Who to root for this weekend? The team Mojo will cheer for throughout the balance of the post season is hands down the New Orleans Saints. As for the AFC Conference Championship, most in the Land of Pleasant Living will get behind all of the former Ravens in New York: Rex Ryan, Bart Scott, Jim Leonhard and Marques Douglas. Not me!

It’s not that I dislike any of those players – fact is I’d love to see them all in purple but this ain’t baseball so we can’t keep them all. But Rex Ryan for me is a big blowhard. Sure it’s funny for awhile but then it wears thin and gets old. He’d provide a ton of sound bites I’m sure for the scoop-starved media that will be in attendance in over-abundance for the two weeks leading into the Super Bowl. I’ll pass. In fact I think it’s his immaturity that kept him from being Steve Bisciotti’s new man on the sidelines.

More importantly, I don’t think the Jets and the Saints makes for an entertaining game (or the Vikings for that matter). I like the prospects of the Colts and Saints mixing it up and watching the scoreboard hit overload and see block pool participants jazzed by all the action.

Give me the Colts and Saints and then the Saints to go the distance for the good people from the Big Easy.

Speaking of easy, I could easily see Chargers’ restricted free agent Vincent Jackson in purple and black but that ain’t gonna happen. The Chargers will more than likely offer VJ the first and third round tender and I just can’t see the Ravens parting with two picks for VJ. Could you? Would you?  Would VJ even fit in with a John Harbaugh team?

This past weekend VJ was pulled over for driving a vehicle with suspended tags and an expired license prior to the Chargers v. Jets game. Teammate Philip Rivers reportedly went to pick up his favorite target. VJ who was issued a citation has a prior DUI and another pending.

SAFE Management please take note and use this as training material on how to treat fans at M&T Bank Stadium wearing Steelers’ colors from this point forward.

Surely I jest, right?

Josh McDaniels is coming off like a Class A jerk. Now I’m not suggesting that Brandon Marshall is in the right and shouldn’t have been treated as he was in 2009 by McDaniels. But when you are a rookie head coach and you haven’t done squat in your career yet, how do you get off acting like you’re Bill Belichick? This kid has the people skills of Bob Irsay after some Beefeater.  Now he’s parted ways with the classy Mike Nolan and is looking for a new D-Coordinator. Good luck with that one. Mr. Mojo thinks this cat is an insecure little jack-off who is worried that maybe Nolan might snatch his job away. Broncos’ fans should be so lucky.

Ever catch the Deuce Stunningman Show on 105.7 The Fan, Monday through Friday from 12-2PM? If not, don’t sweat it. You aren’t missing much. The show is what you would get if a radio version of the old Hee-Haw TV show collided with the sports know-it-all drunk at the corner of the bar. It really makes that old Cattle Call bit that Paul Mittermeier and Steve Stofberg used to do sound like cutting edge radio.

But apparently the show is the right cup of tea for many in the area because Stunningman’s ratings are solid as he so often reminds us and prospective sponsors who may be listening. Have you ever noticed though how the IQ of callers climbs measurably when the clock moves from 2:00 PM to 2:01 PM when Scott Garceau and Anita Marks take over?

Typical banter during the Stunningman show goes like this…

Deuce Stunningman (calling upon his deepest baritone): Hello and welcome to another edition of the Deuce Stunningman Show. I am Deuce Stunningman from Fox 49. We have a lot, I mean a lot to talk about. Zippo, what will we be talking about today?

Darth Zippo: Well Deuce, we have some breaking news regarding the NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement and how it will impact the playoff teams on a going forward basis plus there’s a lot of banter going on out there in Owings Mills about the possible retirements of Ed Reed and Derrick Mason.

Stunningman: Ha-ha, haw-haw, hee-hee, ka-ka-ka…Zippo you are killing me. Are we going to talk about the Elite 8 again? You know that’s like algebra to me and I was never really very good at that.

Zippo: Deuce, the Elite 8 is part of March Madness. The “Final 8 Plan” is part of the CBA.

Stunningman: I looooove me some Continental Basketball Association. You know I loved the ABA too and those Virginia Squires. Man was that red, white and blue ball cool or what? Ha-ha, haw-haw, who-who, ho-ho…That is really funny Zippo. It really, really is. But let’s move on to the Reed/Mason thing.

Zippo: How do you think Mason’s absence will affect Flacco and the passing game and if Reed retires, can the Ravens lean on Zbikowski or Nakamura or will they regret letting Jimmy Leonhard get away?

Stunningman: Heads or tails, Zippo?

Zippo: Heads or tails for what Deuce?

Stunningman: Heads Mason retires, tails Reed.

Zippo: How about we go to some calls or email.

Stunningman: Great idea! Here’s one from Jethro in Hicksville, hee-hee, haw-haw…Hicksville, now that’s funny. Anyway Jethro writes:

Anyway, I did see that Jethro and I have to say I can totally relate. I mean, woooo-weeee I have had my share of lookers over the years in this business and well, let’s just say (yuck-yuck-yuck) it’s one of the perks of the job. Zippo, why don’t we take a break so I can get me some of those ribs that Andy Nelson’s just dropped off. 

Zippo: As long as you aren’t smacking your lips and eating on air per usual Deuce.

Stunningman: Well duh, just make the break longer and we’ll be cool. Zippo, like I always say, “I love ya madly.”