Day: September 7, 2010

Eat My Sports: NFL 2010 style

And we’re back for another round of bold NFL predictions that will make me look like a complete jackass by the time the Cowboys don’t play in their home stadium for the Super Bowl! It’s the beginning of September, the Sox are nine games out, so, that means without clouded judgment, I can solely focus on our collective football fix, and make some sweet guestimations.

I may not know much, but I do know the following: 1) Since 1996, at least five teams who did not make the playoffs the year before, qualified for the postseason the following year. 2) No one in the history of the NFC South has ever repeated as division champ. 3) Every time you buy into the hype, you get burned.

So, without any further adieu, let’s get into some SeriousPredictions.

NFC East
The NFC East is full of shakeups between the Skins and Eagles, and a sense of stability between New York and Dallas. All that said, New York looks like they’ve got their focus back, and Dallas has just a little bit too much of an inflated ego for me to take them seriously. When it’s all said and done, I think Tony Romo and Jason Witten will be honeymooning come January.
The Call: New York Giants 11-5
The Rest: Dallas Cowboys 9-7, Washington Redskins 8-8, Philadelphia Eagles 7-9

NFC South
The Saints were a great story last year, and a pretty decent team. They weren’t great by any stretch, they caught way too many breaks for it to carry over to a second year. That being said, Atlanta has the complete package and Ron Mexico’s ghost on their side.
The call: Atlanta Falcons 11-5
The rest: New Orleans Saints 10-6, Carolina Panthers 7-9, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 4-12 Continue reading Eat My Sports: NFL 2010 style

In hindsight …

Whether it’s for your body, your car or just something that could benefit you in general, we at SG believe in preventative maintenance. Exercise a little, eat a banana or some greens minus the bacon, check on your tires, save a few dollars here and there, you know? By doing the little stuff, the early checks and balances of your day to day activities, you can make your future that much easier.

Which is why we’d like to advocate to South Korea that the actions of whoever it is in that country that gives out licenses to drive may not be doing the preventative maintenance that it should be doing. Like giving a license to drive to a senior citizen that’s failed the driving exam 960 times.

He said that Mrs Cha would not be a danger, since it was on the written part of the test, rather than the practical side, that she had failed so many times.

Yeah, we’re gonna go ahead and say that phrase may come back to bite Su-yeon in the butt.

Fun Fact: Preventative maintenance never killed anyone.

Life imitating something that’s not quite art

I saw Snakes on a Plane on TV the other night. Aside from the standard edits of blood, swearing and nudity, the safe for TV version, there was something important missing. No, it wasn’t the plot, that didn’t make it past the cutting room floor, as far as I can tell. It was the famous line. Instead, at the very end, Samuel L. Jackson yelled, “That is it! I have had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane!”

(I believe they’ll save the monkey-fighting for the sequel.)

However, nearly 100 endangered and dangerous snakes and one turtle were found coming out of a broken piece of luggage. A famous wildlife smuggler, better known as a species traitor, a deplorable human being who has sided with the enemy for a profit, was allegedly caught red-handed. No monkeys were involved.

[via Consumerist]