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AngryBrownGuy Items For Sale

I know a couple of people asked about supporting the blog by purchasing something to offset the costs. Well I think the answer to that is through the ways of CafePress. I have set up an AngryBrownGuy Shop over there  to view items varying from t-shirts to sweatshirts, bags to bears, stickers to calendars.

Personally the two items that I think came out superbly were the t-shirt and even the teddy bear both of which are priced at only $20.

Other items that stand out would be the hooded sweatshirt at $30 or simple wall calendar for 2009 at only $10.

Click the image below to visit the store homepage.

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ABG Picks: Week 2 Results

Well here are the standings after Week 2 (which is technically Week 1 for this contest). 

Faraz: Green Bay, Pittsburgh, New Orleans (9)
Mike D.: New York Giants, Pittsburgh, Kansas City (9)
Mike C.: New York Giants, Green Bay, Kansas City (8) 
Sabih: New York Giants, New York Jets, Dallas Cowboys,  (7)
Ayaz: New York Giants, Cincinnati,  New York Jets (5)

Those are the top 5 after this week. All picks are due 5 minutes before the start of your first game. Remember to pick three teams and spread out 10 confidence points amongst them.

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Freedom is Slavery.

Just got this off of Engadget but you knew this was only a matter of time before it became a reality with the direction this country is headed in. Luckily I don’t live in New York but being just a state away, will New Jersey follow suit?

NY state inserts RFIDs into licenses; citizens next?

by Tim Stevens, posted Sep 17th 2008 at 10:58AM

NY state inserts RFIDs into licenses, citizens next?What can we say about RFIDs that hasn’t already made you afraid? Your passport? Clonable. Your work ID and “secure” credit cards? Yeah, those too. Not scary enough? How about every adult New Yorker walking around with one in their back pocket? It’s just a matter of time, as the Empire State’s clearly enhanced drivers licenses (says so right on ’em) are now hitting the streets. For $30 on a new one, or $10 if you’re looking to upgrade, you can get yourself a radio-wave emitting ID, enabling you to cross the border into Mexico, Canada, or the Caribbean sans-passport. Don’t worry, the cards won’t be broadcasting any personal information — just a unique code that the government can use to track your every movement.

[Via Crave]

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ABG NFL Contest!

So its a little late right now but I play NFL Pick ‘Em every week on Yahoo and I’ll post them here as well. Feel free to post yours or challenge me on a couple of games a week, I’ll even keep score starting next week if you want. Maybe the winner at the end of the season gets a prize?

Let me just set a couple of rules for that contest and people can e-mail me their picks so its confidential until the games start. Picks will lock once the first game of that week starts. Each team can pick 3 games from a week, can be any three games and tell me the winner. You will also need to place 10 confidence points on the three games with each game getting at least one point. You choose a game correctly, you gain the points for that game and your points will add up as the season progresses.

I’ll post updated scored here Tuesday morning or once after all the games from the week have been decided.

You can email your picks at me@angrybrownguy.com and I won’t look at my emails over there until the picks deadline has passed.

Happy Picking! Continue reading “ABG NFL Contest!”

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Green Bay Wins, Brett Favre Loses

I decided against posting on this issue until it was completely resolved and last night, just that happened.

After taking a beating in the press for not welcoming back Brett Favre as their starting quarterback, the Green Bay Packers accomplished what they originally set out to do – trade him to a team as far away as possible that they could only see him in the Super Bowl. They also secured the fact that he would basically not be traded to the Minnesota Vikings by having the Jets give the Packers three 1st round draft picks if they do decide to ship him in that direction. There is no doubt that he still has some talent left in him and Packers made that clear when they were ready to bring him back early this off season but when he kept going back and forth, the Packers decided to pursue to future in Aaron Rodgers.

I can’t blame the Packers for what they did because they had lived through the past few years not knowing whether Brett was coming back or not and for the first time when they had a definitive answer this early in the off-season, they needed to make plans for a Post-Favre Green Bay. It is understandable why the media is just in love with Favre who can’t seem to do anything wrong in their eye. He has never come out and said anything against them, he has always had a good relationship and it always helps that he has been more successful than not in his career.

He goes to a New York Jets team that was 4-12 last year and certainly raises their hopes of becoming a playoff team. The Jets vastly improved their offensive line which was their biggest weakness and for Favre who was sacked 15 times all of last season (Pennington + Clemens were sacked a total of 53 times). Favre’s deep ball should open up the running game for the Jets who are still vying for the second spot in the division as you can realistically expect the New England Patriots to win the division again. Continue reading “Green Bay Wins, Brett Favre Loses”