THE NFLs (Divisional Playoff Edition aka T.O.'s sweet tears of defeat)

-man the Patriots are so fucking good that I've stopped rooting against them. sometimes you must put your personal hatred for a team aside and just appreciate their awesomeness......oh fuck that! Rodney Harrison is too much of a douchebag to ever stop hating the Pats. unfortunately...
-they'll be playing the Chargers in the AFC title game, a team that i hate even more than the Patriots. The Chargers are the ultimate Paper Champions, but with L.T. and Rivers on the bench they pulled a victory out of their ass against the Colts. poor Peyton. good thing he won that Superbowl last year, cuz people would be talking about his ability to pulloff massive choke jobs with ease again, something that he did in nearly every loss the Colts suffered this season. maybe if the Colts didn't make Marvin Harrison sit on the sidelines during their potential game winning drive then they might have pulled out the victory. in the long run who cares. neither of those teams could beat the Patriots. i fully expect the Chargers to get beaten by about 30. which means...
-Help us Brett Favre. your our only hope. you and your scrappy band of rebels just got done defeating the Seahawks on Hoth and now it's time to get your asses back to the Superbowl and crush those fucking Patrtiots. and luckily you get to defend the ice fortress of Hoth AGAIN. cuz America's team went down...
-so i guess Tony Romo should've spent less time titty fucking Jessica Simpson and more time learning not to throw game killing interceptions into the endzone on game winning drives against the Giants. that's two straight years that a mistake by Romo has caused the Cowboys a playoff win. it's been 12 years since the Boys won a playoff game for all you kids scoring at home. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! and T.O. cried like a girl afterwards? fag.
-this of course means Eli Manning is one game closer to the Superbowl. yeah read that again, ELI FUCKING MANNING is gonna be in the NFC Championship game while his brother sits at home watching the game on his Sony HDTV. on a team full of total douchebags it's hard not to root for Eli. i'd much rather see the Packers win next week just because i think Favre might be the only one who could take out the Pats, but still i'll be rooting for Eli to play well.

RUN DMC is going pro...yeah, No fucking shit.

in a move that surprised no one on the planet, Darren McFadden is declaring himself eligible for the 2008 NFL draft. now, if only the Falcons can work some kinda miracle and actually land him. and this is even more exciting news for the nerds who play in fantasy football keeper leagues and came in last place, now you got something to look forward to instead of trying to decide between which under performing wide receiver you wanna waste your top pick on.

New Dawn Fades

no thoughts on sports today. instead i only have the Ian Curtis biopic on my mind. it starts tonight at Athens' Cine'.


okay some random sports thoughts.
the NFL playoff games are all gonna be blowouts...well maybe. the favorites will all probably win for sure.
Auburn basketball is a depressing site. i might be able to get some minutes on that team.
when's spring practice start?

HE'S HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

have you seen this creature? his name is Kenny George and he's 7 foot 8, weighs 360 pounds with a size 26 shoe and plays center for the University of North Carolina-Asheville. i have no fucking clue if he's any good, if i was taking bets i'd go with No. but honestly who cares? he's a fucking monster. hell he looks like a bear that escaped from the zoo and put on some basketball shorts to hide. i'm sure some NBA team will draft him just as an experiment, but honestly this kids real future is in the world of pro wrestling. holy fucking Christ. they could call him Godzilla or something. it would be rad. i might even start watching wrestling again.

here's a youtube clip of him in action. dude has no ball skill whatsoever, but he can dunk without jumping...and that's something to behold.

Pete Carroll ain't comin' to Hotlanta....

....but even if he wanted to Herbie-bot and Corso would do everything in their power to sabotage it. i mean would they even be able to do an entire season of College Football Gameday without being able to give Coach Carroll oral pleasures? what would Colin Cowherd even talk about on his radio show? and honestly why would Carrol wanna coach the Falcons? he's got a more talented team at Southern Cal than he would as boss in Atlanta. this is one of those stories that i fully expect to die by the end of the day. and even if he really does come to Atlanta do i even care? not really. being able to recruit insane amounts of talent to come play for you in LA and then dominate a fairly average conference every single year doesn't mean you can turn a terrible NFL team into a winner. if he turned down the Chargers and Dolphins last year then there is no fucking way he'd wanna coach the Falcons....UNLESS he thinks USC is about to get put on probation for all the Reggie Bush shit. whatever. this story doesn't even really interest me that much. i could care less about the Falcons unless they draft Darren McFadden. and watching Pete Carroll go 5-11 for 2 years before deciding he'd rather go back to college and "win forever". Arthur Blank needs to fucking hire a good NFL assistant coach and quit trying to make a big splash with his next hire. that's the problem with him as owner of the Falcons...he's way too concerned with making BIG MOVES instead of just having a solid football team.

and let's be honest, how could you ever leave the Song Girls behind?

Does Anybody Need A 6 foot 6, 247 pound Quarterback?

Michigan super recruit/manbeast Ryan Mallett has decided he'd rather not waste his next 3 years of college trying to run a spread attack under Rich Rodriguez...as he's probably gonna be playing in the ol' NFL and would be better served in some one's more traditional offense. so yeah he's set to tranfer to another school. when a reporter asked Rodriguez what Mallett's plans were RichRod told them he didn't care because he wasn't playing at Michigan anymore...or something like that. no word yet as to where Mallett will take his giant frame and rocket arm...with any luck it's not Alabama or another SEC school. i think he'd look pretty good in a Texas Tech uniform running that insane pass happy attack of Mike Leach, but that's just me dreaming of using him on NCAA Football 2010 and winning some more virtual HeismanZ. or in a move that makes no sense at all but would still be kinda rad he could transfer to SMU now that June Jones is running the show and help resurrect a once proud Texas football program...but that ain't happening.

Cry Me A River....Again

so, Georgia President Michael Adams has went and declared all out Jihad on the BCS, leaking stories to the AJC, throwing news conferences, and calling for an eight team playoff to decide the national champ because the BCS is "undercutting the sportsmanship and integrity of the game." you can read that as "undercutting UGA's chances at winning a national title cuz you know they ain't winning the SEC next year...but 2nd place sounds like it might get you in". now i completely 100% agree that we need some kind of a playoff...probably more like 4 teams instead of 8 (because in most non-insane years it's usually easier to figure out who the top 4 teams are) but when you issue a challenge like this in a year when your school was the team left on the outside looking in, it all just wreaks of bullshit. Adams has been against a playoff for 20 fucking years and now that the Dawgs got left high and dry he's gonna do something about it (read that as do nothing about it because everybody knows the Big 10 and Pac 10 and Rose Bowl will never let this happen). now in 2004 when Auburn (a team that ACTUALLY won the SEC, AND went Undefeated...2 things UGA wouldn't know anything about this year) everyone said they were being crybabies....of course that was before Florida destroyed Ohio State in a National title game and ESPN became obsessed with SEC speed and dominance...but hey, those are the breaks when you're a life long Tigers fan.

anyways, although i fully support what Adams is trying to accomplish, it's hard for me to ACTUALLY take it seriously when the motivations are going to be looked at as completely self serving and not really for the "integrity of the game" or what the fuck ever. i'd much rather see the presidents of Big 12 or ACC schools leading this charge so that it wasn't so fucking transparent. all in all though this is allot of wasted time and effort because until the Big 10 and Pac 10 get left feeling the burn of being spurned for BCS titles when they felt they were deserving of them then nothing is ever really gonna happen, but everybody knows that if Michigan or Ohio State are sitting there with one loss in a wide open year like this one, then that healthy "East Coast Media Bias" backed by the Big 10 Homers at ESPN will get them into that title game. until you can fix that problem, then no playoff will ever have a shot.

JUMPING THE FUCKING GUN

college football is FINALLY FUCKING OVER. all i really have to look forward to the next few months is the Senior Bowl and then the NFL draft. IT'S A LONG WAY until September '08, but here's a WAY TOO EARLY prediction at next season's Pre-Season top 10.

1. USC
2. Georgia
3. Florida
4. Oklahoma
5. Ohio State
6. West Virginia
7. Texas
8. Missouri
9. LSU
10. Auburn

The Final Useless Blogpoll

A Lifetime of Defeats Final top 25

1. LSU
2. USC
3. Georgia
4. West Fucking Virginia
5. Missouri
6. Kansas
7. Ohio State
8. Oklahoma
9. Texas
10. Virginia Tech
11. Auburn
12. Boston College
13. Tennessee
14. BYU
15. Florida
16. Arizona State
17. Cincinatti
18. Michigan
19. Clemson
20. Texas Tech
21. Oregon
22. Hawaii
23. Illinois
24. Oregon State
25. Mississippi State/Kentucky (tied)

LSU are the Champs/ Ohio State still fucking sucks

-Corso and Herbibot spent the whole pregame drinking massive amounts of hatorade on LSU. Corso said Dorsey would fake an injury to protect his draft stock. what a fucking douche.
-Bennie Wells is NOT overrated.
-LSU fucked around a little too much. i guess drinking that National Champ koolaide will get your ass.
-oh they woke up, never mind.
-i guess SEC speed really does kill.
-Glenn Dorsey should go ahead and crank that number one pick.
-Ohio State should be banned from playing in any national title games for at least 4 years.

-i'm glad this stupid season of college football is finally over. way to go LSU, SEC wins back to back titles.

the final AP poll is out. GEORGIA number 2?!?! over USC?!?! okay. i guess that's more of a nod to how tough the SEC is. Auburn finished #15, behind Florida. Bullshit. that's called media bias bitches. here's the final poll.
1. LSU (60) 12-2 1,620
2. Georgia (3) 11-2 1,515
3. USC (1) 11-2 1,500
4. Missouri 12-2 1,347
5. Ohio State 11-2 1,346
6. West Virginia 11-2 1,342
7. Kansas (1) 12-1 1,303
8. Oklahoma 11-3 1,139
9. Virginia Tech 11-3 1,096
10. Texas 10-3 962
10. Boston College 11-3 962
12. Tennessee 10-4 904
13. Florida 9-4 685
14. Brigham Young 11-2 654
15. Auburn 9-4 648
16. Arizona State 10-3 587
17. Cincinnati 10-3 566
18. Michigan 9-4 508
19. Hawaii 12-1 460
20. Illinois 9-4 443
21. Clemson 9-4 353
22. Texas Tech 9-4 308
23. Oregon 9-4 253
24. Wisconsin 9-4 202
25. Oregon State 9-4 110

THE NFLs (Playoff Wild Card Round)

-my defacto team, The Washington Redskins, fell short. after coming back from 13-0 and taking control the Seahawks suddenly remembered they were in a playoff game and ended up running away with the game in the 4th quarter. props to the Redskins. Meast would be proud.
-Eli Manning gets to get off the short bus for now by winning a playoff game. The Bucs totally suck. did the NFC South really deserve to have a team in the playoffs? my guess is that either the Saints or Panthers will be winning that division again next year. The Giants on the other hand have all the talent in the world to beat Dallas...they're my darkhorse Superbowl pick...even though i fucking hate them.
-The Jags roll into the Pittsburgh and beat the Stealers AGAIN. congratulations, now you get to go lose to the Patriots next week.
-The Chargers just sorta fucked around for a half before beating the crippled Titans. i fucking hate the Chargers. i hope Indy beats them by about 30 points. bunch of shit talking crybabies with a douchebag for a QB. i think you can call the Madden Curse officially broken though. Vince Young played well despite not winning or throwing any touchdowns. the Titans are gonna be awesome in like 2 years.
-i fully expect all the teams with homegames to win, but i won't be surprised if the Chargers beat Indy and if New York takes out Dallas with T.O., this might be the least interesting playoffs i can ever remember.

BCS National Title Drinking Game

1. everytime "SEC speed" is brought up take a shot. (you'll be dead by halftime)
2. everytime Glenn Dorsey's chop block injury is brought up drink a beer.
3. everytime Ohio State's shitty schedule is brought up take a shot.
4. everytime they talk about James Laurinaitis' dad being a pro wrestler drink a PBR.
5. everytime Ohio State gets picked off do a dance and drink a beer.
6. everytime Jacob Hester picks up a 1st down on a crucial play take a shot.
7. everytime you wanna ram hot pokers into your ear drums to make the horrible sounds of the Fox announcers go away take a shot.
8. if the Ohio State Buckeyes should somehow win and crush your SEC loving spirit you should drink a bottle of Wild Turkey and burn a car in honor of the Big 10.

2008 Wishlist

1. Auburn wins a fucking National Title.
2. Auburn at least wins an SEC title.
3. Auburn at the very least wins the SEC West.
4. Falcons land Darren McFadden....somehow.
5. Braves win one final World Series. Smoltz Wins Cy Young. he and Cox retire and ride off into the sunset. Atlanta burns the city to the ground. all is well.
6. i rack up 800 yards a game on NCAA 2009 for XBoX 360 with Auburn's new wide open spread attack resulting in a virtual Heisman for Kodi Burns.
7. The Red Sox and Yankees both miss the playoffs.
8. I win my NCAA Basketball Tournament pool.
9. The Patriots get beaten in the playoffs by anyone except the fucking Cowboys.
10. this fucking writer's strike would end and we get more than 8 episodes of Lost.

Gimme Back My Mushchamp!

my hero of the 2007 football season, Auburn defensive coordinator Will Muschamp is apparently bolting for the greener pastures of Texas football. the Longhorns (who stole Auburn's last defensive coordinator) have offered him a job...and considering that Texas is a better launching pad for a headcoaching position, he's probably gonna take it. this fucking blows. I LOVE MUSCHAMP! he's an insane badass who fires up his players, blitzes like a maniac, and headbutts people. i'm sure Tuberville will find a good coordinator somewhere, cuz that's what he does...but fuck, it'll be sad not to see Muschamp on the sidelines next year yelling "Boom! Motherfucker!" at his players.

Did You Watch The Orange Bowl?

apparently not many people did. i sure as hell didn't. i got better things to do like watch some show about Super Models and shit. i mean that's exciting for Kansas fans that they're team finished 12-1 and actually beat a halfway descent/crappy ACC team in Virginia Tech (sorry Hokies, your sympathy meter ran out when the new year rolled over), but seriously been the least interesting BCS match up since Utah played Pitt back in 2004. i watched the highlights this morning on the ol' World Wide Leader and looks to me like this was a pretty ugly game...unless you like interceptions allot. i never thought i'd say this, but i'm ready for this fucking college football season to be over. all this waiting around a week for the National title game after the new year's bowls is totally fucking bullshit.

War Eagle Top 10 for 2007

some dude did this Auburn Top 10 Plays of 2007 for the youtube. looking back on this i realize that there really weren't that many awesome moments from this season, but i'm a big fan of the top 5 for sure.

Noel Devine is fucking sick

if you saw any of the game last night you know this statement to be fact. and just for further proof i present you this youtube highlight video. man where was youtube when Bo Jackson was in highschool? damn it...if only Al Gore had invented the internet sooner.

Some Random Thoughts About the New Year's Bowls

watching the Sugar Bowl was more like watching a snuff film than a football game. it wasn't even fun after about the end of the 1st quarter. Mark Richt showed his true FSU colors by going for it on 4th down during the 4th quarter in a route. Colt Brennan got his brains knocked out, as well as his draft stock knocked down. and the Fox commentators pretty much made it sound like Hawaii were some nice elves from a magic land who had come to bring us all love and cookies and the run and gun, and instead they were brutally attacked and raped by the savage manbeasts of UGA. Knowshon continues to dance. if you ask a Georgia fan they'll tell you he's better than Darren McFadden and he's winning the Heisman next year. i fucking hate Georgia. black jerseys are totally gay.

Joe McKnight is fucking sick. after emerging from the 10 player backfield he'd been part of all year, he exploded for 2006 all purpose yards in the Rose Bowl. i don't know if he's the next Reggie Bush, but he might just be the best freshman runningback in one of the best freshman classes in years. Georgia looked impressive against an over matched Hawaii, but USC looked downright unstoppable against Illinois. they coulda hung 100 on the Zookers if they'd wanted to. a UGA vs USC Rose Bowl really would have been a much better matchup. fuck the Rose Bowl in it's ass for following the Big 10 vs Pac 10 tradition.

other thoughts
-i totally expected Arkansas to lose their matchup with Missouri, but i didn't expect them to get completely demolished. forget all the negative things i said about Mizzou. those kids can play.
-Florida went and fucked up and SEC's bragging rights by losing to Michigan's lousy ass. at the end of the day Florida really aren't as good as everyone thinks they are. their best wins this season were against FSU, Tennessee, and Kentucky. they don't play any fucking defense, and if you can stop Tebow then you can pretty much beat them. they'll go into next season as a top 5 team...but i'm not so sure they deserve it.
-Tennessee beat Wisconsin in the most boring of bowl games. who watched this shit besides fans of those two schools?

WEST FUCKING VIRGINIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh Shit! Bob Stoops, you can't win a BCS game to save your life. West Fucking Virginia (aka my favorite team to play as on NCAA Football 2008) just straight thugged it's way past the always underachieving Oklahoma Sooners. let's just go ahead and take them out of the 2008 National Title discussion because we ALL know that they're gonna lose some inexplicable games next season, not to mention get spanked and/or embarrassed in their fucking bowl game next year. but seriously you gotta feel good for those kids in West Virginia. they've got the BCS title game in their grasp and then lose to a SHITTY Pitt team, then their coach bolts for the BIG HOUSE...which leads to much ugliness (lawsuits, crying, lawsuits). Everyone had them written off. and how do they respond? they don't just beat the Sooners, they straight fucking kicked their motherfucking ass! wow, i think Noel Devine just scored another 60 yard touchdown. i sure as shit am not looking forward to Auburn playing these guys next year.

Victory...it Tastes Like Chicken

i spent New Years eve with my dad and 70 thousand plus drunk rednecks enjoying the Chick-Fil-A Bowl in Atlanta as my Auburn Tigers unleashed the spread attack on those other Tigers who wear Orange, Clemson.

i'll admit that i was giddy with excitement when Auburn took the field in a 5 receiver set on their first possession of the game. i appreciate what Al Borges helped the Tigers pull off in 2004, but i'm glad to see the West Coast offense go. if i had to watch another play action pass my fucking head was gonna explode.

"hope springs eternal" would be the theme of the evening. Mario Fannin and Kodi Burns both look like THE FUTURE of this new spread offense. Fannin is as lethal a receiver as Auburn has had from the Runningback position in years...or at least he was New Year's eve. and Burns looks like he could end up being the best threat we've at QB since Dameuyne Craig. the young receiving corp should thrive in this new passing attack, as long as Kodi is half the passer he is the runner. all in all I'm hanging my hat on these two freshman as the best building blocks for a possible return to the SEC title game in the next few years.

the offense ran something like 90 plays....which was like 2 games worth of offense compared the rest of this season. the young o-line has really gelled together well and they are chop blocking like true champions. (watch your ACL motherfucker...we iz coming 4 yr ass). Tate, Lester, and Fannin all looked go running toss sweeps and taking the handoff out of the shotgun formation. hopefully incoming freshman Enrique Davis can add some explosiveness to an already solid backfield. but it was Burns that really stole the show. playing a significant amount and keeping Clemson's defense off balance. he did most of his damage on the ground with 69 yards rushing but he also tossed a touchdown pass to Fannin, but it was the game winning run in overtime that really has me dreaming big things for the Tigers next year. never have i felt so euphoric after an Auburn victory in a meaningless bowl game in a non-championship year as i did after this one. with the best defense in the SEC coming back and a new spread offense with a athlete like Burns running it, 2008 is set to be a big year.

as for senior QB Brandon Cox, thanks for the wins against Florida and Bama and for 4th and forever against UGA in '05, you were a true warrior and you leave the school with 27 wins as a 3 year starter. great stat and all, but don't let the door hit you on the way out. i've never hated and loved a Qb so much as you.

so Auburn closes the book on '07 with a big win.

WAR FUCKING EAGLE!