Monday, November 23, 2009

A sports filled weekend

Come on into the den, grab a seat, and yeah ... the fire is green. Neat huh?


So this weekend was filled with all kinds of sports. And all kinds of friends. And good food. The Ringbearer is one fantastic hostess. Let me just repeat that. The Ringbearer is one fantastic hostess. I'm still thinking about that apple pie. Damn that was good.


So anyways we start on Saturday night. UFC PPV, main event Tito 'The Huntington Beach Ball Head' Ortiz vs Forrest Griffen. Overall was a fairly decent card. Some really great undercard fights, and main card fights, with the exception of the co-main event between Josh 'A Whole Bag of Cocks' Koscheck and Anthony 'Rumble' Johnson. After watching Koscheck play up an eye injury from an admittedly illegal blow that didn't come anywhere near the 'injured' eye, and then to watch him TWICE purposefully poke Johnson in the eye makes me just pissed.


Now my favorite fight of the night was Amir Sodallah vs. Phil Baroni. Damn, Amir just picked apart Phil, it was a surgical dissection of one human being by another. Phil came out banging, and seemed to hurt Amir early on, but after that it was all Amir, knees, elbows, punches from the clinch, was just incredible to watch. And that Baroni kept fighting through a complete destruction was incredible. He kept swinging and banging and trying to keep Amir off his neck.


Of course, for some reason the UFC saw fit to award the Koscheck/Johnson fight the Fight of the Night awards. What a fucking joke. So a fight that was a decisive win and incredible to watch gets shafted and that punk ass bitch Koscheck gets FotN? I'm kind of glad he did win, because like the Ringmaster says 'Give him hope...' because once GSP gets ahold of Koscheck he's gonna serve his ass up on a platter. GSP outwrestled and outgunned Koscheck last time, it can happen again.


So onto Sunday. The Eastern and Western CFL finals. I loved that Montreal BC game. Because Buono made the face. I love it when he makes that face. I love watching his lips go through those bitey, pouty, twisty motions. It's the confused/whiny look of a grade schooler who can't find a bathroom. I will now, for the benefit of all those without TV Telepathy, rebroadcast Wally's thoughts: "Why are we loooOOOoooosing! Aw, c'mon, I'm the winningest coach EVAR! These guys suck!! Why don't they do what I sa-ay! If they just went out and did that we'd win!" Beautiful.

So onto the Main Event! 'Riders vs. Stamps! The chants of HEEEN-REEEEE can be heard all the way out to Pilot Butte. TYG is humping the TV, the Youngest Clown is doing the only cool handshake white guys can do repeatedly, The Ringmaster is handing out pounds like Richard Branson. The Ringbearer is acting like an immigrant mother with chants of 'Eat eat!' and the game was spectacular.

Most spectacular being that we won the game in the THIRD QUARTER!! What the hell?! To quote TYG 'We just outscored ourselves in the third quarter in this game as compared to the entire season!' And of course there is Ken Miller, wandering the sidelines with this open mouth confused look. Even he wasn't sure what was going on. Fantastic! GO RIDERS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So overall great sports weekend. I would have pity for the BC fans except they act like such douche's when they win it's hard to feel any sort of sympathy. And after hearing from everyone all season long how the 'Riders shouldn't even make the playoffs, to end up First and also go to the Grey Cup is just too sweet. Great stuff.

3 comments:

cenobyte said...

I just read this article that was talking about Marc Trestman and how he's going to be moving from the Als to the ...erm... Oakland Raiders because, and I'm going to quote the article here (but I'm fixing the punctuation errors),
"Trestman is currently the 53 year old head coach of the Canadian Football League’s Montreal Alouettes. He had the Alouettes (Als) in the Grey Cup (league championship) in his first season (’08) and now has them poised to return, with a CFLs best record, 13-2. The Als should win it all this season, and Trestman is responsible for the high octane offensive that the Als have displayed in the last two seasons."

Which pisses me off for a number of reasons. I don't give a rat's ass if Trestman moves back down south for a sweeter gig. However, the writer for the..."Bleacher Report" can find my arse and kiss it. "Should win it all this season."

I should have a million bucks and be independently wealthy, too, but that doesn't appear to be the case.

Also, CFL celebrities this week on the bournal.

Anonymous said...

I can't believe that after fixing the punctuation that the quote was still so terrible.

I know it was only a sports journalist writing, but you really can't spell 'sports journalist' without 'journalist' (to the best of my knowledge).

Smarty Pants / Ringmaster said...

"SCHOOOOOOL'S OUT....FOR...EVER!"
My verification word is "mulambox". It's either a martial art or a tropical VD.

On paper, the journalist is correct. But that's what ilove about the CFL - once you're inthe play-offs, your regular season is pretty much irrelevent. It's only a tool used to get you to the sudden death action of Grey Cup.