What’s the Point of the BCS?

With the creation of the National Championship, the only real function of the “Series” is to provide a rotation of the venue for the game. And that’s it. Hell, one bowl, the Rose Bowl,  is  extremely independent of the other games going as far as having it’s own TV contract separate from the rest of the series. That’s fine with me because in my opinion the BCS needs the Rose Bowl far more than the Rose Bowl needs the BCS. Without the Rose Bowl no one would take the BCS seriously, less than they do now.

I would rather see the National Championship Game be like the Super Bowl and have venues vie to host the game so they can end this BCS crap.

Are Some Teams Destined to Suck?

I’m watching the Lions vs. Packers right now and have concluded that the Lions will never win a Super Bowl. Why? Because they are destined to suck, much like the Cardinals. In fact, the Lions and Cardinals are the only teams to have been in existence since the start of the Super Bowl to never to make it to one. Technically, Cleveland hasn’t been to one either, but they don’t count because the team that was the original Browns (Ravens) did go to a Super Bowl and that they didn’t exist during the late-90s.

Every sport has them, the teams that always suck. Baseball has the Rays, Royals, pretty much the entire National League… Basketball has the Clippers, Warriors, Bobcats, and Bucks. Hockey has, well hockey has been pretty good about every team having a good season every once in a while.

For a lot of the teams mentioned it’s the ownership to blame. Others seemed to be just destined to suck. No matter who’s the coach, the players, they still some how manage to be bad and always find new ways to be bad.

Finally, the NFL did something Right

I actually have to give the NFL credit for allowing the Pats vs. Giants game to be broadcast on CBS and NBC as well as the NFL Network. Originally it was only going to be on the NFL Network which was not an issue for me since apparently I’m one 6 people in the country that actually get the NFL Network which is funny because I never watch it because I view it as a complete waste of time outside the actual football games.

And of course, the NFL turns the whole thing as a giant promo for the NFL Network. But as a promotional tool I thing it backfired since it showed the public that the NFL Network has the worst play-by-play team in all of football with Bryant Gumbel and Cris Collinsworth. Plus they might want to rethink their ad campaign featuring the two guys at the diner as it portrays the typical NFL Network viewer and a single bum that does nothing more that sit on his ass and watch shows from NFL Films, so basically a loser.

A Week Later…

I’ve been blogging now for a week and what a week it was. The real John Chow actually visited my humble little site and commented one of my posts. Not John Chow was kind enough to visit and comment as well. The Hulu.com support team also stopped by and replied to my complaint about not being able to embed a video. And some of my posts ended on some of the weirdest websites. Oh, and some guy calling himself a Jedi tried to post a comment about how people can now live forever.

This is fun.

It is finished

Took my useless DVD player back to Wal-Mart this morning at 8:30. I got up to Customer Service and explain my frustration about being sold a DVD player that was clearly returned once before and how it was just taped back up and thrown back on the shelf with no regard with if it actually worked. Without even looking at me, she says, “OK,” basically telling me that she didn’t give a shit. I go back to the electronics sections and I notice that the original DVD player I returned was taped back up and sitting on the top of the stack. I know it was mine because it was missing the top layer of cardboard in one corner. Unbelievable.

And this morning I hear on the radio the story of a guy buying a MP3 player for his daughter and when she turned it on, she discovered videos of the adult variety. So it would appear that this “Who gives a shit why they returned it, just tape it up and throw it back on the shelf” mentality runs through the whole company.

From this ordeal I was learned that sometimes it worth paying a little more just not to deal with some people, no matter what the item is.

This is a rant blog, not a tea party!

Granted I’ve only been doing this for a week now, but I already realized that I lost focus. This is supposed to be a rant blog, I place for a Jackass to get on a soap box. But I got caught up in the need to post all the time. I put a link to Queen Elizabeth’s Christmas message for crying out loud! What the hell was I thinking?!

I know what I was thinking, I focused too much on the number of visits, it became my crack. Traffic is down I must post again! It’s been one week and I already became just another blog about some boring dude talking about going to Target. No more!

Thank you Wal-Mart…

…For never ceasing to amaze me how much you suck. Today I returned the DVD player I bought yesterday because the thing was seriously the flimsiest piece of technology I have ever encountered. You breathe on the thing and it almost breaks. Lucky, they had the model that I originally wanted back in stock and it was $25 cheaper and had more feature. Cool, I thought.

As soon as I opened the box I knew something wasn’t right. There was not a piece of packing foam to be found in the box, just the dvd player sitting there; all the bags appeared to have been opened; the batteries were already in the remote. I look closer at the box and realized there was TWO layers of packing tape on it. Those bastards sold me an open box item and tried to pass it off as a new item! Not only that, the damn video jack didn’t work!

Pissed off and with a slight cold I drive back to Wal-Mart, I enter the door and one of those annoying greeters stops me and says, “We don’t take returns or exchanges after 10.” I check my cell for the time: 10:02.

I hate you Wal-Mart.

Oh, by the way…

The queen says “Merry Chirstmas“

From Russia with Love

Surfing around YouTube, I found this clip from The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson of him doing a chicken dance. Normally I would had it funny enough, but the thing that really gets me is the fact that there’s Russian subtitles. So you’ve every wondered how to say “chicken” in Russian, here’s your chance.

I woot, do you?

One of my favorite sites currently is woot.com. Woot pioneered the “One day, one deal” business model. Sometimes you can get some great shit on there for a great price. But other times the deal of the day just downright sucks ass. Plus there is usually a set number available that day.

But that’s the fun of Woot. It’s almost a race to see who can log on soonest after 12:00 am Central time and grab the first woot. It’s like Black Friday everyday, without the probably of being trampled to death, but you can get cyber bitch-slapped.