Congratulations to the NFC Champion Arizona Cardinals.

Congratulations to the Arizona Cardinals and their fans for whipping on the Eagles and going to the Super Bowl.

Larry Wilson must be coming in his pants.

If you guys are old enough to remember who Larry Wilson is?

Sorry about that AJ see you next year.

Dr. Kill may need a lung transplant!

Dr. Kill told us he bet his lungs on the birds. I think that is a big mistake. Jacobs is feeling frisky and we be ready to run it down their pipe on Sunday. Westbrook is a great back but he is only one guy. The Giants have three superior running backs that they can use to mix it up and show different sets and dominate the clock. It is going to be old fashioned NFC east football and that's what wins in the playoffs. The Giants just have more weapons than the Eagles.

Did I tell you lately that the Giants are going to win the Super Bowl?

Sean Avery has balls and the NHL proves that they are not a real sport and are full of girly men.

Our ace commenter dr. kill pointed out the Sean Avery story and here it is:

ESPN NEWS December 4, 2008
DALLAS -- Of all the cajoling, snide remarks and other stunts Sean Avery pulled on the way to becoming the biggest pest in hockey, never had he gone so far that the NHL believed it had to suspend him -- until Tuesday.

Avery was punished indefinitely by commissioner Gary Bettman for using a crude term about his former girlfriends now dating other hockey players. Bettman acted within hours, in time to keep Avery out of the Dallas Stars' game against the Calgary Flames on Tuesday night.

Avery's inflammatory line came following a morning skate in Calgary, Alberta. Reporters were waiting to speak with Avery about disparaging remarks he'd made last month about Flames star Jarome Iginla when Avery walked over to the group and asked if there was a camera present. When told there was, he said, "I'm just going to say one thing."

"I'm really happy to be back in Calgary; I love Canada," the Ontario native said. "I just want to comment on how it's become like a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with my sloppy seconds. I don't know what that's about, but enjoy the game tonight." He then walked out of the locker room.

Avery's ex-girlfriend, actress Elisha Cuthbert of the television show "24" and the movie "Old School," is dating Calgary defenseman Dion Phaneuf; she had been romantically linked to Mike Komisarek of the Montreal Canadiens. Avery also dated Rachel Hunter, the former Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover model and actress who is now the girlfriend of Los Angeles Kings center Jarret Stoll.

"My thoughts were that it was a very disrespectful comment, and the league took action and I definitely agree with the way they took action," Phaneuf said after the Flames' 3-1 loss to the Stars.

Bettman said Avery made "inappropriate public comments, not pertaining to the game." Bettman and league disciplinarian Colin Campbell will hold a hearing with Avery at 10:30 a.m. ET Thursday in New York before the length of the suspension is determined.

"I completely support the league's decision to suspend Sean Avery," Stars owner Tom Hicks said in a statement. "Had the league not have suspended him, the Dallas Stars would have. This organization will not tolerate such behavior, especially from a member of our hockey team. We hold our team to a higher standard and will continue to do so."


This if freaking unbelievable. They suspend this guy for a fucking joke. I mean the two guys that he is busting on should settle this up on the ice. Not run to mommie likes pussy. What would Gordie Howe do? What would Gump Worsley do? WTF What would freakin' Dennis Potvin do for christsake?

Don't we have freedom of speech in this fucking country anymore? They can't even sue him for libel or slander because what he said is true. They are getting sloppy seconds. I thought the NHL was always lame anyway. The old school guys are all gone and you have these foreigners who don't want to mix it up. It started when the Rangers got those Swedes. Pussy pacifists that they were they infected the league. Now you can't even bust another guys balls without it going to the courts. What a load of bullshit.

When an Idea just doesn't pan out.

Althouse put up a post about Chief Oshkosh of a famous Wisconsin Indian tribe and I thought it might be cool to punch up a pastiche of the Leatherstocking Tales with the ultimate joke that Chief Oshkosh didn't want to live in the woods but only wanted to make tiny overalls for yuppie kids. But it seems like too much work. Anyway here is the first and last installment.

Leatherpanty was the most famous of the trail blazers who went to live among the savages in the wilds of Nekoosa on the banks of the Wisconsin. He was born to a family of tanners in New York State but turned his face from that base trade. He longed for adventure in the woodland Eden that beckoned him. As he worked in his father’s shop he gazed out the window and dreamed of a place where he could live free. To be the man he wanted to be. So he fled his fathers house with only a strip of leather that he fashioned into a breech cloth to gird his lions. That is why they called him Leatherpanty.
(Leatherpanty Tales, James Fenimore Cooper 1846)

I don't think enough people have read the Leatherstocking Tales to get what the hell I am talking about. I mean most know the Last of the Mohican's because of the movies but I have yet to meet anyone who has ever read The Pioneers and The Pathfinder and The Prairie. So I just give up on this one.