Last year at Super Bowl time I was a guest blogger for the movie review site Flixchatter. This year, instead of ranking my all time favorite football and other sports movies, I give you a YouTube montage.

You gotta love pep speeches from the movies. I stumbled onto this video and immediately saw visions of it playing at NFL stadiums all over the league next year. It’s funny, inspirational and just in time for your Super Bowl XLV party. Play it and have some fun! Read more…

“For any country to be a country, you have to have an air force, a football team and a beer. You can get by without the air force and the football team, but you have to have a beer.”
Frank Zappa

I was never a big fan of Frank Zappa’s music, and I couldn’t tell you alot about his catalog, but I know that he gave out some great advice to kids from the midwest when he wrote the song “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow.” Read more…

“A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.”

and

“What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?”

W.C. Fields

Thirteen years ago, today, I got married to my wife at Northwestern College in  St. Paul Minnesota. We honyemooned in Tampa, FL and came home to a tiny little apartment full of weddding gifts.  Life was so much more simple  then. I believe the lack of simplicity, and the presence of wives are why men created bars many years ago.  I think that is what W.C. Fields was alluding to in these quotes. Of course, I could be wrong.  Just ask my wife.

“The greatest thing about the Internet is that you can quote something and totally make up the source.”
- Thomas Jefferson

I absolutely love this quote, and it is inspiring to me. Look for more “real quotes” and fake quotes soon. It kind of reminds me of stories on the internet. You know, just because you see it on the web, does the story that someone posts mean it’s true?

Just less than an hour ago, someone posted a story that Sage Rosenfels had been traded to the Giants along with Darius Reynauld for conditional picks in 2011 & 2012.

Is this true? Is the quote real?

And it looks like it’s true, but I can’t believe the Vikings actually did this. T-Jack over Sage makes no sense. Worse, they traded Darious Reynauld in the same deal. I thought he was the Vikings only real option for a kick returner?

I can’t believe the Vikings are actually going into battle this season with a 40-year Old QB who’s back-up is a consistently unproductive 2nd Round bust. I can’t understand why they are “banking” on Percy Harvin to be 100% for every game as a receiver and kick returner with his history of migraines?

They traded some “now” players for conditional prospects in future draft picks. How does this help? I ask myself, how did Thomas Jefferson know about the internet? The answers can only come in a time machine- which is something else I don’t think is real.

I am puzzled. Go Vikes.

“If you’re looking for Denny Green, look on the high road, ’cause that is where you will find me.”
- Press conference announcing contract buyout

we’ve gotta plan our work and work our plan”

“Underwood was a bonus pick”

“huh huh huh” (didn’t you love his laugh?)
…”It’s not often you get a chance to strut your stuff on national TV.” Green following the miracle win against the Giants in the ’97 playoffs

“The defending champions are out of it – the Rams have lost, so I think there’s a good chance we’ll see a new champion this year.”