Showdown Week

This week is a week for deadlines and high stakes negotiations, with a potential Federal Government shutdown and NFL lockout possible by Friday.

Like any good fight this one is over money. Lots of money.

Just for the record, I'm with Obama and the player's union on this stuff.

Fat Sunday

Well the Saints are champs and justice is served for NOLA. I'll have a bourbon to celebrate. I though Peyton was going to cry after that pick. I wouldn't have blamed him.

You know what I love about Bud Light commercials? They create this elaborate alternative universe where Bud Light is a magic substance so tasty that nothing will stop people from having it. In this, the really real world, I wouldn't cross the street for a chance to drink Bud Light. Do you know anyone who would?

UPDATE: A live cam from Bourbon Street. Woo. Party.

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Bet It Out

Get your Superbowl prop bets right here. How Many Times will CBS show Kim Kardashian on TV during the Game? (Over/under is 2 1/2) What color will be the gatorade bath be? (Yellow pays 2/1) How long will it take Carrie Underwood to sing the National Anthem? (Over/under is 1 min, 42 sec.)

That Will Improve Things

The Green Bay Packers are bringing in former White House Spokesliar Ari Fleischer to help out with public relations for the Brett Favre saga.

I'm sure he will be a big help. I mean if you need someone to say everything is going great while the building burns down around him, Ari is your guy.

Glory Days

Lost 49er Legend Bill Walsh today:

Bill Walsh, the imaginative and charismatic coach who took over a downtrodden 49ers team and built one of the greatest franchises in NFL history, died Monday morning at his home in Woodside at the age of 75, after a three-year struggle with leukemia.

A master of using short, precisely timed passes to control the ball in what became known as the West Coast offense, he guided the team to three Super Bowl championships and six NFC West division titles in his 10 years as head coach.

That West Coast Offence you here about all the time? That's his. Also:

He had a knack for spotting talent and then developing that talent to its fullest. His touch was particularly deft when it came to quarterbacks. He drafted Joe Montana in the third round in 1979 and acquired Steve Young, then a backup with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, in 1987 for second- and fourth-round draft choices. Both were elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Ready For Some Football?

Superbowl Pre-Game YouTube Show.

The Bears (1986 Vintage) doing the Superbowl Shuffle.



SNL "Da Bears"

Back to Work

And so ends the one day of the year when I care about college football.

I must say that this game was absolutely incredible. There is no reason on this earth for me to care about the outcome of Boise State and Oklahoma, but damn if they didn't make me care. Boise last touchdown was a WR option in overtime, then they went for two and got it. 22 scored in the last two minutes.

What a game. Amazing.

I now go back to not caring about college football.

My Head

Well, January 1 slipped by while I was in a coma, so its awfully nice of them to move all the New Years Day Stuff to the 2nd. This being the one day of the year I pay attention to college football. Although I do regret that the Poinsettia Bowl got past me.
Ah, the hollowed tradition of the Poinsettia Bowl, dating back all the way to December 22, 2005.

Ready For Some Football

So the NFL season has kicked off this weekend. The Niners looked rather strong coming out of the gate which would buck their recent trend of sucking to no end. I would take this opportunity to plug Tuesday Morning Quarterback. If you only read one thing about the weekend's NFL's games (And I do) make it TMQ. It talks about the game mainly from a stratagy and tactics point of view. The whole thing is done very funny. Easterbrook seems to have watched every game and has such recurring features as Tis Better to Have Rushed and Lost Than Never to Have Rushed At All, Cheerleader of the Week, Stop Me Before I Blitz Again and Obscure College Score of the Week. A sample:

Having reached the Dallas 7, San Diego had four downs, 47 seconds and one time out with which to attempt the winning touchdown. The Bolts threw three consecutive incompletions before Drew Brees forced one in there and got picked off. Why no rush? Considering the time out, they could have run at least once, maybe twice in a four-play span, crossing the Cowboys up. Dallas had a "dime" look on the field -- meaning lots of skinny guys who should be vulnerable to the rush. More, as TMQ endlessly points out, the closer you get to the goal line the less space there is to throw. Regular passes rarely work at the goal line, simply because the defense has so little territory to defend:. Power running, play action and rollouts are what work at the goal line. Yet San Diego coaches called four consecutive regular drop-back passes; they never even used the time out, which, presumably, now can be donated to charity. Ye gods.

Babe = Hits

To the surprise of absolutely no one the GoDaddy.com Superbowl commercial featuring a hot babe in a shirt barely big enough to fit the Godaddy logo was a wild success:

The company had 140,000 visitors Feb. 6, compared to a normal Sunday rate of about 30,000.

On Monday, amid news reports that Fox, the Super Bowl broadcaster, had yanked a second planned commercial after National Football League officials complained, traffic rose more than 250 percent above normal levels. GoDaddy.com Typically gets 160,000 visitors on any given Monday. Yesterday it drew 590,000 visitors.

In other news, the Craigorian Chant public relations department is looking for a hot babe to wear a Craigorian Chant T-Shirt. The good news is that CraigorianChant.blogspot.com is much longer than GoDaddy.com so the shirt will be larger. The bad news is the Chant's public relations budget doesn't have the money for a T.V. spot. If we pass the hat around the office we might have enough for the T-Shirt.

Things that make you go Wha?

Um, Yeah, Patriots? I never doubted you for a minute? Yeah, um, Boston? New England? Anyway, I kind of wonder what some of those ads were selling. What was MC Hammer selling anyway? I would like to say that I recently registered a domain with Godaddy.com and it was fast and easy. They were also one of the few to use breasts to try and sell themselves, which counts for courage in these troubled times. The funniest ad in my opinion is the "let me try and explain" scene with red sauce, a cat and a big knife. Burt Renolds getting kicked in the groin never gets old, but can anybody tell me what they were trying to sell?