While you were hypnotized by the twin specters of football and brunching, the news cycle kept relentlessly churning. Click through to find out what went on while you were logged off.
- The Jets beat the woeful Arizona Cardinals 7-6 behind third string quarterback Greg McElroy, who replaced butt fumbling Mark Sanchez in the 3rd quarter.
- A Kansas City Chiefs linebacker, originally from Long Island, fatally shot his girlfriend, then drove to the Chiefs practice facility and shot himself in front of his team coach and general manager.
- If you ever wanted to know what Woody Allen thinks is the most annoying thing about himself, watch this video.
- In Hurricane Sandy news: a pregnant mother whose Staten Island home was damaged by Sandy was forced to leave the Brooklyn hotel where she was staying because FEMA botched her reservations. Mayor Bloomberg made an impromptu visit to the Rockaways this week and praised Occupy Sandy for their relief efforts. And a representative from the mayor's office allegedly threatened to shut down a volunteer distribution center on Staten Island because it was obstructing the sidewalk.
- An African-American couple claim they were attacked by two Long Island pizza workers who hurled racial epithets at them.
- The only LEED Gold-certified restaurant in New York is slated to open in Harlem on December 10...and it's an Applebee's.
- Cops charged street artist LEWY with "making graffiti" for tagging the Brooklyn Bridge earlier this year.
- There was a new disturbing detail revealed during the trial of Nechemya Weberman: the 17-year-old woman claims Weberman showed her pornography and then made her reenact the sex acts during their frequent counseling sessions.
- Long Island might ban energy drinks for anyone under 19. Lindsay Lohan desperately cried, "Why does this happen to me?" before realizing she's over 19.
- We revisited John Lennon's last televised musical performances, as well as his last televised interview.
- And finally, an earnest young white woman wrote a post chronicling her experiences living in Harlem, thoroughly pissing people off in the process.
