This game made sense for Jax when FSU & Miami were contenders. But they’re not. Yes, I smiled when I wrote that.

So, the ACC was disappointed that Jax residents didn’t pony up $60 for a crappy game between two opponents that have zero interest to local football fans. Instead, they’ll move the game and drop ticket prices to $25.

Why couldn’t they drop ticket prices in Jax? I don’t think it would have mattered, the game still wouldn’t sell here. This is an SEC town.

The wonks are predicting the game will do just as poorly in Tampa. I’m not so sure. Tampa is more of a destination for families as well as roving bands of college kids. Busch Gardens is across town and Disney is a little over an hour away, so families can make a mini-vacation out of attending the game. The college kids know Ybor City has a great party atmosphere, and who’s kidding who: Males 18-34 love football, and REALLY love the Tampa strip clubs.

Yeah, I said it. Ever go to Mons Venus after a football game? SRO, buddy. Or so I’ve been told. And that was back when the Bucs sucked. Ahem.

There are a lot more reasons for football fans to attend a road game in Tampa than in Jacksonville. I don’t know if it will be a “success”, but it will do a helluva lot better than in Jacksonville. If you’re trying to get tourists to make the trip down and spend their money, you have to offer a lot more than a water taxi.

I’m just saying.

Alcoholism and drug abuse aren’t funny. These conditions make you say and do really stupid things. Case in point:

Jessica Sierra Arrested Again

Seems sweet l’il Jessica, fresh out of rehab for her last alcohol and drug arrest, was off the wagon down in Ybor City in the early morning hours. Bouncers had to get police to get her off the property, but unlike you and me she decided to resist. Reading the arrest report (available here or here), she throws up in the back of the squad car, then offers “to suck your dick if you don’t take me to jail”, then uses the “N” word a couple times on the ride to jail.

Attagirl, way to win friends and influence people.

Just a tip ladies: When offering to give a member of law enforcement the oral magic, it’s best to do so BEFORE vomiting.

Anyhoo, the Florida-Georgia rivalry extends well beyond the football field, and despite the classless display by those dastardly Bulldogs in Jacksonville, whupping up on our beloved Gators then rubbing it in their faces like that, it’s pretty well-established that Florida is better than Georgia.

For instance:

1. Oranges taste better than peaches.
2. Georgia – Six Flags; Florida – Disney, Epcot, Universal, etc.
3. Georgia was settled as a penal colony. Therefore, all Georgians are criminals.
4. Georgia sucks. How do you think Florida stays attached to the mainland.
5. Parts of Florida have been ruled under 7 flags. Parts of Georgia have been ruled under 6 flags. Therefore, Florida is more desirable.
6. When you go to flickr.com and type in the search “sexy florida woman” you get this:
7. When you go to flickr.com and type in the search “sexy Georgia woman” you get this:

1. In Florida, if winter falls on a weekend, we have a festival. In NH, if summer falls on a weekend, they have a picnic.
2. Floridians can swim comfortably year-round thanks to our swimming pools, beaches, and natural springs.
3. If you don’t like the weather in Florida, wait 15 minutes and it will change. If you don’t like the weather in NH, wait 15 days.
4. It is sufficient to say something is “Awesome” in Florida. We do not require “Wicked” to describe how awesome something is.
5. Floridians don’t have to buy their booze from the state.
6. Floridians have Key West (and Miami, and Ft. Lauderdale, and Palm Beach, and Clearwater, and Tampa, and St. Petersburg, and Jacksonville, and you get the picture). NH has Mt. Washington, home to the worst weather in the continental US.
7. Today’s temperature in Jacksonville, FL: 74 degrees. Today’s temperature in Derry, NH: 45 degrees.

So, I was checking out a sports trivia site called Triviafix, and figured "Why not make it a challenge – I’m a Jags fan, so let’s try Tampa Bay Buccaneer’s Trivia". I’m trucking along – Q. Seattle vs. Tampa Bay, 1976, was called? A. Expansion Bowl; Q. Which Bucs player was named MVP at the 2006 Pro Bowl? A. Derrick Brooks; Q. What number did Gaines Adams wear?

Huh? Who’s Gaines Adams?

So yeah, it’s challenging.

Questions are submitted by Triviafix community members. Members can compete head to head or create teams and have team competitions. There are scoreboards for every category and subcategory page, so if you’re a Tampa Bay expert you could top the charts for Tampa Bay trivia even though you may not have broad sports trivia knowledge. What’s so cool about that?

Triviafix awards prizes to top players in all the sports categories.

Yes, you get a chance to win something for all that so-called useless information your wife or mother tells you is a waste of your time!

Man, this is weird, even for Florida…

Dismembered Again

Seems that back in the 1960′s a bunch of the men in town blew off hands and feet for the insurance money. You simply HAVE to read this story at tampabay.com!

Here’s a couple teasers for you:

Once upon a time, the Panhandle city of Vernon was a national laughingstock. Its people were ridiculed as bumpkins and cranks, freaks willing to shoot off their own hands. Then things changed. Time and hard work helped bury the past, and now Vernon has reclaimed some of its dignity. If only that were the end of the story.

Hmmm… tell me more…

The characters are not heroes. They are not even villains. They are merely conniving mercenaries with a tolerance for gore.

No shee-ite, y’all ain’t gonna believe this…

How does a town become known as Nub City? Why did more than two-thirds of all loss-of-limb accident claims in the United States in the late ’50s and early ’60s come from the Florida Panhandle? What was the first event in the bloody chain that led a national insurance investigator to Main Street in Vernon, to sit in a parked car on a hot summer night, watching the maimed walk by in a shuddersome parade?

Ok, I’m not going to steal this guy’s thunder, it’s a great story and you gotta go over there to read about the amputees of Vernon, FL. However, here’s a list of things you can find in Vernon, FL that you can’t find anyplace else:

1. A REAL second-hand store.
2. More one-legged women named “Eileen” per capita than anyplace else.
3. The original IHOP.
4. Every parking spot in town is a handicapped spot.
5. Wheelchairs with mud tires and lift kits and gun racks… up on blocks…

Link to Weird News at Tampa Bay’s 10