Favre's unbeaten HS team loses on Hail Mary pass

Brett Favre's success as an NFL player carried over to his gig as a high school offensive coordinator until last night.  Favre's unbeaten Oak Grove (Miss.) took on Petal in a battle between two powerhouses on a national cable television station.

Things didn't go so well for for the 5-0 OG squad who couldn't even muster 100 yards of total offense but still had the game in hand when Petal — looking at a fourth-and-17 — scored on a Hail Mary pass to win the game.

The best part of this clip might be the announcers enthusiastic call of the incredible play.  Even more amazing is the fact that there is a Jumbotron on a high school field.

Check out Favre's reaction to the play on Deadspin.

Vick warns Giants defense: 'I can switch it up'

Michael Vick may have 32-year old legs and his coaches are telling him to resist scampering down the field at the first white of a defensive lineman's eyes. But that doesn't mean the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback still can't run.

The Eagles' scrambler has a warning for anyone who thinks his best days as an athlete are behind him and he can't make a big play with his legs.

"Any time, I can switch it up," Vick told the New York Daily News on Thursday.  "I can put on them light shoes and run around still. And you never know when.  It could be this week."

Those words sound like they are directed straight at the vaunted defensive ends of the New York Giants — who take a ride down the Turnpike into Lincoln Financial Field this Sunday night.

It's curious that Vick — a quarterback who's been sacked nine times and endured 27 QB hits — would tempt fate by running with the ball.

The 10-year veteran insists he can still take a pounding.

"I take care of my body," he said.  "I'm careful what I put into it.  The hits don't hurt any more than they used to."

Vick might be in for more than a pounding from the Giants front line.  Jason Pierre-Paul, Osi Umenyiora and Justin Tuck will go full force at their familiar No. 7 target that is protected by an offensive line that will start backup left tackle Demetress Bell and second string center Dallas Reynolds.

The Giants can almost taste blood already.

Vick says he is hardly concerned that he is on pace to throw 32 interceptions, fumble 11 times and get sacked nearly 50 times.  This is a game that could set the tone in the NFC East early in the season.

"We have the same record as the team we're going against," he said.  "We're playing for the division."

Vick should do the math.  Ten years as a scrambling NFL quarterback is like 70 as a pocket passer.

Martellus Bennett: Romo not in same league as Eli

Martellus Bennett has never been one to keep his opinions to himself.  Now the one time plus-sized New York Giants tight end revealed his recent success is due to the fact that he's not playing with Tony Romo.

The 6-foot-6 Bennett drooped by Manhattan's Old Homestead Steakhouse the other night with teammate Michael Coe and was overheard telling a waiter that he now has a better quarterback throwing to him, according to Page Six of The New York Post.

"Romo isn't even in the same league as Eli Manning. Not even close," said Bennett, according to the source.

Bennett, who is enjoying a resurgence with Big Blue after a disappointing season with the Dallas Cowboys, already has 15 catches and three touchdowns with Manning at the helm.  He had no touchdown catches last year with Romo calling the shots.

Manning's new favorite third-down option came into training camp weighing a whopping 291 pounds but now Bennett looks like Tim Tebow in a Vogue photo spread.

After dishing on Romo and Eli, Bennett was seen signing napkins and receipts for customers at the famous eatery.

They don't call him Mar-Tell us for nothing.

Keith Hernandez shaves off his iconic mustache for charity

There has been two constants hanging around the New York Mets for almost three decades — disappointment and Keith Hernandez's mustache.  Now one of them is gone and — too bad for Mets fans — it's the former first baseman's iconic 'stache.

The same caterpillar that was above the first baseman's lip when he came to Shea Stadium in the mid-80's, charmed both Jerry and Elaine on "Seinfeld" in the '90's and was his trademark while calling games for the Mets in the new millennium is gone.

Hernandez's famous facial hair met its maker Thursday afternoon during a public shaving in front of Citi Field Thursday.

Hundreds of fans came early to see the freshly-shaven Hernandez show off his glistening upper lip and watched as their memories of better times fell onto his lap.

"I feel like I'm on the guillotine here," joked Hernandez as he settled into the makeshift barber's chair.

On a platform surrounded by a barber pole and various shaving accessories, Eliot Chester, the Las Vegas barber to the stars, did the honors.

"Am I nervous?" asked Hernandez from the stage.  "No."

The five-time All-Star said he has only shaved his mustache three times and when his contract for "Just For Men" hair coloring ended, he felt he needed to make a change.

Shick Hydro donated $10,000 to the Jacquelyn Hernandez Health Center in Brooklyn  for the honor of providing the tools that shaved off the facial hair that was named the best mustache in sports history by the American Mustache Institute in 2007.

Hernandez has committed to remaining clean-shaven for the rest of the Mets season.  He will decide in the offseason whether it will reappear.  That lip might get pretty cold come November.

"I want to thank all my fans who supported my mustache over the years," he said in a statement.  "But it's time to take a back seat and give my upper lip some time to shine."

Remember.  He's Keith Hernandez.

Travis Snider makes one of the greatest catches you'll ever see

The big news around CitiField Thursday was Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey going for his 20th win of the season and Mets legend Keith Hernandez getting his iconic mustache shaved off in the parking lot.

That was until Pittsburgh Pirates rightfielder Travis Snider made one of the greatest catches you will ever see a player make — robbing the Mets Mike Baxter of what looked like a sure home run.

The Pirates led 2-1 in the bottom of the second when Baxter's shot looked like it was going to clear the left field fence.  That's when Snider used the chain link fence as a launchpad to get his glove about 13 feet in the air and make the remarkable catch.

Pirates starter Kevin Corriea just stared in shock that Baxter didn't launch his pitch over the wall.

Even Mets fans were cheering the acrobatic catch.

Snider was playing his first game in Flushing and must have scouted the chain link fence before the game.

Snider's amazing play is one for the ages.

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Goodell tells fans 'We're sorry' about replacement refs

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is apologizing to fans for having to use replacement referees during a lockout of the regular officials.  The three-month impasse led to three weeks of controversial officiating — culminating with a questionable call that cost the Green Bay Packers a victory Monday night.

Goodell apologized Thursday during a conference call about 12 hours after the two sides came to an agreement.   The referees' union and league finally shook hands on a tentative eight-year deal that will allow the regular refs to return beginning Thursday night with the Baltimore Ravens-Cleveland Browns game.

"Something like this, it's painful for everybody," said Goodell.  "Most importantly, it's painful for fans.  We're sorry to have to put fans through that."

The use of replacement refs during the lockout was a public relations disaster for the NFL that saw multiple games affected over the first three weeks of the regular season.

A deal was finally struck after the Seattle Seahawks debatable last-second win over the Packers Monday night in which the replacement referees missed a call.

UFC star Chael Sonnen makes cameo in 'Always Sunny' spoof

"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" returns for its eighth season on Oct. 11, and the irreverent series — which has never followed the rules of comedy or political correctness — has decided to switch up the entire cast if you believe the commercials running on the FX network.

FX has released spoof commercials with new actors and actresses playing the arrogant "Always Sunny" characters we've come to know and shake our heads at.

One of the character changes is controversial MMA star Chael Sonnen who is playing the role of  Dennis on the behind-the-scenes commercials. The egotistical light heavyweight is a good fit for the part of the narcissistic Dennis.  Sonnen's casting might be a tie-in to the UFC which broadcasts on FX.

The other replacements are Xzibit as the new Dee, Haley Joel Osment as Mac (he even has the beard), Candace Cameron as Charlie and Andrew Dice Clay as Frank.



Expecting anything less than from television's most warped bar owners is to be expected.