The Packers were deep inside their own territory (sounds like a female masturbating, I know) with under a minute to play in the first quarter. On 3rd and 10 with about 30 seconds left on the clock Aaron Rodgers completed a pass to James Jones over the middle for a first down. The few remaining seconds of the 1st quarter ticked away and FOX went to break.
After the commercial break we learned that Cowboys coach Wade Phillips had challenged the ruling on the field of a catch and that the call had indeed been overturned. The officials put 20 seconds back on the clock and the Packers were forced to punt on 4th and 10. Cowboys wide receiver Patrick Crayton returned the punt 18 yards and with 10 seconds left in the 1st quarter the clock stopped on the change of possession. FOX again went to break.
On the first play from scrimmage after the break Cowboys running back Felix Jones rushed for 2 yards and the first quarter clock ran out, again. So now, even though they had already run their "end of the 1st quarter" ads, they went to another commercial break.
So for all of you non-math majors out there, that's 3 plays and 3 commercial breaks. Simply unforgiveable.
Earlier this month I wrote about some sports related ideas of mine that I think should be implemented immediately. I've recently stumbled across another one that has me a bit perplexed.
Did you know that NASCAR driver Kurt Busch is sponsored by and does commercials for Miller Lite? I've seen the commercial about 2334 times in the past 3 days, but I can't seem to find it anywhere on YouTube.
How is this man not sponsored by the Anheuser-Busch company? Now I know that Dale Earnhardt Jr. drives the Budweiser car, but can we not get Busch to drive a car sponsored by my cheap college beer of choice Busch Light? Sure, maybe they aren't on the same team, or whatever (how NASCAR drivers are on teams I'll never know), but c'mon man.
Seriously though, what better athlete, and I use that term loosely, than a NASCAR driver to do beer commercials? This must have been a marketing coup by Miller Lite to get Kurt Busch. I mean, I am no fan of NASCAR, but I understand it's commercial appeal in this great country of ours. If there's 3 things that Wango Tango (one of the many terms for White Trash) go crazy for they are county fairs, beer, and NASCAR.
Now while we're on the topic, here's a story about a Hall of Fame baseball player that Miller Lite should seriously consider as their next spokesman. If you haven't already read this story this is probably your first time on the internet, but it was relevant, so here it is.
This conversation took place in April of 2007 on a sports talk radio show in Seattle. The host of the show, Steve Sandmeyer, was joined that day by former Mariners and Yankees pitcher Jeff Nelson.
Sandmeyer: Who would you say drank the most beer out of everyone you ever played with?
Nelson: Easy, Wade Boggs…..easy
Sandmeyer: (laughing) Really!? Wade Boggs?
Nelson: Oh, yeah, without a doubt. I’ve never seen anyone drink as much beer as he did in my life:
Sandmeyer: (laughing) Get outta here, alright, give me an example, like how much did he drink?
Nelson: Oh, I’d say, on a typical road trip, east coast to west coast, say a road game to Seattle……Wade would drink anywhere between 50 and 60 beers.
Sandmeyer: NO WAY!! 50 or 60 beers. That is impossible.
Nelson: No, I know…I know how crazy that sounds, and I wouldn’t believe it myself unless I saw him do it…..numerous times. And he drank nothing but Miller Lite.
Sandmeyer: How in the hell did he have time to drink that many beers. For God’s sake, how many times did he have to go to the bathroom?
Nelson: I’m not kidding you Steve. Seriously. Wade was the kind of guy who was always the first one at the club house. So, he’d get to the clubhouse, and he’d bring a six pack with him. He’d be there drinking a beer when someone showed up, and as we were all packing our stuff up out of our lockers and getting our bags ready for the trip, Wade would sit there and drink that whole six pack.
Now, at the time, we were flying out of New Jersey, so it was somewhat of a drive from Yankee stadium to the airport in New Jersey. Wade would drink another couple of beers on the bus to the airport. At the time, we were flying this older airplane, it couldn’t make it across the country without refueling, and it wasn’t the fastest airplane in the sky. So we would stop in North Dakota or something. Wade would drink about a half rack between New Jersey and North Dakota, and it would take about a half-hour to an hour to refuel once we got there, so he’d have a few more beers while we were grounded in North Dakota.
Once we got back up in the air, Wade would drink another 10, 11, 12 beers on the way out to the west coast. The whole flight from coast to coast ususally took us well over 7 hours. We’d touch down at Sea-Tac, hop on the bus headed to the Kingdome, and Wade would have another beer or two on the bus. Then, all of us would get to the Kingdome and unpack our bags and sit around and BS with eachother, and Wade would have a beer in his hand the entire time. He was always one of the last people to leave the club house too. So I’d say that all in all, he drank over 50 beers on the trip, and this wasn’t just an isolated incident, he did that almost every time.
Sandmeyer: Unbelievable. That’s absolutely unbelieveable.
Nelson: Yeah, I know, I’m not kidding though, let’s call up somebody and they’ll tell you man, they’ll tell you I’m not lying.
Sandmeyer: Alright, who should we call up. Let’s take a commercial break, and then we’ll call up somebody and see if we can’t get to the bottom of this…This is absolutely amazing.
[commercial break: When the commercial end, Paul Sorrento, a former Mariner and Devil Ray, and Boggs’s and Nelson's former teammate, is on the phone]
Nelson: Hey Paul, good to hear from you man, I haven’t talked to you in a while.
Sorrento: Yeah, what’s it been like, two, three years?
Nelson: Yeah. Hey, Paul, just to clarify now, I didn’t speak to you over the commercial break, and I haven’t talked to you about anything since we last talked a few years ago right?
Sorrento: Yeah, right.
Nelson: Alright Paul, we’ve been talking about Wade Boggs up here today in Seattle.
Sorrento: (laughing) Yeah, ole Wade huh.
Nelson: Yeah, alright Paul, I need you to answer one question for me, truthfully now….How many beers would Wade Boggs drink on an east coast to west coast road trip?
Sorrento: Oh, jeez, I don’t know, like 70.
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