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The New Mexico Independent going forward

By | 11.16.11

I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…

EIB hears more anti-cap-and-trade testimony

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By | 11.10.11

While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…

New Mexico’s largest university low in popularity

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By | 11.10.11

Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.

Obama’s team… fantasy football, that is

By | 10.23.08 | 4:49 pm
Washington's Clinton Portis, Barack Obama's starting running back

Washington's Clinton Portis, Obama's fantasy RB

If you’re not into the National Football League, this will probably be an obscure reference.

But if your personal economic stimulus package consists of something like a Sunday filled with brisket smothered in green chile, Jameson, the NFL Ticket on TV and gambling like a fiend … and you vote, check out Barack Obama’s Fantasy Football line-up.

I can tell you right now — I’ve been in this game for some time — that Joe the Plumber wishes he had the fortitude to put Drew Brees and Clinton Portis in the same backfield in week six. 

This makes me wonder, as we head down the home stretch, who has the advantage when courting the Joe Sixpack vote? Sarah Palin impressively told Vogue magazine her favorite food is “moose stew after a day of snowmachining,” but Obama’s cocky as the King of Hearts when he talks football. This from Rick Reilly of Sports Illustrated:

In 2004, when Mike Ditka considered running against him for Senate, Obama — remembering how Ditka let William Perry score a Super Bowl TD instead of Walter Payton — said that “anybody who would give the ball to Refrigerator Perry instead of Sweetness doesn’t have very good judgment.” Ditka didn’t run. “Too bad,” Obama says. “We were hoping he would.”

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