Washington Redskins Bruce Allen Must Fire Mike Shanahan ASAP

This is a call to action for Washington Redskins GM Bruce Allen.

Bruce, if you have any ounce of common sense, you will fire Redskins Head Coach Mike Shanahan immediately.

The problem is the modern slave mentality that's still pervasive in football today allows a person like Shanahan to get a head coaching job, even after Denver Broncos Owner Pat Bowlen fired him.   

Bolen was right.

Mike Shanahan has become a franchise-killer. His inability to relate to black players and his consistent use of not just racial code words, but racist treatment of players like Donovan McNabb and Albert Haynesworth while not criminal, should be.   Plus, Shanahan's grasp of the modern game is simply not there any more.

The modern NFL game has passed Shanahan by. His son, Offensive Coordinator Kyle Shanahan, shows the same "in the box" unimmaginative play calling and play design that's plagued Mike for several years. Many of the current offensive innovations, from quarterback runs to fake wide receiver screen pass / draw plays, and constant use of runs out of the shotgun / spread, aren't in the Redskins system.

And Mike Vick?

Ha.

While Coach Shanahan may praise Philadelphia Eagles QB Mike Vick, the fact is Mike Shanahan would have ruined Vick had he coached him.   Indeed, Shanahan would have benched Vick for Rex Grossman, then came up with some off-the-wall reason to justify his move.

Mike's problem is he can't stand anyone black who is smart, and I say this from experience.

When the Broncos played the Oakland Raiders in 2001, this blogger was one of the Raiders press team members.  After a game that saw the Broncos use a four-wide-receiver offense to make up for the lack of a healthy tight end, I asked Mike about that.

Well, I tried to.

Shanahan was actually flustered that I asked him a technical question.  He looked as if that wasn't supposed to come from my mouth.  I never forgot that episode of my life, and its "colored" my view of Mike ever since.   It caused me to think he's one of those people who's not comfortable with anyone who's black who's "mind is on fire," perhaps because he's threatened by them.

Sad.

Thus, when Mike benched McNabb and basically kicked dirt on him, I knew what was up with that.  Mike can't deal with smart black guys, and I'll stand tall by that assertion.

Mike Shanahan will not bring a division championship to Washington. Bruce. Coach Shanahan wlll ruin your career as GM and fast.

Bruce Allen, save yourself.

Fire Mike Shanahan.

Terrell Owens Calls ProFootballTalk.com "Jerks"

Well, ProFootballTalk.com is really living up to this blogger's billing of the site as "The TMZ of Football."

Just as TMZ gets under the skin of some celebrities, ProFootballTalk.com is getting under the skin of some NFL players, namely one Cincinnati Bengals Wide Receiver Terrell Owens, who called the staff of PFT "jerks" on Twitter.

Here's T.O.'s tweet:

terrellowens Terrell Owens

@ProFootballTalk i put blame on every1!! i said frm the top-down!!! spin it how u want, i'm used 2 it! u guys r jerks!

14 Dec Favorite Retweet Reply

Terrell's tweet was in response to criticism over his expressed anger at the Bengals performance.  And really, Terrell's not the problem.  He had 72 catches for 983 yards and nine touchdowns.

If the Bengals don't keep Owens, they really are losers.  

T.O.'s a great player.  He just wants to win.

Bring him to Oakland.  Or how about with the Eagles and Mike Vick?

TIME Person Of The Year Mark Zuckerberg Not Julian Assange - Time Wimps Out

TIME "Person Of The Year" Facebook President Mark Zuckerberg, and not Wikileak's Editor Julian Assange?

Yep. TIME wimped out big time.

Nothing against Facebook or it's founder and President Mark Zuckerberg, but Wikileaks and Julian Assange should have been named "Person Of The Year." Heck, Assange was the leading vote-getter. But you know someone connected with the drive to bring down Assange contacted TIME and begged and perhaps, maybe, paid them in some way not to go with what seems to be public support for Julian.

So, TIME did what any risk-adverse corporate brand would do: they wimped out and named Zuckerberg for the prize.

Facebook and Zuckerberg will be around for a while. TIME knows it could have named Zuckerberg in 2009 and could do so in 2011. By contrast, Wikileaks and Mr. Julian Assange are a product of 2010.

Julian Assange should have been TIME's "Person Of The Year."

40-Year-Old Virgin Stabbing - Shelley Malil Had Trophy Blonde Issue

40-Year-Old Virgin Stabbing a World away from Maya Moore. From the good news of Maya Moore and UCONN, we go to the bad news of the 40-Year-Old Virgin Stabbing and Actor Shelley Malil.

Just looking at this, this blogger contends that Shelley Malil has a "Trophy Blonde Issue" where he had to possess a white, blonde woman. The accounts of his relationship with Kendra Beebe in The Daily Mail UK seem to back my claim, but before I go there, let me explain.

Some men of color in America, and fortunately not all by any stretch, think they have to have a white, blonde woman to improve their self-image and self-esteem. In other words, in a World that discriminates against them, having a blonde woman would seem to be a way of getting revenge.

That's the only way to explain why Shelley Malil, who was in the movie 40-Year-Old Virgin, would take the crazy action of stabbing Beebe 23 times.

A man who loves a woman doesn't seek to harm her. Period. And, yes, my point about dark men is really stupid when you consider how blonde women are sought after by white guys, too. But let's press on.

Reading the Daily Mail UK's reports of their stormy relationship only gives strength to my claim about Mr. Malil:

Malil, 45, testified at trial that he visited Beebe at her San Marcos home in suburban San Diego in August 2008 to apologise for taking personal items from her house and to warn that he e-mailed sexually explicit photos of the couple to her co-workers...He stabbed her with a kitchen knife after finding her drinking wine with another man.

Now other reports were that he found her with another man in bed, not that she was just drinking wine with another man.  Shelley went by her home - Ms. Beebe's home - and found her with a guy named David Maldonado in her backyard.

That's crazy, man.

It reads like he was stalking her to her house.  Now how did he meet her?  Via an online dating site.  Frankly, while many people use online dating sites - and I have too and have a profile, that I let just lapse - there's a huge risk involved with picking a person out just by looks.  It's better to get to know the woman; there's something to be said for meeting a woman the old fashioned way: in public or via friends.  To me, it's just more authentic.

Plus, it seems a little much for an actor like Shelley Malil, who's face is already out there, to have to use an online dating site to find someone.

Think about it.  The 40-Year-Old Virgin - where Malil played Haziz, a co-worker of Steve Carell's character in 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' - was made and released in 2005. Shelley met Kendra online in 2007. That means even after his stardom, Malil couldn't find a date just hanging out in public.

Given how Malil treated Beebe, the whole tail seems to say more about how screwed-up he was than anything about society. Remember, Kendra picked him out, too.

What does this say about her? Nothing. She had male friends. Big deal. In fact, that she had male friends and Malil was stalking her, says even more about his issues. Heck, if he can't find a hot woman to hang out with in LA, there's really something wrong with him.

Whatever's going on, blonde ambition or whatever (and there's nothing wrong with thinking blondes are hot at all), Shelley will have a long time in the slammer to figure that out now. He's been sentenced to life in prison, with possibility of parole.

What a way to screw up one's life.

The one take-away should be this: be happy with who you are and don't let a woman define who you are.

Also, stop Internet trolling.  The guys who troll and flame bloggers on the Internet should get off the computer and spend time out in public meeting nice women.  They need the social skills practice, anyway.

And if you're married and Internet trolling, you're wasting valuable time you could be spending with your wife.

Go to her, now!

Maya Moore and UCONN Women's Basketball Set Win Record!

Congratulations to Maya Moore (photo at left) and the UCONN Women's Basketball team. UCONN set a new college basketball record of 89 straight wins. In other words, the University of Connecticut hasn't lost since the 2008 Presidential Race.

UCONN star Maya Moore was hot, scoring 41 points, and dominating play against Florida State, with the team winning 93 to 62.

OK. That aside, let's talk.

All of that crap about comparing the UCONN women's team to the UCLA Men's Basketball Team coached by the late John Wooten is just that. Crap. It doesn't matter that the UCONN team that set the record for all of college basketball is female.

What matters is they did it, and we should get behind women's sports for that reason: we're in a golden age of great female athletes at play.  From Maya Moore at UCONN to Lindsay Vonn and Julia Mancuso in skiing, and the growing of acceptance of the strong woman in American culture, this is a great time for women in sports.

It's a total shame more women's sports don't get the support they need to generate profits. And it's really not just the fault of men, but women too.

So how do we get past this problem? Easy.

Buy tickets to women's sports event.

It's that simple.

FCC and the Internet

Today there was a vote in "net neutrality," which has now been approved. The FCC claims that this is aimed at protecting Internet freedom, but given the FCC's track record - that's a bit hard to believe.

The FCC is known for censoring what is on television & radio - and suing those who are unable to keep things clean. The FCC is in charge of what words need to be bleeped and at what time things are allowed to get a little dirtier than usual - but the Internet has not had to deal with the FCC until now.

Internet in the United States has seemed to be a basic right - there is no one in the government saying that we can't go to specific web sites (minus this WikiLeaks scandal and military not being allowed to access the site). Other countries have banned Facebook and other sites, but the United States has kept it so citizens have the freedom to view whatever it is they would like.

The Christian Science Monitor reports that the "rules" of this new approved net neutrality include:

• Transparency for consumers about how the Internet's core players manage the network.

• A right for consumers and innovators to send and recieve lawful traffic and to connect devices of their choice to the network.

• A level playing field, in which government regulators don't pick winners and losers.

• Reasonable flexibility for network management and service pricing, to promote investment and innovation by private firms.

FCC critics on the left say that, by stepping back from bolder ideas it had considered earlier this year, the agency has caved in to corporate interests. The group Free Press, for example, argues the commission should issue an outright ban on "paid prioritization" deals, in which an Internet service provider cuts deals that put data from some clients on a faster track than others. (The FCC said such deals are "unlikely to satisfy" its new policy.)

But on the right, critics say the FCC is trying to fix something that's not broken, and that existing antitrust laws can be used to protect consumers if the need arises. Further, they say, the FCC has no authority from Congress to regulate the Internet.

Obama issued a statement where he called the FCC's decision a victory and even said that it would help freedom of speech.


CNN reports that the new rules could make it so some Internet users are charged more than others based on the type of media used such as watching videos.

"The rules are designed to, in effect, keep the companies that own the internet's real-world infrastructure from slowing down some types of websites or apps -- say, those belonging to a competitor -- or speeding up others for high-paying clients."

The vote was 3 Democrats to 2 Republicans, CNN reports:

The vote was along party lines, with the commission's three Democrats voting to "concur" with the rules and its two Republicans voting against them.

Commissioner Robert McDowell, a Republican, called the vote a "radical step" and said it puts the FCC "on a collision course" with the courts, which he predicted will throw the rules out.
"The FCC is not Congress," he said. "We cannot make laws."

Republicans have largely argued the government has no right to interfere with business practices online.

But CNN reports that not all Democrats are happy with the way this is playing out completely:

Commissioner Michael Copps, a Democrat, signed off on the rules but called them only a "first step in the right direction."

"In my book, today's action could have, and should have, gone further," he said. "Going as far as I would have liked was, however, not in the cards."

For example, he said, the rules won't absolutely prevent broadband providers from "pay for priority" -- giving faster service to those able to pay for it, or to one favored business over another."

Bret Michael and Kristi Gibson Engaged

With all the celebrity break-ups it's good to know that there's some love going on. This is really strange, because Bret Michaels had three seasons of "Rock of Love" (which were such a guilty pleasure), but now he is getting married to Kristi Gibson who he has been with off and on for 16 years.

Reminds me of Flavor of Love. He had all those episodes (Flava Flav), but then at the end of it all he got back with his "baby momma." Don't remember the name of her, but it was on the last reunion show.

So, basically the point of Rock Of Love was to give some girls 15-minutes-of fame, break some hearts, drink a little and get famous again. Well, there goes all the beliefs that true love can be found through a reality tv dating show. Oh wait, those beliefs went out the window when Bobby and Tila broke up after the first episode of "Shot at Love with Tila Tequila."

Anyway, yes: Bret Michaels is engaged to Kristi Gibson. This information was obtained from MTV.com :

Bret Michaels and his girlfriend finally hit the right note. The "Rock of Love" and "Celebrity Apprentice" star proposed to his on-again, off-again companion of 16 years, Kristi Gibson, during the finale of his latest VH1 reality show, "Bret Michaels: Life as I Know It."


I didn't even know Bret had a new VH1 realty show. Wow, I'm behind the times.
Well, congratulations!