A few more quick thoughts (and some not so quick thoughts)  I had while doing the Ickey Shuffle in front of my mirror:

I was reading a blog earlier where this blogger was ranting about talkative sports announcers. For the most part nothing beats a running commentary by John Madden where he turns a routine shovel pass commentary into a 45 second discussion with Al Micheals about snow shovels but tonight one announcer proved me wrong.

Tonight in overtime of the Pistons Grizzlies game Pistons announcer said "Tayshaun got him from behind." It might be the fifth grader in me but, does anyone else find that funny? The only other better awkward announcing mishap occured this football season during the Michigan Indiana donnybrook.

Since Michigan was up by nearly a dozen touchdowns they put in wide reciever Doug Dutch who sees less action than the backseat of my Ford Focus. As Dutch saw more and more action - and ultimately made more mistakes the announcers started shifting their focus towards Dutch's play using a play on words with his last name.

It went something like this:

Anouncer 1: Dutch just dropped a pass, that means Dutch is in Lloyd Carr's Oven.

Announcer 2: Dutch will have to get another catch to get out of the oven

two plays later

Announcer 2: Dutch makes the catch and he is out of the oven.

Announcer 1: Wait a penalty on Doug Dutch, Dutch is back in the oven.

I kid you not folks. I can not make this stuff up. I realize though this probably has zero comical value because (a) you are not nine. and (b) you had the be there. By the way you ever notice when someone says "you had to be there" that its a sort of forshadowing that whatever they are going to tell you or whatever they did tell you was a waste of time. Yeah. In case I forgot... you had to be there. I know there has to be more of these announcer slip ups though so if anyone knows of any let me know I would love to hear them. And no that Ball State student

Another quick note on announcing. Rick Mahorn keeps mentioning the Pistons rebounding prowess. He has said it like nine times tonight . I give it five minutes before he reaches Jay Bilas NBA draft status with the phrase "tremendous upside".

Staying with college football I noticed that a few Texas players have some off the field issues specifically Romance Taylor and Cedric Griffith. Now while I am usually pretty knowledgeable about college football... BUT there are 117 teams and nearly 100 players on each squad... .the least the AP could do in their stories is refer to them by thier numbers or overall rating in NCAA '06 so I can properly guage a teams chance of winning without them.

By the way why doesn't NCAA '06 have the flea flicker - other than because it's the only play I would ever run. Tecmo Bowl had it.

This guy didn't get loose off the flea flicker he's running away from the Dutch Oven.

I'm still watching the Pistons Grizzlies 9 hour extravaganza - the teams still haven't scored 100 points and Im starting to realize that the Suns would have had about 267 by now, but still can't beat the Spurs or Pistons. The way both those teams are owning their conferences right now is there any doubt in anyones mind that they will return to the championship? You can make a case for the Heat, Spurs maybe the Mavs or Cavs but why bother?

I just noticed that Chauncey Billups is incredibly clutch. My boss thinks that Rasheed is more clutch but I think he is wrong. Even so... is there a bad option for the Pistons when they are in a clutch situation. Its like they each inherited part of Larry Birds soul when he left the game. Except for Darko. He inherited Kurt Rambis's awkward demeanor.

Poor Darko.

Okay theres number 10 for Rick Mahorn - rebounding prowess is officially a sports cliche. If this was wrestling someone surely would have hit him with a chair or thrown salt in his eyes by now.

 

 Rick Mahorn has tremendous upsides repetitive sports cliches are not one of them.

Pistons finnally hit the 100 point plateau meanwhile I think the DJ for the Grizzlies is on coccaine. He wont stop playing music at inoportune times. During time outs yeah, but during injuries, and gameplay... c'mon. They just got done playing Cypress Hill's Rap Superstar when Damon Stoudemire drove the lane... wouldn't Afro Man's Because I Got High been more appropriate. Since they have Cypress Hill, I wonder if they play Insane in the Membrane when Ron Artest plays or maybe like "I am Wierd Long and Gangly and I Have a Watermelon Shaped Head" for Tay-Tay- that has to be a Wierd Al song or something.

Okay Rick Mahorn is officially on my hitlist.

Im done with him and I am done with the NBA in this column.

I mentioned in the title that this entry would have something to do with the NHL. But like everyone else I like the NHL about as much as I like stepping on rusty nails. Anyone who doesn't agree can just watch as this entry sits atop the NHL updated blogs page for like 13 days while it will be bumped off the other pages in mere minutes.

Okay last thing I swear: Yesterday I mentioned there was a Chuck Norris fact generator could be found through google.com but apparently there is Mr. T fact generator too.

Here is my favorite Mr. T fact: Mr. T is allergic to doorknobs, that is why he kicks doors over when he walks through doorways.

Check out the site folks. Tremendous upside.

Chuancey A.K.A. "Mr. Big Shot" is gesturing for Mahorn to keep it down meanhwile keeping it real and clutch like the bird man.

Jon Gunnells is trying to become the Nex Great Sports Writer with his writing and rebounding prowess... leave him a comment or buy him a Grilled Stuffed Burrito- in either case he will thank you.