Good-bye to 2009.... Hello to our viewers!

By: Ryan Shibley


It's now 2010 which means we need to say good-bye to all the important sports-related topics of 2009..... except for you Tiger, you aren't going away anytime soon. By the way, how are your teeth doing after Elin hit you with the 9-iron? I heard you've been hiding out in Phoenix getting your face repaired. But since you only care about yourself.... I'm sure we'll see you back for The Masters.

Will people please stop idolizing professional athletes. Most of them just aren't good people. (See Brett Favre).

Is anyone else praying to the sports gods that the Green Bay Packers will meet and beat the Favre-led Minnesota Vikings in the playoffs? Then we'll get to see Favre crying again (hopefully for a final time) and then he can focus on those stupid Wrangler Jean commercials where a bunch of grown men pretend like they're playing football in the mud.

Congrats to the champions in 2009. Even though I'll always cheer for the New England Patriots, the Pittsburgh Steelers get a tip of my cap to winning their 6th Super Bowl title in dramatic fashion. The Steelers organization has the most Super Bowl titles in league history.

Congrats to the Florida Gators to winning their 2nd National Title in 3 years with Tim Tebow and Urban Meyer at the helm. The Gators certainly started off 2009 so much better than how they ended it. Early 2009 they win a second championship..... End of 2009 they lose to Alabama in the SEC Championship, Urban Meyer decides he needs time off because of health reasons, and Tim Tebow only has one game left in a Gators uniform. Ouch! Although I love the Gators, it hasn't been an easy couple of weeks. Lets hope they crush Cincinnati tonight in their bowl game and give both Tebow and Meyer a proper send off. It just won't be the same watching Tebow as a backup QB for an NFL team like the Bills or Jaguars. Hey, maybe the Patriots will pick him up because he's Tim Tebow and can help out in numerous ways.... even if that means keeping Randy Moss in line and providing spiritual leadership to all the prison inmates in the New England area.

Congrats to the North Carolina Tar Heels for winning their 2nd National Title since 2005. Coach Roy Williams is quickly becoming even more of a thorn in Duke's Coach K's butt! Williams is only one championship behind Coach K now and the Tar Heels routinely have better recruiting classes now. Although, Duke has a tough team this year and wouldn't be surprised if they make their first Final 4 since 2004.

It's not easy for me to congratulate the Los Angeles Lakers on their NBA Title, due to the fact that I am a big Boston Celtics fan. But I will say that Kobe deserved to win a title without that slob of a big man Shaq around. When all is said and done, Kobe will go down as one of the NBA's top 10 players of all time. Where as Shaq will go down as one of the most annoying (yet dominant) centers of all time. Is anyone else sick of him becoming a deputy sheriff in every damn city he plays for? The guy is a phony who should worry more about his weight than his rapping ability and law enforcement tactics. So congrats to the Lakers...... but not to you Pau Gasol or Sasha Vu-ya-chek..... you two are too irritating to watch. I would love a NBA Finals rematch this year between the Celtics and Lakers just so that Rajon Rondo can close-line Sasha like he did to Brad Miller last year in the playoffs.

And worse than congratulating the Lakers on a championship.... is congratulating the New York Yankees on their championship. You guessed it! Yes, I'm a Boston Red Sox fan as well. So for those of you who plan on reading this sports blog every now and then..... I'll let you in on a little secret right now. When it comes to teams I cheer for, I'll always be biased towards the Patriots, Celtics, Red Sox, and Gators. And I don't plan on changing..... because I don't consider myself an objective journalist. So again, congrats to the Spankees for winning the World Series with a team that SHOULD have won the World Series. With that big of a payroll and that many all-stars on your team...... it's a shame if you don't win every year. Red Sox in 2010! And if they can't match the outcome of 2004 and 2007, then lets hope the Chicago Cubbies can win one after a 102 year drought!

Wow! First Blog done and I feel like I can already write on a few more topics.

More to come in the following days and weeks and months.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!