Tim Tebow Super Bowl Ad

Tim Tebow

For those of you who haven’t heard, Tim Tebow is going to be in an ad during the Super Bowl. The ad is about how Tebow’s mother during religious mission in the Phillapines was advised, for health reasons, to abort her pregnant child. She refused and the child, as a result, was Tim Tebow. Tebow is going to be telling the story during the ad.

The ad is causing all sorts of controversy. Should the ad be run, should it not be run, will there be uproar etc. Due to the culture we live in, there are people who get mad about anything so of course someone will be upset with the ad.

I am going to refrain, for now, from talking about the ad because I want to see it before I say anything. I just find it interesting that the ad space can be purchased just two weeks before the Super Bowl. It’s the Super Bowl, I thought ad space for that was booked years in advance???

Also, after the ad is shown, how will this affect Tebow’s future. Yea, he will still go to the NFL but will more teams pass him because of his openness. I’m not saying it will affect him but there is a chance his draft status could fall. Which is a terrible thing to think just because he has an open personality.

What could be better for post 100

So this is my 100th post, I don’t know if that is really a big deal or not, I really don’t care. Either way this video makes it something worth celebrating. Enjoy as the Viking broadcasters yell at the players on the field like a drunken fan in the crowd. Don’t get me wrong I do not think it is a bad thing. I would probably have done the same thing if I spent almost every waking moment of a football season around one team and they were a play away from the Super Bowl.

Not to mention the fact Favre had a guy wide open down the right sideline. In the end it is just another Brett Favre interception that ruined a playoff run.

Super Bowl Turf

Super Bowl Field Conditions

This year NFL has moved the Pro Bowl game to the weekend before the Super Bowl. This is a great move for the NFL’s stand point. Being a major sports organization has one goal, to make money. The NFL is hoping the TV ratings and attendance will go up by putting the game between two playoffs weekends.

The only thing I am going to question in this scenario, how will the field hold up? The Pro Bowl and Super Bowl are both being played at the same site, Land Shark Stadium.

Land Shark Stadium

There is only one big rated sporting event, that being the Super Bowl. Because this is the case everything about the game will be perfect. The most important thing of everything being perfect is the field conditions. Even if the field is not torn up, that much, after the Pro Bowl, there will still be brand new turf for the Super Bowl.

I’m sure this is something that happens every year, and the field crew for the NFL has done this many times so it is not a curveball they will have to deal with. I just question how well the turf will stay in the ground, only being layed down a week before the Super Bowl.

Championship Weekend

New Orleans Saints, NFC Champions

What a couple of great ball games yesterday. Colts/Jets got a little bit out of hand in the fourth quarter but the Saints/Vikings game was one of the better games I have seen in this years playoffs. In the end the two best teams won and it is the top two teams from the entire season who will be playing in the Super Bowl.

It has been awhile since the top two teams have made the Super Bowl, but this year will be an incredible game. Props to the Jets on an incredible run in the playoffs. They are a team who will not be going away anytime soon.

Pierre Garcon salutes Haiti

The Vikings shot themselves in the foot five times during the game. It does not matter how good or bad your team is, you are never going to win a Conf. Championship or Super Bowl when the team turns the ball over five times, two other fumbles, you will not win. Favre last throw was an interception, sound familiar.

NFL Look-A-Likes

NFL is making clones

As I am painfully watch this weekends NFL Conf. Championship games I noticed something in one of the games which I have never thought about before. I think the NFL is cloning players, and doing a terrible job. Not only are there players in the league who look and play exactly the same but they are all on the same team.

I realized this when Austin Collie caught a touchdown pass just before the end of the first half. The Colts have two of the same player, Austin Collie and Anthony Gonzalez. They’re not the only one’s either.

There is Wes Welker and Wes Welker Jr. [Julian Eldelman] who play the same position in New England. Welker is clearly the better player, just based on the years played and the stats he has obtained. After watching Edelman this year he showed he has all the potential to be just like Welker. Not to mention Brady and Cassel have similar form and hand gestures, Cassel still has work to do to have the respect Brady has.

Other notables:
Byron Leftwhich & David Garrard (Jacksonville)
Patrick Crayton & Miles Austin, kind of (Dallas)

Kansas City Patriots

Weis, Bellichick, Crennel

During the course of last week the Kansas City Chiefs organization added a defensive coordinator in Romeo Crennel and an offensive coordinator in Charlie Weis. It is interesting because Chief’s GM Scott Pioli was the GM of the Patriots during their span of winning 3 Super Bowls. Along with both coordinators on the sidelines.

Which gets me to wondering if Bill Bellichick will ever end up in Kansas City. I’m not saying he is going to up and leave before next season. But maybe three or four years down the road, if the Patriots are still the team they are now. Maybe Bellichick explores his options, if the option is there.

Who knows, maybe he can turn Matt Cassel into the next Tom Brady.

NFL Picks, Championship Weekend

Well, I shit the bed last week in picks (1-3). Clearly I am only built for the regular season, going to have to do some tune-up’s in the off-season.

I still have not been able to decide if the Jets are a good team or not?? The D is incredible there is no argument there. But I’m finding it hard to believe that Rookie Mark Sánchez could win the Super Bowl. Only because when the team was struggling in the middle of the season it was all on Sánchez mistakes. The Jets are looking a lot like the Giants team of 2007. Where everyone was waiting for them to go away but they just kept winning.

Someone tell me what the hell happened to good old rough and tumble football. The Jets v. Chargers game, was the first game in the playoffs, played outside, on grass. Every NFC playoff game has been in a dome.

Anyways here are the picks:
Colts over Jets
Saints over Vikings

NFL Divisional Round Picks

To start i sure hope this week was as exciting as last week. I dont know what was more insaine about last week. The overall lack of defense in the Packer v. Cardinal game [not that I’m companing] or the whippin shit Baltimore put on New England. Not to mention Dallas is on fire in the NFC.

Picks:
Cardinals over Saints
Ravens over Colts
Vikings over Cowboys
Chargers over Jets

Biggest Slut in Football

Lane Kiffin

First off, let me blame this whole situation on Pete Carroll, who will not amount to anything in the NFL. We [fans] have already seen what Carroll has done in the NFL. Carroll, who is 33-31 as an NFL coach with two playoff appearances. I say at best Carroll ends up around a .500 record with one playoff appearance while in Seattle.

Now to the matter at hand. Is anyone a bigger football slut than Lane Kiffin? First this guy gets a head coaching job with the Oakland Raiders and pisses off his “pimp” Al Davis. So Kiffin runs out-of-town with his tail between his legs and goes and finds his daddy to join him in Tennessee where Kiffin gets the head coaching gig for the Vols.

After one season with the Vols, Kiffin, who signed a 6 year deal around roughly $6 MM, decides he is going to blow that popsicle stand and go back to Cali and coach for USC. Kiffin was 7-6, with a 4-4 SEC Conf. record. Now, I may be mistaken but isn’t the SEC the fucking NFL minor league when it comes to football??

So, Kiffin is going to go coach USC with daddy (defensive coordinator) and try to bring a premiere team in college football back to the National Title. I DOUBT IT. I can’t wait till next year when there is another big coaching vacancy and he [Kiffin] ends up with another team.

No Questions About It

Pats players did the same as the fans today, watched an ass kicking

The Patriots got their asses handed to them on a silver fucking platter today. The Patriots were brutally raped and then had a huge Baltimore Raven load blown in their face…I could go on and on with the cliché about how bad the Patriots loss was today.

The truth is, I expected it. I am not sitting around mopping about this loss because I did not think the Patriots were going to win. Even if they did win they were not going to win next week. Not that I said it on this site, but in conversations with my friends during the week I said the Pats would not have won today even if Welker was healthy. Which would have been the case.

The Pats this year were an average team at best. The record is deceiving at 10-6 but when you break down the wins and losses of the season the Pats had ZERO impressive wins. Of the 10 wins the Pats had only two of them came against teams in the playoffs, Baltimore & New York Jets. To make matters worse the Pats only faced four teams who made the playoffs.

To put the wins and losses into perspective, the combine record of the teams in the Pats ten wins was 57-71. While the combine record of the teams in the Pats six losses was 60-36.

The Pats need a lot of work for next season, especially on the defensive side of the ball. There are two positives I saw from the game today. Kevin Faulk was old reliable and did nothing different from what he has done in his entire time with the team. Also props to Julian Edelman who stepped into clown shoes to fill Wes Welker’ role. There was one play in the 4th quarter when Edelman caught the ball at the line of scrimmage, ran back two yards and then ran forward twelve to make the first down in just a true passion play to keep the game alive even though the play was negated due to a Pats penalty.