Afternoon Delight....

Some news and notes for all of you boys and girls...

The Buccos will name their new manager Monday, after a long, long search...No leaks have confirmed the name, but PNA (at least Snack) hopes Trent Jewett is the new man in town, seeing as he actually knows the players and won't be a complete lackey for Huntington...

You the man, Trent...

So, not that Snack remembers, but apparently last year's hot trend was designer dogs..Don't really know what the hell that means, but it's now going to be designer cats. People are paying thousands of dollars for some stupid pet that is part cat, part cheetah, and part marsupial.This is what happens when people have too much money and too much time on their hands...

In celeb news, it seems the FBI knew of OJ's plan to get his stuff back. Of course, since it was OJ and they've been trying to get him for years, they allowed him to go get his gun-toting goons and bum rush in there like he's trying to take over a bank...I guess the Juice got squeezed...HAHAHAHA

Hey man, ya'll knew what was going down...

The Steelers have the Ravens on Monday night, so here's a story from the Trib discussing their lack of a sack against the Bengals...Personally, I'm not too worried about it, and neither is my boy Silverback Harrison...I'm willing to bet that they get to Old Balls McNair at least three times on Monday.

I'm lookin' for you McNair...

As I was looking thru the numerous blogs I read every day, I noticed this story about a guy you'll all recognize donning a very, very unoriginal Halloween costume...Trust me, it's funny as hell...

Finally, the Red Sox lost the ball used on the last pitch of Game 4 of the World Series...Those drunken jagoffs probably traded it at the pub for a round of Jack Daniel's...

Time to get loose boys...

Oh yea, I'm watching the Pitt game and we look predictably pathetic...When's the first hoops game again?

Until lata...

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Monday Morning Hangover...

Alright, well after sobering up from the weekend festivities, it's none other than Diego the great here stopping in to write his first weekend recap for pierogis n’at hereby titled the Monday Morning Hangover. In this segment I’ll recap this weekend’s sports action, the stuff I care about at least, and give you some insights and observations I made while I was watching the games, greazing, and drinking some Irons…

The weekend in sports started off pretty f’n weak, as they didn’t even give as a World Series game on Friday night. I mean I am as sick of baseball as the next guy, but there wasn’t even a college football game on Friday night. So if you were looking for any sports action your best bet would have been to go to a high school football game and hit on some “mature looking” high school students. To quote Matthew McConaughey’s Wooderson from Dazed and Confused, “That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.”

Speaking of high school football did anyone else see that Jeanette Greesburg CC game Thursday night on FSN? Ya, I didn’t either, but while tuning in before the start of the Pens game they showed one highlight of the two TD’s Jeanette had already scored. It involved All-Everything QB Terrell Pryor aka Superboy faking a handoff right and running a naked boot left, scoring about a 10 yard TD, and along the way just about decapitating a poor Greensburg CC linebacker… and not only did he just about knock this kid into next week but this kid was also rewarded with Pryor giving him the longest "f you buddy I’m sure you’ll remember this when your watching me play starting for Ohio St. next year in both football and basketball stares that I’d ever seen in my life". It looks like Pryor is already a pro at bruising both bodies and egos alike. If you don’t know about this kid check out and crawl out from whatever rock you’ve been living under.

I was looking forward to Saturday because its finally that time of the year when we are getting past all the BS in college football now that the Penn St.’s and OSU’s of the world are done playing teams the likes of Florida International and Kent St we can finally see some real ball and some rivalry games. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending how you look at it, I had tickets to the Pens game that evening, so I couldn’t watch highly touted OSU-Penn St match up at 8:00, I had to settle for a little Pitt-Louisville action at high noon.

My first thought after watching a few series from this Pitt game is the same thought I had after watching every Pitt game so far this year… these guys are hard to watch. With such a young group of players Pitt just looks disorganized and they have trouble executing, constantly starting out the game going three and out. Once again Pitt offense underperforms gaining only 270 yards on a team that hasn’t been able to stop anyone all year long. Pitt did do a good job of holding future NFL QB Brian Brohm to well under his season average in passing yards.

Still, the story of the game was Shady McCoy getting a case of fumbilitis on the one yard line, just as we were about to tie the game up. Although it’s easy to point fingers at Wannstache (shout out to Mondesi’s house) or Cavanaugh for the disappointing season, the bottom line is they are doing the best with a depleted roster due to injury, and with the young talent they have. After all, it’s not easy to win games when starting three true freshmen on offense in any conference, let alone the Big East.

On a positive note, the last two weeks have shown that Pitt isn’t giving up. After coming back to upset 23rd ranked Cinci, and this week almost completing a comeback against Louisville, Pitt showed that they have a solid core of young players led by freshmen starters McCoy and Pat Bostick. Hopefully Pitt can finish the season strong with a few more wins to have momentum built up for next year because after this disappointing season Pitt fans are just counting down the days till hoops starts. The Trib’s take on it

JoePA craps his pants again (figuratively) and Happy Valley is left dejected as #1 OSU silences critics and Penn St fans alike. Penn St. Sucks

West Virginia keeps their win streak alive and stays in contention for the Big East Title and BCS bowl birth. WVU Sucks

Uconn proves to skeptics they are for real taking out South Florida and staying at the top of the Big East standings. UConn Sucks Too

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Steelers win....

Well they won, 24-13...haha no surprise here as the Bung-Holes are always pathetic at their own place. This is the seventh time in a row we've won there, marking the complete domination of that team...sure, they may have won a few here and there over that period (like last year's forgetable effort in Pittsburgh) but all those wins were when nothing (much) was on the line..any opportunity they've ever had to shed that notion (our playoff victory over them and the chance to make the playoffs with a win last year versus our Steelers) has ended in defeat...

As far as today's game goes, kudos to Bruce Arians for RUNNING THE BALL...Willie Parker did a wonderful job, gaining 126 yards and scoring a touchdown. And let's not forget about Carey Davis, who proved to be pretty valuable today. Not only did he come in and do an admirable job replacing lead battering ram Dan Kreider, but he also made the play of the game, a great individual effort to break a tackle on a screen play, turning what was a sure loss into an 8 yard pick-up. He's turning out to be quite the young ballplayer, and I think old Danny boy's days as a Steeler may be numbered...

I also think Big Ben played rather well, completing 19 passes for 230 yards and those 2 Ward TD's. He made a few plays that no other QB in the league could make, including a first down pass with a Bengals linebacker draped on his legs. All we have to do now is get rid of that one interception he threw near the goal line and he could be playing at an All-Pro level.

MVP for the day has to go to Hines Ward for his 2 TD's, 8 receptions, 88 yards and his overall strong play. He looks like the Hines from 2005, and as we all recall, that was a good year for us...

If yinz want to see the full boxscore or just how your favorite Steeler did, check out ESPN's Game Summary

Go Steelers...

So it’s the beginning of the fourth quarter as I write this, and the Bengals just kicked the extra point to make it 21-13. Here are a few things I’ve noticed so far, and at the end of the game I’ll give yinz a full recap…

Why is it that Ben always seems to make a dumb decision near the endzone? I think he’s a great QB, but this is a habit he’s going to have to break if we are to beat those pesky Colts or Pats this year, or any year soon for that matter…Let’s see how he handles this drive…

Good to see the old Hines back…he’s catching everything thrown to him and he’s agitating and blocking with the best of them. As I type this he just made a sweet first down catch…Welcome back buddy.

Wow, here comes another fumblegate situation…thankfully Dick Ebersol isn’t the commish, or else the Bengals woulda got the ball…

Finally, Santonio Holmes looks like he’s becoming the player I never thought he’d be. I didn’t like his school or his off field problems or his size, but once again here is making another big third down catch…

More to come after the game…GO STEELERS!

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Snack's Pick of the Week...

So who will be Snack's first Pick of the Week?

I like our Steelers against the Bengals giving them 3-4 points depending on who you ask, however I never like to bet with or against them so for now we'll leave them out of this discussion.

I also like the Giants giving 10 to the Dolphins. With Brandon Jacobs running well and what seems to be a new-and-improved Eli Manning, they should run all over Joey Porter and his cumps in London. But with all the travel and time changes and whatknot I don't feel comfortable making this the POTW.

And now, with the first pick in the 2007 Big Snack POTW contest, Snack takes....

The JACKSONVILLE JAGS...

They're playing the surprising Tampa Bay Bucs, who are rallying behind the Hugh Hefner of the NFL, Jeff Garcia...and the Bucs are actually favored by four in this game. I feel with the complete lack of a running game in Tampa, that big, physical D of the Jags will be able to pin their ears back and slam that old man around...The Jags O, while no juggernaut themselves, can be very efficient against a defense whose best days may be behind it. I not only think they Jags will beat the spread, I think they will wint the game, we'll say something like 21-17. I doubt it will be a high scoring affair with two stingy D's, but the over-under is a very, very low 32 points. I'd bet over too, seeing as it's rare to get games scoring less then 32, but this could very well be a 13-7 type game...We'll see how I fare tomorrow afternoon....

PS: Let's not forget that Snack is a crappy gambler, so unless his advice happens to reinforce an earlier belief about a game, PNA recommends you stay as far away from his bets as possible.

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