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Friday Round-Up: NFL Draft Goes Primetime, the T.O. Show Sucks, You Wish You Were Matt Stafford

By ArtieFufkin

Happy belated 4th of July! Especially to the blond in the pink top.

Things have sort of gotten away from us here at ReadandReact since around the 4th of July, when a blur of whiskey, fireworks and real life responsibilities stepped in to interrupt your regularly scheduled pointless NFL banter.  And for that, we’d like to apologize.

But let’s not kid ourselves. July is a particularly painful time for NFL news (we’re getting into Fantasy preview territory now), and since we won’t waste space on that attention whore who shall remain nameless, it’s been a little light on fodder for our cynical rants of late.

We’ll try to pick things up now that we’re heading into training camp, and there might be some semblance of actual football news.  Or not.  I mean, it’s not like we’re getting paid for this.  Get off our backs, okay?!?

Here’s your Friday Round-Up:

• NFL Draft Expands to 3 days in 2010:  First round to be broacast live on Thursday in primetime.  Second and Third rounds Friday night.  Fourth-Seventh on Saturday.  Hmmmm … so entire weekends will no longer go to waste?  Mixed feelings on this one, I gotta say.

• Good for Matt Stafford: I have no idea where the banner photo above is from (apparently taken on or around the 4th of July), but it’s nice to see the #1 draft pick is enjoying himself before his first NFL training camp begins. I mean, it’s all downhill for the poor bastard in Detroit.

• The T.O. Show premiered on VH1 this week, and it was just about the steaming pile we expected it to be (see this spot-on review from the Boston Herald). The latest “reality show” addition to the VH1 non-music video stable is a badly staged outlet for Owens’ unchecked ego, and it succeeds in revealing T.O. as a bigger child off the field than even imaginable.  He spends most of the show shirtless and being scolded by his publicists/friends/handlers, Mo’ and Kita (neither of whom, incidentally, were responsible for the famous “25 million reasons to live” quote during the T.O. overdose scare of 2006, like I had hoped).  They nag, he rolls his eyes and flexes … the highlight of the show is waiting to see whether or not Terrell ends up nailing his realtor.

Watch the awful highlight clip after the jump, and save yourselves from watching the show.

I give the T.O. show 3 episodes before it starts dividing the VH1 roster like a cancer.  At the first sign of bad ratings, Owens is going to throw Ricki Lake & the Charm School girls under the bus for being a poor lead-in. And I just can’t wait to see what happens when the egos of Bret Michaels and New York clash with T.O. in the VH1 cafeteria!!!

Maybe VH1 does know what they’re doing, after all.  Like a desperate GM bringing in T.O. to sell tickets, he could end up saving the network.  Or just lowering the bar for all of television as we know it.  Probably the latter.