The Favre Mess

I'm just about tired of hearing about this Favre/Packers situation. In my opinion, Favre should have stayed retired, gone into broadcasting, rapping, filming Something About Mary 2, or anything. Why take the beating and the negative press? Just go out on top and ride off into the sunset with class. And what is this with him having to be re-instated by the league? Did he come out on the short end of a Loser Leave Town Match? Was he suspended for hitting a referee with a steel chair? Because that's what it sounds like to me. Hopefully they will deny him re-entry into the league and he can go on about his business. Regardless, football starts in about four weeks! I'm stoked.

(Photo from packers.com)

Rams Training Camp

My favorite NFL team is in a bit of turmoil as the star running back, Steven Jackson, has yet to report to the St. Louis Rams training camp. He is holding out for a new contract. Management has stopped negotiating with him until he comes to camp. I heard on the radio yesterday that he is keeping in contact with the coach via text message. They did not add the phrase "like two hos". Great, glad to hear text messaging is going on. Are they posting on each other's My Space page too and adding each other as friends? I hope this thing gets resolved soon.

WTF?

Mike Adamle is the new Raw GM? Is this the best they could come up with? You could have heard crickets in the crowd. He is rumored to be making in the $300,000 range, so I guess they had to come up with a significant role for him and he sucked as an announcer. I just hope he doesn't start making the wrestlers compete in The Joust and The Eliminator. Other notes:

Congratulations to Stephanie McMahon, who gave birth to another daughter yesterday. Thankfully it was not a son or he would be pinning Chris Jericho by this time next year. Not that one of the daughters won't be doing that soon anyway... I heard on the Wrestling Observer audio show that Freddie Prinze Jr. is now a writer for WWE. Wasn't that clown in Scooby Doo just a couple of years ago? Is he still married to Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Shouldn't he just stay home and bang her, rather than go through the aggravation of dealing with the WWE creative team system?... Good to see William Regal back, after his suspension for violating the wellness policy. I noticed he was wearing a shirt, I guess so he won't have to violate the wellness policy again... Another good interview by Jericho. It's nice to see his character take a more serious turn. I expect the Y2J character to be back by December though.

(Photo from wwe.com)

Elite XC Show

I'm a casual MMA fan so I watched the Elite XC show on CBS Saturday night. I enjoyed it. Not as much as I Love Money, but I enjoyed it. A couple of brief notes:

- I actually enjoyed the women's match the most. How stupid would Cris Cyborg had felt if she had been celebrating, returned to the ring, then gotten knocked out? Luckily for her, she finished the job. How hot was Gina Carano (above) during the interview? Speaking of hot, where has interviewer Karyn Bryant been all this time?

- I guess all of that blood was on the mat from one of the prelim matches. Does Elite XC own a mop? Or a paper towel? That can't be healthy.

(Photo from elitexc.com)

I Love Money/Brooke Knows Best

It was another great episode of I Love Money this week, highlighted by Rodeo getting hit in the face with a flying chicken. Members of the green team attempted to throw the challenge, but the plan backfired and they all ended up on the block. In the end, Mr. Boston and his annoying voice were sent home, thus Brandi C. (who was called an "idiot") and America's favorite saracastic skank Megan (above) were both thankfully spared.

Over on Brooke Knows Best, I actually made it through the entire episode. I got my first glimpse of the new roommate. I see that they hired a pretty decent looking broad to play the role. In this episode, Brooke had a crush on a surfer and invited him to their party. She also invited her ex-boyfriend to generate some artifical reality show tension. The most shocking part to me was that Hulk Hogan's daughter's ex-boyfriend was a black guy, which is karma for that whole Hogan/Kidman fiasco in the dying days of WCW. And even crazier, he was named "Stacks" and the last time I saw a black guy named Stacks was when Samuel L. Jackson was getting blown away in Goodfellas.

And more importantly than all that, I still can't figure out if this broad is hot or not. At one point in the show, she pulled her swimsuit up to form a makeshift thong and I didn't exactly look away. On the other hand, I keep thinking that if you put a mustache on her, she looks just like the guy who beat the Iron Shiek for the WWF title in 1983. The jury is still out.

(Photo from vh1.com)

TNA Spin Cycle

Here's another edition of the TNA Spin Cycle. This time it's announcer Don West, Karen Angle, Matt Morgan and James Farrior of the Pittsburgh Steelers. This is my favorite show besides I Love Money:

Kid Friendly?

Move over Sesame Street and Hannah Montana-- you've got some new competition. As I mentioned yesterday, WWE, who at last check still employs the lovely Maryse (above), did indeed announce yesterday that they plan to produce their three main weekly shows to achieve a PG rating. Terrible idea. If Steve Austin comes back, is his catch phrase now going to be "Heck Yeah!"? Will DX ask for two words: "Stow It!"? Are they going to have Maryse wearing a potato sack every week? It's a sad day.


(Photo from wwe.com, you can check out Maryse's "Summer Skin" photo set here)