Wither the Mighty Bants

With my beloved Stanford Cardinal wetting the football bed every Saturday over the past few seasons, I have lived vicariously through my wife's alma matter as they ran up the nation's longest winning streak.

Trinity College, Hartford, CT today had it's 31-game winning streak snapped by the mighty Ephs of Williams College. 31-games might have you saying, "so what, USC was right at that and I've actually heard of them". But, sports fans, the amazing thing here is that 31 wins for the Trinity Bantam Roosters spanned 4 seasons as the mighty NESCAC (New England Small College Athletic Conference) plays an eight game schedule and chooses not to send teams to post-season play.

That, my friends, is a streak in any league. Here's to the start of a new streak next week.

I Hate EA

Sorry Sam, but I now officially hate EA. It’s all fun and games (bad pun intended) until someone loses their star to the Madden Curse (see last year’s victim and some “curse” background HERE).

My beloved Seahawks will now be less one reigning MVP running back for an unknown amount of time…

Damn you John Madden and Damn you EA Sports. For the time being, Shaun Alexander “is not in the game”.

Grown-Ass Man

Sometimes I hear things and they stick with me. Other times I hear things I've read or read things I heard.

Anyway, today I was in the dermatolagist's office for my next round of hell (cauterizing small white cysts off my eyelids) and I read, because there was ABSOLUTELY nothing else to read in the office that did not have to do with gardening or hemerhoids--the Sport Illustrated cover story/interview with Jerry Porter (who, to Seahawks fans like me, might as well be the devil incarnate). In closing the article he says, "People try to make it like, If you speak your mind, you're a bad guy," his eyes gleaming. "But hell, I'm 29 years old. I'm a grown-ass man. No more lying."
And right then it hits me--that's the second time I've heard that term, "grown-ass man". Brian Cox (er, excuse me B.Cox), former NFL linebacker with possibly the only mouth on record to rival Porter's, used to use the term in his (thank goodness) short-lived stint as a sports talk host.

But then it occurs to me--I'm a foul mouth, former linebacker. If all it takes then is a big ass, then count me in. Forget about the self questioning and life challenges I'm currently wading through, I've arrived. I'm a grown-ass man.