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12 February 2010
FWP (Fearless Weekend Predictions) is a (hopefully) weekly post that we used to run at our old site every Friday after college football season. It gives one of your favorite StadiumDrives writers a chance to look into the crystal ball, or the bottom of a beer bottle, to see what the forthcoming weekend holds. It's also another post that will utilize the efficiency of bullet points. As always, please take all picks as novelty and do not gamble your rent check on them, unless you feel really strongly about a certain one.
Most people are freaking out because there's no football this weekend. Alas, my friends, there is more going on than most of us know what to do with. First off, the Winter Olympics start tonight!!! Okay, no one gives a shit about the Winter Olympics. But, it is NBA All-Star Weekend, which is a favorite of Bru and I. The Daytona 500 is on Sunday, which just happens to be Valentine's Day. Nothing says love like warm Budweiser and the smell of exhuast. Most importantly, ESPN and their Gameday crew are descending on Lexington for the UT/UK game tomorrow night. With the allegiances of most of the writers on this site, this is an absolutely huge game. I guess the #12 and #2 teams in the country is also big on the national scale, but we pride ourselves on being myopic at StadiumDrives.com! I'm pretty sure the word myopic was used for the first time on the site, so I'm going to head on to the prognosticating.
I'm going to do the John Wall Dance all weekend. Hell, I do that every weekend, that's no surprise. But, it's a great way to put a pic of John Wall up and still make you read this whole thing to see my prediction on the UT/UK game.- People at Gameday will be bored as hell. Have you ever gone to watch a TV show being taped? Yeah, me neither. It sounds incredibly boring, which is why I won't be going to Rupp tomorrow to watch Gameday. It's going to look a hell of a lot better on a plasma screen than it will from Section 32 and there will be something to do during the commercials. Good for all you people going though, you obviously have less going on than I do.
- US Soccer nerd should feel compelled to watch the Olympics. Granted, no one cares about the Winter Olympics. I'd rather watch Gameday from the rafters in Rupp Arena, but follow me here. The argument that I get all the time from soccer nerd is that I should be watching (and supporting) US Soccer. It doesn't matter that they suck, are irrelevant and are boring; soccer nerd says it's unpatriotic of me not to. Well, soccer nerd, use your same logic on the Olympics. No one cares about the luge team, but you should be supporting or you're unpatriotic. And, for the record, I'm cheering for Cameroon in the World Cup.
- Gerald Wallace will win the Slam Dunk Contest. You may not know Gerald Wallace, but this dude has been balling all season long. He's getting 19 points and 11 boards a game, and was named an All-Star for the first time. He's also leading the Bobcats to the NBA Playoffs for the first time, which is about as rare as a soccer nerd getting laid. All that will pale in comparison to winning the Slam Dunk Contest Saturday night.
- NASCAR will blow its load the first weekend of the season (again). Yes, the Daytona 500 is Sunday. The Daytona 500 is the biggest race of the year. The Daytona 500 is the first race of the year. This makes no sense. I heard Tony Stewart on the radio the other day explaining this. He said that the race being at the beginning of the season is better because the racers weren't as tired as they are at the end of the season. He didn't appear to be kidding, but he would have made more sense if he was. Who cares if you're fresh or not? Was Drew Brees fresh after being tackled for 20 straight weeks by 400 lb. linemen? No, I'm sure he would have rather been DRIVING A CAR EVERY WEEKEND. Give me a damn break. NASCAR needs to move the Daytona 500 to the end of the season, if for nothing else but credibility's sake. For the record, I'm picking Jimmie Johnson to win because he wins everything.
- Wolfman will make you really confused. Ha
ve you seen these previews? I saw a few and kept wondering, "Why the hell is Tommy Chong starring in this movie?" Apparently, it's not Tommy Chong, but Anthony Hopkins. That makes a little more sense, but I do wonder when Tommy Chong and Anthony Hopkins started looking alike. Please look here and here and tell me I'm not crazy. Also, check out Emily Blunt in this movie. She's super hot and is absolutely the "Hot girl in movie coming out this week that is getting her picture up on FWP." (Good job, Jim from The Office.) - UK is going to beat UT. I watched both teams play on Tuesday night and they both appeared to be looking ahead to this game. Neither team played very well, but UK got a win against an overmatched Alabama team while UT ran into a Vanderbilt team that desperately needed a win. It should have been expected that they both play poorly the game before the game that's getting the most hype of any game on their schedules. The entire nation will have its eye on Lexington Saturday night. Which team will respond? I say Kentucky. Tennessee seems like a team on the brink to me. They looked completely out of sync Tuesday night. If UK can get up early, say 12-3, Tennessee is a prime candidate to completely implode. What the hell, UK 89 UT 77.
