Rush Sacked by Own Teammates

Normally I don't like to mix politics with sports as sports are pure and politics are a very dirty game that should not be mixed with anything other than those credents who want to play the game. But our own dirty fat man Rush Limbaugh has been unfairly treated by his own teammates, former NY Knick President Dave Checketts who with a group is trying to buy the St. Louis Rams and due to the left wing influence of multi-millioniare owner Jim Irsay of the Indianapolis Colts has decided to bench Rush and his money in their quest to buy the Rams.

The left wingers prohibited Rush baby from owning an NFL franchise. When the going gets tough Rush the tough get going so jump aboard the train of a billion oppressed souls my friend and put on the ear plugs and turn up the volume of "The Best of George W. Bush" self help tapes. It's time to pull yourself up by the bootstraps their young buckeroo! Crying and complaining will get you no where so after you are done complaining to your personal chef that the lobster was not as juicy this time wipe that butter off of your face and get a good grip on those bootstraps and pull yourself up and one day you can own an NFL franchise!" You better hear those words quick Rush because I am getting pretty motivated myself about putting in a bid for the Rams.

During the Rush Limbaugh show Rush baby cried foul as his teammates sacked the idea of him being an investor. I guess Rush's teammates were left wingers?

Limbaugh said on his radio show earlier Wednesday that he had been inundated with e-mails from listeners who supported him in the bid.

"This is not about the NFL, it's not about the St. Louis Rams, it's not about me," Limbaugh said. "This is about the ongoing effort by the left in this country, wherever you find them, in the media, the Democrat Party, or wherever, to destroy conservatism, to prevent the mainstreaming of anyone who is prominent as a conservative.

"Therefore, this is about the future of the United States of America and what kind of country we're going to have."

Oh my goodness it's Otter all over again. How dare those modern day leftists Neidermeyers, Greggie and Dean Wormer oppress our Rush! It's an outrage and the bad mouthing of the United States of America and I am not about to sit here and let those NFL owners, along with Dave Checketts and the guys who want to buy the Rams bad mouth the United States of America! Hell no, take to the streets, burn down the country clubs in a modern day South Central LA to vehemently protest the left wingers in Rush's neighborhood!

Actually Rush baby most of the NFL owners who hold the vote on admitting you are not are not left wingers. No they are conservatives. They are the wealthy class but they also know they want to appease their audience and having a person of your character or lack of character that is above that game as you proved in your short stint on NFL Today Show. As a professional news guy you should know that you cannot say racist comments and get away with it unless you want to inspire division and hatred as your show does so well. As for Donovan McNabb being supported by the media to succeed because he was black per your expect professional sports opinion....well McNabb just happens to be one of the most successful playoff quarterbacks in today's game. He has taken the Eagles to a handful of NFC title games in his eight years at the helm in Philadelphia and one Super Bowl. He has yet to win a ring but is a winner and having Rush baby try to berate him on National television due to the color of his skin was absolutely deplorable and bad for the game and the image of the NFL.

Take a look at the NFL Rush baby, what is the percentage of players that are black? Quite a few that you lose count. I don't think the NFL wants to tarnish their image because of your comments and you Rush baby are responsible for what you say so quit trying to blame the left wingers for your actions. If you want to blame others for your actions than it might be time for you to jump in bed with all the minorities, the poor, and the welfare mothers that you condemn for blaming others for their actions and problems.

I have no problem with Rush owning an NFL franchise, he is entitled as anyone else but the league consists of owners who value their product and Limbaugh for his comments not his political affiliation would bring protests to the NFL and that is something that would devalue all the NFL franchises. So fact is Rush you are bad for business.

Fish No Fluke

Don't be against the Dolphins this year in any game where they are an underdog. Why? This team has a very potent running attack. Move over Adrian Petersen the two headed monster in Miami of Brown and Williams just got better by subtraction. It's already tough enough to defend the Dolphins NFL Wildcat offense with Williams, Brown and speedy receivers running around the end but the loss of Chad Pennington just made them better.

No offense to Pennington he is a superb NFL quarterback who led the Dolphins to a division championship in 2008 but when he went down with a season ending injury in comes Chad Henne and the Dolphins become a serious force to be reckoned with in the NFC East. Not that Henne is a great QB but his strong arm will start to stretch the field and make former first round draft selection Ted Ginn the type of receiver he was projected as when coming out after his junior season at Ohio State. Ginn can now use his world class speed to stretch the field and safeties must respect the long ball because Ginn can run past the corners and where Pennington could not get the ball down field Henne can.

Now that Ginn gets better fellow receivers will get better as the short passes will open up. No longer will the safeties be able to crowd the line of scrimmage not that they were all that effective against the Dolphins prior to Henne but now they will be almost non-existent when Henne is on the field. Even when Henne is not on the field the Dolphins can bring in running back /quarterback Pat White who can throw and run the ball effectively which is going to baffle opposing defenses for the remainder of the season. Bill Belicheck and his Patriots will have their hands full trying to compete with Miami with their young defense versus the plethora of problems the Dolphins offense now poses.

In week #2 the Dolphins proved they could compete with the elite teams as they nearly knocked off the NFL's superman Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts as they used a ball controlled offense to keep the Colt offense off the field for 45 of the 60 minutes of play, unfortunately the game ended in defeat for the Dolphins but don't expect that anymore.

The NFL is a better league now with the Miami Wildcat offense and now potent passing attack that has Miami on the verge of a high octane ball controlled offense with a serious deep threat. Anyone who took Miami to win more than 9 games this season can start counting their money!

All Dolphins Monday Night

Everyone seems to be on the Jets tonight. Let's make this short and sweet the Dolphins will win this game. Why?

In a game between QB's Mark Sanchez has been getting a lot of spotlight. He is actually no more experienced than Dolphin QB, the strong armed Chad Henne. The difference in the game will be the Dolphins running game which will take pressure off of Henne and the home field which will fuel the emotions in the Dolphins defense which will step it up showing the the rest of the league they are a well rounded football team and the defending AFC East champs.

Money is on the Jets. Put it on the Dolphins. Monday night home dogs are traditionally tough to beat outright.

Gators at Home in the Bayou

The Gators from Gainesville are the top ranked football team in what is deemed as the toughest, most athletic conference in college football. The men riding the rough and tough Gator football machine is the coach of the decade who has won two national championships with the University of Florida but also took the Falcons of Bowling Green to two straight bowl games at the turn of the decade and ran the table at Utah with an undefeated record in 2004 before turning turning down Notre Dame for football wins at Florida. No doubt the most productive coach of the decade if Florida is not the team of the decade.

In the animal world Gators are at home in the swamps and that is Bayou Country where one of the great US deals was made for land from the state of Louisiana for where the purchase was named for all the way across the world of college football encompassing Urban Meyers former school Utah into the Oregon Coast. And what a deal it was a couple of flu ridden blankets, limitless rot gut whiskey, guns, bullets, and probably a couple of bags of cocaine for which the white man might as well take credit for introducing to the red man. What a deal get the Indian liquored up, give him a gun and a little nose candy just to make him restless enough that he starts shooting something up giving the US blue coats reason to take more land forcibly. But for the moment back to Bayou country......Gators fair very well there and they will be squaring off against the Bayou Bengals. Now on a neutral field I would have to take the Bayou Bengal but the Bengal is fictional in Louisiana with the exception of a few zoos they are indigenous to Asia. But for a scrap in the state of Louisiana I would have to take the Gator to catch the Tiger off guard with an underwater attack crippling the big cat before the kill.

Fortunately this Saturday night in Baton Rouge in a place affectionately known as Death Valley where many mascots have shown up and perished in defeat to the Tigers there will be 90,000 plus crazy eyed Cajuns fresh off of two days of marinating themselves in Hurricane juices which is quite the social beverage on the cocktail circuits of Louisiana consisting of various rums, vodkas, and tidied up with some delicious nutritious fruit juices and topped off with the ever sweet cherry taste of grenadine. Oh it is quite the beverage one every college kid and person for that matter should indulge in while visiting the Cajun State. Even those brave Gator souls that will be making the trip to Baton Rouge this Saturday night because sometimes its just better to get a little bit liquored up around the enemy. Because the Florida Gators will be the enemy and the Tigers along with their non-hospitable fans will be making life an absolute madhouse where Tim Tebow will pick up on some bad habits un-conducive to his Bible toting ways. Your bible and the peace sign might work in the Philippines Timmy but there will be no peace for you till after the game is played when the Bayou Band of Miscreants is expecting to hand the top ranked Gators their first loss and elevate them a notch or two up the college rankings.

Obviously gibberish from liquor soaked fans causing mayhem and mythical Louisiana Tigers going to war with Alligators will have nothing to do with this battle on the gridiron. The biggest effect on this game between the chalk lines will be the other team that has a gripe about being the team of the decade. The Louisiana State Tigers have every right to put their name on team of the decade with two national championships themselves. Ironically, both teams won their national titles against the same two teams, Oklahoma and my beloved Buckeyes from Ohio. So we know the team not ranked #1 can play football.

Another factor on the side of the Tigers will be revenge. Nothing like a revenge game to get some of the best athletes in college football ultra motivated. Urban will need his best game plan if he is going to come out of Death Valley with a win. This will also be the biggest test for both teams. LSU is just off of a win between the hedges in Athens, Georgia against fellow SEC tough guy U, the Georgia Bulldogs while the biggest test to date for the Gators was in their house against rookie coach Lane Kiffin's Tennessee Volunteers in a re-building mode.

Timmy Heisman has a huge task that not even Superman is capable of overcoming. Timmy has been likened to Superman but he was hit so hard two weeks ago he is still coming out of his tizzy after being clobbered by a Kentucky lineman under the face guard right in the kisser and those guys in the Bourbon State are not kryptonite. The task to win in Death Valley is much greater. Timmy will have to tighten up his chin strap, jock strap, and any other strap he can tighten up because the noise alone on a Saturday night in Death Valley is enough to send Timmy back to goofyville. The players on the other side are certainly ornery and jacked up to send Timmy and the Gators out of their house with hurt feelings and wounds that will need to be licked.

Timmy is good though; Timmy is great too. Timmy will bring it to the Tigers but if he is going to come out with a win he will not be doing it running away like last year's blowout. This is enough reason to take offense to the 7.5 point spread the old men in Vegas have put on this game. Can you say slap in the face to a team at home that is also making an argument for team of the decade?

If LSU doesn't win this game it will be a SEC clash of the Titans classic that has the makings of being on ESPN Classic Instant Hits and these games are within a touchdown!

Fit, 40, and Undefeated

What can you say positive about Brett Favre that has not already been said? Not much so I guess that is why the youthful sportswriters of today have taken it upon themselves to try and blast Brett Favre for any shortcomings. Many of today's online writers have no clue that Brett Favre won a Super Bowl in January of 1997. Heck can you blame them not many of them were out of diapers back than and some probably were barely a swimmer out of their old man's sack.

Favre has always had one of the strongest arms in the league dating back nearly two decades when the blast from the past Jerry Glanville would bet opposing coaches that he had a freak of a quarterback in Atlanta that could throw the ball out of the stadium. And Favre would throw the ball out of the stadium and then Falcons coach would collect on his wagers. Well Jerry has long departed Atlanta for the greener outdoor pastures of Portland State and it seems appropriate since he traded Favre who has gone on to have a Hall of Fame career with the Green Bay Packers, NY Jets, and now the Minnesota Vikings. But let's look back a little further and before Green Bay when the ignorance of sports writers doesn't realize they are criticizing the he-man of the NFL.

Favre while in college at Southern Mississippi he threw touchdown passes to almost-Jacko, Michael Jackson not of pop fame but a future Pro-Bowl receiver with the Cleveland Browns more than a decade ago. During those illustrious college days his unknown Eagles knocked off top ranked Florida State with future Packer Pro Bowler and current Packer coach Leroy Butler. Prior to beating Florida State in the hey day of Bobby Bowden football in Tallahassee Favre was in a near fatal auto accident where doctors suggested he would never play football again and might not walk again. Well months after the injury the strong armed he man is knocking off the top college team in the country at little known Southern Mississippi. So now the arm chair geniuses are saying its time for Favre to retire. Well I for one don't think and don't want Favre to retire. First of all he is better than 75% of the quarterbacks in the NFL. He still has a stronger arm than 90% of the QB's in the NFL. Now he is with one of the most talented teams in the NFL.

The first two weeks of the football season Adrian Petersen ran wild on the competition. The past two weeks top defenses in San Francisco and Green Bay have geared up to stop "All-Day Petersen" and they have successfully. So who comes to the rescue. The man that turns 40 on Saturday. Two even three years after sports writers have said they were tired of the Favre drama that they all created saying he should retire, saying he was selfish, well if winning is selfish than every NFL team should want a roster full of Brett Favres.

This guy although frequently with a head full of Pacific Northwest Greenery has not just jumped on the bandwagon. It's in black and white in the archives of "All Around Sports". Vikings are on their way to the Super Bowl, where Favre will make a bunch of former Viking Hall of Famers, teammates and front office people happy. Bud Grant will be the first to raise his Viking helmet load it up with beer and start passing the victory cup around starting out with Jim Marshall the wrong way running defensive end who Favre eclipsed this year for the most consecutive games played.

Now the next sportswriter that calls for Favre's retirement before you say anything, make sure you can carry the old man's wrinkled jock strap and that strap cause he will be as tough, football savvy and strong armed at 75 than you will be in your prime. Favre is He Man and when He speaketh football you shalt listen!

Winning to get laid off in Detroit

When it rains it pours. Right behind the unemployment rate and hundreds of thousands of people losing their jobs in the state of Michigan the one silver lining was the Lions won a football game. Life can be oh so cruel and it's going to get a lot crueler come Wednesday morning if the home town Tigers cannot come through with a victory over their nemesis and ever present thorn in the side, Minnesota Twins.

Three years ago the gutty, gritty, young clean cut gang from just north of Iowa in the land of a thousand lakes put together a late season run and was able to catch the Detroit Tigers. Fortunately for Tigertown they never had to face the Twinkies in the playoffs and let someone else do their dirty work en route to a their first World Series appearance since Kirk Gibson won the World Series MVP while playing alongside legendary Detroit icons named Morris, Trammel, Whitacker, Parrish and the lovable, crusty old man affectionately known as Sparky.

This year the joke gets rubbed in a little deeper by the not so hospitable bunch of ball players in a hospitable state full of friendly Minnesotans. Why does it look so grim for Detroit. It starts with blowing a big lead and it doesn't end with not having Verlander on the mound for the one game playoff. It will get uglier with 60,000 hanky wavin' bleary eyed tailgating sports freaks who have been on a bender this weekend. A season ending sweep of the Kansas City Royals including their ace Zack Greinke while the Tigers were mired in mediocrity being able to only salvage a split at home against the Twins sandwiched by series 2-1 losses to the Chicago White Sox who seemed more into the spirit of the playoff race with nothing to gain.

The downfall of Detroit is upon us. One of the greatest sports cities in the United States. The city that hosted arguably the toughest team in the NBA Eastern Conference during the decade and winners of the 2004 NBA Championship along with the team of the decade on ice the Red Wings. The last Red Wing Stanley Cup championship seems like eons ago back in the spring of 2008 when they dispatched of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Soon after the Wings carried the cup around the results of George W. Herbert Bush's failed politics began to cite the Motor City right in the keester. Massive layoffs throttled the city. The big three, General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford have held on for dear life and GM was neutered by the government that realized more leadership into the ground while paying a guy $50 million big big ones in one of the countries most depressed cities was bad for business. For the laid off football in "08 offered no relief but did reflect the victories for the city in the post Wings championship era. No wins, the first NFL team to go defeated in a 16 game schedule. 2009 offered very little in terms of excitement for Detroit. More layoffs. Higher unemployment rates. A population on the move and foreigners coming in with huge coiffures of cash buying up houses at pennies on the dollar while the locals have resorts to sleeping on mom's couch which no longer has a house to shelter it as mom has been put on the street also. The Wings tried to fight back for the city and show some pride in "09 only to be dethroned by the Penguins at the Joe (Louis Arena) in game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. The Lions have been the one silver lining in the whole equation in "09. They showed the city how to scrap for a morsel of pride winning one game but will more than likely fall back into their losing ways.

Next up the Tigers. Where is Sparky? At least he would have something nonsensical to say whereby nothing would be nothing and the Motor City Bengals could at least just go out and play baseball. The Twins might not do what is necessary to win Tuesday night but it appears apparent ever depressing gloomy outlook is the Tigers will find a way to lose.

Hurricane Revenge

Last year the Sooners put the whoppin' on an inexperienced Miami Hurricane squad in Norman. This year will be much different. I am certainly not a rocket scientist and much more likened to a hermit with very little knowledge of the outside world but I do know there are a pack of brilliant old men in Las Vegas putting up numbers on where they think the public will put their money. These brilliant old codgers somehow have a sense that the big bad Crimson uniformed Okies is just going to ride into Miami on their rickety old horse drawn Boomer Schooner and come out better than a touchdown more than the Hurricanes.

I might not be nearly as brilliant as those old men but a few facts I am not sure if they have reviewed. First and foremost Boomer Schooners don't fare well in the face of Hurricane winds. They blow over, their wheels fall off, and the inhabitants look for cover in any place other than their dilapidated covered wagon. I saw the whippin' the Hurricanes took last week when they went into Blacksburg, Virginia. It was 31-7. The Canes looked horrible! If you can get over that horrible showing which young, athletic football players have a habit of doing they will be the ones pulling the ambush this week.

In the world of six degrees of separation Oklahoma lost to BYU in Dallas in week one losing their Heisman winning quarterback, Sam Bradford. Well this week the Sooners will be without their bushy haired QB again. So that doesn't bode well for the Sooners. As for the conquerers of the Sooners the apple pie gang in Provo, Utah the Brigham Young Cougars they tasted a vicious defeat just a week ago at the hands of a very athletic Florida State squad. In the same week the Sooners lost to BYU the Seminoles took it on the chin in Tallahassee against the Hurricanes. So based on silly logic the Sooners lost by one to BYU in their backyard of Dallas, BYU lost by 26 to Florida State just to the east of where the brilliant old men are putting up odds in Las Vegas and the Seminoles lost in their house to the Hurricanes by 4 so simple math would say the Canes are 31 points better than Oklahoma plus you can add another six points for the home field advantage. Problem is if you based your predictions on this nonsense your liable to be put in a rubber room before long or just get the bejeezies beaten out of you by your wife if you are pissing away the kiddies college fund betting against the old men just being plain stupid. Thus we come down to the old adage, "That is why they play the game".

Well here is the game. Oklahoma has beefed up their win total taking out teams that needed a paycheck to come to Norman to get their fannies whipped like an old man chained to the bed getting his money's worth at the hands of a young, seductive, leather clad dominatrix. Landshark stadium in Miami on a Saturday night is going to have a few of these lovely ladies discreetly sitting in the stands whooping it up but the real pain will be felt on the field and the lanky mustachioed freshman Landry Jones will be feeling it tonight as the Sooner offensive line put up very little resistance against BYU it's not going to get any easier against a very physical and exceptionally fast Cane defense. Look for a lot of sacks and even more running backs stuffed than hot pockets in an Oklahoma trailer park.

If Oklahoma is going to win the game their defense will need to come up HUGE. We normally don't use caps with such reckless abandon but the defense is going to need turnovers and scores off of turnovers to beat the Canes by better than a touchdown. On the flip side the Sooner defense is very capable of shutting out most teams in the country as they proved against Idaho State and Tulsa but neither of those teams had Jacory Harris or a legion of tall and speedy receivers.

My prediction here is the old men in Vegas putting out the lines were bound, gagged, tied, whipped and were forcibly having their nuts crushed by a pack of Oklahoma dominatrixes who demanded the absurd seven point spread. Come nightfall in South Florida their is going to be a game played on the field and there will be a lot of unhappy Okies losing their covered wagons in the face of the Hurricane that awaits.