Idiot

[HarveyWallbangers]

Let's hope the judge is a Colts or Packers fan.

[superfan]

Maybe he can plead insanity by intoxication...

[Joemailman]

Wouldn't the fact that he bet on the Bears, whether he was intoxicated or not, be grounds for an insanity plea?

[BallHawk]

Update on the situation


Chicago Bears fan Scott Wiese is no Peyton Manning after all.

Macon County Judge Katherine McCarthy ruled this week that Wiese can't legally call himself Peyton Manning because it would be too confusing and might infringe on the privacy of the Indianapolis Colts quarterback.

That's fine by Wiese.

The 26-year-old was only trying to change his name to make good on a bet he lost when the Colts beat the Bears in the Super Bowl.

"I had told the judge that I was not doing this because I wanted to change my name, but I was doing it because I was honoring a bet," Wiese told the Decatur Herald & Review after Monday's ruling. "I think she understood that."

A few days before the February game, Wiese signed a pledge in front of a bar full of people that if the Bears lost, he would change his name to match the Colts player who led Indy to victory.

Manning had a big hand in the Colts' 29-17 victory.

Wiese's parents, Debbie and Steve Wiese, were pleased by the judge's decision.

"Wiese is our family name, and we're proud of it," Debbie Wiese told the Decatur newspaper. "I also didn't want to go through the rest of my life calling my son 'Peyton Manning."

[MJZiggy]

"I also didn't want to go through the rest of my life calling my son 'Peyton Manning."

She should just go back to "hey stupid."

[BooHoo]

"hey stupid" is an appropriate name for him.

[Packers4Ever]

"I also didn't want to go through the rest of my life calling my son 'Peyton Manning."

She should just go back to "hey stupid."

LMAO, MJ,

[the_idle_threat]

I'm sure she calls him "son."

The family trailer is not big enough to accomodate name-calling. Name-calling leads to yelling, which leads to beer bottle throwing, which gets all the hound dogs barking outside, and then there's no quiet in the trailer park all night long.

[woodbuck27]

A real stupid bet for sure but at least he is paying up. I hate it when people dont pay their bets.

Does he have to keep it like that forever or just for a while?

I gathered from the article that he plans to change it back after a while, which makes it twice as stupid. A legal name change is time-consuming and expensive, and he's gonna do it twice? Dumbass.

He may compensate by coming back as Bronco Nagurski?

[the_idle_threat]

A real stupid bet for sure but at least he is paying up. I hate it when people dont pay their bets.

Does he have to keep it like that forever or just for a while?

I gathered from the article that he plans to change it back after a while, which makes it twice as stupid. A legal name change is time-consuming and expensive, and he's gonna do it twice? Dumbass.

He may compensate by coming back as Bronco Nagurski?

I'll bet his buddies would respect that a heck of a lot more than Peyton Manning.

[Fritz]

If the name change had worked he probably could've gotten a commercial or two.

[pbmax]

Bump!

Because I thought we had a people are idiots thread in here somewhere. We have many idiot threads, just not that one.

Here is the stat:





But here is the problem. The show neither correlation or causation with successful results. The Packers can average nearly 6 yard per run on first down because they do it less than 40% of the time and the team has its nickel package in expecting a throw.

Running doesn't cause winning, its a successful strategy in some cases because the defense expects something else.

[Anti-Polar Bear]

I will legally change my name from Tank Elf Duke to Todd Thompson if Pack win the Super Bowl this season.

[texaspackerbacker]

Bump!

Because I thought we had a people are idiots thread in here somewhere. We have many idiot threads, just not that one.

Here is the stat:





But here is the problem. The show neither correlation or causation with successful results. The Packers can average nearly 6 yard per run on first down because they do it less than 40% of the time and the team has its nickel package in expecting a throw.

Running doesn't cause winning, its a successful strategy in some cases because the defense expects something else.

+ 1

[Anti-Polar Bear]

Speaking of names, some of you might have noticed that I'm now referring to the Polar Bear as "Todd." I'm only doing so to get back at the uncool Pack fans who called Favre "Bert."

Speaking of Favre, he was the GOAT in my book, especially in my awesome autobiography, "A Brief History of Tank: The Life and Times of Tank Elf Duke"...until I found out about Favre refusing to throw to a downtrodden, undrafted rookie free agent in training camp.

Speaking of the aforementioned book, here's a brief excerpt:

Chapter 1: Mein Kampf

On the day I was dishonorably discharged from the mental institution with a couple of worthless pieces of cardboard papers, my father - despite my blemish protestation - slaughtered a horny goat and threw a merry-making festival in my honor. My good friend, D'Tyrant Michaels, known infamously as the "white guy with a black name who digs Asian chicks," would later tell me that the pompous soiree rivaled only that of the prodigal son's.

I missed my own fucking debauchery, for, as an anti-social left-fielder, I was at the local Redskin casino that night, playing poker and squandering away the meek 600 frogskins I had to my name. In the aftermath, my dear father abandoned his eldest son - me, Tank Elf Duke - on the gloomy streets of Baltimore.

It's been a struggle ever since.