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Feb42011

Super Bowel Preview (Copyright Infringement Avoided)

Welcome to TCM’s official preview of the 2011 Super Bowl provided by your favorite sport’s guy Dr. Dave who has, in four weeks, worked his way up to the ranks to become Captain Short Bus. I pictured the Capt. Short Bus part spoken loudly and with lots of reverb and an explosion sound effect behind it. If you didn’t hear it that way please go back and reread it.

killthecat Super Bowel Preview (Copyright Infringement Avoided)

Anyways, let me start by apologizing for the lack of a column last week. In addition to the lavish Captaining ceremony we at TCM had in my honor my cat got my neighbor’s cat pregnant so I had to perform a late-term abortion in my basement using a coat hanger and some shitty vodka. About halfway through it actually turned into a bloody cat disposal mission and an anonymous apology letter. It turns out the whole thing was a complete waste of time because my cat is neutered…and also a girl. Anyways this brings me to another failed abortion (mmm…delicious segue) also known as the Pro Bowl. A couple of years ago the NFL figured out that no one was watching the Pro Bowl and they figured that this had to do with the game being the weekend after the Super Bowl. They reckoned that following the Super Bowl no one gave a flying fuck about football in general. So, in a fit sudden onset Downs’ syndrome they moved the game up to the weekend before the Super Bowl, traditionally used by John Madden to masturbate in marathon fashion to old photos of Brett Farve. Yay! Shockingly this has not increased viewership. I guess that’s because the Pro Bowl is a watered down pussification of football as a whole and is thus much more disappointing than one could possibly imagine. So what’s wrong with the game you ask? Well for starters members of the league’s two best teams (i.e. the Super Bowl contenders) don’t play in the Pro Bowl anymore so, fucking awesome! Now I don’t get to see Aaron Rodgers or Greg Jennings. I am also deprived the privilege that is seeing Ben Rothlisberger rape a lucky fan under the bleachers during halftime. James Harrison and Troy Polamalu are also out as well. So now I also miss seeing a member of the NFC team get decapitated. Not that it matters because of complaint number 2 which is that like in so many other All-Star events (NBA, NHL, World Ping-Pong Assoc.) defense is essentially forgotten during the Pro Bowl. So why the fuck do we vote them in anyways? I want to see the best players in the game play against one another and by not playing defense they eliminate half of the game. Goddammit I want to see someone get crushed! The worst part about all of this is that even the players know that they aren’t going to get hit hard so they play like a bunch of pussies. If we want to see a game that is entirely offense why don’t we just start electing the worst defensive players to the Pro Bowl because at least that way the defense will still try a little while they are getting shit on. But since the offense’s guard is down the Pro Bowl would be the perfect time for some angry motherfucker to just lay out a quarterback during his 12-step drop and put him into a coma!? It won’t happen though because no one is old school anymore. Remember Pete Rose? This motherfucker wanted to win every game he played, including the All-Star game. Do any of you remember (or remember hearing about) when Pete Rose eviscerated that catcher during the All-Star game back in the late 70’s? That was awesome! He fucking ended that dude’s career in order to win an exhibition game and when he was questioned about it he said he was “just trying to win the game”. That’s why Charlie Hustle was the best. He didn’t fucking care about your feelings, he played to win the game. The world needs more Pete Roses these days…well, minus the degenerate gambling addiction. Point of fact: Pete Rose was so inspirational to young Americans that nearly every retard in this country sports his haircut to this very day.

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Jan212011

NFL Playoff Predictions – Round 3

If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. Another gem from Dr. Dave:

Happy Friday everyone! It’s time for another rousing episode of “Dr. Dave doesn’t know shit about football”. Holy shit Jesus! You’d think that by sheer accident I could get one of these fuckers correct. It’s been a long week and I am not going to waste the time analyzing last week’s games. You either saw them or you didn’t and you certainly aren’t coming to TCM for in depth analysis of anything except maybe tits or some random article from Captain Yar about mythical monsters. I watch Monster Quest, Mystery Quest and Destination Truth religiously and I haven’t heard of half of those shit demons that he was talking about in that article. Although, I did crank one out to the picture of that vampire-bat-lady cunt thing.

Like I said, it has been a long week. For instance today I spend half of my afternoon trying to remove an object from a man’s asshole. For the life of me I have no idea how that man got a ¾ of a plunger handle in up his turd cutter, nor do I know why that other guy just stood there watching me try to get it out of him for an hour. I guess it was a public restroom though. Either way I didn’t spend six years in graduate school earning a Ph. D to remove shit covered plungers from strangers’ asses. But what am I supposed to do when I walk in and he is just standing there looking at me as if to say “Oops, I got a plunger in my ass”? He did buy me a nice lunch afterward, I just wish he didn’t insist on us sharing a big pile wings and that he washed his hands after the whole bathroom scene. So, I am going to keep this short this week. Besides, it doesn’t matter what I type the opposite will just come true anyway.

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Jan142011

NFL Playoff Predictions – Round 2

Well apparently Dr. Dave’s crystal ball is broken. Since he’s a doctor, I hope he can get that fixed. Here’s his ramblings for round 2, or “Big Boy week”, in the illustrious NFL playoffs:

Well I am just going to come right out and say it…I was wrong…wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong. Do you understand how hard it is to be wrong about all four games in the first round of the playoffs? I mean how the fuck does New Orleans lose to Seattle? I heard all the shit like “Well New Orleans has never won a road playoff game” and “Seattle was riled up about all the negative press”, but that is the kind of dog shit they always say about games like this. They do it because they have testicles like Barry Bonds following years of anally injected horse steroids and the backbone of Christopher Reeves (not the metal bar, the broken hunk of shit that had to get repaired so he could breathe and look humanoid) and cannot make the gutsy call. So they say shit like that so that they can say “I told you so” after the upset of the year. Of course the Saints have never won a road playoff game. Until last year, when they were the #1 seed and had home field advantage, they sucked and every playoff appearance they had was more accidental than the birth of Trig Palin. The bottom line is that the Saints blew this game, big time. I mean the Saints defense made Marshawn Lynch look like Barry Sanders out there! So if any one of those announcers can look you in the eye and say he predicted the Seahawks victory with a straight face fucking murder him because his an emotionless sociopath who has no moral compass and can lie without experiencing emotion. Seriously, you would be doing the world a favor because he is likely going to take out a bus full of school children just to “see if he can feel anything” and then get sent to some cushy psych hospital after copping an insanity plea. Or maybe he’ll just shave his head and shoot a nine year old girl, a judge and a congresswoman at a supermarket…too soon?

Now the next game I am going to take a little bit of credit for, because well, I need to get something positive out of this weekend. The Jets-Colts game was probably the best game of the weekend as I predicted. The Jets defense played very well and held Peyton Manning to only 16 points. And hell…Nick Folk even made a field goal. However, I’ll be up front and honest, I didn’t see any of this game except what was shown on SportsCenter because I caught a nasty virus this weekend and instead of watching this game I was in the bathroom with vomarrhea. What’s vomarrhea you ask? Well vomarrhea is when your body just completely gives up and says fuck it, you deal with it. So you go to the bathroom and a shit a stream of pure brown liquid out of your ass which is only interrupted by the occasional release of Kix-sized terds with the consistency of soggy Mini-Wheats. I am aware I made two cereal references there and I know the consistency because I play with my stool. I am a doctor, I am curious about these things. Also, this semi-viscous fluid that comes out of your intestines does so with such force you are required to wipe not only your raw, bloody rectum, but also both of your ass cheeks and your lower back (and one time neck). But it doesn’t end there friends, oh no. While this is happening you also have to vomit. Partly because of the smell, but partly because your body doesn’t know what to do with the bacon and cereal you ate for breakfast thinking that the body aches and nausea were just the signs of a common hangover. Wrong! So yeah, I was wrong. The Jets won.

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Jan72011

NFL Playoff Predictions

Let’s face it – Captain Yar IS TCM. I say this with no sarcasm or regrets. Yar embodies the essence of what we like to talk about which is most certainly the randomest stuff we can find on a daily/weekly/monthly basis.

Me, well if you viewed TCM as a family tree, I’d be having the most sex. Yes my friends, I can take credit for convincing fan favorites such as Flintheart and Sketch to join. I can also be held responsible with what was the tenure of Fuerza and the wild rantings of frequent commenter Calico Jack. Shit happens.

I’m going to stay true to my lazy approach in having other people write for me as I introduce a new contributor – Dr. Dave. In a ship full of Captains, we need a doctor and Dr. Dave is just as sick and twisted as rest of the crew. For short, Dr. Dave has nipples, but no aureoles. He drinks Mike’s Hard Lemonade as his drink of choice and considers it a manly drink after one of the commercials he saw told him it was. Dr. Dave also enjoys Chia Pets, mustaches, and animated Japanese porn.

Enough for now about Dr. Dave. He’ll be covering the coveted NFL Playoffs for us. Here’s his first official rant:

This year at the office Christmas party Captain Polish got unusually drunk and started face fucking our stuffed replica of Sam the Eagle. This blasphemy soon led to a hostage situation whereby Captain Polish agreed to remove his member from Sam’s mouth only if several of his demands were met. Needless to say due to his extreme state of inebriation most of his demands were either unintelligible or unrealistic; mostly because Cherry Merry Muffin is not a real girl and even if she was I doubt she would allow Captain Polish to use kielbasa and sauerkraut in any of the manners that he alluded to. However, he was finally convinced to cease his carnal activities after it was agreed that he would be allowed to pick the new sports writer for the Captain’s Memos. Unfortunately since his first three choices: (1) the Hamburgler, (2) “Colonel Mustard in the library with the pipe” (he seriously only referred to him as this…multiple times) and (3) Lance “you know the bicycle guy with one ball” [Armstrong] are either not real or will not return our calls, emails or even acknowledge the flaming bag of shit we left for him on his door step, you all are stuck with me, Dr. Dave, and for this I am truly sorry.

I figured that for my first article I would try to stay topical and talk about the upcoming NFL playoffs. This year’s playoff picture reminds me of a photo from a large family reunion. As always there are the successful family members. You know the ones that left home to become doctors or lawyers or accountants; the real winners. These are represented by teams like the Patriots, the Saints, the Steelers, the Eagles and even the Falcons to some extent. In addition to these guys you have the successful, but not too flashy uncles and grandparents. These guys didn’t go to college, but they made a good living as plumbers or electricians. Maybe life didn’t always go their way but they worked hard and busted their ass every day to get where they got in life and are damned proud of it. I see the Bears, the Ravens, the Packers and the Colts in this light. You also have those annoying cousins; you know the ones that are always one step shy of fucking everything up but always seem to come out smelling like roses? I am looking at you Jets and Chiefs. The Jets tried like hell to miss the playoffs this season but unfortunately had easy games against the Browns and Bills which got in the way of their plan for totally fucking this season up. You also have the Chiefs coming off of a 31-10 anal raping in week 17 leaving them to drag their pink sock behind them as they enter the playoffs. Finally, everyone has the one retarded guy in the family. He’s 23 years old and has never shaved, yet somehow only has a mustache thick enough to make the cover of Panel Van Enthusiast and scare children at the playground. He shows up to every reunion with his Moe Howard haircut wearing elastic wasted jeans and drooling on fucking everything. And this year that pudding head is the Seattle Seahawks at 7-9…are you fucking kidding me? So without further ado let’s get to the match-ups…

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Aug32010

Better luck next year (already).

The NFL season is fast approaching, and even though were barely into august, there’s already plenty of teams that have absolutely no chance to get to the Super Bowl. Such a feat! Let’s run them down:

nfl logo Better luck next year (already).

Buffalo Bills – What a disaster. After being passed up for their coaching vacancy by Jon Gruden, Mike Shanahan, Bill Cowher and Marty Schottenheimer, Buffalo owner Ralph Wilson setttled on….Chan Gailey? You bet! Chan Gailey was last seen being fired by the Chiefs (!) before the 2009 season started. They were 24th in DVOA last year, and even though Perry Fewell performed admirably in his 7 games after Dick Jauron got canned, Buffalo cleaned house. Somehow or another they passed up Jimmy Clausen to draft another running back in C.J. Spiller, even though they already roster breakout back Fred Jackson and troubled-but-still-talented Marshawn Lynch. Yikes.

Cleveland Browns – When you go a season with Derek Anderson and Brady Quinn at the helm of the offense, and then dump both of them for an old and decrepid interception machine in Jake Delhomme, you’re already fucked. Sorry, Cleveland! But hey….Josh Cribbs!

Detroit Lions – Is it really necessary for me to summarize in a paragraph why Detroit has no chance at making the Super Bowl, or even the playoffs for that matter? The Lions in 2009 actually managed a lower DVOA than their winless 2008 campaign with a -50.7%. Here’s how bad that is: Buffalo and Cleveland finished the year with a -9.3% and -23.3%, respectively.

Oakland Raiders – As long as Oakland keeps drafting Darius Heyward-Bey over Michael Crabtree, they will never sniff the Super Bowl. JaMarcus Russel was arrested in the off-season for possession of Codeine Syrup (of  ‘sipping on some sizzurp’ fame) and promptly released, thus solidifying him as the biggest bust in draft history. The Raiders are a mess, their coach punches out assistants, and when Jason Campbell is an upgrade at quarterback, you might as well just root for someone else, Oakland fans. I’m giving you a free pass this year. Their 2009 DVOA was -32.9%, which makes Detroit look so much worse. To celebrate Oakland’s inability to be a decent franchise anymore, I give you a picture of Al Davis.

image.axd?picture=2010%2F5%2FAl Davis 1 Better luck next year (already).

St. Louis Rams – Can anyone name a St. Louis Ram other than Steven Jackson? Sam Bradford doesn’t count and Marc Bulger and Torry Holt are gone…that’s what I thought. 2009 was the third year in a row the Rams put up a win total that was lower than the year before. How many wins did the Rams have in 2007, you ask? THREE! Since 2007, they have fewer wins than Detroit, and the Lions went a WHOLE FUCKING SEASON without winning a football game.

Interestingly enough, these are probably the 5 sorriest franchises in the NFL right now. Even luck can’t fix that. At least Cleveland can talk itself into Mike Holmgren, and St. Louis into the Sam Bradford-era.



Jul222010

Christmas in July.

I write to you today, TCM readers, to inform you that Santa came through the Warbucks establishment and dropped off a big-ass book.*

If you’re a football fan, casual or hardcore, it is entirely mind-blowing to read the Almanac every year. The geniuses over at Football Outsiders continue to bang out ‘innovative statistics and intelligent analysis’ on a yearly basis, and this year I bring the delights to everyone that isn’t me.
FOA10 155 Christmas in July.

The brain-child of Aaron Schatz, Football Outsiders was orginally published in book form under the name Football Propectus and billed as a sister publication to the well-known Baseball Prospectus. They provide in-depth analysis on every team in the NFL including projections for mean wins, playoff contenders and fantasy-based statistics. But unlike most football sites and publications, Football Outsiders uses metrics I’m almost positive you never knew existed. Ever heard of Defense-adjusted Value Over Average (DVOA)? How about Adjusted Line Yards (ALY)? What about Sack Rate? Success Rate? Buy this shit, and learn all about it.

The Football Outsiders Almanac can be purchased for thirty bucks at www.footballoutsiders.com

*And by book I mean PDF version of the Football Outsiders 2010 Almanac



May182010

Hypocrisy in American Sports.

I feel as if I’m the only one in the world that finds the sports media and it’s various avenues of propaganda full of fucking hypocrites. Sports talk radio hosts, television anchors, baseball analysts and marketing executives all have their heads up their asses.

This whole Brian Cushing thing has got me so god damn confused I can’t even think rationally enough to type this god damn post. I’m having trouble coming up with the world ‘rationally’ and  ‘propaganda’. If I were on the radio right now, you’d hear the spit hitting the microphone. Read this entire post like I’m yelling it.

Mark McGwire, Manny Ramirez, Brian Cushing and HCG.

Manny Ramirez tested positive for the same exact thing that Brian Cushing did, and people in baseball were spouting out the usual nonsense. “He’s a cheater!” “There should be an asterix next to his stats” “He wont get my hall of fame vote!”. Bill Plaschke wanted the Dodgers to RELEASE Manny at the end of the suspension. But, here’s Brian Cushing, testing positive for HCG and the media goes “ehh what the hell? He was still a good rookie!” and re-voted him the defensive Rookie of the Year. So let’s go over this: Manny tests positive, gets suspended and is forever deemed a cheater. Brian Cushing tests positive, gets suspended and is handed an award. What. the. fuck.

Cushing1 Hypocrisy in American Sports.

Tiger Woods, Gatorade and Shawn Merriman.

Gatorade, the world’s leading sports drink manufacturer and who’s companies name is plastered all over every sporting event ever, ended Tiger Woods’ endorsement contract because he cheated on his wife.  Tiger Woods has probably made Gatorade more money than anyone but Michael Jordon (who interestingly enough was always linked to other women). But a guy like Shawn Merriman can be featured in Powerade commercials, because, clearly there’s nothing wrong with this: Shawn Merriman is the outstanding gentleman and defensive end for the San Diego Chargers who beat up Tila Tequila. Shawn Merriman made a fucking pro bowl the same season he was suspended 4 games for testing positive for STEROIDS. Not just a banned substance, the dude was taking 100%, Grade A Anabolic Steroids!

How does this happen? How are athletes crucified for their misgivings as human beings and dropped from sponsorships and endorsements? How are baseball players being suspended and forever labeled as a cheater because they tested positive for a banned substance?  Yet NFL stars are sent to the Pro Bowl and re-awarded the Defensive Rookie of the Year after taking hcg, steroids and beating up alien-looking reality stars?



Apr142010

Ben Roethlisberger is an idiot

f90ed3b3c178c3cb7fa03f087d19b94f Ben Roethlisberger is an idiot

And this is what I would say to him if I were NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell:

“Whatever it is you’re doing, knock it the fuck off. You’re one of the biggest stars of the NFL, you’ve won 2 super bowls for a team that values its history more so than its wins. But, this is twice now. Two separate women have come forth and accused you of raping them. Now, I’m not here to deem you guilty or innocent, right, or wrong and since you haven’t even been charged, I’m not even sure I can suspend you. But what I can tell you is this: you have got to stop putting yourself into these situations.  You have to carry yourself like a consummate professional, knowing that at any minute the media can swoop in and take this story, or any story, that casts the NFL and one of its players in a negative light to a level of unforeseen consequences. Not only for you, but  for your career, for my office and for the NFL. I will not stand idly by and let you handle yourself carelessly enough that results in a 20 year old student in a college bar accusing you of rape. You need to avoid this shit, and you need to do it now. You’re a 28 year old grown man. Act like it. You are an extension of this league and are the face of a multi-billion dollar product.  I do not want to see you back in my office for a LONG fucking time.”

I don’t think this saga is over. My initial reaction to the first accusation was “this bitch is fucking crazy” and I was right on that. Andrea McNulty was a complete fucking whack job.

After this college girl accused him of rape as well, the only thing I was sure of was “this is number two”. Did the media possibly blow this up? Yes. But is this the SECOND chick to allegedly be raped by Roethlisberger? Yup.

For all his on-field talent, we can honestly presume that off the field, Ben Roethlesberger isn’t the most intelligent person in the world. In the summer of 2006, Roethlisberger crashed his illegally driven (no license) motorcycle, without  a helmet on. He got fucked up. He smacked his head on the windshield of a car, and suffered fractures to the jaw and right sinus cavity as well as a nine-inch laceration to the back of the head, the loss of two teeth, and several chipped teeth. This is not something a franchise quarterback does. This is not something someone intelligent does.

Roethlisberger has his head up his ass. Also, his facial hair sucks.


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