Serenas meltdown, gambling and Kanye West

Thoughts from week one of the NFL: The New Orleans Saints are as entertaining as any team in the NFL... Tom Brady and the Patriots are just warming up, I wouldn't worry about him if I were a Pats' fan. Their O-line looks iffy, though... To Brady Quinn, the heartthrob Browns' QB who has been on the cover of a men's muscle magazine because he's seriously ripped: show some guts and throw the ball down the field. Female Browns fans love you because you're cute and hunky; the guys don't love you because you look like Tarzan, throw like Jane. We waited two years for THAT???...
Undeniable fact about football: your odds of winning aren't that great unless your quarterback has a name like Tom, Terry or Joe. At least 13 Super Bowl-winning teams (not quite 30 per cent) have had QBs with those three names. If he's named Chad, Brady or Carson, his team probably sucks.
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Thoughts on the U.S. Open tennis tournament: Serena Williams threatened a linesperson in her loss to Kim Clijsters, threatening to "shove this ------- ball" down her "------- throat." And then the next day she was all smiley and nice and sorry.
Everyone's entitled to a meltdown once or twice, but not even McEnroe was that obnoxious (except that time (among other times) he told a photographer he was going to "shove that ------- camera right up your ---" You can fill in the blanks there I'm sure - no one could say it was classy, but it was funny).
Clijsters spent two-and-a-half years away from tennis, had a baby and came back to win the U.S. Open. That's rather cool as there probably aren't many other (if any) female tennis pros who are moms, but for the most part the media fixated on Serena Williams's F-bombing instead of Clijsters's accomplishment.
In the men's final, somebody named Juan Martin del Potro, a 6'6" beast with a bludgeoning forehand, did the improbable and pounded Roger Federer into the New York night. Until last week, I'm not sure I ever heard of Juan Martin del Potro.... they should stop selling beer at tennis matches in New York. At Wimbledon, they sip champagne and conduct themselves with decorum. In New York, they guzzle beer and act like... well they act like New Yorkers guzzling beer. Not that there's anything wrong with beer, per se. Or even New Yorkers. But mostly, beer.
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Non-Sports Thought of the Week: Who is Kanye West to steal the thunder from little sweetheart Taylor Swift at one of those God-awful music award shows the other night? Seriously, who IS Kanye West? Let's see him write something as good as that Romeo & Juliet song, maybe then he can confiscate her microphone. Furthermore, why hasn't Kanye West been targeted in a drive-by shooting yet?
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Sports Gambling Thought: Gambling is bad and when doing so, you're just giving money to the non-accountable ALC. However, you gotta love a woman who tells the cashier she needs to put out some Pro-Line lists because "it's Sunday and football's starting today." Add to that, she told her husband he was crazy for taking the Lions over the Saints. A woman who knows that much about football can be forgiven for a lot of things, such as her Canadiens' hat.
The wife later asks me, "Did you bet on the Browns?"
"Yeah, but I feel good about this game."
"It's a waste of two dollars."
"Wrong again, woman!!! It was four dollars."