Monday, December 29, 2008

Umm... That's it?

Ooph. That hurt...

The season is over, and we've chosen the mangina formerly known as Mangenius for this year's scapegoat. R.I.P. dear penguin, as you join the likes of Carol, Kotite and Herm in the great green hall of shame.

So now what??? While Brett awaits the results of his MRI, I and my fellow New York massochists are supposed to sit with baited breath until he throws the retirement flag? Maybe I'm in denial but I feel like the Jet Favre story can't end so anticlimatically. After a summer of foreplay we popped a little blue pill into an aging quarterback and thrust our way into the season... until he just went soft. Sorry Brettsy, you're coming back for another round. You owe it to us.

All I can say is thank heavens Fox network had the sense to play the great slapstick comedy "The Eagles vs The Cowboys" as a distraction. Kudos to you, Tony Romo, for your phenomenal comedic timing. How you managed to drop the ball so many times without ever dropping the smug "I just don't know any better" expression from your face I really don't know. Maybe it was practice for when you find out you've knocked up Jessica Simpson six months after you've upgraded to the hotter Brazilian model. Someone should smack some sense into you... much like Jeffrey Lurie's wife:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1552aPmhlw

Good grief...

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Dear Literate Sportsfans

Tomorrow is judgement day. By evening, my 2008 NFL playoffs fate will be sealed. The Jets can take the division if they beat Miami and the Pats lose to Buffalo, or they can catch the wild card if they beat Miami and Baltimore loses to Jacksonville. But since both of those scenarios seem about as likely as Brett Favre showing up in my bedroom tonight in a Batman suit to live out my ultimate fantasy, I'm feeling less than optimistic. So tomorrow morning I will dress myself in official NFL fan attire right down to my J-E-T-S skivvies (thank you cheapo college boyfriend) and collapse on my buddy's couch with mellow drama that would put a Jim Mora press conference to shame. Until then, in an effort to distract myself from sending hate mail to Eric Mangini or betting on the Eagles - as both will probably land me somewhere in the Hudson River next to a Tony Soprano lookalike - I present you with BitchSports, a new blog dedicated entirely to bitching about Sports*. Enjoy!

~Stoner

*Sports includes, but is not limited to, professional athletic competitions, gambling on professional athletic competitions, pro athletes' private lives and the athletic highlights of my private life not to exclude excessive consumption at the 2nd Avenue Deli or fighting with my mother if it ever gets physical.