Anyone who has partaken in any type of gambling has most likely had a bad beat once or twice - it happens to all of us.  Sometimes its while depositing our college rent check from mom and dad into our online poker account and sometimes its taking an 8-team parlay for $5 because it pays out like $1800.  Either way, sooner or later you're going to get burned.  I'm sure there are a bunch of bad ones coming out of the Super Bowl yesterday, and I heard one today I had to pass along. 

Well, football season is officially over.  I’ll wait a few seconds to let that sink in…awful feeling isn’t it?  Well it ended on a good note, in my opinion.  That Super Bowl was fun to watch.  I don’t really see how anyone can hate on Peyton Manning or Drew Brees and I think that is what made this a fun game to watch.  Colts fans would probably argue that point but it is what it is.  It was cool to see a team that had never been in the Super Bowl win the whole thing.  It gives hope to the other franchises that have never had the chance to participate in the big game.  The problem I have today is reading all these stories of how wrong it was for Peyton Manning and Reggie Wayne to leave the field without shaking hands. GASP!  Who cares?  They just lost one of the biggest games of their career, I think they have the right to retreat to the locker without hesitation.  Peyton Manning came out today saying that it wasn’t a disrespect thing but more of a respect thing.

"I certainly know how it was three years ago when we won . . . " Manning said. "There's the stage being set up, and the celebration, and it's time for the Saints to celebrate. It's their field. They deserve the moment.”

   Like many football fans I do not have a serious rooting interest in either the Saints or Colts, but I do like both teams and have been struggling with figuring out which team to root for in Super Bowl XLIV. I like Peyton Manning and Drew Brees equally, and overall I like the way both teams play. So while procrastinating at work, ie... bouncing around youtube, I came across two of my favorite post game coaching rants. Jim Mora's "Diddley Poo" and  "Playoffs!?" rants.  The fairly obvious observation was made that Mora in fact has coached both the Saints and the Colts.

   So I figured why not allow my personal preference of the two rants decide which team I'll root for Sundy. Lets call it the youtube equilivance of a coin flip. Mora had many famous and hilarious rants in his time of being a head coach. None more popular then these though.  I wanted to go back and get some back ground on Mora and the rants themselves. The first thing I noticed was, Mora actually was a pretty darn good coach in the NFL. And probably should be getting some credit for the fact that these two teams are in the Big Game, this year.  Lets start with his tenure with the Saints...

It seems as though Tim Tebow has gotten together a fall back plan for when in the event that his NFL career does not go how he intends…

I know you all think I have forgotten that today is Wednesday.  I have not.  It was a combination of work, sleep and National Signing Day that held me up.  After I got over my initial disappointment with Seantrel Henderson and I got in a quick nap, I figured I had better post a Hump Day Hottie before you neanderthals start flipping cars and burning couches.  Todays Hump Day Hottie is April Bowlby.  April hasn't been in the game long and really hasn't done all that much compared to her other HDH sisters, but none the less she is a smokie.  Most all of you will recognize Apes from her role on Two and a Half Men as "Kandi", the hottie that Alan would only be able to attain if his life was a television sitcom...  Anyway, she has also been in CSI and CSI:NY and has had roles in the short lived Freddie and Stacked.  Congrats to April on being named the first HDH of the month and I am sorry, again, for the delay. 

Well, as I finished up another fine episode of Blue Mountain State, it is technically national signing day (it’s only 9:30 on the West Coast, but it is 12:30 on the East Coast). Signing day is a day where 17 & 18 year old kids get to enjoy the spotlight. One of those kids that will get to enjoy the spotlight is the mammoth Seantrel Henderson. Henderson has been regarded by Scout as the # 1 recruit in the country and Rivals as the # 2 recruit in the country. In fact, he held the preseason # 1 ranking on Scout and ended with the same ranking. ESPN, which is the worst recruiting database on the face of the planet, ranked him just outside of the top 5. Regardless, at 6’7” 320, the kid is an absolute can’t miss prospect. For OSU followers, he may remind you of Mike Adams, who after his Army pre-game/post-game showing ended up being a top 10 recruit in the country. OSU followers are hoping that if Henderson does pick OSU, he does not end up like Adams, who would rather hit his bong then someone who is lined up across from him. For those who are big NFL followers, he would remind you a lot of Bryant McKinnie, who plays for the Minnesota Vikings.