I didn’t really feel it was necessary to post any pictures of Matt Leinart beer bonging hot chicks in a hot tub when they first came out. For one reason, I didn’t have any context for the photos; they could have been from five years ago for all I know. Besides, can’t really get mad at a guy for hanging out in a jacuzzi with a bunch of hot co-eds, right? But I do have to say, this photo from Jeopardy is hilarious.

Not sure I would really call this a clue, but it is pretty funny. And yes, it totally humanizes Leinart.

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If you remember back in February, the day before the Super Bowl, I was all over the Boston Herald for their story suggesting the Patriots taped a walkthrough of the Rams prior to the Super Bowl back in 2002. My issue with Tomase’s story was its exquisite timing; when you release something the day before the biggest game of the season, it sure seems intentional to me. Not that it proves Tomase’s story completely wrong, but it sure was suspicious that none of the tapes turned over by former Pats video assistant Matt Walsh to the NFL contained footage of a Rams pre-Super Bowl walkthrough. To compound this news, Chris Mortensen says ESPN had the story too, but decided not to report it.

Other media outlets including ESPN, had this allegation and pursued this allegation for months, and it just didn’t meet the standard in terms of what you needed to report it, and the Boston Herald evidently felt they had met the standard to report it,” Mortensen said. “They need to come out and say, ‘We stand by our story’ or they need to have a retraction and apology and deal with the consequences of it, but certainly it’s damaging to the Boston Herald at this point, especially if they stay silent on the subject.”

Again, we don’t know for certain that the Pats didn’t tape the walkthrough and that the Herald got the story wrong, but they’re certainly left out in the cold right now. Mortensen’s comments make it seem overwhelming like the Herald was intentionally planning to drop the bomb on the Pats the day before the Super Bowl. Seems pretty scummy to me.

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If there’s ever a collegiate football program at which you’d like to point your finger, it should be West Virginia under Rich Rodriguez. We’ve already acknowledged that Rodriguez is like scum of the Earth in college football terms. Think about it — he had both of the model NFL bad boys playing on his squad — Pacman Jones AND Chris Henry. In addition to Pacman and Henry, West Virginia’s running back from that time, Quincy Wilson, was no saint. But getting back to it, the currently unemployed Chris Henry joined Tim Montemayor on Sporting News Radio and was asked about his relationship with Pacman. His response probably wouldn’t surprise you:

Yeah I know Pacman well — he’s like a brother to me. We keep in touch all the time. With Pac and me, we’re just young and made some mistakes but we’re real good people.

“Made some mistakes?” Yeah, like Roger Clemens had “some” affairs with other women and Karl Malone had “some” kids out of wedlock. Pac and Henry have brought new meaning to boys being boys. Young and making some mistakes is getting arrested once apiece while in the NFL for doing dumb things. Young and making some mistakes does not include about 10 infractions over a three-year span, and being involved in strip club shootings. Why is it not surprising that these two are like brothers? I could imagine them seeing eye-to-eye on affairs. And I sure hope Michigan football knows what they’re getting themselves into with Rodriguez. Yikes.

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Never, in a million years, did I think I would be posting anything about Marvin Harrison that didn’t have to do with his excellent play on the field. But alas, in a world where Karl Malone is impregnating kids who watch Nickleodeon, nothing can come as a surprise. Starvin Marvin’s being investigated for a shooting in the Philadelphia area. The crazy part of the story to me comes from a WIP source in Philly that says Harrison has a Belgian gun and that several bullets that hit the victim match the Belgian gun. The victim was hit in the hand, in case you were wondering. But what the heck is Marvin Harrison doing having a Belgian weapon?

As shocked as I was by this report, SpinMax emails in to make sure you all recall this is not the first brush with the law for Harrison. Back in 2005, he was accused of assaulting a few kids in Hawaii. I’m not sure what happened with the case but I don’t think anything materialized since we haven’t heard anything about it. I am just stunned that Marvin Harrison — squeaky clean Marvin Harrison — is being investigated for a shooting and it sounds like he did it. Not surprisingly his agent says nothing happened. The Colts meanwhile have had no comment on the matter. I can’t wait to see how this one turns out.

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In case you don’t see the trend here, I feel the need to post every time the Bengals have a player with a legal infraction so they can be properly embarrassed. You try to take shortcuts in the draft selecting questionable dudes, it’s going to come back to bite you. Hopefully this will deter other teams from making the same mistake in the future (though talented bad boys will always have a home as long as Jerry Jones is around). So yeah, here’s a great one for you. The Bengals had a star LB developing in Odell Thurman whom they selected in the 2nd round a few years ago. Thurman had slipped because of his questionable character. He wound up suspended by the league, so the Bengals were hurting for an LB. What’d they do? They went out and took another questionable dude in the supplemental draft — Ahmad Brooks — who was kicked off his team at Virginia.

Well, didn’t take long for Brooks to get in some trouble. He’s being accused of hitting a woman who was trying to break up an altercation. Though many women are out for money grabs with professional athletes (Randy Moss had a case dropped recently), it’s just the fact that Brooks is involved in this situation that’s embarrassing. But when you’re the Bengals and you try to take shortcut after shortcut, drafting bad character players to REPLACE other bad character dudes, the story’s not going to end pretty. And unfortunately they haven’t learned their lesson.

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I’m not exactly sure what it is that makes this video so fascinating. Maybe it’s because Peyton is the epitome of the All-American dork — the comb over hair, the perfectly manicured suit, the Southern drawl — he just comes across as such a harmless being. But if his random appearance at a Sweet 16 party didn’t already tell you there’s more than meets the eye, maybe this video of Peyton going bezerko on his offensive line will:

A few observations here: I think I enjoy this for the same reason I’m fascinated by watching Tiger Woods come out of portapotty. It’s hard to believe these guys are human. Secondly, this pretty much confirms to me that you can catch any player in the league arguing during a game. It only appears as if T.O., Chad Johnson, and Randy Moss are the only guys bitching out there because the cameras choose to follow them. Additionally, check out FanHouse’s post on the video to read the entire transcription of the argument.

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