Rich Eisen Running the 40 at the Combine

The NFL Scouting Combine came to an end yesterday and NFL Network's Rich Eisen continued his annual tradition of running the 40 yard dash in a full suit. The video of Rich running the 40 is funny by itself but the video gets far better when they superimpose images of actual NFL prospects running alongside Rich.

NFL Fantasy Files

The Fantasy File series, created by Blue Room, started in August 2006 with three high profile NFL players, Neil Rackers (Arizona Cardinals), Chris Simms (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) & Braylon Edwards (Cleveland Browns), performing some absolutely fantastic acts, crossing the line of possibility, in order to get picked.

Last year the New York-based creative services agency continued the campaign with the addition of six new videos to its “NFL Fantasy Files” series starring NFL personalities Marques Colston (New Orleans Saints), Mike Nugent (NY Jets), Andre Johnson (Houston Texans), Jason Campbell (Washington Redskins), David Akers (Philadelphia Eagles) and Marc Bulger (St. Louis Rams).

Four new 2008 “NFL Fantasy Files” videos have been released by Blue Room. This year the following NFL players are asked to perform their tricks: Laurence Maroney (New England Patriots), Mason Crosby (Green Bay Packers), Chris Cooley (Washington Redskins) and Chris Chambers (San Diego Chargers)

To date the “NFL Fantasy Files” videos have received in excess of 4.7 million YouTube views! All videos are quite amusing to watch, even if you’re not a fan of the NFL or American Football in general.

[via ViralBlog]

Marshawn Lynch Values Family, Penguins

Even more reasons why Marshawn Lynch is the man. This guy seriously cracks me up. Check in the related posts for my previous Marshawn post, you will not be disappointed.

Marshawn Lynch has already earned himself an honorary passport to the Republic of People Everyone Should Think Are Totally Awesome Forever with an impressive resume of oddball accomplishments: his MarioKart victory celebration from his time at Cal, Beast Mode, his sporadically updated and even more sporadically punctuated blog at Yardbarker ... he's a five-tool player in the world of ROCK, and we're not even taking his professional accomplishments into account here.

His Sporting News Today profile does nothing to weaken our already high opinion of Lynch, where he answers questions in what must be complete Beast Mode:

What's on my iPod: "Keak The Sneak and da Farmboyz...Lee Majors...Li'l Boosie...Sleepy D." (And that's an incomplete list. There's more.)

Talent I'd most like to have: "Mackin'. Straight mackin'. No, I'd like to have the talent of a magician, so I could hypnotize all of the ladies!"

On my office walls: "A mural of me and everything important in my life that my cousin painted: it includes my mama, penguins..."

[via TSB]

Hulu’s Super Bowl Ad Comes With An Ad

Hulu’s Super Bowl Ad Comes With An Ad
by Erick Schonfeld on February 1, 2009 [from TechCrunch]


The Super Bowl is perhaps the one television event where people actually look forward to the ads because so much effort is put into each one. And every year, there are a handful of standouts. You can watch the ads plenty of places online, including on Hulu. You can even watch Hulu’s own Super Bowl ad on Hulu, which oddly enough is preceded by a regular Web video ad. That just seems wrong to me on so many levels, especially since Hulu itself (which is partly owned by NBC) probably didn’t have to pay for the spot

I guess you could argue that some of these commercials are now entertainment in their own right, and thus deserve their own mini-commercials. The Hulu spot with Alec Baldwin (above) is certainly one of the better ones. He delivers the line:

They say TV will rot your brain. That’s absurd. TV only softens the brain, like a ripe banana. To take it all the way, we’ve created Hulu.

There were also lots of ads that poked fun at the economic downturn, including an ETrade ad with talking babies and a Cash4Gold.com ad starring Ed McMahon and and MC Hammer. To get people to come into its restaurants, Denny’s decided to offer free breakfast to everyone in America on Tuesday. But my favorite is this one from Monster.com which asks, Need Another Job?

CareerBuilder hit the same theme, but wasn’t quite as funny. In fact, CareerBuilder’s ad which repeatedly shows a woman miserable with her job screaming in her car, is downright depressing.

Then, of course, the trailer to the new Star Trek movie debuted as well, which I will embed below just because I know you will watch it (the trailer for Transformers 2 will also be popular).

Which was your favorite Super Bowl ad, and why?

The Carolina Panthers & Jake Delhomme were "Losers" Last Weekend

Talk about kicking a man when he's down. It was painful enough to watch the press conference where the media proceeded to rip Jake Delhomme for being almost completely responsible for the Panthers playoff loss. The guy had the worst day of his life broadcast live on national TV, isn't that punishment enough? Apparently it isn't, someone decided to make this little video for Jake.

Marshawn Lynch aka Beast Mode

After hearing a rap song called "Marshawn Lynch" made by a bunch of Bay Area rappers I tried to find the song on YouTube. In my travels to find this song I found some other great videos of former Cal running back Marshawn Lynch. If you don't know who he is, he is a native of Oakland and is a big follower of the "hyphy movement." The videos proved to be pretty hilarious in my opinion so they are definitely worthy of a post here. BEAST MODE!

"Marshawn Lynch" Rap Song


Marshawn Lynch Playtime


The Mayne Event


2007 Draft


Marshawn tries to ghost ride the injury cart


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Plaxico Burress Shooting Update

Here's a few videos about the latest in the Plaxico Burress accidental shooting case.

Plaxico Burress' Agent, Drew Rosenhaus, Speaks on Monday Night Football


Mayor Bloomberg Wants Plaxico Burress In Jail


Giants Moving on Without Plaxico Burress


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Plaxico Burress Can't Handle a Weapon

Hardest Hits of the NFL Season

If you were watching Sunday Night Football last night you probably saw the vicious hit on Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Ike Hilliard that left him unconscious on the field for a few minutes. Seattle Seahawks linebacker Lofa Tatupu was also shaken up on the play and had to leave the game with a concussion. No doubt a fine is coming Leroy Hill's way as the hit was clearly helmet to helmet.

Lofa Tatupu & Leroy Hill hit Ike Hilliard
(Tatupu & Hilliard both suffered concussions, a fine is likely for Hill)


Adrian Wilson hits Trent Edwards
(Wilson was fined $25,000)


Eric Smith hits Anquan Boldin
(Smith was fined $50,000 and suspended 1 game)


Hines Ward puts a mean block on Keith Rivers...keep in mind Ward is a wide receiver and Rivers is a linebacker (Rivers is done for the season with a broken jaw, Ward will likely be fined)


Tom Brady hit by Bernard Pollard
(Brady tore his ACL & MCL and is done for the season)


Bonus Compilation

Lane Kiffin Fired.....Al Davis Still Owner

The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that Lane Kiffin was fired as the head coach of the Oakland Raiders today. Owner Al Davis let Kiffin know of the termination via a phone call. While the Raiders have been pretty bad the last few years, you can't blame it all on Kiffin. I actually think the Raiders have lots of talent and lots of potential and they could easily make some significant strides this year. Those strides will most likely come to a screeching halt but why would Al Davis care? Ohh wait he's the owner.....but he's CRAZY, so that explains it.

Tom Brady Hurt, Fantasy Footballers CRY

It's likely that if you had Tom Brady on your fantasy football team you used a 1st round pick to land the 2007 NFL MVP quarterback. If this is the case, you may want to sit down. Sources close to the Patriots say that Brady will miss the rest of the season with an ACL tear in his left knee.

During the first quarter of the 2008 season opener, Brady was hurt as he stepped up in the pocket to make a throw to wideout Randy Moss. Chiefs safety Bernard Pollard, who was on the ground, lunged forward and struck Brady’s leg, which buckled as he released the ball.

My advice to Tom Brady owners is go out and pick up Matt Cassel (Brady's backup) as quick as you can. If Cassel has already been taken by someone else then its OK to cry because you're fantasy team is in a lot of trouble.

Tis the Season...

...for football. While the NFL season coverage gets more intense in preparation for the start of the season don't forget that college football starts this week. Some teams begin playing as soon as tomorrow. While a lot of times the 1st game for major schools is nothing more than a warm up against a DII school there will undoubtedly be some drama (remember Michigan from last year).
The preseason rankings were released a few days ago and for the first time in school history, Georgia is the #1 ranked team in the preseason. Rounding out the top 5 are Ohio State, USC, Oklahoma and Florida.

Here's a link to Preseason USA Today Poll & AP Top 25 Poll

Here's a link to the schedule & TV listings for the week

College Gameday's Week 1 Preview

College Gameday's Conference Picks