Perspective of a Non Fan

Since I'm in Arizona for the week covering the Super Bowl festivies (Maxim Party tomorrow night, Penthouse Party on Friday night), I have invited a guest to write some fresh posts to keep content flowing around here. This means I take no blame for any gramatical errors and can't stress enough that none of these opinions are my own. Editing is at a minimum around here - I'm too busy trying to find out what Phoenix did with all the whores since Craig's List shut down the casual encounters for the week. Fucking mormans out here. Who knew.

Hopefully DP will keep posts like these coming and bail me out once and a while.


Going into this weekend’s festivities I have had a hard time deciding who to root for. You see I hate both the Patriots and The Giants so this was my plight. Also, I do not agree with people saying I should not root for anyone, I mean you have to root for someone.

Cons for Pats:

I hate Patriot fans, If you ask any Patriots fan they will say that they were there with them the whole time, but if you think of it were they really? I consider Patriots fans the most fair-weathered fans in the world, maybe even topping the Yankees for worst fans ever.

I hate the Belichick aura. I agree he is a great coach, but don't you think people are a little quick to go to their knees when they think of this guy. Sure you can say "he hasn't had the tools that any other team has" but other than their first Super Bowl victory against the Rams that isn't completely true.

Tom Brady - girls love him and guys want to be him. Fuck that. Up until this year I would have said he was the most overrated QB in the league and that Peyton Manning was indeed a far superior QB. After this season however, I just can't do that, and I would lose all of my credibility if I truly believed that now. He's great and I hate it.

Bulletin material - c'mon at 18-0 is there really a need to start bringing up bulletin material. Plaxico Burress did say his team would win 24-17, who cares, he wants his team to be a Super Bowl champion. Can you blame the guy?

Rodney Harrison, I used to love you when you were on the Chargers, but you lost all credibility in my eyes when you got caught for steroids.

Laurence Maroney (had him), Randy Moss (didn’t have him), Wes Welker (didn't have him), Dante Stallworth (had him) Fantasy football reasons.

Tedy Bruschi - speaking of people getting on their knees and overrating people, this man is by far the worst Linebacker on the team and has been for years and gets all the credit for the defense. It does not make sense how Vrabel and Thomas get completely over-looked to this first class asshole. If the Patriots give up a big play it is due to him.

On the brink of history and the last thing I want to hear is them be called the greatest team for years to come.

Cons for Giants:

To put this in the most non offensive way as possible almost everyone on this team is a GIANT HOMO.

Eli Manning - hated him since he was at Ole Miss, and since his classless draft day debacle I have despised him. There are so many things to hate about Eli - His family, his double stuffed Oreos campaign, his little whiney face every time someone does something bad on offense (usually it is him). He is so over-rated and if not for the Giants D line he would be nowhere close to Super Bowl. He kills the dream that one day Jared Lorenzen, the hefty lefty from Kentucky, will ever play And finally, he just looks like a douche bag.

Tom Coughlin - he looks like an angry ferret, and has a very homosexual smile.

Tiki Barber - he used to play there, nuff said

Michael Strahan - fake sack record, huge gap in his teeth, terrible voice, basically everything about him sucks.

Brandon Jacobs fucked over so many people fantasy wise.

Disrespect Card - we get it Giants, you are an underdog. You do not need to remind everyone, every day on TV. Get over yourselves and focus on the game ahead.

Jets fans - for having their "2nd favorite team" be the Giants. Shows how good of fan you actually are.

Pros of Pats winning the Super Bowl:

Giants fans being unhappy

72 Dolphins who are all bitter old men soon to be rather unhappy.

New York losing again

Seeing Eli never being called a great quarterback for all next season

Eli's moping shoulders.

Pros of Giants Winning:

Seeing Pats fans unhappy

Hearing Pats fans make up excuses about referees, and phantom calls

I’m a Steelers fan and that would be awesome

Hearing the Patriots be called the most over rated team in NFL History

Seeing Amani Toomer win a Super Bowl, and junior Seau not


So after taking this all into consideration, I have to say I will root for the Pats (unless Eli gets hurts and Jared Lorenzen comes in)

Jeremy Stevens is a Great Guy

It is early but I am prepared to nominate Jeremy Stevens as the biggest scumbag of 2008. Granted, most of which makes him scum took place long before 2008 but many of the actual facts are only coming to light now and retroactive superlatives are douchy.

I'll leave some of the more disturbing items (rape, attempted murder, 19 DUI's, etc...) to the Seattle Times which published this piece today. Instead, here is an email he sent to one of his sexual assault victims back during his time at the University of Washington -

"i know that you are not going to beliewhat i have to say especially after satterday night but when i got your e-mail today i laughed a first but then it started to sink in and my heart started to break as i read over your words.

"i realize that i have [messed] up and I want to talk to you about being with you and how i can make it up to you. this is not a joke i want to have you in my arms and know that you are mine and ythat nothing that i have done or [a friend] has said caould ever change the way that i feel about you. when i think back to the night that i spent with you by ourselves i wish that i would have done one thing and that is, i wish i would have put ... "

Stevens then describes, in explicit terms, an anal-sex act he wanted to do to her. He closes with: "you whore dont ever utter my name again."

Classy guy. But then again, Mike Holmgren vouched for him...twice.

The story in the Seattle Times is a 'part 1 of 4'. The next few days should be interesting.

More Duke

The weekly rankings came out (Duke remains in the 3 spot behind the only two undefeated teams left) and with them came the newest installment of bracketology. Personally, I do not put much faith in Joe Lunardi because its highly unlikely that he is even 25% right this early in the season. However, I do enjoy his commentary - especially this week.

Unfortunately, his columns are behind the brick wall on the four letter (if you have insider, click here). For your edification I have re-posted the highlights here.

Clearly, the Bruins did something that will never be repeated. The expansion of the NCAA field and the melding of geographic regions make it an unthinkable feat. Just matching the seven straight championships would require winning 42 tournament games in a row.

As Bill Walton would say, it's un-BEE-LEEEVE-able.

But it may no longer be the singular accomplishment in the history of the college game. As dynasties go, what Mike Krzyzewski has done (and is still doing) at Duke deserves a legitimate mention. Perhaps twice.
All of this is brought to mind by today's bracket. You'll see the Blue Devils as a projected No. 1 seed for the first time this season. No surprise there; Duke is a regular on the top line of the bracket, right?

But did you know how regular? If this year's Blue Devils actually attain a No. 1 seed (and even if they don't), no team has ever -- and I mean E-V-E-R -- come close to being this good for this long. Whether you find it magnificent or monotonous, the numbers are the numbers:

• From 1999-2006, Duke was a No. 1 seed seven times in eight years. The Blue Devils won just one national championship in that span, but were no worse than one of the four best teams in the country - and usually better than that -- in all but one of those seasons. I call this dynasty "Duke II."

• The "Duke I" dynasty came from 1986-1994. In that nine-year period, despite receiving a No. 1 seed just twice, the Blue Devils advanced to the Final Four seven times (including five straight from 1988-1992). So, at minimum, Duke won four straight NCAA Tournament games -- same as the UCLA title teams -- seven times in nine years. Three times the Devils won five straight in a single tourney (losing the championship game in 1986, 1990 and 1994), sandwiching their consecutive 6-0 title runs in 1991 and 1992.

It's not 10 national championships in 12 years, as the Wizards of Westwood achieved, but I'd say it's equally unthinkable. Seven No. 1 seeds in eight seasons (and quite possibly eight in 10 years if the current Blue Devils stay put) for Duke II; seven Final Fours in nine seasons for Duke I.

As an achievement, my vote stays with UCLA. For difficulty, Duke has surpassed that. Twice.

Don't Look Now

But this year's Duke team is well on their way to a fourth national title (as predicted by this guy a few short months ago).

For the first time in a long, long time, The Blue Devils entered the season without a ton of hype. Expectations were rather low and while they were certainly expected to finish in the top 3 in the ACC, nobody (except me) thought they would be the 3rd best team in the nation at the end of January. Everybody called them too young, too inexperienced, too short, too slow, too white, too whatever.

Well here we are, basking in the glow of a Maryland defeat (the same Maryland that edged Final Four favorite UNC). For Duke, it was their second road win in 5 days and their seventh straight win since the tough road loss to Pittsburgh back in December. Tonight's win was especially refreshing given that they had to play from behind in a hostile environment. They also had to play without Lance Thomas, Greg Paulus and Kyle Singler due to early foul trouble.

Once again, Demarcus Nelson put the Devils on his back and carried them down the stretch. Its no coincidence that Nelson was named as a mid-season candidate for the Naismith and Wooden POY awards prior to the game.

Say what you want about their chances come March but this team will definitely be a tough out for whomever is unfortunate enough to draw them.

You Know Who You Look Like?

This guy Trevor I used to know in high school.

Who the fuck cares? Do I know Trevor? No, I do not. So what exactly was the point of telling me I look like him? I hate that shit. It doesn't matter who it is, I've heard it all.

I guess the worst case scenario would be a "hey, you look like my ex-boyfriend Steve". Not only is it annoying as fuck but I really can't see how that would help your cause. "Oh really? He used to beat the shit out of you while watching midget porn? Seems like a great guy. Anyways, I'm nothing like him." Tell me how that works out for you.

Slightly less aggravating? The "has anyone ever told you that you look like celebrity x?" Yeah, I hate that one too. Even if its a great celebrity, no chance you will ever live up to him. Maybe it is a D-list celeb, either way the guy is D-list for a reason. Probably a reason you do not want to be associated with.

The only thing more annoying is the do you know "x" game? Tell someone you went to the University of Bumfuck and they will pepper your ass with 20 'do you knows'. There was a time in my life where I would get legitimately excited if I could answer yes to one of these. Now, as soon as I hear the 3-word preface I'm tuned out. By the time you get the name out, I'm already balls deep in some broad halfway across the bar (figuratively speaking of course).

Is this what we have been reduced to as a human race? Stupid games about who we know or who we look like? Do the French do this? How about the A-rabs? I would guess no on both accounts. Something tells me they are a bit more sophisticated. So why must we resort to this time and time again? I just don't get it.

Trading Athletes

In the premiere issue of Portfolio Magazine, Michael Lewis (author of The Blind Side, Moneyball and Liar's Poker) penned an article entitled "The Jock Exchange". The basic idea behind the article is that with all the innovation that has taken place in the finance world over the past 25 years, why has nobody created an exchange where we could trade athletes.

Athletes are really not much different than stocks, bonds, commodities or any other asset. Their value is based on supply and demand and they have fair values assigned to them by what the market is willing to pay. Just like a stock, an athlete can be overpriced (think JD Drew and Google) or they can be severely undervalued (David Ortiz and JP Morgan).

As we find out in Lewis' article, the infrastructure is already in place thanks to a company called Protrade (http://www.protrade.com/). Currently you can only use pretend money to trade but all of the logistics are the same.

If this ever went mainstream, the ramifications would be huge. The ability to have a financial stake in the success of an individual player would revolutionize the sporting landscape. Teams would be able to hedge their bets (for instance Theo would probably be short about 2,000,000 JD Drew shares) and sponsors could do the same. Fans could put their money where there mouths are and institutions would have a new way to diversify their funds.

The simple idea of all this taking place has had my mind spinning since the moment I read the article. Imagine my glee when I discovered we might be one step closer to making this a reality.

With no exchange ready to handle the business, one minor league pitcher is striking out on his own to raise a little capital.

Via Marginal Revolution -

Randy Newsom, relief pitcher for the Cleveland Indians, is selling 4% of his future major league salary. There are 2,500 shares in the IPO so each share gets you a claim to 0.000016% of his future salary including bonuses. Shares sell for $20 each.

The fundamentals are pretty simple. Randy gets $50,000 up front and the buyers get a tiny stake in his future. Granted, this guy is a nobody and statistically, his odds of making to the big leagues are rather slim. Worse case scenario, you plop down a Jackson on the guy and he's a bust. But what about the upside? He only needs to make 1.25 million over his career for you to break even (ignoring opportunity costs of course). What if he is the next Mo Rivera? If he brings down half of what big Mo has received over his career, your $20 is now worth $560 (a %2600 return).

I'll admit, this is one small step towards my ultimate dream of being able to buy and sell humans from all walks of life. But it is a step nonetheless and progress is progress. Let's not forget, in 1980, mortgages were something that consumers bought from banks and banks held onto until you paid them back. In 2008, everybody and their mother owns a piece of the mortgage market and they are the primary cause behind the unraveling global economy.

In 2020, we'll be looking at our next financial crisis except this time it will be caused by an athlete bubble led by the overvaluation of Patrick Patterson, Kyle Singler, Jacoby Ellsbury, Darren McFadden and OJ Mayo. I can't wait.

Maybe We'll Have to Wait a Year

Two days after announcing he would forgo his senior season at Ole Miss, Michael Oher changed his mind stating that there was some unfinished business back in Oxford. You could tell that it bothered him that he was never able to help the Rebels win a bowl game despite all the personal achievements.

In the present day, to see a marquee athlete leave guaranteed millions on the table just to play another year at the collegiate level is extremely satisfying. Especially in a sport like football, where you never know how far away you are from that career ending injury.

I honestly believe that there is more than just winning a bowl game driving Oher back to school. Graduating college is something he would have never thought possible 8 years ago when he was living on the streets in Memphis. In May of next year, he will be the first in his direct bloodline to receive a college degree, just like he was the first to get his high school diploma. I also believe it would mean something to him to leave a little bit of history at Ole Miss. His adoptive father was a stud point guard for the rebels during the early 1980s and was recently named to the All-Century SEC team.

So in the end I think it is a win, win for everybody. The best news is that the Patriots will likely have a top pick in the 2009 draft after Matt Cassel leads them to a 3-15 record.

With The Seventh Overall Pick...

The New England Patriots select Left Tackle Michael Oher out of Mississippi.

At least they damn well better make this pick. This guy is a freak of nature. He is the next Jonathan Odgen, except 10 times better. I realize the Pats are not in desperate need on the offensive line (like they are at linebacker, safety and QB...you know after Tom retires in February) but it has always been Pioli/Belichick policy to draft the best player on the board. Oher is the best player on the board and there are no close seconds.

Oher started 34 consecutive games over his three seasons with the Rebels and earned All-Southeastern Conference honors each of the past two campaigns, helping pave the way for BenJarvus Green-Ellis' back-to-back 1,000-yard rushing campaigns.

Can you imagine an O-Line consisting of Matt Light at RT, Nick Kaczur at RG, Dan Koppen under Center, Logan Mankins at LG and Oher at LT? Matt Cassel would have the best protection the game has ever seen. And not just for the next year or two, Oher is the type of guy that will make 15 consecutive Pro Bowls.

Am I buying into the hype a little too much on this guy because I read The Blind Side cover to cover in about 6 hours? Probably. But even if that book is only 50% accurate, this guy is the real deal.

If you haven't read it, I would highly recommend it. It is Michael Lewis' best work to date and easily one of the top 3 or 4 sports books ever written.

Big News

I won't pretend to pass this off as my own. Although I could, since too many people have not been turned on to Kissing Suzy Kolber - the greatest blog yet to be spawned. But I won't. I will give credit where credit is due.

Anyways, I have reprinted an entire post word for word (except I corrected one mistake). When it happens, you can say you read it on Contract Year first. Enjoy.

BREAKING NEWS: Brady Contemplating Retirement

As you know, we are not news site. We don't even try to be one. Trying to break news in the blogosphere is like trying to be the first in line at the DMV. Our job is to crack cheap dick jokes and concoct phony dialogues about how big of a tool Philip Rivers is. And Good Lord, is he ever a fucking tool.

Bust something came by our desk last night that we simply can't ignore. And we got to it first! Nice!

I attended Michigan for a grand total of ONE semester back in the mid-90's, but I stayed there long enough to become friends with a guy named Graham (not his real name) from San Mateo, California. If you know your Dreamboatology (and why wouldn't you?) Graham hails from the exact same town as the one and only Tom Brady, and was friends with Brady in high school and all the way through college.

Now I had lost touch with Graham until a while back when he emailed KSK with a link, without actually knowing who I was. Reacquainted, we shared emails over the past year and had some back forth about Brady.

Graham, turns out, remained decent friends with Brady after college and through his rise to stardom. I always prodded him for info about Brady, but he never had much of anything interesting to report. He also became very good friends with Bridget Moynahan when she and Brady were a couple.

Now here's where it gets mildly somewhat interesting.

I wish I could tell you Graham nailed Moynahan (whee!) but he didn't. This is far more innocuous. Since Graham now resides in Los Angeles, and since he sees Moynahan on a far more regular basis than Brady because she too lives there, she gained "custody" of Graham as a friend after the breakup, and he fell out of contact with Brady, who has shrunk his number of close friends as he's grown more famous, in an attempt to safeguard his privacy.

But, in a twist, as Graham has lost touch with Brady, he's learned way more about him as he's become good buddies with Moynahan. And yesterday, he sent me an email that contained this pretty choice nugget.

Dude, Brady's gonna retire. he told Bridget after the season was over he was definitely going to retire so he could help raise the kid. As it stands now, he's pulled between football in Boston, New York where Gisele is, and LA where his kid is. So he said retiring from football would get rid of one of the drags on his time. And after the Pats go 19-0, he knows he'll never top that.

Only reason he'd stay around is to be the first QB to wing five SB's, but he doesn't seem to care all that much. He's the kind of guy that can live without the game.

Indeed. Who needs football when you have goats to milk and models to bang? Anyway, this whole bit of knowledge strikes me as horseshit, with Brady just making empty promises to his lady. It would be like me promising my wife I'll never eat strawberry preserves straight out of the jar in front of our kid again. Oh sure, I mean it at the time time. But do I follow through? Nah.

But Graham says Brady has been talking to friends about retiring for the better part of the season. I asked if Belichick was also going to retire, but he didn't have an answer for that. I have no clue why Graham let me put this out there. But I'm not quibblin'. Nothing he's told me in the past about Brady has been incorrect, so throwing it out there. It's a KSK Exklusive!

So enjoy 19-0, Pats fans. You may be looking at the end of an era.

Monday Morning Douche Bag

Now that Philip Rivers has solidified his place as Sunday Afternoon Douche Bag, its only fitting that we hand out the Monday Morning award. It is not too hard to guess where this is going, especially since it's not yet Tuesday so Easterfuck is out of the running. Yes, I'm speaking of the one and only Peter King.

I realize that bitching about a PK article is only slightly less played out than ripping Bill Simmons. It's been done all over the internet. I get it. But this week, I cannot help myself.

This is supposed to be the Peter Gammons of football. He is the most widely read and somehow, the most respected writer out of the NFL bunch. Yet on the day after what was arguably the greatest divisional playoff weekend in NFL history, he delivers the dud of the season.

For starters, the cover of his column includes a shot of his two favorite players Brett Favre and Tony Romo along with the aforementioned Sunday Afternoon DB. I hadn't read a word yet and already knew what I was in for.

Once into the piece, I quickly realized that the entire thing would be an extended version of his Aggravating Travel section. He basically summarized his travels from Thursday through Sunday in excruciating detail. The thing that really blew my mind was that due to all his traveling, he "caught snippets" of the Pats/Jags. Look, this isn't week 1 anymore where it is physically impossible to catch all the games. This is the playoffs we're talking about here. There were only 4 games played all weekend and all of them were shown exclusively with no overlapping and no interruptions. Yet you caught snippets?

The obvious question is what got in the way of the Saturday night game? I mean it couldn't have been yucking it up in a crowded Green Bay bar with a bunch of hysterical, overweight Packers fans right? Tell me you were travelling or the cable went down, something. Sadly we will never know.

In the offensive awards section, King praised the play of Tom Brady - "New England QB Tom Brady. I wish I'd gotten to see this performance, play in and play out. I caught snippets."

I'll tell you this much, I don't get paid to watch football. Most people I know don't. I watched all four games, "play in and play out". Most people I know did the same. How is it that a guy getting paid well in the six figure range to watch, dissect and analyze games only catch 75% of the action. Tom Brady's completion percentage was 18% higher than PK's watched games percentage. Good news Big Fella, there are only two games on next week.

Hey, but at least this week's column unearthed quality nuggets like this -

Now we had built up a little bit of trust and had been talking for a while. Here came the big guns. "This is going to sound weird," he said. "I dream about this guy. I dream that I'm going shopping with him. I'm not kidding. I'm just saying, we worship Favre."

It's Practically The Same Thing

Slaying vag and applying to colleges - one in the same.

I developed this little analogy at the bar tonight so it is raw, but I think it works. However, there is one instance where my theory will not hold true and that is slaying vag while in college. Whole different ball game so we'll exclude those four glorious years.

Seriously though, in both cases you have a ranking system for how you analyze the prospects. The rankings change over time depending on various inputs such as grades, extracurriculars, athletic accomplishments, body fat percentage or even hair cuts. In their most simple form there are reaches, safeties and targets. On the extreme ends of the spectrum, there are the unattainable and the undesirable.

In any social situation you will have some Harvard's or Yalie's walk through the door and while they are fun to fantasize about, short of 1600 on the SATs, you are not getting through that door. At the end of the night, who really wants to get through that door anyways? Probably all high maintenance and shit. Fuck 'em.

Then the reaches come strolling in. You know, the high end state schools (UVA, NYU, Cal, etc...), the Georgetown's, BC's, whatever. Attainable? Absolutely. It won't come easy though. Basically, you are counting on a down year in admissions or some pretty incredible luck. If you get into one of these places you'd be an idiot to turn it down. Take out some extra loans and make it happen but don't hold up your life waiting for it. Oh, and don't bother with any wait lists - huge waste of time.

We all know about the safties and the undesirables, the UMASS Dartmouth's, ITT Tech, U Phoenix', etc... As soon as you catch glimpse, you do your best to steer clear (i.e. color between the lines in primary school). Slump bust if you must but not a good plan. Certainly not looking out for your future.

Then there are those targets. Those URI's for example. You know you belong and so do they. You get caught drinking in the dorms but its no big deal because the privilege is mutually exclusive. It is the best of all worlds. That is where I want to be and so that is how I will approach the bar scene here on forward.

Regardless of how you choose to view things, I think we can all agree on this - in both cases, Asians always have the last laugh.

Ok, maybe just with the school part but I needed an excuse to drop the above picture. Work with me here.

In Case You Missed It...

(via Awful Announcing)

Highlight of the BCS Championship Game

Yes, highlight is singular as there was only one. And it had nothing to do with the game itself.

Instead, it occurred during the 2 hour half time show. As if there weren't enough vested interests from Fox's on-air personality (Eddie George, Urban Meyer), the network decided to put Troy Smith and JaMarcus Russell on right before the start of the 2nd half. Troy shows up wearing Buckeye red while JaMarcus opted to play it a bit more conservative. Any by conservative I mean....

Except even worse, with a much stronger hint of vomit.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is QB1 for your Oakland Raiders.

As for the actual highlight, it was Troy Smith's 30 second "what the fuck are you wearing" look, immediately followed by a "did you really wear a dashiki to the game and what is that tribal shit hanging off of your neck" look.

Follow Up

After having posted that last little blast on our boy TB, I have received some indifferent feedback. That's right, not negative, but indifferent. What in the fuck you ask? I know, I know. In the very least I expected some hate from some TB loving females.

Wait one second??? Females read this site? Well no, not exactly. It was really just me telling some females about my post and them reacting first hand but it's 4 am, I'm bored so fuck it right?

Back to the matter at hand...the attention was INDIFFERENT. You and I both know that every female in the greater New England area has reached climax dreaming of Tommy's chin dimple pressed firmly against their grundle (do girls have grundles?). For a girl to say they were indifferent regarding the golden boy is damn near blasphemy. I would just assume hear that the same girl did not masturbate or did not have mildly inappropriate thoughts about their first college roommate than to hear they weren't sexually stimulated by the greatest quarterback of the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.

My favorite part was the rationale. "He's not even a good father" or "He doesn't even have nice hair". Fuck me in the eye. Is this not the same guy who begged Bridge to wear a condom only to relent to her constant promises of diaphragm insertion? Is this not the guy who plays jokes on all of use by purposely fucking with his appearance on all the pregame shows just so we don't all get wet and lose focus on what is important (the game)? The hair? Bad parenting? What is that?

How Does This Happen???

Before -
After -

How does one go from a nerdy looking, flat chested 22-year old boy to a 30-year old stud pulling down the hottest pussy on the planet all while wearing homoerotic scarf's and wallet chains from the late 1990's?

Take a good, long gander at exhibit A. Tom is sporting the body definition of a bowl of Jello. He makes Matt Sarasin look ripped. This looks like a guy that couldn't have lead Northeastern's football team let alone one of the top 4 or 5 programs in college football history.

8 years, 3 Super Bowls (including 2 SB MVP awards), 1 knocked up B+ list actress and 1 world-class super model later he's the object of every female's affection and he's about to lead a real NFL team to the first ever 19-0 record.

I've said it before, I'll say it again - Steroids. The only way all this was possible.

OU = Frauds

Two years in a row, two Fiesta Bowl's in a row, two humiliating defeats in a row. Such is life for the Oklahoma Sooners in the 21st century.

I'm willing to give them a pass in last year's one point loss to a feisty Boise State team. For my money, the 2007 Fiesta Bowl was the greatest football game ever played. It was the Marissa Miller of football - college or pro.

This time around? No way. They are playing in a virtual home game (you know, 1000 miles closer to Glendale than Morgantown is) against a demoralized team coming off the biggest choke job in college football history. At game time, the Sooners were anywhere from 8-9 point favorites and truthfully, it should have been more.

Despite all this, WV came out swinging and you knew it was going to be good when they were able to hold OU to a 7 and out, 3 and out, 3 and out, & 6 and out in their first 4 offensive possessions. Then you knew it was going to be really good when 280 pound Owen Schmitt rumbled 57 yards for the first TD of the game.

Still, there was no way the Sooners and the "great" Bob Stoops could blow two BCS games in a row right? I mean at some point, the OU offense would start grinding and WV's supposedly inept defense would wear down. Hey, if nothing else, all those bullshit calls against the Mountaineers would catch up and even the playing field. No?

I guess not. As I sit here inside of 5 minutes to go in the game, OU is down by 20 and anything they can do WV can do better. They are playing as if their only goal coming into tonight was to make us all forget about how terrible Florida played on D yesterday. If thats the case, consider it a job well done boys.

I couldn't be happier.

P.S. Nice pick elpres - I can't wait for your next "Mortal Lock"