SLAY YOUR BOOKIE TIME

OK boys, time to make some money and piss off some bookies. We'll start it off on the west coast Thursday night when the Trojans of USC travel to Hawaii for some R&R. Kiffin will be trying to make a statement in this one and he will. USC will destroy the Rainbows and you'll be off to a 1-0 start to the season. Lay the 21 points and collect on Friday morning. This is a 3 star pick.

I'm going to agree with Reese on Oklahoma State -15.5. Take the Cowboys over an overmatched Washington State team who has been the floormats of a mediocre PAC-10 for years. Nothing changes this year and OSU rolls. I'll put this as a 2 star pick.



I'll agree with Reese about North Texas, they suck. Take Clemson and lay the 24, look for Kyle Parker to have a big day. 2 star pick.

Give me Oregon State to cover against TCU. The Rogers brothers are back for their seventh year of college football and look for that experience to keep them well within the 13.5 points being handed to them. I wouldn't be shocked to see an upset here. I don't know what Oregon State has with their new QB, but he should be good enough. 2 star pick

In the big game of week 1, I'm gonna go with Virginia Tech catching 2.5 points. I'll probably throw the points away and hit the money line if possible. I agree with Pepper, Boise State will suffer their first loss in a 2 years in this one. BCS supporters better hope like hell VT beats Boise b/c its gonna shock the system if they don't. I like Taylor at QB and VT has two running backs that will put up plenty of rushing yardage for the Hokies. I'll make this a 4 star pick.

Good luck to all and don't forget who gave you these SLAY YOUR BOOKIE pics.

I'm getting in on the mix.

OK. Here's my picks for week one. All these are in the 3.5-4 point range as I don't like to bet in week one. I win in numbers, not by placing my balls on the table under a guillotine. However I will have my "Guillotine Pick" after I see a few games. Here we go:

Minnesota -3 @ Middle Tenn St: Dwight Dasher was recently suspended. It may be different if it wasn't so recent. I don't know shit about Minn but they can beat MTS without Dasher.

Dawgs -28 vs La Lafayette: Man I hate the dawgs with a passion but they should put a beat down on the Ragin Cajuns. Look for the 1st team D to stay in through the 3rd just to break in the new 3-4 scheme.

Kentuky -3.5 @ Louisville: Joker Phillips has learned from a great coach and has a lot of talent coming back. Charlie Strong will have his hands full trying to turn a program around. Plus I think he's gonna suck as a HC.

Clemson -24 vs N. Texas: North Texas sux.

Ok St-15.5 vs Wazzu: Ok State has a 26 yr old qb that played in the minors. Think Chris Weinke. They have had all spring and summer to put in Dana Holgremson's offense (sp?). You know, Houston's OC last year. The same Houston team that beat Ok St. Ok St beat UGA and apparently "I'm a man, I'm 40" liked what he saw and hired him away from the cougars. Over could be good on this game too.

COD LOCKS

 

VT giving 2 1/2 to Bosie St. Yes sir all day long. I doubt very seriously that this Bosie team has ever played against 2 players in the same game that run a 4.4 40. That is what the water boys run at VT. Assuming that Bosie knows there is no way that they can play man to man I expect them to start in zone and if they do please allow me to introduce Ryan Williams. Once Williams starts running rampid they will have to play some man, assuming the Bosie CB’s can run with those guys ( which I don’t think they can) then CB’s backs will be turned and Tyrod Taylor will have 120 rushing yards. I think we all know that VT and NC are the only teams in the ACC that can spell defense and VT has a very fast one especially when they are going after a QB. I think Kellen Moore has the worst game of his career and misses some plays due to getting banged up. I will take VT all day long on this one, place your bets, enjoy the game, and collect your money.

Cod Lock

Lets open up the season with a strong as Hell 5 point COD LOCK!!  understand that 5 is the highest point value and that is EXCATLLY why this is a 5 pointer.

Iowa State has one of the toughest schedule in the country this year and they understand that if they want to get back to a bowl game, that they enjoyed winning last year vs. a pretty good Minnesota team, then they will need to win every single game that they can.  Wins are not going to come easy for this team and starting out with a loss to a team like N Ill could end their bowl hopes before the season even gets going good.  Returning nearly everyone on the O Line along with the teams leading Rusher - Iowa State is looking to get a little better with the passing game and this will be a great opportunity to do just that with N Ill losing some key spots in the Deff back field.  Chizik showed us that he can recruit when he got to Auburn and this team at Iowa State is full of his recruits.  Iowa State gets off to a Great start at home under the lights on Thursday night with a double digit victory.  Lay the small points that are getting bigger every day and get your weekend started in the black.  5 POINT COD LOCK IOWA STATE –4

(things i know: i know that N Ill beat Iowa St in 2003, I know that Iowa St is playing their in-state rival next week, I know that N Ill is returning a stud at DE, and I know you are going to win money on this game if you listen to the big daddy)

Just to get ya'll fired up about some CFB.

Maybe ASU will get matched up with my Jackets in a BCS bowl.

I know it's a long shot, but hey it's funny.

http://www.nesbitt4heisman.com/

Check out thought #1 under videos.

It’s this Saturday

couple of games that I would like some conversation on…

Oregon State @ TCU : TCU is sitting at –13.5 against a decent Pac-10 school.  How will TCU handle the pre-season rankings?  This is TCU’s ONLY game against a team preseason in the top 25 and Org St is sitting at #24.  So who covers this game??   I like Oregon State getting the points.  I like TCU to win the game but it seems to me, that other than BYU, when these boys play a big game that it is nail bitter.  So I will take the 13 1/2 points and the BEAVERS!!

LSU vs. UNC in the ATL : LSU is laying 1 but this game has been taken off the board pretty much everywhere in Vegas.  Give me your thoughts on this game assuming LSU goes up to like a 6 pt favorite. 

and don’t forget to post your Cod Locks this week and assign a point value to it.  1-5 are the point options and you can take UP TO 3 games.

Draft Night

Who all will be partaking in the live draft tonight? I'll be online talking smack as always with some cold bud heavy's right beside me.

Circa summer late 1970's at Clem's Music park. Just Sayin????

Where the hell is Frank? Coe's lucky he didn't get the shit kicked out of him. Wait a minute, Coe ryhmes with Joe??????

Richt security

Brad and I were chatting (i know, sounds gay – the really bad part is now we video chat which is really gay) the other day when Georgia got their new AD - about what the new guy means for Richt’s security. 

Brad:  I think it puts more pressure on him(Richt) and he has to win the east or at least win 10 in the next two years.

me: next 2 years yes. this year, no.

Brad: I still think he has to win 8 this year which shouldn't be that hard but if he doesn't I think the new AD flexes his muscles and everyone will listen to him because he is from the mighty Florida regime.

me: 6 wins MAY get him fired. 7 and up and he is safe

Brad: I disagree go read what UGA fans are writing about this new AD, even though I like this, I think a lot of people are thinking that reign of UF is over. I think if Richt loses to UF the next two years he is gone unless he wins the SEC with a loss to UF.

So instead of setting a over/under for GA this year I wanted to set one for Richt’s job.  What is the magic number Richt needs to have a job with the Dawgs next year and over the next 2 years.  I think 5 1/2 is the number this year.  If Richt wins 6 he keeps his job but his seat is VERY hot going into next year.  Next year is a little different to handicap because we don’t know how he will be entering next year.   So here is my over/unders based on wins this year.. 6, 7, and 8 wins this year then next year the total is 8 1/2.  9 wins and better this year and we are back like we are this year and he isn’t even on the hot seat so the total would be around 5 1/2 again. 

your thoughts?

Over/Under

Mississippi Rebels 8 Wins

With Jack St, Tulane, Vandy, Fresno St, And Louy Laf all being wins, that makes 5.  So will they win 4 or more against UK, Bama, ARkansas, Auburn, UT, LSU, and Miss St? 

The U 9 wins

Fla A&M, Duke, Virginia, and Maryland being the 4 sure wins – can the Canes win 6 or more against Ohio St, Pitt, Clemson, FSU, UNC, GT, VT, and South Fla?  

Welcome

If you cant beat em, then steal from them.  Greg McGarity will be named the AD for the University of Georgia and I am pretty damn happy about it.  Florida has been one of the top athletic departments in the Nation and McGarity has played a huge roll in it being Foley’s right hand man. 

Things are looking good.  After Richt wins 10 ball games and the SEC East this year and Fox goes to the Sweet 16 next year then he will be able to focus on some other sports.

Pulley is having a baby

I am pleased to announce that fellow blogger Pulley is expecting a baby.  He had just gotten married so I guess he has taken after me in knocking his wife up on the honey moon. 

I am very happy for you Pulley and know that you will be a great father.  Congratulations my man.  Your world just changed for ever. 

Last night’s Fight

College Football News' Top 5

Wow is all I can say.

For some reason I can't insert a link but here's the address

http://cfn.scout.com/2/990840.html

COD LOCK

Last year several of us would make our picks on the blog.   This year you will need to give your Cod Lock a point value for how good you feel about it 1-5.  PLUS you are only allowed up to 3 picks per week.  I don’t want this non-sense of posting 8 picks.  If you do not want to make any picks then you do not have to (you will be called the P word if you don’t), if you only want to give 1 pick then that is cool also.  Monday morning we will see who had the best Cod Locks of the weekend based on your points.

If you are the Cod Locker of the Week – well, you are the Cod Locker of the week. 

Pre-Season Poll

Our poll compared to the USA today poll.  We have a lot of similarities with this poll but we also had a couple of teams that we disagree on.  USC obviously can not be voted on because Southern Methodist was in the “others receiving votes” category and the Trojans were not.  So I will disregard them.  Arkansas was the next team on our poll that they didn’t give as much love to.  We have them at 11 and they got them at 19.  Oklahoma was a team they gave a good bit more love to than we did at 8 and we have them at 14.  Oregon is sitting 11 and we got them at 16.  Wisconsin is sitting at 12 on theirs and 17 on ours.  For the most part though, the polls had a good bit in common.  Bama 1, OSU 2, Boise st 3/5, VT 4/6, Texas 5/4, Florida 6/3, Iowa 7/10.  Basically 1 team off in our top 10.

Friday Farts

Tiger just sucks.  He is in a field of 81 players and he is tied for 70th.  Since when was Tiger completely irrelevant in golf?  It would be one thing if he just had a bad day but his play this year is horrible.  But does this mean anything?  His positions this year in Tourneys is 4, mc, wd, 19, 4, 46, 23, and 70 right now after 1st rd – BUT, and I’m counting on you guys that wear the plaid shorts with the white belts with your visor with a little hair coming down in front of your face that call yourselves golfers (i call you assholes) I need a little help here.  He has played in 7 Tourneys not including the one he is in currently and 3 of those were majors.  Out of the 3 majors he has finished 4 (masters), 4 (us open), and 23 (british open).  When you look at just the majors he don’t look to shaby.  My question is this, Is Tiger using the other tourneys to work on something or change something or does he just not take them nearly a serious.  I mean golf isn’t like any other sport.  Tiger could suck balls for the rest of the year and be invited to play at all the Majors next year. 

Ran across a story this morning titled, “5 Most underrated teams heading into the college football Season.”  The picture with the story was of the U and several of us here on Southern Fried have predicted a good season for Miami.  Miami, the author predicts, will win 10 games this year and could run the table.  Georgia Bulldogs (i did not know they were on the list and i would have posted this story regardless but yes, i was happy to see them) biggest question is Aaron Murray and the Defense but he does have Georgia as a sleeper this year.  Florida Gators were on the list and I’m not sure how they can be under rated… I mean, I’m expecting them to be in the National Title hunt even with all of the losses.  Georgia Tech was another team on the list with mentions of Anthony Allen having a bigger role now that Dwyer is gone and like Georgia the D is one of the biggest concerns.  Wisconsin was the last team  this guy claims that the Wisc/Ohio St game on Oct 16th will be for the Big 10 title. (could you imagine an October game that would decide the SEC?  That normally happens in December and nobody has a clue until then who will win it) 

60 year old lady, Diana Nyad, will attempt to swim from Cuba to Miami…  Why?  I don’t like getting past my knees in the gulf.  I don’t have a clue why someone would do this.  She will have an electronic device that will keep sharks away from her, she hopes.

Classic Youtube video

try to spell what the on-site reporter says at the end of the clip

Thursday’s thoughts

A-Rod hit his 600th HR yesterday and I’m pretty sure no one gives a damn.  Is it the fact that no one really cares for A-Rod or is it the fact that 600 doesn’t mean anything anymore.  6 of the 9 players that have 600 have played in the past Decade and almost all of them, if not all, have been tied to PED’s – will he break Bonds’ record?  He hit his 500th 3 years, I think yesterday was exactly 3 years, so that is 33 HR’s a year over just the last 3 years.   If he were to stay on this pace then it would only take him 5 years to pass Bonds’ and I’m not sure we would really care then either.

ESPN proved day before yesterday that they are just as bad as the National Enquire.  They ran with the Favre story to the point where they were acting like they had spoken with him and had lined up a press conference.  Then they started back tracking saying “Minn has not confirmed this report” then it was “Minn or Brad Childress has not confirmed this report” then it was “Minn or Childress or Favre have confirmed this report”  THEN WHY THE HELL DID YOU RUN WITH IT?!?!  I count on you for legit stories – If I wanted to read bullshit speculation then I would just read this blog.

Hall of Fame class of 2010 has been announced and we are starting to see more and more players that we actually got to watch and enjoy instead of players that old timers told us about.  I heard Emmitt Smith this morning talking about it.  He was giving all this credit to this guy and that guy and the O Line and then he said something that I had really appreciated hearing.  He started the statement out by saying “and of course I have to give credit to the man that made all this possible…” so i’m thinking Jesus, right?  but it wasn’t.  He finished it by saying that Darrell Johnston basically had more to do with his success than any single person.  I’m sure the Moose appreciates and disserves it.  I look forward to hearing his speech at the ceremony. 

Lance Armstrong is getting some heat from the Fed’s.  I don’t have any details on this and just heard a teaser for the story but it made me ask myself..  Does beating cancer and using your name to raise millions of dollars for research to help find a cure for something that has killed so many people give you a pass on steroids?  Should the Fed’s lay off because of all the good things he has done and is continuing to do?  I mean if you really think about it, if Lance gets busted for steroids wouldn’t that have a negative impact on his abilities to raise money for cancer?  Tell me I am being soft here.  Tell me what he is doing in his personal life has nothing to do with whether or not he cheated.  Because if he did cheat, then I don’t think I really want to know for sure.  I think I am cool with being naive and just assuming that he beat a field of doped up cyclist and he was the only one that wasn’t using 7 years in a row. 

Does anyone NOT have Ohio State in the BCS Title game?  Marshall, Miami U, Ohio, E Mich, @Illnois, Indiana, @ Wisc, Purdue, @Minn, Penn St, @ Iowa, Michigan.  With a Pre-Season ranking in the top 5 is everyone playing to see who will face off against Ohio St this year?  I can’t wait till the Cornhuskers take over that conference. 

12?

I found this article to prove my point even has the sources listed at the bottom feel free to check them.

12 National Championships? … The Real Story

I just wanted to clear up a few misconceptions about Alabama’s claim to 12 national championships based on fact rather than bias. Credit is given where credit is due.

To clear up confusion, the word retroactive means they went back in time to award the championship.

‘TWELVE’ national championships is fraudulent, nothing but pure bunk ginned up by the SID Department. Here’s a rundown:

1925 National Championship- Alabama claims they share this one with Dartmouth. Who awarded the NC? Houlgate and Helms. Houlgate started his system in 1927. So Bama won their 1925 NC using a formula that didn’t exist until 1927? Helms Athletic Foundation started in 1941. Another incredible retroactive NC.

The Associated Press Poll has been active since 1936. The AP took their final poll prior to bowl games from 1936 – 1964 and in 1966 and 1967. They took their final poll after the bowl games in 1965 and from 1968 – Current.

1926 National Championship- Alabama claims they share this one with 3 other teams with equal or better records! Once again it is the Helms Athletic Foundation in 1941 that awards it!

1930 National Championship- The Davis poll says that Bama tied Notre Dame for NC this year. This was the only one to award it to Bama.Notre Dame was named NC in 6 polls! Parke Davis is another retroactive system! He (an individual, not an organization) did his in 1933!

1934 National Championship- Alabama says they share this with two other teams. The awarders are Dunkel, Williamson, and Football Thesaurus. Dunkel was an individual who came up with his own system. Williamson was a geologist who came up with his own system. Football Thesaurus first appeared in 1946!

1941 National Championship- This is a complete joke. The AP ranked Alabama 20th in the nation with 14 teams with better records in the top 20. Once again it is the Football Thesaurus that retroactively awards it. Alabama finished 3rd in the SEC that year. Mississippi State won the SEC title..yet Bama claims a National title!

1961 National Championship- Finally a legitimate NC. .

1964 National Championship- While the AP did award the NC to Bama (10-1-0), Arkansas had the better record, 11-0. Alabama played Texasin their bowl and LOST. The AP final poll was before the bowl.

1965 National Championship- The AP gave this to Bama. That year there were three teams with better records than Bama. Bama 9-1-1, Michigan St 10-1-0, Arkansas 10-1-0, Nebraska 10-1-0.

1973 National Championship- AP puts Bama 4th after their bowl game loss. Bama claims a NC from the UPI poll that was taken before they met Notre Dame in the bowl game and lost. There were 3 teams with better records than Bama that year. The embarrassment of naming Alabama number one caused the UPI to name champions after bowl games. Yet Bammer has no shame in claiming it of course.

1978 National Championship- AP gives this to Alabama(11-1-0) even though USC (12-1-0) had the better record Guess who Alabama lost to that year? USC!!!!!!!!!. UPI gave the NC to USC.

1979 National Championship- Their second legitimate NC. Their first Unanimous NC.

1992 National Championship- Their third legitimate NC. Their second Unanimous NC.

You can see why people ridicule Bama fans when they talk about 12 NCs. The early ones were awarded by individuals years after the games were played. These weren’t consensus polls but NCs awarded by people that had their own formula for determining champions. Some NCs were given before bowl games that Bama lost. Using Alabama logic, Auburn could claim four national championships. But when Bammers brag they like to say they have twelve and Auburn has one. How silly. The NCAA recognizes 6 NCs for Bama and there are only two NCs that Bama has unanimously. You can’t find an Auburn site claiming four national championships but there are plenty Bama sites claiming twelve.

Debunking the Alabama National Championship myths.

Bama…legends in their own minds!

References:

http://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/ia_football_past_champs.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Division_I-A_national_football_championship

http://sports.espn.go.com/chat/sportsnation/story?page=communityfbip

The Remix!!!!!

Is it just me?

Brett Favre anyone?  Who got these texts?  Has anyone heard or seen anyone come out and say “i spoke with Brett and he said he is not coming back” NoBODY!!  But Green Bay fans are saying, “I told you so.”  The difference between Minn and Green Bay is that Minn doesn’t have a Aarron Rogers waiting to step in.  Brett plays next year and will make close to 20 million dollars to do so.  What’s your prediction?

is it just me or is Deanna smoking hot?  Holy Mother of God she turns me on.  And those breast look like they are doing just fine. 

Is it just me or Shanahan going to be a bad ass in Washington?  Can Washington actually win the NFC East this year?  Dallas is Dallas and until Wade Phillips and Tony Romo aint wearing a Star then they aint winning it all but they are good enough to win the division.  The Giants have some holes to fill but with a new DC they will be better than last year.  Philly will be as good as Kolb and that may end up being pretty damn good.  Now that you have McNabb and Shanahan in the DC could Washington actually be good enough to win their division this year?

If Les Miles feels enough heat under his seat at LSU at the end of this year and Rich Rod doesn’t turn things around with the Big Blue could Les go to Michigan?  AND if he does go could Tommy Tuberville end up in Baton Rouge? 

Speaking of Tuberville – The AP is talking about giving the 2004 National Title to Auburn after USC’s appeal fails, which it will.  I asked an Auburn fan yesterday if this were to happen how would you feel about it.  He said, “I would buy a damn shirt and wear it everyday.  Half of Alabama’s titles are full of shit.  Ill take it any way I can get it.”  I was a little suprised at his comments.  would you wear a title T shirt if this were your school that you pull for?

What do these #'s have in common? 65,66,71,78,86,98,101,103,113,119

These are the preseason rankings of the 10 teams Boise St plays outside of VT and Oregon St. I've always thought the broncos didn't get enough respect way back when, but damn thats a weak schedule. If they beat VT to open the season, they'll more than likely already be placed in a BCS game.

Antoine speaks the truf

 

Antoine gives some good advice in this interview with the local news.

“He climbin in yo windo.  he snatchin yo people up tryin to rap dem.  hide yo kids, hide yo wife, and hide yo husband cause they rappin ir body out her.”

Thanks Antoine.

Weekend Review

Why do I either make a complete ass out of myself OR create an extremely awkward moment… or like this past weekend I was able to do both.   I was in a wedding this past weekend for my cousin.  Friday we had the rehearsal and everything was going great.  Everyone then went to a country club where we had a very nice dinner.  Then I started drinking Beam…  if you know anything about me and Beam (or any whiskey) then you are seeing something not good in my future.   Bobby, Grady’s brother, gave a nice toast and then someone else did,  then some else did, then some else did, then some else did, then I did.  I stood up and gave what I thought was the best toast of the night.  It was short, little bit of humor, and sweet at the end.  Then I kept drinking.  At the end of the night after every body went home I go up to the rooms where some of the Grooms party was staying and made a complete ass out of myself.  One of Grady’s friends handled the situation about as good as he could and for some reason I turned on my asshole switch.  It wasn’t that big of a deal but it wasn’t my classiest moment.  then I stumbled down stairs and found someone that worked their leaving and asked them to take me home. (i don’t know how to type slur so while reading my parts add a nice slur to it) she said, “where do you live” and I responded, “Alabama.”  She said, “Really?  I can’t take you to Alabama.”  I answered,  “well fuck off then….  wait a minute….  I live here.  I used to live in Alabama.. I mean I still do.  So we cool?”  She was getting a little bit frustrated and asked, “So where do you want me to take you?”  And I answered, “home please. just take me home”  We got it figured out and she took me home.  I stumbled up the stairs and got in bed. 

Saturday was pretty low key for me.  I was good about not drinking before the wedding.  I was even better about not drinking anything but red wine after the wedding and I was at home by 11:00 in bed with my family.  Good Right?  I think so. 

Sunday…  We go to my Aunt and uncle’s house to have breakfast before we leave.  We were going over who every body was and who liked who and who didn’t.  Then a name came up that sounded familiar to me so I asked who he was.  Then I remembered.  About 2 years ago my cousin who got married had sent out an email to a pretty big group of people.  I looked who all the email was sent to and saw a name I had never seen before.  It was Steve Dumas.  So I “replied to all” - “hey Steve, do you pronounce that Steve Dumb Ass?”  Well he didn’t find it funny so he sent a email back saying something and I thought he was being a dick so I sent one back to everyone saying something like stop being a faggot.  well, it turns out he is a homo and has a life partner.   Well I am in the middle of telling this story when the door opens and someone walks in.  I don’t pay much attention and keep telling my story and guess who it was that walked in??  You guessed it.  Steve Dumb Ass with his life partner…  AWK!!  WARD!!!

Agents and College Players

Not going to be a very long post but I wanted to touch on the Agent/Player relationships that are being talked about at some of the Media Days (especially the ACC and the SEC).  These Agents are sending “runners” to contact players and pay for shit, take them to parties, and eventually getting them to sign with them.  It obviously is becoming a bigger and bigger problem and the NCAA ends up punishing the school several years after the act occurs.  Reggie Bush is a good example of someone who got more than a big screen Tv.  This guy got a damn half million dollar house for his mama-an-nem.  So now a kid that was a freshman in high school at the time of the events, who had absolutely no knowledge of such violations, will not have a chance to play in a bowl game.  I’m sorry but that doesn’t seem like a very fitting punishment.  The head coach, at the time of the events, is now making millions of dollars in Seattle and will have ZERO punishment for allowing this to happen.  The player that took the money and the goods will have a painting of him removed…  that’s it.  BUT!!  the kids that were in high school at the time will be get the punishment.  I just don’t see how this makes any sense. 

Solution.  Any person affiliated with a sports agencies in anyway that gets caught giving goods to any student athlete will have the agency that he represents suspended from any negotiations with any NFL team.  

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To all the wrestling fans, see if you know who the guy on the left is. I would have never known if someone had not told me and I watched wrestling religiously during his prime.

Fantasy Football

Last year I was in 5 leagues.  1 on Face book, 1 on Yahoo, and 3 on ESPN.  It was miserable.  This year I will NOT be doing that again.  I have set a limit of 3 leagues, and that is IT.

Ok, I would love for Southern Fired to have a league.  We could do a small league of 8 or 10 – not make it a keeper league, no money, just something else to be able to talk shit about on the blog.

Pulley, Culpepper, Starrett, Reese, Joe, Jody, Rusty, and I bet Jimbo would also.  Hell, that is 8 people right there. 

I am all about a “LIVE” draft though.  Let me know what you guys think. 

University of South Carolina

With Steve Garcia back I think the Gamecocks are going to be better with another year under his built.  Losing Eric Norwood is going to hurt a team that heavily relied on their D last year.  So here is how there season will go.

W - Southern Miss

L – Georgia (Homer Alert) – I think I am going to get some arguments here

W – Furman

L – @ Auburn – The game will be in Auburn and the Tigers will be coming off a Big Win vs. Clemson

L – Alabama – Upset Alert!  Bama will coming off Huge wins vs. Arkansas and Florida the week before and this could be a perfect let down game for the Tide.  I’m picking Bama but could see this game being Bama’s unexpected loss that we all know will happen this year

W – @ Kentucky – UK will be down this year, they will still give people fits but I ‘m not expecting much from them

W – @ Vandy – Vandy is in big trouble

W – Tennessee – The Ol’ Ball Coach seems to have UT’s number

L – Arkansas – I think Mallet and Petrino will be hitting a good stride late in the season

L – @ Florida – Ol Ball Coach did really good in the Swamp, when he had a F on his visor.

W – Troy – As a season ticket holder to Troy, I would love to see them win this game but it aint gonna happen.  but it would make for a good road trip.  GO TROJANS!!

W – @ Clemson – Coin flip 

Anyone heard of the Fulmer Cup??

Great stuff.

http://www.sportsargumentwiki.com/index.php?title=Fulmer_Cup

Odds to win 2011 NBA Title

i did a story before Lebron announced with the odds of winning the 2011 title so we could see what changes LJ would do..  Here they are.

The Heat were 25:1 and now are 7:4.  (thats about 1.75:1 for you people that are not very good with odds) Keep in mind that the previous odds didn’t include Bosch or James.

Now the Lakers are looking to possibly add Raja Bell.  Reports have it that Bell is meeting with Kobe today in LA.  Now remeber that the lakers were at 7:2 so we will see if Raja helps (or hurts, depending on how you look at it) their odds. 

In my mind the Lakers are still the team to beat, with or with out Raja.

Blog Overload

Joe, you have been clogging the blog up with so much random stuff that you don't even remember what you've posted. How about following up with previous posts. Like the odds on NBA championship before and after. Get it together chump.

Weekend Review

Pretty good weekend overall.  I took 5 little girls all under the age of 6 to the Movies on Saturday to see “Despicable Me” and had a pretty good time.  I kind of embarrassed Rachel when I started dancing and rocking out to Justin Beeber (or what ever the little homo’s name is).  And Parker let one of the little girls know right off the bat that “just because he isn’t your daddy dosn’t mean he can’t pop you.  Aint that right daddy?”  So I didn’t have any problems with the little girls.   Despicable Me was pretty funny.  I kind of had to high of expectations but over all it was a pretty funny movie. 

I cut the World Cup on it “extra” time and watched for about 5 or so minutes and saw the goal.  This is by far the best way to watch a soccer match.  It was awesome.  I got to hear “GOAL!!!!” and only had to watch soccer for 5 minutes to get it.  Very nice.  Very Glad that shit is over.  I tried, but it sucked. 

After being able to sleep on the Lebron thing over the weekend and get to see him in Miami with his new number and call for 5 or 6 titles – it hadn’t changed my mind on him.  I will make it very easy.  Lebron removed himself from “Greatest of All time” conversations.  That is it.  Really nothing more or less so lets move on.

Braves go into the All star break with series wins over Philly and the Mets.  Good job Atlanta.  I voted Billy Wagner into the All star game because Jon Scherholtz (spelling) told me to just to find out that he has declined the offer…  O.K. then. 

3D movies.  I mentioned earlier that I went to see “Despicable Me” but I failed to mention that it was in 3d.  WOW!  I love me some 3D.  It was great.  It really made a cartoon movie come to life.  Daddy Likey.  Just a matter of time before they bring this technology to the Porn industry and change everything.

Buzz Light Year Slip-N-Slide.  Got it set up yesterday and it sucked balls.  Went to exchange it today for something different.  Probably the Woody one. 

So what did Lebron tell us?

I think he told us that winning a Title is THE most important thing to him.  Isn’t that what we want in a professional athlete?  How many times do we want the athletes we watch to make their decisions based on winning titles not just the money?  Why is this different?  Why are we all hating on a man that just made the type of decision that we crave so many others to do?  I tell you why.  Because we viewED Lebron as a possible “Greatest of all-time” type player.  We have been convinced of it from every single media outlet since he was a senior in high school.  We were going to be able to witness the next Michael Jordan.  And all of sudden our generation became the “old guy” that kept telling these young whipper snappers that “he aint no Jordan.”  Well, we were correct.  He aint no Jordan and He aint no Kobe.  These guys didn’t have to go out and chase a title.  They brought a title to themselves.  That is what the Greats do; they bring titles home, they don’t have to go out and get them. 

That said, Pat Riley sold his soul to the Devil.  He is the master mind behind what is arguably the biggest free agent signing in the history of free agency.  I can not wait to see who all he talks in to taking the league minimum just to come be apart of this.  That will be his icing on his cake. 

How many balls will they play with?

Are there enough basketballs in the city of Miami to go around for these 3? I think not. Lebron has self proclaimed himself the KING and even wanted to wear number 23 coming out of high school, but what has he done to prove he should be the man over D-Wade? Nothing! D-Wade will be the man on that team and he will be the one with the ball in crunch time, I don’t care if you call yourself the KING you don’t argue with the guy who has the RING. IF Lebron goes his ego will not him stay long. I want to hear what you guys think.

Reasons to go to the Heat

 

notice the lack of camel toes on these women.  very nice. 

What do you mean they already had last call?

The only person that calls more attention to himself than Lebron. But even good ol’ John has never had a one special.

Best Lebron Story

This is how you write a story about Lebron… Please click this link and read it!

Is Lebron turning the Heat up?

Odds of winning the 2011 NBA championship before and after.  Of course we do not have the “after” yet but I thought it would be interesting to see what all the free agency does to the odds.  So here are the odds to win the 2011 Title as of June 25th

L.A. Lakers 7/2
Boston Celtics 5/1
Orlando Magic 5/1
Cleveland Cavaliers 6/1
Denver Nuggets 10/1
Oklahoma City Thunder 15/1
Chicago Bulls 18/1
Dallas Mavericks 20/1
Phoenix Suns 20/1
San Antonio Spurs 20/1
Utah Jazz 25/1
Portland Blazers 25/1
New York Knocks 25/1
Miami Heat 25/1
Houston Rockets 25/1
Milwaukee Bucks 40/1
Atlanta Hawks 40/1
New Orleans Hornets 40/1
New Jersey Nets 50/1
Charlotte Bobcats 50/1
Memphis Grizzlies 50/1
L.A. Clippers 50/1
Golden State Warriors 75/1
Indiana Pacers 75/1
Philadelphia 76ers 75/1
Toronto Raptors 75/1
Washington Wizards 100/1
Sacramento Kings 100/1
Detroit Pistons 100/1
Minnesota Timberwolves 125/1

tomorrow we will look to see what the odds do post Lebron.  I have just a  hunch that if he does go to Miami that 25:1 would move a little bit.  just a hunch.  It is kind of crazy to see how much impact some one makes that has never won a title… 

Southern Fried’s most Hated list

This is a list of people that this blog hates the most.  These people are affiliated with sports somehow.  Either they play, they coach, they own, they broadcast, or you see them at the games ie Jack at the Lakers game.  I would like this list to be like most of the things on Southern Fried and to represent this blog, it’s bloggers, and it’s readers.  So I am looking for comments here.  Likes, Dislikes, suggestions, etc..  So lets get started. 

Lou Holtz – Stroke face himself.  He makes absolutely no sense I would rather put my dick in a meat grinder than listen to him speak.  His bullshit pregame speeches on ESPN make me cringe and I pray that one of his magic tricks is to make himself disappear.   

Steven A Smith – THUG!!  How this guy has a radio show I will never know.  If you don’t speak ebonics then don’t try and listen because you will be clueless as to what is going on. 

Barry Bonds – Not because of the steroids.  Not because of the tax evasion.  Not because of the mistress.  Ok, maybe a little bit of this stuff or maybe all of it collectively but Barry Bonds is the most unapproachable person in sports and he has no right to be.

Tiger Woods – I put him on this list for Culpepper and Reese.  We all have heard your reasons and I thought they were good enough for him to make it.

Michael Vick – I didn’t really have a problem with the Dog Fighting.  But this last shooting deal at 2 am at a party puts him on my list.

John Calipari – If you like anything about Collegiate athletics then you hate this man.  He is everything that is wrong with it. 

George Steinbrenner – Do I really need an explanation here?

Nolan Richardson – first of all he sues Arkansas for racial reasons and loses..  he had the worst  graduation rate of any coach, even the black ones – and now he is in the WNBA

Lane Kiffin – Kid Kiffin.  When Al Davis called him a worthless liar we all thought Al was just saying something crazy again…  Turns out Ol’ man Al actually knew what he was talking about here.

Craig and Adam James – Poster boy of why you should beat your kids ass..  We all have known this guy.  And we didn’t like him.  He may not make the final list but why not put him on the rough draft.

Terrell Ownes – Really!  Are you serious?  Can you be any more of a douche bag?  Every team you go to ends up not liking you.  You weren’t even a good fantasy wr last year.  So shut up.

Bud Sleig – Could their be a worse commissioner of a professional sport?  I can’t think of one.  He embraced steriods while everyone was watching the homerun battle between Mark and Sammy and then plays dumb.  Plus he looks creepy. 

Who else will make our list and who needs to come off? 

And NASCAR is rigged

You can't tell me that the race on Friday night didn't seem a little too well scripted. Come on now...Junior has been mired in a two year drought and couldn't find victory lane with a map and Jimmy Johnson driving him, but the night that he breaks out Sr's yellow & blue Wrangler paint scheme he suddenly remembers how to drive and win a race? If you believe this was all just coincidence, you probably also believe that Ric Flair could stand toe-to-toe with Rampage in the Octagon and have a chance at victory. NASCAR, just like wrastlin', is for entertainment only and should be taken with a grain of salt.

I am getting married.....

I figured since Joe can make posts about having another baby girl - god bless you man - I should be able to make a post about getting married this weekend. My girl and I leave for Jamaica on Thursday morning and will be getting married this Saturday afternoon on the beach. Everyone keeps asking me if I am nervous or am I ready to run and I don't get it. Am I missing something? We have lived together for two years and I think I know this woman pretty well, but evidently the minute I say "I Do" and put another ring on it, she is going to turn into a she-devil and destroy my life. Anyway, I figured that this cast of characters would be chock full of bad marriage advice and horror stories so please fire away.

It’s a Girl

We found out this morning that we are having another girl.  I think everyone that reads this blog understands just how bad I wanted a boy.  Going into it I had  all but convinced myself that the young lady that did the ultrasound would look at us and say, “Congratulations!  There is a huge penis!” but she didn’t and so I thought about why?  Or How?  How could we get pregnant 3 times ALL with a 50% chance of hitting a boy and never getting one?  I mean you are looking at 8:1 odds here of all 3 being the same sex…  If I put money 8:1 horse to win the Derby you can bet your sweet ass he wouldn’t.  My first reaction was all inside.  I wasn’t going to make the same mistake twice.  Like when Traci told me she was pregnant with this one and I responded, “Well  Fuck!!” and then hung up.  Not this time. When the lady explained that the small “hamburger” that we were looking at was our little girls tootoo and that IT was now a SHE – I don’t want to use the words “disappointed” so I will go with “less excited” – And why the hell would they call it a small hamburger?  Why not just go with beef curtains for Christ’s Sake?  Anyone who knows how much my little girls love their daddy know that I am not “disappointed” at all that I will have a third.  I am actually getting more and more excited the more I think about it.  And really?  It’s probably for the best that I don’t have a boy.  I would expect him to be a supreme athlete while handing him absolutely no athletic genes.  I would expect him to be a well behaved young man that is good in school while teaching him through my examples to do the opposite.   So after chewing on this for a couple of hours, I am pretty damn happy that I am having a third girl.  At least this way, it’s guaranteed that I will not have a faggot son.   

Friday Night

Last night was a special moment if you are a Dale Jr or Dale Sr fan.  I never liked Dale Sr but I am a Jr fan and last night was just fun to watch.  The wrangler #3 car, that Sr. won so many of his races on, was running near the front of the pack last night in Daytona with Jr behind the wheel.  This would be the last time that Jr would ever drive a car with a #3 on the side and this is how it ended.. 

Hopefully this will be the race that gets Jr going and he will be able to carry this energy into the Sprint Cup. 

The Braves did everything they could in the top of the 11th last night to give a win away to the Marlins.  Jonny Venters looked like a retard when they caught a Marlin on a squeeze play and when Chipper tossed Venters the ball to tag the runner on his way home Venters dropped the damn ball.  This is in the top of the 11th inning with 1 out and runners all over the place.  An out there is HUGE!! Marlins ended up scoring 1 and then Venters gets himself out of the inning.  Then the bottom comes up and here is how it ended…

I know we talked about it earlier in the year, but these guys just seem to be having fun.  And after I watched the race and turned it over this game It felt different.  After Venters made that mistake normally I would have been saying, “typical F@#$ing Braves”  but last night I felt good about our chances.  This is a different Braves team and if you are planning on watching in the post season when we are on our way to the World Series.. you may want to go ahead and jump on the band wagon now. 

I’m not sure if you guys have ever watched the

Not sure if you guys have ever heard of the Squidbillies on Adult Swim but it is one funny ass show.  Here is a little bit of an older show for you.

I know where some people could see this as making fun of Georgia fans but I DO NOT!!  I love this show and can not get enough of it. 

Evan's "lady friend". Nice tits.

That wasn't Damon Evans, this is.............

Can't believe John posted the wrong pic. Just here to help out my fellow bloggers.

DUMB ASS

Michael Vick is just a dip shit.  I have been very supportive of him, even after the dog fighting, claiming the lack of guidance that he has had growing up.  I am also very understanding of professional athletes that screw up.  I think it is just so much easier to get caught up in stupid things when you are making tons of money and almost everything you have ever done has been covered up for you.  Combine that with the media watching every move you make is just a recipe for disaster.  But I was wrong about Vick.  He obviously hasn’t learned anything.  The most important thing you do when changing your life style is changing your circle of influence.  You are the people that you associate with whether you like it or not and if you are at a party after midnight with thugs with hand guns then obviously you don’t understand this.  He has lost everything he has had and now has a 2nd chance and is going to screw it up…  Well, he disserves it.  and so do the vultures who latched on to him and never let go.  After his “homies” turned state on him faster than Lindsey Lohan gets out of rehab on the dog fighting ring - I thought that he would have learned this really easy rule of circle of influence; but I was wrong.  The first thing Vick needs to do is not look at changing himself, its changing who he associates with. 

Damon Evans, really?

OK, lets get this straight. You are a 40 year old black male who is paid $550,000/year to be the Athletics Director at a top tier SEC program that happens to be your own alma matter. And you really don't have the common sense to not drink and drive? Evans will be fired I'm sure and he'll be lucky to land a job paying him 10% of his current salary.

We can all take something from this, when our day is going bad, just think of what Damon just did and it will make everything better instantly.

Now Who Is Gay???

When your gay your gay…

2010 LSU Tigers

North Carolina is the opener in Atlanta and I like the Tigers in this game.  Starting the season off 1-0

Vandy in Nashville is next.  This is probably a good game to fall back on after such a big opener in Atlanta.  Tigers go to 2-0

Mississippi State at home.  Last year Miss St threw 3 picks and lost a fumble and only got beat by 4 points.  I think State could make a statement in this game but I’m giving the edge to Baton Rouge at night.

West Virginia at home.  Coming off a nail bitter against Mississippi State – The Tigers play down to their competition again but squeak out another one moving their record to 4-0 and big time “over-rated” talks are starting.

Tigers take care of business against UT at home going to 5-0

Then Florida, in the Swamp, hands them their first loss of the season dropping them to 5-1

McNeese St 6-1

Auburn in Jordan-Hare Stadium.  Auburn will be coming off a loss to Arkansas and LSU will still have their heads held low from the loss in Gainesville.  Auburn wins at home moving LSU to 6-2

Then LSU will have an off week.  What better time to have a bye.  Coming in 1-2 of your last 3 games with the defending National Champs coming into your house with your old Head Coach…  LSU upsets Bama at home moving to 7-2

UL-Monroe 8-2

Ole Miss at home.  Last years embarassing ending will be replaced with a home win.  9-2

Arkansas in Little Rock.  Les Miles is in this game towards the end and just does something stupid to cost them the game and the Tigers finish 9-3.

PROGNOSTICATING and Friday notes

Since we all are so very good at predicting the future – I thought we would go through some of the schedules and not just throw out a win/loss record for a handful of teams but actually which teams win what games.  This should take a while and I’m sure that we will not be agreeing much but I would like for people to argue their reasons. 

Teams: SEC - LSU, Arkansas, Bama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina.  ACC – Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech

Reese, I understand that you are the minority on the this blog with your ACC affiliations so let me know if you would like us to dive into any other teams in your weak ass conference. 

The point of this is to see where everyone stands on each team.  This is not to get personal and just bash other teams (Starrett and Culpepper I am talking to you here) – I know that I always go into the season with high hopes and its nice (sometimes) to hear where other people stand.  Also, this will be able to give us a better understanding of other teams.  While I enjoy reading Pre-Season magazines, its totally different to hear it from a fans perspective. 

So Monday we will get into LSU. 

Also, Couple of things we hadn’t talked about any.  Vince Young slappin a bitch, Where is Labron going, Steven Strasburgh (spelling) is ridiculous, and The US Open. 

Vince Young is a Moron.  I don’t have a problem with looking at naked women for entertainment but if you are a multi millionaire couldn’t get your own your private show?  This is not who I would want running my football team.  He isn’t a stupid a Big Ben, or maybe he just hadn’t gotten caught as many times. 

Labron.  I think he is going to New York.  I think he is going to buy stock in Madison Square Gardens before he signs, I think he wants his brand to go global and their is no better city in the States to go Global than New York, and I think he knows that this will buy him some time on winning a championship. 

Steven.  If you guys have not watched this kid pitch you need too.  I’m talking the sports center highlights either.  Watch a game, its sick.

US Open.  I didn’t get a chance to watch the final day but I watch a large part of the first 3 days.  I was kind of pulling for Dustin Johnson just because he is from South Carolina but I was enjoying seeing Tiger starting to make a come back.  I didn’t care for the guy who won it.  And I also would like to say if you wear a white belt while playing golf I hope their is an asshole like me in the woods with a horn.  

Wimbledon Marathon

I'm sure you all saw the fifth set marathon between former UGA player John Isner vs Mahut at Wimbledon yesterday. I watched a good portion of this match and it was insane. Neither player could break serve and the match was halted at 59-59 in the fifth set due to darkness. The fifth set alone set a record for the longest match in ATP history. Sad thing is that the winner of this match is likely to get swept off the court in their 2nd round match due to fatigue alone. Hopefully Isner can take the Frenchman out and advance. He has the game to be dangerous at Wimbledon. He's around 6'-8" and can murder a serve. Here's to hoping the American wins and digs deep for some energy in the second round.

Hump Day… except at my house

SCORE!!! was what every single person today heard, read, or said.  I guess the US scored on a late goal to advance them into the round of 16 in the World Cup…  I’m sorry to say but I have not watched much World Cup… as in I have watched about 3 minutes and that is it.  Maybe I will get a little more excited about next week but I just don’t give a shit about it.

Quick fishing story from last weekend.  We were staying down at Boca Grande Fl (an island) and there was a really nice golf course.  We were pulling back into the docks around noonish and saw where we were going to be pulling right by a threesome teeing off.  When I say “right by” I mean literally with in 25 yards of these guys.  I then noticed that the boat had a small horn on it and right when we were riding by one of the guys was in the middle of his back swing and I yelled “HEY!!!” and blew the horn..  He was fucking pissed and I was laughing out loud which made him even more mad. 

I feel like total shit today.  I had strep throat last Thursday and I took some left over Antibiotics and got better for the weekend.  I then stopped taking them when I started feeling better and now I’m feeling the same way.  So back on the Antibiotics tonight.

I know the blog has been real shitty lately and we owe you, our readers, a better product.  We, as in you sorry pieces of shit that are supposed to be authors, need to step our game up and get this thing rolling strong going into football season.  So get off your asses and lets start some shit up.

Start doing research…  Will not be long before we start prodicting records of certain teams like GA, Bama, AU, GT, UT, etc…  So have your shit ready because we will be able to come back to this at the end of the season and see how everyone did.

ArKansas to the Big XII??

http://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1095242

This is not suprising given Arkansas' past with the SWC, but would the money be there for them to actually leave te SEC? If they do, you know the Big XII will add another team, but who? Also, what does this do to the SEC? Who do they add? I'm off to get my pump on, so I'll return in the morning with my thoughts on this scenario. Outtie 5000 Leroys.

Dont underestimate the power of “rough talkin”

Mid Week Bull

2 people were arrested for sending over 30 women dressed in orange dresses to advertise for a beer company at the World Cup…  I’m sure I do not have the story correct but I needed a reason to put this picture on the blog..

LAKERS CELTICS game 7 tomorrow night..  who it is?  who it is?  Lakers are laying 7 points at the moment and I’m thinking its a double digit win.  How many times do we go into a game 7 with such high expectations and then get let down with a blow out?  I see this one the same way. 

I will be going Tarpon fishing this weekend and look to have a good time.  I am going to try my best (If I’m not just completely shit faced) to do a “mobile post” – the down side of this is that I will not have spell check so I will appear to be in even worse shape than really am, but I think it is worth the try.  So if you see some crazy shit on here over the next couple of days then that is why.

If any of you have ipods or mp3 players I plan on doing a very good post on the very best way to get music off the net for free and be able to put it on your ipod.  I showed this to Culpepper and he has not been the same since.  So stay tuned for that.

Authors of the blog need to step it up.  This blog is titled “SOUTHERN FRIED” – it is not MY blog it is OUR blog so step it up bitches.   Its not very hard to put some thoughts together and post them.  What are you scared of?  sounding stupid?  well I would hope that my dumbass takes that fear away.  So lets go. 

Tuesday’s gone with the wind

SEC From 1991 – 1996 Florida won the SEC 5 of 6 years.  Since then only Tennessee has won it back to back.  Well here recently it feels like the conference is very lop sided.  Chris Low writes on his ESPN blog this morning about how Florida and Alabama have only 3 loses in the last 2 years combined and 2 of 3 are to each other.  Is the SEC that Top Heavy or is this the year we have somebody sneak up?

CONFERENCES Well it appears that the Big 12 is just so happy that they are still going to be a conference that they will pay Texas anything they want.  They also said the hell with the conference championship game.  I guess since the Nebraska is gone from the north its probably not that bad of an idea..  I just thought the point of this whole deal was to get conferences to where they have a conference championship game…  so why doesn’t the Big 12 pick up Utah and TCU so they will stop bitching so much?

WORLD CUP I’m trying..  I really am.  But this shit is tough to watch.  and those God Damn horns are killing me – with that said, I think it’s ridiculous to ban them.  This isn’t our country and it’s not our sport – so shut up about the horns.  If you have tried to watch a game and struggled then I would suggest listening to it on ESPN radio.  The announcers tell you what is going on and when I’m watching it I don’t have clue. 

BRAVES the braves have a big game tonight against the Rays.  Believe it or not this could actually be the teams playing in the World Series this year. 

CELTICS LAKERS I picked the Lakers in 7 from the start and I’m sticking with it.  I think the Celtics legs will eventually go out from under them and Kobe (THE BEST PLAYER IN BASKETBALL) will come up big and win again.

“I guarantee it”

Pully, this is Dana White saying that he Guarantees that this was the iceman’s last fight..  I was with you in wanting a Ortiz fight to finish it off but Dana sounds pretty convinced that this is it for Chuck.. 

UFC 115

Did anyone see this over the weekend? I saw some of the replays and I hope that Chuck "Iceman" Liddell retires after this last fight. The rewind button was just about wore out after trying to really see the punch that ended it for him. I didn't see much, but that really doesn't matter. To me it seems that the Iceman really made this sport mainstream popular and to see him getting his ass whooped like this is just sad. I actually read his biography and was shocked to learn that he is a pretty smart guy. I just hope he is smart enough to give it up before he has to resort to color by number coloring books.

New Look!

My job with this blog is not just to provide you with GREAT shit to read and watch, but also to entertain you with pretty good arguments amongst our group of authors and to also have a blog that is very attractive.  So I am toying around with some settings, layouts, backgrounds, etc…  As always your opinion matters, so please feel free to shoot a comment over saying what you like and what you don’t.  keep in mind, i am trying to achieve a blog that looks as ligitament as possible. 

Can't not watch this if you are a football fan

If any readers of this blog is a true football fan, you can't miss this clip. Unbelievable analysis on the upcoming season. EPIC!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0&feature=related

Conference Wonderland

Nebraska is in the Big 10. Now if they go after Mizzo - then that leaves the Big 12 as the Big 10 and the Big 10 as the Big 12…  Then if the Pac 10 gets Colorado, which it also has apparently done, and then goes after Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas Tech, and Texas A&M then the Pac 10 will be the Pac-16.  Then the Big 10, or now the Big 12, will go after 4 other schools.  Probably ND and 3 others, prolly from the Big East.  Then you will have the SEC not wanting to be left out so they will go after several schools like GT, FSU, Miami, and Clemson.  Then you will have a weak ACC and Big East so they combine and you get the Pac 16, the SEC16, the Big 16, and the BigAtlantic16.. 

This is all because of the Big 10 network.  That’s it.  No other reason.  The Big 10 gets something like 7 or 8 cents per subscriber of the Big 10 network in states with out a Big 10 school BUT in states with a Big 10 school they get something like 48 cents per subscriber.   Now all the other conferences are seeing just how much money can be made from these TV networks. 

2 new channels to come very soon…  The SEC network and the PAC network. 

What will this change?  Probably not as much as some think.  All the playoff people will be kind of happy because they will probably get some kind of playoff now but the BCS haters should probably get a little scared.  If you think the BCS is powerful now… just wait till they are over 4 super conferences. 

Bros Icing Bros

Have you guys seen the new drinking game sweeping college campuses and America in general. Bros Icing Bros has got to be one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. Here is a link to the website that explains the game www.brosicingbros.com . You can also go to youtube and search bros icing bros for some funny videos of this.

Monday Monday

Well I’m not 22 anymore.  I just can’t do it like I used to.  3 days of rockin and rollin will put a hurtin on a fella in my condition.  Last night I thought I was having a heart attack.  I really did.  I asked Traci to keep an eye on me because I was having chest pains.  “Why do you think you are having chest pains Joe,” she asked.  “well Traci,  Over the last 4 days I have drank an enough alcohol to kill a small country and smoked enough cigarettes to give a monkey lung cancer.  I also have eating nothing but BBQ pork and so much of it I almost vomited several times afterward”  I answered.  So yesterday I just hung out, relaxed and watched the race while dozing in and out…  I didn’t have a heartache but I did take a really good nap and had a really really cool dream.  I dreamed that I had media credentials and I could get in these things as a member of the media and take pictures and do interviews.  So I started looking into what it takes to get “credentials” and I found out that it doesn’t take much at all.  Really, it doesn’t.  At least that is what it said when I googled it. 

So here is my plan.  I have contacted Troy Cable, where my commercials run, and talked to them about if they had coming up anytime soon that I could be apart of.  They said that they had a Blue Grass festival coming up that they wouldn’t mind me doing some interviews for them , so I said GREAT!!!  Then I contacted the local newspaper and spoke with the editor about taking some pictures at a high school sporting event for him and he said sure.  So here is what I’m thinking.  I plan on getting in to some events as a media person, making some contacts and getting a feel for how things go.  Then I will attempt to make a jump at bigger things like college football games and concerts.  This will be a process people so don’t expect over night success.  I will not be asking questions at this years super bowl but I will be doing some things that I’m sure will bring you some reading enjoyment. 

Lakers/Celtics.  Lakers win game 1, Celtics win game 2.  I still like the Lakers in 7. 

Braves.  Split with the Dodgers and will continue a pretty long road trip out west.  If we back from the west coast still up on the Phillies we several home games scheduled we could be looking even better than we are right now.

Conference Expansion.  Enough already.  Since their are no decent news stories going on right now we see a head line that says some thing about expansion.  after reading it we realize we didn’t learn anything we didn’t already know.  So stop talking about the shit until something good comes along.

Season Finale of Justified coming on tomorrow.  If for some reason reason you have not watched it yet, just go get season 1 when it comes out.  Dont start our on the season’s last episode.  And after this then what are we to watch?  Really, what?  Someone please let me in on what I can watch on TV this summer if I want to take a break from the Bravos. 

Hump Day – so lets hump.

Next week is the Season Finale and I am excited for the show but hate the fact that its over.  Things seem to be getting very crazy..  You got Ava Crowder (Bowman’s widow – Ava killed him) catching Raylan banging his ex-wife (not bad sex scene for cable tv either), Bo Crowder (Bowman’s father) just inked a deal with some guys from Miami to ship a shit load of drugs his way for him to make a ton of meth in his new warehouse he just bought but Boyd Crowder, Bo’s son and Bowman’s brother, blew the truck up for God.   And that was just last night.  Great First Season.  If you have not watched this show then do yourself a favor and get the First Season when it comes out.  (Mike Stuckey Agrees) You will probably be able to get it on Netflix pretty soon. 

About Netflix – has anyone gotten a WII and hooked up with Netflix on-line for $9 a month?  I have spoken to several people about this and everyone has said that it is the shit.  You can download movies and TV shows straight to your TV.   I will be trying this in the near the Future.

Lakers Celtics – WOW!!  OK, lets get over the fact that D Howard, Lebron James, and Steve Nash will all be watching the finals instead of us watching them.  Could we really ask for a better Finals?  Really?  I say this with me being the one that wanted to see Nash win one more than anybody on the court but when its all said and done don’t we really want to see the best play the best?  It’s not a coincidence that these two teams make up over half the championships in the NBA.  I am really happy about this match up and think that its going to be a knock down drag out of a series.  Prediction: Lakers in 7 with at least 1 of the games going into overtime. 

Well Bamajam is finally here – Brad Parham will be arriving tonight and Elliot Poole will be arriving tomorrow – both bringing their wives.  We should have a really really good time. Videos, pictures, and stories to come.

Phil Steele is full-o-shit!!

I was watching CFB live the other day and they were asking him about why he has OU #1 and this and that. They also asked him to pick a "Sleeper" team. He said he'd have to go with the Dawgs to win the east and possibly run the table. Can this happen or is this just him trying to sell a magazine to the masses? He doesn't even have my jackets in his top 25. What a douche. I say this to Phil Steele......."When the leaves start turning, the option starts churning biaaatch". On a side note, my brother ran into CMR at a local grocery store here in Hartwell (Bell's) over the weekend. He was trying to pick up a cashier. Nice work Richt.