“Officer I ain’t drunk”

We won’t have to wait until this coming Saturday to hear the announcement because Miami has already signed Jake Long as their number one pick. Long an offensive linemen out of Michigan received a 5-year $57.5 million deal with $30 million of guaranteed cizassh. I like the move by the Dolphins for the pure fact that they weren’t going to sign McFadden or Ryan so it came down to going with the best offensive linemen in the draft or one of the top defensive linemen like Chris Long, Glenn Dorsey or Vernon Gholston. Ultimately it appears Miami felt it was top priority to go the offensive line route and Jake Long should be able to immediately step in and help protect Miami’s quarterback and open holes for Ronnie Brown.

Chad Johnson announced today that he wants to be traded from the Bengals as soon as possible and will not attend any Bengals functions whatsoever. The rumors have swirled for months and Johnson has alluded before he wants to be traded, but today’s statements were quite damning. “I want to make this very clear,'’ Johnson stated. “I don’t know where he got that. I made no assertion to Carson that I would do that. Nothing has changed from what I’ve been saying for three months that I don’t want to play for the Bengals.” “I want to be traded before the draft, and if that doesn’t happen, I want to be traded as soon as possible,'’ Johnson said. “I don’t intend on reporting to anything.'’

Well well. This is going to be a very interesting offseason for the Bengals.

Word out of Pittsburgh is that Steely McBeam the lead mascot for the Pittsburgh Steelers was arrested back in January due to a DUI. Kenneth C. Mahey who is one of the two people who portray the mascot blew a .1766 which is twice the legal limit. Let’s face it…if your job is to wear a ridiculous costume for a living…wouldn’t you be drinking like a fish too?

Brett Favre told his coach Mike McCarthy that he is done with professional football. I truly thought Favre had at least two years left in him, but today comes news telling us otherwise. Could it be that once Moss signed with the New England Patriots it allowed Favre to make his decision? Today is the end of an era in the NFL and for the Green Bay Packers!

* Big Ben just hit the mother load with an eight year deal worth $102 million. Roethlisberger joins Peytong Manning, Brett Favre, Carson Palmer, Donovan McNabb and the suspended Vick in the $100 million club for signal callers. Many people are questioning whether the Steelers should extend the wealthiest contract in franchise history, but I personally think Ben deserves every dime. Lets just hope there was a provision in the contract for staying away from motorcycles.

* The Houston Rockets won their 15th game in a row matching a franchise record. That is all well and good, but now that Yao is out of the season the Rockets will be lucky to make it to the playoffs. Remember this statement!

* Michael “The Burner” Turner has signed a lucrative deal with the Atlanta Falcons and should be the starting running back in ‘08 for Hotlanta. Turner has been mired behind Tomlinson for years in San Diego and I fully expect a huge season this coming year. Nice work by the Falcons especially after so many dumb moves in recent months. On a side note Warrick Dunn immediately asked for a release due to this acquisition.

* Kobe dropped 52 yesterday in a win over the Dallas Mavericks. The Lakers only lost TWO games in all of February and are a legitimate threat to win it all this year.

* Ernie Els won the Honda Classic yesterday ending a four-year winless drought. Whoopty do! Els is no longer a top player in the game and is not competition for Tiger Woods.

So the Atlanta paper is reporting that Darren “Ladies Man” McFadden is ducking a paternity suit…and actually told a team earlier that he had children on the way….CHILDREN, as in plural, meaning two. I’m going out on a limb, and I’ve been wrong before, but I’m betting it ain’t twins, and there are two mommas as well. Hope he likes eating Ramen Noodles, cause at the rate he is going, child support is gonna continue to eat up whatever contracts he signs!

New York covers +12 against New England
NYG/NE covers over 55
Tails - coin toss pays -105
Jacobs rushing yards 81-90 pays 8-1

Overall Record:

NFL 61-31-3
NBA 16-9
College Basketball 87-62-6
College Football: 44-41-1
MLB 7-1

Ahh yes. It’s the day when more people watch the good ole boob tube than any other day of the year. Thus the reason a sponsor must pay $100,000 for every second they want their product or service seen during the big game. It’s also the second biggest day for consumption of food in America trailing only Thanksgiving. How much do we eat as a nation? Almost 15,000 tons of chips and 4,000 tons of popcorn. Some 13.2 million pounds of avocado or approximately 26 million individual avocados for our guacamole dips. There are more pizza deliveries made during Super Bowl Sunday than on any other day of the year and I won’t even begin to discuss the amount of alcohol consumed. The bottom line is today is a day of gluttony for America and I plan to participate with the best of them. Go Giants and I hope everyone has a great Super Sunday.