BYB Express (With Preseason College Football Poll)

It's Friday again and you know what that means - it's time for the BYB Express. Don't think of it as getting less blog. Just think of it getting more time to craft your own Preseason Top 25 poll.

F My Life Moment of the Day
Today, I was on a website called people of wal-mart where it has embarrassing pictures of people at wal-mart. It was quite funny, until I noticed one of the people was me. FML

Wal Mart Person of the Day

Who wears short shorts???

PRESEASON TOP 25 COUNTDOWN - #14 FLORIDA STATE

For the first time since Miami, Virginia Tech, BC came into the ACC there seems to be legitimate momentum building at Florida State. Sure, there are going to be lingering ill feelings about Bobby Bowden's less than amicable split with FSU but if Jimbo Fisher wins then all will be peachy. And this year's team seems like it will give him a good chance to do so. FSU will rely heavily on QB Christian Ponder, who had 2,717 yards and 14 TDs a year ago. Ponder has had his bad spots during his Seminole career but moments like his 98-yard TD pass against North Carolina (the ACC's best defense) show what he is capable of. Ponder will be helped by the return of all five of its linemen including stars Rodney Hudson, Andrew Datko and Ryan McMahon, as well as FSU's 2009 leading rusher Jermaine Thomas and explosive receiver Bert Reed.

Defensively, the Seminoles must improve on an un-Seminole like group in 2009 but has brought in Mark Stoops to do so. He will have defensive end Markus White and two experienced linebackers to help him. Florida State is also tasked by having to replace 3/4 of its DB corps but CB Greg Reid has All-ACC ability. Non conference games at OU and home against BYU and Florida will be a struggle. But a national title is a little far fetched anyway. If Florida State can beat Miami in Coral Gables and take care of UNC at home then this definitely has the ring of a division championship team.



Texts From Last Nite Moment of the Day!

(832): We should probably just have a threeway and get everyone on the same page.

POLITICS NEVER TASTED SO GOOD!
N.H. open container advocates pick wrong time for drinking game
ASSOCIATED PRESS

KEENE, N.H. — A city councilwoman says a group that turned a meeting into a drinking game didn't help its cause: easing Keene's open-alcohol-container ordinance.

Two of the three people charged with disorderly conduct are associated with the libertarian Free Keene movement.



Two of them were drinking from containers labeled "not a beer." Rules posted online required participants to take a swig at the mention of certain phrases, like "call to order."

City Councilwoman Cynthia C. Georgina tells the Keene Sentinel that the behavior at Thursday's meeting was "very disrespectful and disruptive."

Mayor Philip Dale Pregent says there was no way of knowing if the containers had beer, but he says the participants were causing a disruption and declined his request to stop.

Well if you ask me the headline got it completely wrong. There's never a wrong time for a drinking game or for civil disobedience. Plus, they were drinking out of containers that said "not beer" so its pretty clear they weren't violating the law. I think the City Councilwoman has her panties in a bit of a wad about this one. So to the Free Keene Movement I say soldier on. And maybe you can get the next city council meeting on web stream so we can all play along.

STOP CLOWNING AROUND!

Police nab Pa. woman alleged as clown bank robber
AP

BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Police in northeastern Pennsylvania have arrested a woman they say robbed a bank in a clown costume.

Bethlehem police said the woman was captured about five minutes after the bank robbery late Friday morning. Her name has not been released.

Police said the suspect told bank employees she had a bomb, and fled with an unknown amount of cash.

Arriving officers say they chased her to a nearby park and nabbed her changing out of the clown suit in her car.

A bomb squad robot checked out items found in the car, including the clown suit and a multicolored wig. No explosives were found.

I don't know what this woman was thinking trying to rob a bank in a clown costume. There was no way she was ever going to be able to make a quick getaway with those big rubber shoes on. Plus she should have had some accomplices and a getaway car. I know they could have all fit in a tiny ride.

On this day in…
1792 – Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
1831 – Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill approximately 55 whites in Southampton County, Virginia.
1918 – Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker-tape parade in New York.
2008 – Michael Phelps sets the Olympic record for most the gold medals won by an individual in Olympic history with his win in the men's 200m butterfly.

Births
1899 – Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (d. 1980)
1912 – Ben Hogan, American golfer (d. 1997)
1926 – Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician
1958 – David Feherty, golf announcer
1959 – Danny Bonaduce, American actor
1964 – Jay Buhner, American baseball player

This is a pretty skimpy list of birthdays so I went with former child star Danny Bonaduce getting slapped by some guy I've never heard of. I'm really mailing it in today.



THANK YOU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH ARKANSAS
Elvis Presley running for Arkansas governor
By ANDREW DEMILLO/ASSOCIATED PRESS

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Elvis Presley is running for Arkansas governor.

A man named Elvis D. Presley of Star City filed papers with the secretary of state's office on Wednesday to run as a write-in candidate for governor.

Presley indicated in the paperwork that he wants to "supply the people with a broader array of employment and newer chain of state government."

He declined to tell the Associated Press how he got his name but says he is an Elvis impersonator in his spare time.

Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe is seeking re-election in November. He faces Republican Jim Keet and Green Party nominee Jim Lendall in November. Two other candidates have filed to run as write-ins for governor.

Well I'm glad to see Elvis has finally stepped back from his fake death to make sense of the political world. In this day of government corruption we need a King instead of a president and the King of Rock n' Roll is the right man for the job. First the governorship of Arkansas and then the White House! And as I seem to remember things went pretty well the last time a portly former governor from Arkansas became president.