You don't have to like it...

Monday December 6, 2010 was billed as the NFL game of the year, an epic clash of the titans between AFC East powers; the Jets vs Patriots.  The battle of the minds, Rex Ryan vs Bill Belichik.  The battle of the QBs, Mark Sanchez vs Tom Brady.  Well, let's just say that something epic happened but it was hardly a clash of the titans.  For all the talking Rex Ryan did about how he came to the AFC East to kick Bill Belichik's ass I expected more.  Instead Rex got his every inch of his extremely fat ass kicked.  You'd think a silly fat bastard like him would love to eat, but he certainly looked he was going to choke on his tears while eating the humble pie that the evil hoodie baked for him.  I haven't seen someone look that miserable since John Candy found out he had to eat the gristle and fat left from the old 96er in The Great Outdoors.  The Jets are a sub par pretender to the throne.  They have beaten one team with a winning record this season and that was the Pats in week 2.  How was the rematch?  45-3!!  And honestly the game wasn't even that close.  The Sanchize had looked good the last two weeks in late game drives against terrible teams after his vaunted defense had blown substantial leads.  Then comes into Foxboro on Monday Night Football and throws three picks against what all the experts claim is the worst pass defense in the league!!!  Tom Brady surgically cut apart the Jets defense for over 300 yards passing and four touchdowns!!  The Jets are exactly what the Bengals were last year...  a comical sideshow with some talent and ton of hot air!!  I just don't see the Dolphins, Steelers, Bears and Bills pulling their entire starting lineups and allowing the Jets to slide into the playoffs like the Colts did for you last year!!!  So J-E-T-S SUCK SUCK SUCK fans welcome back to the real world!!!  You don't have to like it, but learn to love it.

This week marked the 69th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.  I can't help but marvel at this fact;  December 7th 1941, a date which will live in infamy happened almost 3/4 of a century ago.  We talk about freedom and rights all the time in this country, but I get the feeling that we don't always like to admit that those freedoms and rights were paid for with blood and sacrifice.  I think that is worth remembering the next time you think it's acceptable to leave your hat on during the National Anthem.  It's the land of the Free because of the Brave. To all veteran's past and present,  but especially those of WWII, I salute you.

Season One of The Event came to a close this week.  I have watched every episode of this hybrid between Lost and 24 and I have to say that I am not disappointed.  There are layers of power struggles on this show.  I am holding to firm to what I said in this blog about every time there is a black President on a show or movie an unspeakable disaster looms on the horizon.  I hope Season Two is as good as Season One.

Last week's episode of Smallville was the best one so far.  Not of this season...  but EVER!!!  The parallel universes, the two Clarks,  and the references to King Lear along with the final quote about not wanting to miss how it all ends...  BRILLIANT!

A final note that has nothing to do with pop culture.  I have been truly blessed with an amazing and beautiful wife, a healthy and adorable newborn son, and some great friends.  Sometimes I forget how good things are and only concentrate on what I don't have... and I shouldn't because I know a lot of people would kill to have what I have.  So before I sign off, I want to say to four of you out there who should know who you are...  I'm sorry I get jealous and feel left out sometimes.  I have no right to want to be included in what you have created.  I love you and hope for your continued success.

Well, if you are still reading this then you obviously have as much time on your hands as I do and if that's the case then you have my sympathies.

Random Thoughts

The Patriots beat the Bills 38-30.  EXCUSE ME!?!?!  38-30?!?!?!   Let me see if I understand this correctly...  the inept, incapable, worst offense in the NFL and the worst team in the AFC East got into a shooting match with the Patriots!?!?!  I thought before this game that anything less than a 10 point win would basically be a loss for New England.  If the friggin Bills can put up 30 on the Pats defense then how many points will the Colts and Satan Manning put up?!?!?!?!  Christ Brady and Co will have to score touchdowns on every possession to keep up with them!!!  I hope this mediocre secondary figures out that they are professionals at some point this season!!!!  Or I hope that Bill either decides to promote a defensive coordinator or at least decides to start video taping opposing teams signals again...  cuz this is just ugly.  I realize that they have only played 3 games, but this team already looks like the latest version of Boston's Cardiac Kids.  

Speaking of cardiac kids...  the Red Sox took two out of three against the suddenly fallen back to earth and looking vulnerable Yankees.   I honestly don't know what's worse: having an injury obliterated season that will mercifully end in 6 games or having looked invincible for the whole season only to appear to be limping into the playoffs in (cough) second place? I guess we'll see in a week or two.   New York fans I can almost sympathize with what you are witnessing having seen it happen so many times to my team... instead of cheering and walking around with your chests out, you are shouting at the TV "OH COME ON!!  WTF!!"  Been there done that!!!  

College football needs a playoff...  COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEEDS A PLAYOFF!!!  Division I scholarship athletes should get paid...  DIVISION I SCHOLARSHIP ATHLETES SHOULD GET PAID!!!  It's a total insult to anyone who pays attention that the BCS is an adequate substitute to a tournament!!  I don't say this because I'm a Boise State Fan, personally I could care less about the Bronco's and their blue field...  they whacked themselves by staying in the WAC!!!  If you need to see how competitive the Big 10 is look at Ohio State's bowl game record the last few years!!! #1  Alabama beats # 10 Arkansas by 4 and stays at #1 yet Arkansas drops to #15.  If you look at both the AP and Coaches polls there are six teams in the top 25 with loss ranked higher than undefeated teams!!!  USC returned their copy of Reggie Bush's Heisman trophy because he has been accused of taking money from an agent, yet OJ Simpson's Heisman is still on display at USC!!!  Maybe if USC's athletic department had paid Bush with the millions of dollars that they made off the bowl games he helped win and likenesses of him they used to sell merchandise then he wouldn't have had to take money from an agent.  An NCAA athlete taking money isn't new...  Charles Barkley said playing in college was the easiest money he ever made!!!  And where are the sanctions against The Florida Gators who have 27 players arrested over the last six years?!?!  

9/11 meets Memento meets Lost meets 24... better known as The Event.  That statement is not a dismissal of the show.  On the contrary, it's an acknowledgement of how complex this show is, or at least how complex it wants to be.  I watched the pilot episode twice.  After I watched it the first time, I said that I would keep watching it in order to pick it apart because of its obvious flaws:  Unrealistic, erratic, destined to fall flat on it's face.  In the end that may be what I end up doing, but since I have all this free time, I watched the pilot again.  I'm intrigued.  This shows jumps back and forth through time and across characters backstories, not as seamlessly as Lost did but similarly.  This could be a star turn for Jason Ritter who plays Sean Walker.  After watching the pilot episode twice, the major question I have regarding Sean is how exactly this kid without any links to power or training is going to be a player in this story line.  In similar instances on other shows the character had some background that he could draw on to help him.  So far all Sean Walker has is a daredevil disregard for his own safety.

Finally, the last season of Smallville began on Friday night.  I haven't watched this show in at least five years.  I have been disgusted by the simple fact that I view Tom Welling's Clark Kent as a sniveling, douche bag, not worthy of being the greatest superhero ever.  After all he's supposed to be Superman not Superpussbag!!!  The suit is ready...  the world is ready...  can Clark finally close the deal!?!?  It looks like the switch might have finally been turned to on.   Whether it is called the Justice Society or the Justice League, Superman is not just a member...  Superman is the LEADER!!! I said I would watch this show again when he bacame Superman, so I am watching the final season and I sincerely hope the writers are smart enough to bring back Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luther.  For this show to close properly it must come full circle, and Welling needs Rosenbaum.  

Well, if you are still reading this then you must have as much free time as I do and for that you have my sympathies.