Brian "The Predicament" Cushing

Repeatedly, CBS informed us in the lead-up and during the early moments of today's game that Houston's Brian Cushing is a Jersey boy.

Judging from this picture, while in the NY metro-area playing the Jets, he is no doubt trying to score roofies from Nick Swisher.

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Misleading Headline

AP/Sporting News: Disappointing Jets have plenty of questions

• Why are we so irrelevant in the annals of history of American pop music?
• What does Fall Out Boy have that we don't?
• Why isn't our classic "Crush on You" featured on more CW sitcoms?
• Is Rick Ruben available for collaboration? He won't return our calls.
• Didn't one of us marry Janet Jackson?
  
• What's a Brickashaw?
• I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling. What we know is we can improve. Chad Pennington, our quarterback, missed the first part of the season, and we struggled. We're looking to next season, we're looking to make a noise now and ... I wanna kiss you!

Wait, that's a statement, not a question.

Intelivision Gambling Ring Busted

The AP is reporting:

Former NFL player Todd Burger was one of five men arrested over the weekend in a bust of an alleged Internet gambling operation.

Burger, who played guard for the Chicago Bears and the New York Jets, allegedly collected gambling debts for suspect Anthony "Cheese" Pecoraro.

Upon learning Burger worked below Cheese in this alleged scheme, an HHR contact in the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office and New Jersey State Police leaked us this diagram of the complex organized crime ring:


The same source divulged that Anthony "Weiner" Alphonso and his brothers Santino and Salvatore served as bag men along with Freddie "Pickles" Muccerelli.

More on this when it become available.

Stop Snitchin'

2007 New England Patriots Team Photo

On this evening's Sports Center, they did a piece previewing the Jets/Pats game this week. It featured several Boston Globe writers saying things like "you don't cross Bill Belichick" and because Eric Mangini dropped the dime on the Pats' coach, New England would be out to "embarrass" the Jets, put up 70 points on them and settle for nothing less than Mangenious' "head on platter."

The season that the Patriots are putting on this year is amazing. I am not a fan, but sit in awe when I see them play. They are professional, efficient and ruthless. Do they have something to prove?

Yes.

They do.

While the Boston Globers were alluding to the forthcoming bloodbath the Pats will inevitably lay on the Jets, the fact that it is heightened due to Belichick's visceral hatred for his former protege is sickening.

What's worse in your mind? Being a cheater or being a snitch?

How quickly we forget that Belichick was fined half a million dollars - the highest possible monetary punishment the league can dole out. The Pats were hit for another 1/4 mil and lost a first round draft pick.

Belichick isn't some victim, some innocent man with a chip on his shoulder looking to right an unjust wrong. He was proven to have cheated and was punished heavily.

We chastise Barry Bonds for cheating, for taking an easy, unethical shortcut to rewrite the record books. Is this any different from doing the same, inevitably winning three Super Bowl championships and being well on the way to winning #4 this year? Far be it from me to defend Bonds, but I can't seem to find a difference between him and Coach B.

Barry would have been well on his way to Cooperstown without his little extra helpers. The Pats this year and in the last 5 could have been great teams without Spy-Gate espionage, but now we'll never know. Just like Barry. Tainted.

Just don't blame Mangini. If you do, I bet you're the kind of person who'd wear a "Free Mike Vick" t-shirt.

Kissing Ernie Keebler

Apparently the studios were not yet ready to make another gay Cowboy movie since Tony Romo is still in the onset of his career. Famously gay Cowboy Jake Gyllenhaal has been commissioned to play Broadway Joe Namath in a movie about the Hall of Fame Jet's life.

Might we suggest, Ernie Keebler playing the role of Suzy Kolber?

I wish I could kiss you. No quit you. No kiss you. No Quit you... No...