This Weekend's Funny Sports Moments

There's three funny sports moments from this past weekend that caught my attention that I'll bring to your attention in case you missed them.

Let's start first with what some will consider hilarious with others finding it completely obnoxious.

UFC fighter Chael Sonnen won unanimous decision over Michael Bisping Saturday night.  Here's Joe Rogan's post fight interview with the always entertaining Sonnen.  The interview starts 1:38 into the video.



Another moment came from the Dan Patrick show when he interviewed Howie Long on Friday.  Dan asked Howie how it was to work with Terry Bradshaw.  Howie told a story that Terry told to the NFLon Fox Pregame crew.

Bradshaw said he was down because of his dog.  He said they were outside and Terry was working on his car.  Bradshaw had a bucked filled with gas.  He walked away, came back, and his dog drank the whole bucket.  His dog ran around and around the whole yard then finally collapsed.

Dan said to Howie, "The dog died."  Howie said, "No, he ran out of gas."

Funny man Bradshaw.

Last, and certainly not least, I'll leave you with something everyone but Chicago Bulls guard John Lucas finds funny.  Even Lucas will find this amazing like the rest of us.

Of course it's LeBron James alley-oop dunk over Lucas' head on Sunday. 



After the game LeBron said he didn't even know Lucas was there.  Honestly, he said that.

Early Funny Super Bowl Advertisement

Here’s an early funny Super Bowl advertisement that can be caught on television now.

It’s a Papa John’s commercial featuring Jerome Bettis, Peyton Manning, and the Papa himself, John Schnatter.

Manning plays a referee about to perform the coin toss.

Bettis is surprised to see Manning as the referee who jokes saying, "Hey, a man's got to work."  Peyton was injured this entire past season (just in case there's anyone in the world that didn't know).

Bettis calls tails, but Manning says he calls heads, something that really happened to Bettis when he called the infamous overtime coin flip for the Steelers on Thanksgiving Day against the Lions where the referee, Phil Luckett, heard the call incorrectly.

The funniest part is at the end.  Notice how excited the Papa is to be in between Jerome and Peyton when they each say Papa John’s Slogan, “Better Ingredients.  Better Pizza.  Papa John’s," and then drinks his Pepsi.

The Papa performs a classic spas’ out maneuver.

Funny On Air Banter Between Mark Cuban and Local Miami Radio Show Host

Today it was Paul Castronovo’s birthday of Big 105.9’s Paul and Young Ron Show.

 

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban called Paul to wish him a happy birthday during the show this morning and asked him what he’ll do to “tear it up.”

 

Paul said he’ll be celebrating Saturday because of his show going on air starting at 6am during the weekdays.  On Saturday he’ll be betting on pony’s, having a dinner with a chef cooking for buddies, then catching the Jimmy Buffet concert that night at the American Airlines Arena, somewhere Cuban knows about.

 

Cuban said, “Yea, last time I was down there I had a big party.” 

 

Of course he was referring to his Mavericks beating the Miami Heat in the finals at the Triple A last season.

 

Later in the interview Paul got him back for Miami fans asking Cuban, “How was your Christmas?” 

 

The Heat defeated the Mavericks this past Christmas Day.

Ed Hochuli Long Winded Explanations

NFL referee Ed Hochuli sure loves explaining the rules of football.

Listen to him explain the rules of overtime for the playoffs during last night’s NFC Championship game.

He had two other long explanations during the game.  One was the Vernon Davis touchdown and the other was when the ball hit off the 49ers return man’s knee.

Today Jim Rome talked about Hochuli’s explanations and read a funny email around 2:20pm eastern time.

It read, “We don’t think Ed Hochuli was long winded at all.  He got right to the point.  Regards, Women.”

If Ed can drag out an NFL ruling this much, just imagine what his wife can do when she talks about her day.

Ed has plenty of long penalty and rule explanations that can be viewed on You Tube with multiple blunders.

I leave you with part of a Hochuli instant classic, last night’s “uncontroverted” Veron Davis touchdown review.

Bobby Bowden vs. Howard Schnellenberger in the Battle of Florida Tomorrow Night at FAU

Tomorrow at FAU’s new on campus football stadium is the inaugural Battle of Florida, North vs. South College All-Star Game.

The game features legendary coaches Bobby Bowden, coaching the north, and Howard Schnellenberger, coaching the South.

Schnellenger leads the all time coaching series 3-2-1 over Bowden.

The rosters consist of players that are NFL draft eligible and were either born in Florida, played high school football in Florida, and/or played college football in the state of Florida.

Tickets range from $12.50 - $50. 

The game airs live at 8pm eastern tomorrow night on Fox College Sports with Kenny Albert doing play by play,  Gino Torretta doing color, and Sid Rosenberg on the sideline reporting.

Michael Irvin Speaks About LaDainian Tomlinson's Comments

LaDainian Tomlinson didn’t hold anything back when interviewed on Showtime’s Inside the NFL.

He was asked about the controversies surrounding the New York Jets this season.

“It's as bad as I’ve ever been around,” Tomlinson said.

Tomlinson added that he wishes head coach Rex Ryan wouldn’t make such bold predictions and he defended the work habits of Mark Sanchez.

Michael Irvin weighed in on Tomlinson’s comments during his radio show at about 11 this morning.

Irvin said it’s never good to bad mouth your former employer about your relationship.  The next person that considers employing you will remember your comments.  They will be hesitant to hire you based on the fact you may bad mouth their organization once you two part ways.

It’s just like what happened with Tiki Barber.  Tiki can’t get a job in football or on television, Irvin added.
 

Irvin’s radio show co-host "Captain" Curtis Stevenson said, “It’s a good life lesson.”

And it’s a lesson Tomlinson may learn the hard way.  There's a chance that LT's mouth just cost him a chance at signing with an NFL team as a free agent this off season and a chance at signing a contract with a television network once he retires.

Hot Read Key

On Wednesday January 11, I received an email from Bleacherreport.com notifying me that my article,  "2010 NFL Preview:Pittsburgh Steelers Nation Address,"  just received over 1,000 reads, earning me a "Hot Read" award from their website.

It confused me at first, but as I revisited the article I quickly realized the reason for the sudden increase in reads a year and a half later.

I mentioned how Maurkice Pouncey, at the time a rookie, used to block for Tim Tebow at the University of Florida.

Put two and two together and the outcome is the 1,000 read plateau was reached just three days after the Steelers were embarrassed by Tebow and the Broncos.

Good old Google key words.

Reading through the article, the Steelers still have many of the same issues now as they did in 2010.

Depth is a key for the Steelers to acknowledge this offseason, and depth in knowledge of Google key words is key for any online article success.

Comedian Barack Obama Wishes Betty White a Happy Birthday

The Paul and Young Ron Show played a clip of Barack Obama wishing Betty White a happy 90^th Birthday today at about 9:15am eastern time.

Republicans may even laugh at this one.

During the breaks on BIG 105.9 FM listen up for the Paul and Young Ron Show commercial directing you to like their Facebook page.

It’s one of those movie voice guys that says, “Facebook is like prison.  You sit around staring at walls getting poked by people you don’t know.”

Again,
 

  

From the Airwaves to the Field, NFL 2012 Divisional Round Wrap Up

All the talk on radio and in the sports world today was of course about this past weekend’s NFL playoffs.

Colin Cowherd spoke on his radio show The Herd today about Tom Brady and the Patriots stomping the Broncos 45-10, then went through Denver’s schedule next season. Winning a division championship in the NFL brings a tougher schedule the next year, and Denver’s is brutal in 2012 featuring games against seven of this year's play off teams.

Colin noted, “They (The Broncos) were the only team blown out by Buffalo this year.” It doesn't look good for Tebow time in 2012.

New England’s blow out win was no surprise, and neither was the Ravens winning a close game against the Texans.

Baltimore’s defense came through after Houston stuffed Ray Rice on fourth down at the goal line. John Harbaugh’s decision to go for the touchdown rather than kick the field goal and go up by seven would have been the center of controversy had the Texans drove down the field to win.

It could be a Harbaugh Super Bowl with Jim Harbaugh and his 49ers winning against the Saints in San Francisco.

Most of the sports media didn’t expect the 49ers to win, but the most surprising game was the Giants blow out of the Packers. A lot of people gave New York a chance to win, but not many said thought they would dominate in Green Bay.

Jason Smith filled in on this Martin Luther King Jr. holiday for Jim Rome on The Jungle and compared Eli Manning to Brett Favre. Eli has that throw it up for the big play or a big mistake quality that Favre possessed. This season and especially this postseason the big play worked in Manning’s favor.

On one of the big plays that worked for Manning yesterday he threw a pass to Hakeem Nicks who broke away from the Pack (pun). Nicks scored a touchdown and noticeably was watching the big screen to see if anyone was chasing him. I’m sure he watched the big screen replay on his hail mary touchdown catch just before the first half ended, too.

Noticeably as well is Ravens pro bowl full back Vonta Leach got his revenge against the Texans. There was a reference during the broadcast that Leach was on Houston last season, but Leach left to sign with Baltimore after being insulted by the Texans offer. Good for him.

And lastly, in case you missed it, Ndamunkong Suh was on the NFL Fox game day staff. Who wants to listen to what this guy has to say after his recent head stomping action? Not to mention all of his other fine-able extracurricular activities he’s committed throughout his short career.

Sure Suh is relevant because he just lost in the playoffs last week, but can’t they get another guy from a losing team that is more respectable? Let Suh try to repair his image on his own time.

And in the spirit of the good commercial season with the Super Bowl fast approaching, I end today hoping you all will listen up for the latest Yamaha Waverunner commercial out on radio right now. It's supposedly the "Most fun you can have between your legs."

Staying In Shape With Ray Lewis

Jim Rome started the top of his radio show’s 1 o’ clock hour (eastern time) segment speaking about the way Ray Lewis stays in shape.

According to Rome’s source, Lewis said he hasn’t ate fast food or pork in over 13 years.

When he wants a snack he drinks some water and eats an apple.

In fact, Ray drinks two gallons of water each day... before noon.

He takes vitamins in the AM and in the PM.

Lewis’ obsession with treating his body as a temple even wears off on the people around him.

His Baltimore Ravens team mate Terrell Suggs was in the locker room snacking on a bag of chips one day. When Ray walked by, he snatched those chips from Suggs and threw them in the trash. That's a scene to imagine.

A lot of where Lewis gets his eating habits and workout routine comes from Shannon Sharpe. Sharpe took Lewis under his wing when Ray got into trouble during his younger years.

Ray Lewis is a beast, and almost literally when you factor in that he's one of the athletes linked with the Deer Antler Spray that the MLB warned players to stop using this past season.

It’s no wonder why Ray Lewis says he is in the best shape of his life now at age 36.