50 Reasons To Be Thankful This Holiday Season
Looking for a reason to be thankful this holiday season?
How about I give you 50 Reasons instead?
1. Rex Ryan’s ‘Home Video,’ Collection: Easily my favorite story of the holiday season, because, you know, foot fetishes are funny.
Also, you know who else must be enjoying this? Brett Favre. All of a sudden those cell phone pictures he sent don’t seem quite as weird, do they?
2. Les Miles: If the Dos Equis guy is “The Most Interesting Man In The World,” than Miles is clearly No. 2. Simply put, I watch more college football than anyone, and just can’t get enough of this guy.
3. Zack Greinke Being Traded To The Brewers: Man, if this guy thought he was depressed before...
4. Kansas State Basketball Coach Frank Martin: Honestly, I’m terrified of the guy, and I don’t even play for him. Martin makes Bobby Knight look like Mr. Rodgers by comparison.
5. Oregon Playing For the BCS Title: Even if you’re not a college football fan, admit it, you’re curious to see what kind of uniforms the Ducks will wear in the big game.
6. Outdoor Football In Minnesota: I would say, “Just the way God intended it,” except honestly, I don’t think God ever intended for Joe Webb to be a starting NFL quarterback. You should hear the way He complains about Favre’s injury ruining his fantasy season.
7. The 2022 World Cup: Live from Qatar. Who’s up for soccer in 125 degree heat? Anyone?
8. The Hawaii Bowl on Christmas Eve: Look, you ignore your family every other night of the year, so why would Christmas Eve be any different?
9. Lakers-Heat Christmas Day: No joke to make here. Well except for the Heat’s frontcourt going up against Bynum, Gasol and Odom. But other than that, no joke to make here…
10. Shaq Conducting The Boston Pops: Easily my favorite storyline this past week that has nothing to do with anything. Go ahead and watch this video. I dare you not to laugh. It’s impossible.
11. Blake Griffin: The one and only reason to watch the Clippers during my lifetime. Dude is a Sportscenter Top 10 highlight waiting to happen.
12. Kevin Love: The one and only reason to watch the Timberwolves since Kevin Garnett left town. Dude is a 20-20 night waiting to happen.
13. Tim Tebow, Starting NFL Quarterback: Go ahead and admit it, you kind of enjoyed his long touchdown run last Sunday. Didn’t you?
14. Jayson Werth’s Ginormous Contract From The Nationals: I love how people are up in arms over this contract. Umm, hello folks, it’s the Nationals! Of course they had to overpay to get someone half decent!
15. The Steve Addazio Bidding War: Like I said before, nobody watches more college football than me. And what I watched all year, was Addazio coaching himself out of his coordinator’s job at Florida. Then the offseason hit, and Texas was set to make him their offensive coordinator until Temple scooped him up and made them their head coach.
Honestly, watching people fight over Addazio, would be like you and I arguing at the bar over a girl missing her front two teeth. Why??
16. The Cincinnati Bengals: When the “TOcho Show,” is the best thing to happen to your team all season, you know it’s been a tough year.
17. Coach K’s Hair: Roy Williams has gone gray. Jim Boeheim has gone bald. Yet Coach K’s hair keeps getting blacker? Somebody please explain.
18. The New Movie ‘Little Fockers’: Oh wait, I forgot, this is supposed to be a list of things we’re thankful for this holiday season.
Never mind.
19. Ali-Frazier Documentary on HBO: I just saw this the other day, and if you haven’t seen it yet, stop reading this article, and go watch it right now. If you don’t get HBO, break into somebody’s house who does. It’s that good.
20. Pony Exce$$: And if you’re afraid to break into someone’s house just to watch a documentary, find this one on ESPN instead. Absolutely captivating from minute one to minute 120.
21. Bruce Pearl’s Upcoming Coaching Schedule: Ok, so we all know that Pearl is suspended for the first eight games of the SEC schedule for breaking NCAA rules and lying about it. What few people know is that right in the middle of that slate of games, Tennessee travels to UConn in an out of conference game that interestingly enough, Pearl can coach in. A little bit weird, huh?
22. “This Is Sportscenter Commercials”: I especially enjoy this one with Adrian Peterson
23. “Roll Tide” Commercial: My first thought was, “I love this.” My second thought was, “I wonder what Auburn fans think of it?”
24. Urban Meyer, Color Commentator: Anyone else catch him during halftime of the Boise-Utah game last night? I’ve had my fun with Meyer over the years, but I honestly hope he sticks around in some capacity once his retirement kicks in.
25. Jason Kidd: Ok, so maybe he can’t guard anyone anymore. And maybe he could never shoot to begin with. But man can the guy pass the rock.
26. Steve Nash: Speaking of passing the rock. For all the talk about all the young guns in the game, this guy is still as good as any as far as I’m concerned.
27. Spider and the Henchman: Easily the best sports podcast that not nearly enough people know about. If you’re not listening, you need to start.
28. Only Two Months Until Pitchers and Catchers Report: At which point I’ll be excited for about four days, watch a game and then realize, “Man I forgot how boring baseball is.”
29. Poinsettia Bowl: Which will be played on a field that looks like this, thanks to torrential downpours that have hit San Diego all week. Have fun running that triple-option Navy!
30. Dwyane Wade’s Holiday Spirit: I’ve written a lot of not nice things about the Heat, but I’ve got to give credit where it’s due. Wade spent a lot of his own money this holiday season, to make a lot of people’s Christmas’ just a little bit better.
31. CBS College Sports Is Now on My Cable Package: And with all the old SEC football games they play, I might literally never leave my house. Like ever again.
32. CBS.com’s New College Basketball Blog: Which launched on Monday. And which I already check roughly 2,181 times a day.
33. Verne Lundquist and Clark Kellogg Calling College Basketball Games Together: Kellogg likes to use a lot of big words, and Lundquist is all but allergic to them. 
Needless to say, the two of them are a match made in heaven.
Needless to say, the two of them are a match made in heaven.34. Dr. Lou Holtz: You may not like the guy, but I for one love him. Anybody who makes Mark May somewhat tolerable is cool with me.
35. Cleveland Browns Running Back Peyton Hillis: Who became the first white running back since Craig James to rush for 1,000 yards this season. Look, that's Wikipedia's fact, not mine. Ok?
36. Neck Tattoos: I’ll never understand what would compel someone to get one. But I’ll never stop enjoying them none the less.
37. Cliff Lee Turning Down the Yankees Money: Dare I say… Priceless!!!
38. The Yankees Having No Contingency Plan After Cliff Lee Turned Down Their Money: Priceless again! Who’s ready for some more Ivan Nova in their lives!!
39. Terrelle Pryor’s Twitter Account: Remember when he called Kirk Herbstreit a “Fake Buckeye.” Good times! Well unless you’re Herbstreit. Or Pryor. Or Jim Tressel. Needless to say, I hope nobody puts a mute button on this guy anytime soon.
40. The Rose Bowl: Aka, Wisconsin’s run offense vs. TCU’s run defense. As Terrell Owens would say, “Getcha Popcorn Ready!”
41. The Fiesta Bowl: Where Zach Frazer will look to become the first quarterback incapable of throwing a spiral to lead his team to a BCS bowl victory.
42. The Other 91 Bowl Games Between Now and January 10: Whatever, I love them all. Which leads to my next question: What’s a “Beef ‘O’ Brady?”
43. The San Antonio Spurs: I used to find these guys a little boring, and now I can’t get enough of them. They play basketball the way it’s supposed to be played.
Unfortunately, you know who doesn’t?
44. The Sacramento Kings: I’ve seen prison riots with less anger than these guys play with. Who’s ready for the NBA lottery?
45. The Business of Happiness: Which is the book written by Washington Capitals and Wizards owner Ted Leonsis. If you haven’t read it yet, you should. Maybe my favorite book ever.
46. Les Miles: Ok, so maybe I already mentioned Miles earlier. But what can I say, love this man.
47. Louisville Basketball’s New Home…The KFC Yum Center: Just go ahead and insert your own joke here. I’ll wait.
48. Josh Selby: Who made Kansas basketball about 700 times more interesting than they already were within seconds of his debut last Saturday. He also just made have made them into a title contender too.
49. Oklahoma City Thunder Center Serge Ibaka: Because honestly, can we ever have too many guys named “Serge,” in our lives.
50. Tom Brady’s Hair: I’m not the first person to crack jokes about this, and most certainly won’t be the last.
But in this holiday season, it really is the gift that keeps on giving!
Merry Christmas Everyone!!
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