Why I Love Direct TV

For those of you that dont know Terri and I decided to cancel our comcast cable the other week. We got sick of paying alot for crap service, crap reception and a crap cable box that kept going out of service.

So we decided to trade it in for the dish. We got one of the basic Direct TV packages and added the NFL ticket. So I get to watch every NFL game in all its glory every week. That reason itself is more than enough for any guy in his right mind to love his new cable service.

But wait...there's more. The glorious antenna on our roof gives us much more in the way of sporting events. For instance I am currently flipping back an forth between 3 Hockey games and 3 College Football games. And if I liked Basketball I could be watching two NBA preseason games, but I dont. And just for good measure there are 3 College Football games and 2 Hockey games that will strt within the hour.......that said why am I on the computer........later!

Football Is Back!!!!

Well my friends.....Football is back! The College Football season opened up this week. As usual there were highs and lows for me as a College Football Fan.

The lows had to be my Ducks losing on Thursday to Boise State on the infamous Blue Turf and my Terps also lost in disturbing fashions to Cal. What made the Oregon lose even worse was the fact that one of the running backs, LeGarrette Blount, sucker punched one of Boise States players at the end of the game. Not very sportsman like. And the Maryland lose was pretty much embarrassing, 52 - 13......

Despite the loses of my favorite teams something else happened that made it all better.....That being Oklahoma losing to BYU. I really dont like Oklahoma, and pretty much never have. And them losing to a Non-BCS team made it all better. Despite the fact that I do not like Oklahoma I do feel bad for Sam Bradford was injured. I do realize that the injury was a big factor in the lose, but you cant take that away from BYU. As it may it's still as lose. This week 1 lose and a very tough Big 12 schedule hopefully means that they will not be in the National Championship picture come December.

Looking forward to a good season. Just a couple more weeks till NFL, Terri and I just got the NFL Season Ticket.....So it will be even better! I can now watch my Skins every week!

Good News.....Bad News

Its been awile since I've posted anything about sports. So I figured this is as good of a chance as any. All I rally got for you is Good News.....and Bad News....

GOOD NEWS:

On Sunday my favorite Nascar driver Brian Vickers drove the number 83 Red Bull Racing Car into Victory Lane! This was Brian's second career victory and the first for Red Bull Racings Nascar Team. Well technically he didnt drive into victory lane.....He actualy ran out of gas after the race as he was driving to victory lane. The last few laps were nail bitters. Not only was Brian running out of gas, but several other drivers were as well. I wasnt sure he was going to have enough gas to make it. But sure enough he did. Way to go Brian!














BAD NEWS:

I dont think I really need to get into this one.........Yes that's A pic of Brett Farve...Yes he came out of retirement agian.....and yes he is now a Viking....

Sports Update

Lots of good stuff has been going on in the wide world of sports the past few weeks. Atleast for teams and sports that I follow. Hopefully that will be a trend of things to come.

Lets start with some good ole auto racing. Team Red Bull Has had two good weeks in a row with their Formula One Racing Team. Last week Sebastian Vettel won Team Red Bulls first F1 race at the Grand Prix of China. He followed it up this past weekend with a 2nd place finish at the Grad Prix of Bahrain. Sadly I missed last weeks victory. But saw race ths past weekend, which was pretty exciting. This weekend the Nascar Red Bul team also had a good showing t a crazy race at Talledage Raceway. Both Scott Speed and Brian Vickers finised 5th and 8th respectivly. This was one f the better races I have seen in a while, lots of crashes and excitment. Hopefully both teams can keep it up the rest of the year.

The playoffs started the other week for the NHL. My Canucks got off to a really good start by sweeping the Blues in convincing fashion in the first round. Next up.....The Chicago Blackhawks. The Blackhawks are looking pretty good this year with a powerfull offense. Luckily the Canucks have good defense and one of the top goalies in the NHL. My home team, Washington Capitals, came back from being down 3 games to 1 to beat the Rangers last night in game seven. Next up for them is are the Penguins. This shold be a tough, hard hitting and star studded series with between two teams with a rivialry going back to the old days of the Patrick Division days.

The playoffs also started for the NBA. But I dont really care about that.....


And to top it off the NFL draft was this past weekend. My Redskins didn't trade up to get Mark Sanchez like alot of people thought they might. But they did get the guy they had there eyes on....Brian Orakpo out of Texas. Orakpo was a Defensive End at Texas, but might play as a Linebacker in Washington. ither way hopefully he will be able to contribute to a alredystrong defese that also added one of the top free agents over the offseason, Albert Haynesworth.

Hockey Time

Before the NHL Season started I took a look at the Thrasers schedule to see if they were playing my team, the Vancouver Canucks, as I looked down the schedule sure enough I see the Ole Canucks are on it! Even better, the game is in Atlanta and to top it off its on the Friday after New Years! Terri being the kickass girlfriend she is scoops up some tickets, 5 rows up center ice I add. We had a great time and saw a really good game. The game went into overtime, then shootouts and then sudden death shootouts. In the end the Canucks lost. But I still had a great time. Thanks Terri!!!!
















Terri and I with our view
















You didnt know that I play for the Canucks did you
















Kelly, Myself, Ryan, JB and Mac

It's Has Officially Begun

So last night was officially the start to the 2008 -2009 NFL Season with the Hall of Fame Game Preseason Opener. And what better way to start it off then by having the Washington Redskins paly in the game. Their opponent, the Indianapolis Colts. I was super stoked to watch the game and see what kind of talent we might have making the team this year. Unfortunetly since I have worked two weeks straight and am tired as hell I went to sleep soon after the first quarter, lame...I know.

First thing I did Monday morning was check ESPN.Com to see who won and to see if one particular Redskin's player played, and if so how well he did. The player was rookie quarterback Colt Brennan, formerly known as The University of Colt Brennan, now known as The District of Colt Brennan. I was very pleased to see that he put together quite a game (9/10, 123 yds, 2 tds). Not sure if there will be any contreversy in the distrcit anytime soon though because starter Jason "Chunky Soup" Campbell had a pretty good game himself in limited action (5/5, 61 yds, 1 td).

More importantly the Redskins won. Granted it is preseason and mostly backups played the whole game for both teams and Peyton Manning didn't event play. But a win is a win to any fan!

Get The Clipboard Ready!

As some of you know the NFL Draft was this past weekend. Following the Draft Football fans across America are generally very happy, upset or on the fence with what their team did. Then there is the talk about which of the top 10 picks will actually be star players, who the late round gem might be and the trades.

As a Redskins fan the Pre-Draft talk certainly peaked my interests. What talk you say? The possibility of the Skins trading for Cinco-Ocho....Other wise known as the talented but overly chatty Bengal’s Wide Receiver Chad Johnson. This trade of course did not happen, which in my opinion is a good thing.

So that left the Redskins needing to go the route of the Draft to fulfill their Wide Receiver needs. They ended up picking up two of the top rated receivers in the draft, Devin Thomas out of Michigan State and Malcolm Kelly out of Oklahoma State. They also made some picks to help out their Secondary. But they had one pick that will forever change the history of clipboards in our Nations Capital....Yes my friends....I’m talking about The University of Colt Brennan!

Now I know what some of you are thinking…..Colt Brennan…..Isn’t he the guy that died is hair to look like the island of Hawaii? Yes it is. Now don’t get me wrong but I would love to see The U of C.B. be the future of the Redskins and lead them to the Big Game. But lets face it….The only thing in his future is clipboards and head set.

Now this is where some would argue with the numbers he put up in college. No need to….I’m aware that he passed for 14,193 Yards and 131 Touchdowns in 3 years. But he also played for the University of Hawaii in the WAC Division. There is nothing wrong with either of these, but he put those stats up against teams like Charleston State, Idaho and Double Directional Schools. He also made a lot of people question his potential ability to play with talent on next level based upon his performance against Georgia in the Sugar Bowl this past year. I’m not trying to put down his career, because without a doubt he had a great college career. But Andre Ware, David Klingler, Ty Detmer and Kliff Klingsbury also had great college careers. Who? Exactly!

My plea……Turn this small school big numbers theme around Colt. Die your hair to look like the District of Columbia and take the Redskins to the Super Bowl!

NHL Playoffs

As some of you know the NHL Playoffs second round has kicked off, which is cool. It would have been alot cooler if the Caps were able to beat the Flyers. What makes it suck even more was...that it was the F'n Flyers! As a Caps fan it's in your blood to hate the Flyers. But at the same time the Caps had a great season and show alot of promise for next year.

So since the Caps are out and the Canucks didn't even make the playoffs Im going to be cheering for the Canadians and hope they can pull it off. That's right, Go Canada!

March Madness!!!!

Well its that crazy time of the year again. Prior to the 7 & 9 PM games yesterday my bracket was looking very good. Then it kind of fell apart. I had a feeling that was coming though. For some reason year after year I always do bad on day 2 of the first round. The Siena win messed me up the most cause I had Vandy going to the Elie 8. But Im still in pretty good shape and on top of the pool I'm in after the first round. And if your curious like most of the country I picked UNC to win it all, and have Wisconsin, UCLA and Pittsburgh joining them in the Final Four.

Next Stop Canton!

Well today is Super Bowl Sunday obviously I'm stoked to see what will hopefully be a good game. But at the same time it sucks. Why? Reason One.....Football season will be over after today (Pro Bowl doesn't count). Reason Two.....My Redskins are not playing.

But it is still somewhat a good weekend for Skins fans. Why? This weekend the announcement of the 2008 Hall of Fame Class was made and two of them were Redskins. Long time greats Art Monk and Darrell Green got their tickets to Canton.

Monk was a go to receiver that highly contributed to the Redskins winning 3 Super Bowls during his time in the Nations Capital. In 1992 Monk became the then NFL All Time Receptions leader with 820 catches.

Green was shutdown corner back that was also a key contributor the Redskins stored history and was part of 2 Super Bowl winning Redskin Teams. Green had a interception in a record 19 straight seasons.

Both of these players will always be remembered as some of the greats to all Redskins fans. Thank you so much for your contributions and congratulations!

Best Bowl Game

Today at 2:00 PM is one of the best bowl games ever. It is a game that I look forward to seeing every year regardless of who is playing. The Bowl Game is the Humanitarian Bowl which is played at Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho every year. For those of you that are College Football Buffs you know where I am going with this. For those of you that are not the answer to your question of why is this the best bowl game has two simple words........Blue Turf!!!!

Chomp Chomp

As most people know I have always hated the Florida Gators. That has some how changed for me this year. Jonathon and I were forced to cheer for the Gators earlier in the year against Tennessee. We hated both teams we decided to cheer for Florida.

Over the course of the game Jonathon and I decided to incorporate one of the all time best nick names for Tim Tebow.....you guessed it.......T-Bone. The T-Bone chants came all night and were followed by the "T" sign, punching the middle of your forearm to form a T, I know.....we are brilliant. Ever since Jonathon and I have been makin T's & cheering for Florida.

T-Bone put the exclamation point on a great season by winning the Heisman on Saturday night. Ofcourse I did the T sign all night. The results was a very sore forearm from punching it all night and yes a hang over.

In other news Colt Brennan aka The University of Colt Brennan, the second best nick name ever(see above for the first), came in third in the Heisman voting. The highest finish for a non BCS school during the BSC era. I just love to see the non BCS schools do good. Especially since I hate the F*%$'n BCS!

Ruffled Feathers

Another end of the year losing streak for Quack nation......So sad. Well this year I really had visions of my Oregon Ducks raising the National championship trophy this year. We had so much going for us.....Then Dixon broke his twig leg and the Quackers lost to Arizona. That was followed by a lose to UCLA, they still suck Amanda! Then to top it off Dixon's replacement Brady Leaf gets injured. And yes that is Leaf as in the younger brother of sorry A#% Ryan Leaf. That leaves us with two Freshman quarterbacks to loss to Oregon State, Chop Chop, and loss in some sorry A&% Bowl game where we play a double directional school.

Over The Top

On Saturday Jonathon, Amanda, Mac, Ryan and others witnessed a total over the top Tennessee fan. And it just so happens that this girl was sitting at our table.

We found ourselves at Jocks and Jills in Midtown on Saturday watching the Tennessee vs. Kentucky game and the Georgia vs. Ga Tech game, Buzz Buzz! We should have known that we were in for a long day when this avid Tennessee fan told Ryan to leave because he was cheering for Kentucky. And when Ryan tried to speak his case he was told “we were here first” what is this…..Kindergarten?

The rest of day consisted of this girl saying F*&$ You to just about every single Kentucky and Georgia fan in the building. O and by the way when I say she was saying it…..I mean that she was screaming it at people and finger pointed in random peoples faces. She then proceeded to get into a fight with some girl in the bathroom because she was a Kentucky fan, she then tried to get into arguments with Mac and myself about a clear and cut Kentucky touchdown and a panda bear. She then teamed up with a girl at a near by table that just just about if not more psycho.

This girl was so bad that the waitress and many other patrons would walk by and look at her and the table with the “Are you for real” look. I totally wish I had some pics or camera footage of this train wreak.