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Woman Attempts to Slaughter Brett Favre Goat

According to winona daily news - yea, i know - a woman brought her car into a Tires Plus repair shop in Winona and whilst filling out the proper repair forms mentioned, “Oh, by the way, I have a goat in my trunk.”

Swell.  She explained that she planned to butcher it.  Apparently the goat had Favre’s #4 shaved into its side.  Long story short, repair shop calls animal rescue and the cops …et voila!  Woman arrested for animal cruelty and the goat is saved.  nifty.

Stupid goat, getting a Packers fan into trouble. Right? i mean come on!  who’s with me ???

meh.

full story from Winona local news here.

Oh, and in case you were curious, Winona is here:

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The NFL: Where Players Shoot Themselves in The Leg & Coaches Choke Each Other

According to a National Football Post story, Raiders Assistant Coach Hanson was beaten and choked by Raiders Head Coach, Tom Cable, known for being a violent nut ball.  According to the Post story, of which i am sure we are going to hear more about shortly, assistant coach Randy Hanson had his jaw broken and was choked by Coach Cable.

Here’s Randy Hanson, victim, delinquent and all around weasel:

And here’s Raiders Head Coach Tom Cable, who looks like, well, someone who would break your jaw and try to choke you to death:

And here’s Doug Llewelyn, iconic host of The People’s Court:

Anyhoo, apparently Hanson was a crummy assistant coach, with a history of undermining the coaching staff…a lot.

Apparently Coach Cable was trying to reduce Hanson’s involvement with the team; yet Hanson kept showing up for practices even though he was instructed not too (Hanson was confusing the players with shoddy coaching)…sounds like that guy - you know, that irritating type that just_doesn’t_get_it.  Which is a horrible presence around someone like Cable who is large and has a short temper.  Not that I am defending the violent head coach Cable, but recall that Hanson was also the weasel that was in the middle of the Al Davis firing Head Coach Kiffin last year…

I guess Cable just couldn’t take it anymore and in a staff meeting sucker punched Hanson and choked him until the other coaches pulled him off.

Anyways, the NFL: Super star players running dog fighting rings and shooting themselves in the leg because they can’t keep their illegal weapons concealed in their waistbands, and coaches choking each other out…  What’s next?   Steamy cheerleader drama? Mascots defiling other Mascots?

Oh, and here’s  Ronnie Lott, who has nothing to do with the story, but was the greatest football player of all time:

Some SF Bike Habits

Lo, i am tempted to start this post off by commenting on hipster-cyclist smugness, or extremists cycling culture, or people who rely on physical activities to define their identity…but that’s not in the cards for this post.  It would take me too off topic.  Nor is this a post about the idiocy of riding a brake-less fixed gear bike around in one of the most hill-y cities in the world. (this article here, tops it off anyways).

No, no, this post is about trends that i have seen amongst the SF biking ilk that are dangerous, stupid or annoying and falls in the “WTF are they doing?  they are going to get themselves killed!” category.  (note, i bike myself, occasionally)

1.  Riding a bike down a sidewalk and across the crosswalk way faster than people walk.  (cars making a right hand turn won’t see your dumb-speeding a55)

2. Riding your bike on the rightside of  car and blowing through a stop sign when that car’s blinker shows it is about to make a right hand turn

3. Riding a bike, without brakes, in san francisco

4. Riding a bike, without brakes, in san francisco, and blowing stop signs, thinking that the appearance of trying to slow down by dragging a toe of a shoe makes it ok

5. Riding a bike, without brakes, in san francisco, blowing stop signs, thinking that the appearance of trying to slow down by dragging a toe of a shoe makes it ok,  while wearing headphones and listening to music.

6. Riding a bike, without brakes, in san francisco, blowing stop signs, thinking that the appearance of trying to slow down by dragging a toe of a shoe makes it ok,  while wearing headphones and listening to music, and NOT wearing a helmet.  idiot.

7. heckling drivers during a critical mass ‘outing’ and/or throwing beer/water/your fist on their car.  Being part of a large mob like crowd won’t stop the wrong guy that you do this to from getting out of his car and hitting you in the face.

8. twittering or text-ing or whatever the F it is you are doing with your cell phone, while cycling

9. participating in the ‘tweed day’ rides in the mission - you are a joke and part of a growing annoying wanna-be-hipster crowd that is ruining the mission - go back to the marina district you terds. Im-A-gonna-throw-a-bannana-peel-in-front-a-you.

ok, ok, i lied, i had to get in a hipster jab there.  somewhere.

you know what seeing a bunch of tweed-jacketed wawnnabe-hipsters riding down mission street on their rickety bikes is like?  It’s like this one time i was at a Halloween party and there were 4 dudes dressed as the characters from Will Ferrell’s Anchorman movie singing “afternoon delight” (badly, but trying very hard to harmonize) to people with polite smiles (which hid their gritted teeth)…you know the characters i’m talking about? Ron Burgandy.  Though the movie was funny, seeing 4 dudes dressed up and acting out scenes and songs from the movie, was not funny.  I like that movie - i didn’t appreciate their homage.  I like the mission, I like tweed jackets, and I like bikes…

10. Heckling and banging on a car’s hood …even if you were rightly wronged - see point 7 - likely you will have the same result.

<note - SF cops. you suck. write tickets to the offending cyclists…it’ll save lives - i know a TON of riders and i don’t think a single one has ever been stopped by a cop>

Syracuse Beats Cornell

For the lax fans out there…a good video compilation of one of the most amazing come from behind wins in the game’s history:

NCAA Lacrosse Championship Game 2009