>>>UPDATE 2<<<The final weigh in ended up being just under 163, so I only put on about 5.5. lbs during Super Bowl Sunday, but luckily by this morning I'm back down to the 150's and on my way to recovery. PS - the Jalepeno cornbread were really the big hit of the party (compliments to the wife).

>>>UPDATE 1<<< I just did a preliminary post game weigh in and came through at 162.7, definitely below expected but there is still a lot of beer to be drank.

I'm a fairly slender late 20's male (6ft, 155 - ding!) with a pretty high metabolism, so I have the ability to put on and take off weight very quickly. It's not strange for my weight to fluctuate by 3 or 4 pounds at different points in the day - and when I was training for a marathon last year I could literally take down a full In-N-Out double-double meal with a milkshake and be still quite hungry. However, my greatest display of eating weight gain occurred during the 2004 Super Bowl  - in that game the Pats beat Panthers, but the most memorable part of the game was Janet Jackson's infamous "wardrobe malfunction" - where I put on approximately 8.7 lbs from kick off to the end of the game. Now most of this was probably water weight from the half dozen brews I took down, but there was a considerable amount of wings and seven layer dip adding to that mix.

For today's game, the wife and I are hosting a small affair for 10-15 friends and (given our inclination to root for the Saints) have taken on a "Southern" theme - think hurricanes, fried chicken, mac & cheese, cole slaw, shrimp po' boys, etc. We will also have a variety of more traditional items - chips & guac, beer, pigs in a blanket (ok thats not so traditional, but they are delicious) - and then are washing it all down with some Coca-Cola cake and ice cream.

I'm entering todays all day pig-out slightly heavier than normal and have just weighed myself and am tipping in at 157.4 lbs 2 hours before kick off and without having eaten anything today. The wife thinks I'm going to finish up this evening at 164, but I'm hoping to hold it together and stay right on 162. I guess it will depend on how good the game is (figure a better game means more engaged and less roaming in the kitchen) and of course how good the cake is - because a couple of slices of that business and I could be clearing 165 and nearing a new personal record.

Enjoy the game - and all of the eating!

Tonight the Lebron's crew got a solid W at home against the Lakers - but the coolest thing on the court (other than McLovin sitting front row) was the Cav's throwback jerseys in that retro burgundy. Although the NBA teams are kind of hosed because they all have to wear adidas - and we all know every hoopster wants to only rock Jordan brand - the Cav's do an awesome job in bringing back old skool looks and freshening them up with a new style. For starters it looks cool, but its also a genius way to sell more LeBron jerseys. When we get our squad, you can believe that we will be sporting some very clean fits - and they will all be for sale in the concession stands... even the sliding shorts.

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I'm sorry for being horribly wrong about the Chargers-Jets game this weekend.  Congrats on beating the Chargers and shutting me and the rest of all the Jets haters up.  I'll be shaving my head either today or tomorrow and I'll upload the picture.  I'm now going to say goodbye to my hair.  

Our fine writer Ashwin has vowed to shave his head if the Jets win today's game!  I'll tell you what, he's made this game a lot more interesting for me.

I don't know if this is as bad as the Super Bowl Shuffle or the greatest viral video ever. Either way, I want the ringtone immediately. And after a Debbie Downer of a sports day (thanks to Big Mac and Pete Carroll) this should put a little sunshine in your life.

Now who's ready for the Playoffs?

The new Air Jordan Alpha 1 - kinda like a Van Gogh done in 3D, or an animatronic Rodin sculpture.

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The Jordan brand aka the coolest company on earth is doing something that we find to be quiet cool - they are taking the classic Jordan 1 silhouette and putting modern day technology into the beautiful ground breaking shoe that debuted some 25 years ago.  When we buy our team you can bet your sweet ass that our team will be decked out in Jordan fits, we are glad to see that our player's will look fly and still be able to fly!

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Recently, the Florida Panthers unveiled and debuted their newest jersey. Take a look at the picture to the left. At first glance, could you tell which team was the Panthers? I couldn't, and I grew up in South Florida.

Besides the fact that they borrowed more than a little from the Pittsburgh Penguins alternate jersey, Florida's newest jersey says nothing about the team being panthers. In fact, these might be the least intimidating jerseys I've ever seen.

Back in the day, when the team was known for slap-shooting rats in their locker room, the team looked fierce. Their jerseys were mainly a blood-like red color with a toothy Panther, mouth wide open. On these alts, the panther head is barely noticeable, and the only red that exists is the kitty's tongue. The round team name logo was straight jacked off the Penguins jerseys, as were the colors. I could see these being ok with the red in place of the baby blue, or gold for that matter, but baby blue? Why not fuchsia or burnt sienna? Either of those colors makes about as much sense as baby blue.

As for the new FLA tag, it looks more like a new logo for the SunPass express lane or some new tourism brand instead of a hockey team. What was their marketing department thinking? "We need a logo for our hockey team...something that says we're a brutal, toothless, cold as ice, bloody hockey team...how about a sun with a state abbreviation?" 

The uniform itself is fine, it just doesn't fit the Florida Panther's brand at all, and just plain doesn't make sense. We here at frontofficefans.com are all for alternate and throwback jerseys, especially when they're "out of the box" (big fan of these and these), but these just don't make sense and rank amongst the worst (or just plain stupidest) alternate jersey ever.

Agreed?

LEGGINGS! Throwbacks have been all the rage since they started appearing in NFL games and since Mitchell & Ness started cranking them out, but this winter's hot seller is not a jersey. It's a pair of 50-year-old butt ugly brown and yellow high socks that the Denver Broncos have been strutting around this season.

According to the NYTimes, "Tim Kellond, who runs the Broncos’ team store in Denver...has sold more than 1,800 pairs of the high socks at $14.95 and receives about 250 calls a week from customers asking when more will arrive from the manufacturer who, he said, has run out of brown yarn."

As you might've read in a previous article on FrontOfficeFans.com, we strongly believe that throwback shorts would be a hot seller if teams were to start selling them. But socks? Seriously? We're all for throwbacks, and to be honest, we actually think Denver's throwback unis look pretty saucy, but what are you going to do with a pair of throwback leggings? Heck, what would you do with a pair of CURRENT leggings? Does anyone actually wear these out in public?

We can't imagine anyone in their right mind wearing these in any public venue (including INVESCO Field at Mile High) but here's a challenge for you - if you see someone out on the town wearing a pair of Broncos throwback socks, take a picture, email us and the first person to submit a picture will win a Jeff Kent LA Dodgers bobblehead. Cause seriously, a Jeff Kent bobblehead is MORE exciting a pair of socks.