Wednesday Link-Off: Fall of the Dongslinger

It may be cold outside but Victoria’s Secret Angel Lily Aldridge should warm up the freezing Canadian winter.

Here’s the sports media coup of the year. Fox leaves the cameras on overnight and catches the Metrodome roof collapse. Here’s the story behind the video. (USA Today)

Speaking of Favre related things, even though his streak ended, that isn’t the big Dongslinger story of the week. He could be facing a lawsuit from Jenn Sterger. (Pro Football Talk)

Ever wonder what it’s like to be a Christmas tree salesman in New York City? Probably not but this story of a tree-selling family is still a good read. (Los Angeles Times)

After the jump, scads of hockey links, the first gameplay footage of Uncharted 3, and the ultimate F1 2010 highlight package.

Buzz Bissinger is writing weekly sports column now. His first is about Cam Newton’s Heisman Trophy. (The Daily Beast)

In tomorrow’s Power Rankings, I call Sidney Crosby’s season a hot streak. The WSJ tries to fan the flames of Crosby hype. (Wall Street Journal)

Howard Berger looks at the Leafs’ “Hell Week” but more importantly humanizes Don Cherry for the haters that love to watch him. (HockeyBuzz)

The folks at Versus want ask: How many games did it take Wayne Gretzky to reach 800 games? Read that question twice so you don’t mis-read it. (Puck Daddy)

Coming soon to arenas near you: Fake ice rinks. It’s already in Canada. (Off the Bench)

With this being the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Brothers, it’s only appropriate that we run this profile of the man behind Mario. (New Yorker)

Jimmy Fallon is a lucky bastard. First, he keeps a job on SNL despite laughing through all of his segments. Then he got a late night talk show despite not being funny. And now he got to play part of Uncharted 3 before anyone else. Lucky bastard. (Kotaku)

And that brings me to CNN. The American mainstream news media requires no talent to be successful. CNN seems to have finally realized it but it seems too late for their primetime lineup. (American Journalism Review)

A trio of reimagining type galleries for you today. First, it’s Star Wars scenes reimagined as non-sci-fi drama movies. (Unreality)

Here are five hockey sweaters reimagined as your standard ugly sweater. (Tauntr)

And the internet reimagined as if it was run by old folks. (College Humor)

And just for fun, here’s a video gallery to close out. It’s the ten cheesiest Hollywood car explosions. An entire movie occupies the #1 slot and deservedly so. (Jalopnik)

If there’s one thing that Bernie Ecclestone’s FOA does well, it’s produce epic video packages. If they could turn these around during a race broadcast, maybe more people would watch.

There’s a new book out looking behind the scenes of the sounds of Star Wars. If you’re buying me a Christmas gift, keep this one in mind.

And Ozzy Osbourne sums up Justin Bieber in just one sentence. Naturally, he also drops an f-bomb.

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