How about your's?...

From the healthy, Norton virus protected notebook of your commish.  Tuesday October 17th, 2006 10:19 PM

Rambling after Week 6...

So my team sucks....again.  Usually I just have one horrible quarterback, but this year I got two and probably will be three by the end of the year when Favre gets benched.  Yeah....great.  Anyone interested in anyone on my roster (I can't believe that would be the case, but I'll entertain offers).

Anywho....so, what a difference a week makes for T.O.  Bitch a little - get the rock.  And then for those of you who gave any thought to the little conspiracy deal I talked about last week - I could make a case that the NFL is fixing the Saints games this year (and also that the Reggie Bush draft deal was fixed also - seriously, is the guy that made the call to take Mario first still employed in the league?  I swear, where do they get these front office guys?  Are the called up from the WNBA or something?)  How do the Saints beat the Eagles?  They are just not that good.  And what is the deal with Seattle?  Sure they won this week, but only off the leg of Josh with his pair of 49's and a 54 as time ran out.  I know Shaun and Hutchinson are good, but not that good to show the drop off Seattle has had from last year.  And finally, it's like the Bears came out last night and were clipped by a tranquilizer that didn't wear off until the 4th quarter.  I didn't watch a single play of the game since we don't have ESPN here and I was too lazy to go out or down to Ben's, but I was "watching" it on the internet.....went to bed with the Cards up 17-0.  Heard in the morning on the radio that the Bears won - didn't believe it at all.....just amazing defense those guys have.  The Vikings have NO CHANCE at all to win this division....and if you think you do, you just might actually bleed purple.

My favorite play of the week.....so I'm at the gym, riding the bike and watching the Steelers kick the bejebus out of the Chiefs, when Huard throws his interception to Troy "The Perm" Polumalausoamsolsabbadabbado.  Troy runs it back only to be caught and pulled down from behind by his hair by Larry Johnson.  Sadly for the Fat Pigeons it was the best play of the day for Johnson, but if I could give random BIG points for how much I enjoyed a play, I would give out about 10 for that one.  Excellent....and even better when I found out that LJ didn't get a penalty for the tackle (at the gym there was no audio, so I thought they called that penalty for the tackle, not the extra-curriculars).  If that moron wants to grow out his hair and play in the NFL, he deserves to be pulled down on occasion by it.

This week FOX made a solid move, perhaps realizing that their ratings for the pregame is down since losing JB.  Well, they brought back JB - at least the good looking one.  Jillian was looking as excellent as ever, and with the show back in the studio where it belongs, I'm more likely to watch them, at least until Frank and Jillian are done with their segments.  Still though, BIG MISTAKE for Fox to let James Brown go to CBS.

A college football note from this week.....I think that the Miami and FIU Athletic offices along with the NCAA and associated conferences screwed up in not sending a VERY strong message to the rest of the college programs that the stupidity shown on Saturday will not be tolerated.  I think players involved (throwing punches, swinging helmets, wrestling to the ground, etc.) need to all be gone for a minimum of 4 games and all players who left the benches get the NCAA minimum of 1 game.  If that means these teams must forfeit games, so be it.  College athletics at the highest levels are becoming a joke....the NCAA has an opportunity to either continue down a slippery slope of tolerating the crap to happens on the fields and courts by just handing out the very minimum penalties, or they can send a message and attempt to clean it up.  I was hoping for the latter.

So this week's theme....continuing off last week's Dilbert theme....cartoons:

Starting off with Close to Home - I'm sure Jason can understand this one, at least when people come in and ask if we have a block that looks like "this but with a thing on the end and a rough face but a smooth side...."  Also, I think if you change that from a plumbing store to a NFL sideline, you'd see some similarities with the way that NFL coaches have to talk to some of the players.




This is from the Terrell Owens collection....the only one missing is the gingerbread man with a dozen pills stuffed in his mouth and two X X for eyes.




So I learned that you can go to Garfield's website and search out the Garfield strip from any day since the comic started running back in the 70's.  So I've picked a few interesting dates....at least to me.  The one above is from June 14, 1998....that's the day that Suomala once again was let down by Byron Russell (and slightly also by the officials) as MJ knocked down the game winning jumper to complete his 2nd three-peat.




How about October 27, 1991.....yes that's right, game 7 of the World Series.  Twins v. Braves.




And to stay on that wavelength....October 25, 1987.  Game 7 of the Series.  Twins v. Cardinals.




And we'll finish up Garfield with as far back as I go at least.....September 21, 1979.  (if you'd like to see Garfield strips from your favorite dates in history....just let me know and I'll pull them for next week's column.....I've got that kind of time)




In my search for some good comics for this week....I ran across this one and couldn't help but think of Stephen Jackson.




I think this would apply to Juice's job....except, well, there is really not so much of a winter break for his job.




And don't forget about good old Snoopy -- put an Arrowhead Concrete jacket on him and this strip is just like my Tuesday nights....dragging the laptop home to sit in my favorite seat and type up a little story.




Finally.....being football season and all - how could I put together a Ramblings with comics and not include the classic Schulz work.  Why I never did that to Juice during his brief stint as place-kicker I don't know.

Need I say more?

BIGFFBL senior writer Jeremy Carlson sounds off whenever he feels like it on www.bigffbl.com