Justin Bieber, Rob Ford, Super Bowl Pick and More

A couple of quick notes on 2 Canadians that seem to be the butt of every joke on US TV this past week.

Justin, you are 19, we all get it, you have money and all that, now wake the hell up and focus on your music before you blow it all

Justin Bieber is 19. He grew up in a single parent home and, for the most part, was brought up incredibly well adjusted. It has taken all of 4 years for him to go from unknown to superstar and, it would appear, half that time to turn into an idiot.He is clearly out of control and the person to blame is Usher and the management team that essentially pulled him away from his mother and left him living alone in a mansion in the Hollywood Hills (when he wasn't in studio).

When you take a kid who grew up barely scrapping by with his mom at his side and suddenly throw him into a completely different lifestyle, 3000 miles away from her and with more money then he will ever know what to do with, he was bound to start screwing up. Throw into that mix the fact that he has millions of adoring fans that think he can do no wrong and you suddenly have a teen with raging hormones and a suddenly huge ego as well who is being told by everyone around him that he is awesome and "egging" him on to do whatever he wants and you get what we have seen lately. Let's not forget the suddenly back in the picture dad, who seems to be more immature then his own son and helping him spiral even more (allegedly blocking off streets in Miami to help him in his Fast & Furious inspired drag race) and you have a receipe for arrests in 3 different cities (2 actual arrests and 1 police raid and house search in LA).

Pattie needs to kick Justin's father to the curb and get Justin straightened out, fast

The person who needs to take control of this situation is his mother. She needs to walk into Usher's offices or whomever it is who is supposed to be managing his affairs and fire all of them and take her son back to Stratford for a few months. Get him out of the limelight and let him try to figure things out without all the media and music industry constantly in his ear. It would certainly appear that even his own management company doesn't seem to have his best interest at heart as only 2 days after his Miami arrest, he was in Panama shooting a music video instead of being pushed into resting and trying to fix the issues that are pushing him out of control.

One last thing about Bieber, this bullshit petition that was started on the White House website to try and have him deported is really pathetic. You have the music industry and American record labels milking the cow that is Bieber for all he and his fans are worth, he gets snubbed by the Grammy's despite selling millions and millions of records and you have someone (or 100,000 people for that matter) who have the audacity to think he is "bad" for America and should be deported? You, America, turned him into what he is and now you want to give him back broken? Just like Americans to break something and blame someone else for it and try to give it back after you took it forcibly from us in the first place.

Given the options, Mayor Quimby from the Simpsons would be a better choice right now then Ford

Rob Ford, you are a mess. Another incident from Vancouver recently unearthed that he was ticketed for public drunkenness and J-walking when he was there. This after a video was posted on You Tube of him using a mock-Jamaican accent, blubbering on incoherently at a local steak house. It's time for an intervention here. He needs to go to rehab as he has no clue how to control his drinking and, despite his cries to the contrary, he needs to get out of public life for the time being and take a month off. Let his brother fight the good fight for now and go get yourself healthy already. He is ruining the image of Toronto around the world and it's time he was forced to get help.

I was disgusted with the fact the Broncos beat my Patriots. Despite the questionable hit of Wes Welker on Aquib Talib (and who truly knows how much of an effect that hit had on the game as a whole), the Broncos won and are now about to get their asses handed to them by the toughest team in the NFL, just ask Richard Sherman, please. In case you missed it, throughout the Seattle - San Francisco game, the 49ers stayed away from Sherman, the top corner back in the Seattle secondary and their plan seemed to be working as they were marching down the field in the final minute seemingly about to score the game winning touchdown. On first down from the Seattle 20 yard line, they inexplicably changed tactics and decided to go for a questionable fade pattern to Crabtree, one of their best wide receivers, as he was being defended by Sherman. The result was a tipped ball by Sherman to his teammate. Game over.

He is cocky, arrogant, brash and a loud mouth but calling him a "thug" is a clear attempt to denigrate him

But that wasn't the end of the drama as Sherman went racing up to Crabtree, slapped him on the ass and seemed to be mockingly offer to shake his hand, resulting in Crabtree punching Sherman in the head. Undaunted, Sherman then proceeded to run up to Colin Kaepernick, the 49ers QB, with both hands firmly around his own throat calling him a "choker". His interview with Erin Andrews moments later was epic in that it was so non-nonsensical for him to go off like that on TV (at the same time, pulling an athlete right off the field after a huge game like that, full of emotion and testosterone, is bound to result in an interview like that much more often than it does).

Calling Sherman a "thug" for what he said is racist. He wasn't a thug. He was an arrogant prick which is one of the reasons he is one of the best at his position in the game of football. His extreme confidence. Justin Bieber is acting like a thug. Rob Ford IS a thug (and apparently, another revelation about him was that he allegedly hired 2 "thugs" to beat up his sister's ex-boyfriend) but calling Sherman a thug is, as I have heard others state. another way to call him the "N" word without actually saying it. Funny how the most common place he was called a "Thug" was Fox news.

Back to the game for a moment. I can't believe that there are people out there who would put money on Denver to win this game. Seattle will win by double digits. They have the top "D" in the NFL, their running attack will be unstoppable and Russell Wilson will finally be let loose to use his feet as well as his arm. Final score: 31-17 Seattle.

Well, well, well. It turns out the Leafs are back in the hunt to be among the top teams in the East again after their recent 8-1-1 surge. They head into tonight's game against the Ottawa Senators 5 points back of 2nd place Tampa in the Atlantic Division and in a position to start chasing down the top teams in the East. They have David Clarkson and Bolland both due back in the coming weeks if not right after Olympic break which will mean that they will only get better with more depth throughout the line up.

Kadri seems to be silencing the critics with his play of late. Even Coach Carlyle has been giving him props lately

Despite the fact the team has been playing much better of late, their is a looming goaltending controversy brewing as it seems as if despite how he plays, James Reimer does not appear to have the confidence of the team or the coach. It would not surprise me if during the Olympic break, Reimer and his agent ask the team to quietly start looking for a trade for him so that he can have a real chance at being a #1 goalie again.

Congratulations to Paul Maurice and the way he has turned the Jets around. After their win last night against the sinking Vancouver Canucks, the Jets are now 6 points back of the Canucks for the final playoff spot in the West with 1 game in hand. Funny how for previous coach Claude Noel, they couldn't get key saves and now suddenly, Andrej Pavelich is on fire.

Look for this scene to be replicated in Sochi

With the Olympics about to start, the only important event that matters is Men's Hockey and it will be an amazing tournament. Here are my predictions. 1st, Steven Stamkos will NOT play as he will not be ready to go clearing the way for Steve Yzerman to make amends with his captain and include Martin St. Louis on the team. my next prediction is that the final 4 will be Canada, USA, Sweden and Russia with the final being Canada vs Russia. Last prediction, Russia will find a way to loose it in the last minutes paving the way for the mass exodus of Russian hockey players this summer from Russia back to the NHL as they will be ostracized in the Russian media over and over again about this "crushing" loss.

That's it for me. Until next time...