Well. That kind of sucked.
Football! You're dead to me!
For now.
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Monday, January 21, 2013
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Game Day Rationalizations
I’ve
spent the whole week listening to pigskin pundits and bobbleheads comparing Joe
Flacco’s mighty right arm to Thor’s Hammer. The Ravens aren’t afraid to play in
Foxborough. Torrey Smith is so fast he occasionally disappears from radar. Ray
Lewis is on a mission from God. So, yeah, I’m nervous.
How
the hell are the Patriots 9 point favorites in this game?
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Penultimate Pigskins
Nothing
is really a surprise in the conference championship games. Would I call any
outcome this Sunday an upset? I guess I’d go with statistically improbable if I
was splitting semantic hairs. And apparently I am.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Pigskin Roller Coaster
The
pigskin roller coaster. For some the ride is already over. Perhaps they’re the
lucky ones. Peyton and Rodgers, RG III and Russell Wilson. Thanks for playing.
The stakes and the existential angst rise with each round of the playoffs. Playing
for the conference championship is far, far better than going 7-9-0. We know
this. It is the pigskin truth. And yet it’s going to suck wicked bad for half
the NFL’s core audience this coming Sunday. Somebody’s going to
emergency, somebody’s going to jail. And somebody is losing a football game.
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Legacy Schmegacy
I’ve
been trying to imagine what it must’ve been like for the tens of thousands of
Broncos fans who sat through sub-zero wind chills only to drive home knowing
their football season was over. Before Saturday, I would guess most pigskin
pundits and bobbleheads – and most fans – had ceded the AFC spot in the Super
Bowl to Denver. Home field, eleven game winning streak, Top 5 defense, Top 5
offense and Peyton Manning playing like it’s 2009. The AFC Championship was
scripted for Peyton to face Tom Brady one more time in a game certain to
coronate Manning and his Comeback/MVP Season. The Patriots would present a
worthy challenge, but that relentless defense, Manning, home field and high
altitude would carry the day.
Super
Bowl XLVII.
Right
there.
Gone.
Karma Has a Really Weird Sense of Humor
The
agitprop of Saturday’s Ravens-Broncos game should provide a final reminder to
the Patriots that nothing is written. Maybe they really meant everything they
said about the Texans and the playoffs but now they have the evidence that it’s
real. Really real.
You saw what
happened to Denver!
Sunday
morning, pigskin pundits and bobbleheads will certainly be deconstructing what Colin
Kaepernick’s record-setting performance in dispatching Aaron Rodgers and
the Packers means to the future of the quarterback position (we’re all just
waiting for his knee injury, aren’t we?) and they will also be dissecting the choke
job by Peyton
Manning and the #1 seeded Denver Broncos.
And
that will be fun – but not too much fun. After all, the Patriots still have to
play the Texans and you saw what happened to the Broncos, didn’t you?
Never spike the ball early.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Life is a Series of Bad Decisions
It’s
hard not to judge. Our brains rationalize input from the five senses, giving us
the ability to swerve and miss that tree. We’re built to judge. Is this
delicious? Will that fit in my pocket? That was a tree, wasn’t it? Is Mike
Shanahan an idiot? Mike Shanahan is an idiot.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Every New Beginning
Sometimes
things just work out. Sometimes they don’t, especially if Tony Romo is
involved.
The
Giants won but it didn’t matter because the Bears won but that didn’t matter
either because the Vikings won. I think. I lost track of the various
tiebreakers/win-and-they’re-in scenarios as the 1:00pm games were ending. Could
have been the vodka, I suppose. Anyway, the brackets are set and if everything
goes to form we’ll get Tom Brady vs. Peyton Manning in the AFC Championship
game. And yes, that sound you just heard was Jim Nantz’s and Phil Simms’s pants
exploding.
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