Happy holidays to everyone. I’m posting this today in case I can’t get to the computer tomorrow.

I’ll leave you with a Jackson 5 favorite.

I feel you Jermaine. I feel you.

I heard this song today and it reminded me of this great TV moment. Enjoy. And don’t forget to jump on it!

I was going to write a preview for the week 16 game between the 49ers and Rams with help from St. Louis Rams fan Jordan P. Davis (who writes a Rams blog at Ramblings), but decided that with both teams having bad years, it probably wouldn’t be too interesting to read. I decided to think back to the days when this rivalry really meant something. Because of the great 1990s match-ups with the Dallas Cowboys, most people think that the Cowboys are the 49ers biggest rivals. It’s untrue. Their biggest rivals were the Los Angeles Rams, now known as the St. Louis Rams.

You can look all the way back to the 1970s and see that both teams ruled the NFC West. The 49ers were the better team early in the decade while the Rams had the better teams later in the decade. And then starting in 1981, the 49ers ruled the division. But it didn’t mean the Rams weren’t good. In fact, if not for the 49ers dominance, the Rams might’ve been the team playing in the NFC Championship games. They also had their share of superstars and Hall of Famers. Guys like Jackie Slater, Nolan Cromwell, Henry Ellard, the Youngblood brothers, and Vince Ferragamo led some of those really good Rams teams that the 49ers stood in front of. And every 49ers fan remembers Eric Dickerson. I even remember kicker Mike Lansford, more so because of the fact that he kicked barefooted than anything else.

From 1984 through 1989, the Rams won at least 10 games every year but one. In the late 80s, the talk around the NFC West was that the 49ers were too old and the Rams were going to take the mantle. In 1989, the 49ers and Rams met in the NFC Championship. It was Jim Everett versus Joe Montana. The young buck versus the old race horse. The old race horse, along with an intimidating defense, dominated the young buck. There was a point in the game that Everett took a sack in the pocket with no 49ers player within a couple feet of him. They had hit him so much, he expected to be hit again and just went down on his own. He heard those footsteps for the rest of his career.

For the majority of the 90s, the Rams were bad. The 49ers still had winning teams, though they weren’t as dominant as they were in the 80s. But in 1999, Dick Vermeil and Mike Martz turned the offense around with Arena Football League castoff Kurt Warner, Marshall Faulk, Isaac Bruce, and Torry Holt. They were unstoppable. The guard was changed and for three years, the Rams were dominant. They beat the 49ers all six games in those three years, and only a couple of them were even close.

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Based on our vote in late September to find the third recipient of the Great Great Man Award, you may already know the winner.

Our first winner was a man whose sloppy seconds Tony Romo is currently enjoying. He simply said, “What’s Left Of Me?”.

Our second winner was a man for which the term, “I’m ghost like Swayze” was created in his honor.

Onto our third winner. One of his two middle name’s is Preysler, and I’m not sure if it’s an ode to Elvis, but it would be a great story if it was. He’s the son of a famous singer whose most popular song was about all the girls he’s loved before, and then did cover of a song that in English, translates to “Kiss Me Much.” What a great man he is.

This young lad recorded several albums in Spanish and earned a decent sized U.S. fanbase while never really recording much music in English. It wasn’t until 1999 that he was truly discovered by America after his song Bailamos was chosen to be on the soundtrack to Will Smith’s terrible movie Wild Wild West.

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I haven’t missed this show one bit. However, they’re trying to tease me back in.

Kelly and Brenda are upset at each other. What else is new?

Thanks to E!Online.

It kind of reminds me of this time. Truer words were never spoken. Stab in the back, I bleed.

I doubt many realistic 49ers fans saw them in any other position than where they are right now before the season started. They’re playing the spoiler role. It would’ve been great to see them on the other side, but it hasn’t been that way in a few years. But I also think 49ers fans are at least slightly optimistic to think that their above average play under interim head coach Mike Singletary is a sign of good things to come. Since taking over, Singletary is 3-3, with one of those losses being the absurd loss to Arizona where they were left at the 2 1/2 yard line as the game ended. In two of those three victories, the 49ers beat AFC East teams who circled the 49ers on their schedule as easy wins. And now, they face another AFC East team who just last year was the team that other teams circled as the easy win. The Miami Dolphins are 8-5 and have won six of their last seven games, with the only loss being to the New England Patriots during that stretch. In order to beat Miami, the 49ers need to play smart on offense and stop the big plays on defense. Of course, that sounds easy, but the 49ers have struggled against teams who are creative, yet don’t make many mistakes. Quarterback Chad Pennington has only thrown six interceptions all year long and his game is managing the game and not making mistakes. They also have the solid running back duo of Ricky Williams and Ronnie Brown. Brown has scored more touchdowns, but Williams actually has the better yards per carry average. Basically, the 49ers have their hands full.

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I don’t know why I did it that Thanksgiving night. It was a feeling I hadn’t had since about 2001. But I had this urge to buy some shoes. I’ve been buying Jordans since I was about 9 years old when the original Jordans came out. Well, mom and dad got me started. I took a break, but in the late 90s I picked up the hobby again and I went buck wild. I accumulated over about 30 pairs of Jordans over the years, buying 4 or 5 pairs a year. And then I fell out of it again. I’ve bought maybe 2 pairs of Jordans in the last 5 years. But on Thanksgiving, I jumped online at 9PM and plunked down my credit card one more time. They were just so lovely.

However, I might’ve created a monster. Brian and JJ had all the baby Jordans two children could have. JJ saw his box of baby Js the other day and just fell in love with all the shoes. He needed a new pair of shoes so I got him some Jordans. Then Brian needed some shoes for basketball and I bought him some LeBrons. Now all JJ wants to do is go on Niketalk. And he wants to break knecks.

Here are my new Js.

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I was texting with Eddy Zucko today about the fight between Manny Pacquiao and Oscar De La Hoya (which I recapped here) and I was telling him about how I needed an Oscar victory because the rest of my sports life absolutely sucks. I told him that the SF Giants were terrible, the 49ers were awful, the Warriors might be the most dysfunctional team in basketball, and that all I had left was Oscar De La Hoya and Hulk Hogan. And then I remembered that my favorite fighter Chuck Liddell got his head knocked off in his most recent fight. Then he texted me back that Hulk Hogan sucked. So really, all I had was Oscar. And Oscar broke my heart. Actually, maybe Manny Pacquaio broke my heart. He sure broke Oscar’s. It was a dismantling.

How many of you can say that you’ve had your picture taken with someone who is on your top ten list? You know who is number 1A on my top ten list. She sits right atop this blog in my banner. She has blond hair. And packs junk in her trunk like she’s moving across town. Well, you can’t see that part. But there’s someone in that top ten list of mine that I recently took a picture with. Let me explain it a bit.

I was out at a Strikeforce show with my buddy Cactus Jim and his girlfriend Jan. Jan had the hookup and we had great seats. We were there early so some of the fighters were walking around the arena. Jim pointed at Randy Couture and he was probably less than 15 feet away from us. I’m not usually the star gazing type, but I thought it was cool. I wasn’t going to go shake his hand or chit chat with him. He’s a busy man and it doesn’t change my life any to get some words of wisdom from the man. And this is a guy who I enjoy watching in the cage. And then Jim pointed again and said, “There’s Gina.” And I knew he wasn’t talking about my cousin Gina.

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That’s no lie right there. If Mike Singletary was on the ballot next to Barack Obama and John McCain, my dad would vote for Singletary and throw his ballot down and say, “Cannot play with ‘em, cannot win with ‘em, cannot coach with ‘em, can’t do it.”

My dad loves Mike Singletary. He wants him to be the coach of this team right now and next year as well. There’s something about Singletary’s leadership that is appealing. You can definitely see a difference in the way they play on the field. But there’s also something about him whoopin’ and hollerin’ on the sidelines that is a bit comedic when it’s not meant to be. You can see him scream, “Hey!” to get someone’s attention, just like he did a few weeks ago with DeShaun Foster who fumbled and was chastised. You had to feel for Foster who has been in the league for a few years now and made a mistake and was treated like a rookie on the sidelines. NFL Films caught this and I thought it made Singletary look a bit out of touch.

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