you know, this year i really haven't been rooting for a single team in these playoffs. it's so far been about which team i hate the most that i want to lose, more than who i actually would like to see win....but then someone sent me this video today and i think i've settled on who i wanna see win that Superbowl trophy.
how come nobody told me about this?!?! goddamn you all to hell.
last night one of my alltime favorite bands of my youth, Jawbox, reunited and played their classic "Savory" on the Jimmy Fallon Show. it was the band's first performance in 12 years. i don't even wanna guess how many girls in high school got a mix tape from me with this fucking song on it.
i was flipping back and forth between the UGA/SCar and Auburn/Miss St all night because i live in a house divided (fucking Georgia fan girlfriend) but i did get to watch the entire end of the Dawgs victory over the Ole Ball Coach and got to witness this little piece of awesome.
check the Georgia State Trooper fist bump after the Cocks lost and Spurrier gets his.
i love the fucking South for 3 reasons: warm weather, Southern girls, and College football fandom.
the way King James and Nike tried to bury this shit you'd have thought the kid ran up his back, dunked it, and then smacked Lebron in the face with his crotch.
honestly if this bullshit had just gone up on the internet in the first place without Lebron gettin' all pissy about it then noone would have even cared. it's not like the video looks like this...
this is why i follow Shaq on twitter, because not only does he say funny ass shit all the time but he also points me in the direction of awesome youtube clips like this.
this guy has to be seriously the greatest HORSE player of ALL TIME.
i'm too busy with band stuff to dedicate any of my time to sports of late, after Athfest i'll get back on the ball...so instead i leave you with the exact moment the INTERNETS went completely nuclear.
for actual awesome Auburn related recruiting news just go read the JCCW today. there's a lot of it.
first of all i am eliminating Bo Jackson and Michael Jordan from this list because we all know those commercials by heart and instead i am focusing on ones that don't actually matter who or what is in them, just that they are well made moments on advertisement gold.
5. Nike's The Y2K Runner
first off i totally ripped this one from regular commenter JD's blog. i had totally forgotten about this one. it takes me back to the days of millennial dread when some of us were expecting the world to go to shit on the morning of January 1, 2000. this commercial is about a jogger who wakes up on said day and goes for a run as the world collapses around him. totally awesome.
4. Rebook Pumps vs. Nike Air Bungee Jump
this commercial deeply disturbed me as a kid (seriously i had nightmares and still to this day refuse to go bungee jumping)...but it's easily one of the most memorable shoe ads of all time.
3. Nike's Soccer Players vs. Hell
this dream team of world class soccer players vs. the legions of hell is easily the best commercial ever about a sport that i don't give a fuck about.
2. Nike's Briscoe High School Football
everything about this commercial is perfect, from the song choice ("Spirit In the Sky"), to the cameos, to the obvious nod to Friday Night Lights. the first time i saw this commercial i was like "i wish this was a tv show". fucking awesome.
1. Nike's Female Runner vs. Psycho Killer
this is the commercial equivalent of Quentin Tarantino's movie DEATH PROOF. it's the ultimate turning a genre cliche on it's head. this commercial got banned because feminist groups thought it was perpetuating violence towards women...something my girlfriend who is a pretty rational feminist noted as being "fucking stupid to protest" because the woman gets away from the killer by outrunning him and not looking back or falling down or any of the other stupid things that happen in horror movies making this commercial actually about female empowerment...but whatever, that would require people to know anything about pop culture. it's easier just to get angry at something. regardless of all that, i think this commercial is awesome.
man i got nothing today. it's boring. i'm gonna watch Wrath Of Khan again and eat icecream. here's Junior Rosegreen's famous hit where he killed Reggie Brown for you all to enjoy.
Auburn's down. Our Enemies are strong on all sides. Darkness has swept the land. It's Time For A Training Montage Motherfucker!!!
Oh yeah, and go see Star Trek...it totally kicks ass even if you aren't a big fucking nerd. Like my brother said, "it's the best 'Star' anything in years." True dat.
maybe my original prediction of a 5 game series was a little too optimistic for the Hawks. granted they lost every single game against the Heat in blowout fashion and when this series gets back to Atlanta you'd hope the Hawks bother showing up...but DAMN!!! watching Lebron dominate just made me glad he didn't stay with football and wasn't terrorizing NFL QB's right now as the most athletic defensive end in history or burning linebackers for 70 yard tds as the greatest tight end in league history. i mean can you imagine?
seriously, James has to be the best all around athlete i've seen since Bo Jackson.
speaking of basketball players who could've been awesome football players...check out this video of Allen Iverson as a highschool QB/Punt Returner/Defensive Back/Runningback. he looks Vick-like.
via Auburntron. someone has compiled together the hopeful future of the Auburn Tigers running game with this mix of Seastruck, Lattimore, & Dyer highlights. enjoy.
one of the greatest opening lines of all time, "In the city there's a thousand things I want to say to you" plus an intro by Tony Wilson who makes a point of calling out elitist snobs. God, i fucking love The Jam!
being a child of the 1980s meant that i had 2 loves...GI JOE and the 1985 Chicago Bears. thankfully someone was smart enough to combine them both. William "The Refrigerator" Perry wasn't just a big fatass defensive tackle who stole Walter Peyton's touchdown in the Super Bowl...we was also a member of the United States' Elite Fighting Force. Yo Joe indeed.
man i loved the GI Joe mail away figures. pure marketing genius.