Football Thoughts

• I was lucky enough to catch two great endings: LSU/Georgia (3 TDs in last 5 minutes) and Michigan/Michigan State (overtime loss by Michigan after a furious rally to tie it).
• Texas Tech looked awful until halftime against New Mexico (which might be the worst team in Division I.) It all changed when they made a quarterback switch due to injury, and I bet there's now a quarterback controversy in Lubbock.
• The Texas/OU game in two weeks has lost a ton of luster. OU falls to 2-2 after losing to Miami. But I'm not certain Texas will win that game because I don't know if they are any good- they've played no one and only have Colorado next week which is also not a challenge.
• I don't know who is any good. This year's Cinderella, unbeaten Houston, gets beat by awful UTEP team, 58-41.
• And everyone wondered if unbeaten A&M was for real. Uh, not so much: Arkansas takes them down 47-19. (The game was at JerryWorld and we learned the Razorback fans still travel like they always have.)
• Obscure question: In the 4th quarter of the OU/Miami game, a Miami receiver catches the ball, makes a first, and then goes out of bounds. Color man Kirk Herbstreit says he should of stayed in bounds to use more clock. Normally, after a first down the clock is stopped but rolls again once the ball is set. But that's exactly what happened on the next play even though the receiver went out of bounds. Is that right?
• I really like knowing all the rules so stuff like that bugs me.
• Baylor played Kent State and won handily. But they looked awful. Absolutely awful. We go to OU next week and might not score a single point.
• TCU remains unbeaten but will have to go to BYU later in the season. For them, it's just a matter of staying focused.
• Miami is back to its old ways: The starting QB has "SWAG" as in "swagger" cut into his hair on the side.
• Fun game next week: Unbeaten Florida goes to unbeaten LSU for a night game in what is probably the wildest stadium for a night game in America.
• Today, I bet Denver beats Dallas.
• Huh?: I just looked up and saw Channel 8's Debbie Denmon is interviewing one of the gay men getting a divorce in Dallas live and on the set. But they are referring to him only as "J.B." to protect him.

Saturday Giggle

Friday Night Lights: That Bridgeport Game Looks Exciting

Alvord (2-2) 26 Muenster Sacred Heart (3-2) 14 Graham (4-0) 49 Bridgeport (1-3) 48 Edit: Got a message from a very reliable source that read, "ESPN and [UT quarterback] Colt McCoy are at the Bridgeport/Graham game." It's an off week for Texas so he's got some free time. Just not sure what the connection would be. Edit: The answers came flooding in.

Who Knew There Were That Many Indians?

Credit.

Does This Look Like . . .

. . . a man who would kidnap his ex-wife near Teasley Lane in Denton and then leave her naked in Corinth? Buddy, trust me, you can't be treating ex-wives life that.

Olympics 2016

It's not Chicago. (Let the Obama haters jump on this.) It's not Tokyo. Madrid and Rio are left. I'm guessing Rio. Edit @ 11:51: Once again, I am all knowing. It is Rio De Janeiro. (Did you just think it was a coincidence that just two weeks ago I posted this beach pic from Rio?) Edit: Girls celebrate Rio's big win.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• Elizabeth Smart's father has always struck me as odd. (She testified yesterday regarding her abduction years ago.) And I'm still not sure she's not in a state of zombie shock. (My own trademarked medical term.)
• Maybe I'm getting old, but I watched more of the National Parks special last night on PBS. Great stuff.
• The Fort Worth Weekly has its 2009 "Best Of" edition out this week. But I don't know where to find a hard copy of it anymore.
• I love any "Best Of" edition.
• Had an impromptu picture taken last week. The person holding the camera told me to "suck in your gut."
• The Olympic location for 2016 will be announced today (Obama is overseas working his magic on behalf of Chicago.) I think it's cool when the head of the Olympic committee makes his announcement and the screen is divided with a camera on the crowds in each of the finalist cities. (If that makes sense.)
• I've said it before: Those Bill Curtis commercials for AT&T Internet services are weirdly uncomfortable.
• Fox 4's Dan Godwin is really beginning to get on my nerves.
• Michael Jackson's autopsy revealed he was 5'9".
• Holdout Michael Crabtree has now proven that he's the dumbest man of America. I don't ever remember a drafted NFL player not signing and then going back into the following year's draft. Who would touch him next year?
• I ran across four goth kids while jogging yesterday. One was an angry female teenager with jet black hair, black eye shadow, and a I-Hate-The-World attitude.
• This week I met what might be the hottest 40 something in the history of ever.
• MzChief's comparison of the FBI's stopping of the teenager from "blowing up" a building in Dallas to cops stopping a guy from killing me didn't make sense. (It's in the comments under yesterday's Random Thoughts.) That hypothetical arrestee could actually do what he planned. The Dallas teenager could not.
• Fell asleep last night to Sarah McLaughlin singing live on Austin City Limits. Nice.
• Just released: Unemployment is now at 9.8%. That's up from last month. This Recession isn't over yet.

The Big News On Friday Is . . .

Link.

The Book Cover Is Now Amongst Us

Thank god she has that lapel pen on.

"The room is spinning because of all of the gayness." - Ricky Bobby

A voter-approved state constitutional amendment and the Texas Family Code prohibit same-sex marriages or civil unions. And the Texas attorney general had intervened in the two men’s divorce case, arguing that since a gay marriage isn’t recognized in Texas, a Texas court can’t dissolve one through divorce.

But Dallas state District Judge Tena Callahan ruled Thursday that the state's bans on same-sex marriage violates the constitutional guarantee to equal protection under the law.

Story. Edit: Here's a bombshell: Bud Kennedy reported that the judge represented the two men as their attorney in 1999 in this case.

Thursday Afternoon Pick Me Up

Britney in Target.

I Bring You: The SMU Pony Boys!!!!

Credit

As Much As ESPN Beats Me Down, This Is Pretty Funny

The PeopleOfWalmart.Com . . .

. . . just keeps on bringing it.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• After watching the Cowboys on Monday night, I was reminded how much ESPN's Chris Berman sucks the life force out of me.
• Walked by a pharmacy in a grocery store last night and saw the longest line ever.
• I've never had a flu shot.
• GM's Saturn line was going to be sold to Penske, but not anymore. That line of car is officially dead.
• I like the words "strong cold front."
• I'm surprised we haven't broken out into a crazed Swine Flu Panic.
• Sarah Palin's new book is #1 on pre-orders on Amazon? Do we need to know anything else about the state of America?
• I've stopped watching DVDs.
• This blog got mentioned in jury selection on Tuesday by a potential juror in the Wise County Court at Law. That also got the person struck off the panel by one of the lawyers. (I wasn't there.)
• Some people start off everyday with a Facebook update of, "Everyone make it a great day!!!" I'm not one of those kind of people.
• Did you know Marion Barber left the stadium on Monday night after he was told he wouldn't play due to injury. Then Wade Phillips lied to the media about it on Tuesday.
• I'm still amazed everyone thinks the arrest of the 19 year old "terrorist" in Dallas is a huge victory on the War on Terror. Don't you think if the Feds dedicated a krillion dollars to monitoring white supremacy chat rooms they could at least find one teenage idiot who, after weeks and weeks of coaxing, would agree to park a free fake car bomb at, say, a Grambling State game?
• Ken Burns has a new series on PBS about our National Parks. I blew by it last night and got sucked in for about 45 minutes. Now I'm mad at myself for not visiting even more of America.
• If you like high school football screw ups, I've got a doozy for you: Fast forward to around 1:20 if you don't want a big set up. Man, oh man.
• China had a military parade yesterday. Wow, they are impressive. And I think Vegas would make them the favorite in a war with us.

ESPN and The Mexican

This is weird. A buddy of mine pointed out a very odd "rule" in a long set of rules in a sports game hosted by ESPN.com. The game seems fairly simply, keep alive the longest streak of winning predictions on particular games (i.e. which team will win) or propositions (i.e. will the first points be a TD or a field goal). How to play the game here. But when he looked at the official rules, (you know that boilerplate stuff about how employees and family members of ESPN are ineligible, blah, blah, blah), he ran across Rule 14.4: What's up with that?

Breaking Up The Routine

Wednesday Afternoon Pick Me Up

Shakira say's that she was bored by that last Second Amendment post.