If you know of a better catch made this week in football I’d love to see it. Otherwise, Missouri’s Jerrell Jackson gets the title this week. This circus catch is simply ridiculous, how he even managed to grab it when the pass was well behind him, let along with one hand, and then to hang on and finish the play?
Wow.
Mauriece McIver of the Las Vegas Cobras is a semi-professional football player. The semi part is particularly obvious in this clip of his team returning a punt. Despite being on the receiving team McIver just clearly loves to tackle anybody near him, as evidenced by him TACKLING HIS OWN TEAMMATE! This being in Vegas I can only assume he was in on a fix.
Sure, he can act all penitent immediately afterwards and yes, the uniform tops are sort of similar, BUT one team has YELLOW pants, the other doesn’t, how hard is it to remember that? Or to remember you’re RECEIVING THE KICK!?!?
[Deadspin]
After Oakland’s 26-14 loss to the Chargers on Sunday, embattled quarterback JaMarcus Russell spoke with reporters regarding his performance.
I did a pretty good job. When it all boils down to it, you had a chance at the end to try and win. Didn’t do too much damage with the interception. No matter what happened, I think we came out and fought despite the score and just kept pushing and just came out short in the end.
He must be using a different definition of “good” because when you have a $61 million contract you should probably be doing better than going 14-22 for a mere 109 yards, especially when you have no TDs, an interception, 5(!) sacks and a fumble. That to me doesn’t spell G-O-O-D, more like pathetic. Or shitacular.
I would like whatever drugs Jamarcus is on that enables him to hallucinate so powerfully.
Buffalo Bills fans have lived through bad season after bad season, their heyday at the early 90s is a football lifetime away but all is not lost for Buffalonians, at least arrests at the game are down! As this headline from the Buffalo News announces:
Can’t argue with that! After only 14 arrests at the game the local police chief, Andrew Benz said “That’s about half than what it’s been running. I don’t know what to tell you.”
Just because their team is mired in abject wretchedness doesn’t mean the fans aren’t still clever. Take Bryan Bendo,Steven Henry and James Hester, three Canadians who “borrowed” a golf cart and rode it to the gate. A Bills employee had reported the theft of the cart and all three were arrested after rolling up to gate 1. That’s some balls there.
Hey, hang in there Buffalo, at least you still have… um… MTV filmed that shitty Frats and Sororities show there…
You have to love local advertising, usually it looks like it is filmed on a household camcorder from 1996 with a script that was written by the 3rd graders of Ms. Sybil’s class but this ad from before the Chargers/Raiders game this past Sunday is simply too good to pass up. Sure, the imagery is more than a bit repetitive but the end tag-line more than makes up for it.
After all, what group of fans needs bail bondsmen more often than Raiders fans?
Ah the cheap shot, a valuable part of football, especially college football where youthful exuberance, lack of talent and just being a douche coalesce. University of Florida linebacker Brandon Spikes is expected to be a top pick in this year’s NFL draft, but that doesn’t stop him from viciously going after Georgia running back Washaun Ealey’s eyes during the tackle.
Look, I get that gouging an eye is fun, but it’s lame and cheap too. I’m going to assume Washaun has really pretty eyes and Brandon just wanted to be able to look into them every day.
Wednesday night meant the beginning of the 4th season of Friday Night Lights airing on DirecTV. To celebrate one of the absolute best shows on television — that not enough of you are watching — here is the final of my three part series to get you more interested in the show.
FNL isn’t about football, despite the name, it’s about a city in Texas and the people and a community that defines itself by its football team. With excellent acting, particularly from Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler who are one of the best TV couples of all-time, and a strong ensemble cast, the stories are heart-felt, touching, humorous and exciting. And if you do like football, you have never seen more come-from-behind victories like Dillon High has. This show is phenomenal, every single person I have introduced it to has fallen in love with it, you will too. All you need is a desire to see quality television and everything else will fall into place.
Minka Kelly plays the role of Lyla Garrity, the former head cheerleader, super smart girl-you-always-wanted-to-be-with-but-is-always-with-someone-far-far-far-bigger-than-you. Sure, she’s not perfect, she cheated on her newly paralyzed boyfriend with his best friend in the first season, but she was only doing it out of grief and you know how that goes. Regardless, she’s so smoking hot that I can even overlook the fact that Minka is dating Derek Jeter currently. Or that she hasn’t returned any of my phone calls, replied to any of my letters and seems to have ignored all those carrier pigeons I sent her way. Sigh. So incredibly hot.
After receiving a ton of negative attention for eating a hot dog on the sidelines during the Jets game against the Raiders this past Sunday, QB Mark Sanchez has made an effort to atone in the court of public opinion. So he went out to the local A&P and purchased 500 hot dogs and 500 hamburgers and enough buns and rolls for all and donated them to the Community Soup Kitchen in Morristown, NJ. Now, I’ll happily rank on the Sanchise because you know, he plays for the Jets, but for this one moment that’s a pretty nice thing to do. Well played rook.
[ESPN]
Texas Tech Red Raiders head coach Mike Leach is never one to shy away from an open microphone, after his team’s embarrassing dismantling by Texas A&M to the tune of 52-30 Leach, no great beauty himself, let out this great quote about his players:
“We failed to make our coaching points more compelling than their fat little girlfriends,” Leach said. “Now their fat little girlfriends have some obvious advantages. For one thing, their fat little girlfriends are telling them what they want to hear, like how great you are and how easy it’s going to be.”
I’m sure that went over well. To be fair though, not ALL the girlfriends are fat, and some of them are tall so, he was being unfairly general.
[1011 Now]
The best pro football team in Dallas isn’t the 4-2 Dallas Cowboys, no it’s the 2-0 franchise that has outscored its opponents 60-12, the Lingerie Football League’s Dallas Desire. I for one know which team I’d rather watch, after all, Tony Romo just doesn’t do it for me, too much of a gunslinger.
Wednesday night means the beginning of the 4th season of Friday Night Lights will air on DirecTV. To celebrate one of the absolute best shows on television — that not enough of you are watching — here is part one of my three part series to get you more interested in the show.
FNL isn’t about football, despite the name, it’s about a city in Texas and the people and a community that defines itself by its football team. With excellent acting, particularly from Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler who are one of the best TV couples of all-time, and a strong ensemble cast, the stories are heart-felt, touching, humorous and exciting. And if you do like football, you have never seen more come-from-behind victories like Dillon High has. This show is phenomenal, every single person I have introduced it to has fallen in love with it, you will too. All you need is a desire to see quality television and everything else will fall into place.
Playing Chandler and Britton’s teenage daughter, Julie, Aimee Teegarden is a 20-year-old super-cutie and while she sometimes infuriates you for being a normal teenage girl, she is stellar on the show and one of the best-written characters. Plus she’s gorgeous. 
If you don’t have DirecTV, the show will be rebroadcast on NBC starting in January. Of course, if you were to theoretically go to this site after midnight on Wednesday you might possibly be able to download the episode via bittorrent. Or so I’m told, I have no knowledge about this or how one might use utorrent and watch the episode.
The Slanch Report has started an online petition asking the MLB Network to air the Dock Ellis no-hitter he threw on June 12, 1970 against the San Diego Padres. The moment was a seminal piece of baseball history and is certainly worthy of being rerun.
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