Archive for October, 2011
WARNING: may cause hunger.
Wow. Quite impressive. A bit bizarre perhaps, but you cannot argue with the creativity and ingenuity that went into making what the man behind these food-based re-creations refers to as Foogos, as in logos created out of food. Jeez, even the name of this artistic endeavor is creative. His bio is equally impressive.
He doesn’t stop at NHL logos, either. If you check out his Photostream account, you will also gaze upon assorted MLB logos like the Toronto Blue Jays (made out of red onions — raw and sauteed — ketchup and kraut), NFL logos such as the Green Bay Packers (created out of yellow and white American cheeses — of course — and sauteed spinach, on a whole wheat wrap). He even ventures outside of the world of professional sports and tackles the Ghostbusters logo and my personal favorite, Skeletor.
Of course, above is the Philadelphia Flyers logo made out of roast beef and cheddar cheese — yum, right? Some of the NHL Foogos he has created and uploaded follow, although I should point out he has done a few Foogos for former NHL franchises like the Minnesota North Stars, Quebec Nordiques and Hartford Whalers as well, so be sure to click on over and have a look at those too.
This just in: Troy Polamalu has long, flowing hair and because of this, he makes a great pitchman for Head & Shoulders shampoo. We get it already. At least in the latest installment of the increasingly stale campaign, we get to hear the hairless Hines Ward call Brett Kriesel a “lyin’ fool.” I suppose that’s pretty amusing. And I must say that Keisel’s epic beard is quite impressive. More impressive than Polamalu’s scraggly mane, that’s for sure. If Keisel’s beard would only begin to show signs of graying, he would be an excellent candidate to pimp Just for Men in an upcoming commercial, which I am sure has been a dream of his for a long time now.
Now those are certainly some mighty fancy socks, wouldn’t you say? Call me old-fashioned, but when a man, while picking out a pair of socks to wear, says to himself, “You know what? I’m feeling in a Rainbow Brite kind of mood today,” well, it ain’t good.
And yes, I’m sorry to say this constitutes NBA news during the Lockout Apocalypse. It’s either this or making note of who was the last person to make the same tired “LeBron should date Rihanna” joke on Twitter. And no, I’m not delivering the punchline to that joke. It’s weaksauce.
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• A man who was charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia told police that he had only two pizzas to drink at lunch when police questioned him after he crashed his car into a ditch. Police discovered two syringes filled with a brown liquid believed to be heroin were in plain sight in 68-year-old Don Adams’ car. [msnbc]
• Jim Schwartz and Jim Harbaugh will not be fined by the NFL for their postgame antics on Sunday. [Shutdown Corner]
• A 100-year-old man raced in and finished a marathon. Yep. [With Leather]
• Jon Gruden, this guy, has signed a five-year exclusive Monday Night Football extension. [Awful Announcing]
• Speaking of Gruden, check out him taking the lead in an awkward fist bump with his booth cohorts. [Midwest Sports Fans]
• Rajon Rondo had the best summer ever. [The Basketball Jones]
• An episode of AMC’s excellent series, The Walking Dead, outdrew Game 6 of the NLCS on Sunday. [Big League Stew]
• Manny Pacquiao doesn’t have sex for three weeks leading up to fights. [Larry Brown Sports]
• Here’s video of a goalie turning his back during a penalty kick to protest a call. [Off the Bench]
• Michael Jordan talked trash to Bill Clinton during a round of golf. [Outside the Boxscore]
• Some fan held up a sweet herpes sign during the Arizona-Oregon State game last weekend. [Busted Coverage]
• “In the galaxy of equivocating slobs, Peter King is one” [Kissing Suzy Kolber]
• Sweet poll: Which NFL head coach would you most like to punch in the face? [Sports Pickle]
• The Onion Headline of the Day: Tony La Russa Proving That You Can Win With An Insane A**hole As Manager
Ouch. That hurts. On the other hand, if Donovan McNabb was the driver of the hearse, the Vikings pallbearers wouldn’t even get the opportunity to let me down one last time since somehow he would end up undershooting the parking spot at the cemetery and I’d miss my own funeral.
With all that in mind, as a lifelong Vikings fan, that cold reminder of my lot in life as an NFL fan just about ruined my Friday.
At the same time, they’re probably going to move to Los Angeles anyway. Wait, now I’m even more depressed. That is all.
Sigh.
[H/T Sports Pickle]
Holy crap, that is…awful, just awful. First we had Tony Romo’s yearbook photo yesterday, now this? Only this isn’t a yearbook photo, although it sure does look like one.
Way back in 1995, Shane Doan was drafted as the seventh-overall pick by the Winnipeg Jets, who are of course became the Phoenix Coyotes. And Winnipeg now has a team again, called the Jets. Only in the NHL.
Also only in the NHL, evidently: forcing draftees to have their rookie card photos taken while standing in ridiculous poses. I mean look at that. It’s hideously hilarious. Obviously, I imagine Doan wishes that awkward photo would have never seen the light of day again, hoping somehow the embarrassing image simply faded away. But no. Somebody had to dredge it up out of the past. But who?
Leave it to his oddball teammate, Paul Bissonnette, a/k/a @BizNasty2point0 on Twitter, to unleash the card upon the masses in order to reignite the mocking and the ridicule. Well done, BizNasty. I’m sure your teammate is thrilled.
[via]
While the Minnesota Vikings have been horrible this season, blowing sizable halftime leads in three of the team’s four losses, defensive end Jared Allen has been on an absolute tear, leading the league with 8.5 sacks. Allen made an appearance alongside Indianapolis Colts center Jeff Saturday recently on NFL Total Access (video available here). Among the topics discussed were whether or not LeBron James could actually succeed in the NFL and what Jared Allen’s dream list of people he’d like to sack who do not play in the NFL. They are:
- Tom Cruise
- Johnny Depp
- Carl Peterson
- All politicians
- All reality TV stars
Fantastic. Obviously, former Chiefs general manager Carl Peterson makes the list due to the bad blood that exists between the two — or at least as far as Allen is concerned — due to Allen’s days in Kansas City, but you have to love the other four entries. Tom Cruise? He’s so smug. And that Johnny Depp? What a phony baloney. Actually, in the interest of total disclosure, I have to disagree with Johnny Depp’s inclusion on the list — he seems like a pretty cool dude — but I respect Allen’s right to want to sack him.
Finally, I admire the fact Allen didn’t limit himself to one politician or single out one reality TV star, he wants to take them all down. Kudos.
SEC Speed? More like SEC Bleed, as in what is presently happening to my eyes as a result of watching that freaky scene. Goodness gracious, that is straight-up, Grade-A nightmare fuel right there, folks. And I bet you clicked through believing you were going to see to sultry coeds try to one up one another in a pole-dancing contest. I guess you could say you’ve been hoodwinked. Sorry about that.
And yes, your possibly bleeding eyes are not deceiving you: that is a Florida Gators fan and an LSU Tigers fan engaging in some kind of ill-conceived dance-off prior to the teams squaring off last Saturday. Sure, LSU might have won the game, but as the old saying goes, “When two bald, rather portly college football fans take off their shirts and engage in an impromptu dancing contest where a street sign is used as an improvised pole on which these two greasy individuals proceed to grind their bodies upon in a most disturbing manner, everybody loses.”
Yes, that’s a real saying. It’s kind of wordy so I’m not surprised it hasn’t caught on. But you cannot argue with the accuracy of the statement contained therein.
[H/T Kegs 'N Eggs]
The hits keep on coming from Next Media Animation. And they have really outdone themselves with their latest installment: “Epic meltdown leads to big changes for Red Sox”
Via NMA World Edition:
The Boston Red Sox suffered for decades under the Curse of the Bambino. But with World Series wins in 2004 and 2007, it seemed the curse had been reversed.
The Sox were doing well before blowing up in September. Some do not blame the Bambino, but a pitching staff that got lazy: eating fried chicken and drinking beer during games.
In the most epic implosion in history, the Red Sox went from leading the division to missing out on the playoffs.
Manager Terry Francona and GM Theo Epstein are gone. Star hitter David Ortiz might be next. How would Big Papi look in pinstripes?
Wow. Who knew Babe Ruth’s phantom knocked Mookie Wilson’s batted ball down, causing Bill Buckner to miss it in the 1986 World Series and that his spirit continues to haunt Fenway to this day? Not me, although I bet the Bambino was crazy jealous he couldn’t share in the buckets of KFC and beer in the clubhouse.
And Big Papi? How could you make Wally the Green Monster cry like that? Shame on you. Didn’t you already inflict enough psychological damage on that poor creature in that SportsCenter commercial?
Now there’s something you thought you’d never see: LeBron James holding a championship trophy for a professional sports league. Granted, he had no part of winning it as a competitor, but as a Liverpool F.C. shareholder, I guess one could argue that he’s at least tangentially involved with the organization who possesses said trophy.
James is over in Merry Old England to take in Liverpool’s match against Manchester United on Sunday and if you have been following his globetrotting travails on Twitpic, you are aware he is having a grand old time across the pond.
It remains to be seen if LeBron will ever triumphantly hoist the Larry O’Brien Trophy during his NBA career, but at least he now has a taste of what it’s like to be a champion. Sort of. I guess for now he’ll just have to be content with winning a free order of fries at McDonald’s. Which isn’t a terrible thing, I guess.
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Crikey! I don’t understand all the nuances of the fine sport of rugby but I am quite able to wrap my brain around the magnificent play this pint-sized player makes when he absolutely crushes his considerably larger foe. Textbook tackling form by the little guy got the job done.
This Rugby edition of “JACKED UP!” occurred during a National Rugby League match between the New Zealand Warriors and the Penrith Panthers. The little guy is New Zealand’s Lance ‘The Huntley Hurricane” Hohaia and the player who will have to explain to his mates how he got floored by a man half his size is Penrith’s 6-foot-4, 242-pound behemoth, Petero Civoniceva.
The excitable announcer compared it to “David slaying Goliath!” Apt comparison. Way to score one for the little guys, “The Huntley Hurricane.”
[H/T Sports Grid]
You do know what I am referring to when I use the term “card stunt,” right? An astounding feat of timing, coordination, precision with a dash of Groupthink when a crowd in a stadium are provided with cards which they then hold up to create a stunning display, like the United States flag or something of that ilk.
Well, on Saturday, when the Iowa Hawkeyes take on the Northwestern Wildcats at Kennick Stadium, the folks within the Iowa athletic department have something massive and quite ambitious planned for their card stunt exploits. As you can see above, they will attempt to accomplish not one, but two separate card stunts: one before the National Anthem and one afterward. The first will involve the aforementioned nod to patriotism and the second will pay homage to the team’s colors and the school’s America Needs Farmers initiative. And yes, we do need farmers in this great land of ours: where do you think the Colombian coffee you’re drinking this morning came from? Wait, that’s a poor example, but you know what I mean. I think Doritos are grown here, right?
Anyhoo, it should be quite interesting to see if the patrons at Kennick Stadium will be able to pull of this ambitious card stunt. They do have previous experience with such attempts, albeit not quite as complex as this one, yet I imagine they will fare well in this very complex endeavor.
[H/T SB Nation]
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• The poor soul who was on the receiving end of more than 1,000 calls and 700 emails over a period of three months better keep an eye on his pet rabbit, if he has one, because it looks like this could be a case of Fatal Attraction. And that’s without mentioning that Toni Jo Silvey used a tire iron and later a sword to break window’s in her ex-boyfriend’s house. She also created an internet persona, “woundedpoeticsoul,” and also started a blog detailing the former couple’s relationship. Yamma hamma, it’s Fright Night. [azcentral]
• Aside from Calvin Johnson’s “Megatron” moniker, which Transformers would other NFL players be? [Shutdown Corner]
• Extreme realignment scenarios for the National Hockey League. [Puck Daddy]
• Speaking of the NHL, this Brendan Shanahan parody video is pretty amusing. [The Big Lead]
• Going inside the Humphries-Kardashian wedding is as profoundly irritating as one might expect. [The Basketball Jones]
• NASCAR’s Carl Edwards: Master Of Football. [With Leather]
• Amar’e Stoudemire’s shoe birthday cake is pretty sweet. [Busted Coverage]
• John Wall’s new Reebok commercial is pretty weird. [That NBA Lottery Pick]
• Saints wide receiver Marques Colston took part in publishing a children’s book about his life. [Chicks in the Huddle]
• Check out this streaker getting taken out by police at a high school football game. [Rant Sports]
• Time for another edition of KSK’s Sex/Fantasy Football Mailbag. [Kissing Suzy Kolber]
• Suck for Luck: The Board Game. [Sports Pickle]
• The Onion Headline of the Day: Yankees, Phillies Playing Sad Little World Series Of Their Own
Like many men who live their lives within the confines of the ballpark due to their role as actors in the great show that is America’s Pastime, Ron Washington enjoys himself a nice bag of sunflower seeds. Due to the slow-moving nature of the game, the repetitive and habitual act of putting a handful of sunflower seeds in your mouth, extracting the seeds and spitting out the shells has its own easygoing, natural rhythm, much like baseball itself. The Rangers manager loves sunflower seeds, in fact, that he admits to sometimes going through two bags of seeds in only one game. Apparently, his favorite kind is ranch-flavored.
But sadly, Washington has put the kibosh on his sunflower seed habit. Via ESPN Dallas:
“I’m off the seeds for now,” Washington said. “Last night, I chewed 9 pieces of gum. I’m not chewing. Last night was the first night I went through a whole game without a bag.”
So, the question remains, why would he stop doing something he evidently enjoys so much? The answer? It’s all because of the old ball and chain: his wife, Gerry. You see, Gerry has become much too disgusted with seeing the image of her husband and the way in which he went about his seed-eating on the television.
“I was getting pressure put on me,” Washington said. “She said, ‘Everybody eats seeds, but nobody looks like you.’”
Harsh. You know, his predicament reminds me of a great quote from former NBA star Sam Cassell which he made many years ago: “Some guys run their house. Some guys run around their house. I’m a guy who runs my house!”
Come on, Ron Washington, be more like the man Cassell talks about in the beginning of his quote, no the other guy. At least as far as it involves your enjoyment of delicious sunflower seeds. And lighten up on your hubby, Gerry, in light of your husband’s past, some annoying habits are much, much worse than others.
Washington stops chewing sunflower seeds [ESPN Dallas]
"Most Likely To Underachieve"
Wait. Antonio? Why is the first time I have heard of this? Other than the fact I never cared nor have I ever looked into it. But with my interest piqued, I checked Wikipedia — an always reliable source — and it’s true. Huh.
The fact that I’m a bit slow on the Antonio uptake aside, that doesn’t take away from the fact that Romo’s photo from the Burlington High School (WI) yearbook is hilarious. Perhaps not in the conventional sense, I suppose, but there’s something about it that causes me to chuckle. Maybe it’s because I wonder if Present Tony Romo had the chance to go back time and impart wisdom he has gained over the years to Young Tony Romo, what would it be? My hope is it would be to not pattern his quarterbacking style after local sports legend Brett Favre.
Finally, what’s the deal with the sheet music in the background? Was Romo a band geek, too? So many questions, some of which might have been answered had I taken the time to read the interview of Romo in The Dallas Morning News from which this photo was culled. But once again, I don’t really care. I got all I needed out of it by way of this fantastic photo.
Tony Romo: On if he’s friends with LeBron James; quitting football for PGA [The Dallas Morning News]
