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This looks faker than pro wrestling somehow. Watch the replays…

I’m sure I’ll have time to write about this phenomenon at a later date, but, for now, you just have to see it.

I tend to agree with Dan Wetzel. Myles Brand and the NCAA did sell their souls to the NBA by creating an age limit. I think, however, that I’ve come up with an interesting way around this nasty little recruiting scandal-aged dilemma. Create a professional limbo league for NBA bound players just leaving high school. Call it Frosh League, 1′N’Done, whatever you want, I think it would get better ratings than the XFL did. Certainly, maybe unfortunately, it would get more ratings than the WNBA.

Seriously, we don’t force superstar welders or plumbers to go to college, do we? It’s a ridiculous line to cross — telling kids they have to go to college. It seems so unconstitutional as it directly interferes with the right of a young person to make a living. I digress. My main point still stands. A sort of transitory league makes sense. Not only does it lend purity back to the college game, it gives young stars a chance to play together. Think of a US Olympic squad with Derrick Rose, Eric Gordon, Kevin Love, OJ Mayo, and Darrell Arthur. Sound tempting, right? Certainly, they’d have the chance to gel over the course of an entire year. A year they would have spent breaking all of the NCAA rules and skipping class.

Damn, I love a good commercial. And there are so many bad ones out there that a good one really can catch you off guard. This one make me laugh harder every time I see it. Surely, it is the best one I’ve seen in over a year.

Imagine if this pig landed on your house? I’ll stay away from puns on this one. But, talk about somebody hitting the jackpot. What a cool thing to find…

Wow, he was really old. Who knew? Did he have the secret to longevity? I guess we’ll never know…

Pretty excellent tribute. Question: will he now injure himself walking around the house next year? I bet he’ll be available in Free Agency within the game…and maybe in real life. Ha.

Here is a link to the EA Favre tribute.

I was looking at some video spots we are doing at work. We posed a question to a student. What makes you want to just up and smack your television? That’s an approximate quote. She mentioned car dealership commercials. SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY. You know the drill… Those probably annoy everyone outside of the families of those ego-maniac dealership owners. Hell, probably the families themselves grow tired of the infamy.

Later that evening, while watching the fantastic NBC Thursday night line-up, I had a commercial realization. Every year, commercials seem to grow a little bit louder. Last night, there were a few commercials I could barely hear, while others bordered on bull horn decibel levels. An ad by Obama, for example, was quite quiet while the car ads were incredibly loud.

Why am I droning on about this? It’s only because I realize that television commercials seemed to be caught up in an arms race. If the cold war of tv ads started five years ago or so, then we’re nearing the Cuban Missile Crisis here. If your commercial plays at the same volume to fit-in seamlessly with the volume of the currently airing show, it won’t be heard because everyone has turned down their volume. I, for one, have a sleeping child and cannot tolerate him being blasted awake by car advertisements.

Do you get the parallels here? How loud will be loud enough? Can’t we set a standard volume max for commercials?