The above is a photograph of an actual shirt worn by a Cuse fan to this weekend's game. (Ok, it was me, but how awesome is it?)

Ok I promise I have a really good excuse for the lateness of this post. I had an hour and a half long phone conversation with my best friend. If true friendship isn't a good excuse, I implore you to tell me what is. Oh, and side note, in the midst of this conversation I missed someone else's call. Have you ever been phone tagged by someone you do not know and for all you know have never met? Well I have now, with a phone from my own area code and the person actually said "Tag, you're it" in the voice mail. I do not know what's going on.

Anyways, I'm going to get the really boring stuff out of the way first. Syracuse vs. Akron. I know, I know, Syracuse won and I should be happy, and I am. Greg "I Still Play Poorly" Paulus was pretty much taken out of the game plan, with Cuse running 42 times and calling pass plays 22 times. Paulus was relegated to only throwing to people who were close enough to reach out and touch him. Meanwhile, my boy Supafly Nassib only threw one pass the entire game, a potential 50 yard touchdown dropped by former QB Cody Catalina.

Those statistics aside, I barely even feel like I watched the game because it was so nondescript. Delone Carter got the ball and ran over 3 people pretty much every play, whenever Syracuse lined up in shotgun the snaps went 10 feet over the QB's head, and Akron played awfully. I don't really know why but I kind of sleepwalked through the game. I missed the student section, I'll tell you that much. For some reason parents don't get as worked up over Cuse football as a bunch of beer-swilling, barechested, brightly colored students. So the game was so quiet I could have napped quite comfortably. But we won, and that's the important thing. Way to go Cuse (minus Paulus)!

[Insert fitting segue here] And that brings us to the origin of the rally cap. Who thought that wearing their cap inside out and at a rakish angle (I love the word rakish) could bring their team luck and an improbable comeback? Well I looked into it and here's what I found. I was extremely surprised to find that the inception of this tradition brought about one of the most catastrophic and epic FAILs of all time. In 1986, down 3 games to 2 in the World Series and trailing in the game, the New York Mets all decided to turn their caps inside out in the seventh inning. The fans followed suit. They were playing the Red Sox, who took a 2 run lead in the tenth inning, but we all know what happened after that. The magic of the rally caps let one Bill Buckner make an error that let the Mets win and go on to take the Series the next game.

I had no idea that the rally cap had such an amazing genesis. I was expecting it to be some drunk reliever putting his hat on the wrong way when he was called in to pitch or something. But this is even more awesome. Somehow, though, the rally cap has been forgotten. In baseball games when it is appropriate, very few people bother with it anymore. What I say is this. There are three things you should know about baseball. One: the Cubs will never ever win another World Series. Two: the Twins are the best team ever. And three: rally caps have worked in the past and will work for years to come.

Speaking of things that are great, how about the fact that DJ Hero is very very not a great thing? I've been seeing commercials for it for the past week, and I believe it stands next to Bill Cosby's raps as a sign of the decline of human civilization. Why do we need to pretend to be a DJ in a video game? What does DJ-ing even entail? Is it for the Zoolander-esque situations we all find ourselves in when knowing how to crossfade could save the life of the Malaysian prime minister? I guess we need to wait until the game comes out to find the answers to these pressing questions. Thank God that we don't have to actually pretend to make music anymore, we can pretend to mix music that other pretend people are pretending to make.

Decline of human civilization #2: Horror movies. Seriously, has anyone paid attention to what we call a horror movie anymore? I've taken to reading movie synopses on IMDB and I have to say- people are getting a little deranged because what is horror now is so disturbing. Compare it to 50 years ago. 1954 was Creature From the Black Lagoon, 1958 gave us The Blob, and 1960 was Psycho. A movie made in the last year, Trick R Treat is about people severing heads, a demon child with a pumpkin head, and a schoolbus full of zombie kids who dismember everybody. Saw is about interesting choices-whether to die or inflict some limb severance or maiming on yourself (or another person). The Happening is about people killing themselves in horribly graphic ways. Is the human condition changing so much that to be scared we need to cross the line of sanity so much? I guess the 50's and 60's were a much simpler time when a person dressed up in a monster suit could scare people, but now we need death in increasingly gory and imaginative ways to do it. Maybe I'm just talking crazy here, but the whole horror genre is kind of getting out of control.

Tim's team updates- the Broncos sit at 6-0 after not playing last week, Syracuse football is 3-4 now but it feels like they didn't play. I apologize if this post seemed more like me being angry than me being funny, but it'll be better next week, I promise!