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Well many years ago, there was this amazing Tech centric blog that I wrote in conjunction with doing the Wisdom of the Wannabes podcast. Well one thing led to another and the writing that folks around the world loved disappeared (seriously Eastern European bots are great for inflating your sense of worth). After a slight kick in the pants from a mentor of mine, I’ve decided to wade back into writing because you all deserve this. NOTE: While I hope to write every week, especially during football season, I make no promises. So just like the blog, like our Facebook page and that way you get all the updates.Now… let’s get to it.
2016 Olympics
USA! USA! USA! Good lord, with Russia losing 66% of their athletes for a doping program that even Lance would blush at, there is literally no competition. As of writing this USA is at 82 total medals, 28 golds. Nobody else is even close. Go team.
Phelps – 28 total medals, 23 Gold medals. The man is half fish. If he was a country, he’d be in the Top 40 for all time medals. By himself. It was amazing to watch him swim and it’s a shame he may truly be retired, however he’s kicking some much ass now that retirement has to weigh on him somewhat. Guess he can retire for a few years, skipping that drug testing thing, and come back.Katie Ledecky – Yet another fish human hybrid. Her run this year and the little bit of trash talk to theRussian swimmer was fantastic.
Women’s Gymnastics Team – Who knew that the missus knew the scoring system of gymnastics? I’ve watched at least three Summer Olympics games and never knew this fact. These girls were so damn good, the last competitor could have done the robot with a backspin to Electric Boogaloo and we’d have still won gold.Bolt – He finished his sprint faster than I can type this.RIO – I think it’s time that we just pick 4 or 5 major cities and make them permanentl locations and quit this obvious rigging and bribery industry that the IOC has built. Athens… bankrupted the country. Sochi… led to an invasion of neighbor country. Rio – I’m leaning towards bankruptcy, we had green water due to someone pouring hydrogen peroxide in the water and we’ve had muggings, robberies and rapes. Welcome to the games. NFL Preseason
By the end of every preseason, every NFL fan is sick of watching meaningless games. However, there were plenty of pissed of fans when they learned that some yahoo who thought the best way to dry a turf field is with a dryer. Apparently he’s never seen a replay of any game played on turf, where you get to see the clouds of rubber puff up from beneath. Needless to say, rubber and heat don’t mix to well and the NFL’s grand kickoff was cancelled and the Colts and Packers went home. NFL Hall of Fame Game, its FANtastic .Now I tried to watch a lot of these games but I’m not going to try and pretend that anything that was seen in Week1 will translate to the rest of the Preseason, let alone the actual season. Here’s some randoms:Bears – I think Cutler’s days are numbered (copy and paste every year until he’s gone). With a new O-coordinator you knew there would be struggles but getting blanked 22-0 and gaining a whopping 130 yards of offense, probably not what the coaches were looking for.
Eagles – So you got Bradford and gave him a ton of money, then signed Daniels for a good chunk of change, then traded your 2017 draft to move up to get Wentz? Don’t get that as you pissed of your supposed starter and now you broke your shiny #2 pick’s rib (How much for one rib?)Titans – Based on this one game, look for the Titans to run the rock, a lot! Out of 56 plays, 33 were runs by Henry or Murray. If Mariota can throw, they should be able to play action the hell out of any team because they will load the box to stop these two.Niners – After the dumpster fire that the Eagles turned into, one can forget that Chip Kelly’s offense is a blast to watch at the NFL level. And one may forget that this team runs. The Texans (minus Watt) certainly did a few times. They aren’t going to win the NFC West, but they will damn sure gas the defenses they face in September. Their line’s legs will be dead by November just like Kaepernick’s MVP career.Rams – Hey we sold 90,000 seats to a preseason game and won! Hey, when this team is 3-7 there will be tarps all over this stadium hiding the empty seats. And remind me why the GM and Jeff (7-9) Fisher are getting extensions before the season? Sure he looks like Magnum PI’s younger cousin butyou gotta have a winner in LA.
Cowboys – Wow. I still have the same strategy that Jerry has when it comes to analyzing this team, literally none. However, Jerry or Stephen may have made a heck of a pick with Dak Prescott. Playing with the 1s, he certainly looked great. And even after his brain fart of delay of game, then sack, he still made the right play to finish the half and setup a Baily field goal. Just think, when (not if) Romo goes down this year, there may be someone behind him who can play. He’s a rookie thought so not getting too excited.Drug Suspensions – I think almost ¾ of the 32 teams now have one if not more players suspended for the first 4, 8 or TEN games. And Bills just got popped while writing this. Good lord.Ok that’s it for this first Nugget. Next week will still be NFL heavy, but there’s always a chance some SEC coach will do something, Briles will get indicted or the Big12 will add 24 teams.
Wreck ‘em.
