Predictions for 2008

[Football_Bat]

Fire away.

 

[Football_Bat]

Sorry LJB, I discovered I D-B'd so I changed the topic.

Anyway, I think it's safe to predict that both Jason Garrett and Tony Sparano will be head coaches somewhere in the NFL next fall.

 

[Bill Brasky]

LSU wins the BCS national championship. (To mark the event, Bill Brasky damn near drinks himself into a coma.)
New England wins the Super Bowl.
Bill Cowher comes out of retirement to coach the Panthers.
Lakers trade Kobe to Chicago just before the deadline.
Yankees have an awful season. Steinbrenner Jr. fires Joe Girardi by Labor Day.
Lindsay Lohan poses nude for Playboy in an attempt to get her career going again. Doesn't work.
1990s nostalgia starts in full swing in 2008, with an "X-Files" movie, more '90s themed stations and Kanye West working with a big '90s rapper/R & B singer.
Guns N' Roses reunite.
A truce is reached in the Blu-Ray/HD DVD format wars. Cheap combo players are introduced just in time for Christmas.
Barack Obama is elected president of the U.S. (this is straight-up wishful thinking) He narrowly beats Mitt Romney.

 

[JayFarrar]

The presidential election will be wackier than 2000.
Pakistan and India will get in a shooting war, but cooler heads will prevail before the nukes start flying.
A nuclear weapon/weapon of mass destruction will be used in a terrorist attack.
Cheney won't finish his term as veep.
Rolling blackouts will hit most of the U.S. during the hottest summer on record.
The writers strike will make a dent in TV as it drags on, but on the flipside, the movies will be better in 2008 and 2009 as a result.
A large chunk of the country will be hit by a paralyzing, late-season ice storm.
A terror attack will happen on American soil or it will be stopped at the last second.
America's world-wide rep will get a boost as a result from the country's response to the terror attack and the country's presence will decrease drastically in Iraq, but that's because American forces are putting a fire out somewhere else.

 

[kokane_muthashed]

Elvis will stay dead.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

-- Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan and Nicole Ritchie will do something stupid.

-- Lots and lots of insipid reality shows will be on TV. At some point the people will rebel, setting fire to their TVs and heading to the public library to check out copies of Brave New World, Steal This Book and What My Mother Doesn't Know.

 

[Oggiedoggie]

Brittany will bite off Paris' nipples.

Or visa versa.

 

[Chi City 81]

BYH will continue to be a dickhead.

 

[Yawn]

Seeing these photos on Nov. 5

President-elect John McCain, completing a Clintoneque comeback, stands in celebration with his running mate, Mike Huckabee.

Sen. Hillary Clinton contemplates her concession speech in the wee hours of Tuesday's election returns.

 

[Paper Champion]

Patriots and Celtics will join the Red Sox to give Boston a championship trifecta.

 

[Write-brained]

Meteor hits. We're all dead by Friday.

 

[sportschick]

-- People will continue to misspell Britney's first name, annoying me to no end

-- Mike will NOT get laid, making it nearly three years since he's gotten nookie

-- Stan will hack a hairball on my new sofa

 

[markvid]

Meteor hits. We're all dead by Friday.

****, my psychic told me Saturday's Powerball numbers.

 

[Guy_Incognito]

Patriots and Celtics will join the Red Sox to give Boston a championship trifecta.

Boston area fans will be as insufferable as we all expect during their soul-to-the-devil run.

 

[D-3 Fan]

-South Carolina will weed out the weaklings and the top two on both sides will prevail
-Expect crazy **** to happen at the polls in the major cities in November, which means that all of this improvement of election machines and computerized ballots will be mute
-No dates for me, as usual.
-The Pats will win by 21+ in the SB and it will be the least watched (thanks to the casual bandwagon viewers)
-5 big names will kick the bucket
-A-Rod will whip his **** out and take a pee test in front of the NY media to prove that Canseco's book and allegations are bunk.
-Bonds will retire

I have more, but I'm heading out to meet up with some friends. 1 hour 57 minutes before I turn 32. Hoo-ray!

 

[Thinking Man]

Tigers win the Series.

Edwards is the new President.

Michael and Link are both gunned down trying to make their latest escape.

William Shatner has a massive heart attack in the middle of filming a Priceline commercial.

Zeke finally gets fired ... and Millen doesn't.

The Lions still suck ... Shaun Rogers gets fatter.

Bill and Hilliary finally get divorced after her failed White House bid (what possible use could she have left for him?).

The new Star Trek movie is released ... and nobody ****ing cares!

The Detroit News closes its doors.

Barry roids up again and mashes 55 home runs for the A's in just 81 games as DH.

Matt Lauer gets a tupe!

Katie Couric's second career on the Silver Screen launches with her first role as the Joker in, "Batman: the Dark Knight."

The new reality show, "Celebrity Death Match," makes its debut in February with, "Donald v. Rosie." Rosie crushes the Donald and then snaps guest announcer Jim Rome's neck for the fun of it. It's a HUGE takedown for the Pimp-in-the-Box, errrrr, host of the Jungle. Epic!!

Rachel Ray expires from an arsenic-tainted cup of joe from Dunkin Donuts. De-lish!!!

 

[HejiraHenry]

My wife will transition, successfully, into a hybrid kind of freelancing thing and gets started on that idea that makes her the second author to earn a billion bucks.

Our first grandbaby arrives healthy and happy in mid-to-late March.

Both my (step)daughters remain healthy and happy.

My mom keeps swinging (literally, in some cases) through her 90th birthday in February and beyond.

That'll do nicely.

 

[BYH]

After numerous ill-fated attempts, Bat Boy finally wins the White House.

 

[StaggerLee]

The SEC will continue to revolutionize college football with their uber speed and crazy athletic ability.

Mobile/athletic quarterbacks will continue to be vastly overrated while statues like Tom Brady and Brett Favre win championships.

Sports columnists will break out every variation of Belicheat, the Cheatriots, and whatever "clever" nickname they can conjure when writing about the Patriots' Super Bowl win over Green Bay.

A major league baseball player will test positive for steroids. Twice.

"Going Green" will no longer be the trendy thing to do. It'll be replaced by "Being Brown", which will consist of using/eating only products that come directly from the Earth.

Reality TV shows will slowly start to lose their luster, and the sitcom will once again reign supreme.

The Chicago Cubs will make a World Series run, right up until August.

Media outlets across the country will produce articles about how much money corporations lose during March Madness, then subsequently plug their own 'March Madness" fill-out-the-brackets contest.

An upset will occur in sports and ESPN will spend two days analyzing their analyzation of the game.

Big Ten Network and NFL Network will join forces to become the Big NFL Network -- all NFL, all the time, except when we're showing Big Ten games.

American Idol will crown a winner. A year from then, that winner will be playing state fairs with Taylor Hicks, Clay Aiken and Ruben Studdard.

Les Miles will go to Michigan. To visit his wife's family.

 

[EmbassyRow]

Chinese Democracy will, yet again, go unreleased.