Points: 52
Rebounds: 5
Assists: 6
Blocks: 1
thats all you need to know.
GO BLAZERS!!!
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Death of the Quarterback
My friends, it is getting closer and closer by the second. Can you feel it? I sure can. I can feel it deep inside my loins like a flaming golden hawk. The very real end of the True NFL Quarterback.
People who really know me know my deep passion for football. I still don't even completely know what is going on in the NBA right now, even though we are a month deep. I personally watched Larry Fitzgerald and Anquan Boldin (from 8 rows up, 43 yard-line) tear my Seahawks a new cornhole this year.
What I also saw was an all too common sight in Seattle, and in many other NFL cities around the country: Terrible Quarterback play (Matt Hasselfuck), by poor QBs. Not to say there are no good QB's in the league, or that Hasselbeck is that bad (even though I've never trusted him) but let's face it, gone are the days when John Elway will take that 7 step drop, check out 5 different recievers, then let a freaking missile go 50 yards down field. No longer will Mark Rypien duck 7 different lineman, change sides of the field 3 times, then thread a needle through the middle of the field.
These days, Madden Video game-multiple-running back-QB at WR craziness is gaining ground in the NFL as the 'Old Guard NFL coaches' are slowly leaving us. Colleges run insane no-huddle spread offenses where half the time, the QB is expected to take off running after multiple fake handoffs, or faked passes. This is slowly being worked in to NFL offenses as QBs in college are no longer step back, fire one off, take a hit if I need to, take off running as a last resort-types. Steve Young started it, Michael Vick ruined it forever. (No not dogfighting) They ruined the traditional quarterback position. Man I love QBs. The days when they would take a mean-ass hit time after time and still get up and go have been Penalized, and Injuried-out in today's football. These days, QBs are such pansies that Andy Belvin's little ass could be one. He would love it! You never get hit just run around scared, and then try to look really damn good on the sideline while dating 20-something Music/Porn/Model girls on the one off day every week. Tim Tebow is my perfect example in college, in the NFL, this is obviously Tony Romo.
These guys aren't even HALF the QB that Elway, Favre, Rypien, Marino, Bledsoe, Montana, Brady and many others were. These are lesser men who just want to be faces, rather than true NFL Leaders. The Real Quarterback. I'm not saying they don't love their teams, or are poor teamates or whatever, I'm just saying, at the end of the day, these guys don't bleed NFL Football like the old guys used to.
I am a traditionalist. I love my football, but the NFL needs to stick to its old roots, and keep it different than College. Bring back the days when NFL coaches were teachers of the game (see: Mike Holmgren circa 1994) and knew how to mold their players, and not to mold their plan to players abilities.
Anyways, if there are any QBs I need to list that are true NFL'ers, let me know. Let me know you care about your football too.
GO SEAHAWKS!
People who really know me know my deep passion for football. I still don't even completely know what is going on in the NBA right now, even though we are a month deep. I personally watched Larry Fitzgerald and Anquan Boldin (from 8 rows up, 43 yard-line) tear my Seahawks a new cornhole this year.
What I also saw was an all too common sight in Seattle, and in many other NFL cities around the country: Terrible Quarterback play (Matt Hasselfuck), by poor QBs. Not to say there are no good QB's in the league, or that Hasselbeck is that bad (even though I've never trusted him) but let's face it, gone are the days when John Elway will take that 7 step drop, check out 5 different recievers, then let a freaking missile go 50 yards down field. No longer will Mark Rypien duck 7 different lineman, change sides of the field 3 times, then thread a needle through the middle of the field.
These days, Madden Video game-multiple-running back-QB at WR craziness is gaining ground in the NFL as the 'Old Guard NFL coaches' are slowly leaving us. Colleges run insane no-huddle spread offenses where half the time, the QB is expected to take off running after multiple fake handoffs, or faked passes. This is slowly being worked in to NFL offenses as QBs in college are no longer step back, fire one off, take a hit if I need to, take off running as a last resort-types. Steve Young started it, Michael Vick ruined it forever. (No not dogfighting) They ruined the traditional quarterback position. Man I love QBs. The days when they would take a mean-ass hit time after time and still get up and go have been Penalized, and Injuried-out in today's football. These days, QBs are such pansies that Andy Belvin's little ass could be one. He would love it! You never get hit just run around scared, and then try to look really damn good on the sideline while dating 20-something Music/Porn/Model girls on the one off day every week. Tim Tebow is my perfect example in college, in the NFL, this is obviously Tony Romo.
These guys aren't even HALF the QB that Elway, Favre, Rypien, Marino, Bledsoe, Montana, Brady and many others were. These are lesser men who just want to be faces, rather than true NFL Leaders. The Real Quarterback. I'm not saying they don't love their teams, or are poor teamates or whatever, I'm just saying, at the end of the day, these guys don't bleed NFL Football like the old guys used to.
I am a traditionalist. I love my football, but the NFL needs to stick to its old roots, and keep it different than College. Bring back the days when NFL coaches were teachers of the game (see: Mike Holmgren circa 1994) and knew how to mold their players, and not to mold their plan to players abilities.
Anyways, if there are any QBs I need to list that are true NFL'ers, let me know. Let me know you care about your football too.
GO SEAHAWKS!
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
BLIZZARD!
So, there I was. Yesterday, actually, watching all the morons in Portland on the news trying to drive in the snow, and I about had a stroke, it hurt so much to watch the stupidity. With headlines like "Winter Storm" or "Portland Snow Storm '08" you would think that something major that happens once a millenia just went down. But like the old saying goes, it's like watching a train wreck, you just have to stop and see the destruction.
If you sit and watch long enough you can recite all of the school/event closings in order without looking, to anyone, instantly letting them know how bored you were. This was me yesterday. And it all makes me very annoyed.
Granted, 95% of drivers I see in Oregon don't really know how to drive anyways, but I digress.
I must be crazy, because it seems to me that at least every other year it snows fairly heavily, or ices over, in the Metro area, and every year it is the same complete chaos, like every year Portland replaced it's citizens like an 80 year old replaces blood, starting all over again with new morons that have huge SUV's, and have absoluteley no clue how to drive them in any kind of weather other than sunny. I don't understand how people get these things thinking just because they have an SUV that means they can just drive however, wherever they want. Now, this gets even more crazy because it RAINS in Portland all the fucking time, and people still don't know how to drive in that either. Add a little 20 degree action to that, and BAM! Total loss of brain to car driving function. It's as if the snow drugs all the people into making stupid decisions that make me wonder how in the hell these people have licenses in the first place. Add a Cell phone in there maybe, and it's even worse. It's like a Chevy Snow Bomb on wheels, and all hell has broken loose.
It's not very hard people. Driving on snow or ice requires only a few things from the driver.
1: Having good tires and/or traction devices to go with them.
2: Having patience to drive a lot slower than normal.
3: DO NOT USE YOUR BRAKES GOING DOWN A STEEP HILL OR CORNER.
4: Don't turn abruptly, because you will lose traction.
Following these basic rules will keep your car going where you want it to go, without wrecking. The other part, being not stupid, is up to you. I have wrecked before, but it was in sunny clear conditions where people were speeding and there wasn't much I could do about it. I have never had a major wreck in the snow because I am smart, and understand basic physics of heavy chunk of metal on wheels to icy surface. Look into it.
This is also my call to all drivers education classes to require a bad weather portion of class in order to get a license. Maybe that will help.
But I doubt it.
If you sit and watch long enough you can recite all of the school/event closings in order without looking, to anyone, instantly letting them know how bored you were. This was me yesterday. And it all makes me very annoyed.
Granted, 95% of drivers I see in Oregon don't really know how to drive anyways, but I digress.
I must be crazy, because it seems to me that at least every other year it snows fairly heavily, or ices over, in the Metro area, and every year it is the same complete chaos, like every year Portland replaced it's citizens like an 80 year old replaces blood, starting all over again with new morons that have huge SUV's, and have absoluteley no clue how to drive them in any kind of weather other than sunny. I don't understand how people get these things thinking just because they have an SUV that means they can just drive however, wherever they want. Now, this gets even more crazy because it RAINS in Portland all the fucking time, and people still don't know how to drive in that either. Add a little 20 degree action to that, and BAM! Total loss of brain to car driving function. It's as if the snow drugs all the people into making stupid decisions that make me wonder how in the hell these people have licenses in the first place. Add a Cell phone in there maybe, and it's even worse. It's like a Chevy Snow Bomb on wheels, and all hell has broken loose.
It's not very hard people. Driving on snow or ice requires only a few things from the driver.
1: Having good tires and/or traction devices to go with them.
2: Having patience to drive a lot slower than normal.
3: DO NOT USE YOUR BRAKES GOING DOWN A STEEP HILL OR CORNER.
4: Don't turn abruptly, because you will lose traction.
Following these basic rules will keep your car going where you want it to go, without wrecking. The other part, being not stupid, is up to you. I have wrecked before, but it was in sunny clear conditions where people were speeding and there wasn't much I could do about it. I have never had a major wreck in the snow because I am smart, and understand basic physics of heavy chunk of metal on wheels to icy surface. Look into it.
This is also my call to all drivers education classes to require a bad weather portion of class in order to get a license. Maybe that will help.
But I doubt it.
The Life and Times
Why the hell would Kris Patrick do this blog, you ask?
Basically to show you that I still know how to spell. To get stuff of of my chest, to tell you that you are awesome, to tell you that you suck, they suck, to talk about how awful the Seahawks are this year, to tell you how awesome Rudi Fernandez is, ok, how awesome ALL the Blazers are, to make fun of your crazy looking face right to it without shame because it is funny. Maybe I will tell you how much your favorite movie sucks because the only movie that is awesome is the one I am going to make with your sister tonight. I am going to tell you about how awesome the Apple Cup was from the front row even though it was the battle for the WORST team in NCAA Football. I forgot that I need to tell you that the Mariners sucked this year even though you already knew that.
We are going to talk about: music, basketball, bars, drinks at bars, girls that are drunk at bars and puke all over, playing Wii bowling at bars, girls some more, music some more, telling crazy racist/bad sex/good sex/fat sex/lesbian sex/porn/mom/dad/brother/sister jokes to your friends because they are funny, talking shit to my manager all day just to get him pissed at me because that is REALLY funny, Dowtown Portland, driving in the snow, playstation 3 and all its glory, movies, golf, hip-hop concerts, punk rock concerts, jazz concerts, funk/soul concerts, getting high at those concerts, getting drunk at those concerts, driving to Seattle, being in the woods, skiing, snowboarding, sledding, hiking, biking, dancing, singing, fucking, swimming, watersports on the Columbia River, politics, religon, partying for no reason, stock markets, tennis, soccer, MMA and Foreign Relations and then maybe I will shut up.
Or not.
Pretty much this is the spot where I tell you what you need to know about whatever is awesome, or what you need to know because I am brutally honest like that.
Let's have some fun.
Basically to show you that I still know how to spell. To get stuff of of my chest, to tell you that you are awesome, to tell you that you suck, they suck, to talk about how awful the Seahawks are this year, to tell you how awesome Rudi Fernandez is, ok, how awesome ALL the Blazers are, to make fun of your crazy looking face right to it without shame because it is funny. Maybe I will tell you how much your favorite movie sucks because the only movie that is awesome is the one I am going to make with your sister tonight. I am going to tell you about how awesome the Apple Cup was from the front row even though it was the battle for the WORST team in NCAA Football. I forgot that I need to tell you that the Mariners sucked this year even though you already knew that.
We are going to talk about: music, basketball, bars, drinks at bars, girls that are drunk at bars and puke all over, playing Wii bowling at bars, girls some more, music some more, telling crazy racist/bad sex/good sex/fat sex/lesbian sex/porn/mom/dad/brother/sister jokes to your friends because they are funny, talking shit to my manager all day just to get him pissed at me because that is REALLY funny, Dowtown Portland, driving in the snow, playstation 3 and all its glory, movies, golf, hip-hop concerts, punk rock concerts, jazz concerts, funk/soul concerts, getting high at those concerts, getting drunk at those concerts, driving to Seattle, being in the woods, skiing, snowboarding, sledding, hiking, biking, dancing, singing, fucking, swimming, watersports on the Columbia River, politics, religon, partying for no reason, stock markets, tennis, soccer, MMA and Foreign Relations and then maybe I will shut up.
Or not.
Pretty much this is the spot where I tell you what you need to know about whatever is awesome, or what you need to know because I am brutally honest like that.
Let's have some fun.
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