Craig James Killed 5 Hookers

Texas Tech Fans 'moon' Craig James

2012-03-12T13:47:00.000-07:00

Texas Tech students traveled all the way to Dallas to let Craig James know just what they think of his political career. It may have also set a Guinness Book World record for the most people mooning a single individual.

Of course what is an insult to poor Craig James may well be eye candy to Adam James. Or is it the other way around? Hmmm....

Maybe this is how you do Voter ID on the anti-James vote. Just look for people in red and black to drop trow - if they're wearing anything at all...

Those Poor Five Dead Hookers

2012-02-28T09:45:00.001-08:00

A video tribute to reaffirm out blog name and the legend that Craig James killed five hookers while he was taking his kickback money at SMU:

All in fun of course - unless Craig James REALLY did kill 5 hookers at SMU!

A New Twist on the Mike Leach saga

2012-02-27T08:16:00.000-08:00

For our younger readers and for those who are more culturally enlightened than I am, we present the Craig James-Mike Leach scandal in Rap in order to bring this scandal to the attention of younger voters and those who might like to cross over and vote in the Republican Primary in order to kick Craig James right in the b_ _ls.

How do you spell 'hypocrite?' C-R-A-I-G-J-A-M-E-S

2012-02-24T13:22:00.000-08:00

Well, look who's hollerin' about Gays! It's Craig James. Isn't he they guy who just hired a jewish, openly gay guy who is legally married to another man as consultant to his campaign?

Are these two NFL Players going to hell? They are according to Craig James.

Wow, to steal a line from Darryl Hannah in Steel Magnolias, 'that's not very christian.'

But it's very Craig James.

First, Read how Craig James hired openly gay Arthur Finkelstein:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/david-catanese/2011/12/craig-james-staffs-up-108341.html

Then read how Finkelstein married another man:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/09/politics/09finkelstein.html

Then read how James says that gays will go to hell:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2012/02/craig-james-believes-gays-will-answer-to-the-lord/1

Does Craig James even have the brain power to detect the irony and the hypocrisy?

Here's more fun on Craig James:

http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2012/2/24/2821652/the-many-controversies-of-craig-james

Wedding Bells in Craig James' Future? (i.e. Who's the lucky fella?)

2012-02-03T15:18:00.000-08:00

Get a load of what our little pay-to-pay pony expresser recently said about Gay Marriage as reported in the DMN:

"He (James) declined to say he opposes Texas' 7 year old constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. "But it's their freedom to pick and choose and do whatever they want to," he said of gays. On whether the armed services' "don't ask, don't tell" policy should have been repealed, James said military leaders, not "all of us on the outside," should make the call on whether to keep or discard the policy..."

I wonder what this means? Has James 'switched teams'? Has he gone from 'A(F)C'to 'DC' ? Should Mrs. Pay to Play call a lawyer? Inquiring minds want to know.

Are there same sex wedding bells in James' future?

Hmmmm...makes you wunder who the lucky fella could be. We think a cowboy - since James' is playing up the drugstore rancher thing, like this guy:

Bachelor #1

Or this guy:

Bachelor #2

Or finally this guy:

Bachelor #`3

Maybe it's just a hint of the future: after his crushing loss for the U.S. Senate, Craig James finds his own Brokeback Cowboy and rides off into the Sunset never to bother Republicans or Sports fans ever again.

We can only dream...

First Field Report

2012-01-19T08:20:00.000-08:00

Well the meddling Daddy had his first spin around Texas as a candidate here and there. The results ain't so good. Poor Craigers don't look so good and didn't sound too good in the recent Senate Debate:

After stating the Secretary of Agriculture's name was 'GoDaddy.com Bowl',
James brain finally melts to pure mush, much like his on air ESPN verbage.

In his campaign announcement, he admitted to taking $20 here and there as an SMU football player but no big cash. Twenty bucks? What was he doing, giving $20 blowjobs to faculty or alumni? Maybe he got jealous of all the money the hookers he allegedly killed were earning. One thing is for sure, even in the early eighties Craig James was a cheap date.

But the real angst for James is that he still thinks he is an SMU studly and every morning squeezes his 38 inch waist into a 32 inch jock strap when he "suits up" for the campaign trail. Oh, how that makes those tiny boys suffer.

Perhaps boxers might work better, that way Craigers brain might get more oxygen.

Craig James behavior - in Mike Leach's words

2012-01-09T12:10:00.000-08:00

Mike Leach took Texas Tech to new heights, going 84-43 in 10 seasons, including an 11-2 finish in 2008. Leach was fired by the university in December 2009 after being accused of mistreating receiver Adam James, the son of ESPN broadcaster Craig James. Leach has denied any wrongdoing in the case. Here is his account of the incident from the his new book, Swing Your Sword.

"Adam [James] was a kid who seemed like he had been given everything he wanted his whole life and acted like if things did not go exactly how he wanted, then it was because someone was treating him unfairly or his failures were somebody else's fault. He was a selfish player on and off the field who was counterproductive for our team and would be for any other team."
-- Graham Harrell, Texas Tech, QB, 2004-2008

Staffs debate their players' merits all the time. When Adam James was a receiver prospect from Celina, Texas, most of the Tech staff was against recruiting him. They didn't think he could play. I thought Adam could develop into a contributor.

Adam's daddy, Craig, came around and campaigned for his son. He talked about how good Adam was. It all started when we beat Cal in the Holiday Bowl. Craig, who was there to announce the game, came up to our hospitality room. He started talking about how great his kid was and how great the bloodlines of the James family were. I later found out that he tried giving the same sales pitch to the Nevada staff after calling their bowl game too.

Our staff thoroughly researched whether Adam James had any other scholarship offers. We didn't find any. We offered him a grayshirt, which meant that his scholarship wouldn't go into effect until January. He needed as much time as he could to develop. He was the last guy we signed in that recruiting class.

The thing about it is, Adam was big enough and moved decently. He was not fast, but he had pretty good hands. He could've fit into the role of tight end for us, but because he didn't work hard he was only marginally effective. We could never get him to move out from behind his father's coattails. Together, they believed that playing time was determined by politics and influence rather than hard work.

My biggest regret was not cutting Adam James. I kept hoping he'd develop a work ethic. He had two position coaches, first Dana Holgorsen, then Lincoln Riley. He didn't get along with either one.

As a coach, you want it to work out. We invested a lot of time in coaching Adam James. We worked hard to try to rehabilitate him to make him a working part of the team. We thought he may have simply been the victim of his dad's little-league father tendencies, and that he'd eventually find a way to be his own, independent person. But that didn't turn out to be the case. I should've cut my losses, but I was really hoping that he'd improve and stuck with him.

On December 14, 2009, as we began to prepare for the Alamo Bowl, I noticed Adam James nonchalantly going through our first period of practice. I told him if he didn't improve his effort, I was going to send him to "Muscle Beach," which is the area designated for injured players and for lifting weights that Bennie Wylie, our strength coach, oversees. Adam ignored the warning, so we sent him along with two other players over to Muscle Beach. Bennie told the three players they had to run laps and stairs. According to Bennie, Adam gave him attitude. Adam was the last one to finish each exercise and he danced through the discipline like he was mocking it. After the session at Muscle Beach, the other two players admitted their effort on the field had been unacceptable. They said they would work harder. Adam told Bennie that his effort had been fine and that the Tech coaches didn't know what they were doing.

Three days later, on December 17, Adam James again displayed his contempt for team rules and the coaching staff. He arrived at practice twenty minutes late, in street clothes, wearing sunglasses. He said he had a concussion. The team physician acknowledged that James had a mild concussion and limited him from physical activity until he was symptom free. The team policy dictated that all players, including injured players, attend practice in practice attire and participate in the manner permissible given the nature of their injury.

According to Steve Pincock, the team trainer, James was "walking the field" in an indifferent way. James was wearing street clothes and had a baseball cap on backwards, which, injured or not, he knew was against team rules. I asked Pincock why Adam wasn't dressed appropriately for practice. Pincock said he didn't know. This was the first he'd seen him because Adam was late. I asked him why Adam was wearing sunglasses. Pincock said Adam's eyes were sensitive to light because he had a concussion. I told Pincock to remove James from the field since he wasn't dressed properly, was late, and had a bad attitude while the rest of the team was practicing hard. I told Pincock to put him somewhere dark and have him do something.

At no point did I say to lock him in a room. I never told Pincock what he should do with Adam beyond getting him off the field and putting him somewhere dark since his eyes were sensitive to light.

Months later, when Adam James was deposed under oath, he said he found the incident "funny" and that he did not believe that I should have been fired. In fact, he texted his father about the incident while in the equipment garage because he thought he would "like" it, since they both have the same sense of humor.

On December 19 we held practice on our game field inside Jones Stadium. Before practice, Pincock gave me a rundown of the injured players. He asked me what I wanted him to do with Adam James. I told him do whatever he did last practice. Then, as I went down the tunnel to start practice, another one of our trainers told me Adam was in the media room.

According to Pincock's statement, he specifically told James not to go into the electrical closet by the media room. James admitted under oath that he ignored Pincock's instructions. He admitted that he let himself into that closet and that he shot a video -- a video that would start a firestorm of allegations -- because he thought it was funny.

Craig James told Tech chancellor Kent Hance that Adam had spent three hours in that electrical closet based on instructions from Pincock. That night, Craig called Larry Anders (chairman of the Tech board of regents) and complained that Adam had been forced to practice with a concussion and had been locked in an electrical closet. We'd already held out the starting quarterback for a month that season because he had a concussion -- the starting quarterback. Adam was forbidden to practice because he had a concussion. We wanted him away from the field.

According to both his and Anders's depositions, Craig demanded that I be fired. Hance called me and said that Craig had phoned Anders to complain about his son being forced to play before his concussion was healed, which was simply not true. I explained the situation to Hance, and also told him how often Craig called up the Tech coaches to lobby for more playing time for his son. I told him that Adam had been a constant discipline problem and that I planned on cutting him from the team. Hance told me not to cut Adam.

During the conversation Hance said he was going to give the Jameses three options: Adam could stay at Tech, and that we, as coaches, would help him become the best that he could be; he could transfer and we'd release him to any school he wanted; or he could stay at Tech, be a regular student and we'd continue to pay his scholarship, even though we didn't do this for any other student.

After speaking with Anders and Jerry Turner (vice chairman of the board of regents) Hance ordered an investigation into the Adam James matter, to be conducted by university attorney Charlotte Bingham. Interestingly, Bingham worked for Hance, not the president's office. Later that night she interviewed Craig James, who told her that Adam was required to stand in an electrical closet for hours.

She interviewed Adam, who told her that he had been forced to stand in the closet for five minutes. Neither of these statements were true.

Turner contacted Bingham on December 21, before she'd interviewed a single witness outside the James family. Turner instructed Bingham, Tech president Bailey, and AD Myers that the investigation should be used to terminate me. Neither Turner, Hance, nor any of the regents should've been involved or interfered with any of this. It is strictly prohibited by university policies and procedures. The entire matter should've been handled exclusively by the president and the athletic director.

Despite that, Bailey advised me that same day that while the investigation was no big deal, he was concerned that Hance was going to "railroad" me because of his business connections to Craig James. Bailey was so concerned that he had his assistant attend and keep a record of the investigation interviews.

When Bingham interviewed me, I told her about Adam James's poor work habits, that he showed up late for practice, that he did not have workout gear on, and that I did not want him loafing while his teammates were working hard. I also told her that I wanted the trainers to take him away from the field and put him in a dark place because he was sensitive to light, and that the trainers had handled him from there.

Bingham reported her findings to Anders, Bailey, Myers, Turner, and Hance, and did not recommend that I be fired. Hance called me to say that some members of the board of regents wanted me fired because of Craig James' complaints. Hance said they were going to take some sort of disciplinary action against me even though he couldn't explain what I'd done wrong.

The day after Christmas, two days after Hance told Anders and Turner he was going to fire me, I met with Myers and Bailey.

I told them I was happy to cooperate with the investigation. They handed me a letter dated December 23, signed by Bailey, acknowledging "the allegations by the James family had not been substantiated" despite, or perhaps as a result of, Ms. Bingham's investigation. They then told me I needed to sign a letter admitting wrongdoing on my part in the "mistreatment" of a student athlete. I told them I was innocent and I would not sign that letter.

We went back and forth for over an hour. They kept trying to get me to sign the letter and admit that I did something wrong, when they knew that I didn't.

Bailey and Myers assured me that they wanted me to be their coach, that this was not about getting rid of me, that they were not trying to fire me, that this incident was only a little thing, and that if I would just sign this letter it would all go away. This obviously turned out not to be the case.

To order a copy of Mike Leach’s book:

http://www.amazon.com/Swing-Your-Sword-Leading Football/dp/0983337195/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326139278&sr=8-1

Real Street?????

2011-12-26T11:42:00.000-08:00

James says he lives on "real street" but we think the guy above might disagree.

Craig James told Fox News that he lives on "Real Street." Huh? James lives in Celina, Texas in the property wealthy county of Collin - corporate home to JC Penney, EDS, etc.

Collin County property records show that James owns a home located on 14.5 acres with a total living area of 5,488 square feet that is valued at $897,630.

That's $897,630.00.

James' property appraisal is down from close to a million bucks (more on that in the near future). Does that sound like living on "real street" to you?

We don't think so either.

James also says we have to change the way wealthy people are buying a seat in the U.S. Senate because that just doesn't work. Hmmmm...

I guess that means that Craig James is going to be the "People's candidate" and will only fund his campaign with ten of thousands of donations from hourly wage Texans and won't put ANY of his own money into his campaign?

More like we should start the hypocrite clock and see how many millions of his own cash he puts into his campaign.

Or maybe working girls from all one Texas will be putting their knee and back money into the James campaign. At least that would be "real street" money.

This guy doesn't have a clue.

Craig James Campaign Strategy: Being Mr. Wussy

2011-12-22T08:26:00.000-08:00

The article below appeared in today's Lubbock paper. Here's the real skinny on this: by engaging his Lawyers this way, Craig James will now say out on the campaign trail, "That's a pending legal matter and I cannot comment" or "On the advice of Counsel I cannot comment on this matter until all legal issue can be resolved."

This dumbass himbo doesn't understand that this will only raise the profile of the issue. So James doesn't talk about Mike Leach? Well there'a always pay to play at SMU, his lousy record at ESPN and his 'Road Warrior' status with the Patriots. So here's today's article about Mr. Wussy:

Craig James' attorney seeks depositions from book publishers

James announced Monday he is running for the U.S. Senate as a Republican from Texas, and Mike Leach attorney Ted Liggett believes he is pulling a campaign stunt.

Posted: December 21, 2011 - 2:57pm | Updated: December 22, 2011 - 12:37am

By BRITTANY HOOVER

AVALANCHE-JOURNAL

An attorney for former ESPN college football analyst Craig James has filed legal documents in Collin County District Court, asking a judge to allow him to take depositions from representatives of the publishers of former Tech football coach Mike Leach’s book “Swing Your Sword” and Michael Lee Lanning’s book “Double T — Double Cross.”

Mike O’Brien, a Washington, Texas-based attorney, wants the depositions from Scottsdale Book Publishing LLC, which published Lanning’s book, and Diversion Publishing Corp. LLC, the eBook publishing company of Leach’s book to investigate a potential claim against them. The petition was filed Dec. 12 in the 199th District Court of Collin County.

“The best way for me to explain why this is filed, is to tell you it’s the first step in being able to get the truth out about what happened,” O’Brien said. “Craig (James) has been silent waiting for (his son Adam James) to finish his senior year, and Leach has been on a media blitz with two books. For us, it’s time for the truth to come out.”

Ted Liggett, Leach’s attorney, said he isn’t surprised — this is typical of James, he said.
James announced Monday he is running for the U.S. Senate as a Republican from Texas, and Liggett believes he is pulling a campaign stunt.

“While currently this complaint doesn’t involve Mike (Leach), I can only surmise that Mr. James is attempting to save face from his previous actions that may affect his upcoming senatorial campaign,” Liggett said. “I believe that citizens of Texas know the real Craig James, and the truth will put this matter to rest. ”

O’Brien said the petition has been in the works since he was hired in April or May, before James officially made the decision to run for Senate. In Texas, a deposition may be taken before a complaint leading to a lawsuit is filed in court.

The legal document filed earlier this month lists 27 grounds James believes the authors used to mislead the general public and make defamatory statements against him.

The document states, “It is believed the publishers ... would have conducted a fact-check investigation into the veracity of the allegations concerning Craig James prior to publishing the books. It is also believed that the publishers may have interviewed various witnesses concerning the author’s allegations and statements.”

There are only about two chapters in “Swing Your Sword” addressing James, Liggett said, and the claims are based on deposition testimony and public records.

“Everything in ‘Swing Your Sword’ is true,” he said.

Lanning isn’t surprised either.

All the claims made against James are statements he gave in depositions and sworn testimony, Lanning explained.

Although the author conducted dozens of interviews, he said, James and several others declined to be interviewed.

Lanning said he did receive statements from lawyers, which are included in the book, he said.
He attempted to be as fair and balanced as possible, Lanning added.

“I think anyone that has any questions should read the book,” Lanning said. “It’s very self-explanatory. Everything in the book is not based on fact — it is fact.”

The hearing is set for Jan. 31, O’Brien said.

It is not yet decided what the next step is, he added, including whether or not Leach or Lanning will be sued.

Wednesday afternoon, Brian Mays with Scottsdale Book Publishing was attempting to get in touch with “Double T — Double Cross” Publisher Dean Wegner.

New York City-based Diversion Publishing Corp. did not return messages left Wednesday afternoon.

Craig James idea of "A Better America" ???

2011-12-20T10:36:00.000-08:00

We hear down from Austin that Craig James has hired an east coast consultant named Arthur Finkelstein for his campaign. We googled this guy and found a picture with this curious caption:

Gay partner? Oh this gets interesting.

So we googled around and found this from the New York Times:

April 9, 2005

G.O.P. Consultant Weds His Male Partner
By ADAM NAGOURNEY

ASHINGTON, April 8 - Arthur J. Finkelstein, a prominent Republican consultant who has directed a series of hard-edged political campaigns to elect conservatives in the United States and Israel over the last 25 years, said Friday that he had married his male partner in a civil ceremony at his home in Massachusetts.

Mr. Finkelstein, 59, who has made a practice of defeating Democrats by trying to demonize them as liberal, said in a brief interview that he had married his partner of 40 years to ensure that the couple had the same benefits available to married heterosexual couples.

"I believe that visitation rights, health care benefits and other human relationship contracts that are taken for granted by all married people should be available to partners," he said.

He declined further comment on the wedding, which was in December.

Some of Mr. Finkelstein's associates said they were startled to learn that this prominent American conservative had married a man, given his history with the party, especially at a time when many Republican leaders, including President Bush, have campaigned against same-sex marriage and proposed amending the Constitution to ban it. Mr. Finkelstein has been allied over the years with Republicans who have fiercely opposed gay rights measures, including former Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, and has been the subject of attacks by gay rights activists who have accused him of hypocrisy. He was identified as gay in a Boston Magazine article in 1996.

WOW!

So what's the name of that bogus front group James formed to promote himself? Texans for a Better America? I guess this is Craig James' idea of a better America.

Not sure how well this will go over with sports fans and Republican voters...

...but it does fit in quite nice nicely with his other examples of lapsed ethics and allegedly amoral behavior.

"Slimy" James gets a new nickname

2011-12-20T08:18:00.000-08:00

Craig James got an early christmas present from his staff for the campaign trail.

Ther Fort Worth Star Telegam had a column today about Craig James' candidacy. It suits him to a tee. Way to go Mac:

Slimy James has proved he's ready to be a senator

Posted Monday, Dec. 19, 2011

By Mac Engel

tengel@star-telegram.com

Craig James is a Texan who believes America can be great again.

I agree.

He sees things happening around our country that I don't want happening in the state of Texas.
I also agree, starting with Senator Craig James.

On Monday the former partner in crime that comprised one half of The Pony Express made it official that he will run for a U.S. Senate seat in the great state of Texas. Because what Washington D.C. lacks right now is a good ol' boy who knows how to work a system for his own personal benefit.

Two quick pieces of advice for the Republican hopeful who wants Kay Bailey Hutchinson's post:
1. Memorize everything Ronald Reagan ever said and quote him whenever possible.
2. Avoid Lubbock on the whistle-stop tour.

Laugh off Mr. James' political ambitions if you must, but he has all the makings of becoming a top political candidate, which says everything you need to know about our current political state.

Craig James is qualified to be a United States senator because:
Craig James is a celebrity.

In 2011, fame is a virtue and Craig James knows how to be famous. He was a football player, which makes him famous, which makes him qualified to do everything up to and including brain surgery
.
Craig James has no political experience. As GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney likes to say, "I've worked in the private sector" before he was governor of Massachusetts, where he created approximately 9.4 billion jobs.

James has also worked in the private sector. Between his semi-professional career as a running back at SMU, and full-professional career as an NFL running back for the New England Patriots, James knows what it is like to work for a living just like the rest of us.

Craig James knows how to take money, not get busted, and deflect any and all culpability.

Of the many talents James will bring to Washington, this makes him the most qualified. This is a talent that reaches across party lines.

James was a member of the well-paid Pony Express football team during the '80s that helped earn the SMU football program the death penalty. What happened to Craig James? Nothing, which is exactly what makes him qualified to become a senator.

Technically, SMU student athletes were not allowed by the NCAA to receive extra benefits (i.e. cash payments) in return for a few touchdowns against Texas.

Technically, U.S. senators should not be receiving extra benefits (i.e. campaign "support") in return for favorable legislation.

James smiles and laughs off the whole SMU thing because, hey, everybody was doing it.
Kinda like elected officials leveraging their office for personal gain. Hey, everybody does it.

Craig James is pretty.

We worship the attractive, and the 50-year-old James has still got it.
Boyish dimples. Bone-white teeth smile. Sky-blue eyes. As he liked to show us during ESPN Thursday night college football telecasts when he wore T-shirts tucked into to his short shorts during a workout, he is still in very good shape.

Craig James has fantastic hair.
Between James, Romney, Rick Perry and Michele Bachman, the GOP battle for the Hair Care lobby will be vicious.

Craig James knows how to take his opponents on head on -- with a PR firm.
When James' son, Adam, was involved in the high-profile dismissal of Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach in 2009, Craig reportedly hired a PR firm to flood the media with negative reports about Leach.

Craig James knows the media.
A critical talent in today's 24-hour news cycle, one could easily envision CSPAN televising James standing on the Senate floor filibustering against Boise State getting into another BCS game.
After his playing career ended, James started his own media company to help educate and train former athletes for a life in front of the camera. The man knows not only what looks good on camera, but what sounds good.

James offered up this winner on ESPN in 2009 when Tech suspended Leach: "We have the utmost confidence that Ruffin McNeill this week down at the Alamo Bowl will do a great job with this team. Everybody's excited about that."

James said this with a straight face.

Craig James knows how to remain employed despite a clear conflict of interest.
Even though James was personally pursuing and financing a beef against Leach, he convinced his employers at ESPN to keep his job as a college football analyst. That speaks to James' ability to persuade.

This is a small sampling of the many talents James will bring to Washington.

America can be great again, I just don't know how it's going to be much different with Craig James as a senator.

Mac Engel, 817-380-7760
Twitter @MacEngelProf

James Files for Senate - Who Will Come Forward First....

2011-12-19T13:37:00.000-08:00

Well he did it. Craig James filed for the United States Senate - some 106 days before the primary election. Unreal. Some massive egos just have to get butt whupped in order to be brought down from their own bed, I mean, goal post..

Now another clock starts ticking: who will be the first to come forward with stories of 'off the field' practice with Craig James - especially when the Pats played out of town. Hmmmm... We hear they are already asking for book and movie deals. So who will be the first? And who will break it? The Enquirer? The Star? We'll see, we'll see.

This is gonna be good.

Review of the Morning Headlines & Postings Today

2011-12-15T08:07:00.000-08:00

Craig James during his playing days on the practice field..

If you're Craig James it ain't good. A survey of the writeups and followup comments surrounding the launching of Jame's candidacy is spotty at best. One writeup talks about how James admitted under oath "that he hired a PR firm to smear the name of a football coach (Texas Tech Coach Mike Leach)."

It goes downhill from there.

The PR firm in question is run none other than former child actress Merrie Spaeth, who also did work one time for, that's right, Barney the purple dinosaur.

James last week outside a Dallas Luby's off Harry Hiney Blvd.

So we'll see if he files later today. A senate campaign sure would put this guy's brain into overtime.
Ummm, umm, umm. Texas Tech fans and ESPN faithfull viewers sharpen your knives, you rarely get chances in life like this to get even.

USFL/NFL Daze

2011-12-14T12:54:00.000-08:00

The 1980's in the NFL were foot loose and fancy free. That may have been the case in the brief life of the USFL as well. So it bares the question: did Craig James use illegal performance enhancing drugs when he was playing pro ball? Ther's no evidence to date that he did, but given what everybody else was doing back then, the question is bound to come up on the campaign trail.

Would we have found one of these in a certain Patriot gym bag in the mid-1980's?

So we thought we'd raise the issue first. It's a question that bares asking and it will be very interesting how Craig James answers this question. And who know who will come forward to shed light on this subject. Will there be a "Meg Whitman moment" with a former assistant or housekeeper?

Stay tuned. Inquiring minds will be watching and listening...

Craig James is running for what???

2011-12-13T15:35:00.000-08:00

Well, ESPN analyst and sports personality Craig James has decided to run for the United States Senate and reportedly will file his paperwork on Thursday, December 15th, just 82 days prior to the scheduled Republican Primary.

This is the same Craig James that was allegedly paid to play college ball at SMU (which is unproven, so far) and whose off the field antics with his teammates helped lead to a poisonous college locker room environment and macho mentality that ultimately destroyed the SMU fooball program.

James, of late, was involved in the Texas Tech football program where he turned into a whiny, titty baby Daddy and got a football coach fired and drove another successful football program to mediocrity. Note to James Campaign: It would be unwise to campaign on the South Plains.

Why would this Sports TV himbo decide to jump into a major statewide political campaign on such short notice? Word has it that North Texas Political Consultant Kevin Brannon has gotten his hooks into James' mushy brain and lack of judgment. Texas Politicos may remember Brannon of TRM-PAC fame when his computer got seized and a bunch of people later got indicted, including former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

Brannon was also the guy you "had to hire" to "lobby" State Representative Phil King when King served as Chairman of the House Regulated Industries Committee in Austin. Seems King was a Brannon client. How cozy. See Play to Play and Chrony Capitalism.

Let's not forget that Brannon turned State Representative Ken Paxton's suicide race for Speaker into a living hell for Members of the Texas House. I doubt that very few Republican House Members beyond the "Mentallly Challenged" Caucus will be signing up to help the Craig James Campaign.

Craig James was reportedly a legend on the road when he was in the NFL. I'm referring to his off the field skills - which got their masters degree at SMU. James may well have gotten his PhD in that department playing pro ball. In fact, it's that legendary reputation we decided to name this blog after.

It will be fun to see if James goes after new "road stories" in politics to put more knotches in his bed...er, I mean add to his scrapbook. But for now we'll be here to watch from the cheap seats and see how Craig James can convince Texans that having worn a a jock strap qualifies you to solve the national debt.