Auburn’s Cam Newton Makes LSUs Defense Look Silly

At 6’6″ and 250 lbs., there is no way the Auburn’s QB Cam Newton should be allowed to run around any defensive backfield like this. Personally I think that LSU is overrated but the athletic ability of Cam Newton is crazy.

Cam Newton and Auburn are the last unbeaten team in the SEC with their weekend victory over LSU. Newton himself rushed for 217 yards and two touchdowns on 28 carries including this video-game highlight of a 49-yard rush.

New Brett Favre Open Fly Wrangler Jeans Commercial

Why let zippers and button flies get in your way. Wrangler’s new Open Fly jeans are perfect for the guy that just wants to ‘hang out’ on the weekend. Just like Brett Favre!

Saturday Night Live” poked fun at the Brett Favre penis photo scandal last night with their commercial parody that had the football star advertise Wrangler’s new “open fly” jeans — the first jeans with no fly at all.

“Why let zippers and buttons slow you down?” Favre says. “With open fly jeans, it’s always out and camera ready.”

I’m Thinking the Bucs Game Is Gonna Be Blackedout Today

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers games against the St. Louis Rams today looks to have plenty of good seats still available. There will be another blackout as the struggling Bucs have had a hard time drawing much of an attendance in this struggling economy.

A quick look at the stands shows that not too many people are worried about the blackout rules.  Granted this is just before halftime but you can clearly see that if you’re one of the dozens of fans at the game you do not need to worry about heading out early before half to get in line at the snackbar.

Pac 12 Realignment and Championship Game Announced

Two schools, Colorado and Utah, will join the PAC 10 next year in the conference expansion which has led to a shift in the alignment of the teams.  Officially the PAC 10 will become the PAC 12 as we all have guessed but  gone are the single group of 10 teams.  Instead the schools will be placed into two divisions, the South and the North.

Several months of debate finally concluded that the North and South model would work best in preserving the rivalries of the schools.

The two new teams, Colorado and Utah, will join USC, UCLA, ASU and Arizona in the South.  Cal, Oregon and OSU will join Stanford, UW and WSU in the North.

More importantly, the round-robin method of scheduling is gone and there will be a 9-game conference schedule for each team. That’s the most conference games of any of the NCAA conferences out there. Here’s a bit that help explains the new game schedule in detail from Yahoo! Sports:

It’s still a nine-game conference schedule. It won’t be a round-robin anymore, but it’s about as close you can get the Pac-12 will continue as the only league in the country that plays nine conference games in the regular season, and the two teams that advance to the championship game (again, see below) will play ten, never before achieved in college football history. The format for the four California schools will be a “5-2-2″ system that mandates five games against division foes, two permanent games against the Cali schools in the opposite division and two rotating opponents from among the remaining four teams in the opposite division. For the other eight, it will be a 5-1-3.

That’s a fig leaf to the Golden Staters, which don’t mind being split up as long as they can continue their century-old rivalries as permanent cross-division foils. As for the Northwest corridor, that probably means a reduction from an L.A. road trip every year to one every other year, but they’ll still get to go into the Golden State on an annual basis to play Cal or Stanford. Official 2011-12 schedules could be finalized in 30-45 days.

The biggest news came when the PAC 12 announced that there will not be a neutral site for the PAC 12 Championship game. That model is used in bigger conferences like the Big 12 and SEC but the PAC 12 will actually hold the Championship game at the home field of the home field of the higher-seeded division champion based on conference record. Tie-breakers would kick in if there was a statistical tie at the end of the year.

The new expanded conference means more money for all the schools involved and the Championship game means more credibility for the teams.  Big 10, you’re next.   And like the Big 10, I’m willing to be we will see a new PAC 12 TV network show up in our cable lineups in the next few years.

Mark Schlereth Rants About NEW NFL Contact Rules….It’s almost as bad as soccer

ESPN’s Mark Schlereth , who played guard in the NFL for 12 seasons (1989-2000) with the Washington Redskins and Denver Broncos, points out the highly profitable and highly hypocritical stance by the NFL on hitting. The NFL will sell you pictures and videos of the glorification of the violence on the field but they will fine players for making them.

Getting hit is part of the game and Schlereth points out some very valid points about how the NFL needs to fix this glaring issue. This interview speaks for itself as you can very well see Mark Schlereth get visibly upset about the debate. I know the NFL isn’t perfect by I do know that they are the most proactive sports league out there and they will deal with this issue in a suitable way.

However, it is important to realize the impact of players after they leave the game. The lingering effects of the controlled violence of the NFL takes it toll but by banning vicious hits to the head, usually by a player leading with the helmet, will not kill the game. Check it out and see what you think.

SEC Ref Screw Up Field Goal Call

Refs will always be called out by angry fans for their questionable calls during a game. However, if you notice closely on this video, the ref to the left and under the goal post blows his call during a field goal at the Florida Gators game.

Sadly, the ball was on his side of the field so I’m thinking he was still a bit misty eyed because Tim Tebow had graduated. It’s OK, ref. We are all a bit sad….

He initially calls it good and then looks over to see his partner calling it off. Quickly he changes his tune.

Angry Bob Doesn’t Like Spurrier’s Timeout

The South Carolina Gamecocks came into Kentucky this weekend riding high after beating down #1 ranked Alabama last week. So they shouldn’t have any problem with unranked Kentucky, should they?

Turns out the Wildcats have a bit of a bite to them and they came into the game way more prepared than Spurrier’s Cocks. It doesn’t do much good to beat the #1 team and then promptly lose the next week to an unranked team. Plus, it hurts Alabama in the BCS rankings. How rude of USC.

What I enjoyed most about the game is in the last seconds of the 4th quarter the Gamecocks were driving and they were in field goal range but didn’t send in the kicker. They were down by 3 points and wanted to get a few more yards to get their kicker closer.

Then with 11 seconds left Spurrier calls a timeout.

ESPN’s announcers did not like the call since there was plenty of time to spike the ball and save the timeout. One announcer, Bob, was visibly ticked at the call and he even got a little pissy when his partner tried to talk over him at the 37 second mark in the video below. Turns out Bob was right. SC threw an INT in the endzone to lose the game instead of go for the tie.

Colts punter arrested, suspended after drunken, early morning swim in Canal

Peyton Manning has another idiot kicker to deal with.  Mike Vanderjagt got on Peyton’s nerves back in 2003 after making some smart remarks about the Pro Bowl QB. A few days later Peyton referred to his “idiot kicker” and that Mike was “liquored up” during an interview.

“Here we are,” Manning said. “I’m out at my third Pro Bowl, I’m about to go in and throw a touchdown to Jerry Rice, we’re honoring the Hall of Fame, and we’re talking about our idiot kicker who got liquored up and ran his mouth off.

“The sad thing is, he’s a good kicker. He’s a good kicker. But he’s an idiot.”

Flashforward to 2010 and we’re seeing  another highly unusual by a drunk Colts kicker.  This time it’s their punter, Pat McAfee, who was arrested during the Colts bye week for public intoxication after going for a late night swim in a canal near an Indianapolis bar, the Associated Press reported. Police found him shirtless and wet, reeking of alcohol, with watery eyes and slurred speech. The second-year player out of West Virginia had a blood-alcohol content of 0.15.

Technically he wasn’t driving or shooting guns or fighting or hurting anyone but himself so that’s a plus. Besides, who doesn’t like to get drunk and naked and jump into a frigid body of water?

Maybe the Colts will trade McAfee to the Seattle Seahawks so he and Golden Tate can get together for some fun, after work antics.  I smell a sitcom!

Colts President Bill Pollan announced today that McAfee would be suspended for one game starting during their bye week. Just kidding. He’ll be suspended the next week against Houston.

ESPN Calls Two Timeouts During Game For Commercial Breaks

There’s so much wrong with this development that it just makes me mad. I know that the NFL is supported heavily by endorsements and TV deals. But telling a coach to call a couple of timeouts during the final minutes of a blowout seems a little greedy and out of line.

The rumors are rampant this week that ESPN asked the coaches during the Monday Night Football match this week between the Tennessee Titans and Jacksonville Jaguars to use their timeouts because they were coming up a couple of commercial breaks short.

Titans coach Jeff Fisher was quoted after the game, mainly because he kept running back Chris Johnson in the game even though the Titans were up 23-3, that timeouts had something to do with it. Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio had the chance to run out the clock but called a couple of timeouts to prolong the agony.

“Jack used his timeouts,” Fisher said. “My understanding is they needed network timeouts, and that’s why Jack used his timeouts. They came over and asked me to do it, but I said, ‘I was hoping to get a first down and kneel on it.’”

Interesting. I can understand the coordination of network timeouts for such times as quarters, two-minute warnings and similar instances. But telling a coach how to coach a game just seems incredibly out of line to me.

Terry McCormick of TitanInsider.com enlightens us a bit:

“At the two-minute warning in every game in the fourth quarter, there are conversations that go by. There’s conversations that take place at the two-minute warning before the first half. But there’s conversations that take place, and it’s the official’s responsibility to give the head coach a status of commercials and TV timeouts,” Fisher said. “Yesterday, I was told that they were two short. And they looked at me and smiled, and I said, ‘Sorry, I can’t help you.’ Mike Carey came across and said, ‘Here’s the deal. We’re two short.’ And I said, ‘Mike, I can’t help you. I’m trying to get a first down and I’m gonna kneel on it.’”

Fisher said he did not fault Del Rio for calling the timeouts, no matter his intent.

“Jack used his timeouts. Whether Jack used his timeouts because the official said we’re two commercials short, or he used them to stop the clock to get his quarterback Trent Edwards some reps remains to be seen,” Fisher said. “My feeling is I had no issue with him using the timeouts. I completely understand. You’ve got a backup quarterback in that’s been there for what, two weeks, and he wants to get him some reps. So I completely understand it, even though the game was out of reach.”

I don’t know what’s more concerning.  The fact that a network can tell the refs what to do or the fact that Jeff Fisher calmly states it like it’s not a big deal and happens all the time.

And ask yourself this little question: “Does anyone know what comemercials were shown during those timeouts?”

Didn’t think so.

Hockey Match Breaks Out At Canadian Football Game

Check out this melee at the Ontario Football Conference (ages 18-22) semi-final game on Saturday between Hamilton and St. Leonard. The scary moment occurred with a couple of minutes left in the game when fans in the stands were heckling the visiting team.

That’s when the hockey game broke out.

Thankfully there was one ref up there in the stands to keep the peace about 1:30 into the fight. I mean that sarcastically of course because by then some dude in the stands was knocked out and stomped on by several players. Thankfully, no serious injuries were reported.

Criminal charges could be laid against players of two junior football teams engaged in a confrontation with fans during a game this weekend, police in Hamilton, Ont., said Sunday.

The fight broke out in the final minutes of the Ontario Football Conference (OFC) semi-final game between the Hamilton Hurricanes and the St. Leonard Cougars from Montreal.

Police say fans were heckling the visiting team when some of the players from both Montreal and Hamilton ended up in an altercation in the stands at Ivor Wynne Stadium on Saturday. [via]

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