Who Would You Rather:Super Bowl Version

We can’t do Monday (or, you know, Tuesday) MELF this week, because there are only two teams still playing. So instead of giving up entirely on the weekly post that I just decided to resume, let’s cut it down to two in a Who Would You Rather?

Today’s players are two FifG favorites who’ve landed on the big stage. (Though clearly one will get more playing time than the other.)

Reggie Bush (RB, Saints) vs. Hank Baskett (WR, Colts)

Reggie. (Strange picture, but cute!)

Hank

Both men are in relationships with famous ladies (Reggie is dating Kim Kardashian and Hank is married to Kendra from E!).

Though Hank seems like a pretty cool guy and though I’m not a big fan of Kim K, I’m still going with Reggie on this one.

Anyone else care to weigh in?

FifG drops the ball. Ha. That’s like a pun.

I had such a good plan for this week’s game of the week. I had my pop culture analogy ready to go. I knew which players I would be helping you pronounce. Things were looking good!

And then I got sick. Seriously, folks, I felt so bad that I actually went to the emergency room so that they could diagnose my swine flu. Of course, I didn’t have swine flu, but I was sick. And so I didn’t write the Game of the Week. BUT, the analogy will work this week, too, so I’m saving it.

That said, here are a couple of updates on our FifG faves:

• The beautiful Bradys are indeed expecting a wee supermodthlete.

New one coming soon.

• When Jessica Simpson was dumped by Tony Romo, FifG totally pitied her. Now? Even more reasons for pity.
  Her dog got eaten by a coyote!
  Also, her sister is megabitchy!
  Something tells me this is going to be one of those years that Jess is going to want to forget.

Poor Daisy.

• UPDATE (9/17): Looks like Kendrank is/are moving to Indy!
  E! star Kendra is, as we know, married to Philadelphia Eagle Hank Baskett. And with a baby due in December, rumor was that the Eagles were shopping Baskett around to other teams to make room for Jeff Garcia, aka Donovan McNabb’s broken rib insurance.
  Sadly, the Eagles announced this afternoon that Baskett was released. Eeps! Maybe he’ll be picked up by the Chargers? And then Kendra will be really happy? Fingers crossed that Hank finds a new team soon!

The Kendranks. The Baskendras. Still working on it.

Reality Football/Just Reality Update

Kendra! on E!:

Our favorite reality couple, Kendra Wilkinson and Hank Baskett (Wilkett? Baskinson?) are still going strong, several weeks into their marriage.

Seems Kendra still has her Chargers welcome mat out. Which is disrespectful to her husband, no?

Also, guess who cam over for a dinner party?! FifG Cute Football Player of the Week Chris Gocong! Exciting! His girlfriend/wife is vegetarian, and Kendra served her carrots covered in meat sauce. Whoops. (Are hosts supposed to ask everyone about food issues, or are the guests supposed to offer information? I don’t know the proper etiquette.)

Keyshawn Johnson Tackling Design on A&E:

Keyshawn Johnson has a design show. What the what?, you may ask. It’s actually pretty entertaining. Keyshawn has a whole team of designers that he works with, his taste is pretty streamlined and functional, and, best of all, he has to do what his clients tell him to. And lots of his clients are seriously pissy. Very un-Keyshawn and very awesome!

The Bachelorette on ABC:

Jillian makes me sad. As fun as she is, she’s like the poster child for neediness and low self-esteem. Hopefully it’s just because she’s put herself in the awkward position of choosing a husband on camera?

Thoughts from the After the Rose show:

-Kiptyn soooo didn’t care that he was rejected. He was all, Huh? Do I miss her? Um, sure.
Future Bachelor Potential: Low– He’s very handsome and abtastic for sure, but something tells me he’s not in the future husband state of mind.

-Reid is adorable, except for his choice in get-Jillian-back shoes of course. He seems funny and charming but also kind of uncomfortable on camera. Like, I think he has way more personality than the editing shows. I think.

Also, what up with Jillian demanding that he continually whine over the fact that he lost her love. She looked so depressed that he wouldn’t ask more questions about why she didn’t choose him. You don’t need the guys you rejected to moon over you, Jillian! You’re a good person! Own it!

Future Bachelor Potential: If he can get his personality to translate to screen, I would say good. But since I’m not sure that would happen, I say fair.

-Ed won Jillian’s heart with the world’s ugliest engagement ring. But she’s happy, so that’s what counts. I cannot imagine this is a long-termer, what with all the internet rumors about Ed’s girlfriends, and Jillian’s utter insecurity. Not a good combo. But, heck, the proposal was very sweet, and if those two crazy kids are happy, then I hope it works out.

Future Bachelor Potential: None

Jillian, Ed, and the green shorts

FifG Favorites Get Married

Rough week in the general celebrity world, with the passing of Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and infomercial favorite Billy Mays.

But, there is joy in football world, at least. Girls Next Door‘s Kenda and her Eagles-playing fiance Hank Baskett are now officially married. Kendra also happens to be pregnant. And, as anyone who watched the first episode of their new reality show knows, Hank is so not pleased about Kendra’s allegiance to her hometown team, the San Diego Chargers. So methinks she’s going to be giving birth to a baby Eagle this winter.

Kendra is wisely trading in the powder blue for green.

In other news:

• Remember how Tom Brady denied that is wife Gisele was pregnant? Well, that wasn’t what you might call “true.”
• Their child will be pretty.
  

  Gisele looking ever-so-slightly pregnant.

• Chad Ochocinco of the Cincinnati Bengals thinks he’s going to be living with QB Carson Palmer during training camp. Carson and his wife disagree. It’s going to be awkward when ol’ 85 rings their doorbell in July.
  Because you know that he’s not taking no for an answer.
• FifG is going to be the Bucs contributor for another girl-powered football site, Chicks in the Huddle. Check out the weekly Bucs posts from FifG as well as the awesome daily posts from all of the football chicks representing your favorite NFL teams.
• Another exciting cupcake project this weekend: Lost cupcakes.
  This batch was sadly made sans-Friend Cupcake. But don’t worry, she gave them the seal of approval.
  

  The gray one is the Smoke Monster.

Kendra and Hank, and the Fabulous Love Lives of Footballers.

Tonight is the premiere of former Girl Next Door Kendra Wilkinson’s new show on E!. It’s called, fittingly enough, Kendra.

We’ve talked about on FifG about Kendra before, because her engagement to Philadelphia Eagle Hank Baskett will likely test her devotion to her long-professed favorite San Diego Chargers. Luckily the two teams play in different conferences (Eagles=NFC, Chargers=AFC), so her loyalties likely won’t be tested unless the teams meet in a Super Bowl.

I have to say that Girls Next Door was an oddly compelling show, but I think the appeal was mostly due to the strange lives that Hef’s “girlfriends” led–luxuriously wealthy and free from work, anything they wanted a phone call away and yet oddly restricted and boring. So we’ll see how fun this new show is to watch.

Celebrity nickname anyone? Kaskett seems like a bad idea... Kankle?

Football Love in the News:

It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the love lives of football players. How do I know? Sports Illustrated has been reporting on it. You know relationship gossip is important when…
So without further ado:

• Tom and Giselle: Giselle is not pregnant. But it’s ok, because she already has a kid with Tom.

This is not what pregnancy looks like.

• Derek and Minka: Ok, so Derek Jeter plays baseball and Minka Kelly is an actress. But she’s on Friday Night Lights, and since it’s the awesomest football show ever, it counts. Anyway, Derek and Minka? Not engaged.

I'm sorry, but Derek who?

• Tony and Jessica: Jessica Simpson bought Tony Romo a boat for his birthday. According to news reports, she decided to splurge on his birthday so that he will splurge on a ring. Is that what it takes, ladies? If so, do toy boats count? Maybe a nice drawing of a boat?

Maybe a Lyle Lovett song would get your man to pop the question?

WWKD

What would Kendra do?

Not that there are tons of similarities between Jesus and Kendra Wilkinson from E!’s Girls Next Door, but I am curious about how Kendra will handle a potentially difficult football situation.

For those of you who don’t watch the compellingly bizarre Girls, it’s a reality show about Hugh Hefner’s three most recent “girlfriends” who live with him at the Playboy mansion and do, basically, whatever they want whenever they want.

The youngest of the three is Kendra. She’s an obsessive football fan who has cheered for the San Diego Chargers since she was a kid. Like 5 years ago.

Kendra’s recently become engaged (post-breakup <wink, wink> with Hef) to Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Hank Baskett.

So what happens if the Eagles meet the Chargers in the Super Bowl? Who does Kendra root for? If you married a player from an opposing team, would you root, root, root for the home team or switch loyalties to the team that affords you your mortgage payments?

Kendra and Hank. Kendrank. Handra.

For the record, I predict an Eagles/Chargers Super Bowl. I know I said I wouldn’t mention favorites anymore, but this is sort of the opposite case. I am a long-time Eagles non-fan (seeing Donovan McNabb smiling his way through this week’s playoff game brought on several horrific Bucs v. Eagles first round playoff loss flashbacks), and Philip Rivers has a sort of Patrick Bateman thing going on that creeps me out. (Though if I read that he builds houses for single moms or something, I’ll take that back.)