Monday, September 24, 2007

Weekend Roundup

I have to say, it was a strong weekend in the sporting world. Good games in college football and the pros. Congrats to Favre for tying the record...I won't bore any of you with the Favre Shrine post until he actually breaks it. If you aren't into the "Brett Favre is the Greatest Person Ever" stuff, I would recommend not reading next Monday.

FYI...the...ROCKIES...have won eight in a row and are only 1.5 games out of the NL Wild Card. Being that the only team in the NL playing as good as the...ROCKIES...right now is the Chicago Cubs, and how awful the Padres look, this really might be legit. The Phillies aren't going to catch the Mets...if it comes down to a one game playoff for the Wild Card...Phillies/ROCKIES...you heard it hear first.

The college game was pretty boring this weekend. I'd like to congratulate Randy Shannon for winning a big game with the U on Thursday. They looked like the U of Ken Dorsey. Oh wait, Syracuse beat Louisville...away from the Carrier Dome. First of all, the Carrier Dome is sweet. Secondly, Louisville has to have the worst defense in the history of sports. Like, a worse defense than every team that played the Bulls in 1996. As in, Antwaan Stewart plays every position for the Cardinals. Brian Brohm is the only thing close to Colt Brennan (who didn't play this weekend and Hawaii still won) in terms of numbers and they are supposed to be an elite program? Elite programs don't lose to Syracuse without Donovan McNabb. We will get to McNabb in a minute.

LSU proved how good they were this past weekend. ESPN, surprise, said that USC has the hardest schedule in the land. They didn't play a Spurrier coached team this past weekend. LSU just looks like a professional team with size and speed. The clash between LSU and Florida is going to be the game of the season...especially after Florida learned how to get by in a close game this weekend.

Notre Dame is terrible.

I find this interesting...in the always popular "Others Receiving Votes" category of the polls, the following teams are listed: The U, Michigan, Florida State, Tennessee. Since 1997, on paper, that's four national titles and six trips to national championship games (Not including Michigan playing in the Rose Bowl against Ryan Leaf. That wasn't a clear "National Title Game." If it was, we could also count Tennessee from that year when they played co-champ Nebraska.). That's is what I would call...sad.

As mentioned...McNabb. This will be the last time we talk about his situation. If he wants to know why people get after him about poor play, maybe he should look at his stat line from yesterday:

21-26, 381 Yards, 4 TD's, 0 INT.

When you are capable of putting numbers like that up on the board, you deserve an earful when you play horribly. Any questions?

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