What I’ve got you’ve got to give it to your mamma.  What I’ve got you’ve got to give it to your pappa.  Give it away, give it away, give it away, give it away now.  -Red Hot Chili Peppers 

From Pop Warner to the NFL, football coaches everywhere stress turnover avoidance.  Nobody wants to have happen what happeneed to Joe Theismann.  Theisman floated the ball in the direction of running back Joe Washington.  Unfortunately, he didn’t account for unheralded linebacker Jack Squirek.  Squirek returned the ball to the hizzy for a touchdown in Super Bowl XVIII.  Nobody wants to have happen what happened to Peyton Manning.  Faced with a third and five, Manning targeted his favorite receiver, Reggie Wayne.  Unfortunatley, Tracy Porter was targeting Manning.  At the 26 yard line, Porter returned it to the hizzy for a game-changing touchdown in Super Bowl XLIV.  From Pop Warner to the NFL, football coaches everywhere stress turnover avoidance because nobody wants to have happen what done happened to the Steelers yesterday.       Read More »

Here you come again, just when I’ve begun to get myself together.  You waltz right in the door, just like you’ve done before, and wrap my heart ’round your little finger.  -Dolly Parton

 It was third down.  The Steelers needed six yards for the first down.  Two minutes left to play.  Up five.  “One more stop,” Darrelle Revis said.  “One lousy stop.  That’s all we needed.”  Nothing doing.  Not on Big Ben’s watch.  Not this time of year.  This time of year, when the air is a little bit crisper.  This time of year, when the air is a little bit cooler.  This time of year,when the air is crisper and cooler, and the Pittsburgh Steelers are making yet another run at the NFL Championship.  The NFL.  This is what it’s all about.  Ben Roethlisberger is what it’s all about.  You put your right foot in, you put your right foot out.  You put your right foot in and you shake it all about.  You do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself around, that’s what it’s all about!           Read More »

Yo it’s my turn, I demand my respect.  Give me my burn, or get slammed in your neck.  ‘Cause it’s my turn, I’ma reach to the top.  Gimme my burn, I’ma speak with the glock.  -Big Pun

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  What’s quack-a-lacking sports fans?  Word has it, Steelers quarterback, Byron Leftwich’s strained his left knee ligament in Thursday night’s preseason game.  Word has it, the injury could sideline him for most or all of the first month of the season.  You know what that means boys and girls?  That means the Steelers are left with only two healthy quarterbacks.  That means the Steelers are left with just Dennis Dixon and Charlie Batch for their September 12 opener against the mighty mighty Atlanta Falcons.  However, word also has it that it will be Dennis Dixon who gets the nod in the opener.  Apparently, after the Steelers learned the nature of Leftwich’s injury, Dixon was immediately taken out of Thursday’s game against Carolina.  Apparently, that’s a strong indication that Dixon was being protected.  Hooray Dennis Dixon.  I’ve always loved this cat.  Top Cat!  The indisputable leader of the gang.  He’s the boss, he’s a pip, he’s the championship.  He’s the most tip top, Top Cat.           Read More »

So you wanna be a rap/rock superstar, and live large.  A big house, 5 cars, you’re in charge.  -Cypress Hill

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  I know, I know.  I know I’m a day late and a dollar short.  I know yesterday was all Big Ben all the time.  I wasn’t around yesterday.  I was doing things.  Big things.  Important things.  Things you wouldn’t understand.  Not today.  Today I’m weighing in.  First things first.  First thing is, I agree with everything Roger Goodell and the Pittsburgh Steelers have said and done.  Like Crash Davis, I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.  I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter.  I also believe Big Ben acted like a real creep.  But why are we so surprised?  Why all the outrage?  It’s our own damn falts.       Read More »

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Whatever.  Party’s over, tell the rest of the crew.  Yo P, it’s on you, what you wanna do?  -Mobb Deep

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  Another Sunday in the books.  Like my main Mike Ditka always says, “You can’t win a derby with a donkey… You have a lot of people evaluating talent in the National Football League who don’t know how to evaluate talent.”  I’m one of those people.  Hee haw!  Hee haw!  I’m like Francis the talking mule.  The name’s Francis Soyer, but everybody calls me Psycho.  Any of you guys call me Francis, and I’ll kill you.  Also, I don’t like nobody touching me.  Now, any of you Romos touch me, and I’ll kill you.  Ok, ok, enough hijinks.  Let’s see what happened yesterday, shall we?  Yes we shall:        Read More »

Do that to me one more time.  Once is never enough with a man like you.  Do that to me one more time.  I can never get enough of a man like you.  -Captain & Tennille

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  What’s crack-a-lacking sports fans?  It’s that time of year again.  That time of year.  The air is a little bit crisper.  The air is a little bit cooler.  The air is crisper and cooler and the Pittsburgh Steelers are making yet another run at the NFL Championship.  The NFL.  This is what it’s all about.  Ben Roethlisberger is what it’s all about.  You put your right foot in, you put your right foot out.  You put your right foot in and you shake it all about.  You do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself around, that’s what it’s all about!       Read More »

But it’s so easy looking at the game the morning after.  Adding up the kisses and the laughter.  Knowing how you’d play it if the chance to play it over ever came.  But then, a Monday morning quarterback never lost a game.  -Frank Sinatra

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  My main man Dan Marino once said, “If you ask any great quarterback, there’s a certain inner confidence that you’re as good as anybody.  But you can’t say who is the absolute best.  To be considered is special in itself.”  Dan Marino may have said that, but I’m not gonna.  I’m gonna tell you who’s best.  I’m gonna tell who’s worst.  I’m gonna tell you about whole bunch of guys in between.  I’m gonna hand out my NFL Preseason awards:  The Quarterback Edition.  Sounds like fun don’t it?  Sure it do!         Read More »

Big Ben Roethlisberger gets jiggy with it for his 27th birthday in Vegas.  What happens in Vegas stays on TMZ:

Peace out homies.  Six two and Even!

Oh, can’t you see the morning after?  It’s waiting right outside the storm.  Why don’t we cross the bridge together, and find a place that’s safe and warm? -Maureen McGovern

Ok here we go!  The NFL.  Week one.  The thrills.  The spills.  Oh, the humanity.  Let’s get to this.  Like we always knew this.  Like Marvin Lewis.  Let’s go to the videotape:        Read More »

Two hula girls go round the outside, round the outside, round the outside… -Eminem

Public Service Announcement:  OK, here we go!  I know.  I know.  I’ve missed a lot.  A whole lot.  But I’m here today to make it up to you.  Just when I’m about to tear into the Yankees, this happens.  By now, it’s not breaking news.  But it’s still heart breaking.  I do not know much about Cory Lidle.  I know he pitched for the Yankees.  I know he had family.  I know he had friends.  I know he crashed a plane into a building.  When the news first broke, my brain went immediately to terrorists.  When I heard it was Cory Lidle, my brain then clicked to Thurman Munson. Funny how the brain works.  Then I thought of all those athletes who had so much to lose, seemingly determined to lose it all.             Read More »