Forgive me for not blogging

.... in a over week but it's been hard to find the words to adequately express how shocked I was when the Eagles lost the NFC Championship Game to the Cardinals last Sunday. Less than a year after the first 16-0 team in NFL history lost the Super Bowl to Tom Coughlin, Eli Manning, and the New York Giants, the highest power rated team in the history of American sports lost to a franchise that had never even been to the big game. And it all happened in the same stadium. What a league. Now we are left with a Super Bowl so lame I will most likely change the channel after seeing who receives the opening kickoff....

The Cardinals better make the most of this opportunity because next year there is only NFC team with any chance of winning it all. That would be the great Dallas Cowboys and their future Hall-of-Fame QB. Now that Antonio Ramiro Romo has vowed to be more of a "Leader" and the Cowboys have kept together the braintrust of Wade Phillips and Jason Garrett, it's hard to see anyone beating them in 2009. Hell, it's hard to see anyone even scoring on them. I can totally see why they have the lowest odds of any team in the NFL to win Super Bowl XLIV in a handful of future pools. It's not like they missed the playoffs this season and haven't won a postseason game in about a dozen years. Plus they have ARR. And he's a leader now.

What else do I have to say? Nothing, really. But I'll try:

* After the Chiefs racist firing of Head Coach Herm Edwards, the Kansas City Star ran an article about the move with the headline "Herminated." Is it really that hard to come up with a good head line? And I thought my writing was suffering lately. Yikes.

* Rumor has it that the Chiefs are targeting ex-Raiders and Broncos Head Coach Mike Shanahan to replace Edwards. Before we know it, "The Mastermind" will have worked for more AFC West teams than Jorgen has worked for Las Vegas sports books.

* I didn't want to bring this up again but with the big game just 8 days away, I am starting to get nervous for Ed. Remember: He promised to jump off the Hoover Dam if the Cardinals won the Super Bowl. At the time it seemed like a harmless comment, seeing as how the Cardinals still had to get through the hurdle that was playing the Highest Power Rated Team of All Time. But now that they have slayed the 9-6-1 giant, all Arizona has to do is beat the Steelers and Ed will have to take his chances jumping of the Hoover Dam. Perhaps it will work out as well (And be as comical) as it did for Clark Griswold, but if I were in Ed's shoes, I'd hedge my "Bets" by putting a little something on Steelers money line and giving the ticket to the Mrs. Call it a life insurance policy.

* Of course, a "Little something" to that guy would probably be about 50 times the casino limit on the money line. To say that he and the other members of his group are overly cocky about how much they are betting right now would be the understatement of the century. That group is completely out of control with how much they enjoy the smell of their own farts. And not just Ed. They're all that way right now. Especially The Big Guy. But especially Sherman. Ed and Matt were ganging up on CB the other day at work, mocking him for not betting more money, even though he seemed to place 4 figure bets on anything he could get his hands on this week, even women's college basketball!

I got tired of listening to those two bullies gang up on the wunderkind and fired back with some mocks of my own. But that's just not enough to get back at their group. Someone's gotta take them down a peg. So instead of just harmless mocking, I have decided to call out their group, specifically one member who I won't identify by name but will call only "Frequent Flyer Miles." FFM made a derogatory comment about one of the city's biggest sharps, saying that he would like to book his baseball future action. You know the number to his iPhone, bro. Make the call and do it. And let us know when your baseball win totals are up.

* Speaking of baseball, the sharp sharps, the sharp squares, the square sharps, the square squares and even the sharp's sharps seem to be betting on the Braves and A's to turn some heads this summer. I can see the A's being good and threw a few bucks down on them but don't really see how the Braves could make much noise in a division with the Fightins, the Amazins, and the Nasties to contend with.

Wait John, didn't you say last year at this time that you thought it was crazy to waste money on Rays future bets because they were in the same division as the Yankees and Red Sox?

Good point. You heard it here first. Load up on the Braves in '09.


Nothing but prop bets so far in the Super Bowl. I'll let you know who I am betting on as soon the smart kid fills out his test and I pretend to drop my pencil, lean over, and copy his answers.

In the meantime PLEASE VOTE in my poll which uses the current numbers at TheGreek. I will place a bet of $100 (Or 1/1,000th of a Sherman unit) on TheGreek fading whichever side or total wins that poll as a the blog's official Super Bowl mock of how dumb my readers are.

Until then.... try to enjoy whatever garbage men's college basketball games are going on.

I'll be watching the Lady Huskies tonight. Now that's a good team.