7:45 PM The Wall Street Journal reports that Congress could be voting on a bill to force a college football playoff as early as next week. But BCS head Bill Hancock counters: "With everything going in the country right now, doesn't Congress have more important things to do?"
7:30 PM Players from both the Bears and Blackhawks were going to appear together in commercials showing solidarity between the two Chicago franchises. But the NFL stepped in and put a stop to it.
Celebrating the New Year has always been an excuse to give in to our more self-destructive tendencies. You willingly go to a bar or a friend’s place, try to ingest as much beer or champagne as possible, attempt to hook up with either random strangers or acquaintances from high school who didn’t get fat, all the while dodging streamers, surprisingly sharp noise-makers, and high school acquaintances who did get fat. But no matter how gracefully you navigate tonight’s treacherous terrain of booze, STDs and shame, you still got nothing on daredevil Robbie Maddison, who will once again be attempting a feat of insanity for your New Year’s Eve viewing pleasure.
(Maddison, during last year’s feat)
Last year on ESPN, Maddison took to the parking lot of the Rio hotel and jumped the length of a football field at 322 feet, 7.5 inches. This year he’s at it again, but the plan is to make things a bit more vertical. He will “go more than 120 feet high and land on top of the 96-foot Arc de Triomphe replica in front of the Paris Las Vegas Hotel. He’ll then freefall 50 feet off the Arc to a ramp.” Works for us.
Video of the last year’s jump after the, uh, jump.
According to the Nielsen numbers, over 97 million viewers tuned in to see Eli Manning out-duel Tom Brady on Sunday, with 81% of the sets in Boston and 67% of the TVs in New York tuned into the game.
Fox’s pre-game festivities, including a red-carpet walk hosted by Ryan Seacrest, helped bring in the “American Idol” crowd - and also bring up some amusing quips from the boys in the booth.
Thank goodness OUT SPORTS watches American Idol so we don’t have to. The gay sports website reports that during the show this week (what night is it on?) Ryan Seacrest showed off some of the moves he used to use on Merv Griffith that one might use on the football field.
The reason? Apparently “a very large, sweet young woman by the name of Temptress Brown was featured. One of the things that made Temptress so unique is that she plays football. Middle linebacker.“
