Steven Tulloch celebrates the only way he knows how by Tebowing Tim Tebow.

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Just little brother Glenn Gronk poking a little fun at big brother Rob Gronkowski.

And yet another reason the Gronk’s are overtaking the Manning’s as the first family of the NFL.

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“OMG. You are Chandler.”

This being 2011, that’s not the sort of text message one expects to receive from a friend at 11:30. And yet, there it was, one night last week.

To be fair, it was a follow up to a conversation from a few days earlier. I’m not sure how we got there, but we were talking about the show “Friends,” and I mentioned that Chandler was my favorite character.

Apparently, she was watching a rerun and thought of me. I’m not surprised. It turns out most sitcoms are based on my life.

Remember a couple of weeks ago, when I wrote about how I couldn’t get anyone to go see Weird Al with me? Well, guess what happened to Ted on How I Met Your Mother last week. Exactly! He couldn’t get anyone to go to see Weird Al with him. Coincidence? I don’t think so.  Consider this. Ted Moseby is a 33 year old New YorkCity   resident who spouts useless facts that no one cares about and is the only single guy in his group of loyal friends who, for some reason, stick around even though he’s generally a whiny bummer to be around. DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR? I can’t wait till the year 2030, when puberty kicks in, my voice finally changes and I start sounding like Bob Saget.

Let’s end with one more story.

I moved into the city about 10 years ago. Within a few months, I was joined in the neighborhood by 3 friends; a girl I’d known for a million years and treated like one of the guys, a buddy who was tall and kind of wacky, and SCP commenter BShrek, one of my oldest and closest friends. One night, the four of us were eating dinner at a local coffee shop. Aafter a couple of minutes squeezed into a booth, I realized something. This is Seinfeld.

I waited until we left to say anything, and even then I only said it to Bshrek.

“It makes sense,” I said, “He’s Kramer, she’s Elaine, You’re Geo..”

He didn’t say anything. He just gave me a look. But it stopped me dead in my tracks because, sadly, I knew what he was thinking. And he was exactly right.

“Fine,” I said, “I’m George and You’re Jerry.”

And there it is. My life may be a sitcom, but I’m still only second lead.

Sports Illustrated: October 31st, 2011

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So says Zach Galifianakis

Happy Halloween!

Ok. Let’s get this out of the way first. Yes, at around 11:15 this morning, I was watching “The View.” Fuck you for judging me.

Amare Stoudemire was on, talking lockout and shooting hoops with Sherri Sheppard and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Both have better jump shots than Amare’s Knick teammate, Jared Jeffries.

Stephen Colbert spoke to Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch about whether or not NCAA athletes should be paid.

h/t Beltway Buddy

I guess this is what it would sound like if Gus Johnson did the play-by-play in an NHL game…and if Adam Morrison scored the winning goal.

If you haven’t read Luke O’Brien’s great story about Howie Spira at Deadspin, take a few minutes and do that now.  I read it yesterday, and in my capacity as a radio producer, decided to piggy back O’Brien’s hard work and turn the story into some radio news gold. I emailed Deadspin for permission to use some audio that accompanied the story. Turns out, Spira was still sitting at their office (when you read the story, you’ll see that’s not so surprising,) so he called and offered to do an interview with me.

Here is that interview

The 2011 Duke basketball team is trying to lead the nation in most annoying promo videos made. First came the remix by DJ Steve Porter and now we have this NBA rip-off “Big Heads” promo.

Just giving me more reasons to hate Blue Devil hoops.