"God likes me! He really, really likes me!"
I just start a blog a week ago, and I get Oregon RB Legarrette Blount tossing the best right cross punch since Kermit Washington. Not only does he do that, he then attempts to fight a teammate, and then finally, tries to go postal on the Boise crowd.
And just when I was about to put my post out for that, I see this bit of news:
"NFL's Merriman arrested, accused of choking Tila Tequila"
God must really, really like me.
Lets start with Blount. First off, let me just say this. Blount is not playing with a full deck. The guy has been suspended for his behavior in the past. He was the main Oregon Duck that did the trash talking weeks before this game even started. He may be a nutjob, but he is a talented nutjob. At 6'1" 240 pounds with good speed, he sounds like Giants RB Brandon Jacobs.
Blount goes into this national game with a potential darkhorse Heisman run in him, and a live audition for the NFL Scouts to elevate his draft stock, and overall, make more money. Boise St. basically crippled his slim Heisman hopes and cost him a good chunk of change in the Draft by holding him to less than nothing in the game. Blount ran his mouth by how Oregon "owes them an ass-whooping", and he could not cash that check. In his eyes, that is rather embarrassing.
We all saw what happened after the end of the game. I am not condoning what Blount did. He got suspended for the year, and his NFL dreams are more slim than Nicole Ritchie's waistline. That punishment was harsh, but the right one to give out.
It is obvious that Blount's temper has a shorter fuse than an Oompa Loompa, considering that he wanted to jump into a crowd of thousands and take them on like he were Rambo. There is one thing I will give Blount.
Boise State's Bryon Hout deserved what he got.
See, here is where the the general public goes, "WTF?", and the silent majoity says, "Hell yes!"
It is no secret that Blount is basically a ticking timebomb. Your defense and team just smoked, and I do mean smoked Oregon for the ESPN-minions to see all over the country, so instead of celebrating with your teammates, with half the state of Idaho jumping on the field in a Varisty Blues kind of way, Hout decides that the best thing to do was to taunt Blount, after the fact that his team already administered a beatdown.
That is what most people call a goating scumbag.
Yes, I apologize for my language, but can we be blunt for a second? (No pun intended there).Blount lost alot that night, even before the entire riot. Awards, draft status, potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars could've been lost by Blount in that one game. Boise St. made their point, threw Blount's own trash-talking right back in his grill. Bryon Hout did not think that was enough, so he tried to pour it on, not only by taunting Blount after the game, but putting his hands on him as well.
Well, bad mistake.
Blount's response to that was a missle of a right cross that landed flushed on Tout's jaw and dropped the scumbag. If Blount's football career is potentially over, I bet Dana White of MMA, Don King, and Oscar De La Hoya are potentially interested in a 240 pound guy that can toss a punch like that. Do not tell me that underneath your breath, you were watching the replays and were not thinking in your head, "That moron got what he deserved."
The best analogy to describe this would be a guy at a bar bragging to his friends that he was going to leave the bar that night with a woman, then the woman coming up to all of them tells him he has a better chance at seeing Jesus, verbally smacks him around a bit, and leaves by tossing a drink in his face. After all of this, some bystander at the bar turns around at the guy and laughs at him. What usually happens to that guy?
Blount then went onto try to fight a teammate, which was strike two on the night. Lastly, and I do not entirely blame Blount for this one, attempted to jump into the crowd at a bunch of volitaile Boise St. fans that were obviously tossing some seriously colorful quotes at Blount. (I do want to know if the Boise Stadium replayed the punch to encite the crowd into a boarderline riot. If anyone knows this for a fact, please email me or leave a comment.) People, just because you paid for the ticket, does not mean you have the right to say or do anything you want. I wouldve liked to seen if that clown in the stands wouldve said anything if there was not a boarder between him and Blount.
I also do not think Bryon Hout should be suspended for the taunt. He will be known as the rest of his life as the guy that got knocked out on national television for opening his big mouth. For the next five years, his face will be getting three million hits on YouTube. He probaly will not be able to go into a Burger King, without someone recognizing him and laughing at Hout. That alone, is enough punishment.
Next is Shawne Merriman.
This is just flat out embarrassing. Merriman gets arrested a week before the season starts over a skank like Tila Tequila? First off, you are a star in the NFL. You can get any woman you want, and you settle for a below average looking woman, who basically whored herself out to MTV for two years? Seriously, if I were in the same zip code as Tila Tequila, I would catch some sort of floating STD.
That is not the most embarrassing part though. Tila Tequila is how tall? Weighs how much? I would be doing her justice if I said she was 5'4" and 100 pounds. Ok, now how big is Shawne Merriman? Lets look that one up shall we.
Shawne Merriman is listed as 6'4" and 265 pounds.
For Merriman's sake, I hope that this was just blown out of proportion. A misunderstanding in a heated argument with Tequila, and she did what she knows best, and that is women. Ok, bad joke, what I really meant was, grabbing attention.
Because if this is not the case, and Merriman wrapped his mitts around a woman's neck that he outweighs by at least 150 pounds, he is then a coward. Why doesn't Merriman at least try to pick a fight with someone that is around 5'7" instead? Oh, that is right, Merriman still has nightmares about Maurice Jones-Drew laying him out on his back.
But if Merriman really has steroid.... oh, I am sorry, rage issues, I know a guy that close to your size that would fight you.
Legarrette Blount.
Few more tidbits about this weekend. I mean, not everything in sports was about violence.
- Sam Bradford just lost (In my best Dr. Evil voice) millllllllllllionssss of dollars with getting injured. The lesson, when you are going to be a top 5 pick in the NFL, just go into the Draft.
- There was been some horrible refereeing this weekend, but nothing takes the cake over what happened in the 4th quarter of that Georgia-Oklahoma St. game. In a close 17-10 game, Georgia S Reshead Jones flat out jacked up Oklahoma St WR Justin Blackmon cleanly over the middle. The outcome was a 15-yard personal foul penalty for a head to head hit. Jones didnt hit Blackmon's head, nor did he lead with his own head.
Three plays later, a Okie St. Touchdown to ice the game. Good job refs.
- If anyone is watching the US Open this weekend, 17 year old, and new American sweetheart Melanie Oudin upsetted Maria Shapapova in the 3rd round. During the match, all eyes and cameras were on Oudin. When was the last time Sharapova was anywhere and none of the cameras were flashing at her?
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