Jim Otto: Froot Loop

Browns center LeCharles Bentley wanted to honor the legend of Jim Otto when he petitioned the league to wear No. 00 as a homage to the Raiders center. One problem � Otto is a crazy (expletive) (expletive) hole.

Otto obviously played too long without a helmet when he replied with this:

"To let him wear my number that I built into a legacy, all it takes is one ounce of coke up his nose, and that legacy is gone," Otto said to the Contra Costa (Calif.) Times.

"I don't know who he is. I played 15 years with the Raiders. He's played, what, three or four years in New Orleans? What kind of legacy would he give double zero? I don't think he should wear it, and I don't think anyone in the NFL should wear it.�

Yeah, because these comments are just doing wonders for old No. 00. Like double-zero was the former center�s Wonderlic score or something. Either that or he is suffering from untreated syphilis.

Bentley � a two time Pro Bowler in his first four years � even apologized for even suggesting such a thing. He should have beat the old coot's ass.

The Mick

CBS commentator Ben Wright might have been on to something when he said that golfing is tough enough without the boobs getting in the way. Otherwise, how do you explain how both Phil Mickelson and Colin Montgomerie tanked in the U.S. Open? (Yes, we�ve used that joke before.)

So that means we have a brand new Last and Ten.

Can you feel the excitement?

The Truth of Ratings

I almost choked on my weinerschnitzel when I saw this post.

Nice job with the selective editing, Gunther. I haven't been this disappointed in one of my heroes since Falco refused to play Rock Me Amadeus at the sold-out Berlin County Fair in 1998. Even for the second encore.

A couple points you forgot to mention:
1) The 2.4 ESPN2 rankings you snickered at were the channel's highest ratings for anything this year. Yes, that included dog shows, poker tournaments, and spelling bees. And baseball.

2) The games are on at 6:00 a.m., not prime time.

3) Soccer fans watch matches in packed bars, not the basement of their parents' house, like wresting and baseball fans, so those numbers are underrepresented.

3a.) You didn�t factor in the ratings from Univision (5.5 for Mexico-Iran, making it the most watched sporting event in Spanish-language TV history). I'm guessing half of their audience is made up with Gringos who can't bear to listen to the Joe Theisman-Paul Maguire of soccer announcers, Dave O'Brien and Marcel Balboa. Jesus they're bad.

4) If Reggie White taught us anything, it is that you can fit a family of 30 Mexicans into a small apartment, so even Univision's ratings are vastly underrepresented.

5) Hockey averaged ratings of 0.2 on OLN this year.

6) In Los Angeles, Univision�s ratings were 12.5 for the Mexico-Iran game, and 4.9 for ABC.

7) Combined, that�s more than double the 7.1 the NBA got for the finals last year.

Your poor math and lazy deduction skills are exactly the reason we will CRUSH you in WWIII! You have no chance, capitalist pigs!