Random Thoughts

Well finally somebody has stepped forward and called Plaxico Burress and the Giants to the carpet for gun gate.   It turns out that apparently Mayor Bloomberg isn’t a big fan of dudes carrying unlicensed and loaded firearms into clubs in his city.  Something that neither the league nor the Giants seem to have a huge problem with.   So here is today’s hypothetical question of the day.  What if this was Randy Moss who shot himself in the leg at a club and then Richard Seymour helped cover it up?  What would the repercussions be from the NFL?    So far the league has done nothing to the Giants.  In fact they’ll probably vote Antonio Pierce the NFL defensive player of the week just to show there are no hard feelings for being an accessory to this crime.   But here is what I’m thinking they’d do if this was us.

1. Fine Bill Belichick 1 million dollars
2. Strip the Pats of their 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd round draft picks for the next two years.
3. Suspend both Moss and Seymour indefinitely
4. Strip the Patriots of all 3 Superbowl Victories
5. Review Game Tape from the past decade to see if their were any guns on the sidelines

That’s just what I’m thinking off the top of my head, but I'm sure I'm missing quite a few things.

NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine -- A New Gloucester man is in jail on accusations of leading police on a short car chase.  Police said they tried to pull Russell over in New Gloucester, but he did not stop until entering the neighboring city of Auburn.  Police said Russell told them he took off because he did not think a Cumberland County sheriff's deputy could arrest him if he crossed into Androscoggin County.

You know as much as I want to make fun of this guy for being an idiot, I’m not sure I wouldn’t have done the same thing.   I mean who knows what the rules are in Maine?   Half the time I’m not even sure it’s considered part of the United States.  It’s kind of like Nahant in that regard.   So you might as well roll the dice and see what happens.

Nicholas Cage’s son can cut the shit with this whole gothic routine.   Dude you’re just a little rich kid with a famous father and a hot ass mother.   Deal with it.   Listen, you want me to believe you’re dark and mysterious?  OD or kill somebody.  Until then stop dressing like The Crow and just be happy that you don’t have to work for a living.    There is nothing I hate more in life than ungrateful, rich, spoiled goth kids.

Patriots.com- The NFL announced today that the New England Patriots will play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, October 25 at Wembley Stadium in London as NFL's International Series of regular-season games. The NFL's International Series of regular-season games will return to the United Kingdom in 2009 when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers host the New England Patriots, the NFL announced today. The game will be played on Sunday, October 25 at Wembley Stadium in London with kickoff set for 1:00 p.m. ET on CBS. 

So for your 2008 New England Patriots, the hits keep right on coming. From Randy Moss' fake assault charge to the fake Spygate report to the in-the-grasp non-call in the Super Bowl to the fake Spygate hearings to the loss of a 1st round draft pick to Bernard Pollard to Rodney Harrison, Laurence Maroney and Adalius Thomas to the unconscionable cheap shot on Wes Welker, this whole year has been one kick in the balls after another. Now the NFL is jumping on the pile with news that next year the Pats are being forced to play in next year's Game No One Gives a Goddamned About Bowl.

Fantastic. It wasn't bad enough that NFL gave the Pats back-to-back West Coast games twice this year. Next year they've got them flying off to Old Blighty to play in a decrepit soccer stadium in front of a bunch of unruly, drunken, violent hooligans who don't know Tom Brady from Thomas the Tank Engine. On a playing surface that's a torn MCL waiting to happen. We'll be lucky if the team makes it off that godforsaken rock alive. Not to mention what that trip does to a team once they start playing normal games again. The league gives them the bye week when they get back but it takes more time than that to recover. New Orleans first game back from England they got demolished by Atlanta and San Diego barely squeaked past an awful Kansas City team. So don't let the happy talk from Bob Kraft fool you. This is a screw job. No one wants this game, not the least of all the British. Hey, Roger Goodell if you want to make money in England, buy a soccer franchise. But leave the Pats out of it.

That’s right boys and girls.   Barstool trivia night at Game On! is back starting this Wednesday Night!  So come support the Stool, have some fun and get your ass kicked by team Barstool.   Seriously it’s the only trivia night in America where you can win money and Barstool t-shirts.  What can be better than that?  Plus the winner each week qualifies for the tournament of champions.    Hopefully we will see everybody there this Wednesday at 8pm for the opening week.    And not to make idle threats, but if we don’t have big crowd I may shut the blog down on Thursday.   So do your part and show up and have some fucking fun would you?

PS – I will take straight prop bets on any team that thinks they can beat my team.  You beat us you get free shirts.  You lose, you buy em. (shipping and handling included)

Is this even real?   I mean MMA Arm Wrestling?  Seriously who comes up with this shit?   And more importantly if you're going to do it, do it right. How do you not have the loser fall into a pool of sharks after it is over?  That just seems like common sense really.  

PS - Bull Hurley would own this shit.

The fact that Wes Welker got up from this hit and walked to the sidelines under his own power places him among the toughest badasses in Boston sports history. A hit like this would've knocked Terry Glenn out of the lineup for three years.

Remember this next July when JD Drew is on the 15-Day DL with a strained oblique.

EDIT: Vince Wilfork was just on WEEI and said that Belichick showed the team tape of Clark laying guys out like this over and over again, but only when they were defenseless. And then when he's head up on a guy, he'll turtle or go after their legs. So add Ryan Clark to the Pats 2009 Payback List, right after Bernard Pollard.

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(The Bothell Little Cougars Cheerleading squad with their clothes on.)

BOTHELL, Wash. -- A nude photograph of two local high school cheerleaders that prompted their suspension from their after-school activity is now at the center of a lawsuit against school officials and the Northshore School District. Bothell High School suspended the two girls from the cheer squad for the rest of the year as punishment for the nude photo. In response, the girls' parents have filed two separate lawsuits over the school's handling of the situation. One of the mothers... said the photos were the result of a teenage prank. She said her daughter and a friend took nude photos of each other with their cell phones in one of their homes over the summer, then sent one of them to one of the girls' boyfriend. "I was like, 'what were you thinking?' She (my daughter) goes, ' I wasn't; we just were fooling around. I took a picture, I erased it immediately. I wasn't thinking,'" Kathy said... That lone photo, the girls claim, was sent to the entire football team without their knowledge... Officials told the football coach to advise his players to delete the photo, the documents said. The players were not punished in any way... Furthermore, the parents claim school officials shared the photo - a form of child pornography - among each other without permission.

I don't have any daughters. That's one card cruel Fate didn't slip into the hand it dealt me. But if there's one thing I've learned from stories like this is that parents can tolerate anything in their children other than finding out their daughter is a slut. A kid can be dumb, lazy, unathletic, nerdy, goth... and their parents will own up to it. But if their daughter is a hoebag who takes naked pictures of her underage self and texts them around, it's time to circle the wagons, call the lawyer and above all, blame everyone else. I mean, how strong does your denial instinct have to be to say "Well she erased the picture as soon as she sent it, so that should've ended it right there." Do the parents honestly think their precious little snowflake didn't know that picture would be all over school? That inside a half hour it was being seen by more people than a Super Bowl ad? Sure. So go ahead, blame the school. Suggest the football players should be punished for answering their phones. Call the administrators child pornographers. Just don't admit you've raised a skank.

At the time I was obviously happy that Santanio Holmes dropped this pass. But in hindsight I'm kind of sad because it ruined what up to that point had to be the worst man to man coverage in the history of the NFL. Honestly how do you completely whiff on jamming somebody at the line of scrimmage like this? I mean Deltha O'Neil didn't even get a finger nail on him. Seriously if there was ever a time to fake a major injury this was it. Instead Deltha added injury to insult by chasing Holmes around the field like an idiot for the rest of the play. Dude, give it up. It's over. You're embarrassing yourself. But it was all for not when Holmes dropped the ball. The good news is that at least O'Neil didn't celebrate after it was over. At least I don't think he did.

Desmoinesregister - A Carroll woman who was caught having sex in the men's room at an Iowa Hawkeye football game in Minneapolis last weekend says she’d had so much wine before kickoff that she doesn’t remember walking into the restroom, the man she had sex with in a stall, or when the police opened the door. What Lois Feldman, 38, will remember is the humiliation afterward.
“It’s ruined my life,” she said through tears today. “Not just the incident but the press.” She was fired this morning from an assisted living center, where she had been an administrator. Feldman said her husband, Kelly, has been supportive. She said he faults himself for not going with her when she left her seat to use the restroom before halftime. “I don’t know what happened,” Lois Feldman said.  Feldman said she’d never met Walsh. “I don’t know who this man is,” she said today. “I just found out his name in the paper last night.

I am absolutely shocked and appalled at the way the media is treating Lois Feldman in this case.  Like she is some sort of petty criminal or something. Listen the husband already admitted that this whole fiasco was his fault.   I mean like a total idiot he let her go to the bathroom alone.    By doing that he was basically ordering her to fuck a complete stranger.  He knows it.  She knows it.  Everybody knows it.  So why are we acting like Mrs. Feldman is to blame?  Seriously is this the message that we want to send to the young girls of this country?  That suddenly we frown upon bitches getting blackout drunk and banging strangers in handicapped bathrooms?   She was given an opportunity to get wild and she took it.  And when you really think about it, isn’t that what America is all about?    So if you want to blame anybody, blame the husband for not keeping an eye on his property in the first place.

Things to consider while wondering how Missy Peregrym congratulated Ben Roethlisberger on the big win:

*No matter what happens the rest of the way, the 2008 Patriots season will always be remembered as "The Year of Matt Cassel at Quarterback." Which is good news for the secondary because the runner up choice would be "The Year of Three Defensive Backs Staring at Each Other After Another Wide Open 3rd Down Conversion".

*For all the things Pilolichick do well, their true genius, like it is with Theo Epstein, comes from knowing when to re-sign one of their veterans and when to cut ties. Look it up. They've never moved on from a guy that went somewhere else and made them regret it. They've all either done nothing (David Patten), done just OK (Deion Branch), or been adequately replaced for much less money (Adam Vinatieri). Until now. Asante Samuel would've been worth every penny.

*The only guy in America this week who got burned worse than Deltha O'Neal was Ronnie Gardocki.

*This is one week where the Gillette crowd gets a free pass from me. As hard as I've been on them, anyone who sat out in those elements and endured that dog's breakfast of a performance without capturing the Minutemen's cache of weapons and taking hostages deserves to be commended. If I had been there, there'd be pieces of Pat Patriot in Bob Kraft's mail tomorrow with a note demanding my money back. I kept hoping Belichick would have the players grab the propane heaters and heated benches and carry them up into the stands.

*Halfway through the 3rd quarter, Matt Light appealed the commissioner's ruling and asked to start his suspension immediately.

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