Broncos schedule released

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If you’re an NFL junkie like me, you probably realize that today the NFL finally released their schedule for next year. The Broncos schedule can be found on their site.

The reception has been pretty decent as I read the blog. Mile High Report puts it best:

It looks pretty good; good time for the bye, not too many long roadtrips, KC at Arrowhead NOT in December, no “murderer’s rows” of tough opponents:

However, there’s one thing I’d like to add – NO HOME PRIME-TIME GAMES. I’m a little mixed about that. On one hand I love going to football games at night, experiencing the lights and knowing that you’re on national TV. On the other hand, you basically get no opportunity to tailgate (especially if it’s on a week night), the weeknight people working there are usually backups and things are slow from buses to concession stands, and the drive home late at night is a big pain.

The Broncos will still be on 3 times in prime-time – all away games. However, there’s no Sunday Night Football, unless flex-scheduling later in the season changes that. I think this may reflect the fact that the Broncos haven’t made the playoffs in 2 years, and many are predicting another tough year for the orange and blue. Let’s hope the network hacks are wrong.

Off to the closing now, wish me luck!

Another celebrity drunk: Melo gets a DUI

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Melo Well the Nuggets wouldn’t be the Nuggets without their drama.  Carmelo Anthony did his part on Sunday night by getting a DUI.  Nice Melo, it’s bad enough that you’re contributing to our on-court meltdown at the end of the season (why do we want to make the playoffs playing like we are?), but you have to go and embarrass your team and your city.

I like this gem as well:

(From ESPN): Detective Sharon Hahn said Anthony, who was alone in the car, failed a series of sobriety tests. He was ticketed and released at the scene, but Hahn did not know how he got home. Denver police don’t jail DUI suspects and Anthony was no exception, Hahn said.

What?!?  You just let DUI suspects go on their merry way home?  How is that for safety?  I’m glad I’m driving the roads of I-25 with Drunk Melo and other people who received a DUI that night.

Why fanboys hurt Apple

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I ran across a blog posting that was reacting to another blog posting (as that’s what we blogs do best) that classically sums up effects of the cult-like fanaticism of Apple fans, and how their attitudes actually deter typical tech people from buying Apple products.

Best statement from Kevin Maney:

Here’s something I know from experience: Dis Apple or Steve Jobs publicly, even in a mild way, and the Apple Cultists descend on you like the zombies in Dawn of the Dead. Or maybe the flying monkeys in Wizard of Oz. You get the picture. Nail Apple in a public forum, and you can depend on your in box filling with nasty-grams from dot-mac addresses.

Followed by a classic story via The Marketing Ninja:

An example: one of my college friends was among the first group of people to get an iPhone, and he has not stopped talking about the iPhone since. Every single meeting with him means that I have to spend at least 5 minutes watching him perform some mundane task on his iPhone or watch some lame YouTube video on his tiny screen.

Within a few weeks of owning an iPhone he started to make fun of his other friends and I for using Razors, Treos, and so forth. Nothing, however, topped my his attempt to pick up girls at bars by showing them his iPhone; a few of my other friends and I stood back and watched, all of us thinking “an iPhone would be cool were it not adopted by people like who think that an iPod with a touch screen and 2g wireless will get girls into the sack.”

Apple’s not an innocent bystander in all of this.  People around me will tell you how much I groan whenever the “I’m a Mac” ads come on, where Apple sets up their PC straw man, beating him with a flaming 2×4.  Rather than tout the Mac’s features, they are more interested in portraying PC’s as lame.  You’ve definitely seen this smugness transcend from Apple Marketing to the fanatic consumers.

I admit: Apple makes beautiful products which become trend-setters throughout their product line (Ipod, iPhone, etc), there’s no excuse for the elitism adopted by people who own these products – to the point where they need to ridicule people who don’t own these products.

Update on the shirt curse

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a.k.a. “how to waste money & time on something completely insignificant”

There’s an update since I posted about the story of the new Yankees Stadium construction worker that buried a Bo-Sox jersey in cement. It looks like they wasted 5 hours of drilling to find and remove the jersey.

From ESPN:

“The first thought was, you know, it’s never a good thing to be buried in cement when you’re in New York,” Levine said. “But then we decided, why reward somebody who had really bad motives and was trying to do a really bad thing?”

Oh please.  Could you hear the fiddle playing in the background during that comment? Not being a Yankee fan (I loathe the Evil Empire), maybe I don’t have a full appreciation of this, but this is far from “the act that was a very, very bad act”.  I said on Friday that I hoped this was true, now I wish it was false. It would have been hilarious to spend all that time jack-hammering your new stadium, only to find nothing.