of a whole package—it stands on its own on the air, but if the people listening are also on Facebook or Twitter, they get another dimension that makes it even better.

“It’s a relatively small group of listeners who are interacting in the social networks, but those listeners are enthusiastic fans and will tell their friends that they ‘talked’ to me and that I responded,” Wright says of the benefits of social networking. “It keeps the conversations going when maybe we’re done with them on the air, but people still have things they want to say. It’s just one more way to pull in P1s and keep them excited about the station and the show in particular, and it keeps them talking about it. 

“Plus, on Facebook their activity will show up on their friends’ news feeds, and on Twitter people will see their friends in a running conversation with me, so it gets my name and the station name out to even more people. If people come to my page and I manage to entertain them in some way, they’ll turn on the radio and see if I’m that awesome on the air, too. (And of course, I totally am).”

Still, air personalities say the social networking aspect of the job can be a lot of work Says Dalessandro, “It adds tons of extra time to an already long day … We’re really lucky to be a three person morning show, because it would be tough keeping up with this on the air if you’re doing a hectic AM drive show with fewer members.”

Says Evans, “The biggest downside is strictly a time and mental overload issue. You have to learn to filter the information using the technology itself, but also not to be consumed with the rambling stupidity we all see online. I like the platforms, I’m learning more and more about new usages, but I think most folks over 35 can survive just fine without it all. Younger people can too, but they don’t want to, and I get that. If we grab more radio listeners using social media, how can that be a bad thing?”

“It is definitely a time-consuming portion of my day, but so is blogging /podcasts /content for our station Web site,” says Walker. “It’s all part of the new personality/PPM world. And even though both mediums are ‘instant gratification,’ I've found that you can reply four hours later (or within a day) and still be fully connected to the conversation.”

Nash has a different view. “It can backfire if you respond 12 hours later to people commenting on stuff,” he says. “Social media is all about now. People post comments and expect at minimum a ‘Like’ within an hour or so if the jock is on the air. 

“It’s even worse if you post something like a promotion of a contest coming up this afternoon, and [a listener] comments a question about it,” Nash continues. “The fact that you didn’t respond before the contest aired is the kind of thing that gets them commenting to other friends what a jerk you or the station is.”

Still, Nash says, “For shows like ours which run live, it’s an awesome tool. People don’t have to wonder if we read their comment, because I’ll respond to it [online] and might mention it on the air. That deepens their bond with us. It’s a lot easier to post something on our page than trying to call a request line, too.”

And jocks say there are very few negatives to being active social networkers.

Says Walker, “the only downside might be Internet overload [or] burnout, but I’ve set limits that work well for me. My phone [and] computer are off from 8 p.m. until the next morning.”

“We have a few crazies that comment on most of our stuff, and every once and a while a small commenting war breaks out between them and someone [else] who wishes they would stop commenting,” says Nash. “It usually leads to an opportunity for us to play peacemaker amongst our tribe, and everyone walks away more devoted to the show.”

Asked if that kind of familiar conversation can attract the nuts and would-be stalkers that tend to bond with many radio personalities, Wright says, “As long as you use common sense [and] you’re careful about what you share, I don’t think it’s any different than being engaging on the air. In fact, it’s a bit better, because while you can only answer one phone call at a time, and sometimes you miss calls entirely when people give up, you can always take the time to go back and answer them online. I can’t think of a down side.”

This Guy Really Likes His Bartending Gig

13 staples on his head and a black eye.  Are you kidding me?  Is protecting your job that important.  I've gotten staples before.  Staples hurt.  I had 2 put in and I teared up .  I ain't scared to admit it.

If I worked at a bar and 4 people walk in to rob the place, you better believe I'll give them everything they want.  Heck, I'll serve them a beer and maybe make them some Tequila Old-Fashioneds.

There has to be a better way to get the Employee of the Month Award.

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D-ROSE Chicago's MVP

Check out this article by Rick Riley.  Sharing with the world why Chicago Loves Derrick Rose

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An American beauty Rose

By Rick Reilly
ESPN.com

Derrick Rose isn't so much a name as a sentence. As in: Derrick Rose in the NBA three years ago and hasn't stopped since.
He's my MVP so far, not just for the way he's carried the limping Chicago Bulls the way Penn's carried Teller. And not just for the way he jumps like a frog bred with a kangaroo. And not just for the way he scores, defends and passes like every game is a one-day tryout. He's my MVP for moments like this:
Three young fans are walking alone after leaving the United Center. They're the last to go, so they're all alone. A white SUV pulls up next to them. This part of Chicago could use a shave and a clean shirt, so somebody rolling up on you isn't usually happy news. The young men try not to look. The window comes down and who is behind it but Derrick Rose himself, The Heir to Air.

Their mouths fall unhinged.

"Hey, man, just want to thank you guys for taking time to come out," Rose says. "Really appreciate it."

Their voice boxes go mute.

"And thanks for wearin' my jersey, too!" Rose says to one of them.

Their eyes fail to blink.

Finally, one of them, Martin Campoverde, 23, gulps, "What's it feel like playing in your hometown?"

Rose pauses and smiles. "Greatest thing ever happened to me," he says. "This is the greatest city in the world."
Window goes up. SUV drives off. Year is made.

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Derrick Rose, but the pass still hadn't come. Now his elbow was at about rim height -- which is insane for a man who is only 6-3. He had done his part -- the alley -- but the oop still hadn't arrived from teammate Ron Brewer, so there was nothing to do but hang around and wait. He looked like some David Copperfield trick up there, immune to gravity.

"I really thought [the ball] would be there earlier," Rose explained later, after the Bulls had rallied to whip Detroit, "but Ronnie took an extra dribble so I kind of had to catch and dunk on the way down."
Who can't relate to this? You're loitering at the top of the backboard square, just hanging around, and finally have to dunk it on the way back down. It's inconvenient, yes, but this is life.
Rose tomahawked it through with one hand so hard he nearly left a dent in the floor.

It put air under 44,000 shoes. The 11 o'clock sports guys played it about 10 times each.
"Have you seen a replay?" I asked him.
"No," he said with a grin.
"Will you go home tonight and watch it on 'SportsCenter'?"
"No, no, no. I'll watch something tonight but it won't be that."
"Don't you want to see it?"
"No, sir. I don't want to get caught up in all that."
Who builds athletes like this nowadays? Rose calls people ma'am and sir. He doesn't have a Twitter page. After ad shoots, he personally goes around and thanks everybody in the room, even the lens-cap-holder guy. And he has the peculiar habit of referring to himself in the first person.

Rose could put up numbers that would fry your calculator. He is easily talented enough to lead the league in scoring. His drive to the iron is unstoppable. His 3-pointers made are up 800 percent this season. The kid has made 69 treys already. Michael Jordan didn't make that many until his sixth season. But Rose would sooner tongue-bathe goats than go for the scoring crown. "I can't do that! I'm the point guard!"
This is how out of touch Rose is with superstardom: One of his goals this year is to stop swearing. "My mom yells at me," he says. "She says, 'People can read lips!'"

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Derrick Rose where the blood flows in the gutters and fear rides on the wind on the South Side. In 1991, when Rose was 3, his Englewood neighborhood had 81 murders -- in the first four months. In 2008, the singer Jennifer Hudson's family was gunned down on West 79th, four blocks from Murray Park, where Rose learned to ball. So far, in the first three weeks of 2011, there have already been two murders.
"I used to have this sense," says Rose, 22. "I just knew when there was trouble. You can feel it in your bones. 'Oh, dang. It's time to go.' And I'd just run home as fast as I could."
Rose moved his mom and brothers out of here long ago, but he refuses to turn his back on his home. He stops by Murray Park all the time to watch the kids pretend to be him.
"You got to go back," says Rose. "You don't ever want to show up there and have the kids say, 'Man, what are YOU doing here? You don't belong here no more.'"
One time he was driving through, by himself, and heard gunshots close by. Even that hasn't stopped him, though now he brings his two security guards -- both old friends from those very streets. They go out with Rose every time he goes out, wherever he goes out. "Just in case. I don't want something to happen. Something bad. I don't want any incidents."
Do his guards carry guns?
"Sometimes," he says.
On his right hand, you see his latest tattoo: Sweet Home Chicago.

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Derrick Rose the last few weeks in the All-Star voting to become a starter on the ridiculously loaded NBA East. He pretended he'd be happy to be "a towel boy" but he admitted to friends that he was aching to be voted onto the starting team by the fans.
In fact, he'd like to be more than that.
"Who gets your vote for MVP so far?" I ask.
"Can I vote for myself?"
"Sure."
"Myself."
"Why?"
"Well, 'cause I've worked so hard and I'd like people to know it. And 'cause it would be for my team. And mostly 'cause I want to represent my city the best I possibly can. This is the greatest city in the world."
We're entering a shimmering era in the NBA. I can't remember seeing this many thrilling young players all at once. Dwight Howard. Kevin Durant. Russell Westbrook. Blake Griffin. Chris Paul. Rajon Rondo. And Rose. All 25 or under and all could end up in the Hall of Fame.
Your MVP vote might be Dwyane Wade or LeBron James in Miami, but you'd be wrong. They have each other. It might be for the wizard Rondo in Boston, but he's only a disher, not a scorer. It might be for Amare Stoudemire of the New York Knicks, but if he's so valuable, why do they lose as often as they win? Rose has the Bulls in the hunt for the No. 1 seed in the East even though they lost their two trees -- Joakim Noah (17 games) and Carlos Boozer (16) -- for much of the first half.
The pick is Rose for all the right reasons.

And when someone asks you, "How'd the Bulls get so good?" you answer in a complete sentence: Derrick Rose.

Lady Falls and No One Laughs? Damn You Political Correctness

Falling down is almost always funny.  How did everyone in this courtroom keep a straight face?  Everyone was cool and calm.  The coolest cats in the world.  How about the chick on the bottom right.  I bet she as cold-hearted as they come.  She pours herself a glass of water turns see the lady on the ground turns around and drinks her water.  No reaction whatsoever.  A wasted opportunity for a spit-take.

An open letter to Chicago Bears fans and the national media

 Todays Blog Brought to you by my buddy Ryan Sudol.  Well said my friend!

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An open letter to Chicago Bears fans and the national media:

by Ryan Sudol on Monday, January 24, 2011 at 4:44pm

What do the words “Idiot, moron, and clown” all have in common?  They were all names that I was called prior to September 1st of last year.  People that know me have their own reasons for calling me that, but for the average Bears fan that I talked to, it was a name I was called because I said that the Bears would win over 10 games before the season even started.  When I would ask: “How many games do you think the Bears will win?”  The answer I would receive was never more than 7 games.  So now here we stand in the wake of an NFC Championship loss to the hated Green Bay Packers and the Bears finished off the season at a “disappointing” 12-6 record.  What is the real disappointment though?  The answer is simple – the fans and the national media.

Minutes after Caleb Hanie threw the game-ending interception, fans were burning Cutler jerseys in the parking lot in effigy. They questioned his heart.  The heart of a man who, while sacked more than any quarterback this season, still overcame a damning physical illness and managed to throw for more than 3,000 yards in consecutive seasons for the first time in BEARS HISTORY.  We now know that Jay Cutler suffered an MCL “sprain.”  Let’s get something straight for the meatball moron fans reading this.  The primary purpose of the MCL is to prevent the leg from extending too far inward, but it also helps keep the knee stable and allows it to rotate.  So if a partially torn ligament in the knee isn’t a severe enough injury to sit out on, what is?  A concussion is just a headache right?  A sprain just some soreness right?  The MRI results are in, and again fans…you lose.

Now what about those people calling Jay a quitter?  Not just fans, but NFL players, Chicago’s own Michael Wilbon, and Jason Whitlock just to name a few of the people pouring gasoline on this media fire.  Jacksonville Jaguars running back, Maurice Jones-Drew, said the “Urban Meyer rule was in effect” for Jay Cutler, suggesting he quit on his team.  Is this the same Maurice Jones-Drew who sat out the last two weeks, with a knee injury, while the Jaguars chances at the NFL postseason were eliminated?  NFL analyst Deion Sanders tweeted that he questioned Jay Cutler’s heart.  Is this the same Deion Sanders that was caught violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy?  I’m not angry or upset that people are having opinions, I’m disgusted that they are, pardon the pun, having knee-jerk reactions.  Mark Schlereth, Kerry Rhodes, and Ross Tucker all had twitteriah last night as well.  You don’t know who Ross Tucker is? Yeah…neither do I.  Derrick Brooks tweeted “FOX Havent shown any trainer looking at cutler UMMM.”  I’ll forgive the poor grammar of the great linebacker, but won’t forgive his ignorance.  Before halftime I saw Cutler surrounded by many members of the Bears organization limping to the locker room, before the rest of his team.  Just because FOX doesn’t show trainers looking at Cutler on the sidelines, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.  Just because FOX doesn’t show Jay Cutler getting excited on the sidelines after a great play doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.  And just because Jay Cutler is walking on the sideline, doesn’t mean he can avoid Clay Matthews without further damaging his knee and possibly inhibiting his ability to lead the Bears into next season.  Jason Whitlock equated Cutler’s quitting on his team to LeBron James quitting on Cleveland.  Would anyone care if Earl Bennett or Chester Taylor didn’t play the second half with an MCL sprain? Probably not.  The only things that Jay Cutler and LeBron James have in common, is that they are both exceedingly good at what they do, and they both desperately want to win a championship in their respective sports.  Wilbon said Cutler isn’t worthy of the Bears defense.  Wilbon should know better than anyone that nobody in our lifetime has seen a real quarterback play football in Chicago, so who is he to judge?  It’s bad enough that the Bears fan base consists mostly of impressionable meatballs more fickle than a Tempur-pedic mattress, but to have “experts” call a professional athlete’s heart in question, from the comfort of their living room or office, is just adding to the mass idiocy.

Would you have rather seen Jay on the sidelines crying in pain because it was too painful to walk?  Would you have rather not seen Jay at all because he was having emergency surgery on his knee in the locker room?  I know, you wanted to see Jay Cutler with a cast on his leg, under center, wincing at every movement, throwing the ball through double coverage while needing Roberto Garza and Olin Kreutz’s to help him back to the huddle, right?  Or maybe you’d prefer he step into a phone booth and rip off his jersey exposing a Superman outfit.  No, instead he was on the sideline helping the emergency 3rd string quarterback try to get his team back into the game because he was physically unable to.  I’m sorry that’s not good enough for most of you, but just because you can walk on a sideline…doesn’t mean you can play football at a championship level.  Remember when Brian Urlacher hurt his wrist?  Did you burn his jersey because a “minor” injury kept him off of the field?  Or better yet, do you remember a similar situation with an NFL 4th overall draft pick in the biggest game ever?  Cedric Benson was hurt in the first of half of Super Bowl XLI and you supposed fans rode him out of town on a rail.  You are the same fan base that can’t even understand the purpose of home-field advantage.  I was waiting for it all game, and wouldn’t you know it, on the final drive I still saw Caleb Hanie’s hands going to his earholes because you obviously can’t comprehend the notion that 40,000 fans screaming may prevent your offense from working properly.  I don’t care that you spent $5,000 for a ticket, I don’t care that you buy Bears merchandise, hell I don’t even care that you invoke names like “Punky QB” and “Sid Luckman.”  Here’s the bottom line and it’s partially me begging you, the idiot Bear fan:  When you get player like Jay Cutler on your football team, don’t piss him off.  Chicago is a great city and has the potential to be a competitive football team for a long time as long as Jay Cutler is your quarterback…You want to question Jay Cutler’s heart?  I’ll challenge you with this: Go back to November 5th, 2005.  Jay Cutler and Earl Bennett were teammates at Vanderbilt and playing at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, arguably the toughest place to play in college football, better known as “The Swamp”.  Re-watch the fourth quarter as Cutler put the entire Commodore team on his shoulders and brought them back from being down two touchdowns and, if not for a ridiculous excessive celebration penalty, they would have gone for a 2 point conversion and beaten the Gators in regulation.  They lost the game in the second overtime, but on that day I knew one thing and one thing only, nobody loved playing the game of football more than Jay Cutler.

The sad truth is Bears fans, is that you don’t deserve Jay Cutler.  Nothing you’ve done this season has shown you appreciate having him as your quarterback.  You elevate Matt Forte for his amazing stats and call him the best since Payton, and you ignore Cutler’s back to back 3,000 yard seasons.  You praise Devin Hester for his returns, but ignore the fact that the first postseason pass Jay has thrown since high school was a 58 yard bomb to Greg Olsen.  And he does all of this without a viable professional offensive line or professional NFL receivers.  Johnny Knox as the Bears #1 receiver would barely make it as a #3 on the Packers or most other NFL teams with real receivers.  This team went from preseason afterthought, to one drive away from playing in Dallas and still you don’t realize how good your team was and can be. You make me sick Chicago, and you make me hope that after the ashes of your torched Cutler jerseys blow away, you realize how stupid you really are as a “Bears Fan.”

With love,

Ryan Sudol

Who bashed Cutler? I was Guilty. I'm Sorry Jay!

I was bummed to see Cutler sit out the second half.  I even thought he took himself out of the game.  He was on a bike and had no crutches.  I was bitter and angry.  Turns out he might have a torn MCL.  That's a season ending injury!  That made me happy.  Not the injury, that sucks.  The fact that he didn't quit on the team.  That made me happy.

I'm angry that I thought that way, but that's the reputation he built for himself.  I want to apologize to Cutler for doubting him. 

Here is a good point / message that my buddy Ryan has for the Cutler / Lovie haters.

"Jay Cutler just gave you the 2 best consecutive seasons as a Bears QB with the worst offensive line in the NFL. Your 'hot seat' coach lovie smith has taken you to 2 NFC Title games (and a superbowl) in the last 5 years which is something less than 5% of coaches in the NFL have done...with the worst recievers in the league"

Boom goes the Dynamite. Cutler better have a major injury. No leader pulls himself out of a game. Thank God I have my Bulls. Steelers over the Packers in the Super Bowl.

Coachella 2011 Line-up Announced

What do Packer Players do before a NFC Championship Game?

They booze it up and go on stage during a Brad Paisley / Darius Rucker concert.  Yep, even Aaron Rodgers.  Check out the video below.  You can see them chugging away and singing "Alcohol".  This happened with less than 72 hours to go before the big NFC showdown with the Bears.  Go Bears!

Devin Hester: You Are Ridiculous

Above we have Devin Hester and his ride.  PIMP.  Below we have all of Devin Hester's 14 Return Touchdowns.  Future Hall of Famer without a doubt.

This is why we make fun of Packer Fans

Another Hollywood Remake.

1992's Single White Female starred Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Now the movie get's a make-over called The Roommate, with Leighton Meester and Minka Kelly.  Hollywood is remaking way too many movies.  9 times out of 10 remakes suck.

Would you watch this movie?

-ey-

Best Picture EVER

The Walking Dead

I decided that today is the day I check out "The Walking Dead". Have you seen it yet? Any good? I hear rave reviews. I tried to avoid it because I didn't have time to watch another show. Now I have nothing but time.

I blame unemployment .

-ey-

Packers in the 80's would be Fined a Ton in Today's NFL

Another Green Bay Fail

 

Is this for real?  Are you kidding me?  We all make spelling mistakes.  It's natural.  But it's the front page!  C'mon!  SPELL CHECK! 

Dear NBA, I Love You, But I call Shenanigans!

I'm calling shenanigans on the NBA and the folks who create the games schedule before the season.  I'm not saying it's a conspiracy.  I just think that things were made simple for a certain team. 

LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, and Chris Bosh all sat out of Monday's practice to heal sore knees and ankles.  FYI: That's $300 Million Dollars sitting on the bench.

It's a long season.  Teams all over the NBA do it.  Players need to stay healthy.  Teams are very aware that the rest could mean losing a game or 2.  What surprises me is that the Heat right now will only play 2 games in a 11-day span.  2 games in a 11-day span?!  What the heck is that all about! All-Star Weekend is a shorter break than that!

I went through a handful of schedules trying to find another team with a similar break.  I couldn't find any (I did give up after looking at 3 or 4 schedules).  Maybe their is another team with a break like this.  I really don't know.

Doesn't this seem unfair to you?  If Miami get to rest and only play 2 games in a 11-day span, shouldn't all teams have a break like this?  Why can't schedules be similar all around.  I know that travel days are a factor but should they all have similar time off?

Let's use my Chicago Bulls as an example.  The Bulls lead the league in back to back games with 23.  That means they will play 46 games (over half the season) in 23 set of 2.  They also play 3 sets of 4 games in 5 nights (mostly on the road because of the Circus and Disney on Ice) and they also get to play  5 games in 7 nights. That's 63 total games with a combined 5 days of rest...I think.  I suck at math, but you get my point.

Where is their time to rest?  Chicago can use it.  Rose is getting beat up every time he drives to the basket, Boozer has a sprained ankle, and with Noah still out the team have been playing some long minutes.  Where is their 2 games in a 11-day span?

Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman Have New Baby

Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban -- New Parents!

1/17/2011 12:42 PM PST by TMZ Staff  

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Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have a new baby, courtesy of a surrogate ... TMZ has learned. 



Kidman and Urban are Faith's biological parents.

Sources tell us ... the baby was born at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville on December 28, 2010. Her name is Faith.

Kidman and Urban are Faith's biological parents.

We're told Nicole and Keith went into the hospital on the down low last week, visiting Faith and the surrogate during her stay.   They entered the hospital through the back, took the service elevator to the top floor, which they rented exclusively for themselves.

We're told the baby is home.

Yes, Nicole and Keith were both at the Golden Globes last night.

UPDATE: Keith and Nicole just released a statement to TMZ saying, "Our family is truly blessed, and just so thankful, to have been given the gift of baby Faith Margaret. No words can adequately convey the incredible gratitude that we feel for everyone who was so supportive throughout this process, in particular our gestational carrier."

Turns out Aaron Rodgers doesn't hate elderly women with cancer.

I still think he's a tool. Just like how all the Pack fans hate Cutler. It's the same thing, except in Chicago, we laugh it off and in Green Bay, people get all defensive and cry.

-ey-

Packers Fan with Cancer Shocked by Criticism of Aaron Rodgers
By Marcie Kobriger

Last Friday, an Action 2 News report featured a breast cancer survivor seeking Aaron Rodgers's autograph as the Packers were departing for Atlanta. Video of the Packers quarterback walking past the woman as she held out a hat for him to sign went viral -- and Rodgers came under fire.

The woman at the center of the controversy says she's shocked and upset by comments critical of Rodgers's actions at Austin Straubel airport.

Jan Cavanaugh and her husband are die hard Packers fans. The pair is often at the airport to see the team off for away games and on the edge of their seats when the Packers play.

When she talks about the team, Jan includes herself on the roster, referring to the Packers as "we."

"We sat yesterday and watched the whole game, and we're so excited that we're going to play the Bears," she said.

But her excitement over an NFC Championship match-up has been tempered.

Aaron Rodgers and other players didn't autograph her cap as she saw them off to Atlanta -- but it's not the hat she's upset about, it's the Internet and radio chatter created by the video of Rodgers passing her by.

"I was terribly upset this morning because I did not realize what was online, and opened up my email," she said, "and I was just shocked."

The video has drawn criticism but the only people Jan is critical of today are those creating the chatter.

"I am very unhappy with people making so much out of this, because this really isn't that big of a deal. It's up to the players to decide who they want to give an autograph to, and that's their prerogative."

Just a week earlier, Rodgers autographed Jan's pink jersey bearing the number 12 as the team departed for Philadelphia. A few years ago the now-star quarterback signed a number of things for her, too.

Jan says they've kept everything players have signed for them except for a few items they gave to family members.

While she is distressed over the controversy, Cavanaugh won't let it dampen her excitement for the packers.

"We're really big football fans and the Packers are our team, and we just think that this is the team to root for, so Go Pack Go!"

Bears / Packers Staying Classy

Love that this game will have no pre-game trash talk.  Both teams will let their game do the talking.  Most trash talk will come from fans and blogs from Chicago to Green Bay and all over the world. 

Bears know where they stand.  They've been the underdogs all year long and once again playing the role.  The Bears used all the negativity and won the north.  These Guys just want to play football and win.

PS: How pimp are Peppers' glasses?  I want a pair!


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Chris Bosh is Still a Tool!

Bosh crying and making excuses.  Just Shut up and play ball.

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Thibodeau takes exception to Bosh's comments


By K.C. Johnson

MEMPHIS --- Tom Thibodeau defended Omer Asik on Monday, showing some uncharacteristic emotion when asked about Chris Bosh's critical comments from late Saturday.

Bosh criticized Asik for diving on the floor for a loose ball, which led to Bosh leaving the game with a sore ankle.

"I didn't see it that way," Thibodeau said. "I saw it as a great hustle play. Omer is not that type of guy. He's not going to ever try to take somebody out. He plays hard. He plays clean. He wants to win.

"Sometimes people say things heat of the moment after a game. Chris is a tough player. Actually, he hit the floor in the first half in a similar play with Derrick. I didn't see it that way."

Here is Bosh's original criticism.

"You've got to watch people's legs," Bosh said Saturday. "I know guys want to hustle and everything but we all want to play and provide for our families and have a job. We all want to be healthy and that is very important If it is by somebody's leg, don't dive for the ball, it's too close."

Girl falls into fountain while texting at the Mall

This is perhaps the best way to start off a Monday! This is comedic gold. I kinda wish I was there to see it happen live. Kudos to the mall cops who leaked this video. Well done. I hope you got a raise and a medal! Mall Cop of the Year!

-ey-

Hey Wisconsin, Try Defending Aaron Rodgers On This One.

Aaron Rodgers is a DOUCHEBAG.
Bigger Douchebags, WBAY-TV out of Green Bay.


I know this post will start a whole string of "Bears Still Suck" chants from all my Wisconsin friends. I'm OK with that. I'm also gonna hear people say that Cutler is the bigger douche. Let's make 3 things clear here before you see the videos below and read Mike Florio's article.

A) Jay Cutler has always been a jerk. He knows it. That's who he is. He doesn't care to embrace that role. He's about football. Some athletes embrace it.  Not Jay.  Jordan was king when it came to embracing that role.  MJ still has Chicago eating out of his hand. Cutler wants nothing to do with that. He just wants to play football.

B) Aaron Rodgers wants to be the face of the Packers. He embraces the spotlight. Heck, he looks for it. He makes himself seem like the lovable QB.  Just like Favre did during his tenure in Green Bay.

C) See for yourself. Aaron Rodgers acts as if he is totally unaware of the situation below. Yet moments later, Clay Matthews does what any respectable athlete would do.  He even acknowledges that he was aware of Jan Cavanaugh's presence.

Both Rodgers and Matthews came off the same plane. That means Packers PR told Matthew about Cavanaugh's story. No way they would tell Matthews and not Rodgers.

Bottom line, Rodgers is an idiot that will be defended by more idiots.



Check out the article below by Mike Florio of [Pro Football Talk]. I even found the videos that prove their douchiness.


Aaron Rodgers has a lot to learn about where his money comes from
Posted by Mike Florio on January 16, 2011, 3:35 PM EST

We realize that only two days ago we defended largely unlikable Bears quarterback Jay Cutler from a mailed-in attack by ESPN’s Rick Reilly. But since Reilly has yet to attack Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, we feel no need to defend him. (Yet.)

In fact, we’re going to attack him a little. (Maybe Reilly will come to his defense.)

Rodgers makes a lot of money because people are willing to pay to watch him do what he does, and because they’re willing to sit and watch him do it on television, while being bombarded with advertisements and networks promos.

Without fans, football would be lacrosse. Or indoor soccer. Or postseason baseball.

So football players need to be willing to pause and sign an autograph or two from time to time. Especially when the person seeking the autograph is female, is wearing copious amounts of NFL-licensed pink apparel, and has very short gray hair.

There’s a pretty good chance that any person fitting that description is a cancer patient. And if the NFL is going to allow the official uniform to be infiltrated by pink patches and gloves and cleats and stripes every October, high-profile NFL players need to be willing to stop and sign an autograph for someone who fits the profile of a person who is in the fight of her life.

WBAY-TV has the video evidence. Watch Rodgers breeze by Jan Cavanaugh, refusing even to acknowledge her existence. (The good news is that linebacker Clay Matthews treated her with warmth and respect.)







Hey, it’s a free country. Rodgers has an inalienable right to choose to behave like an ass. And the rest of us have an inalienable right to tell anyone who’ll listen that he’s behaving like an ass.

Rodgers needs to realize that without people like Jan Cavanaugh, whose passion for pro football prompted her to go to the airport after a radiation treatment in the hopes of getting Rodgers to sign the pink hat with the Packers logo that she always wears, make his entire lifestyle possible. Otherwise, he’d be no different than a guy who’s really good at throwing darts or horseshoes or cornhole bags. He’d derive personal satisfaction from the use of his God-given skills, but not much if any money.

We hope this strikes a chord with all pro athletes. The fans are the reason you get paid the big bucks. And it would be wise to show some gratitude, especially when it’s obvious that one of those fans isn’t blessed with good health.

We also hope that Rodgers and/or the Packers track down Jan Cavanaugh and make it up to her. The fact that Rodgers would crap on a rare moment of happiness for someone whose entire life in consumed by fighting the disease and contending with the physical, mental, and emotional effects of it should make the stomach churn of anyone who has cancer, or who has seen a loved one stricken by it.

In other words, everyone.

UPDATE: The folks at WBAY, who probably should have realized that the station’s relationship with the only team in town may have been undermined with the publication of the video of Rodgers treating a cancer patient like a panhandler with leprosy, apparently have taken down the clip. The key moment has been uploaded to YouTube.

Bears!

Believe this? The Bears did
'No respect' act is cliche but Chicago has proven worthy of the motivation

By Michael Wilbon
ESPNChicago.com

CHICAGO -- The most tired theme in sports has to be "Nobody believed we could do this." Favorites resort to it in every sport. You hear it from league and conference champions after they hoist the winner's trophy or cut down the nets, even when success was predicted for them from Day 1. Only a few legitimate contenders, teams with a chance to win it all, can say with absolute accuracy that nobody believed they could do this.

This Chicago Bears team, one victory from reaching the Super Bowl, can make such a claim. Nobody outside their locker room believed they could reach the NFC Championship game this season. Hardly anybody believed they could reach the playoffs. There was no reason to believe it. Nothing indicated to most of us that the Bears would be any good, much less win their division, earn a first-round bye, win their first playoff game in a romp and then host the NFC Championship game. There wasn't a hint anywhere that the season would play out this way, not when it began.

hey hadn't made the playoffs in the previous three seasons. Their quarterback had led the world in interceptions just last season and hadn't had a winning season since high school. Their coach was on the hot seat; the "Fire Lovie" Bandwagon was standing room only. And he was entering the season with a new offensive coordinator, who could easily be described as "eccentric" and a new defensive coordinator who had never before done that job. The offensive line was, um, leaky. The club didn't seem to have made any upgrades at receiver and the team's best offensive weapon, Matt Forte, was coming off an injury-reduced season. The greatest return man in the history of football, Devin Hester, had gone two full seasons without taking back a kick for a touchdown.

Oh, and it would get worse ... or so most of us thought. They cut Mark Anderson, who they had prepped to be a big-time pass rusher. Tommie Harris, once a force, was benched. Then the Bears went winless in the preseason. O-fer. There was nothing to suggest to most of us that Green Bay would be coming to Chicago the fourth Sunday in January for a title game. There was no hint, no foreshadowing, nothing like the 2006 team which could have gotten to the Super Bowl the previous year, or the 1985 team which had flirted with greatness the year before. I remember Sports Illustrated's Paul Zimmerman forecasting the Bears would go 13-3 in 1985. We knew. We all knew. Nobody on that Bears team said, "Nobody believed we could do this" because everybody believed.

But not these Bears, especially not after Calvin Johnson appeared to catch that touchdown pass on the first Sunday of the season and it appeared the Lions had beaten the Bears in the opener, in Soldier Field. Of course, a dubious rule saved the Bears in Week 1, and everything changed. We should have seen it coming then. Following that old coaches adage, the Bears won first then got good. And they got some good fortune. That tag-team is close to unbeatable.

Don't get me wrong, there are those on the inside who could see it all coming together. Julius Peppers could see it to a great degree, which is why he signed with the Bears as a free agent when just about every team in the NFL would have welcomed him. "It wasn't a roll of the dice," Peppers said, when I asked him to look back. "It was a calculated approach I took. I'm looking at the roster and seeing Jay Cutler, a young playmaker coming into his prime as a quarterback. On the defensive side, I'm thinking, 'OK, if I'm out there with [Brian] Urlacher and [Lance] Briggs we should be in just about every game, just from a defensive standpoint.

"I looked at the results, game-by-game, and they were in every game last year. I know we didn't win a game in the preseason, and you want to win every time you walk out there, but preseason is meaningless. Didn't Indy just win a Super Bowl after going winless in the preseason? It's been done. They're glamorized practices. What I saw, honestly, was a team where talent was all over the place."

There was one other thing that convinced Peppers to sign with the Bears: Lovie Smith's presence. If the Bears win two more games that "Fire Lovie" Bandwagon will be converted into a float in his parade down Michigan Avenue.

While the Bears offense is still particularly average by today's NFL standards, their preparedness ranks right there with the best of 'em. They haven't had a moment of controversy, a moment of off-the-field idiocy that undermines the team. That speaks to the coach, in this case Smith, the same way it spoke to the respect Tony Dungy's players had for him all those years.

Had the Lions won that opener, who knows how the season would have unfolded? What I'd want though, what Peppers observed before he signed with the Bears, was how Smith ran his program. There's no question the Bears defenders grow annoyed with Cutler's gambling and interceptions, but you never hear a word about it publicly.

And it was Lovie Smith, when the Bears went into their bye week, who convinced those in the room who didn't already believe that they were good enough to win now. Mike Martz committed to the running game, Cutler realized managing the game is not an insult, and everybody realized the defense and special teams are championship quality.

"The bye week was important," safety Chris Harris said after the win over Seattle, "but after that Monday Night win over Green Bay that made us 3-0 I said, 'We're going to be legit.'"

Harris pointed out that the receivers (Johnny Knox, Hester, Earl Bennett) aren't famous, but they're pretty darned good, and that the team had players like Corey Graham, who downed two punts in the shadow of the Seattle goal line, who contributed to unglamorous ways to the building, piece by piece, of a championship contender.

"People were picking us to win six games, be third in the division," Harris said. "And yes, we used it as fuel."

The Bears kept winning, and some of us still doubted. I was one of them. After the opener against the Lions, I saw 6-10 instead of 11-5. The Bears would beat Miami with Tyler Thigpen starting at quarterback, or Carolina with Jimmy Clausen or the Lions with third-stringer Drew Stanton or the Vikings with Joe Webb, and most of us were still waiting for the bottom to fall out.

Even in the last month, when the Packers lost to the Lions, 7-3, and the Eagles lost at home to the Vikings, it looked like the Bears were more fortunate than good ... except the Bears kept winning.

Part of their preparedness Sunday was jumping on the Seahawks and pinning them to the mat in a way the defending champion Saints could not a week ago. The offensive game plan, except for that insane call to have Forte throw it from the Wildcat that resulted in an interception, was both imaginative and damn well executed. Cutler, except for one pass, had control of Seattle's defense and of the game in general, and clearly he was assisted by Martz' re-commitment to running the ball, which has to be re-emphasized between now and the arrival of the Packers.

The 7-0 lead, as it turned out, was insurmountable. "That early touchdown," Peppers said, "gave us an early boost, and we rode it ... It's like releasing a pressure valve on the sideline when they do that, when they move the ball like that."

Peppers walked toward the door, talking about his team's attributes, the things that have served the Bears well all season, subtle characteristics and contributions that outsiders often overlook.

"First, we weren't going to make the playoffs," he said, quoting the skeptics. "Then, we couldn't win the division. Now, I think I hear it already&" Peppers smiled.

Yes, the Green Bay Packers are favored by the odds makers to win next Sunday at Soldier Field. Peppers, with all due respect, will ignore the odds makers. "We earned this," he said. "We feel like we can beat anybody."

ESPN: A Financial and Cultural Disaster

What the heck is in the water in Bristol, Connecticut?!





Seriously! The Bears have been underdogs all year. They're going into playoffs after a bye week and yet all the jerkfaces are still at it. Almost everyone in Bristol are rooting for a 7-9 team. Did they all forget the Bears ended 11-5? Did they forget some of the teams we beat during the season? Eagles, Jets, and Packers are all playoff teams we beat during the regular season.

Don't tell me that we should be worried because the Seachickens beat us during the season. A)No way they beat the Bears twice in Chicago in 1 season. B)The Bears had many players inactive. Lance Briggs, Roberto Garza, Joshua Moore, Marcus Harrison, and Major Wright just to name a few. C)This was Cutler's first game back after sitting out a week for a concussion.

Yes, you may argue the Bears have been the luckiest team in the league. We did play a bunch of back-up QBs and should have lost week 1 vs the Lions (that team is gonna get scary soon), but they played the schedule given to them. I can't stand that argument. That could've happened to any team in the league.

This year's stats shows that Cutler is a better QB compared to Hassleback. Going with Hassleback because he has playoff games under his belt is dumb. Would you go with Favre this year just because of the past? HELL NO. Favre was awful this year.

I have to wonder, what would happen if the Bears get to the Super Bowl and lose to the Pats? I can promise you that Dilfer, Matty Hassleback's brother Tim and the other idiots would be on the air all smug with their "told you so" swagger.

I'm o.k with the Bears losing the big game. I won't be o.k with what all the stupid ass-hats would say in Bristol.

Only Ron Burgandy can save this network now.

New Spider-Man Sneek Peek!

Thanks to Sony and cinemablend.com we now have a chance to see what the new Spider-Man is going to look like. We have to wait til July 2012 to see the movie, but we get to see the costume now! What do you think?

-ey-

Randy Rogers Band on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

It's almost impossible to watch Jay Leno these days. He's just not that funny to me. Jay has a chance to redeem himself if he keeps booking acts like Randy Rogers Band!

Cody Canada & The Departed

 

2010 saw the end of Red Dirt's finest band, Cross Canadian Ragweed.  2011 bring on Cody Canada & The Departed!  I was lucky enough to see CCR a few times in the last 5 years and was at their last show at Joe's Bar in Chicago.  Tonight Cody Canada is back in Chicago and ready to prove he still owns the Red Dirt world with his new band "Cody Canada and the Departed"!  

Joe's Bar seems to be the "It" place for Red Dirt music outside Texas and Oklahoma.  Can't wait to see these guys on stage!  I will have a few pics and my thoughts about the show at one point tomorrow. 

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