Football and the street

Football recap: Huskies lost a game they should have won. Seahawks lost a game they should have won. I lost in both of my fantasy leagues. I still love football though. I'm going to call this past weekend a deposit in the First National Bank of Football Karma.

Sociology update: I was watching "Virginia Tech: The Season" on the worldwide leader over the weekend and they had a sequence where one of the senior's had a videocamera and was interviewing underclassmen. One of them he introduced as a "Freddy Adu lookalike". If that's not funny to you then just leave right now. A couple of years ago I was sitting in front of the UW football guys at an early season basketball game. One of the athletes remarked that a player on the opposing team looked like NBA forward Dale Davis. This drew hearty guffaws from the rest of the football guys seated directly behind me. Then one of the football guys pointed out the resemblance of a different player on the other team to WWE wrestler Mankind. Again, big laughs.

My hypothesis is this: African-American athletes love to point out when someone looks like a person of relative celebrity. This is very funny to them (and me).

Keep an eye out for more examples of this phenomenon.

In rap: I like the dirty version of David Banner's "Play", but that doesn't make me dirty. I'm totally fine with the fact that it's a ripoff of The Whisper Song. It's still great/hilarious. Another song that I hear all the f-ing time is "Your Body" by Pretty Ricky. Pretty Ricky isn't one dude, but four guys who are related. I don't get it either. Maybe it's a Voltron thing.

Sample lyrics:
[Chorus]
I got new shoes on the ride (yes sir)
Rollin' down 95 (yes sir)
And you can see in my eyes (yes sir)
That I'm lookin for a cutiepie (yes sir)
And we ain't gotta make love (yes sir)
And we can just cuddle up (yes sir)
But if she want me to beat it up (yes sir)
Then dammit, I'll beat it up (yes sir)
My body, your body (it's burnin' up)
My body, your body (it's burnin' up)
My body, your body (it's burnin' up)
My body, your body (it's burnin' up)

[Baby Blue]
I don't know why, but the ladies call ol' baby blue the sticker
They take me and rape me and make me they victim
I lick em and freak 'em if they married I sneak 'em
If they look like wifey material, then I keep 'em
Stuntin' through the city tryin' to find a lady who
Beautiful, but she gotta have booty too
Baby blue gonna let you do what you wanna do
You can feel on it if you really want to
Get a taste of the salami
knock knock knock knock you down like a tsunami

Yep, it really says "get a taste of the salami". Apparently these young men work part time at the butcher's. The earlier "gotta have booty too" is emboldened because of how it is delivered. Imagine Thumb-sucking Fred from Making the Band 2 delivering that line in his whiny yell. That's what it sounds like. It's worth downloading just for that lyric.

If somebody is ever stressing out about bills you should tell them, "You need to stop moralizing your debts, man."