I hate the NFL network. Watching a game on there is the worst possible experience for me as a sports fan. I would rather watch a replay of a game from earlier in the week than watch a game live on that channel. Gumbel hates Collingsworth and can't stand it when he talks. I in turn hate Gumbel, because he sucks for one, and for two it is like he is reading the whole. He also never gets excited when a big play happens. I yearn for Gus Johnson when watching this crap.
Here are some thoughs I had while watching the game tonight:
If someone were videotaping me right now watching this game, it would look like the whole Art Shell as a coach video collection. Confused, angered, lost, and retarded all at the same time.
I wish Trent Dilfer was playing for Carolina.
I wish Vinny Testaverde was playing for Carolina.
I wish Art Shell was playing for Carolina.
I wish Jessica Simpson came up more on this broadcast. Sarcasm ooozing from your computer screen.
I wish I could have at least one shot of Art Shell coaching a game where Trent Dilfer was playing quarterback opposite of Vinny Testaverde, and Jessica Simpson was in the crowd.
I wish I wasn't watching this.
Can Gumbel make it more obvious that he wants Carolina to win this game?
Why couldn't T.O. have broken his ankle?
John Fox looks like the arrogant guy that gambles a lot at your local golf course.
Who is smarter, Art Shell or Trent Dilfer or Wade Phillips? Or Gumbel?
I hope tomorrow is better.
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Fun With Friends
This past weekend I went to DFW to visit my friend Smitty from Phoenix. Yeah we met half way. Anyway, some of the topics that came up were just classic. We had a great time, finally was able to enjoy the "Jaws" at Razzoo's, and I proved to my closest friends that I am in fact a sports genius. I will give you a short recap of what transpired.
Razzoo's is my favorite place to eat hands down. We had five dudes who were all hungry, it made sense. Order the "Jaws". "Jaws" is a platter of fried, cajun ecstasy. It was everything I thought it would be. On the menu it says that it is for four people or two cajuns. It says nothing about a "C-Money" or an "El Rictor" so we weren't sure that it would be enough. We were wrong. We could have had two more guys eating on that and still not finished it.
I give the "Jaws" five "Jaws". This will be my new rating system for anything. You can receive anywhere from 1-5 "Jaws". This has no corelation to Ron Jaworski. Please do not make this mistake.
After Razzoo's we went to Fox and Hound. We decided that five years ago we wouldn't have been caught dead at Fox and Hound, but now there is something appealing about it. This one was the smokiest place in the Northern Hemisphere, but it was alright. Playing pool and just hanging out was the plan, which isn't all that great of a deal for me because I hate pool, but I was just chilling with my boys, so anything would be fine. Here are some of the conversations that came up.
"If you had to choose what iPod you would want as your uhh, you know, which one would it be?"
Some of the responses were:
1. The iPod Touch
2. The 80 gig classic, black without a sleeve
This might possibly go down as one of the best questions of the 21st century. I will leave you to ponder this.
"If you had to choose one man to father your son other than yourself, who would it be?"
Responses:
1. Tom Brady
2. Bill Gates
3. Ron Jeremy
This was actually a good question. I think the obvious choice is Tom Brady. Once again I ask for your comments.
"The movie "Hot Rod" reminds me of a "Cranberries" cd. Your not expecting much, but in the end, you kind of liked it, and you find yourself somewhat attracted to the red headed chick."
Totally random, yet completely accurate. Except only if the red headed chick is my wife. By the way, we need a column name for my wife. Something I can refer to her as in every column or blog I pop out. This blog is totally interactive so I need ideas for this one as well.
"The 6th seed from the NFC has just as good a chance of making the Super Bowl as does the Patriots."
I'm still not so sure that my friends understood my argument here. But what I am saying is that the NFC is so weak one through six and the AFC is so freaking good one through six that we might have one of the worst Super Bowls in the history of sports. I mean could you imagine having to sit through something like the San Antonio Spurs playing the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals? I still say this tarnishes the Spurs as a dynasty.
This led me to making a bet with my buddies that I would give the NFC 13.5 points in the Super Bowl no matter who is in it. I know I will win this one, and in turn all of them will recognize me as the next great sports mind of the new upcoming decade. You will all remember this.
Richter out.......
Razzoo's is my favorite place to eat hands down. We had five dudes who were all hungry, it made sense. Order the "Jaws". "Jaws" is a platter of fried, cajun ecstasy. It was everything I thought it would be. On the menu it says that it is for four people or two cajuns. It says nothing about a "C-Money" or an "El Rictor" so we weren't sure that it would be enough. We were wrong. We could have had two more guys eating on that and still not finished it.
I give the "Jaws" five "Jaws". This will be my new rating system for anything. You can receive anywhere from 1-5 "Jaws". This has no corelation to Ron Jaworski. Please do not make this mistake.
After Razzoo's we went to Fox and Hound. We decided that five years ago we wouldn't have been caught dead at Fox and Hound, but now there is something appealing about it. This one was the smokiest place in the Northern Hemisphere, but it was alright. Playing pool and just hanging out was the plan, which isn't all that great of a deal for me because I hate pool, but I was just chilling with my boys, so anything would be fine. Here are some of the conversations that came up.
"If you had to choose what iPod you would want as your uhh, you know, which one would it be?"
Some of the responses were:
1. The iPod Touch
2. The 80 gig classic, black without a sleeve
This might possibly go down as one of the best questions of the 21st century. I will leave you to ponder this.
"If you had to choose one man to father your son other than yourself, who would it be?"
Responses:
1. Tom Brady
2. Bill Gates
3. Ron Jeremy
This was actually a good question. I think the obvious choice is Tom Brady. Once again I ask for your comments.
"The movie "Hot Rod" reminds me of a "Cranberries" cd. Your not expecting much, but in the end, you kind of liked it, and you find yourself somewhat attracted to the red headed chick."
Totally random, yet completely accurate. Except only if the red headed chick is my wife. By the way, we need a column name for my wife. Something I can refer to her as in every column or blog I pop out. This blog is totally interactive so I need ideas for this one as well.
"The 6th seed from the NFC has just as good a chance of making the Super Bowl as does the Patriots."
I'm still not so sure that my friends understood my argument here. But what I am saying is that the NFC is so weak one through six and the AFC is so freaking good one through six that we might have one of the worst Super Bowls in the history of sports. I mean could you imagine having to sit through something like the San Antonio Spurs playing the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals? I still say this tarnishes the Spurs as a dynasty.
This led me to making a bet with my buddies that I would give the NFC 13.5 points in the Super Bowl no matter who is in it. I know I will win this one, and in turn all of them will recognize me as the next great sports mind of the new upcoming decade. You will all remember this.
Richter out.......
Saturday, December 15, 2007
My Apologies
Ok so I haven't blogged on this site in some time. I mean yeah I have thrown out some bones, blogging football and power rankings and stuff like that, but nothing of any substance. I have just had my priorities off a little. There have been some big time stuff that has gone down in my simple little life, that I should have blogged about, afterall that is what a blog is right? This might end up being a short story, or explanation as to where I have been the last three or four months. I haven't been hiding in a cave watching football and busting out weekly rankings.
I got sidetracked with what was a pretty cool gig/opportunity. I got hooked up with this car salesman that also owns a sports talk radio station. I had called into the show a few times, and also had a few people put in good words with him, and he decided to give me a forum on his website, as well as the opportunity to do some high school football broadcasting. He has also given me the opportunity to be on their Saturday morning sports talk show. All of this is really freaking cool, and the sports talk show is really fun, and I think actually quite good, but I started to neglect this blog. It's somewhat ironic as well, because this site is what I reffered him to as a way to see what I had to say. I haven't been able to do many shows, basically because I work on Saturday mornings sometimes. That brings me to another part of this story.
I landed a great new job. My dad saw an ad in the paper calling for someone with a passion for sports, and for someone wanting to get into sports business, and he told me that I should apply for it. So I did, thinking that I didn't have what it took to land the job(a degree - five classes short), but I gave it a shot. Luckily, I landed an interview with the co-owner, and knocked it out. We talked for 2 hours. He decided that he wanted me to come back and talk with his partner, so I went and met with him two days later, and they offered me the job right there. The job is marketing/public relations/promotions with our local hockey team, the Wichita Falls Wildcats. I'm not much of a hockey guy, but I am a huge sports guy, and this gets me in the door. What a great job for me, and an opportunity to open other doors in the future. I can't wait to get started. Some of the great benefits of this job are that I will still be able to take day classes to graduate, and the majority owners daughter does the same job for the sister team in Canada, and he puts her into conferences and meet and greets with people in the NHL. That is an avenue that has no end.
I bought a book lastnight, and me buying a book is a huge deal. I pretty much only read articles in newspapers and on websites. I guess that isn't too different from many people my age. I bought the book "Now I Can Die in Peace" by Bill Simmons. Bill Simmons is the "Sports Guy" from Espn.com and is one of my favorite sports columnists. I think that the reason I really like this book, is because it is basically just a compilation of some of his columns that lead to the Red Sox winning the World Series in 2004. Very interesting stuff there. But the reason why I am mentioning this, is because it reminds me of something that I really want to do at sometime in my life, which is write a book. It also reminds me of my youth, and just how big of a baseball fan I am, but specifically a Texas Rangers fan. The parallels between Simmons and myself is really quite amazing. After the first few chapters, I thought to myself, if you replaced every reference to the Boston Red Sox with the Texas Rangers this book would be about Brint Richter. The Texas Rangers aren't nearly as appealing a story as the rich history of the Boston Red Sox, but to me they are. He started the book with a prolouge that was almost that of an autobiography, but started the baseball part with the signing of Pedro Martinez. I think the Rangers have a start to their World Series run, and it was the trading away of Alex Rodriguez. I love the Rangers, and at the beginning of the season, my hopes are always of that of a playoff run that will end in a World Series title. Simmons stated early in his book, that he wished he had finished his book before the Sox won the series, so maybe I can learn from that mistake and get something out before the Rangers win it, I might have plenty of time. I guess I just skipped over the part where I am supposed to say, I think I'm going to try and write a book. I think I am going to try and write a book. There you have it.
I guess you could say I am sort of ripping off Simmons, but I'm really not. I could start with my love for the Texas Rangers and my fanhood of many other teams from the great state of Texas (not the Spurs) but really it would just be an autobiography. I'm not totally sure that it will be all that exciting, and might never get published, but why not. I am of the firm belief that if you don't try stupid things, stupid things never get done. I have read three chapters of a book about the Boston Red Sox and some crazy average joe who has the tremendous ability to write and I have decided to write a book. I'm a modern day Ray Kinsella. Except I'm not plowing under my crop to build a baseball field, although that sounds like a great idea.
So there you have it. I'm writing a book, I have a new job, I now have a weekly Saturday morning radio show, and I promise to start blogging more on this site. Things seem to be taking shape. I guess that is all for now........Richter out!!!!
I got sidetracked with what was a pretty cool gig/opportunity. I got hooked up with this car salesman that also owns a sports talk radio station. I had called into the show a few times, and also had a few people put in good words with him, and he decided to give me a forum on his website, as well as the opportunity to do some high school football broadcasting. He has also given me the opportunity to be on their Saturday morning sports talk show. All of this is really freaking cool, and the sports talk show is really fun, and I think actually quite good, but I started to neglect this blog. It's somewhat ironic as well, because this site is what I reffered him to as a way to see what I had to say. I haven't been able to do many shows, basically because I work on Saturday mornings sometimes. That brings me to another part of this story.
I landed a great new job. My dad saw an ad in the paper calling for someone with a passion for sports, and for someone wanting to get into sports business, and he told me that I should apply for it. So I did, thinking that I didn't have what it took to land the job(a degree - five classes short), but I gave it a shot. Luckily, I landed an interview with the co-owner, and knocked it out. We talked for 2 hours. He decided that he wanted me to come back and talk with his partner, so I went and met with him two days later, and they offered me the job right there. The job is marketing/public relations/promotions with our local hockey team, the Wichita Falls Wildcats. I'm not much of a hockey guy, but I am a huge sports guy, and this gets me in the door. What a great job for me, and an opportunity to open other doors in the future. I can't wait to get started. Some of the great benefits of this job are that I will still be able to take day classes to graduate, and the majority owners daughter does the same job for the sister team in Canada, and he puts her into conferences and meet and greets with people in the NHL. That is an avenue that has no end.
I bought a book lastnight, and me buying a book is a huge deal. I pretty much only read articles in newspapers and on websites. I guess that isn't too different from many people my age. I bought the book "Now I Can Die in Peace" by Bill Simmons. Bill Simmons is the "Sports Guy" from Espn.com and is one of my favorite sports columnists. I think that the reason I really like this book, is because it is basically just a compilation of some of his columns that lead to the Red Sox winning the World Series in 2004. Very interesting stuff there. But the reason why I am mentioning this, is because it reminds me of something that I really want to do at sometime in my life, which is write a book. It also reminds me of my youth, and just how big of a baseball fan I am, but specifically a Texas Rangers fan. The parallels between Simmons and myself is really quite amazing. After the first few chapters, I thought to myself, if you replaced every reference to the Boston Red Sox with the Texas Rangers this book would be about Brint Richter. The Texas Rangers aren't nearly as appealing a story as the rich history of the Boston Red Sox, but to me they are. He started the book with a prolouge that was almost that of an autobiography, but started the baseball part with the signing of Pedro Martinez. I think the Rangers have a start to their World Series run, and it was the trading away of Alex Rodriguez. I love the Rangers, and at the beginning of the season, my hopes are always of that of a playoff run that will end in a World Series title. Simmons stated early in his book, that he wished he had finished his book before the Sox won the series, so maybe I can learn from that mistake and get something out before the Rangers win it, I might have plenty of time. I guess I just skipped over the part where I am supposed to say, I think I'm going to try and write a book. I think I am going to try and write a book. There you have it.
I guess you could say I am sort of ripping off Simmons, but I'm really not. I could start with my love for the Texas Rangers and my fanhood of many other teams from the great state of Texas (not the Spurs) but really it would just be an autobiography. I'm not totally sure that it will be all that exciting, and might never get published, but why not. I am of the firm belief that if you don't try stupid things, stupid things never get done. I have read three chapters of a book about the Boston Red Sox and some crazy average joe who has the tremendous ability to write and I have decided to write a book. I'm a modern day Ray Kinsella. Except I'm not plowing under my crop to build a baseball field, although that sounds like a great idea.
So there you have it. I'm writing a book, I have a new job, I now have a weekly Saturday morning radio show, and I promise to start blogging more on this site. Things seem to be taking shape. I guess that is all for now........Richter out!!!!
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Week 14 Rankings
College Top10
1. USC
2. LSU
3. Oklahoma
4. Missouri
5. Ohio State
6. Kansas
7. Hawaii
8. Georgia
9. Florida
10. Virginia Tech
NFL Power Rankings
1. New England
2. Dallas
3. Indianapolis
4. Green Bay
5. Pittsburgh
6. Jacksonville
7. Cleveland
8. San Diego
9. Tennessee
10. NY Giants
Overrated: New England Patriots, NY Giants, LSU, Ohio State
Underrated: Dallas Cowboys, Indianapolis Colts, Missouri, USC
Projected BCS Championship Game: LSU vs. USC (The BCS is an absolute joke, and there will be a rant on this blogsite in the near future. Until then I will continue to project a championship game between the two best teams in the nation, LSU and USC)
Projected Super Bowl: Dallas vs. New England
1. USC
2. LSU
3. Oklahoma
4. Missouri
5. Ohio State
6. Kansas
7. Hawaii
8. Georgia
9. Florida
10. Virginia Tech
NFL Power Rankings
1. New England
2. Dallas
3. Indianapolis
4. Green Bay
5. Pittsburgh
6. Jacksonville
7. Cleveland
8. San Diego
9. Tennessee
10. NY Giants
Overrated: New England Patriots, NY Giants, LSU, Ohio State
Underrated: Dallas Cowboys, Indianapolis Colts, Missouri, USC
Projected BCS Championship Game: LSU vs. USC (The BCS is an absolute joke, and there will be a rant on this blogsite in the near future. Until then I will continue to project a championship game between the two best teams in the nation, LSU and USC)
Projected Super Bowl: Dallas vs. New England
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