Minnesota Winter Sports Stink so far

The WILD have played bad of late, the Timberwolves aren't good at all, and the Vikings, are .. to be nice.. TERRIBLE. The Gopher football and basketball teams are as bad as the Vikings.. (I won't mention their hockey because that's the Gopher sport I will not watch!) FORMER(now) Gopher basketball coach Dan Munson finally resigned so maybe that will improve some stuff. Glenn Mason should resign next so the football program can move on as well.

Mom has son arrested for opening presents early???

According to a Fox News story, a mother had her 12 yr old son arrested for opening a christmas present early.... what the hell?

The story starts:

After a mother discovered her son had unwrapped a Nintendo Game Boy Advance that was meant for him as a present from his grandmother, she called the Rock Hill Police and had the young man arrested for petty larceny, according to the police report filed this week.

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Speaking of the VIKINGS Sucking

Today's Jim Souhan article on the Vikings demise in the News Tribune, from the Star Tribune:

NFL coaches and quarterbacks, we hear, receive too much credit after victories and too much blame after losses.

Baloney. As the Vikings’ season froze like a tongue to a flagpole on Sunday at frigid Soldier Field, the culprits were the Bear Market Brads.

Because Brad Johnson threw away the biggest game of the year, Brad Childress is facing the most important decision of his career.

Johnson tossed four interceptions in the Vikings’ 23-13 loss to Chicago, leaving Childress with no choice but to send in Brooks Bollinger.

That doesn’t take Childress off the hook.

Johnson’s mistakes lost this game. Childress’ mistakes might have ruined his first season.

The rookie coach so believed in the user-friendliness of his offense that he started his first season with a 38-year-old quarterback and no reputable backups.

He so believed in his ability to mentor quarterbacks that he chose the raw Tarvaris Jackson in the second round.

This week, Childress will pick between the flailing Johnson, the ailing Bollinger (who injured his left shoulder) and the unveiling of Jackson.

The Chiller had better choose wisely, or he’ll turn an already-seething locker room into the set of “Mutiny on the Bounty.”

After the game, defensive players laughed over the absurdity of holding Bears “quarterback” Rex Grossman to a 1.3 passer rating and still losing.

How bad was Grossman? If Johnson had changed sidelines, he would have improved both teams.

Viking defenders weren’t the only ones fuming. Those responsible for the running game wondered how they rushed 35 times for 192 yards and a touchdown against one of the NFL’s best defenses yet managed only 13 points.

Maybe it was attempting zero passes into the end zone, abiding by Childress’ philosophy that you take what the defense gives you, even if the defense gives you nothing more desirable than Enron stock.

“It wasn’t like we weren’t moving the ball,” center Matt Birk said. “We were gashing them. It wasn’t like they were playing Cover-2, either. They had an extra guy in the box every time, and we gashed them.

“They made more big plays than we did. That’s why, even though we felt like we outplayed them, they won.” Childress did more than the Bears to slow the Vikings offense in the fourth quarter.

The Vikings got the ball with 12:14 remaining, needing two touchdowns, two extra points and a field goal just to send the game into overtime, and yet Childress didn’t call for a time-saving, no-huddle offense.

Bollinger led the Vikings to a touchdown, but just 5:40 remained when Ciatrick Fason scored.

Childress then called for an onside kick. That’s a coaching non sequitur. If you deem an onside kick necessary, you are past the point where you should have been running a no-huddle offense.

Now Childress must fix his no-offense huddle, and he faces a coach’s toughest decision — whether to change quarterbacks when the playoffs are a mathematical possibility.

His options: Johnson, who’s playing like a victim of identity theft; Bollinger, who’s hurt; and Jackson, who sounds worried he might be asked to start.

Choose Johnson, and the defense might revolt. Choose Bollinger, and you’d better Mapquest directions to the emergency room. Choose Jackson, and you’re telling a veteran team with a strong defense and running game to wait ‘til next year.

The pick here: Bollinger if he can lift his arm, Jackson if he can’t.

The longer the season lasts, the worse the Vikings play. Blame this loss on Johnson, but it’s the other Bear Market Brad who has guided his team into this nasty recession.

Jim Souhan is a national sports columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune

Souhan's great.. and writes a lot of Minnesota Twins articles during that season, and appears on the Twins FSN broadcasts a lot.

The VIKINGS SUCK

The Vikings lost again yesterday, to Chicago. The Vikings actually ended up finally giving Tarvaris Jackson about 1 minute of playing time in the final 2 minutes of the game.. Brooks Bollinger didn't do anything before he got hurt getting tackled onto the concrete like frozen turf in his Vikings debut as a reliever.

Rex Grossman threw as many Interceptions as Brad Johnson did but his team managed to actually win...

The only Chicago sports team I like is Da Bulls.. used to be a Cubs fan.. but they've been depressing as hell over the last 5 years or so again

eBay Consignment Business can be weird

One of my consignment customers.... isn't that bright.. I was listing a bracelet for her.. and it sold.. so I call her to go pick it up and ship it. I get there and she hands me a different bracelet because she thought that one was sold and she had **PAWNED** the other one.. wtf!?!?!?

I had to email an apology to the person on eBay who won it..and emailed them a refund of payment. Well, the next morning (Saturday) they paid for it AGAIN.. so I re-did the refund again..and.. they paid for it AGAIN.. and I did the refund *again*... so far so good now.. 24 hours and not a 4th payment. Don't people read their email?

Ok, just in case you want to see what I'm selling.. click the title of the blog.

Damn it's COLD

It is officially .. colder than a witches tit outside! The windchill factor is 0!



BRRRRR

Bulldogs win!

Holy Crap.. the UMD BULLDOGS Men's team actually won a game.. beating Alaska Anchorage 7-3 up in Alaska...