Archive for the ‘Football’ Category
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
I have been extremely busy the last week or so. I forgot how time-consuming lesson planning and some other aspects of the classroom are. So much for that 9-4 speil . . . PSU is looking good . . . My Phillies are fading . . . Eagles and Dolphins both came up on the short end of 16-13 games today . . . sounds like Patraeus will have a good report to share. I am certain the majority will spin this as a negative. It sure would be nice to be able to move ahead in politics . . . While I pined for NBC to get the NFL back, employing Madden, Michaels, Collinsworth, Barber, and The Bus makes for a lousy group. I really like Costas, but he is far better working baseball . . . Not much on my mind other than work right now . . .
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Saturday, May 12th, 2007
I just do not understand Ricky Williams. The 1998 Heisman Trophy winner has tanked his lucrative NFL career for marijuana. Pot is not the addictive drug that cocaine, heroin, and other narcotics are. Recall, there are many folks who support its legalization.
Williams is currently suspended from the league because he failed drug tests. He applied for reinstatement this spring. Yet, he failed another drug test in April.
Now at 30, Williams’ better football days are behind him. Sure, he has far fewer hits on him than a normal 30-year old running back, but who wants a troubled pothead?
Mike Ditka is no longer coaching football because of Williams’ decisions. The Miami Dolphins were on their way until their running game (are you ready for it?) went to pot. The NFL is better off without Ricky Williams. Williams has only himself to blame for that.
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Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
This was a stupid bet. Plain and simple.
It is okay to root for your team. It is okay to be passionate. It is okay to be overzealous should your team make it to the championship. It’s okay to bet on your team . . . even if they’re the underdog in such a situation.
But what the hell is this guy thinking of betting his name?
Last Friday, before the Super Bowl, Scott Wiese made the following wager: if the Colts won, he would change his name to whoever led the Colts to victory. Wiese will change his name to Super Bowl MVP Peyton Manning.
Wiese will have to advertise his intention in the local newspaper — the Herald & Review — for several weeks and then have a judge give him the OK to become, legally anyway, Peyton Manning.
This is certainly an example of a man who is beyond normal. Sheesh . . .
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Sunday, February 4th, 2007
To go on the record, prior to the game, allow me to share my Super Bowl prediction.
I do not like the Colts. It stems mostly from my dislike of Peyton Manning as a quarterback. Yes, he is good. But I am not convinced he is good as others make him out to be. I have never been a Tony Dungy fan. There is something about him that doesn’t sit quite right with me. I am not certain what it is. Mostly, I gather, my dislike of the Colts stems from the image of the Mayflower trucks pulling out of Baltimore so many years ago in the middle of the night as the Irsays moved the franchise. That and the fact the Colts were in the Dolphins’ division for so many years. 
It’s not so much I like the Bears either. The ‘85 Bears put a serious challenge to the Dolphins’ perfect season. Of course, the Fins took care of that on Monday Night. :) For much of my life the Bears have been hapless. Their current team is nothing to be terribly excited about. Rex Grossman is inconsistent and the lesser of the two quarterbacks in this game. The Bears play defense and that is the part of the game I really enjoy. It will not be a stretch to say I will be rooting for Chicago today.
The better team is Indianapolis. I predict the Colts will win 27-14. I, however, will be rooting for the Bears.
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
The disdain for politicians is ubiquitous. While reading an article in the Toronto Star (of all places) about Roger Goodell, the new NFL commissioner, I found this gem:
Goodell is the son of a U.S. senator from New York, so he obviously was brought up learning to deceive people with a smile.
Wow! Son of a senator so he learned how to deceive. This is quite telling. There is nothing in Charles Goodell’s (his father) bio that indicates deception was common. Yet, the cheap shot is so easily taken.
Public service is no longer an honorable profession, it seems.
In context, the shot doesn’t even seem accurate. Despite Goodell “not saying anything”, he did not deceive the audience; he just didn’t indulge it.
Bah!
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