Friday, January 25, 2013

THIS AND THAT: JANUARY 25


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Quarterback and NFL pretty boy Tom Brady was fined $10,000 for a sliding "kick" to the leg of Baltimore Ravens' defender Ed Reed at the end of New England's loss to the Ravens last Sunday in the AFC Championship Game. Although obviously intentional it was the first time that Brady, or almost any individual from the hallowed Patriots team, had been disciplined by the league. Unfortunately, the $10,000 is the equivalent of what his partner, super-model Gisele Bundchen, receives for simply answering the phone for modeling work.





WOMEN IN COMBAT
 

On a more serious note, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced that the ban from women serving in combat will be lifted. Great, I say, just a long as there won't be law suits forthcoming from women injured and killed who feel they were not "trained properly" or "protected in a manner befitting...", etc. I love the way ABC put it in their World New Tonight broadcast, "elite jobs are now up for grabs," Diane Sawyer beamed. Liberal knuckleheads!

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BALL BOY


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A ball "boy" was kicked by Chelaea's Edin Hazard (appropriately named) for lying on the ball as the footballer attempted to retrieve it to put it back into play. You see, the clock keeps running in English football (soccer) so time wasted is, well, time wasted. Watching the replay it was a bit confusing as to why the boy simply lay on the ball instead of during his usual duty to promote continuanace of the game. Hazard was given a red card by the official and ejected from the game. Personally I didn't see the problem as he was interfering with play. A tweet from another football player later surfaced :

"After reviewing last nights footage, I've come to the conclusion that the games gone," tweeted Marseille midfielder Joey Barton, who has nearly two million Twitter followers.

"Ballboys aged 17, time wasting, then rollin round like ..they've been shot. Games gone. He was actually claiming to be best time waster in the world on twitter yesterday! What's that all about? ... Hazard only crime is he hasn't kicked him hard enough."


OY!



MANTI TE'O

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Who knows where the hell this story is going next. NOW we're being led to understand that his "girlfriend", Lenny Kekua, was being impersonated on the phone by a guy, Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, who was apparently the "brains" behind the whole thing. It's now obvious that Te'o wasn't the brains behind anything. Even Katie looks confused by it all and he looks like he just stepped out of the 1960s.



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