BIG BROTHER – 9/10/12

Let me just say how great it is to have football back in my life!!  I’m not sure how many of my readers are NFL fans, but I can’t express to you how happy I am to have football back on my Sunday’s!  And, I’m also glad that I only have to endure football AND Big Brother for two Sunday’s out of the season.  It is difficult for me to pass up watching football live to watch some reality television show, but I do so since it is only for two weeks.  Once Big Brother is over, I can return to Sunday being only about football and peace will finally be restored in my life.  I think basketball and baseball should take after football (and golf, for that matter) and only have games on the weekend(s), and one other night of the week (like Monday Night Football – although now, this season, each week there will also be Thursday Night Football).  I just think there is something to be said when you’re only playing one game per week, or you are playing a series (like golf) that runs the entire weekend, each weekend.  It just means more.  The games mean more.  Me giving up my time means more.  When you have games each and every night, there is a discord between you and the viewer.  I know that hardcore baseball and basketball fans will still say that each game means the same to them, but that’s not true.  That is why football is the most popular sport in the world (screw you, soccer) right now.  We don’t have to sit through 162 games, or 82 games, and then have the playoffs drag on for three months before a champion is crowned.  Nobody cares by that point, except for that team’s fans.  Do you ever wonder why the Super Bowl is the most endearing Championship of all sports championships?  It’s because every fan cares.  They love watching football,  because it’s not shoved in our face every single day for 7 months.  We appreciate the game a heck of a lot more.  I’m just rambling now, so let me just get to Big Brother before I tell you all my issues with voting, smoking in public places (I can’t tell you how amazing it is to live in a big city that doesn’t allow smoking indoors in just about every building known to the land), college degrees, and companies who don’t call/email you back as to why you didn’t get the job!  So, don’t get me started…
 
But, I will get started on what I thought of tonight’s Big Brother episode.  It all started by recapping the previous Live Eviction show, and what happened in between everything that we got to see on air.  We see Ian telling us that he had to get rid of Frank, because Frank was the favorite to win the show if he was sitting in the final two.  This is probably true, but you just never know how the voting would go.
 
Then, we get to hear how Jenn realizes that she’s all alone now, and understands now that Dan really isn’t on her side.  Dan, realizing she’s going to feel this way, tries to reassure her that he’s sticking with her in this game, but he doesn’t even need to worry about it because Jenn has nowhere else to go, so she has put any trust she has in him, otherwise she’ll just be sitting at the kitchen table by herself, asking herself if she’s ever going to actually put a damn shirt on this season!  I don’t want to sound too much like an a-hole pig, but if you’re Kate Upton, you can probably walk around in your bra and a button-up vest that you never button up, but Kate Upton Jenn is not…
 
Dan tells us that, after he won the HOH, he wanted to get Ian out, and that is why he nominated him.  He tells Ian that he is only nominating him as a pawn, but obviously Ian is NOT ok with this decision, because he not only knows how often pawns go home in Big Brother, but also that with the game he is playing now, and the people left in the house, he is the biggest threat to Dan to win this game.  So, he should be worried about being nominated, and possibly being voted out by his own alliance.  Dan proves Ian’s worries right, by telling Shane that if, after the Power of Veto competition, the nominations stay the same, they should consider voting Ian out.  Shane freaks out about this a little, walks away yelling “Thanks for your time, Dan” while Dan then tells Danielle to go comfort Shane and get him on board with voting out Ian, if the nominations stay the same. 
 
Ian then goes on and wins the Veto (as we all know), and Dan then considers getting Shaneomac out of the game.  For me, this is the perfect decision.  I do not believe Shane is a threat to win this game whatsoever, but he is a definite threat to win the final HOH and then NOT take Dan to the final two, so he does have to go, if Ian is safe (which he is).  Danielle, obviously, is not on board and it’s at this moment when I realize that Danielle is a shoe-in for final two.  The only wild card in the house that I am not 100% sure of whom would take her to the end is Ian.  For some idiotic reason, I believe Ian would take Dan to the final two.  I don’t know why he would, but I think he would.  Maybe he wants to win against the best or maybe he wants to have a memorable ending to his season, or maybe he just really isn’t all that smart except for when it comes to science.  Who knows, but everybody else in the house is going to take Danielle to the finals with them.  Think about it.  Shane is just as much of a puppy at her feet as she is at his, so he’s taking her.  Jenn knows she stands ZERO chance of even getting one single vote against anyway other than Danielle (and she still probably wouldn’t get a vote, except maybe from Frank).  And, Dan knows his best chance of winning is against her (or Jenn), so you know he’s taking her.  So, congratulations Danielle on winning $50,000 and second place of Big Brother 14.  Unless by some crazy, unruly chance you actually win the final HOH and take Jenn, then congratulations on winning $500,000 and having Big Brother change all sorts of rules next season to save themselves the embarrassment of having some loser come in, do nothing for 75 days, and cash a check for half-a-million dollars.