I just need to get some of this stuff out of my system:

Gus Frerrotte:   Here's a quote I found from Gus before this week's game on cbssportsline.com:  "I woke up feeling pretty good (Monday).  I had my emotions back.  I had most of my feelings back..."  Can someone translate this for me?  Maybe Gus's Sports Psychologist?  How do you lose your emotions?  Did Gus wake up on Monday and say to himself "Wow.  People are calling for a guy named Sage Rosenfels to replace me at QB.  Now it's coming back to me. I feel both sad and embarrassed."  If you say something that makes that little sense, I think it's clear that you haven't recovered from the head injury you were taken out of the game for.

Bobby Engram Complaining on ESPN:  I saw Engram on ESPN complaining that last year all you saw on TV was the Hawks' wide receivers dropping balls and nothing about  the touchdowns they scored.  Bobby, you're my boy cause you're from PSU, but if you're an NFL receiver and you catch 7 balls out of ever 10 that hit you in the hands, that's not good.  I'm not sure how Hasselbeck didn't vomit last year when he had to throw to you, Koren Robinson, or Darrel Jackson in the clutch.  I'm pretty sure if Holmgren had the chance and there was any way they could get down the field, he would have rather tried to hit Muhammed Ali on the slant or Michael J. Fox on the skinny post.  And while I can still kind of segue to being a PSU fan, let me tell you how miserable that is come college basketball time.  Those guys are so bad that they lose half of their recruiting class every year because the kids want to focus on the Special Olympics.

The NBA Dress Code Debate:  If you have any notion that I don't appreciate hip-hop culture, please see my last post.  That being said, I think some of these guys need to talk to some New Orleans Hornets' fans if they want to hear about real racial inequality and injustice in the world.  Can we have players take a job-readiness class in college that teaches them sometimes grown-ups need to wear collared shirts when they go to work.  Quite frankly, it's not that I think these guys don't deserve the money they make (a future blog), but you do throw a ball through a hoop for a living.  I think if I was in your position and David Stern called me up asking me to wear women's panties to the arena, my only question would be whether or not they should be crotchless.  But I would definitely make sure it wasn't Marv Albert on the other end of the phone disguising his voice.  Man, that guy was a sicko, wasn't he?  Yes!

Bill Parcell's Right Hook On His Assistant Coach:  If there's one thing I hate more than guys who repeatedly say or do assinine things, it's the sports figures who get a free pass no matter what they do.  I'm not saying that the assistant coach was in the right, but Parcells tried to cold cock him and he even connected.  For that, I think we got a three minute debate about it a week later between Irvin and Ditka and Ditka's main defense of Parcells was that Parcells isn't black.  And every time they showed you the highlight, everyone would laugh and someone would say something like "Don't mess with Parcells.  Ha Ha."  Then they would follow it up with a an eight minute expose' about how TO didn't wash his hands after he went to the bathroom (Please, no more TO debate.  I just can't take it.  If you want me go back and take out that comment, I will).  And I'm not saying he's done anything to make me think he wasn't a really good guy, but if Favre would have taken a page out of Najeh Davenport's book last night and defacated in the Lions end zone, all the Sunday night crew would have talked about for the rest of the game is how that was the classiest dump that's ever been taken in the NFL.

WNBA:  Again, I am all about equal rights.  But how can this possibly still be on the air?  I take back what I said about no more TO coverage.  Sheryl Swoopes comes out as a lesbian and guys across the country still couldn't be less interested in tuning in.  If you can't attract men to your sport with the possibility of some girl-on-girl action, I think it's time for the league to go defunct.  If Sharapova came out as a lesbian, scalpers could get more money for a fourth round U.S. Open match than the Super Bowl.  Unless Navratalova came out of retirement and she was playing.

Doug Flutie Still in the NFL:  No, I'm serious.  He really is.  Google him for yourself and see.  I don't know if somebody puts his pads on for him and helps him in and out of the tunnel or what.  Flutie and Sean Landetta are the only players from the USFL left in the NFL.  But Landetta is a punter.  Flutie is a QB.  Flutie is 138 years old in punter years.  You know even Rickey Henderson called Flutie up and was like "Doug, c'mon, it's time."  I think if people can no longer watch the recordings they made of your college games because technology has advanced to the point that the device they used to make those recordings is virtually extinct, it might be time to hang it up.  But that's just me.  I never played the game.

Fantasy Football Rage:  I already talked about my problem with this in another blog, but I have to say that considering what a calm, rationale person I am in everyday life and as a sports viewer, the hatred that I feel at the time of the game for the NFL players my fantasy team is playing against is unreal.  Especially RBs that poach touchdowns.  At one point this season I had Edge and Tiki. Sadly, I think if I woke up on Sunday and heard on Countdown that Dominic Rhodes died in a tragic plane crash on the way to the game, my only comment would have been that I hope Brandon Jacobs was the pilot.  I could be in a religious sect that some nation's leader has been committing genocide against for the last thirty years, and I still don't think I would feel the same disgust towards him that I felt towards Ryan Fitzpatrick yesterday.

Tony Reali and "Around the Horn":  I'm not sure how those "Around the Horn" guys made "Rome is Burning" look like the Nightline of  sports commentary shows, but they pulled it off.  Anyway, how can Reali go from the host of one show to a complete bit player in the show that immediately follows it and go by a demeaning name like "Stat Boy."  He's not even "Tony the Stat Boy."  Just "Stat Boy."  That would be like if "Jeopardy" was on before "Wheel of Fortune" and Alex Trebek hosted "Jeopardy" then played the role of Vanna White on "Wheel."  Eww.  Sorry for that visual, everybody.  By the way, is it me or is Jay Mariotti totally that creepy guy at the bar who hits on all the college chicks.  Also, although I'm currently opposed to the death penalty, I think if Steven A. Smith just went through with it and shot Skip Bayless, I would be forced to reconsider my stance.  That would be a great opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.  I don't think they've ever been on "Around The Horn," but I'm just sayin'.

Mike Martz and his Playcalling:   I took a shot at Martz four or five blogs ago so it's time for another.  Did this guy really let all that offensive genius talk go to head after the Rams' Super Bowl appearences or what?  It was like he couldn't take the pressure of trying to live up to his reputation.  Can't you just see Martz all coked up the night before a game at 4 am, crumbling papers and trying to come up with a game plan?  Then, all of the sudden during the game the next day the Rams are in the red zone and Martz has Orlando Pace split out wide, running the end around.  I bet Dick Vermeil is still crying every night from watching Martz's collapse.

The NFL on Sirius:  It's on Sirius.  You can say whatever you want.  I would like to see an R rated broadcast of NFL games, where broadcasters could just say whatever they really think and not hold back.  That would be unbelievably entertaining and popular and would teach those Direct TV guys a lesson for hoarding the games and making you subscribe to their package to see them:

"Oh my God, Joe, how did the refs miss that holding call?  Do they have their heads up their a**es today or what?"

"Well, Bob, if you've been watching the same game that I have, I don't really see how you can be surprised.  My guess would be that the back judge was still busy pleasuring Jon Gruden on the sideline and didn't return in time.  Either that or he took the Bucs and the points this week."

Ok, I guess that's it for today.  Please feel free to add your own thoughts on things that leave you scratching your head.

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