1k Bonanza

It's a celebration!  The blog has gone over 1000 hits.  It doesn't matter if 753 of those were me refreshing the page to get the hit count up.  In this era of performance enhancing drugs, a little hit count cheating never killed anyone.  All kidding aside, I'm not that desperate to juke the stats on a meaningless blog, so its a big shout to the readers.  Lets continue to grow this thing and take it to the top.  In the words of Jake Taylor, "I guess there's only one thing left to do...Win the whole..fuckin..thing!"  Yeah....YES!!! 

That's my quarterback!  The big news over the weekend was the signing of Terrell Owens by the Buffalo Bills.  It must have been real humbling for TO to settle for playing near the Canadian border.  Hell, the Bills even played a game IN Toronto last year!  They are the closest thing to the Vancouver Grizzlies that the NFL has.  Nobody willingly wants to go play in Buffalo, especially not TO.  Hell, I can only imagine the amount of weed that Marshawn Lynch had to smoke to get his head straight about getting drafted there after going to Cal.  If there was an entertainment equivalent of TO going from the Cowboys to the Bills it would have to be if Vincent Chase from Entourage went from being the biggest star in Hollywood to being more like his real life counterpart, Adrien Grenier, and starring in movies with Sabrina the Teenage Witch.  What is the over/under on games it takes for TO to call Trent Edwards out?  I'm giving it 8.5 games.  He will get off to a hot start, and all the experts will be praising the Bills for signing him.  Then the Bills will run into the meat of their schedule, with New England, New York, and Miami still outclassing them inside their division, and they will struggle like hell.  Forget what could happen once it gets really cold in Buffalo.  How is TO going to do calisthenics in a driveway when the driveway is filled with 8" of snow?  The TO experiment will end badly, mark my words.

The Big Ten announced their post-season all-conference teams yesterday.  The team went as follows:

Kalin Lucas - Michigan State

Talor Battle - Penn State

Manny Harris - Michigan

JaJuan Johnson - Purdue

Evan Turner - Ohio State

The same guys got the nod for both the coaches and the media.  My only beef is with JaJuan Johnson.  I suppose that Purdue had to have someone representing them after their strong showing in conference play, but I felt like they were more team-oriented than player-oriented.  They had a collective effort that resulted in their success, whereas a team like Northwestern or Wisconsin were often carried by Kevin Kogle or Marcus Landry.  

The Big 10 Tournament starts on Thursday, and there is going to be some heated competition between the bubble teams.  A few wins could be the difference between the NIT and the Big Dance for some teams.  Michigan has to beat Iowa and they are for sure in.  Northwestern would likely have to get all the way to the finals to make it.  Ohio State is likely already in, as is Penn State.  Minnesota is the one that I think should be worried.  Should they lose their first round game, they might be out.  Most experts have them in, but I just do not see it.  They are so inconsistent that they would likely be a one and done candidate in the tournament.  There will definitely be some fireworks in Indianapolis, and I like Michigan State to win the whole thing.

Matt Jones was arrested, AGAIN, over the weekend.  This time, he was popped for violating the terms of his plea agreement, after admitting that he had a few beers.  I'm all for crime and safety, but going to jail for having a few beers while playing golf with a friend (allegedly) seems like some bull.  He will probably face some kind of suspension from the league for violating his parole agreement.  Jones is starting to get the "bust" label, and if he sees any kind of time off for this he could fall into the same category of disappointment as Reggie "Regulator" Williams.  I'll admit, when I first heard that Jones got busted for cocaine last year I laughed out loud.  When I think of cocaine, I think of Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry, or even Scarface.  I definitely do not think of a corn fed white boy from Arkansas.  Seeing Jones in the picture above, I can see him on the next episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter getting his ice pipe smashed.  

No time for more fun today, but I will be back tomorrow with another update.  Keep spreading the word about these words, and never run the toss sweep.

Coach Deuce