Heading into Monday night’s matchup with the Atlanta Falcons, New Orleans Saints QB Drew Brees needed 305 passing yards to break Dan Marino’s single season passing record of 5,084 yards set back in 1984. Brees threw for 307 yards and now stands alone – for now, as Tom Brady is sniffing his tail – as the greatest single-season passer of all-time. But the difference between 1984 and 2011 is that now we love to take a huge dump all over a guy’s big moment.

Doing most of the dumping after the Saints’ 45-16 drubbing of the Falcons were the Falcons defensive players, who claim that Brees did the birds dirty by running up the score to get his record. You know, on Monday Night Football, in the Superdome, against the Saints’ bitter rivals, and on the biggest stage of their regular season. What a dick, right? That’s the way the sports media sees it, too, starting with CBS Sports’ Pete Prisco, who thinks Brees’ record will forever be tainted.

The way I see it, what should have been a truly special moment, something that should have happened in the context of the game, and made it tainted with questions.

It won’t overshadow what truly is a special record for one of the greatest passers of this generation, even ever, but it does take some of the gloss off of it.

At first I thought this was just the typical CBS Sports blogger trying to embrace the Skip Bayless contrarian role like Gregg Doyel has almost seemingly mastered, but then I searched a little more and discovered that the feeling is shared by others. Dump away, critics.

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Hank Williams Jr. must be rolling over in his grave.

By way of Rant Sports and anyone else who watches actual sports instead of pro wrestling on Monday nights comes the latest in a string of “let’s get people Bocephus might hate to do his job” intro videos, this one spotlighting Sole Surviving Golden Girl and temporary-internet-sensation-turned-person-we’re-tired-of-seeing-in-commercials Betty White.

Betty’s entire schtick these days is that she is Very Old, and the open brings that in spades — on-field collisions are compared to old folks driving, a brief discussion on the elderly Tebowing is had and at one point she calls Matt Ryan “hot”. That’s the best one, because seriously, only someone on the ass-end of 80 would say that. Also, Drew Brees set a passing record, but defenses in 2011′s NFL are forced to play like Snickers commercial Betty White so we’re gonna cover it in asterisks and move forward remembering this clip as the most important thing to occur.

You can check out the video (and a better one) after the jump.

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Links

Challenge Accepted: The Best Of Your Excited Suh Photoshops - Some of these are truly inspired, especially Suh’s size-appropriate appearance on The Price Is Right. [Kissing Suzy Kolber]

Funny, Sexy and Awesome Cosplay Of The Week - General Beatrix wins this for the rest of time. I’d marry that girl if I thought she actually knew who that is. [Gamma Squad]

The Best Burger King Commercial Ever - You know what? Even I want to eat Burger King after watching this. [Warming Glow]

Holzerman Hungers - I wouldn’t eat anything on here (except the bean curd, pending), and he probably wouldn’t touch quinoa with a ten foot meat pole, but Tom Holzerman is a friend of the site and he wants you to check out his new food blog so we’re helping him out. [Holzerman Hungers]

GWAR Reviews War Horse - I don’t seem like the kind of guy who’d be into GWAR, I know, but sh*t, I’ll watch them review anything. And fight Tracy Smothers. [Film Drunk]

Run DMC’s ‘Christmas In Hollis’ Done In Emoticons - God bless you, internet. [Smoking Section]

Hungry African Bull Frog Not Amused By Smartphone Video Game, Enacts Vengeance - Sometimes I don’t have a blurb to write, and it’s because of titles like this. The guy trying to trick a damn frog deserved to lose a finger. [UPROXX]

MMA Video Tribute: The 25 Most Brutal Finishes Of 2011 - The koppo kick is probably my favorite thing in the world. Also, watching Anderson Silva nonchalantly kick guys in the chin never gets old. [Cage Potato]

Drew Brees, The Passing Record He’s About To Break, And What A Monster Season Looks Like - One day I’m going to sit Jon down and make him teach me how to make graphs. Then I will make so many graphs, you guys! [SB Nation]

WWE Superstars With Tiny Heads - I don’t know why this exists, but Jesus mother Mary of Joseph is John Cena’s neck terrifying in context. [Tauntr]

It’s no secret that women love baseball players, and they’re also pretty big suckers for Santa. So when you combine the two of them into one man with an engagement ring in tow, well it just flat out sucks for the rest of us. In a game that was highlighted by the year’s biggest phantom whistle controversy, the New Orleans Saints barely eeked out a 22-17 win over the Tennessee Titans. But one of the Titans cheerleaders made the only worthwhile headline when she agreed to marry Santa.

During their halftime routine of gyrating hips, Janae Kram was a little creeped out by the pervy St. Nick approaching her, until he revealed to her that he was her boyfriend and Washington Nationals minor league pitcher Ben Graham. Meanwhile, every kid at that game is still crying.

“I was trying to keep my cool and do the performance,” she said, “They were telling me [before the performance] that Santa was going to do something and it could be a little embarrassing, so I was thinking the old man is going to dance with me. When I looked over and saw Ben it was really exciting.”

(Via WKRN News with video of the proposal and their reactions.)

Kram is also an aspiring actress and we certainly wish her luck in her entertainment career, as she is marrying a Single A pitcher with a 4-4 record this year. Start saving, kids!

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It appears that we are not alone in this universe in thinking that the Indianapolis Colts suck. While the New Orleans Saints were beating the snot out of the Colts to the tune of 62-7 two weekends ago, some fans now believe that the New Orleans sky was visited by football fans from another world. The NBC camera showed the sky above St. Louis Cathedral, and suddenly a strange light caught the attention of people who smoke way too much weed.

Shaped like a long rod and adorned with multiple lights, it seems that this may not be the first time that these lights have paid us a visit. According to filmmaker and guy who sees a lot of aliens, Jose Escamilla, these rods have been zipping and zapping all over the place.

“As I reviewed one of the tapes, I noticed something streak past my camera viewfinder and thought at first it was just a bird or insect,” Escamilla told The Huffington Post.

“Looking at each frame of the footage again, I knew it was something more unusual. My girlfriend at the time called them ‘rods’ as they sort of looked like some kind of life form you’d see in a microscope.”

Since that time, Escamilla has collected hundreds of taped examples from around the world of these so-called rods, which vary in physical form: Some look like centipedes with appendages and others have no appendages but appear to have lights on top of them.

(Via the HuffPo)

Hmmm, you say these UFOs look like bugs, eh? Well there has to be a very simple excuse for this.

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While a 2-win record is hardly something to be proud of through Week 7, it has become the first actual dividing line between the pretenders and contenders for this “Suck for Luck” sweepstakes. At this point in the season, there are two clear cut contenders, one terrible team that isn’t in the hunt but may benefit well beyond just a first pick, one surprisingly bad team that we didn’t think would be looking for a QB, and one team that just sucks but will probably win a few more.

We’ll get to naming those teams is a moment, but I wanted to first discuss the latest hot topic surrounding our beloved hero, Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck. The question has been raised plenty – would Luck stay another year if he didn’t like the teams that would be drafting him at No. 1?

As we discussed last week, the answer is, of course, no. He graduates at the end of the spring and would be insane to stay another season for the sake of another degree and pass up $50 million. The new question beyond that is – would he pull an Eli Manning and force a trade if he doesn’t like the team that drafts him at No. 1? At first I’d say the answer is also no, because he doesn’t have a father like Archie Manning to be a d*ck on his behalf, but then Luck’s father, Oliver, is the athletic director at West Virginia, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility that he would be involved in his son’s professional future.

After all, Luck was influenced to stay at Stanford this season by none other than Peyton Manning. That fact should make Dolphins fans a little more depressed today, but I still don’t think Miami is a city or team that any rookie turns down.

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