WOW. That was 20 YEARS AGO today!

He forgot the PROTECTIVE GUARD on his SKATES?

Why don’t SAINTS fans like TELEVISIONS?

The boys FAVORITE SUPER BOWL COMMERICIAL!

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The New Orleans Saints shock the world, rebuild and become world champs…check! Will Brett Favre return in 2010…check! Will we have football in 2011…check! Now the story that is making me scratch my head now is the story the media has developing for the Super Bowl XLIV runner-ups, the Indianapolis Colts.

Now the media needed to develop something for the Indianapolis Colts because the day after the Super Bowl…scratch that, HOURS after the Super Bowl…scratch that too, MINUTES after the Super Bowl they need to give a story to lead into next season for the Colts. Now I am not an Indianapolis Colts fan, I don’t like them, I don’t hate them but the story the media developed for them going into the offseason made me ask my television if it still had integrity. My television of course did not respond.

Moments after the Super Bowl, I tuned into the great four letter network located in Connecticut. The network had a good NFL analyst on who at one time (I can’t believe I’m going to write this) lead his team to a Super Bowl Championship. His name is Trent Dilfer.

The story he brought up that the media would run with the next day on the Indianapolis Colts is something weeks prior we would never even consider. He asked: “could Peyton Manning win the big one again?” I feel like I have heard that questions asked before…hmmm…let me go back a couple years back prior to the Super Bowl that pitted the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears and people were asking the same exact thing. How would this game affect the legacy of Peyton Manning?

Peyton Manning and the Colts ended up winning the Super Bowl. Peyton’s quest was complete as he could officially say he could win “the big one.” So now we are asking ourselves whether or not the only 4-time NFL MVP can make it back to the Super Bowl and win another Championship. We are asking ourselves now whether or not Peyton’s legacy will be remembered for the 4 NFL Championships or not being able to rack in massive amount of Vince Lombardi trophies.

I get it. The NFL analysts love to compare Tom Brady and Peyton Manning. They are the two top Quarterbacks in the NFL…wait a second, now all of a sudden people are putting Drew Brees into that exact same category. Remember when Drew Brees was fighting for his job in San Diego and people were questioning what was next for Brees? Now all of a sudden (and rightfully so) Drew Brees popularity is higher then that of President Obama following his inauguration. Republicans should run Brees in 2012.

My personal opinion is Peyton Manning is one of the best Quarterbacks of all-time, if not the best. Can you ever remember a Quarterback who could truly affect the performance of his team every Sunday? Peyton has carried that franchise on his back since he was drafted. He made receivers like Reggie Wayne, Pierre Garcon and Dallas Clark into great players; one of the reasons why Manning is such a good player, he makes the players around him better, similar to that of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls.

So here we are again trying to develop some sort of pressure upon the shoulders of the best Quarterback/player in the NFL today. Screw asking ourselves whether or not Peyton can win a Championship…he’s already done that! We should now ask ourselves whether or not we will see #18 on the field on Super Bowl Sunday ever again. Let’s create some pressure so we keep an eye on Peyton throughout the rest of his amazing, first ballot hall-of-famer career.

Will we see #18 back on the field on Super Bowl Sunday? Who knows, I’m a Green Bay Packers fan that was convinced in 1998 after losing to the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl that Favre would be back in a Super Bowl someday. As we know, that has never happened since. One never knows what will happen to a career but I wouldn’t bet against Peyton Manning.

To try and define someone’s career on whether or not they can reach the pinnacle of their sports is something we all understand. To be the man, you must beat the man. Peyton has climbed that mountain before and it will have it struggles, but to ask ourselves whether or not someone can do it again is a little much. The sports media needs to look at the negative of a situation and create an obstacle for a team or an athlete.

Manning and the Colts will be motivated going into 2010, it’s a young team, a different version of the Super Bowl Championship team and I’m not going to put money down on saying Manning will never get there again. When it’s all said and done Manning will probably hold just about every Quarterback record, making him statistically the greatest of all-time. The argument of who is the greatest is another story but when it comes to reaching that championship pinnacle again how could you bet against a 4-time NFL MVP, the only one in the history of the NFL?

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NEW JERSEY truly is CLASSY state, ISN’T IT?

DREW BREES is starting to become THE MAN

I guess we will see MALL COPS on these soon?

mmmmmmm….MEGAN FOX….

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By: Jimmy Failla

If you ever look @ Mike Lupica’s headshot in the Daily News you’ll notice almost a wee bit of a sneer, sort of a “hey take me seriously because I do type of look”…he’s one of the best we have writin’ sports and he was around when you could smoke cigars in bars and all of the iconics were playing, reporting, and drinking together, for that I love his column. Plus he goes on Imus which is only the greatest show on radio if you know anything about good radio…. Aside from those infomercials for the Dean Martin Show, Club Lupica is the only place you can go for a Toots Shore reference in the year 2010. I do find myself agreeing with a good amount of his political view points although I will call him on the whiny way he goes about expressing him. He writes politics the way he writes sports and I don’t think it translates well. And he always talks about guys who “find religion a little late in the service” which is a great line but he’s also one of those guys who decided to go all MSNBC on our asses right when it became fashionable to start piling on the last administration….that being said (you know what’s coming, this is the classic, don’t get me wrong I have nothing against black people, BUT DID YOU EVER NOTICE HOW…..) I have to call out Mikey Sneers on his Peyton Manning take after SB XLIV….He chided the greatest regular season qb of all time for amongst other things, not doing the midfield handshake with Brees and Sean Payton…..here’s the thing Sneers…..anyone mad that ‘ol Peyday didn’t give us the onfield handshake needs to read a book about the power of positive thinking and get over their need to wallow in someone else’s defeat…it’s this exact mentality that is the reason we have the first week of american idol, where people intentionally act like horrible singers so the rest of the country can feel good about themselves….it’s sad when you think about what network producers think of YOU THE VIEWER….when they program A.I. they’re basically looking at you as someone who looks at it this way: hey my boss is a ballbag, I’m working to death for no money, my wife won’t bang me, BUT ATLEAST I DON’T SING LIVING ON A PRAYER AS BAD AS THAT GUY….THIS SHOW IS AWESOME!!!!!!! Hey Senor Sneers, how about focusing on the positive achievment of the Saints and writing an article about Drew Brees and his kid and giving readers the kind of inspiration they really need? I know Peyday INTENTIONALLY blew off the handshake which sounds a little off putting until you realize what else went on in the NFL this weekend, ahem Rex “The Bird” Ryan, and Warren “Ike Turner” Sapp…..Dante Stallworth, Stephen Jackson (who got off) ….. I’ll quote another lefty for the road on this one……”give peace a chance” Mikey Sneers!!!! See that wasn’t so bad, was it?

—–Has anyone else noticed that Steve Phillips and ex vp nominee John Edwards are pretty much the same guy?? How big is the sleeze quotient on Phillips? And now he’s doing the talk show circuit to apologize, i.e. campaign for a new job. Typical interview blah blah blah, someone hire me on their sports network, hurt my family, blah blah, team player, blah blah, learned I had a problem, blah blah…..and you KNOW Phillips kept his socks on when he drilled that young freuline up in Bristol….

—–Happy Superbowl one more time. I just can’t say it enough because it’s the only happy you can wish anyone and still include the title of the holiday……so happy superbowl….and sorry for not wishing ya’ll a few extra merry christmas’ as I would have been sued..and lets face it when your 33 and driving a yellow cab in manhattan you’re not doin’ it because there’s a surplus of cash in your life…..

—–The Saints have taken Super Bowk XLIV and the big easy is gettin’ ready to “party with Lombardi” this week as the who dats return home with their first NFL Crown since I used them in Super Tecmo Bowl in 1991. It’s gonna be a helluva time down there, as it should be, because it doesn’t get any bigger than….THIS….but that’s in New Orleans….what I wanna talk about is is the celebration that will ensue up here, in the Northeast, where we will undoubtedly see hundreds of BRAND SPANKIN’ NEW SAINTS LIDS all over the sidewalks this week, not because we have any Saints fans up here but this is a MAJOR FRONT RUNNIN’ TOWN…MAJOR….don’t believe me, ask anyone who saw the viral spread of Red Sox hats in 04…you couldn’t go to a street corner in this town and not see a Boston hat, they were like the Duane Reade drug stores of HAT. Good luck finding one now, with the Yanks taking the whole thing this year, there’s suddenly a Red Sox hat famine….seriously if you ask the average Saints Hoody wearin’ schmuck you see outside of Penn Station this week to name 2 guys on the Saints don’t be surprised to see them get stuck at Peyton Manning. But Jim, Peyton Manning isn’t on the saints………EXACTLY!!!! I’m not writing this because I have a problem with all the front running, as a Raider fan I totally empathize with the need to be around a winning team once in a while. All I’m sayin’ is atleast cut the tags off your hat and bend the brim a little bit so we can at least create the illusion that you were with em’ all along. If you’re gonna frontrun, atleast be discreet!!!!

—–Gotta send a big shout out for the guy who filled in for the WHEELHOUSE Sunday and told every body how to bet the super bowl…that was some impressive stuff…..what was his name again? I can’t remember, but I remember him sayin’ something about driving a cab….and being a no name comic who’s appearing @ Comix this wednesday thursday and friday….p.s. go to another blog if you’d like your days of the week capitalized!!!!!

—–Roger Goodell announced that he wants to enact stricter rules to limit concussions. How about rules to limit the amount of Super Bowl commercials where animals act like people? How many violin playing beavers can you laugh at, middle america?

—–And no pun intended but speaking of beavers, how bout that Danica Patrick making it to NASCAR. I die laughing when I hear someone mention what a big moment this is for women because she has made her way into this all male sport and forced her to take them seriously. As if she’s relevant for any reasons that have to do with her driving ability. I’m fine with intergrating women into big time pro sports but not just so we can say we did. My advice to Danica, stop simulating sex with Megan Fox and learn how to drive. Your rise to prominence is the epitome of what the whole women’s rights movement is supposed to be against. Talk about objectification….really, has anyone ever seen a cheaper marketing ploy in sports??? Whose gonna sponsor her car, HANDCREAM????? If you wanna be a pro athlete, be a pro athlete! If you wanna be a pornstar, be a pornstar…

Following XLIV who feels worse, Colts fans or Vikings fans? The Vikes SO SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THAT GAME!!!!!! friggin FARV- RUH……….. 7 turnovers against a team they completely DOMINATED….the Colts turn it over once (not counting the brilliant onsider) and it cost em the game….the Vikes turned it over SEVEN TIMES before it finally caught up to them…the good news, Vikes fans, is you were probably the best team in the league this year. The BAD NEWS………we end with a quote for extra credit…..

“the flowers you gave me, are just about to die, but when I think about what COULD’VE BEEN, it makes me want to cry”

WHO THE HELL ELSE HAS THE CONFIDENCE TO CLOSE ON A TIFFANY SONG???????

Check out Jimmy’s blog at www.jimmyfailla.blogspot.com and go to his official website at www.jimmyfailla.com !

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GOOGLE takes AIM at TIGER WOODS!

Amazing moment caught on television between DREW BREES and his SON!

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