12th Street Chatter - Awareness 99

Tonight is Christmas Eve for many who can't wait to get their hands on EA Sports' NCAA Football 2008 which is officially in stores tomorrow. This year the cover boy is former Boise State quarterback Jared Zabransky who is struggling to make the Houston Texan's roster currently. The game play has allegedly been improved greatly on 360 and this will be the first year that the game will be offered on PS3. Can't wait to see it on my HD television.

Here is some inside information from our source who tested the game out in California has given us some top secret information on the game's ratings.

Brent Schaeffer - Speed 89, Threating With Bats 98, Awareness 39
Virginia Tech Quarterbacks - Animal Rights 37, Stomping on Opponents' Knees 94
Urban Meyer - Tough Stand on Discipline 40
Les Miles - Speaking When Should Be Learning to Read 89
Clemson Tailgate Experience - 99
Matthew Stafford - Strength 67, Keg Lifting Strength 84
Charlie Weis - NFL Bound 88, Screwed by the Clausen Family 90
Ole Miss - Winning Tradition 36
Mississippi State - Cowbells 99
UGA the Bulldog - 36 Overall
Vanderbilt - Band 42, Cheerleaders 36, Athletic Department 0
Spurrier - Awareness 97, Under Armour Commercials 56
Tim Tebow - Jump Passes 77, Popularity 97, Injury 45 (will miss start by November)
Tuberville - Strength of Schedule 42, Whining 92
Alabama - Reality 36, RVs 99, Worshiping False Idols 88
Houston Nutt - Job Security 45, Awareness with Reporters 73
Eric Berry - Choice of Numbers 43
Red Georgia Pants - 44

Pretty accurate ratings it looks like.

South Carolina Lineman Shanked

USC offensive lineman Quentin Richardson was stabbed after getting into an argument over the weekend in Columbia, South Carolina. Richardson, set to be a freshman this fall, is a four star Rivals recruit who is listed at 6'4", 270 pounds. Anyone messing with that dude has got to be crazy. Our bet is its gonna come back that some nut job like Demetrius Summers (see picture to the right) is the shanker in this incident.

Richardson is recuperating in the hospital after undergoing surgery Sunday afternoon. He is expected to be fine and released later this week. He has had many visitors including one very pissed off Steve Spurrier. Can't you see S.O.S. in the hospital room throwing his Master's visor while he is lecturing Richardson on not getting stabbed?

The Gators Call for Playoff

The University of Florida President Bernie Machen is raising hell at Hooters and the annual SEC business meetings this week in Destin, Florida. Machen is calling for the SEC to look at implementing a playoff system and getting rid of the beloved, errrrr, hated BCS system. Normally we'd normally think this was a great idea but coming from Florida we're not so sure. This is the same school that asked Steve Spurrier, who had won a National Title for the Gators in 1996, to send in his resume for the vacant head football coach position after Ron Zook was fired and Spurrier was out of a job. When asked Spurrier famously replied, "You want my resume? Go outside your office and look in the f!@#ing trophy case." He didn't get the job.

Also coming out of the meetings was talk of creating a SEC television network like the Big Ten is rolling out this year. That would be great in our opinion as it would put the Jefferson Pilot, now Lincoln Financial announcers out of work (like Dave Neal pictured above) and living under a bridge in Baton Rouge. But would we be able to live without the Brooks and Dunn intro????