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Every since Tuesday’s historical election, the U.S.A. has been running wild with over 50 million Obamamaniacs and Gilbert Arenas of the Washington Wizards may be the biggest one. Not only did Gilbert get Obama inspired tattoos, he’s also getting a mural at his home. SportsByBrooks has the goods:

“Arenas has decided to show his permanent support of President-elect Barack Obama with a tattoo. Arenas had the words “Change We Believe In” tattooed onto the fingers of his left hand in cursive writing. Then, Gilbert showed the outside of his pinky finger, which had “44? inked on it.

Arenas has gone all out for Obama, adding that he hired an artist last week to paint a mural with Obama’s family on one side and Arenas’s fiancee and children on another side of a wall in Arenas’s house. “He united people,” Arenas said of Obama. “By him winning, it showed the world that we’re not as racist as people think we are. I think that’s the beauty of [the election]. Not just because he’s the first African American president. America is not as bad as people think we are.””

Now… I’m a Barack Obama fan like most of you out there… but this is just a little “extra extra” in my opinion. Just think if you saw a few rednecks in Kentucky with George Bush tattoos and Dubya painted on the side of their barn… you’d probably say “these right wing jesus freak hicks are fanatical”.

Where is the NAACP when you really need them??? Michael Vick, Pacman Jones, Cedric Benson and every other troubled black NFL player should absolutely be up in arms! Being that this is the week President-Elect Obama made history, we at Sportaphile don’t want to pull out the ole race card.But NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell needs to stop playing games!

How in the hell is Jacksonville Jaguars WR Matt Jones still catching passes although he was charged with cocaine possession back in July?

Let me get this straight: Pacman is out effective immediately for getting into a scuffle with his own bodyguard, but Matt Jones is still starting in games even though he was caught by police inside a parked car allegedly cutting up cocaine with a credit card?

Hate him or love him, but Miami Dolphins Linebacker Joey Porter is actually right on the money this time:

“If I knew the answers, I’d still have 20 more thousand dollars,” said Porter, who was fined $20,000 last month for criticizing referee Ed Hochuli after a loss to Houston. “But I’m still trying to figure out how a guy gets caught with cocaine in his car and still plays the game and nothing happens.

“He got caught with cocaine and Matt Jones is still playing football. How does he get away with that? And then you fine people $20,000 for making comments to the media about the refs. The guy got caught with cocaine.”

Granted, Matt Jones was suspended for three games and is presently under appeal. But, in the meantime, Matt Jones is still actively in the lineup. If this was Pac or any of the other “thug life” players, would the same still be happening? Or would the media be defending them in claiming ‘due process?’ I think not. Matt Jones wants to toot toot, beep beep in parked cars? Then his ass needs to be suspended for violating the player personal conduct rules. Period! But no, he lives to see the next Sunday. And we hate to point out the obvious, but Mr. Jones is Caucasian….

So again, we ask: What is wrong with this picture, Rog???? Cuz we KNOW the brothers wouldn’t get the same pass from you AT ALL.

Barack sat down with Boomer for one of his last TV interviews before tomorrow’s election… check it out. Remember to go vote you guys…. I will be doing so at 7am tomorrow!

We’ve seen athletes endorse presidential candidates in the past, but how awesome would it be for someone to rep their prez choice in the middle of a game?

That’s what Chad Johnson planned to do last Sunday vs. the Houston Texans. Pro Football Talk has the scoop:

“We’re told that Bengals receiver Chad Johnson a/k/a Chad Javon Ochocinco had a special touchdown celebration planned for Sunday’s game at Houston, if he had actually managed to, you know, score a touchdown.

Per a league source, Johnson had a Barack Obama banner stashed in each end zone, which he planned to retrieve and unfurl if he had scored.

Such an action surely would have drawn a stiff fine, along the lines of a $30,000 penalty.”

I’m SO pissed we didn’t get to see this! Roger Goodell and the boys would have had a hissy-fit but it totally would have been worth it. The Bengals entire season is already in the toilet, why not make history?

The Bengals play Jacksonville this upcoming Sunday… let’s hope Chad still has this TD celebration in his plans.

During an interview with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and Deion Sanders a few weeks back, Deion mentioned that Snoop Dogg said hip hop needs an authority figure like Mr. Goodell to oversee things.

While I typically disagree with Roger, I do respect his ability to frighten young black men more than anyone on earth not wearing a badge. So I present to you, a list of things that would happen under Roger’s reign in rap music.

If Roger Goodell were the commissioner of hip hop….

DMX would be banned - So lets get this straight….. he hasn’t released a good album OR a good movie since Aaliyah passed away, he doesn’t know who Barack Obama is, and he’s been arrested five times this year alone??? Roger wouldn’t stand for such foolishness.. BANNED.

If Roger Goodell were the commissioner of hip hop….

You wouldn’t be allowed to diss legends unless you have more than 2 hit albums - Am I the only hip hop fan who gets sick of headlines like “Jim Jones disses Jay-Z”, or “Yung Berg hates 2pac” or something else equally foolish? Who decided it was okay to give these clowns attention? Hip hop culture doesn’t respect it’s elders and Roger simply wouldn’t go for it.

If Roger Goodell were the commissioner of hip hop….

“Video Vixens” can’t release any more tell-all books - It was okay at first, but how many more books are we going to have to endure in this genre? Okay, you gave Lil Wayne head at Summer Jam, now do you have anything else noteworthy to say?… I didn’t think so. Uncle Roger don’t love dem hoez.
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