Here we go again. And again. The NFL Network is reporting that Brett Favre of the Minnesota Vikings is on a plane headed for the Twin Cities.

The presumption is that Favre wants to play a 20th season.

So the question is this: Is he going to play for the Vikings, or is he headed to the Mall of America?

Maybe he’s going to look for a pair of pantyhose?  How about a nunny?

This is getting really old. He might be a terrific QB, but he’s also a spoiled baby. Retire all ready! Your getting OLD! Coach the little kids in your home town. Do something useful with your life. Stop playing these childish games!

We’ll see….

George Steinbrenner, who rebuilt the New York Yankees into a sports empire with a mix of bluster and big bucks that polarized fans all across America, died Tuesday. He had just celebrated his 80th birthday July 4.

Steinbrenner had a heart attack, was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa, Fla., and died at about 6:30 a.m, a person close to the owner told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team had not disclosed those details.

Prayers with the family and friends.

Despite a massive Los Angeles police presence Thursday night, sporadic violence broke out near Staples Center after the Lakers defeated the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals.

Crowds hurled bottles and other objects at police, smashed marquees, jumped on vehicles, broke windows, and set rubbish dumpsters and vehicles on fire along Figueroa Street north of Staples Center and on Flower Street.

Police fired non-lethal rounds to disperse the crowd at Figueroa and Venice Boulevard after several small fires were set, as well as at 11th and Hope streets. At 7th and Flower, a car believed to be a taxicab was engulfed in flames.

And not a one of these trash brains was involved in the win. I will never understand the mindset of people who destroy property because a freakin’ sports team won a game. Big deal! Did they find a cure for cancer? No. Did they end childhood diabetes? No. Did they find a way to eradicate HIV/AIDS? No. So, excuse me while I question the sanity of morons who go out into the streets after a flippin’ game, break windows, burn cars, STEAL, and beat the crap out of fellow celebrants. The mob mentality is alive and well in Los Angeles.

Real classy folks.  And I’ll leave it at that.

This wasn’t even offsides!!! They called a foul on Edu (the goal scorer)!!!   I.E. The only American not being fouled!  Look at the evidence above to tell who is fouling who.

This was a historic MALcall.  This is not a miscall.  This was an intentional screwing of the US team.

If the US team does not advance then fuck the world cup, I’m out.  No advertising will get my money.  Your ratings will not be improved because my television is tuned in.

Best of luck anyone not named Italy.  Special hopes for Germany, England, Mexico and Brazil for my international buddies… I won’t be watching though if the US doesn’t make it out of the group.

The Titans quarterback acknowledged he used bad judgment by even setting foot in a Dallas strip club early Sunday morning, when his involvement in a brawl became an embarrassment for Young and his team.

“I made a mistake, like I told my teammates,” said Young, who wouldn’t discuss details of what sparked the incident. “I apologize to them as well as the organization and all my fans, especially my family, the people that look up to me. I made a big mistake. … It was a bad decision.”

Gee.  Y’think??

Islamist militants in Mogadishu last weekend killed two people and arrested 10 others for watching World Cup soccer, which is banned in Somalia. Islamist leader Sheik Abu Yahya Al-Iraqi said that soccer “descended from the old Christian cultures, and our Islamic administration will never allow” watching the World Cup.

At least the terrorists can’t blame the United States. When the World Cup tournament rolls around (whenever that is), America’s cultural critics roll out their standard critiques decrying the lack of soccer mania in this country. Soccer is international, they say; it is the world’s game. The United States is backward and exclusionary for not loving it. Soccer will be the next big sport in America, they predict; just wait. And it’s not really soccer anyway, they sniff; we should call it by its real name, football.

The “soccer vs. football” argument is a century-long gripe. “Soccer” originated in England as Oxbridge slang, a contraction of the formal term “association football.” In 1905, an indignant New York Times reader complained when the paper used the “undignified” term soccer when reporting a game. “It is to be hoped that this heresy will not spread,” he wrote. But the word soccer was necessary to distinguish this foreign import from the already established American game of football. Arguing that we should stop saying soccer is like saying Americans should stop saying gasoline instead of petrol, or have a parliament, or adopt the metric system – changes that would be pointless, burdensome and culturally cowardly.

It’s not just Americans who have a fondness for their native games; Canadian football, Australian Rules football and Gaelic football are all called “football” in their countries of origin. Football in America is thus part of a long tradition in countries that used to be part of the British Empire. Since when did the left start opposing anti-colonialism?

America’s lack of enthusiasm for soccer is also chalked up to racism, according to some U.S. bashers. But contrary to hooligan sniping, there is more of an ethnic mix on the average U.S. football team than almost any comparable soccer team. Silly leftist critics who think that “white opposition” to soccer is because it is played by “brown people” need to watch more professional sports on ESPN instead of Univision.

Soccer has been “the next big sport” for a long time. “Soccer Gaining Ground” one headline proclaimed, over a news report claiming that the sport was “getting a tighter grip on America.” This prediction came in 1907. Whenever American soccer teams do something extraordinary – such as defeating England 1-0 in 1950, the so-called “Miracle on the Grass” – there is a flurry of predictions that soccer’s time has come. Some say the influx of immigrants from Latin America points to soccer’s demographic inevitability. Maybe so.

Tastes change with the times, and Americans are free to choose the sports they play and watch. What really upsets our critics is that the most popular sports in America – football, baseball and basketball – originated here in the Land of the Free. They are 19th-century inventions that have become part of the bedrock of American culture. The only way the World Cup match got more U.S. viewers than the World Series in 1994 was because the baseball series was canceled.

Soccer may find a market niche in this country, but it’s unlikely to be as popular as it is in countries that lack American sports. And if people in this country do want to watch the World Cup for some reason, at least Islamist radicals will not gun them down for it.