Just in case I DON’T squeeze in a blog tomorrow before heading to Cali, BOOMER SOONER #boomersooner #ou
- Greetings and salutations, people. Thanks for coming aboard (the boat). Let’s turn and burn.
- Quick one as we round out the new year. I have a brief window and don’t want a long list for tomorrow’s POSSIBLE good bye 2017 blog. Let’s move.
- The Bucs will bring back their coach next year. I get this. Subpar year in a year you were supposed to be a darkhose contender. Changing up the system and coaches at this point would set you back a year. Take the pair of 8’s and see if what you get on the river.
- I am going to see Molly’s Game tonight, so just getting in the mode.
- I don’t remember a situation before like what the new Giants GM has facing him going into next season. Really, really odd mix of all kinds of stuff.
- When the Lakers had a team meeting, did they possibly exclude LaVar Ball or did he find a way in the locker room?
- Copy and paste from like the last two years. Andrew Luck’s shoulder is stable and stronger. Maybe him and Tiger can hold a contest on media coverage of shoulder and back in the last two years.
- I am BREEZING through this, so no intern fixing my grammatical errors. Sorry for any problems.
- Also, I don’t have an intern still. Guess monster.com and careerbuilder.com don’t work anymore.
- Hope everyone took the over in the Wake-A&M game. 55-52? Wow.
- Tonight’s Ohio State vs USC matchup is supposed to be epic, but I think Ohio State comes out to DESTROY the Trojans, giving them a final, secluded last laugh on the selection of Bama in the playoff.
- We were talking about Mindhunter at work today, and I found out it gets BETTER. Can’t wait to knock out the other half of the first season.
- I am not finding it for you since I followed it personally on local radio and Twitter, but the Baker Mayfield-Mark Schlereth squabble is HILARIOUS. I will have more on Baker in the New Year in my new FOCUSED approach to things.
- For now, staying unfocused.
- Fantasy football players get a bad rap, but I guess the rich ones did something really cool this week. They contributed some of their winnings to Todd Gurley’s charity of choice…Shriner’s Hospital.
- I assume you did NOT win fantasy unless you had Todd Gurley for the most part.
- Kamara got fined for his Grinch cleats? I get a rule is a rule, but BEING a Grinch BECAUSE of the Grinch?
- It didn’t work out because of forward passes and penalties and such, but WOULD have been SO cool had it worked out. TCU had a player LAY DOWN in the end zone before a kickoff for a future attempted lateral and a big run. All things failed, but man was that fun.
- The Pac-12 gets the least amount of exposure on the East Coast. And yet, the masterminds of college football had TWO of the premier Pac-12 teams (Stanford and Washington State) play at the SAME time, when they had like 40 plus other slots to play them in. What?
- Deadspins best sports stories of the year. https://deadspin.com/the-100-most-popular-deadspin-posts-of-2017-1821586859
- I think the videos came out today, so you should check that out too.
- Deadspin releases articles on everything. Even windshield wipers. https://splinternews.com/there-is-an-insufficient-variety-of-windshield-wiper-sp-1821622893#_ga=2.91875162.1183681934.1514298569-2013796419.1510533718
- Roadkill. Deadspin. https://deadspin.com/over-3-300-pennsylvanians-requested-a-permit-to-eat-roa-1821624697
- Assailed by picks. Deadspin. https://deadspin.com/arena-worker-assailed-by-czech-pucks-1821634912
- In case I don’t get to blog tomorrow, know I think that Bama and OU win in the semi’s. Less certain about Bama as Clemson is a better team, but giving Nick Saban this much time to prep I think gets them the formula for success. 31-20
- And I think that UGA will give them ALL they can handle, but I think Baker WILL find a way. Too long of road for a double walk on to NOT make this happen. Their defense will bend and not break. 38-27.
- Good karma. Wisconsin players already had a good bowl weekend. They caught a 450 lb. hammerhead shark on a fishing trip. Good for them. No playoffs, but sharks.
- Washington State football should have gone fishing, so at least we knew they SHOWED at the bowl game.
- I LOVE that Barkley is playing the PSU bowl game AND waiting to declare until after. Play the season out, kids. Your millions will come.
- Hell, the Purdue QB played HIS bowl game with a busted ACL.
- Hard not to believe the woman accusing Sanu of assault when she provides this much detail. https://deadspin.com/photographer-says-miguel-sano-assaulted-her-1821628362
- Vegas lost $11.4 million when the Astros won the World Series. Apparently, a lot of futures were in the hopper. Probably people who read that SI Mag years ago.
- I am sure UVA is writing off their shellacking as “Navy was at home” but I guess that also meant they did NO research on the triple option. Navy’s QB was 0-1 in pass attempts and had FIVE TD’s.
- When you watched Stanford, remember one very scary thing. They are a YOUNG team. They will be very, very good next year.
- I really enjoyed watching the Oklahoma State-VA Tech football game. Lots of things going on, a couple big plays, some special teams, and just overall a fun game to watch. Plus, if UVA loses, I definitely want VA Tech to lose.
- SMU basketball has a guy named Shake on it, and he is pretty good ASIDE from his cool ass basketball name.
- Sam Darnold says he will play for ANY NFL team, and therefore Cleveland has a little hope.
- Rajon Rondo had 25 dimes, and surprised he doesn’t do that more often. Of course, I guess when the other team knows you can’t shoot either, they probably are guarding those passes more than anything.
- When Texas played Mizzou, I still felt like I was watching a Big 12 game, even though it wasn’t.
- The Celtics are playing .500 ball lately, and I wish I was made of money, because I thought that -1 spread at Charlotte was a women’s game. Weird. I took it.
- More Deadspin end of year stuff. https://deadspin.com/deadspins-favorite-sports-moments-of-2017-1821136761
- Yes, I love Deadspin, but hope that one of their marketing people notice how much I link them and let me be a contributor someday.
- This is not a joke. I know this team. Very true. Played all tough road games, is presently 0-13, and probably WILL make the tourney in March. It is what it is. Mike Davis, ex-IU coach who took his team to a final, is heading up the program. https://deadspin.com/this-0-13-basketball-team-is-a-favorite-to-make-the-nca-1821600072
- Sorry. More Deadspin links. End of year FUN, folks. https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-best-things-we-heard-in-2017-1821136807
- I still hated Star Wars, have not seen it again with my notepad, and therefore you are off the hook until next week with my spoiler rich breakdown.
- Pretty bad, Eli Apple, and you must be doing something wrong in the locker room (besides tweeting during games) when a team with nothing to play for suspends you for the final game of the season.
- Deion Sanders is being targeted as the new FSU DB coach, and DAMN does that sound fun.
- Can you imagine him coaching? “Hey, kid. Just be faster and everyone else like I was and don’t let the WR get the ball. Easy.”
- I Pegged DeSean Jackson for a weed and bullets in the car guy YEARS ago. Glad he came through.
- Is Hue Jackson going to jump in Lake Erie before, during, or after the Excedrin 0-16 parade?
- I keep up with everything in sports, but admit to not knowing much about James Harden’s Free Meek’s sneaks. Except for that all rhymed and it is apparently for a good cause.
- Please shut down all of the Christmas TV commercials. I am talking mainly to you, Geico, and that damn Christmas lights commercials with the neighbors.
- Dez Bryant won’t take a pay cut despite low stats this year. That. Sounds. About. Right. For. Dez.
- I think Baker Mayfield is missing team events with the flu so he can rival the MJ story.
- Just kidding. But seriously, that dude will get out there on a broken leg. Not just saying this because I married into a Sooner family. I would love that guy regardless.
- Speaking of the Sooners, I love this Dede Westbrook article. Great stuff. Lindsey’s dad passed it along. https://www.theplayerstribune.com/dede-westbrook-oklahoma-georgia/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
- Steve also sent this along, which is one of the saddest things I have read. If you are having a great day, don’t read this. If you are having a bad day, don’t read this. Wait until you are in perfect equilibrium and then, maybe, read this. Or just don’t read it. http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/mom-dying-brain-cancer-pens-heartbreaking-letter-young/story?id=51019332
- You can’t tell me ANYONE who gets tired of reading or watching ANYTHING involving Mike Leach. https://www.theplayerstribune.com/5-thoughts-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-football/
- Patrick Mahomes gets a start this weekend for KC. This is the prelude to Alex Smith losing another playoff game early on and them showing him the highway.
- I am less sad about the Steelers showing James Harrison the door after reading comments by players on the team. He was no-showing all over the place. TRUE, he probably was told he would get more snaps, but walk the walk and continue leading, bro. Now I REALLY hate the Pats.
- I missed comments on some bowl games, but there are really just too many of them. I would be here all day.
- Off to the Rose Bowl if I don’t sign on again…38 rows up at 10 yard line on UGA side.
- That’s it for today. Wife is home and we are going to see Molly’s Game. Hope you enjoyed or are at least more informed. Will I blog again? That is a CLOWN question, bro. Peace.
