The Next Bear Bryant?

Urban Meyer is a great coach but to hear an ignorant Florida fan call him the next Bear Bryant is ridiculous. I guess that gator fan doesn't have a clue as to what Bryant accomplished over his career. This man gave Kentucky their first bowl win, their first sec championship, their first co-national championship, and went on to beat #1 ranked oklahoma. He then went to texas a&m and won the southwest conference championship, had his first heisman trophy winner in John David Crow and finished with an overall record of 25-14-2. Then he came to the university of alabama and won the national championship in his second season. In 25 seasons he won 6 national championships and 13 sec championships. This man retired tied for most wins by a college coach. Now Meyer has had an impressive resume but let's be realistic. He has had a heisman winner and runner up at the quarterback position for both of his national championships. Not to mention he has been successful during the down years of both Miami and Florida state who were both national championship contenders year in and year out when Spurrier was there and Spurrier still won a national title. He led Utah to an undefeated season with wins over teams like utah state, air force, new mexico, north carolina, san diego state, and unlv just to name a few. Pittsburgh was the only nationally ranked team they played and they were ranked 20th. Meyer could turn out to be one of the top 5 greatest football coaches of all time but to say that he is even close to the same level as Paul Bear Bryant is just some cocky fan who wants to ruffle the feathers of some alabama fans. It's a ridiculous statement and I hope for the sake of the entire florida fan base that there's not many people who agree with him.

Favre? Really?

I do believe that I could really go my entire life without hearing about Brett Favre not being able to make his mind up about playing football for someone. It's easy to feel like you still got it when you're tossing bombs to high school kids in your cargo shorts but don't be fooled, he's old and he shows it half way through the season, just ask the jets. Not only that but didn't Thomas Jones say Favre cost them some games? That's a lot coming from your star running back. Don't get me wrong, he's a hall of famer with the great numbers and a super bowl ring in two appearances but give us a break Brett. You held the Packers hostage for so many years, kept Arron Rogers from becoming the starter for those many years and influenced every draft move the packers made while you couldn't make your mind up. Finally you say you're retiring then change your mind and the Favre vs. the Pack soap opera ensues. Just retire already. Enough is enough. Do the vikings really need him so bad that they would give him 10 million bucks to play for a year? Tom Brady makes 10 million a year and he's won multiple superbowls and had an undefeated season, arguably the best quarterback of all time...arguably. Brad Childress, listen to me...Brett Favre is too old to lead your young team to a super bowl and why would you want to mix all that young talent up with some old veteran who's not gonna be there next year? Instill some stability. Sign a talented free agent or even better you could sign Mike Vick. I know, Vick has never been a great passing quarterback and never put up unbelievable numbers from inside the pocket but you have to understand that he won't have to in Minnesota. There is Adrian Peterson to take care of the need to go deep. Can you imagine if Reggie Bush would have been drafted by the Falcons when Vick was there? This would be similar. Take the most explosive and possibly versatile back in the league and give him a quarterback who can run a 4.3 and may be more elusive than him and see what happens. Not only would the options be enormous out of the backfield but think of the recievers it would free up. With two guys that can beat an entire defense by themselves at the two most vital positions on the offense you would have secondaries not knowing what to do with themselves. Maybe i'm looking past some of Vick's flaws and thinking he would fit in great but maybe he would. I'm just saying I think they would be better off with a younger, more athletic, more explosive guy who's not going to hold your team hostage at the end of the year. Plus I'm sure he'll take the job for less than 10 million a year. A lot less.

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Beckham Mistake

David beckham invites a fan down on the field to fight and when the fan climbs over the rail he gets a lifetime ban from the stadium. Nothing is done to Beckham but that fan can never come to another game. This guy has played for the galaxy and never really did a good job or acted like he wanted to be there. He leaves the team on loan to play for Milan then when it's time to come back to L.A. he doesn't want to play for them. I think the best thing he could do is take some of his huge salary and start his own little league with his own hand picked players that he gets along with and open the games to only family and friends. Maybe no tv station would pick that up and he could just kinda fade away. That'd be good. I mean he was only signed to the galaxy to try to bring the MLS into the sports picture in this country and it's only pissed off fans and gotten one of them banned for life.


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Mortgages For Dummies (by dummies)

Does anyone read the New York Times? Does anyone take mortgage advice from the articles in that paper? Well if you do then you might want to switch to a new paper. Thanks to the Colbert Report I now know who Edmund L. Andrews is. He is a journalist for the Times who specializes in mortgage advice and he is in HUGE debt! Turns out he signed for a $400,000 house that he couldn't afford. He then goes as far as to say that love had a lot to do with it and that he was so caught up in starting a new life with his wife and getting that perfect house to start that life in that money wasn't an obstacle for him. He says it was too easy for him to get that loan and that he couldn't have gotten a lot more. His broker told him not to settle for $400k because he could afford it. Maybe his broker should write an article in the Times on how to trick some idiot into getting a huge loan he can't afford so you can make money off of him. I might subscribe to that. I mean I thought this guy wrote advise on mortgages for people so they WOULDN'T get into this kind of situation? I mean should people not rely on the stock tips because there's a good chance they are written by a guy who's really lost tons of money in the market? Dude, learn how not to get into a variable rate mortgage with a payment that you can only afford if nothing bad EVER happens in the market. I think when I'm done writing this I'm gonna forward my made up resume to the New York Times and see if they'll hire me to write advice articles on how to land a space ship with your eyes closed and one hand behind your back...it's not like they'll check my sources.

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A Second job

I think the day may have come when I need a second job. I hate to even consider that but there's no other options I can find at this point. It is truly torture when you get paid and all but maybe $150 is spent on the crap you found a way to get yourself into. Now I'm not bad with money. There have been a few I'll fated mistakes recently that have cost me a whole bunch of money in a really little time period. Plus things just cost more now and our wonderful government isn't doing a thing to help that. Why does it cost $60 to fill up my truck? When did $100 a month for a cell phone become "not so bad"? (I do love my phone though). Why do the jeans that aren't even made by the fashionable company cost almost $50? Things are getting out of hand and I can't find the frivolity in me to take a slip on that department store floor with no sign that says slippery when wet and "accidentally" fall and hurt myself. Big court payouts over people not having common sense is a level I just can't go to. Maybe just maybe one day the right person is gonna find my resume in that stack of papers that hasn't moved in months and think "now here is someone who needs a shot". Till then it's working everyday and slowly but surely inching my way along the race that is life. But on the other hand...it could be worse!

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Brock "No Class" Lesnar

After watching UFC 100 last night and having some time to think about the way the main event turned out, I have to say that Brock Lesnar has no sense. He won the fight, dominated Frank Mir, with no problem. It's what he did after he won that wasn't so cool. Not only did he get back in Mir's face while he was on the stool getting looked at but he laughs at him then makes an idiot out of himself when talking to joe. He says he's drinking Coors Light tonight because Bud Light doesn't pay him anything, while pointing at the Bud Light logo in the middle of the octagon. He talks about having sex with his wife and gives the fans the bird when he gets booed. Would someone please tell Brock that he's not in the WWE anymore? If we wanted to see some stupid scripted story line drama then we would order wrestlemania. We want to see good fights and good sportsmanship. I'm looking forward to the day that Brock Lesnar gets knocked out. I think I would enjoy that more than seeing Kimbo go down in the first round against Seth Petruzelli again. Moral of the story is: Don't disrespect the fans who pay money to watch you fight, they are the reason you are there. Don't disrespect the main sponsor of the event. They too are the reason you're there. Don't disrespect the other fighters after the fight especially when you win because you will turn into someone that no one wants to deal with on any level. I know Dana White scolded him for how he acted but he never should have done it in the first place. i hope if this happens again that Dana will take some pretty drastic measures to get his point across. Learn some sportsmanship...you are NOT bigger than the sport.

Hollywood's Going Green

Is it just me or could Hollywood be any more obvious with their not so subliminal messages about saving the environment? In the last three or four years the "end of the world" type movies have really gotten a lot of attention. Last night I saw "Knowing" with Nicholas Cage and it wasn't until the end that it hit me...Humans are destroying the earth and god is going to just burn it all up and start over blah blah blah. Now I have no problem with people buying better light bulbs or recycling or even driving those little toy cars that get 1848293 miles per gallon if that's what they want to do. What I don't agree with is when people do it because they think that if they don't then we will all be dead from some huge disaster caused by global warming in the next 50 years. Could Hollywood be more proactive about this? Knowing, The Happening, The Day The Earth Stood Still, I Am Legend. These are all movies that have been released in the last few years and have been geared at either "stop harming the planet" or "the end of the world is coming". I just wish some director would find some originality somewhere way down deep and use it to make a good movie that they think people will enjoy with no little hidden messages or agenda. Wouldn't that be great?

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The Dreaded Typing Test

I just got out of my first official typing test since high school and I must say that I cannot remember a time when I was more nervous. I don't know why. As soon as the clock started I was petrified. There was such a sense of urgency that I had to do well that I couldn't concentrate on the paper from which I was reading. If I don't score as well as I want maybe something terrible will happen. It was like I was being judged by some super powerful committee and the results were as important as life or death. My hands were shaking so much I couldn't tell if I was even pressing the keys in all the way. Maybe it was the fact that you must wait 30 days before you can take it again. Those 30 days would seem like an eternity and I just have to do well now. I was putting pressure on myself like never before. What if I don't get the good job because of my average score? What if the instructor reads my results and looks up at me over his glasses and gives me the "maybe next time sport" line that every person dreads? I can't live with that. I will say that I did not get the score I was hoping for but I wasn't far from it. And luckily I got no words of disappointment disguised as encouragement from anyone on the way out. I will be back in 30 days to take it again and hopefully I won't have to place my hands in my pockets on the way in to hide the shaking lol.

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UFC vs. Boxing

I love watching UFC and we always have a big thing for the pay per views but sometimes the inevitable question comes up...is it better than boxing? I would have to say it depends on what your definition of better is. There's no arguing that mma is more physical than boxing. You use your entire body and all 4 limbs to strike with. Boxing limits you to throwing punches and nothing else. Boxing also gives you one "big" fight every blue moon. I use the word "big" to describe a fight between people that are popular to not only the boxing community but to the casual fighting fan. I think that if you lined up 20 of the most popular UFC stars and 20 of the most popular boxing stars (currently fighting, not retired) then more regular people would be able to name more UFC guys. Now UFC isn't giving someone a 30 million dollar payout for a main event fight like Floyd Mayweather demands but I do believe it gives you more quality fights on one card than a boxing pay per view. It's also hard to say which sport could do what the other sport does better. I mean if you put Chuck Lidell in a HBO special with Mayweather then I would have to give it to Mayweather but if things are reversed then I cannot pick any boxer over any UFC guy. Some people say "those UFC guys just lay on eachother or stay in one position on the gound for most of the fight". How many times during an average boxing match does the referee have to step in when a guy is tired and simply reaches out and pulls the other guy in and holds him for as long as he can to catch his breath? That is definitely not as acceptable as two mma fighters locking in a submission battle. Even though there isn't much movement they are still working. Popularity is the biggest thing that the UFC has on it's side. There's no arguing that a huge boxing pay per view is going to draw more viewers but the UFC is putting on more pay per views and drawing pretty impressive numbers. In August of 08 ufc.com had more than 800,000 total U.S. unique visitors. boxrec.com was the closest boxing site to that and it had about 100,000 unique visitors (according to compete.com). There's also no hiding that boxing has simply lost some of it's luster over the years. When the supposed best pound for pound fighter in the history of the sport starts making cameos and getting into fights in professional wrestling then you know something's wrong. The same professional wrestling that is losing some of it's best young talent to the mma ie: Brock Lesnar and Bobby Lashley. In this argument I just can't find a leg for boxing to stand on. Pay per view sales have declined, there are less world wide known boxers, boxing really isn't as appealing to the younger demographic, you don't get as many pay per view events per year. I do believe that boxing could have a huge resurgance if there was some young talent that came in and produced a new generation of famous boxers. Someone that the 18-25 year olds are going to be interested in.

...but honestly, what are the chances of that happening?

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Congress In The BCS

Congress has been urged to look into the Bowl Championship Series in college football. I am a huge college football fan and i know that the post season has it's flaws but those flaws may not be so easily fixed. There are a lot of people out there who would like a plus 1 system (4 team playoff). So many people think this would be great but it would rarely help the smaller teams that are left out of the national championship picture under the current system. All regular season games are done by the 13th week of the season then we go to the next few weeks of bowl games. If we were to implement a playoff we would have to do it after the 13th week. Since no one is complaining about the idiots that actually rank these teams without watching most of the games lets just use the same BCS rankings that we use now. The top 4 teams would be chosen to be in this playoff. Would this be better for these smaller programs? The answer is no. The top 4 teams at the end of week 13 were 1.Alabama, 2.Texas, 3.Oklahoma, and 4.Florida. Utah was ranked 6th at the end of the season which would have kept them as well as any other undefeated non BCS team out of a playoff. No no...what we need isn't to have congress snooping around to make sure the current system is breaking any anti-trust laws (which it isn't, it was written by a group of anti-trust lawyers and has been challenged and reviewed many times). What we need is some sort of committee that actually cares about college football and pays attention to the games that are played. We need people who will rank games after they have watched them all! The guys we have doing this now put teams like USC and Ohio St. up in the top teams even after embarrassing losses just because they are household names and they are just "better" than the lesser team they lost to. Let's not forget the incredibly easy schedules that these teams have that pave the way for them to be 1 or no loss teams at the end of the year. I say if Orrin Hatch wants to look good for his constituants in Utah then he should look into and seek change of the people doing the ranking and not the computer rankings or eligibility of bowl confrences. The computer rankings are only one third of the final product.

By the way...is there anyone alive who thinks that Utah would have beaten Florida? I mean lets be serious.

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Los Angeles Pays For Memorial

Now that the Michael Jackson memorial is over and the traffic is almost back to normal, can anyone tell me who paid for it? It was the city of Los Angeles. The same city that couldn't pay 1 million for a parade when their own lakers won their 4th NBA finals title. The city that's part of the near bankrupt state of California. This memorial cost more than 4 million and the family didn't pay for any of it. Even Michael payed for his own caskett. As expected the city has set up a website for people to make donations to help fund the memorial service but why should the city try to make regular people feel obligated to pay for this memorial? Isn't that the family's job? This thing did make the city money from the all the hotel revenues and eateries that were patronized by the hundreds of thousands of people that flew in to do nothing more than stand outside. Make those people pay to stand. Make all the celebrities who were there pitch in. I'm sure they could cover 4 mil no problem. All I know about donating to this is that I won't be doing it. I wonder where California super celebrities will have their future memorials after the state sells off all the historic and famous venues like the staples center because the state is losing money like never before. Just something they should plan for.

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Very first mobile post

I just started my account with blogger.com and installed this cool blog app to my iPhone so now I can pour my opinions and feelings out onto the unsuspecting world any time day or night. This is my first post and has absolutely nothing to do with anything but it's midnight and I'm on the phone so I thought I'd put something up.

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