RB Passes Up NFL Contract For College

Yes...you read that right. Passing up the NFL for college. Now this is a cool story. Jason Wright was a running back who was undrafted out of Northwestern and spent his NFL career with Atlanta, Cleveland, and finally in Arizona. He's now an ex-NFL player because he turned down a two year contract worth more than $2 million. He turned it down for a few reasons, and as you read the article you'll see that his wife had a lot to do with it, but he cites family, God, and college in his decision. That's pretty cool. Jason now wants to finish his education and eventually open up a charter school for students. He and his wife have already been helping... Read More

So a Dallas woman had her afro searched recently by the TSA for a bomb and now she's upset about it. I don't know why she's upset - as you can see in the picture on the left, there's clearly a bomb in there. Click the link for an interview with Isis Brantley about her bomb afro. Video: NBC-DFW Afro Bomb

A car salesman in Chicago decided to wear a Packers tie to work before last year's NFC Championship game against the hometown Chicago Bears. Why did he do it? To honor his grandmother who was a Packers fan and died a few days before the game. What happened to him? He was fired. Fast forward to today, and he's one of the top salesman at a competing local dealer. Nice work, John Stone. I'm not a Browns fan, but if Pat ever wore his Browns tie around the Bro Council office I wouldn't fire him. I would just laugh at him for being a Browns fan. That's painful enough. Link: Yahoo

In other news; Elvis announces that he's dead, and newspapers around the world are announcing that the Japanese have surrendered and World War II is over. So I looked it up and they apparently have released 4 albums in the past 10 years, and in 2007 they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Not too bad for an irrelevant band! Way to last way past your prime R.E.M. - at least Brett Favre almost made it to the Super Bowl in his next to last year. Link: R.E.M Calls It Quits (via Forbes)

The iPhone 5 is supposed to launch on October 4th. If you want more information you can Google it. There are literally over 543 million results for the iPhone 5. Just release it, Apple. Stop trying to be cool.

The West Virginia police are apparently cracking down on the second greatest tradition in West Virginia history, couch burning after WVU games. This weekend marks a huge game against LSU, so what are the West Virginianites going to do? Learn how to read a map, and then follow said map in order to know where they can and can not burn couches of course. The nice people over at Deadspin put together a handy map of the campus safe zones for burning so that WVU students can download and learn their rights. Now, get cracking in your cartography classes and download away. Hopefully a GPS version will follow soon. Link: Maps Of Couch Burning Locations

  We all love pranks, and that includes consequences sometimes - but jail time? That's not actually the most shocking part of this article though. The most shocking part is that Fox Valley Technical College actually has dorms! From their website it shows that FVTC (that's the abbreviation for the school, just like WVU, or NYU, or USC - they're that big) provides College education for high-demand careers. 200+ associate degree, technical diploma, and certificate programs...plus seminars & customized training for business. Really? They have dorms? Thank you Wisconsin for changing my perception of technical colleges... Read More