Author: Adam Thomas

The Ballad of Vick Ballard

1.) Today, I am starting Vick Ballard in two fantasy football leagues.  Who is Vick Ballard you ask?  Damned if I know!  I couldn’t pick Vick Ballard out of a lineup, but now, my fantasy football hopes are pinned to him. Especially in theheadrush league, as I put up 172 pts last week, good for 2nd most in the league, only to be shallacked by the dude who put up the most points in the league: 272. But that’s how it goes sometimes in fantasy. Oh, here’s a picure of Vick Ballard that I just found on-line. Now I…

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You stop laughing right Meow!

1.) Right now, I am watching the Deadspin video of Atlanta Falcons Safety Thomas DeCoud play the “Meow” game–made famous by Super Troopers–on a live Sportscenter interview (the interview took place sometime before yesterday’s game against the Panthers). It is absolute hilarity and he is really, really good at slipping Meow’s into the interview such as, “Meow, we just have to be disciplined in our coverage.” Great stuff. He also ends the interview with “Most definitely, thank you.   MEOW!“ 2.) Here is the text I sent to Randy after reading his picks column on Friday “Peyton gonna pick apart…

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Roger Goodell is a Joke

Ok, now it’s time to bring back the regular refs. Let’s do it. Now. This is beyond absurd. We all felt this way before the Monday Night debacle. A quarterback lost part of HIS FREAKING EAR on Sunday. It’s time to end this. Besides the whole Matt Schaub losing his ear lobe thing, I have 3 prime examples from the Raiders/Steelers game that show why there needs to be real referees in the game to keep the players safe. And lest you think I am biased because I love my Raiders, two of them are calls the officials missed…

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Week 3 Picks: The Cabin in the Woods

If you haven’t seen The Cabin in the Woods movie, do yourself a favor and check it out.  Like Thor, which I wrote about a while back–and which also coincidentally stars Chris Hemsworth–it is the perfect 3 star movie. But be warned before you check it out: it’s not really a horror movie. It’s more in the vein of Scream, a kind of half scary, half funny movie (although it may even be 75% funny, 25% scary.) The stars of the show are Richard Jenkins (who is awesome in everything, especially as one of the dad’s playing poker in…

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The Jump to Conclusions Mat

The thing I really love about the NFL is how every week seems to change our opinions of a team. In week one, the Patriots crushed the Titans and it looked like they were a lock to make the playoffs and contend for the AFC crown. Meanwhile, the Cowboys took down the defending Super Bowl champs and looked like they were on their way to a showdown with the 49ers in the NFC championship. Meanwhile, the Cardinals beat Seattle–but nobody put too much stock into that because it was the Seahawks and they were certainly going to get clobbered…

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BINGO!

1.) Ok, so I just read the Yahoo! Sports story on Drew Rosenhaus and how he may have swindled lots of NFL players out of money by getting them to invest in a project run by his buddy, Jeff Rubin. You know what that investment opportunity was? A rural Alabama BINGO PARLOR. Oh me oh my. What in the world are these NFL players thinking? Look, don’t get me wrong, it sucks that they got suckered out of their money, but if a buddy of mine came up to me and said, “Hey, you wanna invest a million dollars…

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First Fantasy Football Draft of the Season: A Review

My first fantasy football draft of the season came and went last night, and a lot of knowledge was gleaned from the event. Most importantly is this: Don’t schedule a draft for 6:45 East Coast time when you have players participating on the west coast. Out of 12 teams, only 5 showed up, and one of those was in about round 12 when he had already drafted most of his team. With that said, I am going to do a round by round review (up until round 10 when it’s more or less a crapshoot), showing you both my…

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