We're gonna have a good time tonight
Let's celebrate, it's all right
We're gonna have a good time tonight

Let's celebrate, it's all right

Cellllebraation! (Woohoo!)

This weekend Brett Favre broke another record and I have heard nary a word about it. Where's the pomp? Where's the circumstance? Why wasn't the game stopped for the ensuing celebration? Why wasn't Dan Marino doing the happy dance on CBS? It's un-American that we not celebrate every one of Favre's great achievements damn it! Momma, apple pie, turducken, and Brett Favre, that's what makes America great! I will shout it from the hills, "BRETT FAVRE IS THE ALL TIME INTERCEPTIONS LEADER!" 279 and counting. There are two kinds of DBs in the NFL, those who have picked off Favre, and those who will. Hell, this guy was picked off passing the gravy at Christmas dinner. So, grab some codeine with a beer chaser and celebrate this grand achievement.

Do you know how it feels when you've dated someone who just wouldn't let you get in her pants no matter how hard you try, and then after you dump her she goes out and sleeps with the first guy she meets? That's how I'm feeling about Drew Brees right now. Five weeks of nothing but angst, then I drop him and he turns into Paris Hilton the next week. I like Brees and I hope the New America's Team rights the ship, but why the hell did he have to wait until week six to show up?

Sunday was Oct. 14^th, a date that modern day Cubs fans remember well. It was the day we were five outs away from the World Series when the Pisser blew his top. To this day I think there was no way that Alou was going to get that ball and his temper tantrum rattled the team, broke the hearts of Cub fans, and ruined the life of Steve Bartman. Nobody ever mentions the fat man in the gray sweatsuit who was leaning over Bartman. That sloppy fool is as much to blame as Bartman. But that's not the most interesting thing to happen to the Cubs on Oct. 14.

On the Fourteenth day of October in the Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred Aught Eight the Chicago Cubs won their last World Series, four games to one over the Detroit Tigers. In the first inning of game five Cubs pitcher Orval Overall also became the only pitcher in major league history to record four strikeouts in one inning, when one of the batters he faced reached base on a passed ball.

This brings me to what I feel may be the real Cubs curse. It has nothing to do with goats, black cats, or Steve Bartman. I believe Yosh Kawano is to blame for the last 62 years of putridity. The Cubs went to the World Series in 1945, in 1946 Yosh was promoted to equipment manager and we've barely sniffed the post season since. I'm not saying he is knowingly hurting the team, maybe when he was promoted he bought a pet magwi in China Town and it's been messing with things since. All I know for sure is that there has been one constant for the last 62 years and that is Yosh.

The most impressive thing I saw this weekend was Adrian Peterson's performance against the Bears. It was the first time I had a chance to sit down watch this kid play and all I can say is he's one tough customer. In this era of football most running backs try to avoid contact either by dancing or running out of bounds, but not Peterson. This kid squares his shoulders and hits defenders before they hit him. There was one play that stands out in my mind. Lance Briggs caught Peterson in the backfield for a loss. Rather than dance around and try to avoid the inevitable Peterson dropped his shoulders and made sure that Briggs would feel the tackle as much as Peterson did. Guys like Peterson and Larry Johnson harken back to the era of bruising running backs like Jim Brown and Walter Payton. Smash mouth baby! I love it.

I have decided to no longer play attention the Bull Crap Series rankings. USC is unranked by three of the computers and Texas is unranked by all of the computers. The average computer ranking for Kansas is 8th; USC 23rd. I would love to see Accuscore run a simulation of these two teams meeting. I would say USC would win eight out of ten games. The BCS is a joke to me. Give me the PAC 10 and the Big Ten in the Rose Bowl. Give me the Special Education

Conference and the Big 12 in the Sugar Bowl. I hope we never get a playoff system especially if we have to use these convoluted formulas to figure out who's in and who's out. To hell with it keep the bowls and let the talk radios guys yell about it.

So, Taylor asked me if I could come up with an NFC team that I think can win the Super Bowl. Right now there are three teams that I think can win the AFC, the Patriots, Colts, and Steelers. The Colts can keep up with New England in a shootout, but I don't know if their defense can hold on. I think the Steelers defense can slow down New England, but the Pittsburg offense isn't strong enough. The Colts can not beat New England on the road in January. If Pittsburg and New England meet in the playoffs it the immovable object against the unstoppable force. I give the edge to New England but it would be a winnable game for Pittsburg.

What does this have to do with the NFC's chances? Everything really. If Pittsburg is the AFC representative I think the NFC has a shot, regardless who they send. If New England makes it there is only one NFC team that I think has the defense to win, unfortunately they have a rookie QB so I doubt that the will get that far into the playoffs. Hell they may not even make the playoffs. The Washington Native American Peoples are the only NFC team I feel can slow down the beast in the AFC East. Sorry Tom, I know you're a Cowboys fan, but if they face the Patriots in Super Bowl XLII it will be like watching a rerun of this weekend. So suck it up and start pulling for the Steelers my friend.

Well folks that's it for now,

Till next time, Boiler Up!