Saturday, September 12, 2009
Thoughts for a rainy Saturday
A few quick thoughts before I settle in to watch some college football and bake cupcakes for tonight’s soirée.
1. I should be watching ESPN College Gameday right now. I miss cable.
2. Just saw that Missouri is ranked number 25. Go Tigers!
3. First game tonight at the gopher’s TCF Bank Stadium. The parents will be there, so a more detailed report will follow. Apparently everyone in Minnesota thinks it’s a bad sign that both Air Force and Air Force One will both be in town today.
4. Finalized my picks for tomorrow’s games. Pretty standard favorites with the exception of Denver over Cincy.
5. This blog post is pure genius. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/090910
Click the link below to read a few of my favorite parts.
“For eight solid months, we have been planting the seeds for the loopiest football season ever played. Those seeds bloomed this past weekend with something seemingly spawned from NFL Mad Libs: "Shawne Merriman," "Tila Tequila," "3:45 a.m. choking" and ... go! The ensuing fallout led to nearly 500,000 "Did he perform the Lights Out dance afterward?" tweets, Tequila brazenly attacking Merriman through Twitter, me referring to a human being as "Tequila" in print and Merriman's steadfast denial that he did anything wrong. Merriman said he was preventing his "intoxicated" friend from driving home, with the underlying point being, "In case you didn't notice, she has 'Tequila' in her last name and she became famous as a bisexual MTV serial dater." One of the better legal defenses ever.”
“Tony Romo dumped Jessica Simpson for either partying too much (the rumored reason) or gaining too much weight (the real reason, or at least the one I'd wager on in Vegas), followed by Simpson partying even more and gaining even more weight. We might have a new Kirstie Alley on our hands; poor Jess suddenly is built like Kirby Puckett with breasts. (Not that this is a bad thing. I'm actually attracted to Zaftig Clingy No Self-Esteem Jess, my single strangest celebrity attraction since Renee Zellweger put on her Bridget Jones weight.) Did you ever think an NFL offseason could shape about 20 future Us Weekly covers? It's happened, my friends. Sneaky weird.”
*Note the references to Kirby Puckett and Us Weekly. This man is my hero.
“Brett Favre changed his mind about playing so many times that when ESPN filmed a "This is 'SportsCenter'" commercial about people in the newsroom passing along the "definitive" word on his latest decision, it had to film two versions -- one in which he came back and one in which he didn't come back -- in case he changed his mind again, and of course, the day the commercial was filmed, news broke that Favre was coming back.”
*Favorite. Commercial. Ever.
6. Fashion week is in full swing here in NYC and the best news is that hot pink is the new black. This is so my year! Other fall trends I’m less excited about include shoulder pads, eighties redux and bondage boots.
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