<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, football]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, football]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/football http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/football <![CDATA[Julia Allison Now Mostly Famous for Dancing with a Quarterback]]> Dating columnist Julia Allison must be figuring that everything she has done is meaningless compared to someone paid to throw a ball around. Her Internet popularity has peaked after her dalliance with a football player.

Earlier today, "Julia Allison" was the No. 1 search term on Google Trends, which measures fast-rising searches. (It's down to No. 3 at the moment, behind "scott podsednik" and "lil kim wardrobe malfunction".)Why are large numbers of people who have never heard Allison's name before trying to Google the relentless egoblogger who, despite her best efforts to cultivate fame without achievement, remains little-known outside of New York media circles?

It has to be her Saturday-night romance with Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler. Reports of her standing between Cutler's beefy thighs at a nightclub have brought her to the attention of a whole new audience: football fans. How frustrating this must be for someone who drunkenly insists that she's a "brilliant businesswoman." Now she's best known as a football player's Saturday night girl.

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<![CDATA[Press, flacks enjoy HD football at CES]]> Yesterday we noted the lack of high-definition football in the press room at CES 2008, the biggest electronics show in the world. Today though, things are much more civilized. We're watching the Giants/Buccaneers game in glorious high definition on some LG set. We're surprised there isn't a massive Panasonic plasma with booth babes serving beef Wellington to the bored hard-working masses of reporters. This should be prime sponsorship real estate.

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<![CDATA[Press, flacks tortured with non-HD football at CES]]> We snapped this shot in the press lounge at CES 2008. There were several HDTV's displaying the NFL's AFC wild card playoff game between the Jaguars and Steelers with several dozen comfy seats with reporters watching the game. Nice, right? Sadly, the world's biggest electronics show didn't have the game in HD. UPDATE: Today's games are being shown in HD. What a relief.

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