Goodbye to the
40's....Sequal to last week's 'Goodbye to the 70's'...From the healthy, Norton virus protected notebook of your commish. Tuesday October 10th, 2006 10:19 PM Rambling after Week 5... So it is time once again to get the Tuesday Ramblings put together and posted before I get to bed. Why I continue to pick Tuesday nights to do this is beyond me - with either late night work meetings, dinners/Shrine meetings and/or Boston Legal to take up my time....there's already enough to do. But hey, I do this for you, my nine or ten loyal readers. Anyways....divisional play has started in the BIG. Juice, Smith and Mike (yes, Mike) are starting to separate from the rest of their divisions. The Husky Division is just a mash of ugly so far with all four teams living on streaks (good and bad). The next couple of weeks should really show who are going to be the big fish this season and who you can expect to start dumping players for draft picks by early November. So Vikings won....I guess. Remember just a few years ago when we used to complain that the defense was horrible....well, now the pendulum has swung - the offense is just difficult to watch. The passing game is just horrible if you don't count all the 5 yard completions Brad gets. Makes me feel good that I've slept through a fair amount of the games this season. So what to talk about this week? Hmm....I could touch on the Mark "don't call me Matt - I don't live in a van by the river yet" Foley deal. Or, maybe the fact that the North Koreans might just be the most inept double-A superpower in the world. Even the lady running for Secretary of State in Wisconsin and how she wrote a book telling about her boot-knocking with the Green Bay Packers of the 60's and 70's. I think I'll pass on all those stories and go to this.... The biggest and most well kept conspiracy theory of the 90's and 00's.....that the NFL is as fixed as Jerry Jones' smile. I'm not a believer I guess that this is or even could be the case, but one of our drivers was telling me that while watching the Eagles/Cowboys game this past week, he became even more convinced that someone is pulling the puppet strings so to speak. I guess if you start looking at it while squinting and your head tilted the right way, you just might start convincing yourself that someone got to Drew Bledsoe and caused him to throw the game. First point is the interception he threw in the 4th quarter in the direction of T.O. Owens was streaking down the sideline toward the end zone when Bledsoe tossed a pop-up (and yelled "300") for the Eagles secondary to fight over.....it was picked off - cue the cameras all over Owens yelling "you've got to be f***ing kidding me" on the sidelines. Then, a little later, Drew mounted a huge comeback including a ridiculously stupid pass interference on 4th down to get the ball to the 2. First and goal.....touchdown to tie. What play do you call.....of course, an out to your TE in double coverage. No, you wouldn't throw the fade to TERRELL OWENS - YOU GO THROUGH ALL THE HEADACHES OF THE MEDIA CIRCUS AND THEN DO NOT USE THE MOST TALENTED WR IN THE LEAGUE IN THIS SITUATION? Goofy. Just plain goofy if you ask me. Start to think about that and if someone got to Bledsoe that caused him to pull another 'Oops I did it again'. (mmm....Britney Spears - well, the Britney of about 7 years ago anyway....definitely not the one of today). Anyway...off that soapbox for now. So how about YouTube? A company that didn't exist 10 years ago buys out another company that didn't exist 2 years ago. For 1.65 billion dollars. $1,650,000,000. So, who's got a good idea for me? I'll split it 50/50 with you....come on, someone has to have something out there. So let's take a trip around the BIGFFBL with a little help from a nerdy engineer named Dilbert.... "Why does it seem as though I
am the only honest guy on earth?" Ahh, yes - hopefully this doesn't mean that Jonny, Suomala and Jason are not as honest as a spring rain (not sure what that means, but it really sounds quite gay now that I re-read it). One thing I do know is that the engineer is doing the best out of our three league dads. "When you're with a woman,
everything you say will lower her opinion of you." I swear I heard Ben getting this advise from someone before he began talking to the flower girl at Diana's wedding. I'm also fairly sure he tells women his name is either Dick Handey or Jack O'nightly. Or was it Shamus O'Toole? "Should I date a co-worker?"
Ahh yes, the Juice theory of high school dating. Ok, that was not nice. Not at all....looking back, I kinda went with that theory a couple times also. "Lately the only thing keeping
me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor." Well, maybe the police need to investigate the benefits of laziness in keeping our streets safer -- I think the LB and his friends could consult them on how to best teach kids to be lazy. "Frankly I'm insulted that you
asked me out. It means you think we're about the same level of
attractiveness." I don't know why I'm going with Kinger on this one - other than I guess I'd love to be out at the bar sometime and hear him say something like that to a girl (even though it sounds exactly like a true Krebsism). "It looks like I'll be
exaggerating my accomplishments again this year." I guess this is the anti-Suomala quote -- I mean really, the guy gets married, has a kid, lives in God's country and we never hear a word about it.....it's called a message board, at least show a pulse here and there. "I use no animal products
whatsoever." This seems like a Smith quote to me....well, not the current 'on the wagon' Smith (or did we decide it should be 'off the wagon'?), but I'm talking about the Kristen-adjusted Smith. "You've been loving your
animals and fighting each other. A civilized country should slaughter the
animals and simply discriminate economically against each other." Especially if that animal is turned into bacon for our Sunday breakfasts here at the house. "I'm addicted to email. My
endorphins spike when I get a message. When there are no messages,
loneliness and despair overcome me." Touché. Couldn't have said it better myself. Need I say more? BIGFFBL senior writer Jeremy Carlson sounds off whenever he feels like it on www.bigffbl.com |