Pizza, Papa and Pot plus little Marconis

Are Peyton Manning and Papa John the driving force in getting the marijuana law passed in California and other states? What is really behind the two million free pizzas give away? Peyton Manning - better businessman becoming a franchise owner or a better quarterback? Are Peyton’s best pizza customers NFL lineman? Just thoughts to ponder.

PPJ pizza - loved by NFL linemen and those with the munchies

Stan VanGundy spoke openly about leaving Orlando, the original plan to join ESPN in studio and having his brother, Dan, at the games until ESPN decided to "go in another direction". Was David Stern involved in Stan’s ESPN demise? Welcome to NBCSN, Stan! Home of the non-mother-shippers.

Job blocker

Do you think?
Dear Chris Matthews: A natural disaster is never a good thing, ever. There’s no good place, no good time, ever. Even prior to an election. Even children know that.
 

Chris, listen to the wisdom of others for a change please

Poll question problems:
We began with: Would you rather be the POTUS or NFL Commissioner? Dan quickly tired of that and the new question became: Did your election network coverage depend on the appearance of the commentators? For Paulie and Fritzy it was a deciding factor. Then the question changed again to: If you had an extremely hot spouse and they were strongly opposing your political views, would that make a difference? Paulie and McLovin knew right away in the dating process of their wives to be political preferences and views. Fritzy said it wouldn’t matter if their views were different and Seton would never had married his wife or anyone else, no matter how hot they were if their political views were different than his. At least none of these will be stolen by other shows. Can’t we all just get along?

Time to put down our signs and come together again

How tough is it being an NFL head coach? According to Jimmy Johnson if you let it consume you, as it did him, it can cost you a marriage, family and friendships. He felt fortunate that he was able to repair the family and friendship ties.

If he asked, would you be his friend?

Big surprise day!
The Danettes took their best shots at guessing the surprise before the show. Three of the Danettes were initially declared close and then it was revealed that one did get it right. Paulie inquired if it was a physical or event surprise. Of course Dan’s response was that it was a physical event surprise. Seton was feeling good with his guess he submitted and in the end he went two for two. Big MVD points this month to date. So what was the surprise? Baby macaroni! No, that’s not right. Baby Marconis! Congratulations Danettes on your awards! Best supporting cast to a Marconi winner. May your fingers not cramp as you’re telling people you are a Marconi winner.

Whoop Whoop! A Marconi for everyone!
Thanks Dad/Dan!

 

Welcome NBCSN Audience!

It’s day one at the new school, NBCSN, and Dan and the Danettes are ready to impress the only way they know how, by being themselves. They are now under the same NBC cozy blanket as Matt Lauer, Jay Leno, Bob Costas, Tina Fey and too many others to mention. Across the country agent phones are ringing with the stars demanding a re-negotiation of their contracts.

Directv channel 220 or check your local cable network

 
Invitation was extended to the new audience to look about the mancave and join the Lockeroom on the website. They’re a snarky group of listeners/viewers that play for keeps and no one is off limits for criticism and comments.

Join the Dan Nation and Lockeroom today!

Talk about frayed nerves, Dan visited Central Park on Sunday only to get railed on by a native New Yorker who thought he was a runner from the cancelled marathon. Dan was dressed in sweats with his Starbucks and paper and that was all it took. Dan even let the guy know he agreed with his viewpoint but that just wasn’t enough. I’m sure not all New Yorkers are like this, right?

DP loves his Starbucks

Celebrity sighting over the weekend while Paulie and McLovin were at the Oregon/USC game on Saturday. Howie Long, HOF Raiders DE/NFL on Fox and Chris Long, current DE Rams, were all decked out in Duck gear. Kyle Long is a senior offensive lineman for the ducks. QUACK!

Scary duck Kyle Long

Some just don’t learn – you don’t gamble sports with a former sports gambler. Today McLovin chose to make a bet with Dan. The bet: If Lebron James is named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the year Dan wins. McLovin gets the world to win. If Dan loses, McLovin gets to have dinner on a Saturday night with the crew from FNIA. If McLovin loses, what he has to give up is still to be finalized, as in: written in blood, witnessed by a priest and rabbi, triple notarized, and all actions recorded on video with back up, sealed in a safe deposit box. All this to keep McLovin honest, stick to his word and pay up if he loses. Just kidding, McL.

McLovin rolls the dice against The Boss
Who will be the winner?

The struggle isn't over yet.  Please keep donating and holding the victims of Sandy in your thoughts and prayers. 

American Red Cross website:
www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002 

Text: REDCROSS and donate $10 to 90999

Phone:  1-800-RED-CROSS (1-800-733-2767)

 

Two full days of fun, fun, fun

Back to my normal position today and ready to go!

What got Dan to where he needed to go after the storm? His handsome Dodge Ram Truck. High water? No problem. Tree limbs in the street? "Dodged" them. Downed power lines? Drove right on by. Big winds? Never felt them in his solid, heavy duty Ram and never heard them in the insulated cab. Space to pack up your stuff and go? The cargo box of this baby gives you length, width and depth plus the box side wells give you tons of room. Wait in line for gas? No way! Dan always felt safe in getting from point A to point B in his Ram and his truck showed it. The 2013 Ram gets 25 mpg highway.

DP in his beautiful Ram 1500

 
From Wednesday: Fritzy had his beloved Halloween sports related names. Basically, this is the same list he’s had since 2002. He always says something along the line of, "I thought we could have some fun with this" to get them on the show. These are sports names that can loosely fit into the theme of Halloween. Because this is the same ol’ same ol’ Paulie didn’t even put it on the morning run down after Fritzy’s pitch. Not satisfied with Paulie’s decision, Fritzy proceeded to send it to Dan in an email. Dan still wasn’t going to go there and Fritzy knew it, so when Dan created an accidental opening, Fritzy was right there to jump in and start rattling them off managing to give the whole list. My new favorite line from Dan: "Did I stutter? Did your ears flap?"

McLovin’s Halloween outfit worn to the studio yesterday wasn’t much different than his everyday Ellen outfit that he wears other than he substituted a vest for the V neck sweater. Worked his Ellen dances moves again. Lovin it! Now had he added a short, straight, blonde wig, now we’re talking! Looks like McLovin didn’t shower this morning – baseball cap day.

Additional Halloween tid bit: There’s a long standing rivalry between Seton and his wife at home. Seton is a Yankee apologist and his wife is a Red Sox rocker. Seton took his son trick-or-treating not understanding the costume his wife put Kieran in. Seton thought it might be from Where the Wild Things are and introduced his son as a green monster. He was close. His son was "The Green Monster" the nickname for Fenway Park’s 37’ high left field wall. Smoked!

The Green Monster leaves right handers shaking in their cleats
photo courtesy of @himynameisseton

Dan often wonders why they don’t give the SI swimsuit models suits that fit. Is there a shortage of material? Seton questioned if it was due to the economy. Sure, yep, that’s it, the economy. That morphed into how would you feel if your wife were in the SI calendar? Everyone would be thrilled and thought it would be an honor, yet Dan held back knowing how guys like them had the thoughts they do about the models. The older Dan’s daughters have become, the more we hear him say things along that line. Good dad Dan. But hold the bus, Dan loves the John Belushi peeping Tom scene from Animal House. By the way, did you know that the SI swimsuit models love McLovin? Not for his good looks or intellect. Because they think of him as one of the girls. Won’t that suck the testosterone out of your system.

Poor girls the economy has robbed them of their material

Fritzy's current obession with Hayden Panettierre is really getting creepy. Dude, drop it already Creepy with a capital C. Here’s a previous Celebrity Beach Bowl snip it: JLo was once escorted by Fritzy during the CBB but didn’t get a chance to do his awkward 3 second "Hmmm" hug because her burley body guards were surrounding him.

Fritzy just can't get enough

In the boy that was close category:
Seton and Fritzy were playing with Seton’s current favorite toy, the zippy yellow football. Seton was in the wrong area of the studio doing Hall of Fame catches and the ball got away from him knocking over Paulie’s picture of his late father on a motorcycle holding Paulie when he was little and the Father’s Day mug that Paulie got from his two girls. Fortunately there was no harm to that foul. Seton’s guilt of what could have been went with him to his the box appearance.

Little Seton isn’t so little any more - How do you gain weight while you’re in the hospital –
Paulie offers up his sister to give Dan shrinkage
No, that last part just didn’t come out right. What do all of these things have in common? New DP gear is in just in time for the holidays and it’s photo shoot day before wing sauce hits the front of their shirts. Fritzy, after being in the hospital for almost two weeks, not only had food snuck into the hospital but also felt he had to make up for lost ground once he got out. What does this mean? Another shirt size up. Latest nickname for Seton, Mr. Tubby, since he no longer can wear medium swag without it snuggly fitting over the stomach. He also struggled mightily trying to get off a smedium pull over. It was like watching Houdini escape dangling upside down out of a straight jacket. He did strike his best male model pose for us today. Work it babe! Paulie’s sister loves how Dan looks in green. The polo shirts that came in were all in XL, too large for Dan. So what did Paulie do? Offered up his sister to do some shrinkage, laundry shrinkage that is. Side note: The Passion Bucket earned another dollar today during the swag look in thanks to…….. you guessed it, McLovin. Mic not on, you loose a buck. I wonder how much he has contributed since Dan instituted the Passion Bucket program.  DP merchandise is available at: www.danpatrickgear.com  The brand, brand new stuff isn't on the website yet. 

Stay cozy and warm like Paulie with this stadium blanket
available on the website now

Did you know: Dan was featured prominantly in Brad Paisley’s video, I’m Gonna Miss Her (the fishin’ song), that won the CMA Video of the Year award.  Unfortunately, Brad didn’t prepare an acceptance speech because he didn’t think he would win and left Dan out of the laundry list of people he thanked. Side note: Brad’s wife, Kimberly Williams-Paisley is now eligible for Cougar of the Week and as Fritzy says, she’s hangin’ in there nicely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwRrKaq0IyY

Big meeting today at Buffalo Wild Wings after the show in preparation of the network addition of NBCSN was announced early in the show. Maybe they want to have Seton bring back his favorite lines – dude, sick dude and balls dude or Fritzy’s porno pictograph. Plenty of time for Fritzy’s neuroses to be at it’s fullest by the time they get to B-Dubs as he was talking about it already during his box appearance. Growing pains can be painful. Time to air it out and come to Jesus!

More reasons to watch:Dan got a shipment of That’s My Boy videos at the man cave for future audience give aways. How to win TBA.

A Box Score to Remember: During the Phone Booth segment Fritzy went to Fritzyland recalling a past dalliance he had. Now we know why he is so adamant about doing the Cougar of the Week segment. He was once a boy toy to his own Cougar, Simone, who it sounds like made Fritzy the sexual being he is today. Thanks a lot Simone. Paulie ran away, McLovin hid his eyes and Seton could not stop laughing as Fritzy shared his story. Keep it coming Fritzy!

Mid-reaction to Fritzy speaking of his personal cougar Simone
photo courtesy of @Kid67y

 

 

 

My favorite places for Sandy relief and support:  

 

T Shirts:

http://jettylife.com/2012/10/31/hurricane-sandy-relief-t-shirt/ … pic.twitter.com/HD75DPz4

 

Website:  http://www.redcross.org/charitable-donations

 

Text message: Text the word REDCROSS to 90999 to donate $10 to American Red Cross Disaster Relief. As in the case with other donations via mobile, the donation will show up on your wireless bill, or be deducted from your balance if you have a prepaid phone. You need to be 18 or older, or have parental permission, to donate this way. (If you change your mind, text the word STOP to 90999.)

 

Concert: NBC Universal will host a benefit for Sandy victims on Friday at 8 p.m. ET. Money collected will be donated to the American Red Cross relief efforts.

 

Continued prayers to the victims.

Ridin' out a side effect of Sandy

Mike Florio from Profootballtalk.com and NBC sports all things professional football, coming from the snow covered mountain regions of West Virginia, informed us that there would be no DP today. Although the efforts were valiant, Paulie and crew were not able to resuscitate the old boy. Although we love Mike, it just wasn’t the same. What effect did that have on America? Here a just a few examples:

• Housewives discovered how dirty their homes were, but decided to leave them another day in case there was no Dan two days in a row.
• Deliveries were delayed due to lack of focus on finding addresses and following directions.
• Parents rediscovered all the things about their children that they hope they’ll grow out of, soon.
• Production slowed in the work place as Dan helped keep workers motivated and they discovered how bad their jobs really were.
• Students were not able to study, as school was not as exciting as it once was and homework was truly tedious.
• Restaurants over cooked food and undelivered in service.
• Gas stations refused to sell gas for less than $4.00 a gallon.
• Grocery stores only sold organic foods.
• Burger joints became vegan bistros.
• Bars only had non-alcoholic drinks.
• Scores girls put their clothes on.
• Most importantly, no other sports show could stand up to what Dan provides his audience five days a week.

Milford Mancave safe and sound

Come back Milford fiber optics!
Come back Dan and Danettes!
America needs you!

Continued thoughts and prayers to those dealing with Sandy's aftermath -