So, I had written an entire post last week but never got around to finishing up the last story I wanted to discuss. On Wednesday night, American Airlines Flight 5432 collided with a Black Hawk Helicopter leaving 67 people dead. I decided I would hold off and send out two posts this weekend. This one here will deal with lighter stuff like sports and less serious news. Tomorrow night will be more serious topics, politics and the plane crash.
Hi Folks:
Tim and I were at MSG two Mondays ago for what has become our tradition of going to watch the Knicks play on Martin Luther King Day. The first two times we went, the Knicks lost, to the Raptors and the Magic respectfully.
This year they played the Hawks and their MSG Public Enemy #1 Trae Young. A month ago, the Hawks beat the Knicks at MSG and Young took to the Knicks mid-court logo and pretended to roll dice, ensuring he'll pretty much be booed anytime he touches the ball till the end of his career. (We Ranger fans still chant Potvin Sucks at the Garden, almost 40 years after the Islander captain retired)
Alas Young and the rest of the Hawks were no match for Jalen Brunson (34 points) and Mikhail Bridges (26 points) who looked like a player who was worth the bounty of draft picks the Knicks sent over the bridge to the Nets last summer.
This is actually the second time I saw the Hawks play the Knicks on MLK day. 38 years ago (wow) I went to the game with my high school teammates Gary Siano and Tom (TC) Kelly. The tickets were 12 bucks that day and we got them at the gate. 12 bucks doesn't get you much these days at MSG. But I digress. It was a great day with great company. Anytime spent with my kid is awesome, a Knick win was just icing on the cake.
Later that night, I had the rare opportunity to witness one of my teams play for a championship...
FOOTBALL-(College) Irish Fall Just Short
I had been tempted to write about my beloved Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team during their run to the College Football National Championship Game, but to be honest, I thought I might give them the horns, since they had gutted out huge wins vs Indiana, Georgia, and Penn State en-route to the title game in Atlanta against the Ohio State University.
But alas, it wouldn't have mattered if I had written about them or not, as Ohio State's defense was too much to overcome. The Buckeyes had a huge lead throughout most of the middle of the game, but the Irish fought back to come within 8. A TD and a two point conversion could have put this game into OT.
But with 2:45 left in the 4th quarter and the Buckeyes facing 3rd and 11 from their own 34 yard line, QB Will Howard hit WR Jeramiah Smith for a 59-yard gain, setting up a FG that put the game out of reach and cost yours truly the back door cover.
I've watched Notre Dame have great regular seasons, only to run into a team from the SEC or the Big Ten and get their doors blown off. I can still hear my late father in law telling me "Men against Boys Billy" as these post season blowouts were being handed down.
But this year, the Irish took all comers and then gave Ohio State about all they could handle. Unlike previous years, the Irish can rightly claim to be one of the top programs in the nation. To me, they have nothing to hang their heads about.
Now having said that, as much fun as this college football playoff was, I still think playing college football on MLK Day is a bit much. I was just getting used to playing the National Championship game around the 10th or 11th of January, and now we are almost to the end of the month. I realize that asking college football to wrap things up by New Years Day the way they did when I was a kid is as fruitless a pursuit as asking the players to accept free tuition, room and board as their salaries as opposed to their NIL booty. but shoot these seasons just go on way too long.
FOOTBALL (NFL)- Jets New Coach and General Manager
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.-Albert Einstein*
Here now is a list of coaches the Jets hired since Bill Parcells quit on them on 1/3/2000..
Bill Belichick, Al Groh, Herm Edwards, Eric Mangini, Rex Ryan, Todd Bowels, Adam Gase, Rob Saleh and now, Aaron Glenn.
Belichick weaseled his way to New England as we all know and never coached a game for the Jets. Groh stayed one year and weaseled his way back to college football. The Herminator, Mangenuis, Rex, and Bowels all had two things in common.
1) They were defensive coordinators
2) The Jets gave them their first head coaching job.
And now in hiring Arron Glenn, the Jets have once again handed the keys to the car to a first time head coach who had previously been a defensive coordinator.
Adam Gase, BTW, was an offensive coordinator who had also been a head coach with the Dolphins. But the Fish practically ran him out of town and his two year tenure here as HC of the NYJ was a predictable disaster.
I don't know if Aaron Glenn will be a disaster or not, and yes, he deserves a chance to show what he can do, but the Jets long ago pissed away any benefit of the doubt they might think they deserve.
In the meantime, they have also hired Darren Mougey, an assistant GM for the Broncos, who, as luck would have it, will be a first time GM. Why they hired the coach before the GM is another question you'll have ask them. That's not the way I would have gone about it, but what do I know?
Parcells, amongst others, have praised Glenn and are sure he will be a successful NFL head coach. People said the same thing about Saleh, I remember that clearly. I'm sure they said the same about the others. Rex Ryan pretty much told us he would be a success.
I can't get excited anymore. I wish them both luck and will be over the moon if they are able to pull it off. They still have a QB dilemma and a meddlesome pea brained owner. Vince Lombardi couldn't win under those circumstances.
Just an absolute mess.
And speaking of seasons that go on way to long, the Chiefs and Eagles will meet next week to decide Super Bowl LIX (59 for the Roman Numeral Challenged) in New Orleans. The Eagles got there by blowing out the Commanders who had previously upset the Lions. I really wanted the Lions to at least get to the Super Bowl. I really didn't want the Eagles to go there. Even though I'm not a Giant fan, I still feel their pain and don't really need to see Saquon Barkley rushing for 200 yards in the biggest game of the year.
If he does though it will quite an accomplishment, as the Chiefs defense is really good.
The Chiefs have a chance to become the first team to win three consecutive Super Bowls, which I have heard from various precincts is actually incorrect.
So let me clarify. NFL Teams have won three consecutive championships in the pre-Super Bowl era or before the NFL-AFL merger. Christopher (Mad Dog) Russo was on ESPN's First Take a couple of weeks ago talking about how technically the Lombardi/Bart Starr Packers had won the NFL Championship three years in a row (and 5 in 7 years) but the first of the three was the year before Super Bowl I.
"Now if they had played the Super Bowl that year, (January 1966 for the 1965 season) the Packers would have played the Bills, you're telling me that the Bills would have had a chance against Lombardi? I don't think so." Russo ranted on.
Well maybe not (though Russo is actually old enough to remember that they were saying the same thing 4 years later about the Colts and Jets). But regardless, no team has won 3 SUPER BOWLS in a row. The Chiefs could be the first to pull it off.
And it seems like there is a fair percentage of the population that does not want to see that happen.
They have had it with the Chiefs. Sick of seeing Taylor Swift cheering on her man Travis Kelce from various luxury boxes. Sick of Patrick Mahomes and his supposed favored nation status with league officials. Sick of the State Farm commercials. Mostly just sick of seeing them win all the time.
I had to live through 20 years of pain from Bill Belichick/Tom Brady at the Patriots, so the Chiefs have a long way to go before I can work up a righteous hatred of them. Andy Reid is not nearly the lying lowlife Belichick was/still is, and Mahomes is so much easier to root for than Brady ever was.
Having said that, I kind of found myself pulling for the Bills last Sunday.
By all accounts, I should have the same feelings towards the Bills as Giants fans have against the Eagles, but the fact of the matter is the Jets have been so bad for so long, I don't even know who their archrivals are anymore. If anything, it's the Jaguars who it seems like they battle every year to see who will suck more and get the higher draft pick (but I digress)
I like Josh Allen a lot. He's a tremendous QB. The fans in Buffalo deserve to see one of their teams win a championship and I don't think the Sabres are going to bring home a Stanley Cup anytime soon. Yes the Bills lost 4 Super Bowls in a row, but that was over 30 years ago already.
But once again, Allen and the Bills made it close, but no cigar. So we have a rematch of Super Bowl LVII (57) from two years ago, which was a fairly entertaining game. And I'll be pulling for the threepeat.
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I'm not going to comment about the Pete Alonso situation until it is resolved one way or another. Then I'll let you know what I think of all the parties involved.
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One more story...
A British Only Fans Influencer who claims to have slept with over 1000 men in 12 hours (what?) lost a potential conquest when he was forcibly removed from the line of fellow horndogs by his mother.
Adriana Diaz in the Post wrote about the incident, involving sex machine Bonnie Blue.
Bonnie Blue has set up a series of “extreme sex stunts” where she has guys waiting in line for the privilege of doing the nasty with her.. Like taking a number at the DMV.
This is from an article about Blue in the Independent..
Imagine you’re in a queue. Surrounded by men you don’t know, some of whom are just in their boxers, you find yourself waiting around for hours on the staircase of a £15m mansion. Perhaps you exchange some small talk with the man in front of you: he’s wearing a balaclava. Mostly, though, you just stand in silence, interrupted only occasionally by sounds of moaning from a nearby room somewhere at the top of the staircase. For now, though, you just wait until it’s your turn to be in that room yourself, having sex with a 25-year-old woman you’ve never met.
This was the situation facilitated earlier this month by OnlyFans star Bonnie Blue, who claims to have slept with a record-breaking 1,057 men in 12 hours.
Well, some poor kid was doing just that when his mum caught wind of what he was up to. And she proceeded to march right over and get him off the queue.
“Put your clothes on otherwise I’ll get the police to come for you,” Put your clothes on now and come out! Come out here now”
Adriana referenced a Tik Tok video to this effect, which was shot by influencer Beavo, who was interviewing some of the guys who were waiting in line for their chance at glory, when this kid’s mom showed up to collect him.
According to the Post article the kid put up a fight and told his mother “I’m 19 and I signed a consent form.”
I hereby consent to place my pud in someone who has had 1,000 other dudes doing the same thing.
Listen man, call me a prude but that just doesn’t sound like my idea of fun. I give all the props in the world to this dude’s momma. Let him go find Mrs. Right as opposed to Mrs. Right Now. Actually, more like Mrs. Take a Number. Trust me bro, you may be cheesed off right now, but one day you will look back and thank your mum for this.
We'll be back tomorrow. Till then
Stay Safe
and Have a Great Night
*Or maybe Mark Twain, or Ben Franklin.
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