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My Fantasy Football Team - Week 4

                                                                                                                             

Position	Player	Team
QB	Peyton Manning	Colts
QB	Daunte Culpepper	Dolphins
WR	Chad Johnson	Bengals
WR	Marvin Harrison	Colts
WR	Muhsin Muhammad	Bears
RB	Kevin Jones	Lions
RB	Ronnie Brown	Dolphins
TE	Jason Witten	Cowboys
W/T	Derrick Mason	Ravens
W/R	Thomas Jones	Bears
K	John Carney	Saints
D	Indianapolis	Colts
Bench	Joey Galloway	Buccaneers
Bench	DeAngelo Williams	Panthers
Bench	Heath Miller	Steelers
Bench	Corey Dillon	Patriots
Bench	DeShaun Foster	Panthers
Bench	Lamont Jordan	Raiders
Bench	Julius Jones	Cowboys
Bench	Vince Young	Titans

The mighty Grand Rapids Chumps took another defeat, now putting their record at 1-2.  So, some changes have been made.  Welcome Thomas Jones to the starting lineup and Derrick Mason is a new addition to the team.  Decided to keep John Carney over Nate Kaeding, but Kaeding is still available if needed.  This week, the Chumps play a guy who is 3-0 and is on a huge roll.  We need a miracle against McNabb and Vick.  Chad Johnson needs to step up this week as well.

Detroit Lions Tailgate

Another game, another loss.  Damn, I know I predicted the Lions going 4-12 this year, but I did expect them to be 1-3 by now.  I see good things, but they continue to lose winnable games.

With that said, we continue to show up and do our part.  We ate, drank and partied before the game.  Now, we have upped our game and brought a television.  Check it out.

Drunken Darth

Well, Darth and I are sitting here watching the Spartans wax Notre Dame, and he decides to get into the beer.  He's a Sith Lord - what am I to say, "Uh, Darth - you may want to take it easy, man." 

Heck no, I'm not saying that.  Darth has a lot of loot riding on this game, and he's already heavy into his bookie (who is not a Wookie).  So, Darth is hammered and asked if he can crash on the couch.

Here's a picture before he passed out:

My Fantasy Football Team - Week 3

 

 

 

                                                                                                                       

Position	Player	Team
QB	Peyton Manning	Colts
QB	Daunte Culpepper	Dolphins
WR	Chad Johnson	Bengals
WR	Muhsin Muhammad	Bears
WR	Marvin Harrison	Colts
RB	Ronnie Brown	Dolphins
RB	Kevin Jones	Lions
TE	Heath Miller	Steelers
W/T	Joey Galloway	Buccaneers
W/R	DeAngelo Williams	Panthers
K	John Carney	Saints
D	Indianapolis	Colts
Bench	Vince Young	Titans
Bench	Trent Green	Chiefs
Bench	Jason Witten	Cowboys
Bench	DeShaun Foster	Panthers
Bench	DeAngelo Williams	Panthers
Bench	Julius Jones	Cowboys
Bench	Thomas Jones	Bears
Bench	Corey Dillon	Patriots

Well, I won last week and as much as I hate to admit it, I did it with a kicker.  Nate Kaeding had a monster game - four field goals and four extra points.  Worse yet, I had to cut him this week as the San Diego Chargers were on a bye.  Picked up John Carney from the Saints.  Hopefully, I can pick Kaeding up off of the heap on Sunday night.  Lastly, I picked up Vince Young, as Volek was traded and Collins is stinking up Tennessee.  He only cost me a drop of Eric Moulds, and I thought he has some Fantasty potential.

Well, the bonehead Lions took it in the shorts.  Kevin Jones stink it up, while Grossman lit up the secondary.  Muhsin Muhammad had a nice game, who's also on my team, but he didn't get a touchdown.  Way to go Moose, a fine former Waverly Warrior, who's made a fine career after being called an N Bomb by (the earlier referenced) Kerry Collins while they were both in Carolina.

United Nations Dinner

Last night in Torino, I went to dinner at Max Pomodoro with some colleagues after work.  The restaurant was nice - I had a spicy penne pasta dish, and a red beer that was a bit too sweet.  While the dinner itself was okay, what I found interesting was that all five of us at dinner were from different countries.  Canada, Italy, Germany, Slovakia and the United States were all represented at the round dinner table.

What did we discuss at dinner during the evening while sitting outside?  Cuba.  Everything about Cuba is not only interesting to me, but everyone at the table is interested in Cuba.  The weather, the food, the sites, the women, the fishing and the cigars.  It's amazing to everyone that Fidel Castro is not only still alive, he's survived Russian Communism, and US presidents from JFK to Ronnie Ray-gun. 

One day, Fidel will shuffle off this planet, and perhaps the small island country will be open to the US.  What's a pisser is everyone else at the table has access to fly freely to the country, purchase cigars in their country while we're not able to.  When I flew into Frankfurt today, I looked on the Big Departures Board, there were flights to Havana. 

The rumor is that people from the US fly into Cuba and put a $20 bill in their passport, so they won't get a stamp and get their ass kicked when they return to the States.  I'm not doing that, but I will fly in there when it becomes legal. 

Being so close to Cuba when we were in Key West in the late 90's, it would have been nice to charter a boat and cruised over.  One day.

Post #99

You guessed it, it's another YouTube video.  Damn, this site is friggin addictive.  Never watched much of Mad TV, but this was my favorite skit even before I heard Artie on the Stern show.  See for yourself, the coked-up brilliance of one Mister Artie Lange.  Artie plays a Secret Service agent who is informing America's President on the events of the last five years, as the President has just woken from his latest bender.

Artie on Letterman

Okay, I am afraid that I'm going to the well a bit too often.  My last post was a YouTube video of the great Howard Stern and (not Evil) Dave Letterman.  I think that the two guys are wonderful, but Artie truly makes the Howard Stern show a laugh riot.  So, to have Artie on Letterman makes for awesome (and free) entertainment.

Artie's "Baby Gorilla" story is great.  Not as good as his "Pig on Coke" story while on Mad TV, but a solid joke nonetheless.  Beer League looks like it is going to be a hilarious movie.  While I saw, and enjoyed, Broken Lizard's Beerfest - Beer League hopefully will make its way out to Grand Rapids.  Not sure our little town will air two beer-related movies in one year, so I'll keep my fingers crossed.

 

New York's Finest

Here are a few of my favorite entertainers - David Letterman and Howard Stern.  While I'm too old to stay up and watch Letterman, I put his show on Tivo and watch it the next day.  We have Sirius, so I'm able to listen to Howard Stern.  Not only can I listen to Stern on way into work, I can also listen to Howard 100 via the Internet while I'm in Europe.

When you put the two of these guys together, it's entertainment gold.  Here is a YouTube video of the two from the 80's.

The Archives Are Back!

Amazing.  Totally friggin' wonderful!!  I was able to import my old Coach Jay Blog.  My archives are now posted on the Thurston Blogging site.  My talent is limitless.  This is on par with Howard Stern getting the thousands of hours of tapes back from NBC.

Bask in my genius!!  Who's house?  Jay's house!!  Welcome home, old posts.  Remember Sharon's awesome Christmas turkey?

32 and you're still flipping burgers?

Clerks II has been out for almost two months now, and if you haven't seen it, you should.  If it's still playing in your area.  It may have been replaced by some crap movie with Hillary Duff or Lindsey Lohan.  Get out there, you chuckleheads - plunk down your seven bucks and see the greatest movie since the first Clerks.  Or, at least since Mumford.  Anyone seen Mumford?  I have.