Note: Friends, I ran out of time this week, so no quiz or “Top 3.” Normally I write a lot of the weekend edition of Bar Chat on Sunday mornings but this time I was swept up like a lot of you in the 9/11 commemoration. To say the least, it was touching. You have to understand that when you live in the New York area as I do, every year we’ve had the 9/11 anniversary ceremonies and, frankly, I have done other things. But this time was different. It was as if I forced myself to watch the announcing of every victim’s name (not sure if those, say, in Texas, had the same coverage we did here), and one thing struck me most aside from how moving it was.
Whoever organized the entire ceremony, a herculean task when you consider all the different parties involved, deserves major kudos. Bless ‘em. It also looks as if the memorial itself is beautiful. I’ll be in Shanksville this Thursday.
Opening Week in the NFL
It’s late…but a hearty J-E-T-S….JETS JETS JETS!!! What a win!!! [27-24 over Dallas as Romo chokes again.]
As Sam Farmer of the Los Angeles Times pointed out, it’s not easy defending the Lombardi Trophy as last year’s Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers are now tasked with doing.
How the previous 10 champions fared the following season:
2000…Baltimore…Lost divisional playoff game
2001…New England…Missed playoffs
2002…Tampa Bay…Missed playoffs
2003…New England…Won Super Bowl
2004…New England…Lost divisional playoff game
2005…Pittsburgh…Missed playoffs
2006…Indianapolis…Lost divisional playoff game
2007…New York Giants…Lost divisional playoff game
2008…Pittsburgh…Missed playoffs
2009…New Orleans…Lost wild-card playoff game
But your editor’s Pick to Click got off to a super start on Thursday as Green Bay defeated New Orleans 42-34 behind the best quarterback in the game, Aaron Rodgers.
As I noted six weeks ago, there was no certainty Peyton Manning would be ready to come back from his second neck surgery, though officially it was being pooh-poohed at the time and it was just assumed Manning would be under center come opening week of the season.
But now Manning has had this third surgery, a cervical fusion. Peyton, please retire; though some of his doctors say there is a chance he could play again this season, with Dr. Neel Anand saying, “I do not view this as a career-threatening surgery.”
Three neck surgeries in 19 months! We aren’t talking about the knee, we’re talkin’ the neck!
Well, without Peyton the Colts were slaughtered by the Texans, 34-7, as Manning’s substitute, ancient Kerry Collins, was pretty miserable.
Elsewhere, the Steelers were mauled by the Ravens, 35-7; Michael Vick and the Eagles beat up the Rams, 31-13, with Vick having just a so-so passing game; and the New York Giants performed just as I thought they would in losing to the Redskins, 28-14. Get used to the feeling, Giants fans.
But Carolina, even in defeat, has found a quarterback in No. 1 pick Cam Newton. All Newton did in his NFL debut is throw for 422 yards. The fact the Panthers lost to the Cardinals 28-21 doesn’t seem to matter as much as the fact that Newton appears to be the real deal.
Lastly, will the Detroit Lions be the feel-good story of the year? With quarterback Matthew Stafford healthy again, you never know. Stafford played great in a 27-20 win at Tampa Bay. Huge! [Will the Thanksgiving Day game be meaningful? Wouldn’t that be fun? Not that I’m rushing things.]
College Football Review
Glad I’m not a Louisville fan. How would you like to be hosting Florida International…Florida International…and proceed to lose 24-17?!
I’d love for Pitt to be my second team, but when you beat Maine by only 35-29 at home, 7-5 appears to be in the cards.
So its halftime and you’re the coach of West Virginia, and you’re down at home to Norfolk State, 12-10! Norf— Freakin’ State! Do you think the coach of the Mountaineers was a little pissed off? I think so. Result? West Virginia outscored the visitors 45-0 in the second half.
It’s official. The Beaverwear is back in the drawer of misfit jerseys as Oregon State lost to Wisconsin, 35-0. Maybe next year, Beavers.
Alabama, as expected, defeated Penn State 27-11 in Unhappy Valley as the truly pathetic Joe Paterno watched from upstairs and it was clear from the shots I saw that his assistants weren’t listening to the babbling musings of this 84-year-old who should have retired ten years ago.
Bad sign for Rutgers fans if their team can’t take advantage of five North Carolina turnovers as was the case this weekend. The Scarlet Knights lost 24-22.
No. 12 South Carolina defeated Georgia 45-42 in a game that hurts Boise State, who had defeated the Bulldogs in Week One. It could easily be the Broncos’ toughest game and they need Georgia to perform the rest of the year or as I said last week, Boise is going to be left out of the BCS party, even if they run the table. It’s about strength of schedule.
Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson starred as he threw a 16-yard pass to Roy Roundtree with two seconds left to stun Notre Dame, 35-31, in what was the first night game at the Big House in Ann Arbor. Michigan coach Brady Hoke (who came over from San Diego State) could have elected to kick a field goal and send the game into overtime but he gave Robinson a shot. The quarterback completed only 11 passes but they went for 338 yards and four TDs, while he ran for an additional 108 on 11 carries and a score. [He did throw three interceptions.]
Meanwhile, Notre Dame, with its 0-2 start, still gets $15 million-per-year from NBCUniversal to broadcast its home games nationwide, a deal that doesn’t expire until 2015. But the ratings have been awful, because the Fighting Irish blow!!!
Needless to say, if ND wants to see a renewal, it better pick things up, and right quick, like get back into the top ten, somehow, by 2013.
Fresno State lost at No. 10 Nebraska 42-29, but get this. As many as two dozen Fresno players have been implicated in a welfare fraud investigation going back to last year with some of this year’s players pegged, but as far as I’ve seen, not yet named and I didn’t see the impact, if any, on the Nebraska game. But can the college game look worse than it does today?
Finally, after an incredible collapse up in Syracuse, my Wake Forest Demon Deacons once again got off to a big lead, 27-6 over North Carolina State, started to fold, had us fans gagging, but this time Wake hung in there and prevailed 34-27, a big win. Sophomore quarterback Tanner Price was huge; Price’s injury late last week costing us the ‘W’ against the ‘Cuse. I’d be happy with a competitive 5-7 this year. 6-6 and the drinks are on me.
New AP Top Ten Poll
1. Oklahoma*
2. Alabama
3. LSU
4. Boise State
5. Florida State*
6. Stanford
7. Wisconsin
8. Oklahoma State
9. Texas A&M…Booo…Booooo!!!
10. Nebraska
*In the only game that really matters next week, Oklahoma plays Florida State in Tallahassee, 8:00 pm ET, ABC. Break out the beer and Chex Mix, sports fans! And remember…don’t bother me during the game!
College Football’s Greatest Teams
In celebration of its 125th anniversary, which I still find hard to believe, Sporting News has come up with its Top Ten greatest teams.
1. 1971 Nebraska
2. 1972 USC
3. 1974 Oklahoma
4. 1995 Nebraska
5. 1956 Oklahoma
6. 1968 Ohio State
7. 1945 Army
8. 1961 Alabama
9. 2001 Miami
10. 1987 Miami
The 1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers were the best team I ever saw, though I’m prejudiced because I thought Johnny Rodgers was the greatest college football player from my fan years, which for me starts in earnest in about 1967 when I was nine, though I do remember the 1966 10-10 Notre Dame-Michigan State tie.
The ’71 Cornhuskers averaged 39 points per game and allowed eight. Seven members of the “Blackshirts” defense made the all-conference first team, including a pair of Outland Trophy winners, Larry Jacobson (’71) and Rich Glover (’72).
Rodgers didn’t win his Heisman until the following year, but the ’71 Nebraska squad beat the nation’s No. 2-ranked Oklahoma by a 35-31 score in Norman (the “Game of the Century”) and then wiped out the new No. 2, Alabama, 38-6 in the Orange Bowl.
Plus they repeated as national champions the following year.
As the current college season unwinds, I’ll take a look back at some of the others in the top ten.
The Lokomotiv Disaster
What a sad, sorrowful scene it must have been in Yaroslavl, Russia, on Saturday, as an estimated 100,000 flocked to a memorial ceremony for the victims of the Russian plane crash that decimated the Lokomotiv ice hockey team. Of the 43 who died, 36 were Lokomotiv players, coaches and team officials, including many European and former NHL players. You can just imagine the shock in the Yaroslavl community. This team was a source of great pride.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin placed flowers at each of the coffins and several Kontinental Hockey League (generally considered second best league in the sport) teams traveled en masse to attend the funeral.
Emotions are raw because this was clearly a preventable accident, the cause of which is not known as yet. Many, for example, blame President Medvedev, who was not at the ceremony, because Medvedev had used the home arena for an international conference, a move that forced the team to fly out of town in the first place.
The chairman of the Kontinental league, former NHL star Vyacheslav Fetisov, said each team should volunteer up to three players for a new Lokomotiv squad. He said 35 players had already volunteered.
Notable athletes who have died in plane crashes, as reported by Houston Mitchell of the Los Angeles Times.
Oct. 18, 1925…Marvin Goodwin, Cincinnati Reds pitcher. “Goodwin was one of the 17 pitchers allowed to continue throwing the spitball after it was outlawed in 1920. He died in Houston after crash-landing his plane in a training exercise with the Army Air Reserve. Believed to be the first pro athlete killed in a plane crash.” [Ed. Never knew this…Marvin Goodwin was 21-25 in his MLB career.]
May 4, 1949…22 members of the Torino soccer club, the entire team, killed when its plane crashed into a mountain near Torino, Italy, “near the end of league play in Serie A, which immediately canceled the rest of the season and declared Torino the champions.”
Oct. 27, 1949…Marcel Cerdan, former world middleweight champion, “died en route to fight Jake LaMotta in Spain” when his plane crashed in the Azores.
Nov. 27, 1956…Charlie Peete, “who won the triple-A batting championship in 1956 and was projected by some as the leading candidate to be the St. Louis Cardinals’ 1957 starting center fielder,” killed in a commercial plane crash in Caracas, Venezuela, where he was playing winter ball. His wife and their three young children were among the 25 victims of the crash.
Feb. 6, 1958…Eight members of Manchester United killed when their charter bringing them back from a European Cup match crashed after taking off from Munich.
Oct. 10, 1960…16 members of the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo football team were killed when their plane crashed after takeoff in Toledo, Ohio. 22 of the 48 on board died.
Feb. 16, 1961…The entire U.S. figure skating team (18 members) was killed on its way to the 1961 world championships when its plane crashed as it approached Brussels’ Zaventem Airport.
Feb. 15, 1964…Chicago Cubs second baseman Ken Hubbs, who was the 1962 rookie of the year as a 20-year-old and became the first rookie to win a Gold Glove as well, was killed when a plane he was piloting near Provo, Utah crashed. “Hubbs had a fear of flying, which he decided to overcome by taking flying lessons.”
July 24, 1966…Golfer Tony Lema, who won the 1964 British Open, died when a plane he chartered “ran out of fuel and crashed in a water hazard short of the seventh green of Lansing Country Club in Lansing, Illinois.”
Aug. 31, 1969…Rocky Marciano, the only undefeated heavyweight boxing champion in history, was killed when a plane he was in crashed outside Newton, Iowa.
Nov. 14, 1970…36 Marshall University football players died when their aircraft crashed into a hill just short of the airport in Ceredo, W. Va., killing all 75 on board. The tragedy was memorialized in the film “We Are Marshall.” I have vivid memories of this one when the news hit.
Dec. 31, 1972…Pittsburgh Pirates right fielder and Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente, on a mercy mission to aid earthquake victims in Nicaragua, saw his plane crash into the sea.
June 24, 1975…New York Nets forward Wendell Ladner, when his plane crashed in New York. “The crash was so catastrophic that Ladner was one of the few people whose remains could be identified, and only because he was wearing his ABA championship ring.”
Nov. 29, 1975…Graham Hill, two-time Formula One champion, when the plane he was piloting crashed while attempting to land in foggy conditions near Arkley golf course in North London.
Aug. 2, 1979…Yankees catcher Thurman Munson, killed when his plane crashed while he was practicing takeoffs and landings in Canton, Ohio. “Munson had taken flying lessons so he could fly home to see his family during the season.”
March 14, 1980…14 members of the U.S. amateur boxing team when the jet they were on crashed while attempting to land in Warsaw.
Aug. 16, 1987…Nick Vanos, Phoenix Suns center, when his plane crashed on takeoff from Romulus, Mich., killing all 154 on board.
April 1, 1993…Alan Kulwicki, the defending NASCAR Winston Cup champion, while he was returning from an appearance at a Knoxville Hooters in a Hooters corporate plane on a short flight across Tennessee before the Sunday race at Bristol.
April 18, 1996…Brook Berringer, Nebraska quarterback. “Best known for replacing an injured Tommie Frazier during the 1994 season and leading the Cornhuskers to seven consecutive wins and to the Orange Bowl national championship game against the Miami Hurricanes, Berringer died two days before the NFL draft when the plane he was piloting crashed in Raymond, Neb.” [I can’t believe this was 15 years ago. It seems like 5.]
May 11, 1996…San Diego Chargers running back Rodney Culver, when his ValuJet flight from Miami to Atlanta crashed in the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people aboard. [Now this seems like 15 years ago.]
Oct. 25, 1999…Golfer Payne Stewart, four months after his U.S. Open victory, was killed in the depressurization of a Learjet flying from Orlando to Dallas for the Tour Championship. “The plane, apparently still on autopilot, angled off-course, and continued to fly, with apparently all members aboard either unconscious or dead, until it ran out of fuel and crashed into a field near Mina, S.C.” [For those following on the news that day, just bizarre, with the ending so sad.]
Jan. 27, 2001…Oklahoma State basketball players Dan Lawson and Nate Fleming, when one of three planes carrying Oklahoma State staff and players crashed in a snowstorm near Byers, Colorado.
Oct. 11, 2006…New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle, when his small plane crashed into a 40-story apartment building in New York. Lidle was taking flying lessons at the time.
–I was watching the Rutgers-UNC football game, exchanging ACC football notes with Ken P. (as his alma mater, Duke, took on his MBA school, Stanford…Ken being a very bright lad) and Ken said I should turn on the tennis. I totally forgot Novak Djokovic was taking on Roger Federer in the U.S. Open semis, so I caught the last games of the fifth set, a dramatic win for Djokovic and a devastating defeat for Federer who was up two sets-to-none.
With the 6-7 (9-7), 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 7-5 victory, Djokovic boosted his record to a phenomenal 63-2 this season. He now goes up against Rafael Nadal, a four-set winner over Andy Murray, in the Men’s Final, Monday afternoon (4:00 p.m.) with Djokovic gunning for his third major of the year and fourth overall.
As for Federer the loss ended an eight-year streak of winning at least one major title.
As for the women, I was watching football and totally missed Aussie Samantha Stosur’s first grand slam title as she defeated Serena Williams, 6-2, 6-3 in the finals. My prayers were answered, and, Serena once again got into a dispute with an umpire and acted like the total [classless jerk] that she is.
–I actually watched a fair amount of the Sprint Cup race Saturday night from Richmond, knowing this was the final event setting up the qualifiers for the season-ending Chase. But the race was dominated by the feud between Kurt Busch and Jimmie Johnson, as they went after each other.
Busch said: “He’s got to learn how to race. He’s been able to beat the guys the last five years by outdriving them with what he has for equipment. If he wants to switch equipment, let’s see what we can do. I’m going to beat him fair and square with my Penske Dodge.”
Which is pretty freakin’ stupid, if you ask me, but then Kurt Busch often sounds and acts like an idiot.
Johnson said: “You’re going to spin me out, I’m going to spin you out. That’s part of it. I’m sure I’ll go find him and talk to him and he’ll run his mouth, and we’ll go from there.”
Busch first made contact with Johnson on Lap 186, sending the five-time champ sailing, and then Johnson went after Busch 56 laps later, diving down to nudge Busch into a spin.
Johnson was unrepentant after, while Busch, the 2004 champion, got into it with the press, two times, following the race.
Meanwhile, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Denny Hamlin, and Tony Stewart all qualified for the Chase on the final night, joining Kevin Harvick (who won the race), Carl Edwards, Johnson, Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth, Jeff Gordon, Kurt Busch, Ryan Newman and Brad Keselowski. NASCAR desperately needed Earnhardt and Stewart to qualify as they are two of the four or five highest profile drivers in the sport.
–The question in the sports entertainment world these days is, “How high can rights fees go?” After all, the networks currently pay the NFL about $3.1 billion a year, up about 35% from their last deal. The league’s contracts with CBS, Fox, NBC and ESPN still have two years to run, but ESPN just extended its deal through 2021 for $15.2 billion, or an average of $1.9 billion per season to broadcast “Monday Night Football.” ESPN had been paying $1.1 billion per under the current deal.
Why did ESPN do this? It’s not like I heard another network was looking to take over the MNF franchise.
But what really upsets cable operators is that now ESPN will undoubtedly demand distributors pay more for carrying their programming. Currently, ESPN charges cable operators $4.69 and $0.62 per month, for ESPN and ESPN2, respectively. That’s about $64 a year. And it’s going up, though ESPN says not yet.
Bernstein Research’s cable and satellite expert, Craig Moffett, points out that ESPN and ESPN2 alone account for almost 20 percent of the wholesale cost of the average pay-TV subscription – but account for just under 2.5 percent of total viewership. At what point, in this very tough economy, do people pull their cable? There’s a ton of stuff on the Net these days.
Art Modell, former owner of the Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens, said, “I think the NFL as a league should be very concerned about the costs of carrying their games getting almost obscene.”
–Forbes issued its annual ranking of the most valuable sports teams and the Dallas Cowboys are No. 1 in America at $1.85 billion, though behind Manchester United of the English Premier League, valued at $1.9 billion.
The Yankees are worth $1.7 billion, while the Washington Redskins follow the Cowboys in the NFL at $1.55 billion.
—Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins said he has still not recovered from the concussion that sidelined him last January, but maintains he expects to return to play.
“Mentally, I feel good – the last three weeks it’s the best I’ve felt so far,” said Crosby the other day. “It’s been a tough road, but retirement? No.”
Said one of Crosby’s doctors, “We’re going to introduce contact with Sid very carefully. And we’re not even close to that.”
–I didn’t note this last time, for no particular reason, but one of Wake Forest’s better basketball players last season, J.T. Terrell, left the team, and the school, after a DUI incident. It became apparent that Terrell has “a serious medical condition which requires immediate attention,” according to his attorney.
So…Wake is down to nine scholarship players, only one of whom, Travis McKie, is really any good at this point. Yet another reason why the Wake football team’s win this weekend was even bigger than an outsider would realize.
–We note the passing of actor Cliff Robertson, 88, who gave a terrific portrayal of John F. Kennedy in the 1963 film, “PT-109,” the first movie to portray a sitting president. Robertson went on to win an Oscar for his portrayal of a mentally disabled man in “Charly.”
Robertson, however, was destined to play secondary roles. His TV performances in “Days of Wine and Roses” and “The Hustler,” for example, were portrayed on the big screen by Jack Lemmon and Paul Newman, respectively.
When it came to “PT-109,” Kennedy warned Robertson not to attempt to imitate his distinctive New England accent. Robertson had no problem with that.
The movie was filmed in the Florida Keys and faced all kinds of problems, including the weather, snakes, mosquitoes, a change of directors, and script changes.
I was only five years old but I remember being taken to see it and then watched it countless times on television. It wasn’t a great movie at all, but Robertson did a good job.
Robertson’s life, however, took a strange turn. As noted by Dennis McLellan of the Los Angeles Times:
“(In) 1977, Robertson…received an IRS form for ‘miscellaneous income’ that indicated that Columbia Pictures had paid him $10,000 the previous year.
“Robertson, however, hadn’t done any work for Columbia that year and had not received $10,000 from the studio.
“After asking his accountant to look into it, Robertson learned that a check for $10,000 had been made out to him and had been cashed at a bank in Beverly Hills. The endorsed check, bearing Robertson’s forged signature, had been processed and paid out in American Express travelers’ checks to the president of Columbia Studios, David Begelman.
“After consulting his attorney, Robertson notified the local police. But after months of inactivity, he took the advice of Arizona congressman Morris K. Udall, whom he had supported in the 1976 Democratic presidential primaries, and contacted the FBI.
“ ‘I was simply looking out for No. 1,’ Robertson told People magazine in 1983. ‘I wasn’t trying to be Don Quixote. If I hadn’t done what the law required, which was to give evidence to the authorities, I would have been a party to a crime.’
“The ensuing Begelman embezzlement scandal, which came to symbolize Hollywood corruption, was chronicled in David McClintick’s 1982 bestseller ‘Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street.’
“In March 1978, Begelman was charged with grand theft and three counts of forgery….
“For his part in exposing the embezzlement, Robertson said, he was blackballed in Hollywood for 3 ½ years.”
—The 20-foot colossal crocodile caught in the Philippines last week has been given a name, “Lolong,” and officials are checking to see if it is the largest croc of its kind ever captured alive. It is a suspected maneater and was caught in a steel-cable trap and pulled from a creek. While local villagers celebrated, officials warned there could be an even bigger croc lurking in the area’s marshes.
Wildlife expert Ronnie Sumiller said, “There is a bigger one, and it could be the one creating problems.”
A saltwater croc caught in Australia is listed as the largest croc in captivity, almost 18 feet.
Saltwater crocodiles can live for more than 100 years and grow up to 23 feet in length. Lolong is thought to be 50 years old.
A three-week hunt for Lolong had been launched after villagers reported seeing it devour a water buffalo. Lolong was also suspected of killing a local fisherman who disappeared in July.
But Sumiller said that when he induced Lolong to vomit, he found no human remains – adding to the theory there is a second monster still out there. [John Lauinger / Daily News]
— A Bolivian man survived in the Amazon jungle for three days by drinking his own urine after surviving a plane crash that killed everyone else on board.
Officials had already declared all nine dead, but the search team began looking around when they found only 8 bodies. And suddenly there the guy was. [London Times]
–Dateline Sweden… “An apparently drunken moose cow was freed by emergency services after she got trapped in the fork of an apple tree in southwestern Sweden.
“The animal was believed to have gorged herself on fermented apples, and then became snagged in the tree.”
Here’s the thing. Most of us when drunk don’t slam our neck into the fork of a tree. We might do other things to or on the tree, but not that.
Alas, the moose was eventually freed and “seen resting in the neighbor’s garden.”
However, moose are perhaps the dumbest animals on the planet and for this latest display of same, I can’t help but penalize and place them No. 187 on the All-Species List, or about 40 slots worse than Man.
–Then we have the case of the tigers and a “love triangle” gone bad, not that you’ve ever seen a love triangle end up good.
“A female tiger has killed her mate at a West Texas zoo, authorities said on Friday, in a rare attack that came after months of simmering jealousy in a feline love triangle.
“Three-year-old Malayan tiger Seri killed 6-year-old Wzui in an enclosure at El Paso Zoo.”
Zoo Director Steve Marshall, no relation to former New York Giants defensive end Leonard Marshall nor former outfielder Dave Marshall, said Wzui was “very down to earth,” as he told Reuters.
The triangle was between Seri, Wzui and a 15-year-old female named Meli.
In a press statement, the zoo said: “The male tiger Wzui likes both females, but the two females don’t like each other. The girls are jealous of each other.”
So now another tiger will be transferred to the El Paso Zoo to replace Wzui for breeding purposes, Malayan tigers being extremely rare with just 500 or so remaining.
–A story in the Wall Street Journal by William Bostwick is titled:
“Eggs and a Side of…Beer? With flavors ranging from coffee to maple syrup, the right brew can be as perfect a breakfast accompaniment as O.J.”
Beer for breakfast? Now some of you are aware I like to drink a beer or two, but at least during the week never before 5:00 p.m. when I’m at home, though I have to confess I had one at 11:50 a.m. while at the Iowa State Fair.
But breakfast? Can’t say I even did that in college, except for the Yadkin River raft race, which is a different story all together. Those got kind of ugly….by like 10:30.
Anyway, now that I’ve divulged way too much information, the Journal recommends five breakfast beers.
Founders Breakfast Stout…best with biscuits and gravy.
Left Hand Milk Stout…with cereal or granola.
Firestone Walker DBA…drink with a Japanese breakfast. Gotta tell ya, the only Japanese breakfasts I had weren’t that great. [I don’t list Japan as a country I’ve visited but I have been there for one-night stopovers a few times and the breakfasts have sucked.]
Hitachino Nest White Ale…with yogurt and fruit. Heck, this could be a lunch beer, too! These days I only eat yogurt and fruit for my noontime meal.
Rogue Chipotle Ale…with bacon and eggs. Ooh baby. I’m drooling. Saturday night I micro-waved a whole package of Oscar Mayer pre-cooked bacon and had a bunch of bacon and cheese sandwiches.
Or did I just reveal too much about my personal life these days concerning this last one?
— “Don’t let the fluffy tails fool you. The Playboy Club…New Series, Sept 19, Monday’s 10/9c on NBC.”
I can virtually guarantee this one is off the air after 8 or 9 episodes.
–Finally, Miss Colombia 2011, Catalina Robayo, was warned by Miss Universe pageant officials that she needed to start making appearances wearing underwear, this after it became clear she was showing up in tiny skirts with nothing on underneath.
A source told Fox News, “Colombia had to be spoken to and told she needed to wear underpants as what she was doing was totally inappropriate. People have been pretty upset by it; there have been photos and media appearances where she has completely had her crotch out.”
[Pssst…9:00 ET, NBC, if you don’t feel like watching Monday Night Football…or, you can watch the intro of the contestants, see if she makes the first cut, and decide from there. But you’re on your own. I can’t make these decisions for you. I’ll be in Pittsburgh by then, undoubtedly at a watering hole, watching football, but had I been at home….bacon sandwiches!!!]
