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TransGriot NFL Picks-Wild Card Weekend

2012-01-07T13:00:00.000-08:00

The regular season ended with me going 12-4 during Week 17 to finish the season with a 164-92 NFL game prognostication record for the year.

Not bad considering it's been a while, it was the first season I've done so since I started compiling this blog and with two weeks left in the regular season I was trailing Michael Watts by four games.

Mr. Watts also went 12-4 (no thanks to the Arizona Cardinals winning in OT) for us to remain tied.

We are definitely doing this again for the 2012 NFL season. Any other bloggers wanna join in for the 2012 NFL season let me know.

Now it's NFL playoff time as the race to see who gets to Indianapolis to play in the Super Bowl starts. For the first time since they started play in 2002 my hometown NFL franchise is one of the teams involved

Here's Mike's thoughts on Wild Card Weekend and now who I'm picking for these games.

The Saturday games are the AFC South Division champion Texans hosting the Cincinnati Bengals and the NFC South Division champion New Orleans Saints hosting the Detroit Lions.

The 10-6 Texans have 12 players on injured reserve and have had key players and even defensive coordinator Wade Phillips miss games this year due to injuries.

We get Andre Johnson, offensive lineman Mike Brisel and TE Owen Daniels back for this rematch of a game the Texans erased a nine point second half deficit and needed a clutch fourth quarter drive to win in Cincinnati.

And don't forget the Texans have the second best rushing attack in the NFL featuring RB's Arian Foster and Ben Tate to go with a stifling defense.

The Bengals surprised some people by finishing 9-7 and making it to the playoffs out of the rough and tumble AFC North. They got major contributions from wide receiver AJ Green, TE Jerome Gresham and rookie QB Andy Dalton.

Dalton is from the Houston suburb of Katy and won a state championship for the Katy Tigers and a bowl game as TCU's QB against my Cougars (arrgh) in Reliant Stadium, but he's facing the Number 2 defense in the NFL, was sick for most of the week and a raucous home crowd will be waiting in Reliant that the Texans players will be feeding off of in the team's first ever playoff game and the first for a Houston based NFL team since 1994.
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The game will be another close nail biting affair for Texans fans, but the Texans win it

The NFC South champion Saints are hosting a Detroit Lions team making their first playoff appearance in the 21st Century. The Lions have offensive firepower with a 5000 yard passer of their own in Matthew Stafford, Pro Bowl wideout Calvin 'Megatron' Johnson and a young improving defensive line anchored by Ndamukong Suh.

But can this NFC North runner up squad hang with the Saints prolific offense and Drew Brees, who passed for 5,478 yards and obliterated Dan Marino's NFL single season passing mark that had stood since 1984?

Mark Ingram may be out for this game, but the Saints still have a potent stable of running back headlined by Pierre Thomas and Darren Sproles to do all the stuff in the Saints offense that Reggie Bush used to, an outstanding receiver corps, a pro Bowl TE in Jimmy Graham and a defense that can get the job done.

Oh yeah, did I mention that the Saints are unbeaten this year in the Superdome?

So to answer the question I asked in an earlier paragraph. Nope.   Saints will win this one.

Sunday's games will feature the NFC East Champion New York Giants hosting the Atlanta Falcons in the first playoff game at Met Life Stadium and the 12-4 Pittsburgh Steelers headed to Denver to face the 8-8 AFC West champion Broncos

The hate has already been flowing this week between the Giants and Falcons and this game should be a fun one.

The 9-7 Giants may be the first NFC East champ to win the division with less than 10 games since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger, but they finished the season 3-1 and are playing well.

Granted, the 10-6 Falcons aren't chopped liver. They were the runner ups in the NFC South division and do have an explosive offense helmed by quarterback Matt Ryan, RB Michael Turner and their own outstanding wideout in rookie Julio Jones.

But Ryan is 0-2 as a playoff starter and their defense is suspect when you compare it to the Giants defense with players such as Jason Pierre-Paul, Justin Tuck, Antrel Rolle, and Mathias Kiwanuka.

You'll probably see wideout Victor Cruz doing the samba in the end zone at least once during this game with the NY Giants winning a close one.

The banged up NFL North runner up Steelers catch a break by playing the conservafools favorite team in the Denver Broncos, who backed into the playoffs and the AFC West title. They have cooled off significantly since they went on a six game winning streak in the middle of the season chock full of miraculous come from behind wins that inflated the Tebow legend.

More props should go to the Denver defense anchored by Elvis Dumervil and Von Miller who played their butts off and kept the broncos in those games that ended with those miraculous comebacks.

Tim Tebow has flamed out against stiffer competition, and it ain't gonna get any easier with the Steelers defense loading up the box to stuff Willis McGahee, blitzing him from every conceivable angle and spot on the field, daring Tebow to throw and making sure he stays in the pocket while doing so.

Ben Roethlisberger won't have Rashard Mendenhall to hand the ball off to since he's out with a torn ACL and will be hobbling around on a sore ankle. But he still has more offensive weapons to play with such as speedster Mike Wallace.

The Steelers barring some strange set of circumstances should get out of Colorado with a win.

Who do I like for the Super Bowl? Green Bay and Baltimore are the best teams on paper. But that's why you play the games as Herman Edwards famously said. We'll see if they're both at Lucas Oil Stadium on February 5.

Go Texans!

Does The GOP Voter Hate Women Or African-Americans?

2012-01-06T22:00:00.000-08:00

Another cartoon that has too much truth in it. I say both.

'Work It' Ain't Working For The Puerto Rican Community Either

2012-01-06T19:00:00.000-08:00

For those of you who have been keeping up with the latest news and views in the trans community as the 2k12 goes through week one of the 51 remaining in this year you are probably aware of the kerfluffle that has been building since May over the problematic show Work It.

It has garnered protests, pleas from transpeople and our allies to either rewrite, recast or cancel the show with those requests being ignored by ABC and the producers.

Maybe they should have listened to the trans community.

Thanks to perusing ENDAblog I have advised of another reason I can hate on the show besides the fact it's full of trans stereotypes and it sucks. Can you say 'anti-Puerto Rican racism' people? Thought you could..

Now ABC has another marginalized community on their azz about a replacement show that's getting negative reviews reams of negative publicity and a worse Nielsen rating than the canceled show it replaced.

And this latest controversy ain't gonna help those anemic ratings either.

ABC has two choices at this point. They can either revamp Work It or put it out of its misery and cancel it. Then again, it may be too late for Option A.

2011 Texans Watch-Historic Playoff Game Against Bengals

2012-01-06T10:00:00.000-08:00

The excitement is building in H-town for the first ever playoff game in Texans history that will take place on Saturday afternoon at 3:30 PM against the Cincinnati Bengals.

It'll not only be the first NFL playoff game between two starting rookie quarterbacks assuming TJ Yates and Andy Dalton are both well enough to start, but the first one hosted by a Houston NFL franchise since the 12-4 AFC Central Division champion Oilers played a 1993 one next door in the Astrodome against the Kansas City Chiefs.

We Houston Texans fans hope this game has a much happier ending than that one did 18 years ago when Joe Montana had one last playoff comeback in his Hall of Fame bag of tricks and marched 90 yards through Buddy Ryan's defense for the game winning TD and ruin probably the best chance the Oilers had since the Luv Ya Blue days of going to the Super Bowl. .

Our AFC South Division Champs will have Andre Johnson back, which should help our youngling signal caller out immensely and our running game, since they won't be able to stack the box and dare TJ to throw on them.

I'll have my deep steel blue on and like every Texans fan in the Houston area will have the TV tuned into the playoff pigskin proceedings at Reliant Stadium.

If the Texans win, they get a January 15 return match up in the Divisional Round with the Baltimore Ravens.

Shut Up Fool Awards- First Shut Up Fool of 2012 Edition

2012-01-05T22:00:00.000-08:00

We're now six days into 2012 and since it's Friday, you know what that means. It's time to pass out the first of 52 weekly Shut up Fool Awards for the 2K12.

Sadly, the stupidity didn't take a holiday or get left behind in 2011, and we have many fools to choose from this week.

In the running for our initial award of this year are the usual group nominations for the Republican Party and Fox Noise, 2011 Shut Up Fool of The Year Herman Cain, 2009 Shut Up Fool of the Year Michael Steele, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Tagg Romney, Pat Robertson, Gov Scott Walker (R-WI), and for the last time since she's suspending her campaign Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)

Honorable mention goes to Newt Gingrich for his jacked up comment in which he stated 'he'll come to the NAACP convention (that will be in Houston BTW) and tell the African-American community why they should be demanding paychecks instead of food stamps'.

The NAACP convention will be here in Houston this July. We'll be looking forward to calling your bigoted azz out when you and wifey number three get here.

It was so tight between two people I let the people decide who hit me up on my FB page, and the winner of 2012's inaugural Shut Up Fool Award is none other than Mr. Man on Dog himself, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum.

In addition to pissing off women and the gay community in the run up to Tuesday's Iowa caucus in which he lost by 8 votes, he pissed off the Black community with this racist dog whistle comment while discussing welfare programs in Iowa..

“I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them someone’s money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.”

Umm dude, it's people who look like you who are the major beneficiaries of welfare, and contrary to right wing opinion, African-Americans do pay taxes. Besides, your party by attacking governemnt sector and union jobs is erasing our opportunity and other middle class Americans to earn money at good middle class pay rates.

Your fellow conservatives were right about you, and you bring to life a comment describing the Keystone State in which it's said that "Pennsylvania is Pittsburgh in the west, Philadelphia in the east and Alabama in the middle."

Rick Santorum, shut up fool.

RicKKK Santorum Strikes Again!

2012-01-05T20:30:00.000-08:00

I can always count on Kat Rose at ENDAblog to have something to say about the issues inside and outside this community, and Rick Santorum's recent jacked up racist comments in the runup to the just concluded Iowa Caucus are just another example of it.

And, again, lets also not forget how much of the wealth that underwrites so much of the truly anti-American political subversion was inherited over the generations from a process that was enabled by a system of ‘giving’ that was far more disgusting than any ‘redistribution of wealth’ that ever has or ever could take place via formal taxation.

Happy New Year Kat, and click the link to get to Kat's commentary..

Disrespect Of Black Womanhood Is Why I'm Not A Feminist

2012-01-05T11:30:00.000-08:00

Chelsea Sayre, my fellow columnist at Transadvocate and editrix of the Trans Femmergy blog wrote an interesting post entitled It's Bigger Than Your Womanhood.

It was in her words 'a rant directed at the trans women who want absolutely nothing to do with feminism (no one in particular) because a mean, scary woman somewhere called you a name or the wrong gender.'

Well Chelsea, I'm one of those transwomen who wants nothing to do with feminism and the disrespect it aims at us.

I'm about to tell it like it T-I-S is as to why I feel that way and expound on my reasons for saying thanks but no thanks to feminism.   They are bigger than the loud and wrong group of transphobic radical lesbian separatists still stuck in the disco era.

If you were wearing my Afrocentric shoes, explain why should I have any respect for or rush to join a movement that has repeatedly shown it has no respect for me, my cis African descended sisters and doesn't care about any woman that isn't a cis white one?

Too many feminists fail to recognize they exist with white privilege they gleefully exercise when it suits them while ignoring how race and class issues affect non-white cis and trans women.

It's why like many Black women who have had the same epiphany about feminism I pivoted to and eventually became a womanist

If we're 'all women' as I hear repeatedly said as a talking point in some quarters of the feminist movement and the feminist blogosphere, why the cricket chirping silence in terms of the sexist and racist attacks on the First Lady that have been ongoing since 2008, but feminists leap to the defense of Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann if any man even looks at them cross eyed or says a disparaging word about them?

If 'we're all women', why does a white transwoman who is beaten at a Roseland, MD McDonald's get a rally while a little over 100 miles away a Black transwoman who gets beaten outside a Fredericksburg, VA 7-Eleven doesn't?

Don't even get me started on the feminist cricket chirping silence over the nastiness, transphobia and oppression that white radical lesbian separatists and radfems have engaged in and aimed at transwomen of all ethnic backgrounds since 1979.

Respect of my humanity and femininity is a big fracking deal when I live and interact with a vanillacentric society and culture that paints women of color and especially Black women as the 'unwoman' vis a vis the white women they put on society's pedestal as its idyllic feminine ideal all women should strive to emulate.

As a transwoman of African descent disrespect aimed at my femininity and humanity is an even bigger fracking deal because it builds upon a historical four century foundation of racism, oppression and sexism.

The unwoman meme also fuels the transphobia and anti-trans violence that disproportionately affects transwomen of color.

If it escaped your attention, working for the advancement of the human rights of transwomen is also working for women's issues because it not only improves the lives of transwomen, it expands the human rights of all women.

Sadly cis white feminists have been major players in impeding the progress of trans human rights over the last thirty years because they lack the vision to see that granting rights to transwomen expands them for cis women.

Feminism in whatever wave it is in has consistently demonstrated it only respects, cares about and works for the advancement of only one monoracial segment of cis women. That's why Black women pulled out of the feminist movement in the late 80's-early 90's and became womanists or joined with Latinas, Asians, Native American and other women to become Radical Women of Color.

Any transwoman of color who wants to do more to be down for the big picture cause of advancing the human rights of all women cis and trans should consider becoming womanists, radical women of color or joining cis women of color organizations dedicated to doing that uplift work.

Don't waste your precious time, energy and sanity considering feminism until it cleans up its bigoted and transphobic vanillacentric act.

Why should I as a African descended transwoman or any transwoman of color work in or for a movement that doesn't benefit us or consider the issues of cis and trans women of color important?   Nor can I in good conscience as a leader in the African-American transfeminine community recommend that transwomen of color become feminists until it does.

Thanks, but no thanks.   Disrespect of mine and cis Black womanhood is why I'm not a feminist in the first place.

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez Has Successful Surgery

2012-01-05T00:00:00.000-08:00

Argentine president Cristina Fernandez was recently sworn in for her second term as president of Argentina, and for those of us marveling at the rainbow community human rights progress in that nation we saw her landslide reelection victory in October as great news.

The international community was alarmed to hear not long after her inauguration that during a routine checkup just before Christmas a papillary carcinoma was discovered that necessitated the removal of her thyroid gland in a 3.5 hour operation.

"The surgery on President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was carried out without any complication," presidential spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro told reporters, adding that she will remain hospitalized for about 72 hours.

Her doctors stated that she has a better than 90% chance of recovery in this case, which is welcome news to Argentina and the international community concerned about her.