Gutless

From the Associated Press...

Internet auction sites that allow customers to buy and sell sports tickets have seen a surge in ticket sales for the game by Giants fans, The Star-Ledger of Newark reported for Tuesday's newspapers.

"It looks like it's on pace to be one of our top 25 events for all time. It's definitely one of our hot sellers," Joellen Ferrer, a spokesman for Internet auction site StubHub, which specializes in tickets for events, told the newspaper. "Although it's meaningless to the Giants, it's still going to be a great game to watch."

As I noted in a picks column a few weeks ago, the existence of Road Field Advantage is a growing phenomenon in the NFL, and a huge point as to why attendance at NFL games is at near-capacity.

Now, how should we take the individual decision of Giant Fan to cash in on this bonanza, rather than go to the game and root hard for the Giants second-stringers to stay in it against the Patriots first-string... in 45 degree weather with no rain...

Well, I'd probably roll on my team, too. (Let's face it: once you've cross the Rubicon of fantasy football, you've already had your team allegiance go into Le Toilette.) But that doesn't mean you won't get hated on by fans from other fan bases. BOO, GIANTS FANS, BOO!!!

This week's proof in the Beavis God

(Note: This blog's author believes in a Supreme Being that has the intellect and humor of an idiotic 12-year-old boy -- to wit, Beavis. If you disagree, please explain why Judiasm, Christianity and Islam all had to be born in the same zip code, the duck-billed platyplus, and the human knee. Holy war, Butthead. Cool. Heh heh.)

1. StubHub.com, aka eBay for ticket scalpers, bought by eBay for $310 million dollars. So the 'tards that have been killing you with fees and charges just got hundreds of millions of dollars for their genius. Capitalism: the worst economic system ever, except for all of the other ones.

2. Tony Kornheiser, retained by ESPN for MNF next year. Can they also bring back Christian Slater, send Sean Salisbury over to my house to expose himself, or would smashing my head in with a brick be enough?

3. Jason Kidd alleges that his (soon to be ex) wife came to the stadium and heckled him from the stands. And yet, the media fails to tell us what was said. I haven't felt this let down by the media since they didn't disclose what Naked Detroit Lions Coach got when he went through drive-through, and how he paid.