Survivor Pool Week 5

The overwhelming favorite in last week's Survivor Pool Poll was the Philadelphia Eagles. It was an easy play and seemed to make sense. All four of my choice games (Steelers, Cowboys, Eagles, and Panthers) ended up winners. Sure wish I had gone with Carolina; would have spent the day looking like Donovan McNabb below, had I done so......So I took the easy way out----the Philadelphia Eagles versus the woeful Buccaneers. Sue me! I'm still alive as are the other 5 Survivors, winners all. Let's take a look at this week's games keeping in mind that the teams off the board are as follows:

• Patriots
• Vikings
• Ravens
• Bears
• Eagles

This may be the week to get a little funky with an under the radar pick so continue to advise, wise readers.



There are some super crappy teams playing this week! Let's do something bold! More bold than hiring Mike Vick as a back-up.....

Vick: Notable Eagle Games in 2009

In discussing the "Vick to the Eagles" story this graphic was shown by ESPN. What is wrong with said picture (aside from it being a crappy cell phone photo)?

Where Eagles Dare: Michael Vick

This post is really just an excuse to post more punk rock on a Friday.
Daring move by the Eagles or no?
I think they paid him a lot in any case. (Vick's contract calls for him to make $1.6 million for the first year, with a team option of $5.2 million for the second.)

From Beer to Pitbull Summit

I was at a conference last week so I had little inclination to watch the news each day I returned home. As a result I had no knowledge that the little fracas the week before, where Obama's Harvard Professor friend was arrested, was going to culminate in a mediation on race relations, cleverly titled: Beer Summit.

When I finally heard, it was as a punchline (Obama's Michael Dukakis tank moment?) and in the context of beer producers being irked that theirs was not chosen. Anyways, here's a funny political cartoon that I saw at Kissing Suzy Kolber.

You'll shoot your leg off, Plax!!!

awwwww....Fuuuuuuuudge!

An icicle fell off the team bus and speared me in the leg!!

No it is not a gun shot wound, it is an icicle wound...and my name is Harris Smith.

The sad thing is that I’m not even surprised anymore when the latest news breaks regarding another “Professional” football player having had a scrape with the law. Plaxico now joins a long list of not-so-distinguished players who have disgraced themselves and their sport. He, Michael Vick, Pacman, Chris Henry and the like “sacrifice the gift” when they act like they're central characters in the mid '90s East Coast/West Coast rap feuds (Tupac's like eight bullets up on you, Plax). These antics cast aside the blessing which so many of us wish we had received and we resent you for it.

You Bitches don't know what bein' hard is...except Pacman...he always in da strip club...

Sure this Avenger suffers from excessive testosterone production, and has been known to engage in a bit of the ol’ “how’s yer father?”, occasionally resulting in expulsion from some of the West’s finer establishments...

But certainly not when the opportunity of a lifetime (the only viable livelihood for many of these players) and millions of dollars are on the line! Besides, there’s quite a big difference between a rugby-pitch donnybrook, and shooting the bouncer, (or yo’ dumb-ass self), at a nightclub.

What I’d like for Christmas is for the NFL to step in and enforce some real discipline on these players. There’s no way an average citizen is going to bring an unregistered weapon into an NYC club and get away with a slap on the wrist....and hopefully Plax won’t, but if he does, the NFL should have the balls to lay down the law and show players that playing in the league is a priviledge, not a right.

Bitch I got fired for bein' detrimental and shit...then the Bungles hired me back. You don't know shit.

There are plenty of high-caliber athletes out there ready to step up and take the place of these miscreants, the NFL should give them a chance and not tarnish its image by employing people of low character...

My agent got it all worked out...I'll be runnin' routes for the G-Men before long

THE GHOST OF SID GOING
(aka-Walter G. Bumpus)