Opening night.
The NFL opened their season Thursday night. Although the Saints-Packers was hardly the first professional game of the year. The Canadian Football League has been going since July, and Ohio State and Miami kicked off last week.
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Some derided President Obama for his choice to finish his jobs speech in time for the NFL opener. But Barack didn’t think he could get re-elected with just the women’s vote.
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The NFL is now directing all teams to post out-of-town statistics on their scoreboards for Fantasy Football players. Guess they want fans in Carolina to be able to go to the stadium and hope to see SOME good news.
San Diego is completely without power tonight. So for Padres fans, it’s business as usual.
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Ohio State explained today why three football players were suspended for the opening game against Akron: They each took $200 at a Cleveland charity event. Responded the Miami Hurricanes -“$200? Wow. Buckeye boosters are pikers.”
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So if the Pac 12 turns into the Pac 16, how long before the West Coast members consider breaking away to form their own Pac 8?
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A Mississippi man was arrested for shoplifting while trying to leave a grocery store with items stuffed into his shorts including two live lobsters. Wonder if he was caught because he was singing soprano?
(My friend Bill Dwan adds – could be worse, he could have had crabs.)
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Ben and Jerry’s have come out with a new flavor – “Schweddy Balls,” named after the famous SNL skit with Alec Baldwin.
Insert “More than a mouthful” joke here: (And of course, other punchlines always encouraged.)
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Michele Bachman stated she felt she felt “deeply disappointed” by the president’s jobs speech and said Congress should avoid passing his plan. Fair enough, but does anyone doubt that she wrote her response before Obama wrote his speech?
(Meanwhile, no response yet from Sarah Palin. Maybe she couldn’t read the writing on her palms.)
As the NFL season gets underway, there’s a new favorite in the AFC South. The Houston Texans. By a neck.
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Okay, we all know how valuable Peyton Manning has been. But what if he turns out to have been so valuable that the Colts end up the worst team in the NFL this year…. Do they go for Andrew Luck?
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I probably differ with many Democrats in that I liked California Governor Jerry Brown’s veto of a proposed helmet law for children skiing or snowboarding. His reasoning, that while it’s a good idea, “Not every human problem deserves a law.”
Just wish that some conservatives applauding the decision would apply the same standards to issues of perceived “morality.” (Gay marriage for starters, but the list goes on.)
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Left Coast Sports Babe 
September 9, 2011 at 8:15 am
“Ben and Jerry’s have come out with a new flavor – “Schweddy Balls,” named after the famous SNL skit with Alec Baldwin.
Insert “More than a mouthful” joke here: (And of course, other punchlines always encouraged.)”
Would that be two scoops or one? Then there’s the Lance Armstrong special, no scoops. “Schweddy Balls” has a special ingrredient so it melts faster, so you quickly have to lick the cone as fast as you can – like a swirled vanilla cone melthing in August.