Music Performance of the Century

Skip the interview and go straight to the performance:

Arlen Specter talks destruction of important tapes…

Miraculous certainly does this justice…

From this past weekend in Division III College Football…

R.I.P.

In last night’s game against the Tennessee Titans, Deuce Mcallister tore his ACL for the second time in his career. Due to his age and the reoccurance of this injury, it seems unlikely that Deuce will continue playing in the NFL.

Perhaps it’s premature, but I would like to bid farewell to one of my favorite players in the Saint’s history. We’ll miss you, good buddy.

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/McAlDe00.htm

I’M A MAN! I’M 40!

Oklahoma State University football coach Mike Gundy loses his cool during an interview with the press below. I like how he ties it into what’s wrong with society. You know someone is onto something when they ask that question, right?

So, yes, it’s unfortunate that college football is becoming increasingly more like the pros. Maybe the newspaper got a few things wrong about the player in question, and that’s unfortunate too. But, the outrage about “hurting his feelings” and “kicking him when he’s down” is totally illogical.

When you strive to achieve glory on the athletic field, you also risk embarrassing yourself. Just ask Drew Brees for clarification on that point. If you aren’t willing to have your name dragged through the mud, don’t go into any kind of athletic competition. It’s just part of the game, for better or for worse. How are you going to have a competition and have all parties involved feel good about the outcome? From now on, should OSU football games end with everyone holding hands and crossing the endzone together, like the special olympics?

Come on!

I bet the player in question is more upset about losing the game for his team than he is about the newspaper article anyway. Wouldn’t you feel that way?

Christ-cussion

During Sunday evening’s game against the Minnesota Vikings, Detroit Lions quarterback Jon Kitna suffered a concussion in the game’s second quarter. Astoundingly, Kitna revived himself on the sidelines, and after receiving medical clearance, returned to play in the third quarter and led his team to victory.

After the game, Kitna provided reporters with the following explanation:

“I’ve never felt anything like that, and for it to clear up and go right back to as normal as I can be, is nothing short of a miracle,” Kitna said Monday. “I just definitely feel the hand of God. That’s all it was. You can’t explain it.”

I don’t know about you, reader, but you know whose words I trust, more than any other person, on all matters spiritual and metaphysical? That’s right. The idiot football player who, only a few hours previously, was blasted in the head so hard that his brain entered into a hyperbolic state. He’s right; there’s no other explanation that could possibly explain what happened.

Do you think maybe that Laura Bush beats her husband, and the reason everything has gone so badly over the last seven years is that G.W. has just been suffering repeated concussions? Think about it! This could be the answer to world peace! Where’s the White House doctor?

Maybe that’s not the right guy to call. But please, somebody, save the President’s brain!

Michael Vick apology rated…

My apologies for the commercial before the video… Those last 20 seconds crack me up every time…

I don’t even know what to say to this… really…

Michael Vick is a quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons… He was indicted on Tuesday for a number of offenses, all having to do with dog fighting… He faces 6 years in prison.. and a bunch of $ in fines that don’t matter to him anyways…

Full story here… click…

The indictment handed down Tuesday against Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and three others describes in detail how they procured a property in Virginia for the purpose of staging dogfights, bought dogs and then fought them there, and in several other states, over a 6-year period. With at least three cooperating witnesses providing the details, federal authorities compiled a detailed case that traces the birth and rise of Bad Newz Kennels…

…According to the indictment, Vick, who was also known as “Ookie”, and the three others set out to start a kennel of American Pit Bull Terriers for the purpose of fighting them around 2001. Around May of that year, the indictment states Taylor picked the property on 1915 Moonlight Road near Smithfield, Va., and Vick paid $34,000 for the land. In that same year, Vick and the other three men began acquiring fighting dogs, purchasing animals in Virginia and other states. There were four dogs from an individual in North Carolina, another dog bought in New York and six dogs and six puppies from an individual in Richmond, Va.

According to the indictment, in Sept. 2001, Vick and two others purchased four pit bulls puppies, including a male named Magic for $1,000 from an individual who has since testified before the grand jury. In 2002, Vick, accompanied by Peace, purchased four pit bulls from another person in Virginia who the indictment says is now a cooperating witness for the government.

The indictment states that in early 2002, the quartet established “Bad Newz Kennels” and even obtained shirts and headbands that “promoted their affiliation” with that organization. They also began renovation of the Moonlight Road property: building a fence to shield the portion where dogfights allegedly occurred and sheds to house the dogs and training equipment. They buried car axles in the woods so they could tie the dogs to them.

Around the summer of 2002, the four men began “rolling” dogs, according to the indictment. At that time, Peace, Phillips and Taylor each killed at least one dog that proved to be a poor fighter. Peace shot a dog with a .22 caliber pistol. Phillips also shot a dog. Taylor, the indictment alleges, executed at least two dogs that didn’t test well, shooting one and electrocuting at least one other.

Federal investigators say the quartet began attending fights as early as 2002, and in that year, Vick is first said to have sponsored a fight, between Zebro and Maniac at the Moonlight Road property for a purse totaling $2,000.

One of the more detailed descriptions of a fight involves a bout in March 2003. A professional fighter, now cooperating with the government, traveled from North Carolina to a location near Blackstone, Va., with his 35-pound female pit bull and a 47-pound male pit bull. The purse was $13,000 a side for the fight involving the female and $10,000 for the fight between the males. According to the indictment, Peace and Vick “represented” Bad Newz Kennels at those fights, which Bad Newz Kennels lost. “Peace, after consulting with Vick about the losing female pit bull’s condition, executed the dog by wetting the dog down with water and electrocuting the animal,” the indictment reads.

In other news, Nike’s new football cleat, the “Nike Zoom Vick V”, is set to go on sale August 23rd for $100… When asked to comment on Vick’s indictment, Nike spokesman Brian Facchini said, “We are aware of the indictment and are reviewing the information and have no further information at this time.” He reconfirmed that the shoe is still scheduled to be released…

Sweet, I want a pair of those shoes… Can I get the charred, contorted corpse of an innocent dog to go along with that? Oh, just for the first 1,000 pairs sold… Darn…

And adding “z” onto the end of a word that should end in “s” is fucking dumb. Just stop it already…

As a final note, Michael Vick has contributed another reason onto my “Why I sometimes wish there was a Hell” list…

In other other news, 2 teenage girls face 3 years in prison for pouring lighter fluid on an 8 week old kitten, then… wait for it… setting it on fire…