Two questions and their appropriate answers –

Q: If a man dresses in enormous footie pajamas, can he still dunk?
A: Yes.

Q: If he calls his baby onesie a “swagger suit”, does that make it cool?
A: LOL

Here we see Milwaukee Bucks forward and University of Washington alum Jon Brockman having a lonely fashion show in a “Swagga Suit” for Washington student company “SWAG”. To commemorate the event, Brockman is changing his name to Swagger S. McSwaggerson, middle name Swagger, because a 6-foot-7 white guy in the Washington state dunking by himself in purple long-johns that make him look like he’s cosplaying Tinky Winky is the official f**king chilled death of the word “swagger”, and for safety reasons Jon is now the only man allowed to say or think it.

Seriously, swagger has become an epidemic, and much in the way that my generation turned “awesome” into a synonym for “okay”, people today have turned swagger into a synonym for “walking upright and maintaining consciousness”. If this is swagger in any definition, I would like to remain swaggerless for the rest of my life.

Two more pictures of this abomination are after the jump.

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This gallery may not appeal to the more Hot-Cheerleaders-In-Slow-Motion-inclined members of the With Leather readership, but don’t be afraid to enjoy it, because at some point during the 1970s the Walt Disney Corporation teamed up with Wonder Bread to give away pennant stickers with loaves of bread that are literally nothing but Disney characters destroying college names with puns. Yes, that’s a sentence I’ve written.

As I see it, there are two fine ways to enjoy this:

1. Flipping through and trying to figure out which school each pennant represents, because some of them are a stretch.
2. Losing control of your neck and bashing your head against the desk in a full-body groan when you realize “Mickey Can Skate” is Michigan State, or whatever.

A third way to enjoy it is through the absurdity of the illustrations, like Cinderella doing 2,000 pounds of laundry in her ball gown or Goofy with a broken leg because you can only make so many puns about Tulane. And yes, ACC fans, here is where you learn about how Disney preappropriated your “dook” joke for Duke and made it about fowl royalty a decade or so before you were born. I kept expecting to see a Virginia Tech pennant where Shan Yu from Mulan is holding up a castrated turkey.

Note: Full credit for these goes to Disney, I guess, but credit for putting them on the Internet goes to Jason Liebig.

[h/t Disney Food Blog]

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Yowsers. Sweet sassy molassey. Oh my goodness. Additional generic exclamation of disbelief.

It is never a good thing when a basketball player is unable to leave the court under his own power. It is even worse when that player has to be rolled off the court with his right leg immobilized.

But that is the situation Texas A&M senior Derrick Roland found himself in last night after breaking the tibia and fibula in his right leg after landing awkwardly underneath the basket during A&M’s game against Washington. Well, awkwardly may not be the best way of putting it – more like “SWEET MARY MOTHER OF GOD LOOK AT HIS LEG!!”

All the grisly goodness after the jump.

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A lot of people don’t understand the mindset of Washington Huskies quarterback Jake Locker, who has opted to forgo the NFL Draft and return for his senior season at Washington. Even though some draft boards had Locker primed as a top-10 pick (even though can’t throw and has never played on a bowl-eligible team for the Huskies), Locker seems intent on returning to Seattle and working with second-year coach Steve Sarkisian on improving both of those things. And he’s getting killed for it.

Locker might be making a Shelly Long-like career move. While there’s a chance the NFL takes a while to get its act together and enforces a rookie salary cap for the 2012 NFL Draft, the odds are 50/50 that a cap might kick in for the 2011 Draft. That means the $40 million contract that Locker could sign in April might be worth less than $10 million in two years. Don’t look at this like a superfan or like someone who misses being back in college. This is big business and Locker could be making a mistake that’s even bigger than Sam Bradford’s ill-advised decision to return for one more year. –Pete Fiutak, FOXSports.com.

So Locker basically is making a coin flip to be a better prospect in a year where there theoretically be no draft at all, or by coming out now and going all David Klingler for five years and then leaving the league after one contract. It’s ballsy, but I think the extra year will do him well, even if he’s basically playing for free. I guess it’s like an internship. A very foolish, cost-prohibitive internship.

As a native of the state of Washington, I’m pleased to announce that the Apple Cup, the annual rivalry game between the Washington and Washington State, will be nationally televised on FOX at 3 p.m. Eastern this Saturday.  You may have heard of these programs this year: the once-proud Huskies are 0-10 with a lame duck high-profile failure of a coach, and Wazzu (1-10) is merely, oh, the worst major football program ever.

Lots of people are joking that this is the worst Apple Cup matchup in history… The next-worst combined records were in the 1969 Apple Cup, when the two teams entered 2-18…

[T]he Cougars may be the worst team in major college history, mostly on the evidence of the epic blowout losses they have endured. They are being outscored by an average of 48-12.

Seriously, national TV.  Whose call was that?  I know I don’t always try really hard at my job, but I don’t go out and try to get fired, either.

And yet… I may still watch it.  I like B-movies.  I like watching car crashes.  I like watching building implosions.  Who knows, this could be the Tremors of football games.  Kevin Bacon, Reba McIntyre, the worms from Dune messing with hillbillies — that’s my kinda football game.