Chris Stout
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Brett Favre News – The Third Tri-Annual Retirement Announcement
Oh my god, Favre retired again. And this time, it’s for reals, yo. Well, maybe it’s for reals. No one can really be sure. He says his ankle is all messed up. I can believe that. Look at how nasty his shit was after the NFC Championship game:
Gross, dude. The guy got offseason surgery to try to fix that mess, and according to Favre, his ankle isn’t responding as well as he’d hoped. So now he’s going to hang ‘em up and let the Tavaris Jackson era begin anew in Minnesota.
How can we believe this guy? He could say anything – my wife left me, I hate Wrangler jeans, I’m definitely playing, I’m definitely not playing – it doesn’t matter. We don’t believe him. We don’t believe a single word that comes out of his scruffy, graybeard pie-hole.
And why should we? He’s lost all credibility. Back in 2006, this guy was getting standing ovations in Solider Field as a sign of retirement respect from Bears fans. He ended up coming back for the 2007 season. In March 2008, Favre announced his first annual retirement and cried like a little girl for the people of Green Bay. Remember all those tears?
By July, Favre was itchin’ to come back to the team, but the Packers had moved on. Green Bay was committed to new starter Aaron Rodgers, but the team wanted to keep Favre from going to Minnesota. The Packers ended up filing tampering charges against the Vikings and Favre wound up being traded the Jets. After a promising season ended with string of losses and a bum shoulder, Favre’s time with the Jets was over. He retired for the second time in Februrary 2009.
In June 2009, Favre threatened to unretire again. By July of 2009, he told the Vikings he was staying retired. He signed with the team the next month. Favre went on to have the best season of his career. Now it’s August and he says he’s retiring again.
There’s an old saying in Tennessee…
So we’ll believe this retirement mumbo jumbo when Favre is put down for good. If the guy still has legs and at least one arm, he’s a threat to show up and play. The Vikings are prepared to give Favre more time, money, women, tractors, sizzurp – whatever it takes – if he’ll just unretire for a third time.
Favre’s old teammate, LeRoy Butler, broke it down nicely on a recent radio appearance with former NFL player Tom Waddle:
“I actually feel sorry for the guy because he can’t do like we do,” Butler said. “I’ve always said, from the day when he cried in front of the media in Wisconsin and retired, the guy is a football player. He’s not good at anything else.”
It’s true. Favre is really, really good at playing quarterback in the National Football League. I give him 3-4 weeks before he realizes that and shows up in Minneapolis wanting back in.
Aug 3rd
Teriyaki Smoothies
It’s the second straight Teriyaki Tuesday at MANjr. This week we bring you the sweet, sweet flavor of a rich and tangy Teriyaki Smoothie. Ya-yum…..
Image via Steve McQuaide
Aug 3rd
Black Star Beer – Maybe the Best Trip Ever Contest
Black Star Beer is running a sick giveaway on their Facebook page. Billed as “Maybe the Best Trip Ever,” this giveaway sounds like it’ll actually live up to its lofty name.
Here’s the situation – one grand prize winner will win a crazy trip for themselves and five other friends. The trip includes the following ridiculous items:
Fly with your buddies to Whitefish, Montana to tour the Great Northern Brewery, meet master brewers, make your own brew and design your own label
- Learn to fly fish with some masters and receive rods and cases as gifts
- Head out on a multi-day rafting trip with you and your buddies
- Spend a night in Glacier National Park at a Mountain Chalet under the stars and get pampered with some luxury spa treatments
- Board a private plane from Kalispell to Sacramento for two practice sessions with the Sacramento Kings
- Get back on a plane and head to Vegas for a free stay at a Las Vegas hotel suite that includes VIP poolside cabana action, dinner at a five-star restaurant and VIP table service
Black Star Beer is also throwing in a Flip video camera and a Canon camera so that you can document this crazy trip. And you also get some other Black Star Beer gear and a hoodie too
If this trip sounds expensive as hell, that’s cause it is. If you read the official rules, the Approximate Retail Value (ARV) of all prizes is $55,000. Da-damn!
In case you didn’t get all that, here’s a video for further explanation:
Entering the contest is super easy. Just check out the Black Star Beer Facebook page, follow the instructions, and you could be off to Whitefish/Sac-Town/Vegas in no time. Good luck!
Aug 3rd
Erin Andrews and Kendra Andrews Ready for the Step Up 3D Premiere
Everyone knows Erin Andrews. She’s that sweet, sizzlin’ girl-next-door sideline reporter that makes people wanna drill holes in hotel rooms just a to get a glimpse of her ironing her clothes all naked and hot-like. But did you know she has a taller, more ginger, slightly slaggier sister named Kendra?
Yep, it’s true. And tonight’s a big night for the sisters Andrews. Kendra’s new movie, Step Up 3D premieres tonight, and the sisters Andrews did themselves up something fierce before they hit the red carpet. We’re talking tight-tight dresses, big hair and layers of makeup thick enough to make Rachel Dratch look like Megan Fox. Check out the Twitpic:
Aug 2nd
Link Juice
Ana Beatriz Barros proves that they just make ‘em better in Brazil (Mankind Unplugged)
The top 10 female strikers in MMA (Heavy)
Jessica Alba shows her butt (CelebJihad)
The 5 sexiest women you don’t know yet (Men’s Fitness)
The 15 worst types of people in America (BroBible)
32 Classic 80’s Sitcom Openings (EgoTV)
U.S. drinking rate is at a 25-year high (Asylum)
7 horrible movie haircuts that we wouldn’t wish on our worst enemy (MTV Clutch Blog)
How not to act like an NYC tourist (Perez Solomon)
Gigantic Jennifer Love Hewitt jiggling boob GIFS part 2 (COED Magazine)
Aug 2nd
Snooki Mug Shot
If you thought this chick looked tore-up before, wait till you see this mugshot:
Score one for hot messes everywhere!
Aug 2nd
New York Jets DT Kris Jenkins Uses Cookies to Win Weight Loss Competition
The Jets have a lot of big dudes on their team. They also have a pretty big guy serving as head coach. Rex Ryan, that loveable loudmouth who brought in an element of swagger that the Jets sorely needed last season, underwent gastric-band surgery back in March. The slimming procedure was just the first step toward a larger weight loss program for Ryan.
Back in May, Ryan challenged two other members of the team – defensive tackle Kris Jenkins and offensive tackle Damien Woody – to a weight loss competition. They called it “The Biggest Winner.”
“I would say something like ‘Get your popcorn ready,’ but we don’t need to be eating popcorn for this,” Woody told the Jets team website back in May. “I don’t have any trash-talking right now. This is an idea that Coach Ryan thought about and it’s a great idea. We’re going to see who the best man is.”
Well the results are in, and Kris Jenkins, who Ryan recently convinced not to retire, is The Biggest Winner. Jenkins lost 33 pounds, Woody lost 26 pounds and Ryan dropped 20 pounds. How did Jenkins do-it? He enlisted the help of Miami-based weight-loss expert Dr. Sanford Siegal and followed the Dr. Siegal Cookie Diet. That’s right. Jenkins did all that damage with cookies.
“I’m a very competitive person so I’m not surprised that I won, but I can’t believe I won with the help of cookies!” Jenkins said after the final weigh-in.
The two losers of the competition, Woody and Ryan, will now have to make donations to Jenkins’ favorite charity.
Aug 2nd
Interview with Steelers RB Rashard Mendenhall
This is a big year for Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall. The 23-year-old former first round pick is entering the season as the undisputed starter in Pittsburgh, and he’ll be called upon to run the rock early and often. After Fast Willie Parker lost a step (or two or three), he got the ax and now he’s off to join Mike Shanahan’s 2006 all-star fantasy backfield in Washington. Super Bowl XLIII hero Santonio Holmes knuckleheaded his way off the team, earned a four-game suspension for smoking bowls and got traded to the Jets for a measly fifth round pick. After his dirtbag antics in Georgia, Ben Roethlisberger earned a suspension that’ll keep him on the sidelines for at least the first quarter of the season (maybe more if the Commish doesn’t reduce his suspension from six games to four). That’s a big chunk of the offense that won’t be available to start the season. So yea Rashard, no pressure, man.
The Steelers were a pass-happy offense last season, but with so many weapons missing in the passing game, the ground attack will have to be heavily featured. Mendenhall needs to be up for the challenge. He has no choice, really.
I had a chance to speak with Rashard while he was at the ESPN Rise Games. A brand ambassador for Champion, Mendenhall discussed the Champion Athlete’s Creed, a set of principles designed to promote fair play and sportsmanship for young athletes, his new role has the top option in the offense, what it’s like preparing two quarterbacks for the season and Mendenhall’s assessment of his fantasy value this year. Here’s the video:
Jul 30th
