Archive for the ‘Stupid’ Category

Denver wins, Tebow runs, Management frets

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

Tim Tebow winning games for Denver is one of the worst things that could have happened to Elway, Fox and Broncos management. With the team near .500 the fans will have (shudder) hope of a possible playoff run. If Denver beats the jets this week they sit at 5-5. Of course, with games against the Patriots and Bills and Bears and a road game in San Diego there is no telling where the team goes from there.

Tebow, despite his leadership, seems to me to not be a quarterback of the future. In fact, he’s barely a quarterback of the present so all reference to Uncle Scrooge aside, the Bronco win streak put the front office in a bind.

If they started Tebow and the team went 0-6 under his command, they could have easily played Orton or Quinn to finish the season and looked for a free agent QB signing in the off-season. Instead, TT seems to be maintaining his fan support despite his arm. Let’s face it – he’s getting credit for the 60 yard bomb to clinch the game but fans are conveniently forgetting the 3 other times he had wide-open guys for touchdowns and either threw short or late. If Orton is QB on those plays Denver wins a laugher 38-10. Instead the balls hang like clay pigeons and the defensive backs yell ‘Pull!’ and close the gap.

As things stand Denver will likely finish 6-10 or 7-9 if they sneak up on someone. Not good enough to figure in the Luck stakes even if they wanted to and this isn’t the best year to draft a QB anyway. 7-9 would be just good enough to make people thing the TT experiment deserves another full season renewal. The TTE reminds me of most shows on NBC right now – not good enough to get good ratings or reviews but not bad enough to cancel immediately and nothing in the can to show from 8-9 pm in its place.

I am not rooting for Denver to lose, but I have for a long time been rooting for people to realize that no team in the NFL wins without something that vaguely resemebles a quarterback.

Penn St

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

I can see students wanting to rally behind their coach if they think he is being treated unfairly.
I can’t see how setting fires, turning over cars and throwing rocks is a solution to anything. How mindless can someone be?
The University decided that this was an untenable situation, that it would affect them socially, financially, morally… and they made a decision to sweep everyone associated with this scandal out. Not unclear why we should be shocked by that.
And the team cheer from his front lawn? Tacky.

Terra Nova a Nogo

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

According to the upcoming Fox tv show ‘Terra Nova’, some time in the next 100 years the pollution is gonna be so bad that we’re all gonna die. What’s the solution? We’re gonna send people back in time 100 million years and, since they will have an intimate knowledge of what not to do, the human race will be saved! Hooray!! We are saved- wait, saved? We are? How exactly? What difference does that make?

How does sending 1000 people to live 100 million ago save us now? That makes no sense. What if there’s a suddent disaster that wipes out the continent any time in 100 million years? What if there’s a diease back then we can’t cure? What if it is really cold? This is more than stupid.

I’m not going all-out butterfly effect on you, but if the pollution is bad, why not go back 100 years and stop the guy who figured out that putting lead in gas stops engine knock (and destroys the air) or putting CFCs in the freezer makes it work (and destroys the ozone layer). Why not fix the actual problem? If the problem is pollution, just go back 100 years and prevent pollution! Go back and invent the 100 mpg hybrid/solar car in 1955 and get Don Draper to promote it. Go back and take over the Presidency in 1962 and initiate every environmental reform necessary to save the rain forest. Go back strategically and un-invent every nasty thing that ruins the future.

What kind of future do we have where time travel is possible but sucking up pollution isn’t?

If you want to make a dinosaur show, just make one; this idea doesn’t track in any timeline.

Horrible Fall tv show

Friday, September 16th, 2011

The CW has a show called “H8R”.

There is a cluster of reasons to hate this show, not the least of which is the improper spelling of the show title. This isn’t ‘thirtysomething’ being different by going e.e. cummings – this is stupid pretending to be trending, and it isn’t.

Next reason – Mario Lopez as a host. How logical to have someone who is famous without legit talent host a show about other people who are famous without talent.

The premise? Famous people get a bum rap from non-famous people who go online to websites and blogs and claim, rightly so, that these famous people do not contribute to society and need to go away. The show brings the famous and non-famous together.

At this point you might think “Yeah, now the loser famous person will get what they deserve!” but you’d be wrong. The point of the show is, amazingly, to DEFEND the useless famous person. I guess it isn’t enough for idiot “I’m a Pilot” Jake from the Bachelor to ruin that show, now he’s on another show. The true test of power – devastating two networks at once.

A program primed to show us all that unfairly rich and famous people need to be cut a break. It’s the reverse of Robin Hood – the poor are brought to the rich and told to be nice to them. Screw that and screw Mario ‘Sheriff of Nottingham’ Lopez.

This show is stupid, the people on it are stupid and whomever in power that decided this idea warranted more than a discarding laugh was especially stupid. Please do not watch this show.

Who is Steele Jantz?

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

Who is Steele Jantz?

a) the cop played by Brian Bosworth in “Stone Cold”
b) the fake company Jennifer Garner worked for on “Alias”
c) the starting quarterback for Iowa State University.

Jags cut David Garrard

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

Did you see the Jags cut Garrard to save and not pay his $9 mil salary?
They will start the rotting corpse of Josh McCown at QB and make Blaine Gabbert come off the bench.

Interesting fact – 50% of the Jags roster didn’t know Josh McCown was still in the NFL, 49% mistook him for Cade McNown and the other 1% wanted to know why the team cut the guy who played Buck Rogers on tv.

Vick contract

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

Five years ago I give you these two choices.

a – in 2011 US citizens will pool their money and, after giving 40 million to charity, everyone gets a turn beating Michael Vick with a stick.
or
b – in 2011 Michael Vick will have a 100 million contract, with nearly 40 million of it guaranteed.

How many would select ‘b’? I imagine it would not be everyone.

AK v DP

Friday, August 26th, 2011

Can someone tell me the difference between Anna Kournikova and Danica Patrick?

Both are good enough at their sport to beat the average person, but not good enough to be #1 against other professionals.
Both are attractive, but not so hands-down-gorgeous that they could stop passing traffic and win awards.
Both are pleasant enough, but not so compelling or engaging that you’d have time to hear them interviewed with regularity.

Zombo, Zomba, Zombas, Zombamos…

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

What is the deal with every new thing having zombies in it? The number of movies, books, tv shows, trailers, ideas, Girl Scout Troops, Carnival Cruises… (the last two I approve of) is staggering. I admit that “28 Days Later” took zombies into a new light, but ‘I Am Legend’ featured skinny albinos that represented the infected and it just didn’t work. Most other zombie material seems pretty darn unoriginal. Moaning, limping, missing half your body…. Seen it! Walking around, unable to communicate? Heard it!

Every ‘Resident Evil’ movie – how many humans are left? Why don’t these zombies just die on their own? Just lock every human in a deep hole with some food for 2 years and wait it out. The zombies will get bored and just kill each other or join undead flashmobs or learn mime.

We’re getting to the point where there are so many zombies that actually interesting ideas like ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ get lost in the jetsam.

Final Destination…again

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

How can you have Final Destination 5? 5? What part of the word -final- don’t you get? That would be the same as making a movie called ‘The Bourne Conclusion’ and then making another movie after that. At least it made some sense then there was ‘The Neverending Story Part 2′, because, after all, the story never ends. I’d have been surprised if there wasn’t a sequel.

Final Destination has killed people with cars, planes, explosions, stabbed people, strangled people, killed kids with airgas, wires, flying shards of glass, falling from heights, being killed by something else that fell from heights and decapitated any number of ways. It’s like Mad Libs for murder.
“In the opening scene of ‘Final Destination 6′ (character name) will be feeding their pet (animal) when they slip on (any liquid) in the kitchen and land on a (sharp object) in the dishwasher. They will only be hurt, until the (kitchen appliance) falls off the counter and lands on their head.”