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By Mark D, December 20, 2010 4:00 am

I didn’t even think this was a real story until I googled it.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported Sunday that a California artist has been chosen for the project and revealed a few interesting details, courtesy of sources close to the team.

The statue will depict Lemieux, circa 1988-89, splitting two Islanders defenders, who will remain unidentified per Lemieux’s request. The plan for a statue of Mario Lemieux splitting two Islanders defenders, circa the 1988-89 season, is in the process of being finalized.

Do I care that Pittsburgh is putting up a statue to Mario Lemieux? No, not at all.

Do I find it insulting that they are going to use two Islanders Defenders (even if unidentified) as part of the statue? YES!

There is absolutely no reason that the Islanders organization should go along with this. There is no need for the statue to have any identifying marks other then Mario. I mean how many statues actually show the defending players anyway? Micheal Jordan isn’t dunking over anyone. Somehow Wayne Gretzky can make due with a statue of him holding the Stanley Cup over his head. But Mario, no. He needs to be splitting two Islanders defenders.

Personally, I think Mario hates the Islanders. Because the Islanders stopped his Penguins dreams of being a Dynasty, of being more then a back to back Cup winner. The Islanders team should have never gotten to game 5 in 1993, let alone beat that Penguins team in 7 games. That was always the last Hurrah of the Islanders. Lemieux was never the same player again over the next few seasons as a multitude of injuries and degenerative conditions made playing a complete season tough. Given the failures of the Islanders since that great run in 1993, I’ve always felt they were cursed by Mario.

So in response to this news of a Mario Statue featuring two Islander players, I Demand that the Islanders put up a Statue of David Volek scoring an Overtime Game Winning Goal on an Unnamed Penguins Goalie in an Unnamed Game Seven of an Unidentified playoff series between the two teams in 1993.

Until the Penguins announce that the Islanders will not be a part of this statue, I say let’s make the Volek statue.

Plus I hate Pittsburgh anyway. It seems like everything bad that happens to one of my teams is always tied into Pittsburgh:

• The Mario Curse on the Islanders (No Playoff Wins since 93)
• The Islanders suck for almost 20 years, but the Penguins get Sidney Crosby after 4 bad seasons
• The Jets sign Neil O’Donnel from the Steelers, team collapses.
• The Jets kicker misses 3 field goals against the Steelers in the divisional round. Steelers win the game in OT via FG and go on to lose to the Pats, a team the Jets had beaten during the season.
• The Mets sign Bobby Bonilla from the Pirates and he is a bust beyond belief.
• The Steelers always get almost every call in their favor, and have cheated their way to a Super Bowl appearance (Kordell Stewart went out the back of the endzone and came back in on the winning TD catch that got them to the Super Bowl against the Cowboys) and Super Bowl Win (the Win against the Seahawks was a joke)
• Plus my ex girlfriend and her family are from Philly but like the Steelers. And she was a slut. So Fuck her and Pittsburgh

So let’s get to work on the David Volek 1993 Memorial Statue starring an Unidentified Penguins goalie whose last name begins with a B! Spread the word and let’s try using a twitter hash, #VolekStatue. It’s bad enough that the Islanders are struggling like they are, but let’s not let another team make a Statue mocking our team.

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By Mark D, August 31, 2010 8:14 pm

Mark Sanchez and the Jets are early favorites to be Super Bowl contenders. That goes hand in hand with their current media blitz on Hard Knocks. People though seem to have forgotten that Sanchez entered last season with a little more then a dozen games of college experience. Or that at one point last season Sanchez bottomed out with a 5 interception, 8.3% Passing rating game against Buffalo while the Jets went on a 1-6 skid. Actually the Jets were undefeated (5-0) when Sanchez had less then 20 attempts. Sanchez was anything but important to the Jets run, as just about any game manager could have led the Jets to the playoffs (unless the Colts don’t play Curtis Painter).

It’s never sexy to talk about a strong defense and a solid running game. That’s why Tom Brady is on the cover of every teen beat, while the average person has never heard of Michael Strahan. But it was Revis and the Jet’s D that got them into the playoffs and nearly into the Super Bowl. If the Jet’s are going to get back there again, even with the addition of Santonio Holmes and the training camp with Braylon Edwards, it’s going to be the defense. All the passing game is going to have to do is be just good enough so that teams can’t stack the box.

I’m sorry, but if you imagined Sanchez possibly having a career year for Jet’s QBs throwing to Holmes and Edwards, it’s not going to happen. Hopefully Little Schotty realizes this just as much and keeps to the running game. LaDamian Tomilison is already showing flashes of his former self behind a much better line. If Shohn Greene can continue his performance from the playoffs the Jets might once again have by far the best running game in the league. Run, Run, Run and Run some more. When teams start stacking the box, it’s time for screen  passes to LDT or short passes to Holmes. Last year the Jet’s didn’t seem to have those options.

The other big thing people forget about Sanchez last year was that he wasn’t under pressure to do anything other then be a better QB then Clemens. Most people predicted a 5 or 6 win season from the Jets at most.  Sanchez became a star so quickly (and despite a middling at best season) because Eli Manning is the black hole of charisma. There is no more boring human being on the planet then Eli Manning. And when the QB is considered the face of the Franchise, the media is going to love someone that shows personality.

So what do I expect from this team? All along I’ve felt like the Jets are going to be a 7-9 or 9-7 team. I think some of the moves the Jets made look good if you don’t consider the player is on the downside of his career. Or if you don’t consider why the player was a free agent (Nick Folk). I get the feeling that if Leon Hess still ran the team, he would have thrown every penny he had at the team to make sure they won during this uncapped season. I don’t think you would be seeing Alan Fanacea or Thomas Jones leaving the team. I think Mike Tannenbaum thinks he’s smarter then he is, and made too many “smart” moves over moves that would have made the team better.

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By admin, December 29, 2009 12:33 am

I don’t know why I turn on ESPN sometimes. Maybe I just like getting my intelligence insulted. The claim on ESPN from all the genius talking heads is that the Jets don’t deserve to be in a win and in situation because the Colts took the game off.

To begin with, none of these talking heads mentioned that the Broncos are losers of their last seven of nine games yet are still in a win and in position. If anything the team that doesn’t deserve to be there at all is the Broncos. The Jets have the #1 Defense in the league, the #1 Running game in the league. Why shouldn’t they be challenging for a playoff birth this late.

If I was the Colts, the last thing I would have wanted was to enter the playoffs 16-0. Sure, you have the possibility of being the first undefeated team to win the Super Bowl since the legendary Miami team. But you also run the possibility of being the first 16-0 team to not make it past the 2nd round. The possibility of being the first 16-0 team not to make it to the Conference Championship. If it was me, I’d rather lose during the regular season any time then lose in the Super Bowl. I’m sure anyone from New England would tell you the same.

Its just another reason to hate on ESPN. Half-Assed coverage of your favorite teams, yay. Maybe ESPN should go cover why ESPN decided to ignore the whole Big Ben situation until it blew up huge. Meanwhile they jumped on the whole Tiger situation the second it happened. Jeez, I don’t know what the difference between Tiger and Big Ben might be.

Also can I say I love how Farve is totally falling apart again, but we hear no mention of it from the love-fest for Farve that is ESPN. A bad story about Farve from ESPN? Never. I get so annoyed when I turn on ESPN even for a few seconds.

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By admin, September 13, 2009 6:01 pm

Hooray! The Jets get a win, which surprises me. With some of the best parts of the Jets Defense out suspended, the “smart” pick was with the Texans. The Texans who still haven’t shaken off the label of Expansion team. The Texans who traded Sage Rosenfels because Matt Schaub looks so much better.

Even better though was checking out the stats for Detroit. So I use Yahoo usually and wanted to see the box score. Yahoo has a quick stat box in the corner showing you the top performers. Detroit’s top performer was Kevin Smith (The guy from Clerks?) with an amazing 20 yards on 15 carries and 1 TD. Wow, I should bet against the Lions all season long, cause its not looking pretty. Don’t go by the final score, its obvious the Saints half assed it after halftime cause the game was in the bag.

My other prediction of the Dolphins collapsing this season in the face of tougher competition looks like it’ll come true too.

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By , January 17, 2009 2:01 am

Lets make it simple. Theres been far too many coaches of the Jets since I’ve become a Jets fan. Lets just go over everyone thats been a coach of them since I started watching.

Bruce Coslet
Pete Carroll (1 Season)
Rich Kotite (2 Seasons)
Bill Belichek (A Week)
Bill Parcells
Bill Belichek (A Day)
Al Groh (1 Season)
Herm Edwards
Eric Mangini

Meanwhile at the same time the Giants have only had 3 coaches and none of them have had a single season.

Dan Reeves
Jim Fassel
Tom Coughlin

Also during this time the Giants have gone to two Super Bowls winning one. Meanwhile the Jets have only gotten to the Confrence championship once and were routed by Elway on his way to his second Super Bowl. The fired Jets coaches have not had any particullar successes in the NFL, as it should be pointed out that Bellicheck was never fired. Coslet went on to be a bookmark in how bad the Bengals are, Carroll started the Pats on a downward slide till Belichek took them over, Kotite is out of Football, Parcells hasn’t been back to the Confrence championship, Al Groh went on to college coaching, Herm has destroyed the Chiefs and Mangini will continue to fail with the Browns.

I never did like Mangini. My feeling was that Herm Edwards final season was doomed due to Penningtons Injury. Anyone could have come back and coached them to the playoffs that year. It should be even more obvious how poor Mangini’s coaching is in that he never seemed to trust or like Pennington. He was always trying to get him out. He finally succeeded and Pennington proceeded to have a spectacular season for Miami of all teams. Not only that, but in shoving Chad out the door they ALLOWED Chad to go to Miami of all places.

Its rather sad that both Shannahan and Cowher will not be taking over the Jets. It seems to be the problem is that Tannenbuam will not hand over any of the GM duties he is currently doing. I was obviously in fear that the Jets might hire Calhoun, but hopefully that ship has left port already. There was also Schotty Jr, Rex Ryan and Spangulo fighting for the job. Truthfully between those three I’d go for Ryan, just because I’m a huge fan of Buddy Ryan. Spangulo gets overrated considering the level of talent that is on the Giants Defense. Schotty Jr would be the last guy I wanted, cause I never liked his dad. And I’m shocked he’s even still on staff, you think if anyone deserves the blame for what happened it would have been the offense. Supposedly if the Jets did fire him, other teams would want him as Head Coach which shocks me. Not only due to the failures of the Jets offense, but the problems Old Marty had getting wins in the playoffs.

In the end, the Jets will find a way to screw this up most likely. Its depressing being a Jets fan. Theres never been those great Franchise Players on the Roster. Its always been guys towards the end with an empty tank, except for Curtis Martin. Right now it looks like the Jets will be heading into the season without a solid QB, and might have more questions then answers if Brett does returns.  Kellen Clemmens is obviously not the answer from anyone thats already watched him. Brett Ratcliff has put up impressive numbers when he played in the preseason this year. The main reason I’d want the Jets to get Rex Ryan is because I’d rather have an impressive defense and shitty offense. That way the Jets wouldn’t have to rely on a Clemmens or a Farve.

Of course my biggest hope is that they hire the recently released Jon Gruden. A lot of people are scratching their heads at his firing, and the Jets should move in ASAP and sign him. Between having a Super Bowl win in Tampa and his lack of Quality QBs yet keeping the team afloat should be more then enough of a reason for the Jets to get him. As many people have pointed out, the Bucs fired Gruden, and unless they get Cowher or Shannahan they are definitely downgrading in the coaching position.

I have my fingers crossed for the Jets, but its always the worst possible choice except for when they got Parcells.