Day: February 1, 2011

Eat My Sports: You should have expected the unexpected

Steelers, Packers. Seems pretty easy right now to say this is what we all should have expected to begin the season. It’s the team who won the first Super Bowl against the team who has won the most. But back in August, at least one of these participants wasn’t set in stone.

Raise your hand if you had a Ben Roethlisberger-less Steelers team making a deep run? Right, me netiher, if you’ll recall I had the Packers playing the Ravens in the Super Bowl and Pittsburgh as a 10-6 Wild Card exiting in the second round. But, that’s why the play the game.

Normally I do a projected breakdown of the game or give you rules to drink by, this year, we’re changing it up. Then we’ll get to the prediction. This year, here are the top five things to watch for in the Super Bowl. Continue reading Eat My Sports: You should have expected the unexpected

His truth is boozing on

Russian (non-Vladimir-Putin) President Dmitry Medvedev unveiled a monument to the drinkingest Russian leader since Khrushchev drank Tito under the U.N. table: Boris Yeltsin.

It’s about time, too, because we’ve been pouring out entire bottles of vodka since we lost our democracy-installing homey in 2007.

Yeltsin is survived by his wife, Naina; daughters Yelena Okulova and Tatyana Yumasheva and several thousand red-nosed newspaper caricatures.

Jesus has never been so cool

I come from a small town, and when it celebrated its 250th birthday about a decade or so ago, all that went down was a gathering of local merchants around the track field down in the football stadium at the then only high school in the town. That’s not very baller of a birthday gift for when you turn super duper old, right?

But Västerås, a town in Sweden? They know exactly what to give themselves. The town recently turned the grand old age of 40, so what did Västerås get Västerås? An ice sculpture of Jesus.

It makes sense, given that Sweden is so blasted cold, and as such, Ice Jesus should be able to stay around for some time; however, come the summer time, when the temperature starts hitting the high digits and Ice Jesus turns into Water Jesus, it’s gonna take a bit longer than 3 days for him to come back.

Root for your team and risk death

If you’re sick and tired of Pittsburgh or Green Bay fans, you may soon have fewer of them to worry about, thanks to the Super Bowl. Sure, going all the way brings the bandwagon fans on board, but apparently you can die from just watching the Super Bowl.

One would think it’s the estimated 2 lbs. of cheese dip each American eats during the big game, but no, it’s actually the stress of watching that does you in. It makes your heart beat faster, and could trigger a hear attack especially if you are at risk because you smoke or are fat, which of course no NFL fans are. Tense games, especially when your team loses in a heartbreaking loss just might kill you.