Video Bites: NFL Championship Picks

The January 22nd edition of the JustSON Video Bites. That's right, bite-sized videos!!!!

Reasons why you're still single... Brett Favre jersey

Bet you these guys are reeealllyyyy happy they threw down a hundred bucks for these jerseys. Good for them.

Football fans are posers

The MLB opens the 2009 season today with Atlanta taking on the defending World Series champions Philadelphia Phillies (which sounds really weird, actually). No doubt that hardcore baseball fans are absolutely going bonkers and if anyone pukes on your lawn today its because somebody played the Bud Selig drinking game while watching the opener.

Now that being said, I know a lot of football fans that scoff at baseball as if it should be a sport that retirees play. Please.

Everyone loves football. Everyone talks about it. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's the best sport - just the most popular - it's just really easy to talk about football because the games are once a week, you only have to track 16 games, and you can refer to a few key players on your roster and then throw out some "the team" statements and congrats - you're now talking sports out your butt.

That guy that always seems to "miss" the games of his favorite team (as in he doesn't really give a crap about sports, but he wants be able to fit in with his buddies) can always watch the highlights and talk like he's been a season ticket holder for years. That's just the way football is - it's built and catered towards the casual fan.

Now baseball - that's a sport you have to have dedication and moxie to follow. There's 162-games to follow, with them being played every single day. Run across somebody that can talk baseball and you've got yourself a serious fan.

Meanwhile casual football fan will start sputtering after a while and confuse Curt Warner with Kurt Warner...

I'm convinced that football is only the most popular sport because it's the most convenient of sports. So the next time I see a guy wearing a Giants jersey and a Jets hat in Northtown, I'll let him know a piece of my mind.

$10,000 Snowball

It appears that Shaun Ellis of the New York Jets has a little less money to spend this holiday season after being fined $10,000 by the NFL for his actions after their game Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks.

As the Jets were leaving the field after being defeated by the Seahawks some of the fans were throwing snowballs at the players and personel. Ellis decided to join in on the fun by grabbing a large snowball from a pile that had been plowed from the field and hurl it into the stands at some of the fans.

This isn't the first time the NFL has witnessed a snowball fiasco.



After being interviewed today Ellis stated, "It was all in fun"

This is another incident involving Ellis that has gotten him into some trouble after he was arrested for speeding and possession of marijuana last month.

Action picks up at the 35 second mark

Strike up the GIT-TAR!

I've been having a music crisis lately. My iPod absolutely sucks and while driving around, most of the stuff I listen to is sports talk radio, which is enough to make me feel like grabbing a ham sandwich and talking about the New York Jets. I mean what kind of music is good to listen to anymore?

Rap -- Three letters... E.W.O. ... nuff said. If you don't get the joke, remember the movie "Kill Bill Part Two" where Uma Thurman gets shot in the chest with ground salt? That's the current state of rap right now. If I can have my own rap song, you get a picture of the wonderful state of the art form at the moment.

Emo-punk rock -- I have every one of these cds in a world. But, how many songs can you listen about a sexually confused singer whining about their girlfriend? A lot apparently. But what if you're single? What the hell do you complain about then?

Rock -- There hasn't been a good rock song since the 1980s.

Anthing coming out of Seattle -- Actually without the Pacific Northwest in the early 1990s, we probably wouldn't even be listening to music right now. We might just have a bunch of Rush Limbaugh on our iPods.

Pop -- Actually, wonderful stuff. Now if Brittney Spears can just find a way to get pregnant again.

But really, popular music has ran into a big stinkhole of creativity, and everytime i turn on the FM radio, my ears start to feel like Tiger Woods' knee during the US Open. And today's musicians really kind find anything better to do except complain, which when you're making millions of dollars... is annoying.

Luckily there's hope. I'm switching my music genre to perhaps an unpopular form of media among my peers. Country music is not only upbeat, but also patriotic. It's also catchy. If you don't like country music you're unamerian, or you probably don't actually work for a living. But hey, keep listening to that five-year old mix CD in your car since nothing any better has come up in that same time period.

I'm getting my cowboy hat sized tomorrow.

Epic Photo: At least he isn't wearing a fur coat

God, this is weird.

Brett Favre on the New York Jets? This is like when you go back to your hometown and they've torn down a familiar building and put up a Starbucks.

I don't know if there's anyone I can be mad at in this situation. Brett Favre retired and then decided he wanted to come back and play (hey, Michael Jordan did it twice). The Green Bay Packers had to rebuild for the future sometime and we're probably tired of getting jerked around each season with retirement talk from Favre and then having him come back. They drafted Aaron Rogers for a reason and need to get the ball moving on that era.

You coach, run and draft for your team with a plan in mind and the Packers have been in limbo for a couple of years. So even if you're a Favre fan you've got to understand where they're coming from.

However, could they have handled it differently? Sure. So could Favre.

But they both stared each other in the eye until somebody finally blinked. Who blinked is still up to interpretation, though.

You've got to love that Favre still wants to play, although if any other player pulled this, he'd probably get torn apart by the media. I just hope this doesn't become...

Johnny Unitas to the San Diego Chargers
Jerry Rice to the Seattle Seahawks
Emmit Smith in Arizona
Michael Jordan in Washington (oh yeah, I went there)

This may end up being like Joe Montana in Kansas City, which wasn't a complete bust and does nothing to tarnish his legacy.

However with the Packer gold gone from Favre's jersey, I would dare say that has already happen to some extent.