A Fine Weekend of Playoff Viewing Awaits
Pop Culture, Video April 17th. 2009, 6:15pmPretty neat. Most popular video to visit our inbox this week.
We never know how to end the week, other than to say who your weekend leader will be. Guiding you through the NBA and NHL playoffs … Cousins of Ron Mexico. By now, you know the drill. Our last post on this Friday Night Lights-less Friday.
Bill Murray’s stray golf shot hit a woman. She’ll live.
Going to jail for six months … but still on scholarship! Nice.
If you feel like getting a depressing read out of the way prior to the weekend, here’s the family of the guy who was drunk driving when he killed Nick Adenhart of the Angels.
And lastly, FIU would like to welcome … Isiah Thompson!
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April 17th, 2009 at 6:21 PM
i dont think gallo is a monster. i just think he is a idiot and a murderer .accidental or not he killed 3 people. he should be locked away for a very very long time.
April 17th, 2009 at 6:25 PM
The NFL gave in to the Jewish Jets fans (JEWTS?). Abraham, Moses and King David are disgusted with their descendants for putting football first over faith.
April 17th, 2009 at 6:34 PM
wow, you weren’t kidding, sparty
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hDum3_8fCiAOwAVEKu4U5TN29rcQD97KG06O0
April 17th, 2009 at 6:42 PM
wow espn has snoop on for some reason. just wow.
April 17th, 2009 at 6:45 PM
J-E-W-T-S, Jewts, Jewts, Jewts!
April 17th, 2009 at 6:47 PM
+1. That was a nice belly laugh.
April 17th, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Ah don’t be hatin’ (that much?) Sparty …I called it earlier this week in a post when JPQ raised the matter… too bad such a common sense solution could not have prevailed easily in Detroit on Good Friday.
C’mon with men like Katz, Tannenbaum, Greenberg, and even a Congressman Weinberg in on the mix we saw this coming for an easy adjustment right?
Also see earlier draft post today where most everyone chimed in again that the Jets suck.
BFD here, but really a BD for that matter in Detroit to me though I am not a baseball fan.
April 17th, 2009 at 6:51 PM
Paolo-I figured it would go down like this. Glad the Tigers and MLB didn’t change the Good Friday thing. just that the hypocrisy of each religion in both cases annoys me.
April 17th, 2009 at 6:54 PM
But really, missing the second half of a Jewts home game wouldn’t have been enough punishment for killing Jesus. Of course, the Jews vs. Jesus was kind of like the 2004 ALCS. The Jews jumped out to a 3-0 lead, then Jesus stormed back to take the title a few short days later.
April 17th, 2009 at 6:56 PM
can someone check the IP address on Bsanders and call 911 to be sent wherever he is? I think a lightning bolt just hit him.
t.here is just no way that God is a Sox fan. Not possible.
/Book of 1 Opinions
April 17th, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Agreed in principle Sparty.
If folks were going to raise the issue of religion, I wish at least they were consistent.
In our country most folks are not consistent on religion whilst professing in the same breath that they believe in “Freedom of Religion.”
And if folks are not going to raise the issue of religion, that’s fine too with me.
But at least be consistent instead of cherry-picking and determining that it’s ok to offend some more than others.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Bsanders funny again.
I guess we are off to the Crusades and the like all over again.
Religiously politically incorrect team names anyone?
I’ll start with the Christian Soldiers.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:03 PM
wife just talked me out of seeing the knowing tonight. she wont let me twist her arm into seeing Fast and Furious, either.
no FNL tonight is a major bummer. there’s shit in the theater now, which blows.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:04 PM
TBL there is always porn right?
April 17th, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Nah, I’ll be fine. God’s busy wrecking the 401k’s of all the atheists, he’ll get to us troublesome agnostics next decade.
Dibs on Beelzebub’s Bombers.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:07 PM
Or the Christian Lions, as after all that’s also where Detroit wanted to feed them?
April 17th, 2009 at 7:07 PM
Hilarious.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:07 PM
I like TBL’s wife’s taste in movies. Should try and see if she’s up for State of Play, I hear it’s a solid journalistic thriller, maybe the last one we’ll see until the profession reinvents itself. The BBC miniseries it’s based on was fantastic.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:08 PM
Think I am going to watch Kicking and Screaming. No, not the Will Ferrel movie. I am sure Bsanders knows it.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:12 PM
TBL that reminds me I think I might have found a candidate for keeper, but still more work to do on my hunt here. Same chick that sent me that now famous and banned porn link mind you (codename “Padma Billy”). She told me she went to see “The Fast And The Furious” II and loved it.
(Hearts)
April 17th, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Definitely, I have the Criterion Collection of it. Noah Baumbach’s debut film – awesome. Perfectly captures that “just graduated from college” ennui. It’s an Ivy League version of Reality Bites, only no Lisa Loeb.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:13 PM
TBL, 17 AGAIN IS IN THEATERS!!!
April 17th, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Speaking of BBC miniseries and marriage as well whilst we are at it, I’ll confess I like one of the chicks in the BBC’s “Mistresses” too (the bisexual one). Check it out TBL I think it is on tonight too.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:16 PM
Is it anything like Skins? I was into that show for the first two seasons, until they replaced the entire cast except for the kid from About a Boy’s little sister. Dev Patel from Slumdog Millionaire was in it, IIRC.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:17 PM
“Oh, I’ve been to Prague. Well, I haven’t “been to Prague” been to Prague, but I know that thing, that, “Stop shaving your armpits, read the Unbearable Lightness of Being, date a sculptor, now I know how bad American coffee is thing… â€
April 17th, 2009 at 7:22 PM
bsanders the kids on Skins were like 16. Shame on you sir.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Was better than Gossip Girl.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:26 PM
somewhat sad to see rachel mcadams dating this douche
this guy is an animal with randoms in NYC – at the old job, i’d see him at 2-3 parties a week during one stretch. he’s sure to cheat on mcadams.
mcadams > julia stiles, even if mcadams likes the red sox
April 17th, 2009 at 7:27 PM
great, angsty flick.
has one of the better last lines of a modern movie. big olivia d’abo fan here
April 17th, 2009 at 7:30 PM
I’ll recommend Green Street Hooligans. Very good movie and the whole thing is on youtube.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:32 PM
here’s that ending
(only hardcore nerds need apply)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRl0xweBQ74
April 17th, 2009 at 7:37 PM
agree. my favorite lines of the movie are the random ones that have zero to do with the movie and the scene: “I’ll tell you the worst part about losing a foot.”
April 17th, 2009 at 7:39 PM
The refereeing is less than stellar in Pittsburgh tonight. A bs penalty gives the Flyers a goal, they don’t call a penalty shot, and Malkin gets tackled wherever he goes. I feel like I’m watching an old school Harvard-Cornell game
April 17th, 2009 at 7:46 PM
http://jezebel.com/5216654/rachel-mcadams-josh-lucas-is-at-her-service
Agreed what a douchebag TBL Godfather. Looks like the Euro metrosexual look of London 2005.
Kick his ass please and make us proud.
“Mistresses” on BBC America in 20 Minutes (except on the West Coast) TBL and others. But the only good parts are the hottest of the four chicks who is in some lezbo scenes too because she goes both ways. Check it out and then just flip channels when they get into the sensitive feminine ninnie BS. Rumour has it that the douche above makes a cameo appearance tonight.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:49 PM
Big Olivia d’Abo fan too TBL Godfather. And now I am checking her out FULLY NUDE on Nudography of course. Thanks again.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:51 PM
Jeez, my friday nights have really gotten bad…playing ps3 and hanging out here.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:55 PM
Until I can return to my free-spending days of 1999-2001 (Atlanta and Washington DC) and 2003-2006 (Washington DC and Las Vegas), here I am in places like this tonight.
Cheap entertainment rocks.
And with this Great Recession, those “good ‘ol days” are still a ways off.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Great Ceaser’s Olivia.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Heard that, I have to be at a church at 8 a.m. to set up for my cousin’s wedding tomorrow. Sucks huge ass.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:15 PM
what time is the wedding, 10 am? at least he picked a good weekend … smart man. doesn’t have the nfl draft to contend with. i made sure we avoided the draft … though a week later, on the honeymoon, i heard HOURS later about quinn falling to the browns.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:16 PM
green street hooligans was the shit. it had the dude from sons of anarchy in it. quality flick
April 17th, 2009 at 8:20 PM
am i the only one totally crushing on susan boyle? how can you not like and root for this woman?
April 17th, 2009 at 8:22 PM
TBL- i guess because of how FNL ended this year, Coach Taylor’s squad is most likely going to suck.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:29 PM
TBL Shelley Conn is the hottest British lass on “Mistresses” whom you might fancy as well. You and your British chicks you know.
Separately on the movie front, two overlooked fine British action films include the following:
“Snatch” (not any porn version if it exists)
“The Bank Job”
Both feature Jason Statham of “The Transporter” fame. He is the new British version of Kevin Bacon.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Define crushing…
April 17th, 2009 at 8:31 PM
any high school team that loses that many 25-27 yr olds are bound to suck
April 17th, 2009 at 8:34 PM
Crush is the wrong word. And I am not a fan of such shows, but no matter I applaud that it took this woman to expose the underlying hypocrisy that lies within us all on judging by mere appearances. She gave us a great, overdue lesson in human humility and modesty.
My work is done here (today). Now back to my porn, “Mistresses,” et cetera.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:34 PM
“Lock, Stock….” is better.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:35 PM
no way. the stath is the british version of jean claude van damme…nothing but the shittiest of action movies that are enjoyable, not because they’re good, but because they’re so bad, it’s laughable.
the stath was tits in lock, stock and two smoking barrels, but his movies are fucking terrible now. filmdrunk.com has a fantastic parody thingee of him that’s worth the search.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Is he actually known as “The Stath”? Lock, Stock, Snatch and The Bank Job are all solid, shit even The Italian Job is good in a forgettable way, but the rest of his movies are really bad. He’s ripped as shit, though. Former world-ranked swimmer in the UK, I believe. I think Van Damme’s an apt comparison for the physicality present in the movies of each, yet Statham’s onscreen persona is more in line with Seagal’s. Man, I love me some bad 80’s action movies.
“I’m gonna take you to the bank, Senator Trent. To the blood bank.”
Duhn, duhn, duhn, duhn, duhn!
April 17th, 2009 at 8:44 PM
I’ll check those other film recommendations on Statham, not having seen even “The Transporter” series yet as I am hardly a movie buff as you can tell, but if you have not seen either of those films I mentioned either you don’t get it or just don’t like British films with their dry plots and humour.
In other words for the latter, you probably need all your jokes with the punchlines filled in for you, as they do definitely in the South with their awful canned brand of redneck humour with absolutely no wit to it. See Larry The Cable Guy, Jeff Foxworthy, et cetera. Not Funny.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Seagal movies were great with the bone breaking sound effect.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:53 PM
The best Seagal scene is the one in I think it’s Out for Justice where he wraps a cue ball in a towel and swings it around, breaking guys’ jaws.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Not the scene where he plays slap hands? with the guy from Dumb and Dumber? Dont know the movie.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:00 PM
“you broke my fucking teeth!” bad guy runs over there. whack! another shot to the mouth. probably the most beautiful scene ever captured on film.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:01 PM
I saw Crank 2 last night and it’s the funniest shit I’ve seen all year.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:03 PM
same can be said about horror movies. just insanely funny for some reason
April 17th, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Sweet, here it is.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:06 PM
Seagal’s New Yawk accent is horrible.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Even the original was somewhat forgettable due to the poor ending despite a great plot.
Oh wow this will be a great trivia game of sorts bsanders. Start with the whole “Death Wish” series. Bsanders or anyone else fire away.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:13 PM
I mean it pretty much has to begin and end with Commando, right?
“I’m not gonna shoot ya in the head, Matrix, I’m gonna shoot ya in the balls!”
April 17th, 2009 at 9:13 PM
what about bad 90s action movies?
Van Damme and all his “film” that revolve around him having a bad guy twin brother. They got a lotta mileage out of those scenarios…
April 17th, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Yeah, bad 80’s action movies kind of blended into the early 90’s, also. Here’s a good collection of a lot of them. Double Impact is the one you’re thinking of.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:16 PM
i wish spence would link the statham parody film..i have searched that site and cant fucking find it.
the film that started it all i think was dirty harry. without harry none of those clowns would exist.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Stallone in Cobra. In one of the first scenes they show him cutting cold pizza with scissors to illustrate just how badass he is. You don’t have that kind of character development today.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Well, Dirty Harry kind of Americanized it. Sergio Leone’s Italian spaghetti westerns were a rough template for the 80’s action movie craze. Clint Eastwood and Ronald Reagan are kind of the co-ambassadors of them.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Bsanders that was just one cool bad 80s action movies. I am Italian too, so I know those were mostly phoney Italians too. Or New Yawk corrupted versions of them.
And yet that accent was just plain awful. It makes even New Yawkaz look bad. It sounded more like Philly than New Yawk too. No further questions Your Honour.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Another Stallone piece of crap: “Tango & Cash”
April 17th, 2009 at 9:21 PM
you’re the disease..and im the cure. that film had the naturally ugliest looking bad guy ever Brian Thompson . that dude had a face only a mother could love.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Eastwood was awesome in Gran Torino
April 17th, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Oh yeah, he was a bad dude on Buffy the Vampire Slayer for a bit, I think. Tango & Cash might be so bad it’s not even enjoyable. Jack Palance is really, wildly over the top in that one. I totally forgot they replaced Van Damme after the first Kickboxer with the spacey brother from Step By Step (Sasha Mitchell).
April 17th, 2009 at 9:24 PM
True Story: In 2006, I was working security in a jewellery store at the Bellagio, and in walks this dude that was about 6-7 or so in his cowboy boots and a blazer, weighing somewhere in the high 200s, and with a pony tail in the back but in a tough way. He was looking at the vitrine, or little displays windows. Right about when I recognised him as Seagal and looked at him, he glanced at me and knew I recognised him, but we played it cool from there. He walked out without incident or recognition from anyone else.
He’s a badass in real life too.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Wow, I thought this was just a Simpsons creation, didn’t know it was a real movie. I kind of want to watch it now. 240 deaths? Damn.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Malkin!!!
April 17th, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Malkin!!!
By the way, food poisoning on a Friday? not fun.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:33 PM
agree
April 17th, 2009 at 9:34 PM
Did anyone ever see any of the following? Ah the days of VHS tapes.
Just the cover art back in the video store with VHS made one want to take another dump:
“Malone”
“The Punisher”
“Delta Force”
“McBain” (No relation to “Malone”?)
“Iron Eagle”
“Extreme Prejudice”
“Black Rain”
Other Awful Notables I Did See:
“They Live”
“Red Dawn”
“Robocop”
“Roadhouse” (also it would be hard to top this one on the ‘whyyyte’ index, but I’ll admit that seeing that blonde nude made up for a lot back in those days)
“Predator 2″
“Action Jackson” (if it weren’t for Mark Jackson of the Knicks at the time …)
April 17th, 2009 at 9:34 PM
I totally forgot they replaced Van Damme after the first Kickboxer with the spacey brother from Step By Step (Sasha Mitchell).
I know I’ll get crucified for this, but you honestly could not beat step by step and boy meets world on a friday night. Topenga in the high school years and then stacy from step by step were my first “celebrity” crushes.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Christopher Walken doesn’t need bullets to kill.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:36 PM
great minds, Sanchez.
By the way, people who say Ovechkin is better than Crosby and Malkin are on crack. Yes he scores more goals, but he doesn’t do any of the little things they do.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:37 PM
for paolo: another Las Vegas true story:
In 1989, I was in Caesar’s in Las Vegas, playing the slots at an end slot machine, when this huge commotion starts up at the front of the room. All of a sudden, a group of about 30 people (29 men and 1 woman) start walking towards me going like 20 MPH.
As they get closer, I see the woman is Madonna and her bodyguards, and also in the mass of humanity is Warren Beatty, who she was doing at the time (Dick Tracy). As she gets directly next to me (2 feet away), my slot machine hits, all the buzzers and sirens go off, and I win $1,300. I thanked her for the good luck, and she rolled her eyes and kept walking like I was a piece of shit.
All I could think of was Warren Beatty must be the most pathetic tail chaser in history to be in a group of 29 guys 10 feet behind her and still following her around just to get laid. (Either that, or she sucked a mean dick)
April 17th, 2009 at 9:41 PM
He makes for great highlights, but wouldn’t backcheck or block a shot to save his life. NHL’s version of Vince Carter.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:44 PM
JPQ one of the best Vegas stories I have ever heard, and I have heard and seen quite a few.
Thanks.
Caesar’s or Harrah’s anything suck BTW except Paris. And then find the gambling action elsewhere.
Stick with MGM properties, so long as they don’t go banrkupt I guess. Mandalay Bay is my preferred place for everything but betting on football. I go off-Strip for that action.
If you Wynn or Venetian or Palazzo, you’ll get the tightest action and priciest everything on the Strip, but go if you get a great deal on a room or for a business meeting, as their facilities are the best for business.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Damn no one has seen any of those sorry-looking action films above? Or is whatever is on TV now just that good? What channel if so please?
April 17th, 2009 at 9:47 PM
I thanked her for the good luck, and she rolled her eyes and kept walking like I was a piece of shit.
I realize celebrities have to deal with a ton of shit when they just wanna be a normal person out in public, but damn, what a bitch.
/she coulda been going through a bad day and “don’t judge until you walk a day in her shoes” apply, but still…
April 17th, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Paolo: Yeah, that was my first time there. Only been there 4 times, (Caesar’s, Mandalay Bay,Hard Rock, and Bellagio last time in ‘05).
Thinking of going again in the fall. What’s a good place to look for?
April 17th, 2009 at 9:50 PM
@badger: I felt like Kevin Costner in that Truth or Dare Documentary.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Re: Madonna – Any chick that Dennis Rodman and Jose Canseco blew loads in shouldn’t be judgemental.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Do I need to remind folks again about the winning way to play that “walk a mile in their shoes” line? Or is someone going to be all over this one?
Definitely a first-class bitch, but then again, and perhaps sadly, most guys under even 40 still would do her over 50. Don’t think she does not know that. And if you are compelled to say you would not, well consider how many drinks it would take.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Hot lezbo action coming up possibly on “Mistresses” again; it’s why I watch.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:57 PM
If you like a place that tends to have fewer families in the casino and night life areas, try “Mandalay Bay”; also they have the only pool with real sand and fake waves on the Strip.
If your girl wants something more serene, Bellagio.
If you want to save money but still have a great location, Treasure Island.
The first two are MGM properties. Treasure Island was sold last year to private ownership.
Watch the news on MGM Mirage to see if it is going bankrupt first. Then pun intended all bets are off.
April 17th, 2009 at 10:15 PM
Danny Briere is such a little bitch. Fucking little elf.
April 17th, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Guerin!!!
April 17th, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Oh, brother.
April 17th, 2009 at 10:26 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8B2Dl8aW5c
to anyone who saw the FNL finale
April 17th, 2009 at 10:26 PM
@ mike: wow.
April 17th, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Yeah baby. Thanks to the Flyers for playing like retards in OT
April 17th, 2009 at 10:27 PM
oh, that segal scene you were talking about earlier …
right before he starts jacking guys, this guy says to Segal, ‘you ain’t shit without that badge and gun.’ and then he offers anyone in the joint big bucks to kick segal’s ass.
segal takes the clip from his gun and puts it on the counter with his badge. then, he proceeds to unload an asswhipping on at least a dozen dudes
April 17th, 2009 at 10:29 PM
ah shit, you already had the video uploaded. good find. had no clue so many people liked that
April 17th, 2009 at 10:30 PM
TBL, your boys have got me “hooked” on betting single MLB games. Very small amounts, just to keep it interesting between now and . . . well, I guess until NFL season starts up.
April 17th, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Yuniesky Bentancourt is fucking terrible. How is this guy still on a major league roster?
April 17th, 2009 at 10:33 PM
tbl how could so many people not like the finest thing ever captured on film?
April 17th, 2009 at 10:35 PM
I always thought this was Jakob Dylan’s best work. Too bad all youtube has is some dude covering it acoustically. I wonder what Bob thinks of that song.
April 17th, 2009 at 10:37 PM
mike – you’re nuts for betting baseball, man. crazy. i may jump in a few nba games, we’ll see
April 17th, 2009 at 10:40 PM
cassino- cause he’s cheap
mike- single game baseball? really? that seems like monetary suicide to me
April 17th, 2009 at 10:42 PM
I’m talking $10 bets, literally, the smallest you can do.
The MLJ guy was pretty successful at it last year, we’ll see what happens. At least it’s getting me slightly interested in baseball. Although these one-run games in NYM, TB, and HOU are killing me.
April 17th, 2009 at 10:45 PM
dont really know little dylan’s work … but i did think that one album he had in like 97/98 was good.
but they played that song at the start of the season finale … cool.
im looking for the song they played right after the state finale loss … keep googling lyrics to no avail. will scour some FNL msg boards
April 17th, 2009 at 10:49 PM
I used to bet on single games a couple years ago, but mostly prop bets like no score in the first and first team to score.
April 17th, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Ramon Hernandez! Woo-hoo!
/no idea who that is
April 17th, 2009 at 10:49 PM
vlad out a month
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-angels-fyi18-2009apr18,0,2437434.story
adjust your fantasy lineups accordingly
April 17th, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Billy FUCKING Guerin!
Flyers play almost error free (called errors anyway, apparently slew footing isn’t a penalty, I had THOUGHT it was a five minute major) and still fuck up. Yeah it’s not slashing when you hit a guy’s stick so hard it shatters, eat a bag of cocks you fucks.
April 17th, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Also, a huge FUCK YOU to NBC for ordering the Penguins to not show game three on the big screen outside Mellon. They claim it’s against their rules to allow it. However they did it for the entire playoffs last year and there were multiple NBC games shown, and the contract with the NHL was not renegotiated this year. So way to kill a cool thing they had going you assholes.
April 17th, 2009 at 11:02 PM
that, friends, is why gambling is cool. the opportunity to root for and learn about obscure players you otherwise could care less about.
and those $10 wins add up. when you hit 2-3 in a row, double down, hoss
April 17th, 2009 at 11:03 PM
re: Statham
Mean Machine is awesome. Remake of The Longest Yard (before the abortion Sandler one) that had Vinne Jones as the main character, Statham plays the goalie (it’s a soccer version obviously).
And Green Street Hooligans was terrible. Not only was it just a bad movie, it made it out as if West Ham actually was good, and it glorified hooliganism absurdly. Football Factory is a much better movie, it’s more realistic and in the end the protagonist doesn’t walk away singing ‘forever blowing bubbles’ like a cunt.
April 17th, 2009 at 11:04 PM
TBL, if the song you’re looking for from FNL is instrumental it’s probably Explosions in the Sky.
April 17th, 2009 at 11:31 PM
Jason Kubel: Cycle. And a game winning grand slam. Yeah baby
April 17th, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Football’s the only game for any small-time $action for me. In Vegas it seems to be the most popular for betting action too.
The best time to be in Las Vegas in my view.
It’s the only major pro game in which scores are normally 3 or 7 points at a time instead of only 1 or 2, so you have more room to play with points.
However by week 7 or so the handicappers are too good in the NFL until the playoffs.
In college football, the early part of the season with the non-conference schedule is great, as a lot of the dumb money drives the lines just like those stupid pre-season and early season polls.
Anyone who bets regularly will tell you that the best bets are when the people are wrong and beating with groupthink.
For example consider those who bet against the Cardinals all of the playoffs because to any East Coaster it was “unimaginable” that they could be in the Super Bowl. And it was similar that most though the Colts would not lose at San Diego.
Well heck it was unimaginable to me for the Cardinals run, but still I took the points on them in the Super Bowl as well.
As you can tell I am itchin’ for some of that new action starting in September.
April 17th, 2009 at 11:49 PM
Mole is right, for it is not as if hockey is not hurting for more exposure.
Mole did you used to play hockey? You sound like you want to smash someone’s helmet and skull on the boards.
April 18th, 2009 at 12:04 AM
NBC fucking blows. They’re under the impression the only team that can generate ratings for hockey is the Penguins which is beyond retarded. McCreary’s group has been issuing so many penalties, I literally fell asleep midway through the first period. Let the guys play hockey for fuck’s sake.
April 18th, 2009 at 12:23 AM
Sportsgal is right, for it is not as if hockey is not hurting for more exposure.
Sportsgal did you used to play hockey? You sound like you want to smash someone’s helmet and skull into the boards.
April 18th, 2009 at 1:12 AM
Agree 100%
While I would much rather have the Penguins on FSN Pittsburgh than NBC, two things.
1) The NHL chose to delay the Capitals series one day to put them on NBC Saturday, so it’s not like they’re only trying to promote one team.
2) Penguins hockey on FSN Pittsburgh is the highest rated of all the hockey on regional FSN networks, so it’s not like they don’t have a reason for putting their games on.