Special Edition

As I am sure most of you don't know, but I have an obsession with athletic shoes. Right now I am in the Jordan High Top phase. As a young kid I would buy athletic shoes based on the colors. I wanted to have the most unique shoes in school.

Shoe designs inspire me, they make me feel free and allow me to be creative. Check this out, a special edition Nike Dunk made out of used skateboards from Nike's skateboard team. The detail that is put into this design is unreal. It is so awesome that it actually looks fake.

This has got to be the coolest pair of shoes I have ever seen, although they are un-wearable I would pay lots of money to have these on a shelf somewhere in my man cave.

The artist is Haroshi and here is the link to his awesome website.

http://haroshi.com/artworks/index.html

Absured Contract

I have pretty much given up on understanding the point of these NFL stars signing huge contracts. Take for example Donovan McNabb, who signed a 5 year-$78 million dollar deal. After the details have been uncovered, he is only guaranteed $3.5 million of that total. So, that is why I say, to hell with the contracts.

I have a large suspicion that the Skins are just going to release him after the end of the season to avoid paying that contract especially after his dismal and embarrassing performance against the Eagles.

My proposal is the NFL go strictly to 1 year contracts which are guaranteed, would sure make the players play harder throughout the season....unless they were trying to avoid injury.

ESPN Page 2 has a great breakdown of some of the incentives for his contract.

My favorites are:

$200,000 for getting more followers on Twitter than T.O.

$400,000 for completing full P90x program

$250,000 for completing training camp drills

It's on.........like DK

You know that phrase that we all have used when just about to dominate an opponent, well Nintendo is trying to trademark that phrase. "It's on like Donkey Kong".

For some reason Nintendo thinks it should have exclusive rights to that phrase even though they weren't the originators of it. As I think back, it seems to me as though popular culture made that phrase popular, albeit from playing DK for Super Nintendo.

What I can tell you is that I used that phrase probably ten times a day for the duration of my Sophomore year of college as I tried to beat the DK game every afternoon after class. That shows that not only is it a popular thing to say but also that I suck at the game since I actually never beat it. Bummer.

The funniest thing about this whole story is that the phrase "it's on like donkey kong" is actually listed in Urban Dictionary meaning "A phrase to denote that it's time to throw down or complete at a high level".

According to that definition, I can see a small college adopting the phrase as a locker room chant before the big rivalry game.

GAME ON. NINTENDO

Cleveland fires back at Lebron

Rise up ye fans of Cleveland.

Lebron asks the people if he should disappear, tells them he has done this before and talks about his legacy. The fans respond by saying he has done this before, he quit in game 5 vs Boston. He has cemented his legacy in Cleveland, as a traitor.

I give props to Clevelanders for not letting Lebron dupe them as he tried to do. He used his fans to build his legacy and his fortune and then crapped on them the minute he had a chance to be with his friends in Miami.

We are all witness to his......QUITNESS.

Odds: Cleveland makes playoffs 5-1

Miami Heat win championship 7-1

How Army became popular in football

Over the past few years, college football teams have been exploring new options with uniforms. I think Army has outdone every other school with their rendition of the alternate uniform in a game verses the Virginia Military Academy.

How intimidating would be it to line up against a bunch of guys who look like they are about to go into combat.

Although I am an Ok-State alumni and love our black out uniforms, I have to give it up to Army for the #1 college football uniform. They should make these there permanent home jerseys.