- The
New York Jets have become one of the NFL’s best stories this season, cobbling
together a 9-5 record and pushing for a playoff berth despite a castoff
quarterback and recycled running back corps that they pulled off the scrap
heap. It’s only fitting that as the Jets make a push for the postseason in the
final two games on their schedule, they do so with another awesome story in the
fold. Joe Anderson, a man with an average name but an outstanding will to
succeed, is a down-on-his-luck receiver who was signed by the Bears as an
undrafted free agent out of Texas Southern in 2012 and played in nine games,
mostly on special teams, for parts of two seasons. An abdominal injury and
later his release by the Philadelphia Eagles prior to the 2014 season left him
balling in the Canadian Football League, but he spent this season as a
civilian, working out and seeking a way back into football. Six weeks ago, he
found his in, standing outside the Houston Texans' stadium for several days
with a sign asking for an NFL job. He Anderson posted on Instagram a picture of
himself holding a piece of cardboard box with the words, "Not homeless ...
but STARVING for success. Will Run Routes 4 Food. #Whateverittakes, #UnderDog,
#Hungry and #IBelieve.” Fans embraced his one-man campaign and the post went
viral, but it wasn’t until former Chicago teammate and fellow wide receiver
Brandon Marshall took notice that Anderson’s chance materialized. Marshall saw
the post and wrote, "Wow, this is humility right here,” adding that Anderson
was "one of the hardest-working guys I've had the pleasure of playing
with" while they were with the Bears. The Jets took the cue and this week,
signed Anderson to their practice squad. Now, the married father of two who
insists that, “It's bigger than just collecting a check to me, straight up!,"
has a chance to prove himself and earn a bigger opportunity in the league going
forward……….
- Don’t
f*ck with Canada’s true religion: hockey. There are other important facets of
life in the Great White North, namely denim, round bacon and the dulcet tones
of Bryan Adams, but nothing stirs the Canuck soul quite like puck and when an
idiot several six-packs of Molson into the tank wrecks a chance to see soccer
on ice played, that’s a big problem. The culprit in this case is an
unidentified and soon-to-be-unemployed alcoholic Zamboni driver who was
arrested this week and charged him with impaired
driving, resisting arrest and refusing a breathalyzer after he wrecked an ice
rink in Manitoba. "On his first lap he struck the gate where the Zamboni
drives onto the ice, and broke the boards and also broke pieces off the actual
Zamboni," said Martin Kintscher, manager of the Seine River Snipers bantam
team. "One piece got stuck under the Zamboni, which left a ridge on the
ice with every lap." Amazingly, when Ste. Anne authorities arrived and
arrested the man, Zamboni driver insisted that the rink was in great condition
and was subsequently found to be both a liar and extremely hammered. Officials
had little choice but to cancel the game and tell the 13 to 14-year-old boys on
the team that the driver “had issues” and “maybe he is impaired.” Maybe he’s
impaired? These kids are in junior high, which means they’re old enough to know
what a drunk person looks and acts like. It’s just sad that one of Canada’s
other loves, beer, ruined their true love for one night………
- Awards
shows haven’t mattered for pretty much as long as awards shows have existed. Those
shows have something in common with Australian
singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett, who is among the finalists for the Best New
Artist prize at next year's Grammy Awards. The 2016 Grammys will be held
Feb. 15 and Barrett will vie for the top newcomer award alongside the likes of British rocker James Bay, pop favorite Meghan Trainor, Sam
Hunt and Tori Kelly. When Barrett shows up for the ceremony, someone may want
to a) hand her photos of her fellow nominees or b) introduce her to them, because
she claims to have no clue who any of them are. "I don't know who they
are," Barnett said of her fellow nominees. "I
probably won't [check them out]. I listen to music when my friends recommend it
to me, I don't often just go out and buy a record because it was in a magazine
or it was on a list or something. So, yeah, I probably won't.” How very honest
and utterly dismissive of you, C. Why would you care so little that you won’t
even fire up Spotify and take a listen to the people you’re competing against
for a prestigious prize? “I feel like there's so much music in the world that I
haven't listened to yet that I want to listen to,” Barrett added. “You just
live in your own little bubble, like, or I do anyway... I don't know much about
anything really. I don't really follow that much.” We all live in our own
little bubble, Court, but most of us at least pretend to give a damn about the
people around us from time to time………
- Prepare
to be stunned, world. A pair of Washington, D.C. stoners have been arrested for
actions that, to understate it just a bit, showed a decidedly large lack of
good judgment. Meet Nicholas Cunningham and Evonne
Lidoff, who are somehow associated with a burgeoning business enterprise in the
District known as Kush Gods. Kush Gods, as its name suggests, is a ganja-based business
looking to carve out a niche now that possession of marijuana for personal use
has been legal in the District of Columbia since February. Cunningham and
Lidoff recently hit the streets to promote their brand and did so by dishing
out pot brownies on the streets of Washington in exchange for "donations."
The use of the word donations is essential because while a person can legally
possess the hippie lettuce in D.C. and it is also legal to grow pot and to give
it away, a pesky technicality means it is still illegal to sell the dank.
That's why Kush Gods advertised that the business accepted "donations” and
yet that wasn’t good enough for District of Columbia police, who announced that
they had arrested this enterprising THC tandem on a charge of distribution of
marijuana. Not only that, Johnny Law also seized three vehicles painted with
marijuana leaves that advertised the business, leaving Kush Gods without any
way to get around to run the business they probably are too baked to get off
the couch to work for most days of the week. Not exactly showing off your
understanding of the Christmas spirit this week, D.C. police…………
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