Beware Vince Young!

So it’s been unofficially announced that Vince Young will be the cover man for Madden 2008. I’ve tried my best to be skeptical of the “Madden Curse”…..that is until last year, in outright defiance of the “curse”, I selected Shaun Alexander first overall. That’s right, over LT and over LJ. Although LT and LJ were more attractive picks, I decided to go the “safe” route and bank on a consistent 100 yds and at least a TD every week. I’m not making that mistake again….at least not until someone breaks the curse!

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Madden Curse…here’s the breakdown:

Madden 1999: Garrison Hearst. Hearst has a career year with 1,570 yards and 7 TDs. However in their first playoff game on the first play, Hearst suffers a bad ankle break and would not play till 2001.

Madden 2000: Barry Sanders. A week before training camp, Barry abruptly and prematurely retires.

Madden 2001: Eddie George. George sets career highs in yards (1,509) and TDs (16). Hooray the curse is broken!?!?

Madden 2002: Dante Culpepper. Dante goes from throwing 33 TDs the previous year to 14 TDs and 13 INTs, then misses the final 5 games with a knee injury.

Madden 2003: Marshall Faulk. Sustains an ankle injury and TDs fall from 21 to 10.

Madden 2004: Michael Vick. Suffers a broken leg in preseason and misses 11 games.

Madden 2005: Ray Lewis. Misses a only 1 game due to a wrist injury but it is the first and only year Lewis fails to make an interception, after a career high 6 the year before.

Madden 2006: Donovan McNabb. McNabb misses the final seven games due to a sports hernia.

Madden 2007: Shaun Alexander. Fresh off a record setting season, Alexander suffers a foot injury and misses 6 games. After 1,880 rushing yards and 28 total TDs, he rushes for 896 yards and scores only 7 times.

Will Vince Young be the next victim of the curse? I guess we’ll have to wait till this fall to find out. But I can tell you I’m not drafting Vince Young. Ok, I’ll admit, I’m probably still not a 100% believer in the curse….but there’s just no reason for me to tempt fate again.

But...... just in case the curse is indeed very real. I'd like to take this time and place a curse of my own...

nothin' but net...

lemme ask you a question. what's your favorite sports commercial?

was it the ones for the og air jordan's with mars blackmon? or maybe it was the 'bo knows' commercials. or how bout the tiger woods dribbling of the golf ball one. or possibly even more recently, the dribbling nike basketball ones. although these were all great commercials, my favorite was much better than all of those...

man they just don't make commercials like they used to.

and then i found out that mcdonald's is remaking it!! read the article here. yes, that's right. they're putting wade and lebron in the spot bird and jordan are. i for one, am excited for it. both the superstars have had decent success in their acting career, so why not give em a shot into commercial superstardom?

• lebron with the nike commercials of 'the lebrons' doing a poor man's version of nutty professor(yet it's still surprisingly entertaining).
• wade with his awesome acting for t-mobile with sir charles and the oh-so-heart-warming tv spot for who knows what when he gives a hundred basketballs and a hoop to an intercity youth team and rides away on a bike.

so now what's the problem you ask? it's just his one little quote in there...

" The idea is to contemporize 'Nothin' but Net' to 2007 and make it relevant for the two best players in the NBA today"

if they said, "the two most exciting players", or "the future of the nba", or even "the new magic/bird of the nba" i might not have any problem. but it becomes kinda funny to me that they say this comment when neither player is considered for mvp, and whether you hate him or love him, you gotta admit that kobe bryant is the best player in the game right now.

on a side note, did anybody watch that game on sunday night? one of the best i've seen this season. and watching kobe shoot his ridiculous fadeaways is a work of art. almost as pretty as ben wallace rebounding.

ANYWAYS, in this commercial, it won't be totally cool to see new dynamic duo of the nba draining shots from outside the gym, making hookshots from the cheap seats and who knows what else mcdonald's comes up for them, when in reality, these guys have an AT BEST decent jumper. we all know that larry bird had one of the most automatic shots EVER....and at that time his airness emerged as one of the most dominant players EVER. so while the point of the original commercial was cute and made some sense since both players were just ridiculous, this won't really make sense and/or "relevant" as they said to people who know how these guys really play the game(except from a marketing and advertising standpoint). well with the players they're using.

so why not just use the two players who have been argued about for the past two years of who is the greatest in the game right now? i guess mcdonald's doesn't like canadians and accused rapists. haha

break raja bell's ankles, drive by boris diaw, rise over the mvp, nothin but net

lookalike of the day!


steve nash and sigourney weaver from aliens 3

A New Start...

Congratulations! You must feel as happy as Michael was when he won his first championship ring that you found this site. Well if you don't, then you should, because here is just a couple things to look forward to on this brand spankin' new site...

• Thoughts on current stories in sports
• Hilarious pictures of your favorite athletes found who knows where
  
• Pictures drawn in Microsoft Paint of your favorite athletes
• No Hockey(something Sportscenter still hasn't taken out of their lineup)
• No Xanga Lock
• Really hot girls
• Sports lookalikes
• Se Habla Espanol

Now if these things don't excite you already, then maybe this will...

well i knew another picture of michael wouldn't.

And if that didn't, then you can leave right now. So you might be thinking, what is Water Cooler Sports? And why now? Well, let me break it down for you.

wa·ter cool·er sports (wôtr klr spôrts)

1. a sports blog dedicated to provide entertainment to the mundane life of people work in a cubicle or find their job completely boring

2.

a. a website that is informative

b. a website that is awesome

The reason for this here blog being started right now was because (1)the NBA playoffs are right around the corner, (2)MLB season just started, (3)the NFL draft is real soon, and (4)hockey is ending(whoops, i said no hockey, huh? haha).

So, sit back, enjoy tell your friends the good news that the cure for work time boredom has arrived!

random lookalike of the day!

charlotte bobcats PF walter herrmann and fabio