I Got Indy

... for 2 reasons:

1. They've been at it longer.

The Colts have been knocking on the door of Greatness (and having it slammed in their faces) for a few years now. That can only go on for so long. It's just Peyton's turn. The Bears, on the other hand, have only recently returned to respectability. It'll be their turn later.

2. Superbowls immortalize quarterbacks.

What sports fan, really and truly, can stomach the thought of Rex Grossman being remembered as a Superbowl-winning quarterback? Now some might say, Well if he wins a Superbowl doesn't he deserve to be remembered as a Superbowl-winning qaurterback? ... Nope. It's like saying, If OJ was acquitted by a jury of his peers, doesn't he deserve to be treated like an innocent man? ... Hell no. Because they don't act like a great QB and an innocent man. I mean, "I couldn't concentrate on the game cuz I was thinkin bout New Years Eve??? ... If I did it, this is how it happened??? What the hell kinda shit is that?

So I got Indy (... although I think we all know I'll be celebrating either way). Seriously, it's like Puff's DreamBowl.

See you in Miami.

I Love New York

"What the damn pooch look like...kickin' back...blowing bleezies?"

Running It Back

Things that made me chuckle this weekend:

• This was a comment about Barbaro but then he was euthanized this morning. I like horse racing by the way, and I had an "interest" in the Kentucky Derby.
• Questioning whether "Super Bowl Sunday" should be a national holiday...? No. That would be a waste of holiday because it's on Sunday. Now, the annual Tuesday Madden release day is another story.
• Steve Nash playing point guard.
• Item 9 in Jon Wertheim's Australian Open article: This is what's known in the business as a money quote. Asked about her fitness level following her title, a giddy Serena Williams responded: "I'm definitely in better shape than I get credit for. Just because I have large bosoms and I have a big ass. I swear my waist is 29-30 inches. I swear I have the smallest waist. And just because I have those two 'assets' it looks like I'm not fit. I was just in the locker room staring at my body and I'm like, 'Am I not fit? Am I really not fit? Or is it just because I have all these extra assets that I look not fit.' I think if I were not to eat for two years I still wouldn't be a size 2. No matter how slim I am, I always have this [points] and that [points]. We're living in a Mary-Kate Olsen world. I'm just not built that way. I'm bootylicious and that's how it's always going to be."
• The number of people I know going to Las Venturas for NBA All-Star Weekend.

On another not-really-funny note, this is just more validation that basic "personal" finance need be taught prior to college enrollment.

List Time

A list of some recent ridiculous things to me, the first two courtesy of good ole Deadspin.com:

• A rather stunning story on ESPN.com this morning from Wright Thompson: The tale of Genarlow Wilson, a high school football player and honors student who is serving a 10-year sentence for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17. Thanks to the strange -- some might say insane -- (since-repealed) laws of Georgia, "it was a misdemeanor for teenagers less than three years apart to have sexual intercourse, but a felony for the same kids to have oral sex." That is without question the most backward thing we have ever heard...
• There is a freaking Barbaro Message Board. Let me be clear. Again, if you so choose, you can write Barbaro an electronic message. Barbaro...the racehorse. That being inexplicitly said, this is my favorite post:

"Whoa B! Aside from being soooo photogenic, you actually LOOK right into the camera, at the person taking your photo. Yup. In almost all your photos. The other horses do not! It is that something inside you that knows. WOW!"

...He/she said "Whoa B!" Classic. And come on...tell me you didn't chuckle when you looked at the pic.

• The number of "classless" Bear fans' signs and taunts along the lines of the "Bears finishing what Katrina started" and "Where's FEMA?" I'll make an inappropriate joke out of anything but to do that in public and on TV just seemed a little overboard. (Note: This is NOT a generalization of all Chicago fans by any means; I was simply shocked that there were so many individuals who took it there. I'm assuming it could have happened no matter where the Saints played.)
• If I recall correctly, The State of the Union Address went more or less like this:

Bush: "First, we must balance the federal budget. (Applause.) We can do so without raising taxes. (Applause.) What we need to do is impose spending discipline in Washington, D.C. We set a goal of cutting the deficit in half by 2009, and met that goal three years ahead of schedule. (Applause.) " (Aside: Errr, that's kind of crazy in a time of war.)

Bush: "I woke up this morning and brushed my teeth. (Applause.) Had a terrific breakfast of eggs and bacon. (Applause.) Had the bubble guts and dropped a deuce. (Applause.) What an incredible deuce it was. (Applause.) One that will relieve me and help me better serve the nation. (Applause. Applause. Applause.)"

I Don't Blog No More...

...All I Do Is This. (This being post links.)

Can Obama Count on the Black Vote?

According to a stat The Generalist hit me with yesterday...

Not. Right. Now.

Lucky Number

Twelve more things I should have blogged about (but didn't):

1. How Miami Vice, which I recently saw for the first (and only) time, was a (very) poor man's Bad Boys. Like good guys + bag guy + pretty girl + zero character development and the most illogical movie romance ever = a very pointless movie. (Think of it as The Anti-Departed.) If you haven't seen it, you've wasted 2.3 less hours of your life than I have.

2. How incredible it (still) is to me that Young Dro rhymes "primatene mist" in Shoulder Lean.

3. How inexplicable it is that somebody saw fit to have a semi-anonymous rapper drop a totally unecessary and pretty mediocre rap onto "Irreplaceable." Were they trying to make it more radio friendly? I swear that song is playing somewhere in American at every minute of every day.

4. The short list of things I may literally love "til death do us part." Namely: eating Oreo ice cream, playing fast-pitch softball, watching a great game with a pizza and a Sprite, apples, writing, and Forrest Gump (the man... and the movie).

5. How entertaining Little Miss Sunshine was.

6. How if I were ever genuinely a baller, I would travel more than anyone you ever met in your life (the Generalist included).

7. Why are those "Depression Hurts" commercials so damned depressing? It's like they're saying, Hey... doesn't your depresssion suck? Doesn't it make you just want to curl up into a ball and die?"

8. How depressing Ludacris' Runaway is. Seriously... every verse??? Damn.

9. How Aristocrates is the Tony Reali of my away messages. Nick Harper, Puff. Nick Harper.

10. How Marlon McCree may have single-handedly doomed these playoffs for anyone not living in or affiliated with the New England area. At this point, the prospective '07 champs can be thought of as simply The Patriots or Not The Patriots. And in all likelihood, we don't even have to wait til the 4th to find out. We'll know this Sunday. (Get it together, Peyton.)

11. Did anyone think Dennis Green wouldn't be leaving Arizona?

12. Am I trippin or is Monday from the Bud Light commercial also one of the Deal or No Deal girls? Take a real good look next time and let me know.

Walk-off 3-Pointer?

Peep my mans GA, Gilbert Arenas, Agent Zero 32 ft. game winning shot and it's about as close to a literal walk-off game-winning three pointer as you can get. He had already turned to walk away from the basket when the ball was going through because he was that sure it was good. I would YouTube it but SportsCenter did a good job of doing the highlight justice with multiple angles.
Hibachi.

He voluntarily took the shot from that deep by the way.
Gangsta.

Odds

2007. Time certainly keeps on ticking.

I have a very very strong urge to write a dark post, dripping with melancholy; however, I will reject this urge.

Here's my very own version of oddsmakers (where the PTI fans at?) :

2:1 A woman, in the next two years, will sing me a line from Beyonce's Irreplacable.
2:3 I will own a dog (preferably a very small terrier)
Even I will make it to Vegas twice this year (I made it three times last year)
Even I'll read 40 Books in 07
3:1 All 5 seasons of Martin will be released on DVD (i'm guessing more like 3).
3:1 I develop a socially rejected bad habit
Even Barack Obama decides to run for president
1:5 I continue my subscription to Entertainment Weekly

And in all its disjointed pleasure here is my 2nd favorite youtube video of the year; the first is above.