Entries from January 2010 ↓

The iPad?? Really? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! I’m calling it here first, Apple just jumped the shark.

After watching the playoff games this past weekend, I now believe more so than ever that NFL football is a ridiculous sport. Sudden death overtime rules in the playoffs is simply a stupid idea and should not be allowed in any professional sport, at least not for field goals. Really, who wants to see an exciting game come down to a one possession, 40 yard field goal try? Not me, not during the playoffs. Oh and before I propose my rule changes to the NFL,  I must also share my gripe about booth reviews in the last two minutes and in overtime. The paying public was forced to sit through three replays, two of which were reviews over the spot of the previous play. Can’t we use technology to take care of this issue? I would imagine some sort of positioning system could be used to correctly determine where exactly the ball is at any given time on the field. Just saying. As for the proposed rule changes to make the NFL suck less, here you go:

1. No overtime during the regular season; there is nothing wrong with a tie.

2. During the playoffs, each team either gets the ball at least once on offense (modified college rules) or a touchdown must be scored for a win, field goals in this scenario would not count.

3. Change the review rules to allow coaches’ challenges in an overtime scenario.

4. Allow as many coaches’ challenges as there are mandatory commercial breaks, that way there is something going on in the game while the TV audience is busy with marketing ploys.

5. Allow booth reviews that are not coaches’ challenges outside of overtime and 2 minutes to play in a half.

6. Stop giving an opposing team 7 yards for free on a missed field goal attempt. A team should not be penalized for missing a field goal and this would help increase long field goal attempts. Really, a team is not penalized for going for it on 4th down in the red zone and failing to score, so why are field goal attempts treated differently?

That’s really it for now, oh wait…

7. Bring the Pro-Bowl back to Hawaii. It is ludicrous to play it the week before the Superbowl; no one cared when it was a week after and no one will care now that it is a week before. Oh that’s right, the host city cares because it is one more money making opportunity. What a load of crap.

More to follow…

It may seem a bit strange but I was unaware that New Zealand still has an active and intact military. I saw all three Lord of the Rings movies and I am pretty sure those little hobbits invaded New Zealand. Was there a fourth sequel that I missed?

From Yahoo! News, NZ army to remove Bible citations from armaments:

Biblical citations inscribed on U.S.-manufactured weapon sights used by New Zealand’s troops in Afghanistan will be removed because they are inappropriate and could stoke religious tensions, New Zealand said Thursday.

The inscriptions on products from defense contractor Trijicon of Wixom, Michigan, came to light this week in the U.S. where Army officials said Tuesday they would investigate whether the gun sights — also used by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq — violate U.S. procurement laws.

All kidding aside, this has to be one of the dumbest things I have ever read. So it is ok to shoot someone as long as we do not potentially offend them first? Who is really offended by this? My guess is only those who would have the gun pointed at them anyway so what difference does it make? How far can we carry this idiotic political correctness before we completely cripple ourselves? I will say that I find the reference to the Bible a bit odd on a firearm or firearm component but that is a debate for another day. Let’s just pray that the manufacturer politely tells New Zealand and everyone else to go find a sight that does not offend them. My understanding is that Trijicon produces the best optical sights on the market and they should use that as leverage to tell everyone else where to stick it.

One last thought, if one were to use their Trijicon produced scope to shoot In-N-Out cups for target practice which product gets condemned? Both products have Bible verse references on them that have “offended” someone but both cannot be bad if you use one to destroy the other right? Oh how silly we have become.

Just a quick note to air my frustration over the complete lack of any competitive game so far in the playoffs except for the instant classic Green Bay vs. Arizona game last weekend. Am I the only one that is starting to feel like parity in the NFL is starting to slip away or am I just a bitter Redskins fan that is tired of having to root for other teams in the playoffs?