We need to face it – the Pro Bowl, as you have noticed, stinks to high heck. Nobody plays defense, half the selected players don’t want to play and the game is more XBox then Double X Man coverage. Something needs to be done to avoid this misery any longer.

First issue – the players don’t want to go. I don’t blame them – the season is over, you can get hurt, no ramifications. It’s easy to see how they would feel that way.

First fix – I only want players in a game that care or will try. Ever watch the 4th quarter of a pre-season game? You have if you want to see guys fighting for their pro lives to get on the squad. My solution – don’t compel players to play. As much as I want to see Drew Brees, if he isn’t going to give 100% I’d rather have someone who will.

Second issue – no defense. Barely any blocking, no hard hits. The last time a guy got tackled hard in the Pro Bowl was probably the last time Lyle Alzado was in the game. (side note – cooler name than Alzado? I dunno, I like it a lot.)

Third issue – the scoreboard lights up like a Christmas tree due to lack or coverage, blitzing and pressure.

Solutions to 2nd and 3rd issues? Award points for defensive plays. I know, it’s not real football. New flash – neither is this nonsense. Give points for a QB sack give a point for making the other team punt. I don’t know how the scoring would work, but I do know that playing against a defense that doesn’t try is like lining up the Giants against my old junior high – cruel and pointless.

In n Out burger has a litany of secret menu options and ordering rules and the only people who know them are the ones on the inside – the menu is a weapons-grade-guarded secret and you can only glean info by eavesdropping or by someone at InO management pulling you into the fold.

Kinda like Scientology. Can I order my Thetan Burger double-double-animal style?

When did we reach the point where everyone says ‘literally’ 5 times in every 8 minute conversation? Please stop. Half of you aren’t using it correctly and the other half use it too often. Just knock it off.

Please, go ahead and name them the Jets. It’s a cool name.

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I just read that over the course of ‘Deadwood’, roughly 3 dozen episodes, there were nearly 3000 uses of the f-bomb (in the multiple colorful variations). Something around 100 per episode. I wonder if that is a record. I think it is, narrowly beating ‘Clarissa Explains It All’.

My fav Super Bowl prop bet so far? The

over/under

on how long the word ‘brave’ will last at the end of C.Aguilera’s national anthem? 6 seconds.

http://washingtonpostsmensainvitational.com/?page_id=45

Please go and vote for my word : PLACEBOW

For those who have forgotten and need the reminder or for those who never knew.

First Rule of Nicknames : You can’t pick your own nickname.

Second Rule of Nicknames : You shouldn’t have a nickname that someone else already has.

Third Rule of Nicknames : Using the first initial of your first name and first syllable of your last name is NOT a nickname – it is you being too lazy to say your own damn name.