Random Thoughts... now with 58% more video

For all you Penn State fans out there. Just keep this in mind regarding Saturday's extremely painful loss to Iowa. Pitt beat Iowa earlier this year. God that felt good to write that... I could go for a smoke.

Now on to the rest of today's post...

In the I can't believe this is not bigger news department... ABC dumped the Phoenix NASCAR Race to ESPN2 with 34 minutes left in the race. ABC switched from a "playoff" NASCAR event (i.e. The Chase for the Cup) to, get this, America's Funniest Home Videos. I did not even know that show was still on the air. Now I am not watching NASCAR. I would rather watch paint dry than watch cars make left hand turns for 500 miles (although the wrecks are cool). But it does offer some interesting lessons... 1. Is NASCAR a major sport? Definitively it is not. Can you imagine CBS switching to 60 Minutes during the 4th quarter of a regular season game let alone Wild Card Weekend? People would burn down their local CBS affliate. It would not be a riot as much as a reasonable response by an enlightened citizenship. Hell for the President to interupt an NFL playoff game I think at least 2 major cities would have to be nuked. It might help if one of those two was hosting a NFL playoff game so that I could immediately bet the under. 2. NASCAR must suck on TV. How much of a ratings bottom feeder must you be if by switching from a "playoff game" you only lose 18% of your viewers when you switch to America's Funniest Home Videos. Now I like watching a dog on a trampoline, a dad get hit in the nuts with a wiffle ball bat and kittens on fire as much as the next guy but this show fucking sucks the big one. You mean to tell me that AFHV pulls 82% of the the views that NASCAR does? ABC and ESPN have to be paying through the nose for the broadcasting rights to this steaming pile of red-neck sports shit. AFHV is free content sent in by red-necks with nothing better to do. What is the overhead cost of doing that show 30 bucks? 3. NASCAR might be dead. If you are getting interrupted with 34 minutes left in one of your biggest events of the year for a show Bob Saget left you are in trouble.

This has more of a chance of becoming a major sport than NASCAR is right now...



This video is great just for poking fun at clip-it...

You know you miss Mike Tyson...


Best part of this video for me was finding out that Mike Tyson was once a spokes person for Pepsi... wonder what the marketing guy who thought that up is doing now. I am going to guess garbage man.

Now for a couple links...

The Five Most Terrible Sports Video Games of all time... number five blew me away. To think that Kurt Warner former grocery store stock guy gave his name to a total piece of shit video game and is now considered by some to be a lock for the Hall of Fame just kills me.

Nuclear power in your back yard? Got 25 million?

Best Buy has created a gift card that is actually a little 3.5 mm jack speaker... It is still a lazy gift idea. Target does Best Buy one better and goes digital camera.

One last video today...


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Bearcat