HILARIOUS MUGSHOTS OF THE DAY: Police in Carroll, Iowa, caught two of the dumbest criminals ever to walk the earth. These two idiots were planning to burglarize an apartment complex. In a not so smooth attempt at disguising their identities, the two brainiacs drew on their faces with permanent markers. They made Magic Marker masks. Not sure how they planned to remove them after the crime.

Last Friday, my wife Caley, my friend Jay, and I all headed to Raleigh, N.C. to go see Saturday night's U2 concert at NC State University. Below is the video that Jay put together of our trip.

A couple of notes regarding the video (which pretty much speaks for itself). We arrived just before midnight Friday night, checked in and then went out until about 3am Sat. That means I was up for 24 straight hours after doing our radio show on Friday morning.

We met two guys, Joe and Gary from Ireland in an Irish bar (imagine that) early Saturday afternoon. We hung out with them for a few hours and then met up with them after the show and were invited up to their friend's bar that he owns in Raleigh. As you can tell, Caley enjoyed the free Dom Perignon! We then went to a house party until 5:30 that morning.

When we finally left the party in some unknown neighborhood (miles from the hotel) to get a cab, a guy named Howard pulled up. He said, "Hop in", and we did! He drove us to our hotel and we invited him up to Jay's room for a beer. So there we are at 6am Sunday morning dring a Coors Light with some random dude who was nice enough to give us a lift back to our hotel.

Oh, and the concert was awesome!

Check this out!  What an adorable little guy!

I became Tom Cruise on Oprah yesterday. I lept off the couch ( okay,  jumped - fell ) like many Viking fans at the end of that game. I have not spent many Sundays on the floor three feet in front of the television until the end of the game in a lonnnng time.

Being a Viking fan means being emotionally abused if you have lived through four Superbowl losses and the '98 - '99 season. Is this finally the year? I'm not sure but it was a hell of a pass and catch. As one of my friends who was at the game stated..."That was no Hail Mary...it was a 49-yard lazer". Farve threw it from the 39 to 10 yards deep in the end zone...and it never was more than 15 feet above the turf.  Farve also was classy in saying the throw was "average" but that the catch was "outstanding".

Here it is to watch again and again.

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And the original "The Catch" below. ( carefull, if you care, the "a" word is used)