I meant to post the following yesterday but once the news about Bobby dropped, I decided to postpone for a day. So these leftovers are starting to get pretty ripe by now.
On this Tuesday I am thankful that:
- Gary Danielson will announce only one more Tim Tebow game. If I wanted to listen to someone orgasmically moan and shout about someone’s greatness for 3 hours I would just go get a couple pornos.
- the ACC helped support my thesis that the SEC is overrated by going out and throwing up 3 stinkbombs on Saturday. FSU losing in Tebow’s final home game (rumor is that there were some other players on the field, but could not be verified) was a forgone conclusion but Clemson and Georgia Tech getting thumped the week before the ACC title game? Not exactly helping the cause guys.
- Pete Carroll and his coaching staff threw that long bomb for a TD in the last couple minutes against UCLA. After that incredible story on College Gameday Saturday morning, it was almost like Carroll was challenging everyone to debate whether he is a really good guy or an arrogant egomaniac who had to kick UCLA like a wounded dog after getting poop stuck in his face by that Stanford two-point conversion a couple weeks before.
- this week’s Civil War between Oregon and Oregon State will decide the Pac Ten’s Rose Bowl representative. Of course I am cheering for the Beavers, but even if the Ducks win it will be more fun than seeing USC yet again. Plus can you imagine the atrocity Nike will come up with for Oregon’s Rose Bowl uniform? Might want to ditch the HDTV on January 1.
- the apparent early leader to replace Charlie Weis as Notre Dame head coach would not seem to be an obvious choice for a team that struggles to win Bowl games, regardless of a nickname of Big Game Bob.
- TV has finally started to move past the reality show + hour long Cop drama formula and actually rediscovered the sitcom. Shows like Community, 30 Rock, How I Met Your Mother, Modern Family and the return of Scrubs mean there are more good comedies on network TV now than any time in the last decade.
- TV is so slow and formulaic that there are still enough awful shows on the air to give The Soup fodder each week to mock
- this is the year that the Broncos have to play the NFC East – a conference clearly on the downward slide to mediocrity (see: NFC West) but thanks to east coast bias and long held assumptions is still held in high regard by the football experts.
- football scouts still become so enamored by physique and measurables that they ignore performance on the field in college – letting the Broncos steal players like Elvis Dumervil and Wesley Woodyard who are two of the biggest reasons not named Brian Dawkins for the Broncos defensive resurgence this year.
- Citizen has not stopped running those commercials that say ‘Unstoppable…Eli Manning is…’ because there should be a segment on PTI where Wilbon and Kornheiser see who can come up with more ways of humorously finishing that sentence given the obvious fact that poor Eli is imminently stoppable.
- Vince Young has resurrected his career. I never liked him in college (damn Longhorns), but you can’t deny his athletic gifts. It is nice to see him get it together mentally and finally show the promise that made him a top-five draft pick.
- Matt Leinart must have consoled himself for another last second loss to Vince Young, by scouring the bars of Phoenix for local community college co-eds to accompany him to his hot tub
- Jeff Fisher took six weeks to put Young in the starting lineup, ensuring that the Titans wouldn’t make the playoffs. I think I speak for every AFC fan that the Titans are not a team I would want to see in the playoffs.
- Brett Favre is surrounded by the best collection of talent of his entire career. This lets us enjoy repeated effusive praise of Favre when his job description should best be described as “just get the ball to the playmakers and not the other team”.
- Troy Aikman made one of the most logical arguments I have ever heard yesterday. Pointing out Favre has averaged 17 interceptions per year in his entire career Aikman argued his current year stat of 3 interceptions is actually a cause of concern. Most analysts see his limited interceptions as a great thing. Aikman is smart enough to realize that the multi-interception game (or as I call it – “the Cutler”) is coming at some point. Better for the Vikings if this occurs soon rather than in the playoffs.
- the NFL Network created the NFL Red zone channel. Getting passed to any game where a team has an opportunity to score is the greatest fantasy invention since point-per-reception scoring.
- the completion of Thanksgiving weekend means that we are that much closer to Christmas and the college bowl season. That is my holiday. And, yes if Bobby really does get to have his final game at a bowl in Florida, you are damn right I am flying across the country to say thanks to him properly.
