Why in the world would any team kick to Devin Hester? The opposing team should just kick the ball out of bounds and let Rex Grossman throw interceptions to the defense.
After the Chiefs lost to the Browns on Sunday, there was a brawl in the Jackson County Jail in Kansas City as a result of an argument over the game. That is a silly reason for a riot. What happened to the good old days when jail riots started over important issues like meatloaf or dibs on the bottom bunk?
Morten Anderson signed with the Falcons on Monday. Mort is so old that on the day he was born, Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, Gary Powers was in Soviet custody, and Cal Ripken, Jr. wasn't born yet.
O.J. is in jail again for allegedly breaking into a Vegas hotel room with his entourage and retrieving his own property at gunpoint. Unfortunately for the Juice, regardless of the legitimacy of his claim to the property, he wasn’t legally entitled to reclaim it at gunpoint. They call that "armed robbery." O.J. claimed that while he did recover the property, he didn’t see any guns. Given that he’s a virtuous and honest man, they should just take his word for it and let him go.
Ironically, one of the items the Juice recovered was a picture of Orenthal taken with FBI founder J. Edgar Hoover. How strange is that? That’s like a roach having his picture taken with the Orkin Man.
The hotel room incident does give O.J. the opportunity to write another book. Possible title: “If I Did It- 2.”
Surprisingly, Emmitt Smith is much better on ESPN Countdown than Keyshawn Johnson. Keyshawn looks uncomfortable and awkward, while Emmitt is relaxed, insightful, and reasonably articulate. Neither guy could be worse than Michael Irvin.
The Bald Eagle has been officially returned to the endangered species list.
This year’s Monday Night Football broadcast is the best football broadcast in years. Ron Jaworski is Dalai Lama of game film, Mike Tirico is an underrated host, and the sideline reporters, Michelle Tafoya and Suzy Kolber, are both good enough to sit in Tirico's seat. Tony Kornheiser, the guy I'd have expected to be the weakest link, is really pretty entertaining.
This week, a rap song attributed to Chiefs’ RB Larry Johnson and filled with profanity and racial slurs showed up on MySpace. The song, which bashed both Chiefs’ GM Carl Peterson and teammate Priest Holmes, was allegedly recorded at the home of former Chief Joe Hall. Once the rap gained media attention, the MySpace poster claimed that the rap was edited together from real Larry performances, and then later “admitted” it was a publicity stunt for his record label “SBL & Basement Entertainment.” SBL appears to be four guys who play with guns and record music in their mom’s garage.
I suspect that the “owner” of SBL & Basement Entertainment wasn’t being dishonest about the recording until he got a call from an angry NFL running back after the story broke. Besides the fact that the SBL guys have ties to Joe Hall, a real “fake” would probably have been performed by somebody with some sort of musical talent, and the rap was worse than Samurai Mike in the Super Bowl Shuffle.
I’m not sure why the NFL Channel thinks that it is meaningful that the Panthers are 19-2 in their last 21 games in which DeShaun Foster received at least 15 carries. That couldn’t be more meaningless. There is a correlation between number of carries and winning percentage because teams run the ball more when they are winning. Running does not result in winning. Winning results in running. Suggesting that an increase in rushing attempts will result in a win is like blaming umbrellas for rain.
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