Friday Night Blogrolling: Nightmare Fuel

East Coast Bias ranks out the reasons why they hate the Steelers. I'm linking to it for the Nightmare Fuel of that thing in the Big Ben underoos. Click if you dare.

Jeff Johnson, a man with whom I've appeared on camera with in a non-pornographic way, weighs in with his NFC and AFC Championship picks. They are 100% different from mine, so I now must hate him.

Simon on Sports does the math to compare this year's Joe Flacco to 2001's Trent Dilfer. It's interesting, but not nearly as much as the fact if you compare 2001's Ray Lewis to 2008's Ray Lewis. The younger man is a lot better, and ends the interview with a lot of stabbing.



Finally, The Jets Blog with this find from YouTube. Alex Trebeck is calling you out, Coach!

Epic Drop: Top 10 Ways The Patriots Can Become Even More Hated

Your list is here, and it's a fairly involved thing, complete with YouTube goodness. The clip isn't nearly as funny if you haven't seen the original Britney Fan meltdown, but your mileage may vary. More on this soon.



H/t for the clip to Deadspin.

Epic Drop: To Save The NFL Season, We Need Another Hurricane

Sharp-eyed readers will notice a certain resemblance to an infamous recent editorial by Stu Bykofsky of the Philadelphia Daily News. Having had the, um, pleasure of actually meeting Bykofsky once upon a time, I can tell you that he fulfills all of the pre-conceived notions of what a hacky journo is like... and that while he used to write kvetchy gossip columns for the PDN, he's now clearly moved on to artless agitprop.

Anyway, go read the piece and then come on back. I'm going to try to clear through a bunch of stuff today.

EmbarrASSing

So in case you haven’t heard, the Pats are suspected of violating NFL rules by video taping the defensive play signals of the NY Jets in last week’s game. A video assistant for the Patriots had his video equipment confiscated and it showed indeed that he was taping the Jets calls.

Before the season began, Commissioner Goodell warned all the teams that this type of behavior would not be tolerated this season. It’s time for the Commish to come down as hard on owners/coaches as he has on the players.

The talk is that multiple draft picks could be taken away from the Pats. That’s a good start but Goodell needs to do more. You want to hit Coach Sweatshirt where it hurts? Suspend him for a week. Not a game, a week. Meaning, he cannot be part of or present for any game week preparation for the next game. The suspension would run Sunday immediately after the game through the following next week’s game.

And just when you thought Coach Sweatshirt was the biggest ass in the Patriots organization, owner Bob Kraft had this little nugget to say,

When you're successful in anything, a lot of people like to try to take you down and do different things. We understand that.

That’s right Bob, you guys are being framed. The fact that YOUR employee was caught with YOUR camera filming something the league told YOU would not be tolerated is all a big conspiracy to take down the Pats. Stop talking and wait for Bill Simmons to write your defense, because you know he will.