Patriots quarterback Matt Cassel had a rough night out in Tampa: another man peed on him. For free? Lucky!
The football star was in line for the bathroom at ESPN’s Tampa Bay Super Bowl bash Friday night when a drunken reveler tried to cut in front of him. “Matt told him to wait his turn and headed into the urinals,” a spy tells us. Moments later, the fella barged in and proceeded to purposefully pee directly on Cassel’s leg. After security tossed the drunk, Cassel headed back out into the crowd, wet pants and all.
Wait, so he… turned the other cheek? He didn’t freak out and take a swing at the guy? Dammit, Matt Cassel, your responsible, even-tempered approach to adversity gets me nowhere. Do you care nothing of my business?
Listen, pro athletes, I need you people to go ahead and beat the hell out of drunks like this. Or stab them. Don’t do it for me. Do it for yourselves. If I’ve learned anything from the movies, it’s that stabbing solves everything. Especially knife fights.
Thursday night football. Doesn’t have quite the same ring as Sunday or Monday, but it’ll have to do. The Jets blew a 24-6 lead, allowed the Pats to tie the game on a touchdown with one second remaining in regulation, then went on to win in overtime 34-31. As was said in last night’s live-blog at KSK, it was the most boring division rivalry overtime game to determine first place played in primetime, ever.
Matt Cassel somehow threw for 400 yards and three touchdown passes, which is odd, because watching the game the only thing I could think was “career backup.” Don’t ask that guy for anything longer than a 15-yard completion. On the other side of the ball, Brett Favre didn’t even throw an interception, so you KNOW it wasn’t a fun game to watch.
There are only two ways you cared about this game. One was you had fantasy players involved. The other is you’re a douchebag. Sorry. Facts is facts.
As the sports world continues to reel from Tom Brady’s knee injury, Las Vegas has quickly established that it does NOT have faith in Matt Cassel. Specifically, the Patriots became 2.5-point underdogs for Sunday’s game against the Jets, the first time the Pats haven’t been favored in a regular season game since 2006. Bodog’s Sportsbook manager explained:
“There never has been one injury, so early in the season, that has affected football and a team’s chance of winning more than the Tom Brady injury… The Patriots are still favored to make the playoffs, but have fallen into being categorized as no better than the 6th or 7th best team in the AFC until Matt Cassel proves differently.”
It’s also affected odds for Super Bowl favorites. The Cowboys are now favorites at 4-1, while the Pats have fallen to 20-1, behind teams like the Packers and the Vikings (both 15-1). Because Aaron Rodgers and Tarvaris Jackson are so much more proven than Matt Cassel, no doubt.
