Bachelor's Palmer returns to NFL, duties vary greatly

	The women in the Bay Area now get their crack at Jesse Palmer. Peter Kramer/Getty Images

Each Friday, SI.com's Justin Doom offers his take on the week's most interesting stories.

Jesse Palmer, the former quarterback who became significantly more famous for being The Bachelor on TV, was signed this week by the injury-depleted 49ers because, well, there really wasn't anyone else out there.

"I was very confident I would resurface somewhere," Palmer said. "It was just a matter of being patient."

With Alex Smith and Ken Dorsey hurt, and Tim Rattay now a Buccaneer, former fourth-stringer Cody Pickett will get the start this week, with Palmer slated as either the No. 2 or No. 3 QB, depending on the severity of Dorsey's ankle injury.

"At the very least," 49ers coach Mike Nolan should've added, "even if he never sees the field, I'm sure he'll find other ways to contribute, like maybe helping us evaluate next year's cheerleading squad. Or, if he does play and struggles, maybe we can cut him but then send him out in a limo to give a rose to Jeff George or Chad Hutchinson."

Rotten misleading headlines

When you see a bulletin that says "PBR world title up for grabs" don't you immediately think of some ridiculous but wildly entertaining Pabst Blue Ribbon competition? Yeah, me too. Turns out the story was about professional bull riding.

Punk in drublic?

In a semi-related story, Yale campus officials, in an effort to promote a more benign game-time atmosphere, have enacted much stricter new guidelines over how students may tailgate at football games, especially this year's showdown with Harvard.

All drinking games and concomitant paraphernalia have been banned, and all tailgate parties must be shut down by the end of halftime. Students from both Harvard and Yale harshly criticized the new policy in a recent story in the Yale Daily News.

Ben Click, a Harvard senior, said that he thinks ending tailgates earlier is actually a detriment to Yale's purported safety goals.

"Either way, we will have four kegs," he said. "We will just have to drink them by the third quarter."