Bullpoo for Some Bullpoo

**Flash**
The following article may hurt your feelings if you are a Seattle Seahawks fan. It is from my perception of the truth as I saw it. I will remind you that...
I AM NOT A STEELERS FAN!!!

All the sportswriters rooting for Seattle (i.e. Fox Sports' Kevin Hench, Brian Baldinger, and Aaron Schitz, sorry his last name is Schatz) are saying the referees were making all the big calls in Pittsburgh's favor. I watched this game with an unbiased eye--neither Steeler's, nor Seahawk fan am I--and to me, there were just as many questionable calls the other way. Can you all just get over it? Seriously, make all the excuses you can and then some, but the fact remains the Pittsburgh Steelers are the proud parents of the Vince Lombardi trophy for the year of 2006. All the crying and whimpering you pour out will do nothing to change the outcome of the game. It will only prolong your agony.

Ben Roethlisberger's running touchdown in the second quarter was good. After seeing no less than twenty instant replays, it was quite obvious the ball broke the plane of the goal line (The goal line is a three inch wide stripe. The invisible vertical line that extends from the goal line is not the edge inside the endzone. It is the edge facing the one yard line.) and before Ben's elbow made contact with the ground. This plane was definitely broken. If you think it wasn't, maybe, you were watching the lingerie bowl, instead. Darrel Jackson blatantly pushed off of Chris Hope's chest in the end zone to catch the TD pass from Hasselbeck, a.k.a. Brett Favre, Jr., which was called back. Ticky tack or no ticky tack, if the ref sees it he calls it.

The same goes with all the holding calls that were assessed against the Seahawks. All the replays showed the physical evidence. Blatant holds? No. They were holds nonetheless. I don't think that since it is a big game, you let minor penalties go by, especially if the penalties are called against your team.

Bottom line:
1). Mike Holmgren let his team down with poor play calling and clock management.
2). Matt Hasselbeck is an idiot quarterback (hence, the name Brett Favre, Jr.) who doesn't see the entire field. He has his favorite targets. It's a wonder how he hasn't set the league record for most interceptions thrown in a season.
3). The team as a whole broke down and committed several fundamental errors (i.e. holding, pushing off). Period.

"Bottom" Bottom line: Pittsburgh wins. Congrats.

On to worse topics. Kentucky suffered a serious defeat at the hands of Florida this weekend. This game literally made me sick to my stomach. After a solid first half performance, going to the locker room up four agaist the #7-ranked Gators, the Cats orchestrated a 15 point loss. There were some horrible calls and no calls by the officials, which kept Billy D's crew close, in the first half. UK should have had a 15-point lead at halftime. But, it doesn't matter when in the second half Tubby reverts his offense back to his stand around staple. I think within ten minutes of game clock into the second half, UK was down fourteen points. This was when I became ill at my stomach and spent the next four game minutes in the bathroom--could have been the Mexican pizza from Toxic Bell that I ate for dinner. When I came out of the stinky sanctuary, UK was down 22 points. Hooray.

UK seems to be in a race with Louisville (defeated by Cincinnati yesterday) to see who can be the first declared not elligible for the NCAA tournament. I say good luck to both teams.

I would like to wish very Happy Birthdays to Sooper Trooper Jeol and Sooper Stoodent L-Beezy! I hope you guys have great ones tomorrow. Oh yeah, a belated Happy Birthday to Daddio and the wifey. Don't worry, I remembered to wish them Happy Birthdays via other mediums.

I will leave you with one of my favorite party/anytime appetizer foods. It's good by itself, covered with jam, or dipped in ketchup or mustard or anything you like. I was told during the Super Bowl, it tasted like gravy and biscuits. Huh, well, alright!

1 pound of ground sausage
1 8 oz. package of cream cheese (I used low fat, could you tell?)
2 8 count cans of crescent (not croissant) rolls (One can for each pastry)

1) Brown the sausage in a skillet. Drain and while still hot, mix with the cream cheese until thoroughly mixed.

2) Lay out four crescent triangles the way they are packaged, in a rectangle. It works best if you overlap them and pinch them together at the seams. (I flour the cookie sheet I am using to keep the crescent rolls from sticking) Roll out the laid out crescent roll triangles with a floured rolling pin until it is about 1/8 of an inch thick. This is the bottom half of the pastry. Once done, do the other four crescent roll triangles the same way as the first four for the top of the pastry..

3) Once both are rolled out, spread the sausage cream cheese mixture on one of the pastry halves, filling it out close to, but not to the edge. (Make sure you only use half of the sausage cream cheese mixture so you will have more for the other can of crescent rolls.)

4) Lay the other half of the pastry down on top of it and pinch it together around the edges.

Repeat the steps 2 through 4 for the other can of crescent rolls.

Once you have the two different sausage/cream cheese/crescent rolls together, bake at 375 for fifteen minutes or until the top of the pastry is golden brown. Cut into inch and a half slices across the pastry.

It is a nameless creation, so if you can come up with a good name for it let me know.

"Clerks II-The Passion of the Clerks" is coming out this year.

"I'm not even supposed to be here today!" --Dante Hicks from Clerks