The Rams & The Flintstones

On Monday December 11th, 2006, my St. Louis Rams got destroyed on national TV by Devin Hester and the Chicago Bears. Now we're sitting @ 5-8 and just hoping for a good draft pick. Below are interesting items to note:

-Detroit Lions wide out Mike Furry was the top Fantasy Football Free Agent after recording a season high of 8 catches for 82 yards and two TDs...Our defense made him a Fantasy Football household name

-Edgerin James whose offensive line was being dogged out the entire season, finally broke 100 yards rushing against our defense last Sunday December 4th 2006

-In watching the NFL network last night, they compiled a clip of all of LaDanian Tomlinson's TDs (he currently holds the single season TD record @ 29 with 3 games to go). LT was scoring @ most 2 TDs, until they played us on October 29th and he scored 4 TDs, and needless to say he was on his way...thank us for getting his swagger back

-I like Marc Bulger..matter of fact he's my Fantasy QB in both of my leagues (currently #1 and #5; both playoff squads respectively). But why is this cat slangin' the rock like he is the 1996 model of Drew Bledsoe!?!?!? We have a decent running back in Stephen Jackson...oh yea our Offensive line

-Best quote of MNF "That could affect the sales of his basic skills video"---Tony Kornheiser after Torry Holt dropped his 4th ball of the night on Monday Night Football 12/11/06

-Rex Grossman who was dominating the NFL headlines with "Can the Bears win with Rex Grossman?", plays our defense and suddenly feels like he's back @ the University of Florida.

-Deven Hester sets an NFL record against us for most Kick returns for TDs in a single season.

-Let's just say in 2007 we won't see the Rams in primetime unless we play our way onto the flex schedule.

The good news in all of this is, I shouldn't have a problem scoring tickets for the Christmas Eve matchup against the Washington Redskins...

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The Flintstones



Earlier in the year, wifey and I were @


the house watchin' tv. While channel surfing, she passes the Flintstones, let's it ride for 2 minutes, then changes the channel.

Because Courtney knows how much I love Fred, Barney and the gang, she was surprised that I didn't say anything.

"You don't wanna watch the Flintstones?"

"Naw, I know what's going to happen?"

"How do you know?? You only saw maybe two minutes"

I proceed to explain to Courtney that said episode she skipped over was the one where Wilma wished Fred was more polite, and Fred wasn't havin' that polite stuff. So while he and Barney go bowling, a bowling ball falls on Fred's head, and suffers a case of amnesia. When Fred comes to consciousness, he becomes this well mannered cassanova and prefers to be called "Frederick"

Courtney's jaw was wide open, and she turned back, and sure enough the plot develops

"This isn't a very good episode" I respond back.

At which she and I both discovered:

1) I watch too many cartoons
2) I've seen so many episodes of the Flintstones (the originals before Pebbles and Bam Bam grew up...however I can recap a couple of those episodes also) that I can recap an episode by watching 1-3 minutes of the show.

So if any of you go on a game show and need a Flintstone lifeline, I'm your man. I can tell you everything from the name of the song Stoney Carmichael (The Flintstone parody of Hoagey Carmichael) sang to the maiden of name of Betty Rubble.

..and that's your random B. Holcomb fact of the day

1-love

B. Holcomb

PS Be on the look out for my "Best of music blog for 2006" soon!!