Things Learned This Weekend

The Pro Bowl is the most boring of the "All-Star" games. On Sunday more people were talking about an NHL game than an NFL game, that means something is very wrong.

Djokovic is no Djoke. He looked really good winning the Australian Open while the usual top guys looked old and tired.

Sean White is the king of 80's hair rock, I mean snowboarding/skateboarding. He did his crazy, super human halfpipe tricks to win Superpipe gold for the 4th time at this years Winter X Games all while wearing a tight leather outfit.

Tweet of the Week

This week's TOTW is actually a series of tweets that all started with Antonio Cromartie saying that both the NFL and the NFLPA are acting like @$$%@%!# .

@Hasselbeck Matt Hasselbeck tweeted this before quickly deleting it -

"Somebody ask Cromartie if he knows what CBA stands for"

Then there was this -

A_Cromartie31 Antonio Cromartie

@Hasselbeck hey Matt if u have something to then say it be a man about it. Don't erase it. I will smash ur face in.

27 Jan Favorite Retweet Reply

And finally there was this -

Hasselbeck Matthew Hasselbeck

@A_Cromartie31 Sorry for the joke man. No hard feelings. DB's & QB's have a hard time getting along I guess sometimes. lol

27 Jan Favorite Retweet Reply

Classic Clips

Once in a while the stars align and a Heisman Trophy winner becomes the Super Bowl MVP. This happened on January 22, 1984 at Tampa Stadium in Super Bowl XVIII. Marcus Allen ran for a wild 74 yard Touchdown that helped cement The Raiders win.

Lock It Up

My lock of the week is Roger Federer over whoever he plays in the Australian Open Final on Saturday night. We know it will not be Rafael Nadal, as he got beat beat by fellow Spaniard Ferrer last night in straight sets. Also, Juan Martin Del Potro is out of the tournament, so Federer will not have to worry about that giant who was the last player to beat him in an Open Final.

Stay away from the Pro Bowl. No one plays hard and it's gonna be a shoot out. If there's one thing you can guarantee, it's that there will be no fines for devastating hits. There was something kind of cool about the Pro Bowl when it took place the week after the Super Bowl, kind of like a cold soda the day after a late night of partying, but hey, Roger Goodell is a genius who's changing everything about the greatest game of all time, who am I to question?

Lock It Up 2011 Standings
Lee Feinstein :2-1
Quaz Flawless :2-2
Bill Beck :1-0
Dan :1-0
Matt Summa :0-1
Pat :0-1
Ian :0-2

Get in on the action and comment or tweet your Lock of the Week. Add #smackjabber #lockitup in your tweet with your pick/s @quazflawless.

Flawless Thoughts

Regarding the QB controversy in the Bears/Packers game, first the talking heads were saying that Jay Cutler should have kept playing through the pain, but quickly it turned into other talking heads calling those criticisms inappropriate. From what I saw, at the very least there should have been a bag of ice on his knee. The scene was a little strange when he was walking around or on the exercise bike on the sidelines, but who's thinking of impressions when your Super Bowl dreams are getting crushed in front of you and there's nothing you can do to stop it(not to mention that he wasn't spectacular when he was in the game). You don't usually see that kind of uproar when a star player comes out of the game, but when it happens in the playoffs it's bound to be criticized. It was not long ago that Ladanian Tomlinson's toughness and heart were called into question by media and former players when he stayed on the sidelines with an injury toward the end of a Chargers playoff game. I'm more concerned with how Brian Urlacher got tackled when he was running back that interception, that was weak!

The Jets this the Jets that, and now... no more Jets. It seems like most non-Jets fans are calling everything the Jets did into question as if the things they did this season where mistakes. I feel like the Jets have done a good job becoming relevant, and not only relevant but dominant. You don't see Jack Del Rio, or Marv Lewis going to the Conference Championship games every year, they don't even make the playoffs! I'd be pretty excited about the future if I were a Jets fan.

Super Bowl XLV should be an exciting game between teams that both have great offense and defense. It seems like it would be a high scoring game with the way Aaron Rodgers can spread the ball out, and the way the Steelers offense can always find a way to score. Older folks always say, "I remember when this or that was 5 cents" but the ultimate example of this has to be a ticket to the Super Bowl. Most reports have tickets to the first Super Bowl at around $10 and now the average price on StubHub.com for 2011's Super Bowl is around $3000 !!!

Marky Mark

Did you ever pick your nose to spite your face?

Do You Come From The Land Down Under?

Just add this to the list of strange things that happen in Australia

Tweet of the Week

I've heard people say a lot of things about Scarlett Johansson but this is just crazy...

KDthunderup Kevin Durant

Scarlett johanneson I will drink ur bath water...#random

16 Jan

Classic Clips

There are events that stick out from a sport's past that may have taken place years before you were born, but it can feel like you were there just from the ripples it created throughout that sport's universe. In 1972 "The Immaculate Reception" was one of these events. Talk about winning a game as time runs out, this is one of the most exciting and controversial finishes in NFL history, and it was a playoff game! Bring this up to old time Steelers/Raiders fans and you'll still get a debate about whether this play was legal as back then an NFL rule existed that read : once an offensive player touches a pass, he is the only offensive player eligible to catch the pass. However, if a defensive player touches the pass "first, or simultaneously with or subsequent to its having been touched by only one [offensive] player, then all [offensive] players become and remain eligible" to catch the pass.