Are You Ready For Some Football?

Yay, football season has finally begun. This year, however, isn't likely to be a good year for the Eagles. First they traded away their franchise quarterback to a division rival (WTF?) and now the supposed "new" quarterback is injured (and so far, he certainly isn't showing himself to be the new Peyton Manning either). At least the back-up is a former starter, albiet, not that great a one. Still, Vick almost pulled it out for the Eagles last week, but for yet another questionable play call by Reid. Seriously, WTF? with passing on 4 and 1 when you have a running quarterback? Hello!!!!????

So, I'm not holding out any hopes for the playoffs this year. Even if the quarterback situation works out, the Eagles still have many other problems, both offensively and defensively. Giving up 27 points doesn't make for a good defense.

In other football news, we have another example of why I don't believe that any reporters, not just women, should be granted access to locker rooms for interviews. Really, is the information that critical that you have to ask the guy while he's naked? Can't you wait until he has some pants on???

Of course, the issue currently brewing about Inez Sainz isn't just in the locker room (although that was a big part of it). She's claiming harassment outside the locker room as well, such as when she was on the field wearing jeans that if they were any tighter, she'd look like Mystique with her blue skin. She claims to have been wearing a "button down" blouse, but given the only photo we have is her from the back, we don't know how far "down" those buttons were undone.

A female football reporter for the Inquirer wrote about the situation today. She came right out and said, "look, if you want to be taken as a professional, you have to dress and act professional." Flirting (like sitting on players' shoulders) does not make one seem professional and then people won't treat you as a professional (or at least not as a professional journalist).

And finally, we've got Jimmy Johnson, former NFL two-time Super Bowl winning coach on one of my favorite shows this season, Survivor. Johnson is definitely the most famous contestant on the show, although there has been some quasi-celebrities previously. By "quasi-celebrity" I mean someone who has a shot at being known outside their personal circle of family, friends and co-workers pre Survivor (i.e. Elisabeth Hasselbeck doesn't count, she got famous after Survivor).

Former "quasi celebs" on Survivor include: Gary Hogeboom, a former NFL quarterback (backup only); Crystal, a former gold-medal winning US Olympic athlete (though she only ran the qualifying race and had to give her medal back after revealing drug use); Ashley (?) the female WWF wrestler; and possibly the biggest celeb prior to JJ, Jonathan Penner, an actor/producer (although I'll acknowledge that unless you were a big fan of his or the shows where he guest-acted on, you probably don't know him).

Thus just begs the question, how long until we have a true Celebrity Survivor season? Its been on the air for over 10 years now, we're going to get it soon, I just know it. But in the meantime, I don't think Jimmy J is going to last long. He's the oldest contestant (and they rarely make the merge) and he's not in that good a shape (unlike, say Rudy). So he'll probably stick around a few episodes, I'm guessing he's off by week 5 or 6. Motivational speeches only do so much when you can't otherwise contribute to winning challenges. Jimmy doesn't have Troy Aikmen on his tribe.