You should really watch this Megan Fox video.  It will give you an idea what your life would be like if she had lower standards.

        

What would an NFL off season be without Brett Favre drama?  It'd be pretty dull...what with all the exciting new rookies and roster moves.  But Mr. "Wait Where'd My Spotlight Go" has to keep everyone buzzing with the interesting notion that he could end up playing in the frozen tundra of Lambough Field again - only this time as a Minnesota Viking.  So what would it take to have Favre play in this border battle again?  Probably not much...or a lot.  Depending how you look at it.  Let's talk it out.Number 4 in Purple:

        

(UPDATE)
A number of remarkable additions have been made to this already spectacular cast since I last reported it.

Mickey Rourke, fresh off his remarkable comeback in The Wrestler, has been added to the cast of this super-uber-project.

Legendary actor Danny Trejo has been added with a good possibility that he will play an awesome badass as usual.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be making a cameo as well. I wonder if he will be pulling the same stunt he did for Dwane "The Rock" Johnson in The Rundown and just walk through and say "Have fun".

The Best of The Best, Eric Roberts will be joining the crew and I for one hope he is on the bad side of the fight!

Terry Crews, most recently seen as the father figure on 'Everyone Hates Chris' will lend his talents and hopefully some comedy.

For that extra shot of testosterone, newly inducted WWE Hall of Famer Stone Cold Steve Austin will be bustin' some heads in the film.

And last, but certainly not least, a femme has been added to the sausage party and she is none other than the beautiful Charisma Carpenter. If you do not understand what a good choice this is then I suggest you google that shit.....now.
(UPDATE)


December 17, 2008
With Sylvester Stallone's next attempt at writing, directing and starring he has been busy assembling a who's-who of action talent from the last 20 years.

Jet Li, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, as well as, UFC bad ass Randy Couture have all been locked in by the Italian Stallion to star in 'The Expendables'. This film is the first film in a two film deal for Stallone with Nu Image/Millenium films. The movie is about a team of mercenaries on a mission to overthrow a malevolent South American dictator.

Who will be bad? Who will be good? Who cares!

Filming is set to begin in February 2009 which is the date I will start making the transition from dream world to reality by the tentative 2010 release date.


Extra tidbit: The second film of his two film deal will be another installment of the popular Rambo saga. Yeah, I said saga.

Updates courtesy of imdb.com

        

In the immortal words of Jim Carrey "So you're saying there's a chance....."
It may be a very small chance that hell will freeze over but there is still a chance.

Well news leaked out over this past week that 90210 chump Brian Austin Green and Transformers starlet Megan Fox had ended their engagement. Apparently the split was mutual and the couple remains friends.

Now seeing as how Megan has Brian's name etched into her flesh, I guess that means I either need to legally change my name to Brian or she has got some tattoo work to get redone. I am sure she would be totally fine with the name change.

So feel free to get in line boys and that line starts behind me.

        

The official HD trailer for Transformers Revenge of the Fallen has recently been released on the Yahoo Movies site and it could very well be the best 2 minutes and 16 seconds of 2009 so far.

Check it out here and prepare to buy your tickets for the next installment of Big F'n Robots destroying each other this May.

        

What do you get when you have too much time on your hands, a great imagination and some video editing software? Two minutes of offensive comedic genius. Mashed up with the famous Bill O'Reilly's tirade and the latest Christian Bale rampage on the set of the new Terminator flick, this is definitely something to listen to at work...but with your headphones on.

        

It's been a long time coming, originally set for a 2007 release date, Fanboys will finally see the light of day this weekend. Set in 1998, before the release of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Turd, when anticipation of a new Star Wars movie was at it's peak. A group of friends decide to help one of their dying peers on a mission to see the movie before he dies, and the only way to see it early is to steal the early copy from the holy land...Skywalker Ranch.

Full of toilet humor, Star Wars references and William Shatner - expect the critics to hate it. Which means it will be a cult classic that every "Fanboy" will love.

        

For those of us jock-sniffers out there that are depressed that the end of the football season is upon us we can look forward to a new day dawning and that day has arrived! I give you the Lingerie Football League or LFL for short.

The Lingerie Football League will feature fast-paced 7-on-7 full-contact tackle football featuring some of the country’s most athletic and beautiful women. The inaugural LFL season will include a (20) week schedule from September 4th – January 22nd with (10) market teams.

The 10 team names are as equally sexy and seductive as the females who play the game.
The lucky cities to be granted an inaugural team in their city are the Atlanta Steam, Chicago Bliss, Miami Caliente, New England Euphoria, Tampa Breeze, Dallas Desire, Los Angeles Temptation, Phoenix Scorch, San Diego Seduction and the Seattle Mist.



The season kicks off on September 4th, 2009 at Sears Centre in Chicago.
What once was a PPV activity during the halftime festivities of the Superbowl has now gone mainstream which just demonstrates that there truly is a god up in heaven. It also gives new meaning to the term Fantasy Football.

Check out team profiles and player photo galleries here.

What are you still reading this for? Go!

        

First we had the name - "G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra".  Then we got a date - August 7, 2009. Now we have a trailer for the upcoming flick.  Since I didn't see it air during yesterday's Super Bowl (must have been in the bathroom with the rest of the country), I did a little recon of my own and found it on the main site.   Before clicking play, I admit, I was scared and had flashbacks to 'Street Fighter' (*~shutter~*).  But after watching it, I feel much more comfortable with this movie.

...fingers crossed that the He-Man remake doesn't suck worse than "Masters of the Universe", if that's possible.

        

Source: Chicago Tribune

In news that makes sense, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley told Comcast SportsNet's "Monsters in the Morning" show that, "We should have a second NFL team in Chicago. If San Francisco has two, New York has two, Florida has three teams … and when you take Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia, they have three teams there in that region, we could easily support a second pro football team." I'm not going to argue with that logic. After all, they do provide homes for the National League's Cubs and the American League's White Sox, and with the Chicago/St. Louis/Arizona Cardinals making the Super Bowl this year, the "could have been us" bus is loaded up. Chicago definitely has the population to house another team and Bears fans are always quick to state the fact that they always sell out their games (sometimes it's not worth arguing about simple math with them).

So, we know that Los Angeles and Chicago for sure want teams, and Roger Goodell has been fairly vocal about having a team in Toronto, possibly the Bills. But without creating an expansion of 34 teams (can you say 'over saturated'?), these cities will have to wait for some potentially endangered teams to be ready to make there move. Those teams are likely to include the Jaguars, Raiders, Chargers, Saints, Rams, 49ers and even the Bears' rivals, the Minnesota Vikings. The Vikings have been rumored to be shopped around if no agreement can be reached between the Wilfs and the public to fund a new stadium by the time their lease at the Metrodome is up in 2011, which is 2 years away and stadiums take about that long to build. Los Angeles on the other hand, have already signed off on and voted for the new L.A. Stadium complex. Maybe the Raiders or Rams will move back to L.A., but can you imagine the Northside/Southside rivalry that would be created, and would make the Cubs/Sox crosstown rivalry pale in comparison, if the Vikings were to move to Chicago? Skol Chicago Vikes?

        

In the past decade or so, it's not so much the NFL's Super Bowl that a majority of American's are anxious to see (mostly because of the match ups), but the commercials. The latest trend in advertisers is allowing viewers to vote for the commercial they want to see aired between the timeouts on Super Bowl Sunday. Case in point, the latest from perennial Super Bowl commercial favorites Go Daddy. This year their letting fans vote between 2 commercials featuring racing diva Danica Patrick. One ad features Danica in a trial setting (ala congress vs steroids) and the other has her showering...frequently. Adding more incentive to their effort to get people to go to their site, they're promising visitors the ability to watch "HOT, Internet-only versions live at kick-off!".

Smart business move, considering the fact that the U.S. economy is in the 'thunder bucket' (!). This allows them to save advertising dollars by limiting the amount of commercials run during the big game, and then just have people try to crash their servers by logging on to watch multiple 30 second ads of almost nipple. Especially since last year, your 30 seconds of fame cost you $2.7 million.

Go see GoDaddy's Super Bowl Ads!

        

At last night's 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards, Darren Aronofsky's 'The Wrestler' took home 2 of the 3 awards it was nominated for:

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama: Mickey Rourke

Best Original Song - Motion Picture: Bruce Springsteen

Rourke beat out some tough competition in Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road), Frank Langell (Frost/Nixon), Sean Penn (Milk) and Brad Pitt (The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button) to not only win the Best Actor award, but to resurrect his career. The fact that any movie with professional wrestling in it would have a snowball's chance in hell of even being nominated for a highly touted Hollywood award amazes me, and I applaud the voters that put aside their personal feelings toward pro wrestling and focused on the amazing story and acting that came together in this film.

When I went to the movie premier last week, I went with a friend of mine, who just so happens to be a pro wrestler. I too have a pro wrestling past, spending a few years as a referee and manger. I have also taken my share of 'bumps' ring. Over the years, we've traveled up and down the roads and have seen a lot of things. Nothing prepared us for what we were about to see.

When we first arrived at the theater, there was a large crowd of people lined up at the door and we were quickly spotted by a local wrestling fan. In a way this was no surprise, but also a fear. We didn't want to draw any attention (Note to self: If you don't want to attract attention, don't travel with a 6' 2", 315 pound sidekick.), more so for the fact if the movie sucked, we didn't people saying they saw us there and associate it with us. So, knowing we were on 'the list', we went around the corner and quenched our thirst until it was about movie time. When we walked back into the theater, it was packed. As I scanned for open seats, I realized something, this wasn't 'our crowd'. With the exception of the couple of local 'marks', who's heads were on swivel while pointing out open seats for us, this crowd was full of critics and uptown movie house snobs...oh crap. I was shocked that we were the only 'insiders' in the room and that there wasn't any other workers around to see this. Outnumbered, we made our way down to the only 2 seats together left in the theater, front row - center. We could feel a hundred pair of eyes on the back of our heads.

Throughout the movie, we were shocked at the fact that we have seen and knew the types of characters and scenarios portrayed in the movie. At some points, it was a little 'too' real. It was especially stirring for my friend, who just became a first time father to a beautiful baby girl, that luckily looks like her mom. Speaking of parents, this is probably not a movie to bring your kid to if they love wrestling, mostly due to the Rated R nature. This movie had it all though, and really touched on the big picture, from an in ring performer aspect.

I've always heard the constant complaints from wrestling fans, "Why don't performers like Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, Shawn Michaels and others just retire?". Well, it sounds cheesy, but it's for the love of the game. It's the rush of a crowd, no matter if you're in front of 20 or 20,000. It's getting them to react, or 'pop', to something that you just did and controlling their emotions. When you're in that ring, that's the only 'real world' that matters and it's also there, where all of your aches and pains temporarily go away. It's a whole other world inside those ropes. There's also a bit of pride involved in the portrayal and legacy of the character a wrestler takes on. You'll rarely, if ever, see a wrestler take on a job that puts them in the public eye to make extra money, like retail or restaurant work. Imagine if you will, your favorite entertainer, wrestler or other. Now imagine them hitting the skids, retired, washed up, or broke and forgotten due to poor business decisions., but still recognizable. You order a pizza on game day with your buddies and guess who knocks on your door with your order. Of course you recognize them and point out the fact that you're a big fan. You might as well have just kept the tip and kicked them in the nuts.

Watching the movie, and thinking about Mickey Rouke's rise and fall to fame, put's a whole new spin on things. I can't think of another actor that could have pulled this off. The emotion was genuine, because he's lived it and it was real. When the credits rolled, the theater patrons behind us didn't start buzzing with the ridicules of a silly wrestling story. It remained quiet through the first versus of Bruce Springsteen's song "The Wrestler", then the applauds came. Wow.

Kudos to those involved and I really hope the 'Academy' takes note.

Update:
Find out what Lex Luger, Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake, Diamond Dallas Page, Rowdy Roddy Piper and Greg “The Hammer” Valentine had to say about the film by watching their video round table here.

        

Pop culture clothing moguls, Affliction Clothing, are getting set for their second Mixed Martial Arts PPV entitled Affliction: Day of Reckoning.  Their first PPV last summer, entitled 'Banned' (because of the UFC 'banning' their fighters from wearing Affliction clothing due to being unable to reach an exclusive agreement with the MMA promotion), featured a stacked card, with the silent but deadly Russian and pound for pound best heavyweight fighter in the game today, Fedor Emelianenko (29-1-1) taking on former UFC Heavyweight Champion Tim Sylvia (24-5) in the main event for the WAMMA Heavyweight Championship.   In which, Fedor forced the giant to tap in first 36 seconds of the first round.

On January 24th, 'Day of Reckoning' will feature yet another stacked card.  This time around Fedor takes on fellow Russian and another former UFC Heavyweight Champion in Andrei Arlovski (15-5).  Arlovski had an impressive showing at 'Banned', KO'ing Ben Rothwell in the 3rd round.

The undercard also features some excellent matchup's.  In Light Heavyweight action, current Strikeforce champion and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Renato 'Babalu' Sobral (31-7) takes on Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou (5-3), who last fall was released from the UFC after his loss at UFC 89 to Luiz Cane.  Sokoudjou may not look good on paper, but the guy can throw down - just ask Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (15-3), whom he knocked out in 23 seconds back in 2007.

Speaking of 'Minotoro', not to be confused with his twin brother Antonio Rodrigo 'Minotauro' Nogueira (who just lost the interim UFC Heavyweight Championship to Frank Mir) - not confusing at all, will be going up against fellow Light Heavyweight Vladimir 'The Janitor' Matyushenko in the free main event before the pay per view on HDNET(call your local cable provider and tell them they suck if they don't get this channel).   'The Janitor' (best ring name ever) is currently on an 8 fight winning streak and this fight will be a rematch of their 2002 encounter where 'The Janitor' won the 3 round decision.

Other fights featured on the card are former UFC Heavyweight Champion Josh Barnett (22-5) versus Gilbert Yvel (35-12-1), and former UFC Lightweight Champion Vitor Belfort (17-8) taking on grappler Matt Lindland (21-5) in a Middleweight bout.

Last fall it was announced, that Ozzy Osbourne would be performing at 'Day of Reckoning' much like Megadeth did for 'Banned'. No confirmation that this is still happening since the event was moved from it's original October date.

        

Source:  Blabbermouth

Everyone has heard the crazy stories of performers and their backstage rider requests that are built into the performance contracts.  Such as a bowl of nothing but green M&M's in their dressing room, clean boxer shorts, some grape sodas, a gallon of guacamole or a dressing room full of flowers.  None of which compare to Tommy Lee's new dressing room rules. 

Not only does the Motley Crue / Methods of Mayhem drum-master supreme require a Jägermeister dispenser, but as he tells Playboy magazine, "You must remove one article of clothing — your pants, your top — or else you are not allowed in my dressing room. That gets the fucking party started so quick. Everyone's walking around topless."

Awesome.

        

Source: Sun Sentinel

I am and have been a fan of the aging (39) 'Iceman', Chuck Liddell.  But maybe it's time for future UFC Hall Of Famer to think about finding another avenue to make a living at, like being a trainer/coach.  After being on the receiving end of what some have dubbed the knock out of 2008 and loosing three of his last four bouts, he says he's coming back for more and will be fighting in the octagon again this spring.

In a recent interview, Liddell is quoted in saying "I'll fight anybody they put in front of me as long as it gets me back closer to the title. I have to try to be the best at what am I doing. I want Rashad Evans, he's got the title and I'll take it."

Apparently he doesn't remember this...