Thanksgiving football

Sorry all, I've been under the weather and out of town for the past week, sorry to keep my fans waiting, but the bearded fellow has made his triumphant return.
Thanksgiving and football go together like John Madden and Turduckin. Sit down around the table and watch grown men throw the pigskin around, or toss it around yourself with your family. I love Thanksgiving, it combines my two favorite things: Family and Football. Well I'm not here to recap the action, if you haven't noticed I don't do that on my blogs. You all saw the games, most likely, so I don't need to tell you what you saw. Instead I want to touch a sensitive point to us Detroit Lion fans...
Thanksgiving football is ours Detroit, and people around the nation and the league want to take that away from us. That is a bunch of crap my friends. Does anyone know why there is football on Thanksgiving? Well it wasn't the pilgrims, but try the Detroit Lions. Sure go ahead, talk about taking our game away because we suck, but we started this great tradition. We played the first Thanksgiving Day game against the Chicago Bears in 1934. We have this great time-honored tradition due to the lowly Lions, so show some respect. It is great for the NFL, and it's some exposure for the Lions, which is something we never get. If you don't like the football we bring to the table, well then save your turkey for the Dallas game. But you can't strip away the Lions game just because we aren't good anymore, and haven't been good since the 50's. But we deserve our Thanksgiving game, it's all we have left, don't take it away from us.
So please, Mr. Goodell, don't steal from the poor by taking our one prized possession... Thank you, and good day.

Our Rally cry

Time to give this sport some love

Futbol, or as we know it, Soccer. Great sport, underrated here in the US, but a great sport indeed. I want to share with you all my thoughts on soccer. World Cup qualifiers are in playoffs, and unfortunately the Irish lost the first leg :( but have a chance to make up for it with a road win. But I want to just talk about why no one cares about soccer here in America...
Well first off, the MLS sucks. It's bad soccer. It's not highly publicized and the talent is, shall we say... non-existent. If it ever gets talent, the talents washed up (David Beckham) Sadly it won't be possible for the US to get a talented league, but it wouldn't kill the MLS to expand or get their product out there. Detroit had been attempting to get a team, and still want one. But so far no team. With the state of the economy in Michigan, the timing is wrong, but a soccer team in Michigan would thrive. The indoor soccer team, yes indoor soccer team, enjoys success and pretty solid turnouts. They play at Compuware on Beck Road by 5 mile. Check them out, you'll enjoy it.
But another reason why soccer isn't liked is because the all-mighty ESPN doesn't tell us to watch it. ESPN will pick up the occassional game, but on Sportscenter, they spend 1-2 minutes on soccer, which isn't enough. And they never give you Euro scores, which is where the good soccer is played. I think soccer is one of the best sports to watch, not just because it has no commercials, but because it is such a majestic game. Slow and mythatical, it is all about the build up. When that goal comes, it's usually a thing of beauty.
So today I salute you, Mr. European Soccer Player, without you, flopping like a fish wouldn't be part of a game. You're ability to use your feet is heroic, and we all know how much fun it is to just kick something. Although they call you a foot fairy, you are anything but that. So crack open a nice cold Bud Lite you wizard of the pitch, because if there's anyone that deserves a cold one after that goal, it's you. "Mr. European Soccer Player" And yes that was a play on the old Real Men of Genius commercials.

Just my thoughts...

Well there really isn't anything in particular that I want to blog about, so I'm just gonna tell you my thoughts on whatever I feel like...
Look at the post below this... College Football... it's so great, except when your team keeps losing, thanks Rich (at least my other team got bowl eligible Go Green), but it's still amazing. Stanford in my blog AGAIN for beating USC at USC. The Men of Troy are 47-2 at home since '05(year may be wrong) but those two losses are from the Stanford Cardinal. Pretty impressive. And my second most hated team lost, that's right Lou Hotlz, the national title bound Fighting Irish lost, again. Oh man is college football great. Ohio State (Numero Uno on my hate list) clinched the Big Ten Title, which means they receive the automatic bid to the Rose Bowl, and they get to be pounded by Stanford (hopefully) or Oregon (probably) And to those who want a playoff, I say no. I love the bowl games, don't take those away form me or else I will be sad.
How many of you out there do fantasy football? I know I do, and I love/hate it, I always lose easy games. I am in the playoff hunt, but a championship is out of the question. But I am going to be honest here, without fantasy football, I would not care about NFL football. It's kinda boring at times and there is no intensity. Not like at the college level. But fantasy football is what keeps me interested in football, because let's face it, the Lions suck. I am forced to watch them every week, I say forced because I am a true fan, I think I discussed this before, yes?. I watch their games, and start anyone who plays against them. Fantasy Football, it's such a craze, and it's so awesome. I bet there are many out there that watch NFL football only because of Fantasy Football, you know who you are.
And finally, I would like to talk about hockey, the greatest sport ever. More specifically the greatest team ever, the Detroit Red Wings. The Wings are starting to hit their groove, and they've got half their team hurt. Everyone who panicked at the beginning of the year and is still panicking, just needs to relax. We are the Detroit Red Wings. We will win the 2010 Stanley Cup and Lord Stanley will be home again. That's a bearded fellow "Chalk it up my friends."

Enjoy your lives, sorry for the length between posts, nothing really inspired me to blog

College Football: The greatest Sport out there

Oh boy do I love college football! Sure my favorite teams are going to struggle to make a bowl, that''s Michigan and Michigan State for those of you that don't know, but it still is such a spectacle. The reason why it's so great is because anything can happen. Upsets happen every weak. Every game has so much riding on it. And the atmosphere for college football is just amazing. Enter the Big House, "Death Valley" in LSU, The Swamp down in Florida, you can't find atmospheres like that anywhere else.
This past Saturday had two major upsets that inspired me to talk about this. Navy beat the all-mighty Notre Dame. And the hottest team in the country, Oregon Ducks, lost to the Stanford Cardinal. What huge games, only in college football my friends. Upsets happen every week, it's why college football is so amazing. Think back at all the upsets and all the great moments in college football, Appalachian State beating Michigan :'( Stanford beating USC at USC the same year. Stanford-Cal and the band, Doug Flutie, Iowa's hail mary against LSU. The list goes on and on. Sure the NFL has it's fair share of great moments, but they don't mean as much when it's just a bunch of college kids. COllege Football, the greatest sport in the world. I love college football, you should too.

Pictured is the game-winning catch in the Stanford-USC game referred to.

I did this last week...

Yeah it's late, but I thought this would be a good time to put it up, seeing how i just remembered it's not yet.

Enjoy

Go to on demand. Current Programing. Sports Round table Oct. 30th. It's near the bottom

Yankees win, but do we care?

Well baseball is over, in November (disgusting) but it's finally over. My Tigers choked so the playoffs were bitter for me, but nonetheless I have something I need to say. It's about the Evil Empire, the New York Yankees. Yes they had been on a World Series drought, but that still doesn't change who they are, the Evil Empire. I mean the Yankees have 27 World Series wins, 27?!?! that is just a little absurd. Now this brings up a question... Does baseball need a salary cap?
I remember when hockey put a slary cap in, I was furious. Mostly because I believed it was used to bring down the Red Wings, which I still believe it was. But here's the misconception about the Wings... they didn't need to buy their players. It became a luxury after years of success. The salary cap was put in, and the Red Wings lost the super stars but brought in their home grown talent like Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg. They continued their dominance, and won a cup, almost two, in the salary cap era. But what would happen if the salary cap was put in in baseball? What would happen to the Yankees? Well they would not be the Red Wings, that's for sure. The Yankees farm system is dry. I believe a salary cap in baseball would kill the Yankees, which is why I say go for it. Well not really but I do believe it does need a salary cap. The Yankees bought that championship, They paid their players as much as an Obama bailout package. That is just ridiculous. Baseball has so many problems with it, and it has the wrong man at the helm in Bud Selig, but baseball needs a change, unfortunately I don't see it in the future.
But I do tip my hat off to the Yankees, because it takes more than just money to win. It takes execution, and they excuted perfectly.

Stay true to your colors.

What makes sports great? Is it the athletes, the competition, the thrill? Or is it the fans, the ones that follow the game with a passion, watch every game and cheer for that team as if they're lives depended on the outcome of that particular game. That's what I love about sports: being a fan. The feeling of investing in something larger than myself is something that gives me a sense of being apart of something bigger. Sure I'm just a guy screaming at the team, but I support that team. When a team loses support, the team goes. Fans are crucial. True fandom is tested in times of adversity. When your team sucks, are you gonna still root for them? When you move, are you still gonna watch them? True fans stay with their team no matter what. I am doing that now. I am a Michigan fan, it's in my blood, it's how I was raised. I currently go to MSU. I root for MSU, but I didn't just drop my allegiance to Michigan because I'm a Spartan now, even though everyone would understand if I did. In fact they expect it. But I think it is important to stay true to your team, no matter what. It's why I'm a.... oh jeeze... Lions fan. Stay with your team, don't become a fan of a team because your team sucks and that other team is good.
But on a different note on fans and sports. Sports are crucial to the fans. They are an escape. Whether your escaping from a bad day of school or work by watching your teams on Saturday and Sunday, or something much larger. Look at the way the people of New Orleans rallied behind the Saints. It was incredible, and it was a great story. Sports rally people together in tough times. When 9-11 happened, Everyone in the sports world rallied behind the city of New York. Also using this state as an example, when 9-11 happened, the Red Wings we're opening training camp. I remember they sold out the practice arena in Traverse City. Each and every Wing was blown away. People rally behind sports, and sports are the perfect escape.
Just take a second and think about it... what is an easy way to just get away for a few hours? Watching sports. I know I do it, and I bet you do it too. And for those of you that say "it's just a game," you are completely and utterly wrong. It is much more than that, and I think I've made that clear.