The Blog is Dead? Long Live the Blog!

Folks,

I would like to redirect you all to our NEW YouBeQB blog. Same great content you’re used to, with half the fat and calories.

We’ve changed blog providers, and you can find us here:

http://youbeqb.blogspot.com

This will be the very last post here at the WordPress site.

There will still be a link on the main YouBeQB home page, but I know that hundreds of you (nay, thousands) must have bookmarked this page – so I didn’t want you wondering where I had disappeared to after you checked this page every diligently, hoping… pining for a new post from me.

I know how you feel – I feel the same way, hoping that the Keebler elves will do the posting for me, and when I wake up and check the blog, that a brand new entry will have  been written while I was blissfully sleeping the sleep of the stupid.

—JohnnyUnitas (see you at the new place)

A Sprinkle of This, a Dash of That, and a Soupcon of the Other

• Don’t know if any of you caught this great article from Dennis Dodd, who is a writer for CBS Sportsline. It’s a terrific essay on why there have been so many upsets in college football this season. I learned a lot, but then again, I learn a lot from doing the maze game on the back of my Lucky Charms box.
• From the “Welcome to the YouBeQB Top-10 Leaderboard” File: Pretty amazing performance by the YouBeQB player known as ‘MBrum‘ – now ranked #8 on the Overall Leaderboard. What’s so amazing about this, you ask? MBrum has managed to amass more than 41,000 points by playing only *18* games. That’s astounding, especially when you consider some of the folks at the top of the list have cranked through 150 games or more. MBrum must have hit a bunch of ‘accelerators’ by correctly predicting a long string plays – and his (or her) % Correct sits at a sparkling 44%. I’ve sent fan mail, and even asked for some pointers, but MBrum won’t return my emails and I heard a rumor that MBrum is looking into a restraining order against me. I can’t help it – I just want to show my admiration; I’m not trying to be a stalker.

• Pretty impressive stuff: the 6 sacks that Giants defensive end Osi Umenyiora recorded against the Eagles last week were the most by a single player in the NFL since the late Derrick Thomas tallied 7 against Dave Krieg and the Seahawks on Veteran’s Day 1990. Umenyiora is a beast and he put on a clinic against young Winston Justice.



• In a related story, Osi Umenyiora’s name sounds so ethnic that, immediately after the game ended, Angelina Jolie filed a petition attempting to adopt him.
• I read a story in the newspaper recently that contained an interview with Michael Flatley (the Irish jig, ‘Lord of the Dance’ guy). Dude had been out of the news for a while, so the interviewer asked him what he had been up to lately – and Flatley responded that he had just suffered through an extremely difficult divorce. Alright, I’ll ask: You mean to tell me that guy is straight?

Things to Avoid

Let’s begin the latest blog entry with this — Memo to the University of West Virginia athletic department: These two guys should probably find someone else to sit between them on the bench:

While I have you all here (is anyone out there? Help a brutha out) – I thought it would be time to give some recognition to a YouBeQB player who simply has shown us what NOT to do, when playing along on YouBeQB.

YouBeQB member ‘I Am McLovin‘ has attempted to predict 64 plays, and the percent next to his name: 0%. That’s difficult to do, as I have opined previously, but the thing I think is hilarious about McLovin is that if you take a look at his stats down at the bottom of his profile page, you can see that his ‘Trick Play’ percentage is 100%! This means that his % Correct # is not technically zero, but rather he somehow made one correct prediction of a trick play at some point, which I am endlessly entertained by.

Show me some simple grade-school magic tricks, or shiny bits of foil or metal, and you can keep me amused for hours.

So, ‘I Am McLovin’ — I salute you! Keep up the (not-so-great) work. And by the way, I love your name, and let me include a picture of the real McLovin – because that’s how we roll.

(One final note, as I wish you all a good weekend – make sure you don’t make the same mistake I did, which is to type the word ‘mclovin’ into Google Images. I did so in order to find the picture above, but it brings some disturbing results. There are some sick people in the world, and I’m not one of them.)

Week 4 – News & Notes

* Totally unconfirmed, but I heard a rumor that Osi Umenyiora sacked Donovan McNabb twice this morning while Donovan was picking up his newspaper off the driveway.

* Exhibit #247 why I don’t gamble on NFL games:

Cardinals 21

Steelers 14 (Final)

I have no idea by how much Pittsburgh was favored going into that game, but I’m sure it was a lot. And I’m sure a number of gamblers lost a lot of dough on that game.

* If Tony Romo ever ends up going to the Hall of Fame, certainly one of the plays on the highlight package they put together will be that snap that went over his head, he kicked another 20 yards backward and then he picks it up, jukes a Rams defender out of his underpants and runs 37 yards with it. One of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen. And I hate the Cowboys – but I like Tony Romo because of these four reasons: (1) he makes clutch plays like that; (2) he’s going to end up completely screwing over Jerry Jones in their contract negotiations because Jerry was arrogant enough to wait on giving him his money, and now it’s going to cost him big time; (3) Romo hooks up with hot Texas girls like Jessica Simpson and Carrie Underwood (allegedly); and (4) Do I really need a fourth reason? Those first three were pretty good, IMO.

(By the way, make sure you check out that crazy scramble of Romo’s on YouTube before the NFL lawyers make them take it down).

* Don’t know if any of you watch NFL Game Day on the NFL Network – I’m not sure WHY I like it when Deion calls his ex-teammate, Raven kicker Matt Stover, by the nickname “Sto-Diddy”, but I like it a lot.

* From the ‘You Stay Classy, San Diego’ File: Is this what Chargers management gets for firing Marty Schottenheimer after a 14-2 season? Not just firing him, but waiting until deep into the offseason, long after all of the ‘good’ head-coaching candidates had already lined up other jobs and the Bolts were forced to take a flyer on recycled Norv Turner. Listen, you can say that Schottenheimer was the a great regular-season coach, and the worst playoff coach ever, but I would say the same thing about Norv Turner, but I would change it to read: great offensive coordinator, worst head coach ever.