The Detroit Lions are officially terrible.

A winless season didn’t make it official. #1 draft picks flaming out didn’t make it official. Hiring Matt Millen didn’t make it official.

But fans selling a towel proclaiming “We Are Terrible” as a play on words from the Pittsburgh Steelers Terrible Towel makes it very official. And at $10 you’ll get years of good out of your towel cleaning up the vomit when Matthew Stafford throws another pick. Or the defense giving up another 200-yard rushing effort.

Of course the local Detroit media jumped all over this story.

Birmingham residents Gordon Miller and John Crick are selling white towels (naturally), with “The Official We ARE Terrible Towel: A Detroit Original Since 1957″ emblazoned in Honolulu blue. They’re $10 each — or less for bigger orders — and can be purchased online at weareterribletowel.com or by calling 877-442-7935.

“It’s hard to eat a hot dog or drink a soda with a bag over your head,” Miller said in a news release. “With the official We ARE Terrible Towel, you can eat, drink, boo and still wave your towel.”

And in a nice touch from the entreprenuers, they are offering a Cleveland Browns version too. No, Brady Quinn’s head isn’t emblazoned on it.

[We Are Terrible Towels]

So grab your Pitt gear while they steamroll Cincy and WVU on their way to a Big East Championship for the Stache’.

Buy it here. Or here. And ladies, you can buy it here.

Nothing like good old fashioned pre-martital baby making to get a rivalry going.

The Angry T

For those of you who have to suffer through mediocre Big Ten Network games there is usually one respite from the boorish play from bland offenses and average defenses.

Charissa Thompson sideline reports.

But those bright moments during a Saturday afternoon have been missing for several weeks after Thompson suffered a broken foot and ankle in a freak step-aerobics accident.

The sideline princess returned to work yesterday’s Michigan-Purdue game but had a special set-up – a plastic chair behind the UM bench, according to MGoBlue.com.

Thompson had surgery five weeks ago and is on doctor’s orders to wear a protective boot, but she left it in the hotel for the game. With only three games left in the season she’s toughing it out.

“I’m sticking to yoga and the treadmill from now on. I’m stepping down from step. Get it?”

And Thompson is tweeting about how excited she was to be in the Motor City/Ann Arbor area for her return.

just landed in lovely Detroit .. I’ve never been so happy to fly;)

[MGoBlue]

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There is much discussion this morning over the Comcast broadcast of the Villanova vs. Richmond game that took place yesterday.

And the commotion surrounds what came across the television sets of about 1,200 people that happened to be watching the game live.

“C,mon, end this f@cking game, already,” was uttered and now a nation of white men who care about such things are going nuts trying to figure out if it was a broadcaster or an open mike that suddenly went live.

Even newspapers are joining in the fray over the F-bomb:

As play-by-play man Bob Picozzi described the final seconds while an unknown person is overheard saying, “What a bum. Come on, end this (bleeping) game.”

The first part was a reference to the 35-yard field goal Richmond’s Andrew Howard missed with five seconds to play in the game that would have given the Spiders the lead.

After a roughly 10-second pause, the same unknown person is heard saying, “Go home, already.”

Listen, it’s not the Berman Tapes for Christ’s sake.

Like the guy wanted to be in Richmond, Virginia on a Saturday night.

…and the ladies go crazy as the four-fingered Alabama fan gets to show off between the 3rd and 4th quarters.

Um, does this go down as one of the year’s greatest college football screen caps.

Of course it does. Right behind the Oklahoma band chick shedding tears as Florida was whipping the Sooners WAY back in January.

Now we just have to figure out who four-fingered Alabama fan is.

Kid swings baseball bat, hits basketball (what appears to be about 35 yards) and the ball goes into the basketball hoop.

Easily the craziest thing we’ve seen all month – and it’s about over.

There are times in our busy day when we think…“hmm, I wonder what Manute Bol is up to.”

And he’s usually posing with some ridiculously small person who looks completely out of place next to the 7 foot 7 former NBA three-point threat.

Believe it or not, the guy just turned 47 and seems to not be slowing down. He always has that suit on and a smile on his face.

What else has been on Bol’s plate?

He’s still raising money for Sudan. If you attend the University of Rochester – and are a Bol fan – it’s your lucky day.

November 3:

At 7-foot-7, Sudanese-born Manute Bol was known as the NBA’s tallest player. Now, Bol has teamed up with famed pollster John Zogby to achieve an even higher goal: building schools in the war-torn villages of his native Sudan through the non-profit organization Sudan Sunrise. Bol and Zogby will tour Rochester to raise awareness about the reconciliation project. This program is sponsored by the University of Rochester.

Just thought we’d pass this along.

(NBA Legend Manute Bol, Famed Pollster John Zogby Tour…)

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This happens to be quite awesome.

Angry T Video Comments:

We have no idea where these two schools are from and it really doesn’t matter that much.

Some background details…“After a touchdown, Central goes for two. Quarterback Will Briscoe throws behind the back hitting wide open Shedrick Davis in the endzone.”

Simply amazing but is it really that necessary. Nothing makes Beano Cook angry like a behind the back pass – on purpose.

At least he’s drinking the official beer of the NFL.

There has been an official rut in the “Kyle Orton Drinking Photos” department over the last 12 months or so. Ever since getting married and moving to Denver, Neckbeard has been laying low and avoiding the spotlight.

That would be a major change from his days of pounding Jack, simulated sex on his buddy and getting comfortable behind chicks with implants. Or even his days of playing 2 Girls, 1 Passed Out Kyle Orton.

But the embargo seems to have been lifted.

The Angry T has discovered Orton back to enjoying an adult beverage. Oh, and he didn’t exactly like having his photo taken, according to the photographer.

I had to tell him to let me take his picture, or I was gonna kick his ass. He does not like to have his picture taken.

These photos were taken after the Broncos Week Two victory over the Browns. Denver long snapper Lonie Paxton hosted a few members of the military at the game and the group of guys did some drinking and picture taking after the game.

This is great news from the Orton camp. We weren’t big fans of him just completely ending his partying ways.

That would be a major waste. Of talent.

Paxton (right) making Goodell happy by drinking the correct beverage.

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By now you’ve no doubt heard about Balloon Boy, or Falcon Heene, depending on whether you’ve decided to learn this name. You also probably know that he and his freak show family were on the hit/god awful television show Wife Swap. While I use “Freak Show,” in the kindest terms possible, I’m certain it would have been in this kid’s best interest to actually hop in that balloon and float away to a new family.

Here’s an article about his crazy ass family.

Now here’s an excerpt from that article:

According to the ABC ‘Wife Swap’ website, the family sleeps in their clothes so they can leap from bed and run after a storm (they are storm chasers) at any given moment. The site also describes a “flying saucer” that sounds like the one that ultimately came back to earth Thursday.

Now here are my questions:

Honestly, how long does it take to put on clothes? Also, are the clothes you go storm chasing in the same ones you have to wear the next morning? Wouldn’t it be easier to just set aside the storm chasing clothes on a table in your room? What kind of air conditioning bills must his family have to keep the house cool enough to sleep in heavy, storm chasing clothes? After this guy “makes love” to his wife on any given Wednesday, does he throw on the storm chasing clothes before he goes to bed? Or, does he plow in the storm chasing clothes, and stick his weiner through the fly hole?

Most importantly, here is a music video that the family made prior to Falcon not floating away in a balloon and captivating the nation:

(The 1:05 mark is pretty disturbing)

Freak Show.

The Angry T