I also, apparently, was way off with my understanding of my females readers and severly underestimated their football savvy. Here is a response from Callie, who wins the award for best comment in ETC's history to date....
Caz- As much as I appreciate your nod to the female race in the world of men's sports, I have to say that I've watched football- the Jets in particular- with as much love, self-loathing, dejection, and intoxicating euphoria as the next fantasy-obsessed wannabe jock that you call out to with vigor, all season long. I do agree with the majority of your projections, though, so I guess I should just know my role and smile blankly while sipping my coors light in front of the big screen this weekend. Sigh. Girls never win.
Good job by Callie, I knew I always liked you. From now on I will treat the female readers as football equals. It's about time, I mean we do have an African-American in the White House after all.
In other news, I heard that Katy Perry is engaged to Russell Brand, something I am still struggling to comprehend. For those of you that don't know, Russell Brand is the guy who played the British rocker in Forgetting Sarah Marshall a character that was entirely too close to his real life person. He is a recovering sex and drug addict and has somehow managed to land Katy Perry. This doesn't seem to make any sense to me and this relationship is begging for infidelity and trust issues. This is like hiring Snoop Dogg to be a D.A.R.E. officer; it's got problems written all over it. This tell's me 1 of 2 things. Either Katy Perry is a freak in the sheets, or this is the modern day Whitney and Bobby Brown. I got my money on the latter. But let's move on to the real reason for today's post. NBC has decided to pull the plug on Conan O'Brien and the Tonight Show and move Jay Leno back to the 11:30 time slot. In a move that even Benedict Arnold would call wrong, NBC has somehow managed to make itself look worse then it already does. Conan is getting the royal screw job and I can only hope that his talent is rewarded with a new show on a new network. He waited for 5 years while NBC promised him the Tonight Show, just to have it taken away after 7 months. I love all the NBC/Leno bashing that is going on by people like Jimmy Kimmel, Ricky Gervais and Seth Meyers. Here are a few of my favorite jokes so far...
"Hosting 'The Tonight Show' has been the fulfillment of a life-long dream for me. And I just want to say to the kids out their watching, you can do anything you want in life. Unless Jay Leno wants to do it, too."-Conan
"It's disappointing knowing that soon I won't have a show, but Snooki and The Situation will"-Conan
"At the Golden Globes, Julia Roberts said 'NBC was in the toilet'. Yeah, NBC was upset but toilets were furious"-Conan
(talking about the rain at the golden globes) "NBC said it was going to rain at 10, but then they moved it to 11:30" -Tom Hanks
(also talking about the rain) "It's not rain, its God crying for NBC"-Tina Fey (whose show airs on NBC)
Seth Meyers summed it up pretty well in this video.....
"Hosting 'The Tonight Show' has been the fulfillment of a life-long dream for me. And I just want to say to the kids out their watching, you can do anything you want in life. Unless Jay Leno wants to do it, too."-Conan
"It's disappointing knowing that soon I won't have a show, but Snooki and The Situation will"-Conan
"At the Golden Globes, Julia Roberts said 'NBC was in the toilet'. Yeah, NBC was upset but toilets were furious"-Conan
(talking about the rain at the golden globes) "NBC said it was going to rain at 10, but then they moved it to 11:30" -Tom Hanks
(also talking about the rain) "It's not rain, its God crying for NBC"-Tina Fey (whose show airs on NBC)
Seth Meyers summed it up pretty well in this video.....
It's amazing how this is playing out, but there was a perfect example of this that happened a few years ago in the sports world. I think this is a good warning to Jay Leno.
You all remember when the Green Bay Packers drafted Aaron Rodgers to be their quarterback of the future? The only problem was that the Packers already had an icon at quarterback in Brett Favre. Except that he was getting old and just not performing the way he used to and people were ready for him to retire. The Packers told Aaron to wait a few years, perfect his game and sometime in the near future he will be the star quarterback. And then finaly Favre retired and we all prepared for Rodgers to take over just to find out a few months later that Favre wanted back. He decided to unretire, demand to start, wanted his old job back and made a huge mess in Green Bay. Fast foward a few years. People hate Favre now for being a primadona and not accepting that his time has past. Aaron Rodgers looks like a revelation, becoming a star in the NFL and more importantly everyone seems to love him.
I hope this happens for Conan. He is far too talented for NBC, a once great network that was home to Seinfeld, Cheers and Friends. As Seth Meyers said, there's a lot of pressure on Chuck now. So until next time, as always....Stay Sweet!
And support Team Conan.
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