Mike wanna be

Geez, you know your penalties-for-celebration rules are excessive when Sam freakin Rosen is arguing in favor of a player not getting penalized for a celebration. Busts Tim Ryan's balls when he started bellyaching about how "the Ravens should've been kicking off from the 20".

Not bad, but I personally would have gone with: Jesus, how many Guerreros is this company going to put in caskets?

Fuck, I changed the channel just before that hit. Like, at 0:03 I flipped it.

Maybe this is the year of the tag team inductions; the Funks, the Freebirds, Demolition, the Legion of Doom (fuck it, I only saw them in the WWF, they're the LOD to me)...Strike Force, maybe? Brain Busters?

If it had been Rivers using his helmet and a running start to end Ward's season with a helmet-to-jaw "block", you bet your ass he'd be fined and probably suspended. Yeah accidents happen and a "no helmet-to-helmet blocks" rule would be tough to implement, but it's bullshit that the difference between a fine/suspension and no reprimand whatsoever for a season-ending cheap shot is merely which side of the football you play on.

"Steve" learned he descended from William the Conqueror, so he just took the name William. Nothing to do with being a real man's man, shockingly.

Fox is just giving up the BCS in hopes that they go to a playoff and they'll have the extra cash to dole out for that.

Considering I'm on my third Madden Collector's Edition, I think I'll install the two games on my 20GB hard drive just to be sure. I assume they won't work without the disc in, but ideally the disc will glitch up somewhere not the "Read this to let me play off the hard drive" sector.

I'd advocate this if I thought 5-11 would get a top ten pick. And who the fuck do they draft to improve this? Another quarterback that can take a concussion and not turn into a ten year old playing Madden? Good god those interceptions were horrid.

Time for "Just Pray" Losman.

Somebody needs a raise in WWE marketing, as they could not have cast that "I CAN'T DECIDE" douche for the SvR 2009 commercials any more appropriately.

Egg nog: Nasty goop, decent in small one-cup-a-week portions. Things that anger me: Pets dying. Lost my dog Saturday morning, totally wrecked my weekend. Things that upset me, but not in an overly angry way, but there's no "Things that upset you" thread so I threw them here: Now I'm all "Fuck, I don't want to sit around the house and mope for the next two weeks, I have to go out and do something", except in my holy-shit-my-pet's-dead depression I cancelled all my plans and bitches be pissed if they find out I bailed on them out of depression only to go hook up elsewhere.

At least we get the first ever 11-10 game. That's way better than a DefTD in fantasy, right?

Greg Robinson: Youuuuuuuuuuuu're fiiiiiiiiiiiired! About bloody time. Syracuse is an absolute embarrassment in the Big East, where effing RUTGERS can turn it around in one season.

Lesnar looked gassed at the end of the first, they came out throwing in the second, they went into a brief period of trade big shots, stagger back, step back in and throw again and eventually Lesnar caught Couture enough to drop him and then it was hammer fists a go-go until the ref stopped it.

Brock looks gassed after round 1, that's trouble. He did well in R1 but there's 20 minutes left.

I have games for PS2 I've been meaning to pick up that would be hella cheap, but I can't bring myself to disconnect the 360 to play them. Lame.

I'd rather be Hunter Hearst Helmsley than Paul Levesque, myself. I've always said if I made it big in wrestling with a non-comical stage name I'd just get it changed. Did anybody besides Warrior Warrior ever do that?

Good signs for the NXE on Tuesday, to be sure.

My phone doesn't have a full keyboard, let alone internet access. Am I right in thinking it's one of those things that you don't realize how much you'll use it until you have it available to use, or am I just trying to justify making a huge cash investment for the sake of having a non-ancient phone?

Nothing motivates a playerbase like firing someone they don't bother to listen to. They probably won't even notice the difference.

Bret Hart is still somebody without the WWF title, though. Honestly, does anybody give a shit about HTM if he drops the IC gold to Savage and (as the alleged plan was, so I keep reading) DiBiase wins the WM IV title tournament for the WWF gold? The WWF felt confident enough in his heat-drawing capabilities to send him and half the roster to wrestle in a city without Hulk Hogan on the card. One of the top-drawing WWF champions in history, and they let the IC champ headline a card in a different city and as stated above, said IC champion occasionally outdrew Hogan. That's got to bolster his legacy as greatest IC champ of all time; who else in that time period could have done that? Steamboat? Savage? Roberts? Beefcake? Maybe Andre if he lowered himself to IC title level?

WWE: now officiated by Bill Alfonso!

Pats fans are now suggesting that the overtime coin flip be done before the game, so coaches know if they 'should' go for the tie or the win in late-game scoring situations. Hilarious.

Just ripped through the storyline in about 22 hours. Just got the 'essential' activities (unlimited SMG & shotgun ammo, unlimited sprinting, 3x health regeneration...would've done Base Jumping but could never get the target to appear somewhere convenient for getting 3 gold stars), and then the final mission hidden away . All in all it was an excellent game, and I'd recommend it. Fun fact, I finished the game before the guy on eBay I bought it from left me feedback.