A ride, a ride a glorious ride. What do you do when you are no longer 25?. You work and you eat and you sleep and you repeat, every once in a while you come across a good day when you don't have to shower. My wife doesn't understand why those days are so great. But it is really quite easy. On those days I don't have to try to impress anybody, I come as I are....please know that I don't care about impressing anyone, sweetie, I am off the clock.

During this football off-season...

While ruminating on the state of Notre Dame's football recruits for the year of 2009.
ND has lost out on the big Offensive Tackle from South Carolina Xavier Nixon.
I pronounce his first name as Zavier, but today they probably say X avier.. Who knows why? Maybe the teaching. My older brother, Granzleand wranzle now sub teaches in Centerville, Ohio's High School. Today he taught Chemistry.
What a friggen joke.
He couldn't tell you the compounds to make up...

Training Camp 101


Over the past few years HBO subscribers have had the ability to get an inside look into NFL training camp through a jointly produced show between HBO and NFL Films called “Hard Knocks”. To the average fan, camp looks like a long series of practices, film, meetings and random hijinks between the players. Another factor that comes into place in an NFL camp is the roster and the big board. This is the only difference between a pro and a college training camp....

Movies are a good subject for the off-season. With the criticism that has come from the inept running performance of Charlie Weis’ “pound it” offense, two scenes from two great movies came to mind. But first, lets start with a bit of background.

We love blaming B&G Illustrated over here. Now is as good a time as any. An article was written about how Weis mentioned needing to prepare for the opponent you...