It was really close, and it would be respectable losing to Red Dawn and American History X, but it is what it is.

Read it, don’t read it, I don’t care…just needed to get some things off my chest.

In no particular order of chronology or importance…

Kind of on the clock.  I have a list, but really have nowhere to go.  Afternoon rant.  Let’s turn and burn.

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1. Greetings and salutations, people.  Thanks for coming aboard (the boat).  Let’s do this.
2. Pops, JJ.
3. Lindsey’s mom’s puppy Youtube has over 1000 hits. Spread the wealth, people.  It is adorable.  Puppies are cool.  http://youtu.be/nPSomS9i_iY
4. I will come clean. 2-4 on college picks, BUT my #1 came in fine.  Notre Dame.  So I would have broken even since I would have gone bigger on ND and LSU at home.
5. I would like the following commercials banned from TV immediately. Weird Rob Lowe, the iPhone one where who I think the Wendy’s chick is breaking glass, and frog protection.  Get rid of them.  I would rather have more farmers.com commercials than those things.  
6. I could think of more productive things in life to do than kicking LenDale White out of a USC game. Sure, he hasn’t panned out in the NFL, but he was a stud in college.  Not a good enemy to have, USC.
7. I would like to hear a story about how Drew Brees is playing games on coke like old school pitchers. Dude is off-big time and might as well be on something.  
8. The story about the pitcher throwing a no-hitter on acid is so dope.  
9. I fell into the trap. As soon as the Jets snuck that Thursday game out, I had a bad feeling that I was dancing the wrong dance.  HATE home underdogs and should have learned my lesson with Oakland the week before.    Just take teams like the Packers at home.  Ugghhh.
10. So, the Seahawks make a weird trade with Percy Harvin and then lose to the Rams.  As happy as that outfit is in general, things are not Disney like near the Puget Sound.  
11. That last fumble should have been reviewed though. Come on.
12. I am sitting here watching the bipolar Giants and the “I still don’t believe you are good” Cowboys.  
13. The advantage about doing NO weekly upkeep in fantasy is that I don’t accidentally sit a lot of high scoring guys.  Amendola had 8 points.  That is about all I should feel bad about.  Would have helped out Justin Hunter’s .9 points though.  
14. In case you care, I am all about the Royals. This means that you should bet everything you own on the Giants.  
15. When did the women’s soccer team start carrying the USWNT moniker?  That is just…dumb.
16. Debbie (Lindsey’s mom), hello. I have a hundred pages left of Inferno.  It is fantastic.  I just don’t have time to read.  Do they make Cliff Notes for novels?  Or can Nelson DeMille write…faster?  John Corey is simply the shit, and if you like reading my stuff at all, apparently, he thinks exactly like I do…if that isn’t scary enough.  
17. Thank you, mom, for introducing me to Mr. DeMille.
18. Just do me a favor. Try and recollect how Robert Swift was a big time draft pick for the NBA and then Google “deadspin Robert swift hookers.”  
19. Nice story, Robert. I still need at least two more for the Rant Squad.
20. By the way, where the hell IS my Rant Squad? Someone break the law or I will clean house.  
21. I have laughed out loud twice today. This was one of them.  http://deadspin.com/whats-lou-holtz-saying-here-1648171387
22. Seriously, go back and watch that clip.  It is worth it.  
23. That new LeBron James headphone commercial…is a nice attempt at being good.
24. By the way, those weights he is throwing up are like 25 pounds on a bench press?  
25. 59-0. I would say the Kenny Trill movement has hit more than a speed bump.  Thank you, Bama.
26. I know sports, but still have to rack my brain on who the coach for Washington football is.
27. I have fallen in love with this song for the third time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDVhNcvB6FY
28. This is from the video apparently.  I haven’t seen a video on MTV since 2001, so I don’t know.  
29. Am I really far off by saying that the Florida Gators are the college circus version of the New York Jets?  
30. I finally beat the under. I sneezed 14 times the other day.  The over-under is always 15 once I sneeze twice.
31. Virginia football lost. Sure, it was AT Duke, and sure, we are not out of the mix, but at least I am more clear that we are not as good as I was being tricked into thinking.  Damn, I miss C-ville.  
32. It is true that I am a closet San Fran fan, and as I love Broncos fans in pain, and UVA lost, and I am out of my losers pool, so I kind of hope the Broncos lose tonight. I need to have SOME sort of smile at the “water cooler” tomorrow.  
33. Bucket list.  I drove down that street.
34. I don’t talk to anyone at the water cooler.  I just like using the line.  
35. I have no idea what that photo is.  It came up on the search for water cooler.
36. I hope the Cowboys keep giving Joe Randle so I can keep chuckling about how he is playing for free this week ($29k) but just got signed for an underwear commercial. I assume the cologne one is in contract negotiation.  
37. I am pretty sure that Sammy Watkins is going to be a hell of a wide receiver.
38. I am pretty sure Tony Romo yelling “Seattle” is not as cool as Peyton yelling Omaha.  
39. I am pretty sure I don’t care where Pitbull is singing on Thanksgiving Day.  
40. I am pretty sure I have no interest in running 26.2 miles ever in my lifetime. Good job, Rock and Rollers who rant down our street this morning.  
41. By the way, is WALKING a marathon DOING a marathon.  Hell, I could go to an early brunch and grab a crab cake benedict and a couple bloody marys and walk the damn thing.  I am pretty sure that I saw the last place people walk by today and I am pretty sure I am proud of myself for not yelling anything derogatory at them.  Baby steps in my maturity process.  
42. I am pretty sure this is the 17^th straight year that I meant to join OR watch the zombie crawl.  
43. I am pretty sure that nothing productive ever happens after bottomless mimosas.  Didn’t miss the symphony…but we cut it close.
44. I am pretty sure that Amercian History X is one of the most powerful movies of all time.  
45. I am pretty sure that the teeth-curb thing would split your skull and not be fun.  
46. (Thinking…Mr. Royal says don’t go above 10-15 when I start getting an anaphora groove).
47. That’s right, right?  Repetitive phrase to drive a point home?  Let’s take a look.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphora_(rhetoric)
48. I am pretty sure that Dane Cook is one of the funniest people to walk this earth.  
49. I am pretty sure that not only that Morgantown is one of the toughest places to play in the nation, but that also the Sooners-Bears game isn’t as cool in Norman in a few weeks.  
50. I thought the Sooners would RUN K State out of the stadium, but then you have to check yourself and realize that Snyder is a great coach and A) not dead and B) not senile yet.  
51. For the life of me, I can’t figure out who the hell Iowa football is.
52. I will not give any names out, but I know someone who is betting legitimate money on preseason NBA basketball.  You know who you are.
53. I might not come across as classy, but I know more about classical music than 95% of you people. Went to the symphony the other night.  Lindsey says two of my best traits are A) I don’t play video games and B) I get sucked in during a classical concert.  
54. For the record. Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin…in that order.  I was the most asinine talented piano player I have ever heard of.  Dibs to my mom, who got me into Glassboro State/ Rowan after I got kicked out of a music school because I refused to quit basketball.  I asked the teacher if there was any composer who was a dick and wrote songs so people couldn’t play them.  He led me to Franz Liszt.  Beethoven gets the higher ranking because…well, he was a genius.  
55. Seriously.  Ridiculous.  Proud to have played it.
56. Thanks, Mom and Dad.  I will play again, and I know that paying for piano lessons being teachers was not easy.  Love you both.
57. I have run out of mental jokes of how funny Kobe Bryant was ranked 40^th in PRESENT NBA players. It is too much.  I might laugh if someone ranked him 40^th of ALL TIME.
58. And I hate the dude.
59. Tennessee isn’t exactly a machine, but I personally think that the Ole Miss win was a win in a possible trap game.  I am starting to believe.  Slowly.  Plus, I want to go to the Grove now.  I like parties.  
60. And TCU might be for real also. Note to self.
61. Just when I was drinking the Cleveland Kool-Aid, they lay an egg at Jacksonville. My oh my.  The Steelers must be terrible (imagine Sir Charles saying it).  
62. Thanks for the low key party, Shawna and Dustin. I am going to have the same amount of people at a party…and we will do Drunk History.  10 minutes per person.   And can we jet ski more next summer?
63. Red Dawn is on the other channel from football. Trying not to turn it.  
64. NFL players have compiled $21 million this year…in fines. Tell your friends.
65. Lindsey and I have an important announcement. For the first time since 2001, I know what I will be at Halloween BEFORE the day of Halloween.  I will be Dexter.  She will be Hannah.  Good stuff.  And, I think American History X just got competition for my non sports theme for the day.  
66. And Lindsey will be a victim I guess.
67. Plus, if I could kill things, I think I would be an EXCELLENT serial killer.  The right skills and logic in a very friendly, non killing guy.  Waste.
68. I won spelling competitions as a kid, and I still for the life of me can’t spell the word “relevant.”
69. I don’t know about your ownership deal, CNNSI, but the Bleacher Report thing might make me never go to your site again. You suddenly became as irritaiting as Fox Sports, and that is hard to do.
70. Just don’t play me at billiards.  4-1 Friday, had no intentions of playing, but I seem to get picked up when I walk in the door. I am lethal and rarely lose.  
71. The loss was my partner, who has to hit everything SO hard, scratching on the 8 ball that I ran the table to get him to.
72. After much thought, give me Royals in 6.  
73. Once again, bet the house on the Giants because I said that.
74. I don’t know what is going on with my site and the malware but I sure as hell don’t have the bandwidth to fix it since I don’t really have an intern, work 65 hours a week on a bad week, and watch sports the rest of my free time.  I can’t even finish that damn book.
75. Hail, college basketball. Football is cool.  Midnight madness occurring trumps all.  
76. Lindsey is making pork tenderloin and mac and cheese tonight. I am not only blessed with being engaged to one of the best cooks on this earth, but…well, THAT.
77. Hello, Blake Griffin. Be quiet and stop talking about retaliation.  
78. I know I am getting older when Brian Roberts has retired after 14 years. I still fell like the guy is a rookie.  
79. Sad to know that tennis folk still haven’t embraced two chicks from Compton ruling tennis.  
80. I should definitely not write about the next hook on my list.  Filler.  Ease off the pen.
81. Can I just get over 500 Twitter followers already?
82. UVA being good and OU always being good in football is really making some problems in my relationship with Lindsey. Things were so much simpler when UVA sucked.  Wait until basketball season.
83. What I like about Dan Brown novels is that he gives you a chance at figuring out what is going on before things are figured out.
84. The guy in that dog commercial who doesn’t come home is still a dick. Dave should have paid for him to cab it home and bring the dog back.  
85. By the way, on the streaking the lawn note from the last blog, I did indeed lose my clothes once. Tree branches are very, very important.  Long walk home that night to Balz dorms.
86. Bacon alfredo pizza is almost as good as having egg on your pizza.
87. That’s it. Hope you enjoyed or are at least more informed.  Will I blog tomorrow?  That is a CLOWN question, bro.