OT: ESPN - "Which famous fans follow the top 25 teams?"
Another sign that we are in the dog days of college football is ESPN doing a puff piece about who are the most famous fans of the top 25 College Football teams. Some predictable ones:
#3 - Michigan - Spike's and my favorite - Kate Upton
#9 - THEE ohio - LeBron James - main reason I wanted GS to win
#13 - Ole Miss - Katy Perry - One helluva (Fun) Bag Person
#15 - staee - Magic Johnson
#22 - UCLA - Jaleel "Urkel" White
How do you think they missed??? Complete list at this LINK
How could we forget another famous buckeye lover....
An even better reason to hate THEE ohio!
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Is that Casey Anthony?
I asked myself that EXACT same question before I scrolled down and saw this. Then, I laughed probably harder than I should have.
Yes it is....
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Or, it could be that the prosecutor did a shitty job. I'm always amazed at how people automatically blame the jury.*
Case in point, the OJ Simpson case. The prosecutorial team there was dog shit, and lost one of the most winnable cases you're ever going to find. Yet people blame the jury.
*To be fair to MMM, I did not follow the Casey Anthony case that closely, so maybe it was a dumbass jury. I stand by my point, though, that too many folks instantly blame the jury when the prosecutors or p.d. have dropped the ball in the case.
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OJ won through jury nullification. The DA did good enough. The whole world knows he's guilty. It's an old KKK trick from back in the day.
Like I noted, I did not really follow that one. Dipshit juries exist - no doubt about it.
But I disagree on the OJ case:
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Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden were absolutely terrible. They took a case that should have been presented in days and stretched it out over weeks and weeks. This is their fundamental error - taking a "leave no stones unturned" approach in a case with easily understandable and compelling evidence.
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Clark's aggressive style was idiotic in front of that jury, and both she and Darden came off as condescending. Which was hilarious because they both were dipshits.
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Clark does not insist on a grand jury hearing, acquiescing to a probable cause hearing which gave OJ's team access to critical evidence in advance of trial.
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Idiot D.A. Gil Garcetti files in L.A. rather than Santa Monica (you know, where the murder actually happened) for reasons that boggle the mind - resulting in a jury pool that on average had a negative view of law enforcement and the establishment.
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Anyone with a lick of sense would be able to glean that Mark Fuhrman is a racist piece of shit, but apparently Clark and Darden could not foresee how easy it would be for the defense team to impeach his testimony. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
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And yet people blame the jury.
Good post. And to expand on your next to last bullet - the DA was screwed the second Fuhrman showed up at the cs and "found" the glove behind Cato's crashpad. But yeah, the damage could have been minimized by keeping Fuhrman out of the record as much as possible.
This is completely wrong about the jury and has as much to do with the defense team than anything else (not the prosecutors, as noted by someone else below). You have to remember that the trial that you saw on TV (with all of the commentators and the evidentiary hearings) was not the trial that the jurors saw. At the end of the day the prosecution couldn't prove that SHE did it (the defense planted the seed effectively that it could have just as easily have been her dad and the prosecution team had nothing to work with to overcome that) and that's all it really came down to. Don't take this, in any sense, as a defense of the defendant (because I 100% believe that she did it), but rather that some times it just isn't a stupid jury or a terrible prosecution team, but rather talented and competent defense attorneys that understand that to win a criminal case the prosecution has to establish evey element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt. They honed in on the one area where doubt could be created and hammered it the entire trial.
Some nut job that tried to kill her own children, I think.
They couldn't find anyone for Sparty but somebody who played there. Still more disrespekt.
H.H. Holmes (a/k/a Herman Webster Mudgett) was one of the most reprehensible serial killers of all time. Absolute piece of shit person, and a UofM alumnus.
Wow, I had never heard of this guy. That is absolutely crazy. Piece of shit person indeed.
But, just like some rival fans claim Michigan's National Championships prior to the 1940's don't count because it was a different era, I think the same argument holds true for serial killers. So H.H. Holmes doesn't count because he wasn't in the modern era. Dahmer still counts against OSU.
For USC, they picked Will Ferrell, but Snoop may have been a bit more visible and a bigger help on the recruiting trail....
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Excellent point, maybe Spike has connections at ESPN?
To be fair, she's a model for whom acting is a second profession. Iccording to IMDb, somebody likes her:
"Beyond Sports Illustrated, Kate has been featured on the covers of Vogue Italia, British Vogue, CR Fashion Book, Cosmopolitan, French ELLE, GQ, Italian GQ, German GQ, Jalouse, Sunday Times Style, Esquire, The Daily, and Muse Magazine. She has appeared in fashion editorials for American Vogue, Vogue Spain, V Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, and Russian Interview..."
Even if she's just "showing off what she was born with," that's an impressive resume for a fairly young model. Also, it's not fair to compare someone who's only been in two movies with James Earl Jones, who is one of the best actors of all time.
No one gets to where she is...and stays there without being a pretty savy business person in some way.
She's an attractive person who has been featured on a number of SI covers?
I'll take Lucy Lu over Kate but jeez you can't go wrong with either. Until gravity overtakes Ms Upton.
I can think of two big reasons for starters....
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Should have been left blank. MSU's football program started in 2008 so you have to give them some time to fill out a fan base.
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Who?
From the reality show Jersey Shore....
