Chumps

Greg Oden has been cleared for full practice and conditioning after he missed all of his rookie season due to knee surgery.  Should be interesting to see how the old big man comes back.  The Blazers like to get up and down the court, Oden used to be pretty good at that.  Only time will tell if the bust tag can be removed from Oden’s name.

Mouser says…

How about this lineup… Remindes me of the Clippers a few years ago

• PG Jared Bayless (19, Rookie)
• SG Brandon Roy (24, 3rd year)
• SF Ike Diagu (24, 4th year)
• PF LaMarcus Aldredge (23, 3rd year)
• C Greg Oden (20, Rookie)

Favre and Green Bay officially split ways last night when he was traded to the Jets.

According to the NFL Network, if Favre takes 50 percent of total snaps with the Jets in 2008, the fourth-rounder becomes a third-round pick. If he gets 70 percent of the snaps and the Jets make the playoffs, it becomes a second-round pick; and if he gets 80 percent of snaps and the Jets make the Super Bowl, it becomes a first-round pick.

Well, we will still get to see Brett Favre in a green jersey.  Only this time it will be in New York.  Why would Favre want to go to the Jets?  Lets count the reasons:

• They suck.  
• Who is he going to throw the ball too?  
• Gets beaten by the Patriots twice a year.  
• He is now in the AFC, the FAR superior conference.
• 0% chance of getting to Super Bowl (Colts, Pats, Bengals, Jags, Chargers)
• Gets to beat the Chiefs in week 8

This story will give you goosebumps. You’ll want to cry, cheer, and then you’ll shake your head in disbelief.

It is on the front page of ESPN.com and is written by one of the best sports writers in the world, Rick Reilly. It’s about 2nd Lt. Caleb Campbell and how the Army is denying him the opportunity to play in the NFL after they promised him they wouldn’t stand in the way. Here’s the thing… he was drafted by the Lions and is good enough to play professional football. Just take a minute and read it.

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With Madden 2009 due to come out in less than a week, here is a Top 10 of the worst QB’s to ever appear in the game.  There are a couple familiar names on the list, however, the Hefty Lefty stands out the most.  One chump has a 37 overall rating and he isn’t even the worst on the list…wow, and he played for the Colts.

Note that any and all Chiefs and Bengals are absent from the list.  I guess Akili Smith really wasn’t that bad.

Dale Earnhardt’s hometown, Kannapolis, NC, has crossed the line. Since that tragic day, Feburary 18, 2001, they have flown flags in the town to honor Earnhardt. This past Thursday Martha Stewart visited the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis with David Murdock, the campus founder and owner of Dole Food Co. She said she would take ideas from the campus to her Center for Living at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Thats all fine and dandy but here’s a quote from NASCAR.com about what happened before her visit.

Last week, city workers took down flags honoring Earnhardt after an official at Murdock’s real estate company and a local tourism official said some were dirty and torn and might upset a Murdock guest, who wasn’t identified.

Let me tell you something, “The Intimidator” has been honored in his Kannapolis for years and they have always been proud to call him a hometown hero. The minor league baseball team, a Class A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox, are the Kannapolis Intimidators. To this day, on lap 3 of every NASCAR race the fans in attendance hold up three fingers and salute the man. So why would you ever be upset by something relating to # 3? Are you afraid she might think they looked tacky? I completely understand changing the flags for new ones so they looked would be clean, but that’s as far as it should go. They might have been trying to avoid embarrassment by taking down the flags, but it turns out they are embarrassing themselves by doing it.

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The Bengals first round draft pick and future pro-bowler Keith Rivers is still unsigned and not in training camp.  Lets go Bengals.  The kid is supposed to be our starting outside linebacker and he hasn’t even practiced with the first team defense yet.  Ridiculous.  How can the fans get excited about the upcoming season when management refuses to go the extra mile and get our first round pick into camp.  

This crap seems to happen every single year with the boys in orange and black.  Hey Brown family, just cough up the extra couple hundred thousand and get the man into training camp.

Royals catcher Miguel Olivo needs to remember these words, “Go hard or go home”

He got a good shot in on A.J. Pierzynski but he walked up to the pitcher. Weak Sauce!

$20,000,000.  20 million dollars to STAY retired.  Thats what the Packers are offering Favre.  Damn.  20 million big ones just to stay the hell away from Green Bay.  If I was Favre, and had made as much money as he has over his career, this offer would royally piss me off.  I would want nothing else but to come back to the NFL and stick it to the Packers by joining the Vikings or Bears.  There is absolutely no way I would take the Packers money.  

To hell with the Packers.  #4 has more talent in his short and curlies than Aaron Rodgers can ever dream of having.  Favre needs to show up, go to another team and sling the pigskin so far up the Packers poopchute the whole town of Green Bay craps pancakes for 17 straight weeks.

• It’s cool every four years… right now, it’s in style
  
• Using the other sticks
• Guess who has the most spirit
• Never too old
• Was the best shortstop in baseball… truth be told, he still is