February 5, 2010
The New Orleans Saints are set to meet the Indianapolis Colts in the Super Bowl on Sunday. I can’t wait to watch it, but I must say that I really don’t care which team comes out on top. Two great teams, two great quarterbacks — it should be a lot of fun.
I’m sure that over the last week or so you’ve heard the Saints fans’ rallying cry: “Who dat, who dat, who dat say gonna beat dem Saints,” which is most often shortened to just “Who dat.” It’s fun, it’s catchy, and it’s great to see fans of New Orleans unified through it.
Grammatically, however, it’s a nightmare. Thus, I would like to suggest that everyone abandon it and begin chanting this: “Who is that? Who is that? Who, have they said, is going to beat those Saints?”
As this gains familiarity, I believe you’ll find that it has a great rhythm to it and, more importantly, that grammar teachers across America are much happier.
February 2, 2010
Tomorrow is the NCAA National Signing Day… For the die hard College Football fans this is like the NFL Draft. National Signing Day is a very exciting time of year. It’s a time where Fans can do their own scouting for the next Heisman Trophy candidate. It’s also a time that can make or break a coach’s upcoming season. Every team has its holes, there is do doubt about that. This is a time where Coaches can go out and fill those voids with talented, intelligent young adults. This day also has a big effect on the pre-season football rankings, which are pretty much a shot in the dark anyways. If a school gets a big, talented recruiting class, that can boost them a spot or two. According to ESPN.com, the 2010 Top 10 Best Recruiting Classes are:
Coming from a HUGE NCAA Football Fan, I can’t wait to see who will end up at my favorite school. GO BLUE!
January 15, 2010
The NCAA Football offseason has been full of action. Coaches being fired, stepping down and taking other jobs. All of the action that has happened in the past week includes the Lane Kiffin saga. Lane Kiffin steps down as Head Coach at Tennessee to take the Head Coaching job at Southern Cal. All this is happening less than a month away from National Signing day. This creates a HUGE mess for incoming student athletes. Athletes who commit to schools for a certain coach are now stuck in a situation they do not want to be in, utlimately making their transistion to the collegiate life a bit harder. I propose that the NCAA should have a Firing Peroid… or at least a cut off date to where a school should let a coach go. This would prevent huge debacles with recruiting sanctions and will help students ultimately choose the right situation for themselves as STUDENT atheletes.
January 11, 2010
Is it just me, or does Mark McGwire seem a whole lot more likeable now that he has come clean about his steroid use?
I’m not saying that everything should now be excused, but it takes a certain level of humility to publicly admit your wrongdoings, and that, to me, makes him seem more human and likeable than he seemed while he was hiding from the public for the last five years.
Maybe I’m just a sucker for the truth.
January 8, 2010
How can one not feel bad for Texas Longhorn quarterback Colt McCoy? The Texas Superstar sat out all but 2 minutes and 7 seconds in Thursday nights BCS National Championship Game. Colt McCoy is the all time leader in wins in all of Major College Football! It seemed like fate that McCoy got his chance to win a National Championship in the same Rose Bowl where Vince Young and the Longhorns won their last BCS title 5 years ago. But as fate has it, he would get hurt running the option against Alabama’s vaunted defense. I am not saying that if he didn’t get hurt, the Longhorns would have emerged victorious. I am just saying that I feel extremely bad for this young man who had waited four years for his opportunity only to watch the game from the sidelines. Mark Schlabach from ESPN wrote a great article about the Texas quarterbacks night.
Colt McCoy will rise again with the NFL. I believe some team will give him an opporunity and he will have even more motivation to continue his success at the next level.
December 30, 2009
Only five active NFL franchises have not appeared in the Super Bowl. They are the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, New Orleans Saints, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Houston Texans. Any team on that list jump out at you? You’ve got two teams which, when put together, have fewer wins this season than any of the other three. You’ve got two teams whose chance to make the playoffs is comparable to winning the lottery.
And then you have the Saints, a team founded the year the first Super Bowl was played. For the first 20 years of the franchise they couldn’t muster a winning season. Then came a string of winning seasons each ending in a loss in the wild card game. Then back to a string of losing seasons until finally in 2000, the Saints won their first playoff game. The Saints best season came in 2006, making it to the NFC championship game against the Bears: a remarkable achievement after spending 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, playing every game outside their beloved New Orleans, and going 3-13.
Today we’re looking at a team that’s 13-2. Sure, that home loss to the Cowboys was rough and losing to the Bucs in OT seems downright silly but we’re still looking at the No. 1 seed in the NFC thanks to an even greater series of missteps by the Vikings the past few weeks. So the question is simple – is this the year the Saints make it to the Super Bowl? Every team they’re likely to play during the NFC playoffs has a higher ranked defense than they do. But the Saints rank first in total offense in the NFL. Is that enough to make it to the Super Bowl? Probably not. But one thing’s for sure; the Saints won’t lose in the wild card round – they’re good enough this year to get a bye and that makes for a very successful season.
December 29, 2009
Ah yes it’s here, Capital One Bowl Week. One of the best weeks of the year. Its a week where everyday you can find a great match-up with playmakers from each team on both sides of the ball…. Or is it?
By my count there are 34 bowls going on this season. Where did all of these games come from? Don’t get me wrong, I love College Football and try to watch every bowl game, but the prestige of the bowl game is being diluted. It used to be a privilege to be invited to a January 1st Bowl Game, but now there are bowl games between teams with barely a winning record playing just days before the BCS National Championship. Okay, I get spreading out the BCS Bowl Games to generate more of a buzz, but to put smaller games in between doesn’t make sense to me.
December 23, 2009
Fathead is in the Empire State Mind! We will have a team member on ground in the concrete jungle of New York City spreading Christmas joy a day early by hiding New York Fatheads at select areas in the city for fans. There will be FIVE Fatheads given away throughout the course of the day and the top-secret locations will only be revealed via our Twitter pages of Fathead, mtarshaPR and following the tag #NYCgiveaway!
It’s a Fathead scavenger hunt in NYC just for our New Yorkers! The Fathead selection fans will be on the hunt for are:
Lets here it for New York, New York, New York!
December 23, 2009
Being in technology, I’m constantly being subjected to viral videos. Some good, some bad, but for the most part vastly entertaining. Which brings up the question: If you could meet a viral video kid, who would it be?
I have a few, but here are my top 3:
3. The “blood” kid – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fVDGu82FeQwatch?v=-fVDGu82FeQ
I have no idea what his name is or why his kid brother has an “owiee” but everytime I watch this I die laughing.
2. Charlie and his British brother – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM
Cute little kids with British accents get me everytime. “Char-leee…that really hurt and it’s still hurting…”
And the number one viral kid I’d like to meet… ::drumroll::
1. I like Turtles Kid-Jonathon – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y
Come on…you know you found a new appreciation for “tuttles” after this one.
Post your own because I want to laugh.
December 22, 2009
There’s very few things that are as rewarding and enjoyable as making your kids happy. I got to be the hero inadvertently not too long ago. My family and I are hoping to be able to move this spring and get a little more elbow room. My little 4-year-old girl is a Princess lunatic, so I’m really excited about decking out her future room with all of our Princess Fatheads. I’ve been slowly accumulating and tucking them away for when we make the big move.
Well I came home with a new Princess Tiana (Princess and the Frog) Fathead the other day and walked in with it rolled up discretely. Her keen eye that rarely misses a beat saw a piece of a frog about the size of a 50 cent piece and the jig was up. I had to unroll it and then I got the best reaction ever. She literally dove on it screaming “I love it. It’s the best thing ever!” and you’d think she was starring in Breakin’ 2 – Electric Boogaloo the way she was spinning around on the sheet. The drama lasted for several minutes, so I think our designer Jessica did a heck of a good job! Best reaction ever- Tiana more than passes the Princess-crazed little girl test!
I really wish I had a video camera on me, because her over the top flip out over Tiana would make a heck of a Youtube clip reminiscent of Super Nintendo Boy (if you don’t know who he is, go to Youtube). Pretty cool to make the little lady happy and be the guy with the cool job! Words don’t do a good job of describing how happy she was. Maybe I can pull ol’ Tiana out when she’s 15 and I’m threatening the lives of her boyfriends and she’ll still like me!
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