Articles from October 2010
NFL Week 8 Preview
October 29th, 2010What's up with the "good" teams this season? The bad teams are holding up their end of the season. They're doing their best to be bad. San Francisco lost again moving to
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College Football Week 9 Preview
October 28th, 2010Well, folks, Oklahoma did it. They proved that the top of the NCAA totem is but a temporary perch. The #1 ranked team in the country has fallen each week for the past three weeks in a row.
Emily Dickinson: "Fame is a fickle food."
Confucious: "Big tree...fall hard."
Davy Crockett: "Fame is a shaved pig with a greased tail."
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NFL Week 7 Preview
October 22nd, 2010Did you see Atlanta's Dunta Robinson knock both himself and the Eagles DeSean Jackson out of their game Sunday with a very scary helmet to helmet hit? It did not appear as though Robinson was deliberately trying to separate Jackson's head from his body. It seemed he was trying to do what all NFL defenders do, what all of them are taught to do, separate Jackson from the ball. Players don't try to tackle ball carriers any more, they try to obliterate them, they try to "blow them up." Who ever hears of wrapping up the ball carrier any more? You don't want to bring him down you want to take him out, right? To take him out, you have to hit him high, you just have to.
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College Football Week 8 Preview
October 21st, 2010Dear Enthuuziasts,
I have a splitting headache.
Sincerely,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwAhWlfF3NM
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NFL Week 6 Preview
October 15th, 2010Most seasons we begin to see some clear cut trends by the time we hit the quarter pole. Some teams are obviously sailing towards the playoffs while others are sinking fast. What about this season, now that every team has at least four games under its belt? This season is kind of murky.
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College Football Week 7 Preview
October 14th, 2010It finally happened! I guess technically No. 1 ranked Alabama lost too, ending their league best 19-game win streak, which represents some sort of milestone, but the real noteworthy event of the weekend was my Alabama prediction coming true. It really happened!
I've waited long and hard for this moment - my 15 minutes, the realization of all my predictive potential, the cataclysmic rearrangement of the cosmos, which if interpreted properly, might just endow me with another week's worth of 100% accurate predictions.
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NFL Week 5 Preview
October 8th, 2010Mike Singletary is an exemplary person. A good, strong man, a caring, devout man, a leader. He is the model of a human being many of us would be proud to see our children become. He is an NFL hall of famer not just because of his skills but because of his mind and because of his heart. It is easy to root for him, to believe in him, easy to want to follow him. As a player, he led by example. He worked harder, played more intensely, cared more than anyone.
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College Football Week 6 Preview
October 7th, 2010Reasons to Love College Football
1. 13 men on the field. I can't decide if this sounds like the beginning to a bad joke, a bad movie, or a great movie. Nonetheless, it's the #1 reason to love college football. Anything can happen in college football. A rabbi, a priest, Albus Dumbledore, and 10 other persons wearing Tennessee football uniforms can line up on the field for the final play of the LSU game and nullify what would have been a game-winning stop (it's illegal to have more than 11 on the field at a time, even if one of them is the greatest wizard ever to star in the greatest movie ever about 13 football players in orange tights).
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NFL Week 4 Preview
October 1st, 2010Since 1990 when the NFL expanded to a twelve team playoff format, only 3 teams have begun the season 0-3 and then gone on to make the playoffs.
In a very exciting development, this year five teams have given themselves the opportunity to do just that! Now, the conventional thing would be to ignore those 5 teams, to turn away from them and instead talk about the other teams in the league, you know, the relevant ones.
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