Showing posts with label FARNies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FARNies. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The FARNies!

Happy 1-year anniversary to my blog! I am celebrating it by live blogging over at KSJ ESPN's Midnight Madness. Oh, and studying for an exam as well. Yeah, forgot about that part. Anyways, here is myself heaping praise upon myself boring my readers to tears because I can't control my own ego are your winners!

The best live blog goes to.......

Other! List in comments section!

Well, only one was listed, and seeing as I think it's still active, I'll link to it anyway, ladies and gentlemen, the mun2 Mexico-USA live blog open thread!

I miss Guadelupe.

And now the reward for best rant.

In a somewhat surprising no contest. The winner is........

My rant after the Deadskins loss!

This weekend was the absolute perfect weekend. Perfect. Everything went beautifully. Beautifully. This was gonna be it. The week where Philadelphia magic once again happened. Everything was so beautifully laid out.

Too beautifully laid out. It was too easy. Everything was there and now it's come and gone. Dallas got humiliated the last game at Texas Stadium, Tampa Bay lost. Yeah, the Bucs lost! That's what the Eagles needed. This was going to be the greatest day in Philadelphia sports since Wednesday, October 29, 2008! All the Eagles needed to do was beat the Redskins. The measly Redskins who have been laying a turds in their last 6 games.........

The Eagles were the ones who laid the turd. It was all nice and polished as well. When the Eagles knew that they could win out and get in the playoffs with a Tampa loss, what happened? I, I'm speechless. HOW IN THE BLUE HELL DO YOU PLAY LIKE THAT WHEN YOU KNOW THAT ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS WIN OUT?!?!?!

The Detroit Lions, despite being 0-15 and getting blown out by New Orleans, looked like a more competent football team. No wait, I take that back. The Detroit Lions' offense was more competent than the Eagles' offense.

Eagles fan couldn't have been happier with the play of the defense. Time after time the Redskins would get the ball at midfield and time and time again the Skins went 3-and out. At least half of the team showed up. At least half of the team wanted to win. At least half of the team cared.

Cared. That's the keyword. Where was the passion from the offense? Where? What happened? There was no life. Balls were dropped left and right and right and left. McNabb constantly threw behind his receivers. It's as if they were going through the motions. Like they didn't want to be there.

And they couldn't have been happier with where they ended up playing! Look, not everyone can end up in sunny, 70 degree, Tampa Bay, but did they not realize how lucky they were! Teams ended up playing in snow. The weather in Kansas City was 10 degrees. The kickoff temperature tonight in Chicago is 5 degrees! 5 DEGREES! FAHRENHEIT! Comparitively speaking, the weather last night in Landover, MD was 41 degrees at kickoff.

So what was the problem then? Why? Why play like garbage in the game you need most? Why throw away everything you got back after tying the Bengals and getting creamed by the Redskins? Why? Somebody please tell me why.

As much as I want to start the "FIRE ANDY REID!" chant for abandoning the run in the second half, the offense was just as futile in the 1st half when they were running the ball. But alas, we all know Andy Reid. That being said, though, he's not off the hook. I don't even need to watch his press conferences to know what he said. I'm sure it was something along the lines of, "It was my fault." or "I have to do a better job at getting our team prepared." or "We got outplayed by a better team" or "I was really craving a cheesesteak at the time and couldn't concentrate."

Okay, that last one was meant as a joke. But what happened last night was not a joke? Do you really expect, Coach Reid, that you can please Philadelphians with that kind of performance. Do can you, sir, honestly be proud of yourself? Can you be proud of the Eagles? Do you honestly feel, sir, that the Eagles gave it 100% last night. And lastly, and maybe most important of all, can you, Coach Andrew Walter Reid, look yourself in the mirror and not be ashamed of yourself? If you can, then you should never coach another game in the NFL again.
I honestly think that was the most pissed I ever was over a result while doing this blog, so in a way, I'm happy it won. Of course, we all know how that whole scenario turned out, but good grief that Week 16 game was pathetic to watch.

Moving on to posts less about me.

The best moment of porn goes to.........

A 3-WAY TIE!!!!!!!!!!

Ernie "Keep Fucking That Chicken" Arnastos, Super Bowl porn in Tuscon, Arizona, and the Hurricane fan are all winners! So now, sit back, relax, and if you're into this kind of stuff, get hard! (don't worry; nothing is R or X-rated)





Good stuff.

And now for a real moment of TMI, I actually saw the unedited Super Bowl porn clip and frankly, I am yet to figure out how that guy got that job. The porn industry must be on a tiny decline, if you know what I mean.

And now an award we can all relate too, the douche bag of the year award! This award is for not only being a douche but for having douchiness on top of the already douchy douchiness that you possess. And your winner is........

Keith Olbermann!

Kidding. Obviously. Not even the infamous, deplorable Olbermann comes anywhere close on the level of douchiness as the obvious winner (although not as obvious as I thought it would be, which was unanimous)........

Officer Robert Powell.

As a reminder, watch this again.




As much as I bash Olbermann, Fuckface Jones, and Cowherd here, not even them combined come close to the level of douchiness of Powell.

And lastly, the most prostegious award of them all: The Golden Mic. The winner of the Golden Mic Award is..........


PAMMY!!!!!!!!!!



The parity was too much and she eeked out a victory 2-1-1-1.

Well, those are your FARNies for the year. And while not up for any award, I leave with what I personally feel is the overall video of the year.



9 months later and I still have not gotten an answer to the simple question of what.......the..........hell?

Monday, November 9, 2009

Introducing The FARNies!

As hard as it is to believe, next Tuesday, November 17 is the 1-year anniversary of FARN!. When I first started this back then, frankly, I did not know what I was going to be doing with it. Seeing as AA was out for the year on MNFs, I thought that I could use my spot as a place for MNF live blogs, Eagles live blogs, and really, not much more else. But here I am, 874 posts later, feeling quite accomplished at what I've become. I've got a Twitter account followed by the HHR guys and former MLB scout turned Fanhouse analyst, Frankie Piliere (they both found me before I found them), I've live blogged some of the biggest sports moments this past year, and have met a bunch of wonderful people that I would not have gotten to meet had I not been doing this.

Okay, enough with the sappy shit and onto the fun stuff. The reason I am posting this now is because I want to introduce to you the FARNies! The FARNies will be some awards that will be given out on the 17th of November to commemorate the 1-year anniversary of Fire Andy Reid Now! Now I'm going to need your help in doing so. I am going to need your help in determining the winners of these awards, especially seeing as I have quite the bias in some of the areas. I have some of the awards listed below and some of my favorites in each category, but feel free to add your own nominees categories. I'll be more than happy to consider any and all suggestions!

Favorite Live Blog: NFC Championship - Eagles vs. Cardinals, Elite 8 Live Blog - Pitt vs. Villanova, Big East Tournament quarterfinals live blog (sadly, CiL blogs are removed after 4 months after the event so you're just going to have to go from memory on those; to make it fair to all, I won't hyperlink the Eagles-Cards blog which was not a CiL blog; it's kind of useless to hyperlink to posts with no longer archived live blog)



Favorite rant: People at PETA are officially insance, Fire Keith Olbermann Now!, Eagles Week 16 loss to the Redskins



Favorite moment of porn/pornographic references: Ernie Arnastos imploration to "Keep fucking that chicken", Sarge's lecture about jerking off, Local Arizona affiliate interrupts Super Bowl for guy shaking his junk around, Kid blows Hurricane fan



Douche bag of the year: Keith Olbermann, "Officer" Robert Powell, Jerry Jones, Colin Cowherd



The Golden Mic Award: This special award is for excellence in the booth by providing top notch PbP, analysis, and excelling in the field. To honor the specialness of the honor, all nominees are video nominees:

1. Chip Caray



2. Pam Ward



3. Joe Beninati



4. Dick Stockton





The greatness that those 4 provide to broadcasts is just so heart-warming and so nice to see. It brings a tear to my eye just thinking about how great they are.

That's it for now. If you have any other categories or any additional nominees for any of the aforementioned categories, please state them in the comments section.

Thanks you for your patronage during this incredible year of sports. You can email me your votes at fireandyreidnow@gmail.com or you can vote in the comments section, I don't really care. I will weigh all the options and will have the winners for you next Tuesday. Vote wisely!