Guy in a Bear Suit:

tips for the new parent

i think this educational clip is pretty accurate in terms of properly raising a baby.

changes not for the better

don't be alarmed by the title; the changes are about nothing important.

for some reason i was thinking about sports logos and how they have changed over time when i realized that three of the changes really sucked. visual evidence below:

(1) new england patriots.

this was their previous logo. his name is pat patriot. he looks like this:

now i hate the fucking patriots, but that was a cool logo. that dude is so hard that he'll play center without a helmet or cleats. he just rocks out paul revere style and dares you to come after him.

here's what they use now:

see? that sucks, right? in fairness, the patriots didn't start winning shit until they switched to the new silver-faced dude, so they probably wouldn't be receptive to changing back.

(2) tampa bay buccaneers

back when they were the laughing stock of the league, they sported this fine pirate on their helmets:

i don't really like that he's winking at me, but other than that, he's pretty fucking cool. he looks like he just banged 40 wenches after swashbuckling all over the seven seas. plus, he has a pornstache. there was even an episode of "what's happenin'" where dwayne talked rog and rerun into betting a bunch of money on tampa because dwayne "liked they helmets".

when they used this guy, they wore hideous orange pants too. i'm not suggesting they bring those back.

now they use this:

pretty menacing, but not as cool as porno matey up there. but like the pats, they sucked until adopting new colors and a new logo, so i'm thinking there's no going back.

(3) baltimore orioles

one of the first baseball games i remember going to was our local texas rangers against the baltimore orioles. i fucking loved that bird on their helmet. i think i even saved up some allowance and bought one of those cheap plastic batting helmets of theirs. here's how he looked: