Packers, McCarthy Lay an Egg in Firing Longtime Employee Mike Wood

For the Green Bay Packers and coach (for now) Mike McCarthy, this is starting to feel like one of those star-crossed seasons that teams and coaches have during which things just seem to go wrong at every turn.

A story in yesterday’s Journal-Sentinel provides yet another example, and honestly doesn’t make a damn bit of sense from the Packers’ perspective.

A longtime Packers employee, Mike Wood, was fired by the Packers because McCarthy claimed that Wood told him not to “lay an egg” a couple of days before the epic Packers-Vikings game at Lambeau. Wood claims that he said nothing of the sort and merely told the coach to have the team ready to “kick some butt.”

I wonder why the hell it even matters, especially in relation to the employment of a loyal, 22-year employee.

Of course, this is the same coach who famously pushed for another longtime Packers employee to leave…but I digress.

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Jared Allen Wants Respect For The Mullet…and Extra Mayonnaise

Saw this video yesterday in numerous locations and wanted to share with anyone who has not yet seen it.

Basically, Jared Allen is crazy…which we knew…but he’s also hilarious.

Now respect the mullet.

Business in the front, party in the back. The perfect combination.

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Rhianna Does What Browns Should Have Done in 2005: Reject Braylon

Speaking metaphorically, one could describe the 2005 pre-draft process by saying that Braylon Edwards and his agent sent a bottle of champagne to the Browns’ table, which the organization accepted by way of drafting him.

Now Browns fans are left to wonder why their franchise couldn’t have had the foresight and good judgment of Rhianna.

According to The New York Post, Rhianna recently rejected similar bubbly overtures from Browns fans’ favorite butter-fingered wide receiver:

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Cleveland Browns Look to Rebound From Crushing Loss to BYE

Entering this Sunday’s home matchup with BYE, the Cleveland Browns were sitting at 1-7 and in 5th place in the AFC North behind Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Notre Dame.

Despite the team’s poor start to the season, plus the turmoil caused by the firing of George Kokinis and threats of a Monday night protest next week, hopes were high that a second victory would be forthcoming.

“We don’t want to take anything for granted,” former starting quarterback Derek Anderson said. “I once got intercepted by the JUGS machine in practice. I thought it was Steve Heiden. So humility will not be an issue for this week.”

How right he was.

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Pete Rose Will Sit on You, But Refuses to Eat Your Hair

Pete Rose has been train wreck for a long time. And part of the reason why people cannot refuse to look away is the sad fact that Pete rarely realizes that the joke is on him.

As he is wont to do, Sacha Baron Cohen took that to the extreme.

Via SportsbyBrooks (via Chris Littmann at The Sporting Blog), we get never-before-aired footage of a scene from the movie Bruno that featured baseball’s all-time gambling hit king using laborers as a chair and taking issue with eating sushi off of a naked man.

(Whatever happens from here on out in my life, I will be forever thankful that I had the opportunity to write that sentence.)

Video after the jump. And yes, it is as hilariously horrific as it sounds.

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Greatness: Norman Chad on NFL Relocation to LA

Norman Chad is one of the most unique sportswriters in the business today. Without question, he is one of the funniest and most entertaining, filling his columns with an insightful whimsy that can be a breath of fresh air from the life-or-death nature of so many sports perspectives.

Our very own AJ Kaufman emailed me a link last night to Chad’s most recent column on the possibility of the NFL relocating back to LA. As Midwesterners, it’s difficult for us to have a truly informed perspective on this topic.

But luckily, that’s why we have Norman Chad. Excerpt and link after the jump:

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Spurs vs The Bat on Halloween

Quick post for a quick laugh. LOL.

The video of Manu Ginobili swatting the bat that was a nuisance during the Spurs’ game on Halloween night.

Proofreading Fail or Subliminal Evidence of Further Sexual Deviance at ESPN?

Obviously just a proofreading error. But a funny one.

Chris Mortenson might want to make sure he proofreads his tweets before sending them out, especially if he’s using a word for which one missed letter could completely change the meaning and context of his sentence.

You see, when you work for ESPN, and “hoing” is the misspelled word in question, the irony there is just too delicious not to gobble up.

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More Scenes From the Muni Lot: The Official Frownie Foto Gallery

Since I officially entered the blogosphere some 14 months ago, one of my favorite Cleveland sports blogs and near-daily stops has been Cleveland Frowns.

It’s a place where, like the song says, “everybody knows your name” and where unique, informed, and interesting takes on all things Cleveland sports are usually present.

And then there are the Frownie Foto galleries, which are…well…let’s just say they’re the best thing since this.

This past weekend I had the good fortune of meeting Frowns and joining him for an entertaining tailgate in the world famous Muni Lot before the Browns-Packers game, which has previously been remembered here and here.

Now this glorious Sunday has its own Frownie Foto gallery…and it’s awesome.

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Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video 2.0: More Scenes From the Muni Lot

Another day, and yet another look back at this past weekend in Cleveland.

Yesterday I brought you Sarah Spain’s photo diary of the Sports Media 360 tailgate before the Browns-Packers game.

Today, MSF’s own Ryan Russell has released his video diary of the weekend, which has way too much of me in it…but is hopefully still entertaining for everyone.

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Kenny Mayne + Bill Simmons = Awesome

The newest episode of Mayne Street goes “behind the curtain” to reveal the truth about The Sports Guy. Since I gave Simmons a little tongue-in-cheek ripping earlier today for jinxing Blake Griffin, I figured it’s only fair to bring you something that sheds such a hilarious light on Simmons’ career.

And the Doug Christie jersey just tops the whole thing off.

Enjoy:

Non-Sports: Hilariously Awful Radio Prank

Just found this via The Big Lead’s morning roundup and had to post even though it is in no way related to sports.

It may be the most hilariously awful radio prank…maybe ever. The payoff is at the end.

Here is the post about it on Emails From Crazy People, where they have a good discussion about it in the comment section. You’ll want to read the thread beginning from the second comment down. It describes what happens after the clip’s shocking ending.

Does Guy Code Dictate Letting Mike Sims-Walker Off the Hook?

As many of you know, especially those of you who have been keeping tabs on the comment section of this week’s start em, sit em post, I have not been happy with Mike Sims-Walker since Sunday.

Last week, I touted him as a great play to everyone who would listen, started him in multiple leagues, and then watched him figuratively kick us all in the groin by being a late scratch Sunday and contributing nothing to any of our Week 5 causes.

So, needless to say, I’ve been pissed along with everyone else who started MS-W.

However, now that we know the reason for his Week 5 absence, the question must be asked: does guy code dictate that we no longer harbor ill will towards him?

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Random, Funny Video for Others Irritated by Facebook

I was an early adopter to Facebook who quickly fell in love, used it throughout the day…and now no longer has an account.

The reasons for my Facebook deactivation are plentiful, but this entertaining video (hat tip to @jimmytraina and yesterday’s Hot Clicks) sums up a few of them pretty well.

Greatest LOL moments of the video:

• The 0:46 mark: the “guy with a fro”
• The end, where it shows what I am assuming is the lead singer’s high school photo. Classic.

The guy’s singing voice is terrible, so it’s somewhat difficult to sit through the whole thing, but still entertaining enough for me to share:

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PHOTD: Chick-Fil-A and the Browns Have Something in Common

Just caught this picture over at Waiting for Next Year (which was supplied to them by Brendon, who was commented below) and it is an obvious choice for some Photo Hilarity of the Day:

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