Michael "Mad Dog" Vick Joins Donovan "Chunky Soup" McNabb

Michael Vick has just signed a two year deal with the Philadelphia Eagles. Details of the contract have not been released but he will be eligible to play in the last two pre-season games. Maybe the Eagles signed him to explain the NFL’s overtime rules to McNabb. Or maybe they signed him to take over once McNabb pukes in the huddle again. Either way, this tandem is bound to clash. Lets take a few moments to look back at the famous duos of our era while we wait to see how McNabb and Vick size up.

Bash Brothers. Mark McGwire and Jose Conseco. Athletics

The Other Bash Brothers. Fulton Reed and Dean Portman. Mighty Ducks.

Ace and Gary, The Ambiguously Gay Duo

Joe Montana and Steve Young. 49ers


Black Hammer and White Lightning.

Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor and Al Borland. Tool Time

John Madden and His Replay Monitor

Larry Appleton and Balki Bartokomous. Perfect Strangers

Tim Duncan and David Robinson. Spurs

Will Smith and Martin Lawerence. Bad Boys

Bert and Ernie. Sesame Street.

Wayne and Garth. Waynes World

MJ and Scottie Pippen. Daaa Bulls

Batman and Robin.

Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson. Diamondbacks

The Bushwackers

Tag Team. Whoomp There It Is

Karate Kid and Mr. Miyagi

Vincent and Jules. Pulp Fiction

Magic (Pre-Aids) and Kareem. Lakers

Cliff and Norm. Cheers

Thursday’s Thunder Links

These Links bring the Thunder…

– RIP Les Paul [Major League Jerk]
– 25 Best Statue Porn Pictures [Holy Taco]
– Estadio Azteca Continues to be House of Horrors for US Soccer [Sharapova’s Thigh]
– Fast Times at Louisville U [Tirico Suave]
– Versus to Debut Sports Business Show [Awful Announcing]
– Boras Delaying Strasburg Negotiations [Fan Nation]
– You Stay Classy Cubs Fans [Friends of the Program]
– Baseball Hairdos [More Hardball]
– Pedro Wins Debut; Curls Still Look Good [No Guts, No Glory]
– Quentin Tarantino Plays Mature Pranks [Blog of Hilarity]
– PGA Championship: Is Tiger Finally Going to Win a Major this Year [The Big Lead]
– 15 Amazing Fake Punts and Field Goals: College Edition [Bro Bible]

Stallworth Suspended for 2009

This morning Roger Goodell, NFL Commish, handed down the sentence to Cleveland Browns WR Donte Stallworth. Stallworth will be suspended for the entire 2009 season without pay. This suspension coming after his guilty plea in June for DUI manslaughter. Stallworth will not be able to participate in any team functions until his reinstatement sometime after the Super Bowl. In a letter to Stallworth from Goodell he claimed that Stallworth had left a “stain” on the reputation of the NFL.

“Your conduct endangered yourself and others, leading to the death of an innocent man,” Goodell wrote. “The NFL and NFL players must live with the stain that you have placed on their reputations.”

I think Roger Goodell did a great job on this one. This was a very touchy area with Michael Vick just coming off a two year absence. He needed to send a message and he needed to be stern. He couldn’t have it look like he went lighter on a man who killed a person rather than a man that killed dogs. So the luck continues for the Cleveland Browns and we have another chapter in the “Only in Cleveland” novel. I guess we can kiss a Cleveland Browns World Championship goodbye now. Thanks a lot, Donte.

Source: SI.com

Hump Day Hottie: Amber Heard

Amber Heard is this weeks Hump Day Hottie. You may remember Amber as Seth Rogan’s (yuck) girlfriend in Pineapple Express or if you are cool enough, you may remember her as Baja Miller in Never Back Down. I suggest watching Never Back Down at least 5 to 6 times. Amber came to Hollywood after ditching her Catholic high school her junior year. I imagine that sucked for most guys at her school (assuming it was coed) because I am sure she rocked the shit out of that uniform. Although her dropping out was probably for the best seeing as how she is an atheist now. Apparently her first real boyfriend introduced her to it…How the hell does Dad let that happen? Whether or not she has God in her heart doesn’t really weigh heavily on my decision to award her Thunder Treats Hump Day Hottie. Congrats Amber, now go read the Bible…More pics after the jump…

TT’s Hottest Tv Co-Star Contest : Natalie Zea

CONTESTANT #3
I’ll start this post off with a Shwing Shwing Shwing. Our newest contestant is the seductive Natalie Zea. She enters the competition under the character Jemma from HBO’s Hung. Without a doubt Jemma is the hottest and most intriguing broad on the new hit series. Jemma is a successful businesswoman who is a total whack job in her spare time. She pays Ray to do the most random chick things you can imagine. With those eyes I’d do whatever she’d ask of me too including horrible, horrible things. Natalie is another smokeface hailing from the great state of Texas. There must be something in the water and I think it’s time for all of us at TT to pack up and move to Texas. She landed the #80 spot on Maxim’s Hot 100 list in 2008. I think we need to vote again, she’s more like a top 10. Natalie has a impressive resume of Dirty Sexy Money, Without a Trace, CSI, The Shield and an episode Two and a Half Men where Charlie has his way with her I’m sure. In my book, this 35 yr old is the perfect storm of hotness. She can play the smart, sophisticated roles and pull off the role of the sexy shedevil that will you stop you in your tracks with her seductive eyes. Every time she’s on tv , I’m on the edge of my seat waiting for her to solve a murder or break out into a hardcore porno scene. So I’ll continue to patiently watch and wait for her break out girl on girl scene. I’m not the only one that thinks that way. So far, Natalie has my vote.

Thunder Nation Coalition for the Buckeyes

Remember when Ohio State won the National Championship? I do. I remember waking up the morning after sans-ass because I had partied it clean off the night before. I remember the joy and the chants of OH-IO. I remember the goose bumps I got when Jimmy T took the crystal ball and raised it above his head. And, of course, I remember Coach T proclaiming that Ohio State not only had the Best Damn Band in the Land, but they also had the Best Damn Team in the Land… All of those are good, nay, great memories. Those great memories have been getting clouded in the years since that great night. They have been clouded with consecutive losses in the National Championship to the Florida Gay-tors and LSU Tigers, a loss against USC Trashcans and a Fiesta Bowl loss to the Texas Donghorns. All of these losses are/were painful with the National Championships weighing a little more heavily on the collective Buckeye hearts. With all of that being said, its time to finally do something about this stigma that has taken hold of the Ohio State Football program. I know what you’re thinking, “But Thunder Treats, how on earth can we do that?” It’s simple really…

Since the entrance of the new style jersey from Nike, Ohio State has come out on the losing side of the ball in most of the big games it has played in. The new jerseys were first worn for the 2006-2007 season. This season saw the Bucks romp and stomp all the way back to the National Championship with an undefeated record, along the way taking down the team up North in the ‘Game of the Century’. I don’t need to go into too much detail about how that season ended because I know we are all well aware. That was strike 1 for the new jerseys. The following year saw another great start for the Bucks but a bit of a stumble when they tripped up again Illinois late in the season. No big deal really, they weren’t supposed to be national championship contenders that year anyway. We would have been thrilled just to get a BCS game. However, after finishing up the season with only one loss, the Buckeyes awaited Selection Sunday. Because of teams unable to win their conference championships and close out a season, the Buckeyes had “backed their way” back into the National Championship. Immediately everyone started telling anyone that would listen how the Bucks were going to get stomped by LSU and we didn’t deserve to be there. Ya, we knew we weren’t supposed to be there, but we couldn’t help it that other teams couldn’t close a season. LSU went on to beat OSU in every aspect of the game. The 38-24 score is much closer than the game was. Strike 2 for the new jerseys. The 2008 season looked to hinge on one game in particular. The away game against the USC Trashcans. This game would make or break Ohio States hopes of a bid to play in another National Championship. Surely the only way OSU would get the bid would be with an undefeated season. Well, as we all clearly know, that game did not go as planned either. The Bucks got beat like they stole something. They failed to score even a touchdown as the Trashcans seemingly did as they pleased most of the game. Strike 3 for the new jerseys. That season ended up with Ohio State getting its fourth straight BCS Bowl appearance against the Texas Donghorns in the Fiesta Bowl. After a hard fought game, Ohio State came up short once again losing its 3rd straight BCS Bowl game. For those of you who have been counting, that would be Strike 4. This is the only time in history that you can get 4 strikes without being out, bowling withheld. Why is this different for the jersey?

With that being said, this is the beginning of the Thunder Nation Coalition for the Buckeyes. We want Ohio State Football to revert back to the jerseys that helped us beat Miami for a National Championship. We want the good, old classic jerseys with the fat scarlet and grey stripes with no sign of black on them. We want our home jerseys to scream OH-IO and not WI-SC. It is time we voice our opinion about how we really feel about the jerseys. Give it a shot right? What do we have to lose? I am sure Nike would oblige to redesign the jerseys seeing as how Buckeye Nation will probably go out and buy them so they have the most up-to-date gear (i.e. best damn fans in the land). It seems like a win-win-win situation. Nike wins. Buckeye Nation wins. And most importantly of all, The Ohio State Buckeyes win.

Click on the link at the top left of the page to sign the e-petition to join the Thunder Nation Coalition for the Buckeyes. Send the link to all family and friends. Let’s get this message across Buckeye Nation that enough is enough and its time for a change!

Monday’s Thunder Links

– Porkchop Sandwiches! [Friends of the Program]
– Bears Bite the Hand, and Body, That Feeds Them [Blog of Hilarity]
– If State Flags were Honest [Holy Taco]
– Reggie Miller Gets Put in his Place [Awful Announcing]
– Rashard Lewis Suspended 10 Games [Hit the Boards]
– Kristin Cavallari Loves Wearing Bikini’s, No Complaints Here [Sharapova’s Thigh]
– Who’s Winning the Browns QB Race? [Fan Nation]
– High Top Fades Rule! [More Hardball]
– The 30 Funniest Newspaper Headlines of All Time [Manofest]
– Patrick Kane Really Loves his Money [No Guts, No Glory]
– Lucky Fan Lives out Dream, Becomes Douche Bag in the Process [Tirico Suave]
– USC Team Sings “Lean on Me” in Meeting [Rumors and Rants]
– 5 Types of Male Cockblockers [Bro Bible]
– Update 8/9/09 – NFL First Rounders Still Unsigned [Eat, Drink & Sleep Football]

UFC 101: Declaration

This weekend, live from the City of Brotherly Love for the first time ever, we have UFC 101: Declaration. It should play out as a learning lesson for both Forrest Griffin and Kenny Florian. B.J. Penn is out to prove he has not lost his game or motivation since gaining the UFC Lightweight strap in January 2008. Saturday we will all see the killer instinct that earned Penn the belt in the first place. After Penn’s last bought with Georges St. Pierre it seemed as though he may have lost it, but now coming back down to his normal weight, he will be back in the form we remember. And, lets be honest here, Georges St. Pierre is a freak of nature, a physical specimen. Did anyone actually see Penn getting out of there with GSP’s belt? I didn’t think so. Moving on, Kenny “K Flo” Florian will be getting his second shot at the 155lbs. belt after ripping off 6 consecutive wins. Florian is a great fighter and will not be a slouch for Penn, but I think ultimately there is no way Penn will lose or let himself lose his title. Both of these fighters are strong and tough and I think we can expect to see a lot of bloodshed during the bout, but in the end, I think Penn will be walking away with his belt still in hand.

The other main event for the evening would be Anderson Silva taking on Forrest Griffin. A lot of people, including myself, Zach Attack and Jack Potts, felt a little ripped off after Silva’s last bout. In his last fight with Thales Leites (also fighting at UFC 101) Silva refused to go to the mat and play into Leites strongest part of his game. This made for an unbelievably boring match. The same thing happened at UFC 90 when he went up against Patrick Cote. All of this leads me to believe this match up is a message from Dana White to let Silva know to quit messing around. Ultimate Fighter 1 winner and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champ Forrest Griffin will be no cake walk for Silva because, unlike Leites, he is more of street fighter and will fight Silva standing up. That could prove to be good or bad. In his media workout interview, Silva proclaimed that he had been training for a “15 minute standup war.”

“I hope he comes in there and we get to see a standup war for 15 minutes,” Silva said through Soares. “I can guarantee you I’ve prepared to go 15 minutes for a standup war and I can guarantee you someone’s going to fall.”

And fall I am sure they will. I am looking forward to seeing how things pan out for these fighters. All I know for sure is that we are going to see 2 great slobberknockers from 4 highly trained and talented individuals. This is definitely worth the money for PPV. The other fights on the undercard are listed here:

Lightweight bout: Shane Nelson vs. Aaron Riley
Welterweight bout: Tamdan McCrory vs. John Howard
Middleweight bout: Thales Leites vs. Alessio Sakara
Welterweight bout: Matt Riddle vs. Dan Cramer
Lightweight bout: George Sotiropoulos vs. George Roop
Welterweight bout: Jesse Lennox vs. Danillo Villefort

Quote Source: Yahoo Sports

Enemy of The Month: Unidentified Douche Bag

The Enemy of the Month for August is a person. Actually, it’s a thing. However, we do not know the identity of this thing…yet. I am sure that in the coming weeks we will find out who it was exactly that decided to be the All Time Creep by secretly videotaping Erin Andrews through a hotel peep hole. This thing doesn’t even know the amount of enemies it has gained through his idiotic, ignornant actions. This guy will forever remain a douche bag in the eyes of Thunder Nation. Congratualtions dickwad, you were a nerd before and now everyone hates your guts. Continue to hide in your mom’s basement. We’ll find you eventually…

Hump Day Hottie: Michelle Monaghan

This week’s Hump Day Hottie is the little smoke face Michelle Monaghan. Michelle first caught our eye with her roles in both The Bourne Supremacy and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. If you haven’t seen either movie, leave and never come back. If you have, then I am sure you know exactly what part of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is our favorite. She also played the love interest Miranda in The Heartbreak Kid, which, surprisingly, is absolutely hilarious. More pics after the jump…