To start with, I have Indy over Whale’s Vagina.  I like the Eagles to keep rolling over Minny and the AFC champs to stop the flying rats.  Those games could go any place, really.  I think the Dolphins may be the best story in the League for the past 10 years and what the Colts have done after the start they had has been miraculous.  I only differ from Mike Ditka on the Chargers game, so I think if I’m close to Da Coach, I’m in the right ballpark.  I’m only prepared to offer one lock and it is as follows:

Atlanta Falcons vs Arizona Cardinals

I have ties to both teams.  I love Atlanta and I adore Phoenix.  I have been to see both teams in person and watched them mature this season. I could not be more happy for each franchise.  The Cardinals have played as many home playoff games as I have in the past 50 years and the Falcons are in the middle of a race war.   I can honestly say I will be happy for either group if they come out on top, but I am picking the Falcons.  I’ll usually pick a veteran over a rookie, but Matt Ryan is an alien.  I don’t know how he is playing this well, but I do know that Kurt Warner likes to throw interceptions in big games.  I also know that  the “I have no legs” guy from that movie Kids tackles better that the Cards D.  It’s not a legless guy on a skateboard they will be be trying to take down this week, it’s the NFL’s MVP (IMO): Michael Turner . Couple that with Turner’s backup that could start on 50 % of the teams in the NFL:  Jerious Norwood.  

Even without Ryan and his scintillating chemisty with Roddy White, the Cards don’t have the balls to stop the ruthless ground attack that the Falcons possess.  Arizona is in a good spot because they are still vastly ahead of the Rams and Seahawks so they have a chance at the NFC  West crown for years to come. The people in the Valley of the Sun deserve a home playoff win, I just don’t think they are going to get it this year.

Frank Mir has rapidly become one of my favorite fighters. Not just because he’s at the top of his game, but because it seems he has lost of remnants of doucheyness he may have had in the past. The questions given to Mir on MMA live are not the best, but you can’t deny the great booking for this program. Mir, Evans, Bonnar and more. Put this fucking show on television ESPN, it is being wasted on the web.

I love football. I love action figures. I love robots. How the hell did I miss something as cool this guy? I’m not sure when they made an action figure for the Fox Sports Robot that dances around when Fox transitions from commercials back to the game. I’m also not sure when the named him “Cletus.” Somehow my girlfriend knew the things name already when I showed her the picture, furthing my embarassment. Now that I am aware of the robot’s existence in 3″ and 10″ form, what’s not to like?

Cletus likes football and so do you. Cletus looks way too amiable to ever try and hunt down the mother or friends of John Conner and slaughter them before they can lead the human resistance.  I don’t think Cletus would ever turn his arm into a stabbing weapon so he could stab your foster father in the mouth as he was drinking milk out of the carton.  Cletus doesn’t look capable of barging into a gun shop back in the 80’s and demanding an Uzi 9mm then plucking his own eye out in a seedy hotel bathroom.  I think I’m right about Cletus.   But I’ve been wrong before.  Details on potentially homicidal robot are as follows via MCW Toys:

But the really impressive guy here is the 10″er.  There’s wonderful work on the various mech parts, like the fingers, hoses, and connectors, giving him a much more realistic appearance than I had expected.

The sculpt and articulation work together amazingly well, and the hands are designed to look good in as many poses as possible with the unjointed fingers.

It’s important to note that this guy is solid, and not rotocast in any way.  Don’t throw this guy at anyone you don’t want to hurt.  He’s solid enough to handle plenty of actual play, and there are no parts of the sculpt that would be easy to break or damage.

A quick search on Fox Sports’ website reveals that this fuck face was availible over a year ago. It also means we here at The Fukerton are slipping up in our old age. If you’d like to see for yourself click Here.

Sent to The Fukerton by our good friend Lips Vendrell. Please wait for “Goddamnit get that dumb bitch….FUCKIN A!” It really doesn’t get any better.

You have a show about MMA.  You have a television network.  Put the show on TV.  This ain’t rocket science.

The Shield ends tonight.  For that, I am bummed.  The Shield was a groundbreaking series.  I hate cliches, but no other television program that I have watched blurred the lines between good and evil like the Shield.  The protagonist is instantly sympathetic and likeable, but capable of immense brutality.  Murdering fellow officers, beating suspects to death with chains and racketeering to say the very least.  Vic Mackey and his Strike Team never once made your choice as a viewer easy.  Are these good guys are bad guys?  That is why I love this show.  That is why I will be sorry that it’s gone.  USA Today with the summary:

It took seven seasons, but The Shield’s Vic Mackey finally gets his reckoning tonight.

Michael Chiklis’ groundbreaking TV cop shocked viewers in his very first episode by shooting an undercover officer. The act re-emerges, along with an avalanche of other illegal activities committed over the years by Mackey’s ruthless strike team, in the series’ 90-minute finale (FX, 10 ET/PT).

“From the beginning, we always talked about Mackey’s original sin,” Chiklis says. “When you’ve done something like Vic does, murder a fellow cop, do you really get away with it?”

Viewers also will learn what happens to other characters, including Vic’s strike-team partners Ronnie Gardocki (David Rees Snell) and the estranged Shane Vendrell (Walton Goggins); tenacious, suspicious captain Claudette Wyms (CCH Pounder); and former captain and current mayoral candidate David Aceveda (Benito Martinez).

Neither Chiklis nor Shield creator Shawn Ryan would discuss Vic’s fate, which could range from death to jail to getting away with it all, but it will be definitively revealed, unlike the blackout that ended The Sopranos, the HBO series Ryan cites as an influence.

How many cookie cutter CSI shows do we have on?  How many Law and Order spin-offs do we have to suffer?  “We’re detectives and we hunt down the bad guys, and 60 minutes later, we catch the bad guys.”  It’s such lame, rehashed tripe.  The Shield managed to somehow be the one show where no sin truely dissapeared.  Without the blanket of HBO that the Sopranos and the The Wire slept under, The Shield managed to put out one of the most brutal and violent shows on TV.  FX should commended. 

 Son’s of Anarchy looks like it will be  a nice consolation prize, and hopefully they work some of the charcters from Farmington into the mix.  That being said, my Tuesdays will definitely feel empty now that Mackey and his Strike team will no longer be dispensing their brand of justice at 10pm.

I really like the fact it seems like Dana White won’t take his shirt off in the pool. Just like me. I’m really excited that ESPN the mag is doing anything with the UFC, but this is one gay photoshoot. You can throw as many ring girls as you want into this thing, it’s still a lesbian taking pictures of shirtless dudes. As gay as it may seem and as much as I don’t care about Prada shirts or whatever, it is good shit for we MMA fans. Word.

I love Randy Savage.  Who doesn’t?  When Hulk Hogan turned on Savage to start the nWo, my life was never the same.  Remeber when we would come down to the ring in that giant throne on wheels? The Macho King.  The Madness.  The guy is classic.  This picture is a little shocking, because the last time I remember seeing Savage, he had jet black hair and bulging biceps.  It should not be considered a negative.  We all age, so why are any of us casting stones?The guy that runs THIS blog agrees.  Judge for yourself:

Generally I have a fondness for older actors/athletes as well.   I do not buy into our youth obsessed entertainment industry that constantly sacrafices skill, experience and talent in exchange for youth.  The Disney Channel model of celebrity makes me want to fucking puke.  Throw any hot pre-teen jailbait ass on television and make them out to be the next Madonna.  Vanessa Hudgens?  The Jonas Brothers anyone?  I’ll never understand the thought process that if you look like an ugly chick, that makes you a hot dude.  I’ll take Harrison Ford, Clint Eastwood, AC/DC, Jack Lambert, Randy Couture and The Stones over Hannah Montana and her big gums anyday.

I thought Randy would test Lesnar.  I think he did in some areas.  If there is a rematch I’ll pick Couture again. He was wearing the bigger man down against the cage and Brock couldn’t stay on top of the older fighter when they got to the mat.   Randy came in too light and the year off did him no favors.  That being said, the advent of Brock Lesnar becoming heavyweight champion is a boon for the UFC.  A former pro wrestler will drive no MMA fans away.  They can still wax philosophical about possible Fedor opponents and root for someone to knock Lesnar off his hastily built high horse.  One of the many things that Lesnar will do is put the MMA bug in even more professional wrestlers heads.  Those with amatuer wrestling backgrounds would be fools not to consider taking a shot if they have grown weary of the WWE’s grueling road schedule.  Certainly those with Lesnar’s gentic makeup and God given abilty are few and far between, but he has paved the way.

Let’s talk about some of the other things Lesnar does for the sport.  At the very least Lesnar brings excitement to a stale division.  At the most he has single handedly taken the UFC into the mainstream.  I don’t want to get carried away and I don’t want to take away anything from what the UFC had built before Brock Lesnar joined the company.  The fact is that more people watch when Lesnar fights and the UFC gets more coverage from mainstream sports outlets when Lesnar fights.  The video above is just one example.

This isn’t like Kimbo Slice.  This isn’t some paper champion that is being fed tomato cans to keep him propped up. Dana White (at Lesnar’s request) fed Brock to the wolves.  His first 3 fights have included two UFC Heavyweight Champions, former and current.  He manhandled UFC/PRIDE/K1 vet Heath Herring  in his third career MMA fight.  Brock Lesnar’s baptism by fire should give him near instant credibility as champion coupled with his big name and even bigger body.  That’s a marketing major’s dream.  Why wouldn’t ESPN be all over this guy?

What MMA has working for it as a sport is almost instant appeal.  Wrestling fans or sports fans who are drawn into watching a pay per view because of Lesnar will almost certainly find something to like with the rest of the fight card.  Last night had very few big names other than the main event.  What it did have were some tremendously entertaining fights.  Jeremy Stephens’ knock out, Kenny Florian doing what Kenny Florian does and Gabriel Gonzaga nearly decapitating Josh Hendricks in the first round.   If you can get em in the door, they will become fans.  I firmly believe that.

I was rooting for Randy Couture but I was happy to see the way Lesnar handled the win.  He was very respectful to the man he beat and seemed to have gotten over the “me first” attitude he displayed after he beat Herring.  I was rooting for Randy, but I root for the sport first and foremost.  With this victory I think that Brock Lesnar may have done more for this sport than any other fighter could have.  This is no slight to Liddell, Rampage, Shamrock or any other fighter that has paved the way.  Brock Lesnar is bigger than life, and hopefully he can be the one to make the UFC even more bigger than life.