Monday's Bits and Pieces [updated]

• Michael Irvin has a man-crush on Michael Crabtree. Did you know Crabtree's working out with Irvin, Deion Sanders (Can those two egos fit in the same gym?) and Olympic sprinter Michael Johnson? Sounds to me like he's trying to work on his 40 time.

• Dolphins' Head Coach, Tony Sparano, was hospitalized following the Baltimore loss. I think he contracted something from those disease-addled fans that showed up outside Dolphins HQ the following day.

• Did you know Sparano DID actually receive a coaching award? It happened to be at the Super Bowl Weekend (did you know the Super Bowl was this past weekend?)
  

• Word is Brett Favre either needs to take part in offseason conditioning program or he will not be a part of the NY Jets in 2009.

• In confirmation that 24 hour television and 500 channels is a bad idea, ESPN aired four hours of teenagers playing Madden on Xbox this weekend. They managed to fly a couple of hundred pimply thug wanna-be's to a tropical paradise, but didn't have anything left in the budget to buy two chairs for the contestants to sit on. If any of you watched even a minute of this garbage, I know how you feel, and I feel for you. However, it's nice to know that while Pennington is probably having a meeting somewhere, Matt Cassel is wasting his time learning how to play with his thumbs.

• Who's the OTHER team in the AFC East? Oh, right! Buffalo. Marshawn Lynch was ALSO at the Madden competition. Don't worry, I won't post a link to Lynch. No one wants to see him without a helmet on.

• Well there are optimists and then there are optimists. As we sit around complaining and being general negativos in regards to the State of the Dolphin, those Boston Tea Party-Goers are celebrating the fact that their stadium was ranked 7th out of 13 artificial turf stadiums. I'm not sure what the ranking means, but they seem happy to be number 7.