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It’s been another crazy week in the toy box. People acting like idiots, the mainstream media playing dumb and as ESPN’s Stuart Scott likes to say (and we’re paraphrasing), “plenty of noise and bluster but no substance.”

Some observations from the other side of the nut bin:

1) See ol’ Brett Favre had arthroscopic surgery on his ankle this week. Wonder if that will convince the American media geniuses that maybe, just maybe, he’ll play one final year in the NFL with the Minnesota Vikings?

I don’t know, sounds like a guy who is serious about his return, doesn’t it? C’mon, nobody has arthro at the clinic of the finest orthopedic surgeon in the world just to sit on the couch.

Of course, the AP decided that the ankle surgery story wasn’t the big Favre story of the week. Instead, the AP went bat-loonie over Favre’s little staged pep talk to the Southern Mississippi baseball team. Seems ol’ Brett said (with an hearty laugh. I’m sure) that if the Southern Miss boys get to the college World Series, he’ll return to the Vikings.

Is AP humour impaired?

The only thing that will keep Favre out of the Vikings season opener at the Superdome on Thursday night, Sept. 9, is a slow healing ankle. A really, really, really slow healing ankle.

2) The Memorial Cup has a silly format doesn’t it? The best team in the country, the Windsor Spitfires, reaches the Memorial Cup final on Tuesday and doesn’t play again until Sunday night.

Meanwhile, the Brandon Wheat Kings play two games against the Western Hockey League champion Calgary Hitmen in that time, before playing in the final.

And wasn’t that a miscarriage of justice? The Hitmen had won five consecutive games against the Wheaties and yet they lose the semifinal in overtime and they’re out. The level of hockey is terrific, the players are great, but the tournament that’s been designed to find Canada’s finest big time junior hockey team is a dinky little four-team TV show.

It should be an eight-team event or maybe just a three-team tournament based on a number of separate best of three series.

If Windsor doesn’t win by six tonight, they mailed it in.

3) Love that the holier-than-thou American media has decided to dump all over Brian Cushing for getting caught using Performance Enhancing Drugs (I also love that media-created term, “Performance Enhancing Drugs.” It implies that they work and they’re good for you).

Cushing was the AP defensive rookie of the year in 2009-2010, but was caught using the juice and suspended for four games this coming season. AP asked the media boys to re-vote on Cushing’s award and, not surprisingly, he won a second time so his award wasn’t taken away.

That prompted a number of the American media police force to drop bombs on Cushing as if Cushing was the only player in the NFL using PEDs. Hypocritical dicks.

Interestingly, not much was made of the fact Cushing was accused, along with teammate Clay Matthews, of being a regular PED user at USC. The outstanding website, Steroid Nation, had a story on Cushing and Matthews back on April 4, 2009. You can read it here.

Now, of course, we have a load of NFL players tied to Canadian PED doctor Anthony Galea, but the mainstream media wants to crucify Cushing because those morons seem to believe — or seem to want us to believe — that Cushing is the only guy in the NFL on the juice.

It’s like their incessant whining about Mark McGwire. Sure he took PEDs, but what were the pitchers doing?

The media demands that football players spend six months of every year playing like missiles with no regard for their bodies. Then, when one takes a treatment to recover from the brutal injuries he suffers every week – just to make the fans and the media happy — the international media comes down on him like a hammer.

Too bad most media people never played any sport at an elite level, let alone football. They might have been able to develop a different opinion of what they’ve helped create: Bigger, badder, meaner monsters.

In the meantime, it looks like Santana Moss will be the next player to get hammered for the fall of Western Civilization.