The 2007-2008 NFL season officially kicks off this weekend. If you haven’t signed up yet for the DP Dot Com Football Pool this is your final chance. The registration for the pool is totally free and the overall winner gets a free pair of kicks courtesy of Colt 45 malt liquor.
All you need to do to get an invite is request one via e-mail or comments thread. So get on it doggoneit.
Word to BILL ROMANOWSKI’s helmet on KERRY COLLINS jawbone this will be the hardest hitting season evar for the DP Dot Com Football Pool. I created a league on Yahoo Sports that will tabulate the weekly points of all you poolers. Hit me on the e-mail to get in where you fit in.
Shouts to my dudes at ThinkTank Marketing who put me on the list for the Adidas event commemorating the release of the MUHAMMAD ALI ‘Classics’ shoe designs. Just last week I previewed the offering made by Puma in homage of iconic Hip-Hop artists and I shitted on their production all the way. It was a disingenuous campaign by Puma sneakers, and worse still, a lousy co-branding effort with Music TeleVision to attach themselves to Hip-Hop in a place that they didn’t belong to because they never earned it to begin with. MTV tried to ride in on Puma’s ghetto pass and they both got booted from the DP Dot Com sneaker champagne room. Only Holy Grails allowed.
The three stripe brand, Adidas, at least does their homework. Where Puma traded their legacy in athletic footwear to come to the dance with posers, Adidas does an about face and reaches into their rolodex vault of classic artistic icons. I can see why COMBAT JACK fucks with these cats mostly. Adidas kept it real without pandering to, or making a mockery of their subject. The designs featured represented the greatest of all time in a most honorable way.
The first design I peeped was done by a graff artist named CEY.
CEY is a childhood hero of mine because he grew up in Queens, and he used to bomb out of the Union Turnpike layups. CEY, COPE, NE, MIN were all the kings of the Queens Boulevard subways. CEY also designed the first Adidas ads for RUN-DMC. As a matter of fact, CEY still puts in graff work and he invited me to visit the Fun Factory in Long Island City next month when he puts up a new mural. CEY is a classic cool motherfucker and I will never be above copping some fanboy shit for my archives.
The second design that was on display was done by another truly iconic pop artist in American culture who puts even ANDY WARHOL to shame. LeROY NEIMAN has been creating his impressionist influenced paintings for over fifty years. You have seen his paintings everywhere and you may not have even known dudes name.
NEIMAN has painted portraits of ALI previously for magazines and his brush strokes effortlessly capture the heroism and courage of one of America’s true heroes. That is the mark of a great artist when they can transfer the idea of greatness and majesty to their subject matter. I ain’t mad at you one bit Adidas, and your lazy, poser cousins from Puma need to take notes on how shit should be done.
CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY – ‘I Am The Greatest’
Before this whole MICHAEL VICK fiasco jumped off I was totally prepared to copp the new Air Vick trainers from NIKE. This was the first model that wasn’t accentuated with ghey straps and buckles all over the shoes upper. Just a neat white, black and red colorway to match the Atlanta Falcons’ uniforms and an alternate version with the concrete pattern first made popular by the Air Jordan III’s.
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Es Dubbz says, “Michael Vick, you have fucked the fuck up. And now I will be buying your Falcons jersey on 95% Off sale. Do yourself a favor and retain me as your defense lawyer. I’m cute and I love whitebread. You’ll never win anything with that slick talking nigger lawyer.
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“Currrrrrrtissssss” – (c) Cam’Ron
The 2007-2008 N.F.L. season will begin without one of the game’s most consistent, yet most underrated superstars suiting up in pads for his twelfth professional year. The New York Jets all-time leading rusher CURTIS MARTIN has hung up his cleats.
CURTIS MARTIN was quietly one of the best rushers in the American Football Conference over the last decade and this conference has featured running backs like EDGERRIN JAMES, JAMAAL LEWIS, SHAUN ALEXANDER and the Black Superman, LaDANIAN TOMLINSON. All of them have to take a back seat to MARTIN’s career stats and his ability to produce wherever he played.
CURTIS MARTIN rushed both the New England Patriots and the New York Jets to an AFC Championship game, but not at the same time because that would be breaking more than records. It would break the time-space continuum or some shit and dinosaurs would come back and spaceships would be landing and I don’t know what else. But if a UFO landed here in New York City it would definitely be coming for CURTIS. He was after all, our “favorite Martian.” (c)CHRIS BERMAN, ESPN
Jets Fans Stand Up!!!
First person to give me CURTIS MARTIN’s playoff rushing yards total gets a FREE officially licensed CURTIS MARTIN football jersey. It’s new with tags (NWT) and it’s a men’s size medium. Like the one pictured here below, except a lot smaller.
