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By Mark D, November 24, 2010 12:44 am

Looking at the Press release for this one, I’m not sure who to blame. It’s either an original series by Yahoo! sponsored by Bud Light, or a Bud Light commercial on Yahoo! Sports. Either way it’s about as dumb and lowest common denominator as it can come. Two guys pretend to be fans from a team that is facing their rivals that week. They proceed to “invade” the home teams turf. For example when the Pats and Colts played, they showed up in Colt outfits and caused trouble in  Boston.

I almost don’t want to give them the link and the three people who will actually follow through from here to there, but for those of you who are masochists here you go.

The problem is that it is so convoluted. It’s the same two guys every week, it’s obvious that the guys don’t care about whatever team they are dressed as. The other problem is that they have a professional team with them. This means a television crew, probably security too, making sure that no one would really attack these guys. My one ex had an Uncle who was a Dolphins fan in North Jersey. So of course he dressed up the kids in Dolphins stuff and brought them to a Jets – Dolphins game in the Meadowlands. Of course they had to leave early sometime in the 3rd Quarter after people were spitting and pouring beer on them and threatening to attack them. The aunt of course blamed the fans, not the fact that they showed up wearing the other teams stuff. So these two guys would probably be skinned alive if they went into a stadium without protection and pulled any of this stuff.

But the ones I’ve seen were incredibly dumb. They were beyond stupid. In Pittsburgh, fans going to the game actually take a barge across the river to the game. Well these guys decided to pull up alongside the barge in a speedboat dressed in Baltimore Ravens gear and flags. They taunted the fans with a megaphone, while the fans were angry. This went on for a good 2 minutes before I finally stopped watching it. There was almost no point to the whole thing. It was a joke without a punchline.

They show up to this “Worlds Biggest Pats Fan” house to pretend to interview them. Meanwhile they had one of their members dressed up as a Colts fan (it was Pats Vs Colts) causing trouble around the house. Meanwhile the woman of the house is wearing a sweater which says I Hate Peyton Manning. I just don’t have words for it at all. It almost makes What If? On Spike TV seem like a legit program.

I just get annoyed when stuff plays down to football fans. There are an awful lot of very bright football fans around. There’s so much going wrong that you can’t suspend your disbelief. I don’t know why the segments exist, as they don’t specifically promote Bud Lite, but they are created by Yahoo! to do what exactly? I can’t see anyone with half a brain recommending his friends to check these videos out. Even if you are a complete idiot, your friends would probably yell at you for wasting five minutes of their time with it.

In the end it’s either an excuse for Yahoo to get a little extra advertising money, or, please feel free to give your answer in the comments, I am dumbfounded by this practice in futility.

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By Mark D, April 21, 2010 11:43 pm

A few seasons ago it seemed everyone in the NFL that was a bit older but still had a ton of talent would sign with the Patriots. They would go to New England in order to win a Super Bowl. But now with the Pats being destroyed in the Wild Card, it seems the tide is changing. They appear to want Randy Moss out despite the fact that he will take less money to stick around with them. In the wildcard game Brady appeared to play as though he had a beautiful model at home to fuck the shit out of. Oh wait, he did.

The truth of the matter is, Belichek was a pretty bad coach in Cleveland. He hasn’t won a Super Bowl since Charlie Weis and Romeo Crennel left. Although they were both are horrible head coaches, they appeared to have some talent when it comes to being coordinators. Belichek would have never lasted if he was stuck with Bledsoe. He stumbled upon Brady, which was like anyone hitting the lotto. But now that same fire doesn’t burn with Brady. He’s become complacent and comfortable. I can’t really blame him.

Now that the Pats don’t seem to be perennial Super Bowl, they aren’t attracting the Vet Free Agents like they used to. The years of late round draft picks means they haven’t been adding younger players like they used to either. It all combines for a team that is getting older, the talent is dropping off and their best years might be behind them.

The definite end would be if the Pats did let Moss leave. Welker is good, but he can’t do it all by himself. We’ve seen that already in the past. In Boston they are holding onto the hope that Brady is just shaking off the rust after coming off a major injury. It’s not the rust that is the problem for Brady. If you were a pretty boy superstar, how much would you not want to get hurt? With so much in front of Brady, why give it all on the field? He’s going to be hired for big money to be an analyst as soon as he retires. The last thing Brady wants is to have so many concussions that the rest of his life is ruined.

So what can the Pats do? The Truth of the matter is, I don’t care. In the end I’m a Jets fan and I’m happy to see their mystique go. I’ll admit it was fun cheering for them when they were underdogs to the Rams. But since then I’ve cheered against them in every Super Bowl and nothing was better then their loss to the Giants to cap off the undefeated season they had.

Now there is a new beast raising in the AFC East and its the Jets. Suddenly they’ve been able to make all the moves to bring in Pro Bowlers and older players who may not be as good as they once were, but still have enough in the tank. As long as Sanchez stays healthy (there’s those of us who remember other promising seasons lost to QB Injuries) the sky appears to be the limit this season. Let’s hope so, because its been far too long since our last Super Bowl appearance.