Random rants or posts by a Brown Guy who is not always Angry.
Ever lock your keys inside with you outside? Well this could probably be the worst ever scenario for you to do that.
Courtesy: Stephanie Albright who happens to be one of my better friends has started her own blog (http://woodsgirl3887.blogspot.com/2008/01/short-intro-to-me.html) or click the link in the Blog Roll on the right.
So I never thought I would have a separate post about Tom Brady but who knew? Certainly as my roommate said “Is there nothing more important going on in sports?”, that they had a 5 minute segment dedicated just to this?
As most of you know already, I am no fan of Tom Brady and the New England Patriots but yea, I guess this is a little funny at times.
A couple of movies I watched this past week which I think are really good are Lions for Lambs with our favorite Tom Cruise, Robert Redford and Meryl Streep… the second one is Michael Clayton with George Clooney.
IMDB recaps for both movies are below… great movies, I would recommend them to anyone who has not seen either.
Lions for Lambs begins after two determined students at a West Coast University, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. But when the two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan, Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field, they become the string that binds together two disparate stories on opposite sides of America. In California, an anguished Dr. Malley attempts to reach a privileged but disaffected student who is the very opposite of Arian and Ernest. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. the charismatic Presidential hopeful, Senator Jasper Irving, is about to give a bombshell story to a probing TV journalist that may affect Arian and Ernest’s fates.
Michael Clayton is an in-house fixer at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach, & Ledeen’s dirtiest work at the behest of the firm’s co-founder, Marty Bach. Though burned out and hardly content with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture, and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder rests on the multi-million dollar settlement of a class-action suit that Clayton’s firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But when Kenner Bach’s brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life.
I have not got around to much hockey news but here is some… The Maple Leafs have fired their GM John Ferguson and temporarily replaced him with Cliff Fletcher. I think it is about time the Leafs made some sort of a move for a team that has missed the playoffs the past two years even though last year it was by only one point. Standing at 19-22-8 which is second last in the entire league for points, this team definitely needs to go in a new direction. They have plenty of young talent, Mats Sundin will probably be traded before year’s end and who knows with the new salary structure around the league, this team could be turned around in a year or two.
In other news, Sidney Crosby’s high ankle sprain will force him to miss not only the All-Star game this weekend but he could possibly be out up to 8 weeks. Tough loss for the Penguins and certainly a loss for the NHL with its best player going down.
So I guess I am finally getting around to talking about the two games because I am finally getting over the Packers loss. I will start with this game first because certainly this was arguably one of the best playoff games I have ever seen. A back and forth game from the start where neither team really got true momentum and even though it was a game that many will argue Giants dominated from the start (outside the one 90 yard pass to Driver). The Packers, much to my surprise, never established a running game that had really balanced out their offense in the second half of the season and really burst wide open in the last game against the Seahawks. Give all the credit in the world to Eli Manning who kept going to Plaxico Burress against a clearly over-matched Al Harris. Make no mistake about it, Packers gave this game away to the Giants with their mistakes but Eli stayed composed the entire game even though the Packers responded to every Giant score. I will still say it, Tom Coughlin’s decision to play all of his starters in that ‘meaningless’ Week 17 game versus the Patriots really brought this team together and there is no way they are in the Super Bowl unless their starters play that game. 3 straight road playoff wins, 10 straight road wins… this team has the momentum that could produce a victory in Arizona, but that is a little too early to call. Momentum is a dangerous opponent to play against regardless of who you are.
Oh by the way, Patriots continued their winning ways basically because the Chargers could find a way to score in the red zone. They were held to four field goals, two of which certainly could have been touchdowns and who knows, might have produced a different result at the end of the game. Regardless, the Patriots played less than their ‘A’ game but still found a way to win. They did that this game and have done that often over the course of the season and now stand one win away from a perfect 19-0 season. I will not elaborate more into what I think happens in two weeks but yea, I just might pick the Patriots two weeks in a row, who knows?