Last week was "Doppelganger Week" on Facebook. You were supposed to change your profile picture to somebody who you look like.
For example, I am not their friends on Facebook, but I could easily see Danny Gokey and Mark Attanasio switching pics:
What I learned was... my Facebook Friends are delusional, vain or a nasty combination of both. No, Frank, you don't look like Bruce Willis. Patrick.. you don't look like Bruce Willis either. Sandy, you are not Sandra Bullock.
I didn't participate. Mainly because I am fully aware that no celebrities look like me. Those of you with Hi-Def TV's should be thanking your lucky stars. Two websites that were designed to use face recognition and help you find your celebrity twin were popular last week. This is what they came up with for me: Option A) Troy Aikman. Option B) Matt Damon
Umm.. Strike One. Strike Two... and Hopefully Strike 3 with option C) Tom Poston
It's okay if I don't look like anyone in Hollywood. I'm okay with that. To quote John Candy (hey, maybe someday he might work for me) in Planes, Trains and Automobiles "I like me, my friends like me, my wife likes me. Cause I'm the genuine article". Just be happy i'm on radio, not on TV.
You now have what we used to here in Wisconsin.... A quarterback who fought valiantly and courageously "for the love of the game" who without you wouldn't have made it to the NFC Championship game. But a quarterback who's boneheaded play ended your season none the less. Not only ended your season, but ended your season in a tremendously frustrating, gut-wrenching foolish fashion that makes you wonder why you're even wearing that #4 jersey. Been there... done that.
Oh, there's a bonus. Now, you get to also enjoy the other part that comes with Brett Favre. That part about the future of the team you love being held hostage while he decides whether to ride his tractor or comeback for another year.
Yes, the NFC championship game was a perfect way for this story to end... for now. He reminded us all why we loved him. He also reminded us why he drove us nuts.
Hope you enjoy the Super Bowl... on your new TV.... (by the way, seeing this commercial before the game really ticked me off. Now, it doesn't bother me as much...
While lawmakers in Washington fight it out over health care, a woman from Wisconsin is in the nation's capitol too... fighting the system for her son. As discussed on WMN, here's the blog where you can keep track of Matt Kreuger. A young man from the Watertown area who's in the fight of his life... and who gives us a very personal example of troubles in our health care system...
I am pretty sure Packers Coach Mike McCarthy wasn't still on his knees as we talked for the final time this season.
But nearly a week after the rip-your-heart-out-throw-it-on-the-ground-and-urinate-on-it loss, he's clearly not over it either. TAKE A LISTEN as the coach tells us he can't sleep. He is still haunted by the overtime series. After listening to him, the thing that really hits me now is that overthrow. That everyone knew it was a play they could score on. Jennings ran a perfect route, the throw was just way off. He also would like an additional official on the field to watch the QB.
A couple my other thoughts nearly a week later. Despite this video, which haters insist show Dom Capers sleeping, I don't blame him:
He was working with a banged up secondary and just didn't have the horses. No Al Harris, no Pat Lee, no Will Blackmon. Instead he gets Jarrett Bush, who really is just a special teamer (and a good one), Josh Bell--who just joined the team a few weeks before, Brandon Underwood-- a rookie and Matt Giordano. It is no surprise that when this secondary went up against a good veteran QB, Favre, Roethlisberg, Kurt Warner, they get shredded.
I also am SO OVER blaming the referees on this too. It would have hurt more had the facemask caused the fumble. The fact is, the ball was out before the facemask was grabbed. Yes it should have been a penalty. Yes, two downs before it there should have been a roughing the passer penalty too... but so many other things happened before.
This Packers season was a crazy ride. I never gave up hope McCarthy would lead them to playoffs, even after the Tampa loss. Check the blog for proof of that. Here's hoping Ted Thompson gives the coach a few more horses in 2010. In the meantime, if you need me, i'll still be on my knees.
General Larry Platt got his 15-minutes of fame on American Idol. But he was already famous in the Atlanta area and not for his catchy little song but for his decades of being a civil rights "general". Check out his backstory here.
With that, I give you.. "Pants on the Ground: The Remix":
And then there's this. Jimmy Fallon doing Neil Young doing Pants on the Ground. I love Neil Young and Fallon's impersonation is unreal:
Having said that,I give you this video from NFL films. If you can take it, fast forward to 1:25, and check out how the coach took the final play of the game.
