Remember Me?

Well, it's been a long time since I left you, without a great blog to... step to?  Well that sounds decent enough for an introduction.  I would say that I have not had much time to blog, but that would be somewhat of a lie, and that's something I don't see the point of unless you are getting out of school or work.  The truth is that my current job as a case manager, has sucked the life out of me recently.  I have a lot of great things about my line of work that include great pay and a very flexible schedule, but the State of NC has made it very difficult with some pretty significant budget cuts resulting in my company having to give us more cases to work where 15 minutes of work is considered the same as 15 hours of work, or 50 hours of work for that matter. I do not feel as connected with my clients as I used to and that is something that is unfortunate.  I work with kids and adults that suffer from a Developmental Disability and/or Mental Health Disability. It's very challenging to work with this population of people in the first place, then tack on all of the changes, low morale in the office environment, and the occasional hiccup with a client results in no bloggy bloggy for Yeoj. 

I have roughly 8-12 months left with my current company before I most likely lose my current job and/or the company closes it's doors due to the aforementioned budget cuts.  So now cast that uncertainty on my already rough financial situation and being suffocated and punished for previous stupid financial decisions and added bills and interest, I would like to say that I am not trying to complain.  I am only venting.  Given all of these challenges I am still blessed with the best wife, family, friend or two - haha, and dogs a man could ever have and I do thank God daily for my blessings and truly believe the struggles will only be temporary. 

Now, onto some fun stuff if you have not already shot yourself in the face.  I will be appearing on another episode of The Less Desirables (www.thelessdesirables.com) as I have been officially dubbed their official NCAA College Sports Guru, which was a real treat for me. I will get to talk about the upcoming college football season and give my take on what will go down! Be sure to download the podcast from iTunes and listen to it! This Wednesday I will try to focus more on the expectations of the teams, Heisman candidates, conference winner predictions, and some really early Bowl projections.  I'm not a fan of all of the "cheating" going on and I already feel that is pretty much overkill already in the media, so if you are tuning in to hear my opinion on Miami, Ohio State, or even UNC I probably will not make much mention of the turmoil surrounding those programs whatsoever. I may give a brief comment, but nothing significant.  Regardless, it will be a HOOT!

Outside of football, I have been totally hooked on Big Brother 13.  In case you don't know already, I tweet often about many things including Big Brother....   @jmac211.  I have had the pleasure of "tweeting" with Evel Dick several times recently as well as Natalie "Chatty Natty" from Big Brother 9.  (Also had some banter with Mike Wilbon from ESPN's Pardon the Interruption surrounding my Redskins!).  I'm hoping to recruit Natalie & Evel Dick to support my campaign with Allison Grodner & the casting director to accept me as a houseguest for BB14.  We shall see!  So that's it.  That's the latest mind burn from yours truly.  I hope you have enjoyed. Also be sure to click on the link to the Storm Sports Blogtacular on the right side of the page as I will be updating that one very soon as well.  Thanks to everyone for reading!

Latus on the menges!

Ranking the NFL Teams... J-Mac Style

Okay. So I admit, the NFL Draft is somewhat intriguing to the point it has taken a few minutes away from the Hawks & Magic Play-Off game. I thought about putting this on the SS1 blog site, but figured that since this was more of a rant than a strategical analysis or "expert" break down, it should come to the Burn.  I shall now proceed to rank my favorite NFL teams with "great vengeance and furious anger" Ala Samuel Jackson style in Pulp Fiction. I just like saying the words "great vengeance and furious anger", just like Sam Jackson. I also like saying "Yes they deserve to die and I hope they burn in hell!".  I digress. Here is a glorious list of my favorite NFL teams so that I can begin to burn on the current great birth certificate debate of Barack Obama (heck yes I want to see his birth certificate) and recent racial comments and trends I have been seeing that are derogatory to the white man and woman. Seriously, but here is the glorious list!

#1. Washington Redskins - Hail to the Redskins! "The Hogs". "The Posse". Joe Gibbs. John Riggins, Let's Go Diesel. Joe Theisman. RFK. These are the things that were classic. I choose to remember the glory days, not the more recent Daniel Snyder days that leaves me shaking my head or as the lazy, generation now would say or, type... "SMH".  I hope that the Skins can return to glory once again, but I have a feeling a lot more changes have to take place before they do. Nothing good has happened during the Snyder era and I blame Shawn Taylor's death on Daniel Snyder. I am sure he placed the drugs in his home that the thugs were coming for. Still, they are my favorite team and definitely the team I have liked the longest in all of sports. Not my favorite team in sports, but the one I have liked since I was born an 8 pound baby genius.

#2. Seattle Seahawks - I can remember loving the old Seahawks "Silver" uniforms. I was a big fan of Steve Largent, and even the "Boz".  How was I to know he would become a C list movie star on roids?  One of my first NFL jerseys was a #44 Seahawks jersey loving the logo on the sleeves. The Seahawks now look like a team that you would see in Tron with all that neon in their uniform. I thought it was a Seahawks thing, but if you google Seattle sports team the city loves that neon green. I wonder if they run around with glow sticks and pacifiers in their mouths as well?  Seattle friends please comment. Why the obsession with neon green. Please enlighten me and the rest of the world. I can only hope that if my beloved Seattle Supersonics return to the NBA, they do not wear that horrific green or I may be forced to commit a hate crime.

Can we please have this Seattle helmet back?

The rest of the list fluctuates. I can remember loving the old Rams helmets and I was a huge Eric Dickerson fan. I followed him to the Colts where I cheered for him there as well.  I can remember loving Dan Marino and his main targets Mark Duper and Mark Clayton. Dan was indeed, the man.  I had nothing but shear hate for the 49ers growing up and don't care for them now, so they will not be in the top 25 or so.  For some reason, I loved the Jets and the green and black helmets.  I loved the Jets and Dolphins rivalry.  I seen a picture of me as a 3 year old man child and I had a Pittsburgh Steelers jersey on, but I am positive that my family buried whoever put me in that beneath the house we lived in thankfully. All jokes aside, I do not hate the Steelers, I just cannot stand the woman that plays safety for them, their QB Rapelessburger, Chubby Cheeks Ward, and the fact they were handed Super Bowl Whatever Number (the one versus the Seahawks) on a PLATTER. The only Super Bowl I can remember turning off because it was obviously fixed.  I almost quit watching the NFL all together after that load of bull. So, rant aside... here is the rest of the list with minimal details. 

#3. New York Jets - Long Live the Green helmets and unis. 

#4. Miami Dolphins - Long Live Dan Marino and the Jets vs. Dolphins rivalry.

#5. St. Louis Rams - Where is Flipper Anderson and "Chris" Everett? Eric Dickerson. LA Rams.

#6. San Diego Chargers - The lightning bolt logo could be the best in sports.

#7. Cincinnati Bengals - I love the helmets. Classic. Sam Wyche. Boomer Esiason.

#8. Cleveland Browns - The Dawg Pound. All Orange helmets. Ugly brown uniform.  Winning.

#9. Oakland Raiders - Jim Plunkett and his one bar face mask. Awesome.

#10. Kansas City Chiefs - They are the team I remember most from the old Super Bowl vids, not G.B.

#11. Detroit Lions - Barry Sanders. Andre Ware. The two names beside each other is sort of funny.

#12. Arizona Cardinals - St. Louis Cardinals? How many Cardinal birds are in the desert? Just weird.

#13. Minnesota Vikings - Another classic uniform combination along with the Viking helmet.

#14. Atlanta Falcons - Prime Time.

#15. Indianapolis Colts - Old Eric Dickerson. After Peyton Manning retires bump Indy up 7 or 8 spots.

#16. New England Patriots - Doug Flutie. The white "Patriot" helmet. 1985. The first underdog team.

#17. Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Dream cicle uniforms. The Yucks.

#18. Green Bay Packers - Brett Favre. The old man on the Super Bowl Videos saying "Lambeau Field".

#19. Chicago Bears - Might as well keep the Bears and Packers close.  The Fridge. Walter Payton.

#20. New York Giants - I cannot lie, I sort of liked Lawrence Taylor. Now, he really likes many young women and cocaine.

#21. Philadelphia Eagles - Randall Cunningham.  He was Michael Vick without the felony. He loved dogs.

#22. Tennessee Titans - I liked Eddie George.

#23. Jacksonville Jaguars - They drafted Marshall Alum Byron Leftwich. That is reason enough.

#24. Baltimore Ravens - I probably should have put the Ravens higher, but I found a new security system to keep Ray Lewis from shanking me.

#25. Pittsburgh Steelers - Sorry Louis Lipps, Terry Bradshaw and the current players ruin it for you. I cannot cheer for you while you have Hamburger at QB raping people and a big haired woman at safety.

#26. Buffalo Bills - I just can't get down with choke artists. You did not beat Dallas. I cannot forgive you.

#27. Denver Broncos - I never liked John Elway. So Overrated, but thank you for the Super Bowl melt down against the Redskins. 

#28. Houston Texans - They are so low, because I actually forgot about them and their terrible nickname.

#29. San Francisco 49ers - I loathe the Niners and bathe in their sorrow now with a happy face.  Joe Montana and Jerry Rice were the devil.  Gag me with a fork. Roger Craig, puh lease. The only player I could ever get behind was Ronnie Lott, but now that I think about it, I dislike him too. I do not like their ugly colors nor their Candlestick.

#30. Dallas Cowboys - Where do I even start? Troy Aikman, Gag. Michael Irvin, drug head. Emmit Smith? I could have rushed for 4.5 yards per carry with a bunch of 500 lb linemen. Emmit was not even in Barry Sanders league. Jimmy Johnson? Double Gag. I'm glad his ass got voted off Survivor last season.  Jerry Jones? I'd like to see him on Dexter Morgan's table in next season of Dexter on Showtime. I could go on and on about this franchise.  They just suck and their cheerleaders lead the league in STD's.  Proven Fact. 

So, there it is.  My favorite NFL teams.  Now soak this in and let me give you some advice. It's much more fun to watch the NBA Play-Offs then go back and check Sportscenter to see who got drafted where.  Just sayin'.  Later!

Numero Uno... Deja Vu?

Greetings Earthlings!

After some brief rearrangement it was brought to my attention there could be a place in my life and possibly yours for the Mind Burn.  A different flavor for your daily blogging hunger pains. Enjoy the fruits of blogging pleasure humans, because you never know when all the fruits might fall off the tree.  Consider this the other side of the coin, if you will.  The Night to Storm Sports' blog Day. The Jelly to the Peanut Butter. The Dark Passenger to Dexter. The Darth Vader to Anakin Skywalker. You get the point.  A blog with a little sharper blade. Not just a blog, but a look inside of a unique mind where I may feel the need to discuss the latest movie in the theater or the old lady that tried to run me down in Wal Mart on a motorized cart. It could all be a beautiful thing. Won't you come back?  I promise that when you wake up you will not have too many cuts or bruises.  Bwa ha ha ha.

Farnold Kruegernegger says, "Come back and read the Mind Burn or I will cut you like I cut all the boys and girls for stealing my cookies... Ahhhhh..."