Archive for December 21st, 2007

Even though I’m in Denmark, there will still be plenty of articles while I’m gone. 

Here is a hilarious squirrel story.  I love squirrels. Jebus obviously doesn’t.
http://manvstrain.blogspot.com/2007/06/when-animals-attack.html

I Miss College and Beer Pong.  Here’s a list of 33 sweet beer pong tables sent to me by ClubberLang.  In my opinion they really fucked up the order though.
http://www.pongalong.com/Beerblog/index.php/the-33-best-beer-pong-tables-ever-created/

Bill Simmons compares Isaac from the Real World and Adrian ‘All Day’ Peterson:
NINERS (+8.5) over Vikings
We’re in December, which means we’re in the month when bad teams start covering artificially pumped-up spreads like this one. Regardless, the contest for “Coolest Newcomer of the Year” is down to two candidates:

1. Great Adrian Peterson  
2. Isaac from “Real World Sydney”

Great Adrian singlehandedly turned around a moribund Vikes franchise; Isaac saved an unlikable “Real World” cast. The Vikes fell apart in Green Bay when Great Adrian left with an injury; same for the “Real World” house when Isaac disappeared for two weeks. Great Adrian had the record-setting 296-yard game; Isaac had the record-setting moment when he swam naked in his house’s giant fish tank. Great Adrian is averaging an astonishing 6.5 yards per carry; Isaac is dating the best-looking girlfriend in “Real World” history. Great Adrian has Vikings fans dreaming of an entire decade with him as their franchise guy; same with “Real World/Road Rules Challenge” fans and Isaac. Both of them have signature styles that we haven’t seen before, and both of them bring a ton of stuff to the table and take nothing off it.

Here’s why I’d give a slight edge to Isaac with a month to go: I haven’t gotten an e-mail about Peterson nearly as glowing and psychotic as the Isaac-related e-mail from my friend Jacoby after he saw the fish tank scene: “I mean for [expletive's] sake … can this guy get any awesomer? He is now so awesome that I am experiencing internal Isaac blacklash as a self-defense mechanism so I don’t get too down on myself. I would seriously go to one of his ’speaking engagements’ just to be in the same room as him. I am an Isaac groupie. I would never talk to any of my current friends again if I could trade them for Isaac, Cahutta and Ace.”

(Now there’s your “Sportsman of the Year!” Imagine if SI had put Isaac on its cover instead of Brett Favre? I would have been fine with this.)