- Ever wish professional athletes could just speak the truth
and not have to lie for the sake of keeping up appearances? If they could, then
Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins would not be selling the line of
absolute bullsh*t he’s trying to pawn off on the world in the wake of his latest
postgame shouting session. Cousins famously yelled, “You like that? You like
that!” after a big win last season, one that went a long way toward silencing
doubters who wondered whether he was a viable NFL starting quarterback. Yet
after last season, when he wanted $20 million per season in a new contract, the
Redskins' best offer was $16 million and he’s playing this season under a
one-year franchise player tag because the two sides couldn’t agree on a
long-term deal. One of those who wouldn’t give him the contract he wanted was
general manager Scot McCloughan, who just so happened to be the target for
Cousins’ newest rant, one in which he stopped and shouted, “How do you like me
now?" at the GM before tussling McCloughan’s hair as he kept running into
the tunnel. That came after throwing for 300-plus yards and three touchdowns in
a primetime win over the Green Bay Packers and it would seem like the perfect
time to get in the face of someone who clearly didn’t believe in you - at least
not the way you wanted them to. Yet Cousins insists that there is no underlying
motivation for his shouted words. "No, there's nothing," Cousins
said. "I was just excited coming off the field with emotion. I would
prefer for that to happen with no cameras and no microphones. We're both
competitors who want to win desperately and both feeling great in that moment.”
It’s a professional response, but one no one is/should be buying………
- Sometimes, morons are difficult to spot in life. This is
not one of those times. No, the world can clearly identify William Edwards as
swimming in the shallow end of the gene pool given that he a) was leaving a
trip club at 2:15 a.m., b) got behind the wheel of his Ford pickup truck while
intoxicated, c) drove away with the door ajar and fell out of the truck, d) ran
over his own leg and e) crashed into a nearby home, injuring a woman inside.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Edwards was leaving the Dance Royale
Club on Old Cheney Highway early in the morning despite the fact that club security
said they had warned Edwards not to drive because he had had too much to drink
and in a shocking turn of events, the night went sideways in a hurry. Before he
could even make it out of the parking lot, Edwards fell out of the truck, which
rolled over his legs, continued traveling across Old Cheney Highway and crashed
into a house. A woman audacious enough to be asleep inside her own home at 2:15
a.m. while living within drunk-driving distance of a strip club where lecherous
drunks hang out was injured, although fortunately her injuries were not serious
enough to necessitate a trip to the hospital. In his final brilliant decision
of a regrettable evening, Edwards ran away from the scene of the crash without
reporting the crash, but authorities were able to identify and arrest him
because he left his driver’s license at the club. Oh, and because he left his
truck lodged in the side of a house, so there’s that too. All in all, it’s
another on the exhaustive list of reasons not to ever visit a strip club at any
point in your life…….
- Thanks for the publicity grab, Fall Out Boy. Because make
no mistake, that’s precisely what reissuing two of your early albums next month
not long after announcing that your merry band of pop-punksters will be working
on new music is and nothing more. Bassist Pete Wentz told the crowd during the
band’s set at Reading festival that FOB will be “back with new music,” which is
a sobering promise that Reading attendees that they may be subjected to songs
like ‘Sugar, We’re Goin Down’ and ‘Dance, Dance’ again. As for those reissues
albums, FOB will seek to grab both extra cash and more publicity by
re-releasing ‘From Under The Cork Tree’ and ‘Infinity On High,’ with both
albums dropping - for a second time - on vinyl next month. The vinyl aspect is
nice tip of the cap to hipsters who want to add a mediocre album from a
forgettable band to their vinyl collection they use to impress their fellow
hipsters at their hipster parties stocked with obscure craft beers, but
reissuing a pair of albums from a decade ago isn't really going to generate
much of an actual impact. The most recent FOB album, ‘American Beauty/American
Psycho,’ was released last year and turned out the usual supply of
radio-friendly, teeny-bopper pop-punk anthems for which the band has become
famous. Wentz said at Reading that the show would be the last one primarily
featuring songs from the new album, after which he made the threat/promise that
new material would be on the way soon. But before then, world, enjoy a couple
of albums you heard and got tired of 10 years ago……..
- Russia is pushing its incendiary chips to the middle of
the table and staking its claim, daring Japan to do a damn thing about it. According
to the Russian military, Moscow has deployed new anti-ship missiles on Pacific
islands that are controlled by Russia but also claimed by Japan in the process taking
time off from trying to (allegedly) rig American presidential elections to
stick a massive, communist middle finger in the face of the Far East. The
official military mouthpiece of Russia's Pacific Fleet reported that Bal and
Bastion missile systems have been stationed on the islands, called the southern
Kurils by Russia and the Northern Territories by Japan, in what can only be
described as a deliberately provocative move. The long-running dispute over the
islands, seized by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II, has remained
such a hot-button issue that it has literally prevented the two nations from
signing a peace treaty formally ending their wartime hostilities. This move
probably won't help matters, but it should make for excellent conversation when
Russian President/dictator Vladimir Putin visits Japan next month. Then, Putin
can explain why he chose to drop a metaphorical bomb directly on top of Japanese
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s recent pleas for progress in the territorial
dispute……..
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