Attention Citizens! Attention Citizens!

The National Weather Service has issued the following weather advisory for Friday, December 17, 2010 for San Francisco, California:

"A hurricane warning advisory is now in effect for San Francisco, California until 9:00 a.m PST on Saturday, December 18, 2010.  Hurricane GameTime is expected to make landfall some time this evening around 6:30 p.m. PST with sustained winds out of the south at 0.08% or greater on the BAC meter and increasing over the course of the evening.  Visibility will be blurry, at best, and there is a significant risk of multiple blackouts."

San Francisco, you. have. been.  warned.  That is right, ladies and gentlemen, it is party time: The Chief turns THIRTY today!  And the fine folks here at GameTime, TBD© could think of no better way to celebrate than to close up shop a little early and head off to San Francisco to celebrate with all most of The Chief's best friends.  If all goes according to plan, it will be a weekend The Chief will never forget.  [Editor's Note: well . . . I guess you can't really forget what you were never able to remember in the first place, right?]

But do not think we are going to leave you hanging yet again.  [Editor's Note: the holidays have been a killer on my writing time this year...]  No way!  In fact, The Chief made us promise we would not crack open the booze until we provided you all with just what you needed on this Friday: entertainment!  And believe you me, anything thing that stands between us and some booze is something that must be taken care of.  As such, here is a special birthday edition of the Link Dump, in honor of The Chief reaching the big 3-ugh:

• There is only one way to start off The Chief's birthday Dump (say what?):  a link toone of the greatest Marisa Miller pictures ever.
• This story may be a month old, but we are hoping someone can track down the uncensored versions as a birthday present to The Chief.
• In non-sports related news, is that what they mean when they say "junk mail"?
• Unfortunately, I did not get to watch the premiere of HBO's newest 24/7 series, which leads up to the Penguins/Capitals Winter Classic meeting.  Thankfully, Justin Bourne did.
• Maybe next time the Florida Everglades (yes, that's an actual minor-league hockey team) should consult with the University of Oregon before picking their special holiday jerseys (yes, those are actual jerseys).
• Poor Tiger.  He has to spend Christmas all alone in this.
• Upon learning his season, and possibly career, are over, Yao Ming had this to say:  "Right now I'm drinking a beer and eating fried chicken."  Poor guy is taking it so hard.
• Oh, Donald Sterling.  Just when I thought you could not possibly be any worse as an owner, you go and do something like this . . . and totally redeem yourself!
• I might not be a Boston sports fan, but even I have to admit that this would be pretty crazy.
• Maria Sharapova's new tennis outfit is designed to offer "unrestricted mobility around the top". In other news, tennis's television ratings are expected to hit record highs next season.

It is that time of year when every news outlet and blog starts going bat-[censored] crazy with "Greatest This" and "Top That" lists.  The Chief hates these lists; they drive him nuts.  He thinks it is just lazy reporting.  But every now and then he finds one or two that he enjoys.  We present the two he found this week here:

• As annoyed as we get with all the Brett Favre coverage, no one can deny that his 297 consecutive starts was an amazing streak.  So, Time decided to take a look at "The 25 Greatest Sports Streaks".
• Who does not love a good announcing gaffe?  Well, here is one blog's look at "The Top 10 Announcing Gaffes of 2010".

Obviously, The Chief's special birthday blog has to include an extra-special video collection.  First, we thought it would be great to get a bunch of sports stars to wish him happy birthday in video form.  Well, unfortunately, it turns we do not really know a bunch of sports stars.  Go figure.  Then we thought we would just get Marisa Miller to send him a special birthday wish.  Well, as it turns out, supermodels do not really appreciate it when you just follow them around with a video camera, hiding behind cars and in the bushes outside their home.  So, one restraining order and bail money for our cameraman later, that idea was a no go as well.  But rest assured, the world got together and, as it always does, produced a solid batch of videos just for The Chief:

• I can not decide what I like more in this video, the dunk or the beard?
• It's raining teddies.  Hallelujah, it's raining teddies.  Hey, hey.
• Now this is how you wish someone a Merry Christmas!
• How do you follow up a video of a half-naked woman dancing? (I'll wait 'til you're back from that video you had just skipped . . . [checking watch] . . . are we ready?)  Why, with dogs being cute of course.
• Walk much?
• Marine karate chop, FTW!
• Yup, that just happened.
• If you post a video mocking the music of Mariah Carey, it will most definitely find its way into a Link Dump.  [Editor's Note: which reminds me . . .]
• Also, if you post a video that allows us to bring back the "Bed Intruder Song", we will post your video as well.
• Jimmy Kimmel pulled out all the stops for The Chief's birthday: "This Year in Unnecessary Censorship".

Have a great weekend everyone!