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.

Idol

Well I guess this will be my last post about American Idol this year and I was trying to put into words how I felt when Lee was announced the winner and I personally felt that Crystal should have won…  I obviously wasn’t the only person that felt this way.

Hump Day

Idol – last night I think Crystal won American Idol.  I just believe that she has the best “talent”  - I am very happy to say that who ever is announced the winner tonight that it will not be an upset.   Lee is great and I’m just happy that after watching this season that I am guaranteed not to be disappointed who ever wins.  

Dancing with the Stars – Erin Andrews career on DWTS is officially over.  So I will no longer be watching. 

I don’t know if any of you people have been watching “Justified” on FX but it is my favorite show on TV right now.  It’s about a US Marshal in Kentucky named Raylan Givins and he is a bad ass.  I have not missed 1 minute of 1 show and it has become Traci and I’s TV show.  Soprano’s used to be our TV night together and no matter what was going on we watched the Soprano’s together and now we have Justified.  (i am not comparing the two – i’m just saying if your looking for a good show that your better half will also enjoy then its a good one.  I’m not sure if any show will ever even come close to the Sopranos)

It looks like the Suns are not going to just roll over and die.  I think that this screams just how important Steve Nash is.  When we have watched Labron and Howard just tuck their tales between their legs and run, its nice to see someone like Nash lead his team to back to back wins after being down 2-0.   I really hope that he can carry them to the finals and beat the Celtics.  We all know that a Championship ring separates the great players and I think he disserves one.

BP – I’ m kinda of sick of hearing everyone bash BP.  I may be in the minority here but shut up.  They are doing everything they can to resolve this problem and it makes me sick to hear people bitch and moan and then go get in their 15 MPG SUV.  I guess what I’m trying to say is that this Oil Spill bothers me a great deal.  But most of it is for selfish reasons so I just keep my mouth shut.  I heard someone the other day say how happy they were that the Spill is going to miss Destin.  I asked how they felt about it hitting the keys and isn’t that just as bad?  No response.  I fell so sorry for all of the people that this will have an impact on and pray that something like this will never happen again.  But to be very honest, praying is pretty much all I am going to do.  I will continue to drive a 4x4 F150 and a 4x4 Suburban that get horrible fuel economy and I have no plans of changing any of my habits to try and reduce the amount of oil this country is so dependent on.  Someone please tell me where I am wrong here.

June is going to be a HUGE month for me.  I have Bamajam coming up in just a week in a half and then just 2 weeks later I have the best fishing trip I have ever gone on in Boca Raton Fl.  We will be in the prime Tarpon run and will be catching some of the hardest fighting fish in the ocean.  While getting them to the boat you have 100’s of hammer head sharks trying to eat them.  I tell you, this should be very very fun.  

Here you go Reese, for memories sake...

Nice write up on Saint Richt!!

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/393799-georgias-ten-most-gut-wrenching-losses-under-mark-richt#page/1

Thursday

Ok, when I say these are the best 2 people on the show when their are 12 left… you should listen.  If you hadn’t watched Idol in two months but you read my post of who my Top 5 are then you already know who the final 2 are.  It’s tight right now.  If you are making your call based on recent performances then you like Lee but if you are basing it on the entire show then you are probably going with Crystal.  I’m starting to think that Crystal picked a little to early. Did she get her teeth fixed?  I am going to look at some old and new pictures but for some reason I thought her teeth looked a lot better than they used too. 

Looking like we are going to have a good old fashion Celtics Lakers Championship.  I love it.  I have to say that I picked the Magic to beat the Celtics because I said that their is no way the Old bastards could come back after fighting against the Cav’s but…  they fight.  With the Lakers being beat up as well, we should have a pretty damn good finals. 

J-Hey.  Come on man.  Are you just made for clutch hitting?  I sure wish we had some other players so we could get the chance to watch you get up in a game 7 9th inning. 

here are the videos that John posted -

American Idol

If Lee Dewyze doesn't win this competition, its a joke. I would buy that guys records right now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qDyjP3G0Mg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te42ioevqnI

Just sayin'

Reese is Slow

Reese cup wanted me to post 2 videos that, in his mind, are “Classics” – I tried my best to walk him through how to post videos but he is un able to learn…  so here are 2 videos from Reese Cup

Friday

On March 17th I picked my Top 5 Idol contestants and said this.. “Anyone other than these 5 people make it to the final 3 then i will never watch Idol again.”  You can go read it HERE – The 5 people I choose were #1 Crystal Bowersox; #2 Lee Dewyze; #5 Casey James.  I am happy to say that the final 3 were in my Top 5 2 months ago when their were 12.  I don’t think that is to shabby.

What I do think is very shabby is Lebron James.  I will call him King James when he has a ring.  For now he should be called lil Jimmy – The Celtics proved that a good team can beat a great player in a best of 7 series more times than not.  I am happy for KG, Paul P, Rajon Rhondo, and Rasheed Wallace (dont really care about big babby davis and dont know many of the others) – The next matchups are going to be NBA basketball at its best.  Now I can start watching.  Last night was the first game that I watched in its entirety all year.  I had caught a qt here or a half there but never bell to bell this year until last night.  ANd thats really par for the course for me with the NBA.  Conference finals is when I get involved enough to watch entire games or exception of an elimination game between 2 good teams like last night.  As for the Conf-Finals; who do we like?  Orlando vs. Boston and Phoenix vs. Lakers – I love me some Kobe and didn’t like what the “Los Suns” did with the their jerseys but I really want Nash to get a ring and this year may be his last real chance.  The other series I plan on watching the first couple of games and getting a feel for who I want to win.  I do like the Magic’s Head Coach Stan Van Gundy and it will be interesting to see a Doc Rivers, who I also like, go and try to beat the team who gave him his start in Professional coaching.  Should be good stuff.

A buddy, Adam Vinson, had this on his FB page yesterday and Culpepper and I both stole it and put it on ours so I thought I would share it with some of you that may have missed it.  I also shared it with Starrett yesterday. 

That guy is special

Top 25

This is the final draft – any disputes are arguments need to be brought up right now.

1) Bama

2) Ohio St

3) Boise St

4) Virginia Tech

5) Texas

6) Florida

7) Iowa

8) Nebraska

9) TCU

10) USC

11) Arkansas

12) Pitt

13) LSU

14) Oklahoma

15) Miami

16) Oregon

17) Wisconsin

18) UNC

19) UGA

20) Auburn

21) Georgia Tech

22) Washington

23) UCONN

24) Penn St

25) FSU

Just a little something for Pepper

2nd pic comment is "Neither am I"