If you can take anything away from this showboating son of a bitch just remember that chicks love confidence and guys who can dance. Bro Frankin has them both in spades…

From my favorite website, Jets safety Kerry Rhodes’ Twitter page:

To all @kerryrhodes followers vote continuously for @kerryrhodes for the probowl!

U can vote all the time no limit!

To all My LockerBlogger fans and Twitter Fans go VOTE for the PRO BOWL

vote for any of my teammates that u would like 2 see there also. We got a few that deserve to be there!

In the highly competitive battle for the title of Biggest Jets Douchebag, Kerry Rhodes is clearly emerging as the front runner.  Bear in mind that he’s the guy who before they faced the Pats in Week 2 said his team’s goal for the game was “Not just go out there and try to win, try to embarrass them. Try to make them feel bad when they leave here.”  Then when Gang Green got beat by the Dolphins, he bitched and moaned about the Phins acting like “they won the Super Bowl,” which is precisely what the  Jets called their meeting with the Pats.   Now, in the middle of a season and before a big division game with the Jets season swirling the toilet drain, he’s lobbying for a spot in a game that’s been moved to the week before the Super Bowl.  In other words, guys who are still playing for a championship won’t be in it.  I guess I won’t be retracting that thing I wrote yesterday about how the problem with the Jets is they put themselves ahead fo the team.  But still, in a locker room full of dickwads, Kerry Rhodes the dickwaddiest.

PS.  Every mid-season All Pro team I’ve seen so far from Peter King to Pro Football Weekly has Brandon Meriweather as the top safety in the league.  Just sayin’.

Boston.com – At this time last year, Tedy Bruschi was a primary leader on the Patriots defense. This week, in an indirect way, he may have passed those duties along to Jerod Mayo, the second-year middle linebacker. On Monday as an ESPN analyst, Bruschi criticized Bill Belichick’s decision to go for it on fourth and 2 from his own 28 because, as a former defensive player, it would have irritated him. Speaking to reporters today, Mayo offered the strongest rebuke yet a Patriots player of the sentiment Bruschi, more than anyone, championed. “We looked at it as a challenge,” Mayo said. “People say that it was a lack of confidence in us but we looked at it as a challenge and we looked at it as coach having enough confidence in us to give us a short field. Unfortunately we were unable to step up to the challenge and get the job done.” When asked directly about Bruschi’s comments, Mayo was deferential to his former teammate but did not back down from challenging him. “I have the ultimate respect for Tedy and everything he’s done for this organization, but he’s not in this locker room at this point in time so he doesn’t know the feeling that this defense or this team has. We still have our confidence, we still have our swagger and we’re gonna go out Sunday and show the media I guess.”

When sociologist Robert K. Merton published his landmark paper “The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action”, he popularized what we now commonly call The Law of Unintended Consequence. Typically we associate this theory with the negative effects of well intentioned social engineering. The Treaty of Versailles was meant to stick it to the Germans, and it did. To the point where they elected an insane, one-testicled Austrian wallpaper hanger who almost destroyed the world. Starving babies are a bad thing, so we give poor people with babies money which is good for them. So they have lots and lots of poor hungry babies, which is bad for us. But sometimes the unintended consequences are not negative. Sometimes they result in what has been called “serendipity” or “windfall” by the People in Charge of Calling Things Something. Some of our greatest inventions were discovered accidentally by people looking for something else, among them Teflon, Silly Putty, birth control pills and America.

Leave it to Bill Belichick to come up with a serendipitous unintended consequence of the 4th Downgate decision. In this case, the emergence of Jerod Mayo as supreme leader of the Pats defense. Granted, Mayo has been the defacto, on field leader since the moment last year when Belichick took the green dot off Mike Vrabel’s helmet and stuck it to the back of then-rookie Mayo’s. But this is the first example we have of him feeling comfortable enough to step up in front of the microphones, speak on behalf of his entire unit, and tell someone to go piss up a rope. In this case, the media in general and his former captain Tedy Bruschi in particular. Under any other circumstances, I’d go after anyone who had the temerity to call out Tedy, but in this case, I love it.  Clearly, Mayo was paying attention last year because he learned from the best. And by “best” I mean Tedy himself. This is exactly the way Bruschi would’ve handled it if one of his former teammates, say, Ted Johnson, ripped a Belichick decision on TV and spoke for the Pats defense. He would’ve paid all due respect, then respectfully told the world no one speaks for his defense but him. Brilliant. It’s still killing me that the Pats lost the spot, the 1st down, the game and probably any chance at a bye in the playoffs. But they might have gained a great deal more.

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The Barstool Radio Power Hour is back from 3-4pm.  If you’re expecting great improvements from last week on the technical side of things forget about it.      I got too busy with other shit this week and didn’t have time to get the kinks worked out.  But we will soon I promise.   Basically we need a producer to help screen the calls.    So any geek interns out there who want to help out let me know….

Inside Track – Gisele Bundchen, aka Mrs. Tom Brady [stats], has reportedly asked her ex’s mother, Irmelin DiCaprio, to be her baby’s godmother. “They get along so well, Gisele really wants Irmelin to be around her daughter,” a source told the National Enquirer . “Tom usually lets Gisele have her way, but he might take a stand on this issue,” said the tabloid tattler. “Family is very important to him.”

Let me just say. It takes a lot to shake my confidence in the Patriots and Tom Brady.  Like I can take all his metrosexual shit.   But if he lets Leonardo DiCaprio’s mother be the god parent of his newborn child I would pretty much pack up shop and get out of dodge. Seriously you might as well just guide Leonardo’s dick into Gisele’s asshole while you’re at it. Bottom-line is that there is just no way we’re going to winning anything with a QB that allows this type of shit to happen on his watch. So while I know it’s never okay to hit a women, I sincerely hope Tom gave her a quick quick slap in the face when she broached this subject with him just to prove a point. Hey Gisele don’t ever forget you’re dealing with a 3 time superbowl champ here.

I’m actually suprised this doesn’t happen more often. Like a stick is so long it’s only natural that more than one person grabs a hold of it and then your only choice is to fight to the death to see who gets it.

PS – This is arguably the worst camera work in the history of mankind.  Like how do you pan away from the fight?    And that blond chick’s ass was nothing to sneeze at either.  Rookie ball.

I don’t get it. Oh wait? She’s getting a facial! Ok now I understand! Man it’s just like a game of who can top this with smut lately huh? Hey Tila Tequila I’ll see your drunken UStream video and Megan Fox I’ll see your cunt in your face photoshoot and raise you a bukkake video.

I don’t watch much regular season hockey but I flipped on the Bruins game last night for a couple minutes and couldn’t help but notice there were like 28 people in the crowd total.  And that may be exageratting.  Seriously it felt like I was watching a god damn BC bowl game or something.   Did the NHL fold and nobody told me?    Because this was as depressing as it gets.