In a recent surge of ex-NFL players joining the MMA world, there is a new and bigger name than anyone in The Ultimate Fighter that premiered on Spike this Wednesday. Those NFL’ers are: Branden Schaub, Marcus Jones, Mike Wessel and Wes Shivers.
The bigger name? Herschel Walker and he is one of the best athletes that the NFL has ever seen. Not players, but rather one of the best “athletes” as in strength, speed, work out regimen, etc. He won the 1982 Heisman Trophy in his junior year of college. I feel (and I may not be alone) that he had a much better college career than he did in the NFL but I remember him fondly even though I was still in diapers during the beginning of his career.
Walker, who was selected to the Pro Bowl twice in his NFC East whoring career, is now 47 years old which is VERY old for the NFL and just “Over the Hill” for the UFC given what Randy Couture does for the sport at the ripe age of 46.
The crazy thing about Herschel Walker is that he was always had an insanely low body fat count with his psychotic training technique. Instead of using heavy weights such as dumbbells, Walker was all about calisthenics and bodyweight exercises that doesn’t take a toll on the body nearly as much as the former. In 2006 he told Jim Rome that he does 2,500 sit ups and 1,500 push ups every day. Let me be the first to say: “That’s more than Tank Abbot has done in his life”.
He is also a 5th or 6th degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do (depending on where you look) . If he has any sort of wrestling background and works on some striking, he might not be horrible at this sport.
Let me also be one of the first to say “Strikeforce is effing desperate”.
Alright so this is definitely going to be all over the world in tomorrow’s newspapers and probably hit all the blogs about 2 hours ago. I need to speak to it considering my employment with the USTA. I was on the roof taking care of business when (Read as: “trying to understand tennis”) Serena was called for a Double Fault. Then I guess she was penalized by letting the other person get 2 points. Which put Clijtsters up 45-15. Tell me that isn’t weird with a straight face.
Today I bring you some sad and disturbing Brett Favre news. Favre in talks with reporters stated two things today. He stated that he’s not going to let his consecutive games streak influence him this year. You know, I applaud him for that. I really do. This means that he will not try to play through an injury that would make him completely ineffective and hurt his team. He’s going to hold the record for at least a few more years anyways, so this is him coming to terms with the fact that he’s going to be a 40 year old QB in the NFL. Injuries can and will happen, and as a 40 year old you don’t have the ability to fight it off and play at a high enough level to help the team win.
If you haven’t noticed, it’s going to be a slow day around here. It is a holiday, and even bloggers get days off. We’re working on some stuff though, and it won’t be completely barren around here. See you all tomorrow for a full day of posting.
The Patriots, masters of evil plans and disinformation must know something that the rest of us don’t know. Last year, wonderboy and lover of goats, Tom Brady, went down for the season with a serious knee injury. Backup Matt Cassel came in and performed well enough to earn a $63M contract from KC in the offseason. The Pats took it in stride like they seem to do with everything. That meant 3d string Kevin O’Connell was bumped to number two. They brought in Raiders reject Andrew Walter to be the new number three. I’m the anti-Patriots but if anybody could develop a Raider reject, it’s the Pats.
Then the other day, they cut O’Connell a mere 16 months after drafting him, even though they almost always develop their players from within. It was shocking, but it’s the Pats so not too shocking. Now news has broken that even the mighty evil one could not in fact turn a Raider turd into Patriot gold. The Pats have given Walter his walking papers. So who does that leave? Well it leaves an undrafted rookie from Michigan State, Brian Hoyer.
Hoyer was a career 55.8% thrower, with a 35-23 TD-Int ratio. For a comparison that I’ll get blasted for, Colt Brennan was a 70.5% passer with a 131-43 TD-Int ratio and he still can’t even lock down a #2 position. But hey, they seem to both get lucky and know what they’re doing. When they drafted Tom Brady with the 199th pick, they were debating drafting Tim Rattay instead. Look how well that turned out for them. continue for all things Patriot
Jell-O wrestling is 10x sexier, and doesn't look like they're covered in crap.
Only the Europeans could take wrestling and make it not sexy. Okay maybe wrestling isn’t very sexy at all. It’s actually quite homoerotic. However, two chicks wrestling ranks high on the erection scale. Especially when done so in a mixture of KY lubricant, whipped cream, or Jello-O. Mmmm Jello-O. Wrestling in gravy, while delicious isn’t necessarily very sexy. Dudes wrestling in gravy even less sexier.
The Rose ‘n’ Bowl pub in Stacksteads, Lancashire, hosted the World Gravy Wrestling Championships.
Bisto provided 2,000 litres (440 gallons) of gravy past its best before date for the contest, which raised money for the East Lancashire Hospice.
For charity or not the idea of grown men wrestling around in a substance that resembles feces, stirs up too many images of a Dutch porn. And reading the following quote from this year’s winner Joel Hicks or as he’s known on the gravy fighting circuit Stone Cold Steve Bisto, doesn’t help matters:
“The final was really tough and it is much more difficult than you think. My technique was really just to grab hold of the guy and hope for the best [ed note: that's what she said /snickers like a 12 year old].”
Hulk Hogan would be so proud. In fact he’d probably say something like, “That’s right kids. If you drink your milk, take your vitamins, and say your prayers, you too can be a gravy wrestling champion. Now can someone help me. I think I have a lump of gravy wedged in my ass crack.”
Logic: aherm. Excuse me. I meant double paraplegic. Or “quadriplegic” if you will, has sailed around Britain. Her name was Hilary Lister and apparently she has no arms or legs.
SI is announcing that Pacman Jones has reached a one year agreement with the Winnepeg Blue Bombers of the CFL, and that he could join the team as early as Wednesday. Nobody will deny that Pacman Jones is one talented individual. Nobody will deny that as a human being he’s greatly flawed either.
The 26 year old is blessed with great gifts, but his off the field issues are a major concern.
Several NFL general managers said in the last week that Jones has the skill set to be a productive player, but one added: “He’s already got 2 1/2 strikes against him, so he’s just not worth the time.”
He last played in 2007, after serving a one year suspension for being involved in a shooting at a strip club. During the 2007 year he was involved in an altercation with his bodyguard, which resulted in a 4 game suspension. The Cowboys then promptly released him.
