Welcome back Tim Duncan, it's the year 2011!

 Wow guess what?! The NBA is back! The NB-what?! If you've already given up on it and moved on to college basketball (or something horrible like soccer), this may be confusing. Don't ask questions.
Basketball is one of the few sports I like to watch. So, with the NBA season finally starting on Christmas day I thought we could ask Mr. Tim Duncan how he feels about the new season starting.

So Tim are you excited for the new NBA season to finally start?

Yes it is true that the NBA is coming back, why do you look so surprised? 

Oh, you say that's not your surprised face? You say that's your happy face.

Well, I'd love to see your surprised face.

Um.. Is that it? Kind of looks exactly like the previous expression.

  Oh, please don't be sad Tim.  I hate to be the one to say it, but all your facial expressions seem to be the same.You look like you're going to cry. What? You've got your angry face on now!Oh no world, watch out! Tim's got his angry face on that looks creepily similar to his happy face.

    Seriously, why does he always look so confused. Does he know where he is? What year it is? So this is my conspiracy theory: he was put into a cryogenic freezing tank and before each game they thaw him out. Then put him back in. It's happened to him so many times that the only facial expression he now knows is confusion. Which just so happens to be the state he is always in. He probably doesn't even know what year it really is. 
Yes, this is probably some type of government cover-up so I better be quiet about this now since I know the truth. But it's true. Just ask Tim! Oh, right. He's still stuck in 1997. And apparently his face is, well, just stuck. 

Mascot Makeover "The Happy Huskies"

   I love them! Yes that is correct. I love team mascots. Silly, scary, weird and odd, I love them. There are some mascots out there that will definitely strike fear into the opposing team. Literally make you say "Oh my stars! We can never beat them-they have a devil as their mascot!" Then you curl up into a ball and hide in the corner until the game ends praying that the devils don't kill your favorite team or unleash some voodoo devil magic on them. Maybe not to that extreme, but you get the point. Mascots are supposed to strike fear into your opponents and make them cry.
However, I have found that there are several mascots out there that do the complete opposite.They pretty much seem to be a joke. I laugh a little when I see them. So the real reason I'm writing this today is to bring to light that this next mascot is not very scary to me and I think we should rename them:

The Happy Huskies!
Yup, that's right. He looks way to nice and friendly to tear your head off. Don't you just want to give him a treat? A scratch behind the ears? Look at that cute tongue!
Okay, to me this mascot is way to cute and cuddly looking.
Hmm.. how can we make him more terrifying? I have a couple of ideas.
How about a scar on his face. That shows he's been in a few fights and still came out alive. The other guys, not too lucky.
Next he needs a pirate patch over his eye. Maybe he was fighting another pirate and got stabbed in the eye with their hook hand. Or maybe he just wears it to look "bad A". But let's face it pirates are scary. They're dangerous. They have scurvy.

Since our society is obsessed with Vampires, let's make him a Vampire Husky named Twilight.  And last but not least, because he's a "bad boy" with a golden heart I'll give him a gold earring. Here's what The Happy Husky looks like now: 
Pretty scary huh? Well, my job here is done. Until the next Mascot Makeover! When another unsuspecting mascot will get to look even cooler than they should be!

I'm sorry Vincent Jackson, but I am for real. And back.

So, it's been awhile since I've been on here! Lots has happened. My husband and I bought a house and we had a baby! She is pretty amazing. And I don't want to sound like one of those parents who thinks their child is really amazing when they really aren't. 

But she really is. 

Oh yeah, she was a football for Halloween. 

Okay, so sports, lets catch up on what's happened since I've been on here last: 

Sports. That is all. 

Yeah I have more to say about that. Baseball, football, lack of NBA, college basketball, American Ninja Warrior, the list goes on. All will be reviled in the up and coming posts. 

But for now lets bask in the joy that is the fact that I know who Vincent Jackson is. Ms. Jackson's son. Duh.

Oops, did I say that?!

So, the other day my husband and I were out eating dinner and it just so happens that there were televisions in every corner of the restaurant. Guess what was on? College football! Tennessee and North Carolina. 

I wasn’t annoyed with it, I actually started watching it. Well, I usually “watch” it, but this time I was actually paying attention! Well, I wasn’t paying enough attention to tell you what was going on, but at least I was pretty into it. But at one point the quarterback spiked the football, and I said (out loud!) "Isn’t that intentional grounding?” I think I was just as shocked as my husband was!

First: What did I say?!

Second: What is intentional grounding?

The actual definition of Intentional Grounding is: In gridiron football, intentional grounding is when a quarterback throws an incomplete pass toward an area of the field where there is clearly no eligible receiver. The penalty usually results in the loss of a down as well as 10 yards, If the quarterback threw the pass from his team's own end zone, the penalty results in a safety being scored by the defense. 

A pass that is spiked does not result in intentional grounding being called. Well, it turns out it wasn’t actually intentional grounding, but the quarterback was trying to stop the clock, so he spiked the football so he could get a play from the coaches. Hey, at least I was kind of paying attention. :) I guess my husband can be a little proud, it’s rubbing off.

Looks like I absorbed some football knowledge, unintentionally. :)