Super Bowling

I hate to take time away from the movie characters list but there is one of the least important days of football coming up tomorrow. What is so great about a day of football with only ONE game on. You wanna know the best day of football? This year it was Sunday September 21st. During week 3 there were 15 National Football League games on Sunday. Yes Week 17 had all 16 but so many of them meant nothing.

Let's take a quick look at some of the highlights from fabulous Week 3. The Cards and Steelers both lost. Arizona lost to the Redskins 24-17 with The Edge posting 93 yards on 18 carries. Pittsburgh fell to the Eagles 15-6 with Big Ben putting up 131 yards, no tds, a ceptor and got injured. Teams of the blog, Colts and Raids, both lost in nail biters, but the Dolphins put the smack down on that team that plays in Massachusetts 38-13, with Ronnie Brown going for 800 yards and 12 touchdowns.

As for tomorrow, sure about half of the people out there are saying the 7 point favorite Steelers are going to win, but the other half are saying the Cards will win. It is my thought that the public is finally ready to jump on this Cardinal bandwagon and that mean the wheels are ready to come off. 53% on ESPN Sportsnation are picking the Cardinals to win outright. If that doesn't spell a Steelers blow out, I don't know what does. Doesn't it make sense that the Cards were running on a lot of energy the past three weeks and this two week break has slowed them down? Lost a little bit of their rhythm? The Steelers on the other hand don't play on rhythm. They're frantic and are just flat out good.

That's why my pick for the Super Bowl is Steelers 30, Cardinals 14.
Be sure to listen to me when I give out football advice because I play football in my front yard with my brothers at least three times a year.

In other bowl news, The Boss bowled a 298 in Wii Sports the other day. What a ridiculous addict he is.

NFL Overtime

I don't understand why this subject brings up so many arguments. The NFL overtime rules are definitely not the best, but at least they are still football. College overtime is just silly. How can we not do it like basketball? An overtime period to determine the winner. Looking at it in pure sport, this seems like the only real solution to the problem. I find it weird that I have not heard anyone but myself and Golic speak out about this as the correct answer to NFL overtime. You have a time game after regulation, you play another period to find the winner. If it is tied after that period, then you get a tie. Simple. Sure the overtimes will be going a bit longer than they do now, increasing the probability of injuries, but not by that much. I'm not saying another 15 minute period....how bout ten minutes? If the offense is so good that they can drive down the field, score a touchdown and waste all of the ten minutes, then they deserve to win the game outright. But if the team that wins the coin flip can only get down to the 30 and kick a field goal, then the other team gets their deserved chance to win. This would be real football. Get it done.

Peyton Is MVP

Peyton Manning won his third NFL MVP in a landslide. My favorite athlete since 1998 received 32 of the 50 total votes, with no other player receiving more than four. It is now Peyton and Favre as the only two guys with three MVPs. I predict Peyton ends with five by the time he's done.

Final Vote:
Peyton Manning- 32
Chad Pennington- 4
Michael Turner- 4
James Harrison- 3
Adrian Peterson- 3
Philip Rivers- 2
Kurt Warner- 1
Chris Johnson- 1

Here is the real question. Who in the world voted for Chris Johnson??? It seems to me that either T-time or Chris Johnson himself somehow is voting for the NFL MVP these days. That is ridiculous. Kurt Warner is the only other guy I don't agree with getting a vote, although it's much less crazy. Not a single vote for Drew Brees? Interesting. I love how Pennington and Rivers were the second and third QB vote getters in the MVP voting, but were both behind Cutler, Favre, Collins and Cassell in the Pro-Bowl voting. Man the Pro-Bowl voting is bad.

Simmons on Coaching

This is why Billy Simmons is the man...

** Philly's Andy Reid will be battling former assistant Brad Childress on Sunday in a matchup Peter King described as "teacher vs. pupil." Teacher vs. pupil???? That explains everything! Do you think Reid tutored Childress in classes like "Screwing up a Two-Minute Drill," "Hanging Your QB Out to Dry," "Dumb and Possibly Damaging Field Goal Attempts," "Idiotic Short-Yardage Calls," "Special Teams Collapses," "How To Blow Your Challenges," "Leaving Yourself With No Timeouts" and "How To Remain Calm As You're Getting Booed By Your Own Fans"? **

Full article found here...Simmons

Top Wide Receivers

Top NFL WRs of Fall 2008


1. Larry Fitzgerald
2. Andre Johnson
3. Steve Smith
4. Anquan Boldin
5. Roddy White
6. Calvin Johnson
7. Greg Jennings
8. Antonio Bryant
9. Randy Moss
10. Terrell Owens

Top Running Backs

Top NFL Running Backs of Fall 2008

1. Adrian Peterson
2. Clinton Portis
3. Michael Turner
4. Brandon Jacobs
5. Brian Westbrook
6. Matt Forte
7. Deangelo Williams
8. Thomas Jones
9. Chris Johnson
10. Frank Gore

Top Quarterbacks

Top 10 NFL QBs of Fall 2008

1. Drew Brees
2. Tony Romo
3. Peyton Manning
4. Kurt Warner
5. Phillip Rivers
6. Chad Pennington
7. Aaron Rodgers
8. Jay Cutler
9. Donovan McNabb
10. Eli Manning

Top NFL Teams

Top 10 NFL Teams of Fall 2008

1. Pittsburgh Steelers
2. New York Giants
3. Tennessee Titans
4. Carolina Panthers
5. Dallas Cowboys
6. Philadelphia Eagles
7. Indianapolis Colts
8. Baltimore Ravens
9. Atlanta Falcons
10. Miami Dolphins

Roy Williams

In breaking news that the Dallas Cowboys have acquired Wide Receiver Roy Williams from the Lions, the ultimate goal is almost achieved. The Cowboys have had Safety, Roy Williams on their team for years now.

The addition of WR Roy Williams only
leaves one more to go. It is at this time that everyone and their brother should be informing Jerry Jones that after he lets Wade Phillips go at the end of this year,


there is only one man for the job. Current North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams should be given as much money as it takes to tear him away from his alma mater. How hard is it to let the offensive and defensive coordinators do their jobs. Just yell at the players every once in a while and it will be just like Chapel Hill. Come on Jerry, give us all we want.

G-Men

It is usually a standard practice of the media to peg the defending champions in every professional sport as the team to beat the next season. I have never agreed with this way of denoting the team that was most likely to win. Don't get me wrong, there are those small amount of media members who don't do this, but the majority of analysts and reporters do. "You have to beat the best to be the best." The Spurs were the best team in the NBA last year even though they were in the middle of the pack during the regular season.

Here's the problem I have now. I haven't heard one NFL analyst claim that the Giants are the best team in the NFL "because they are the champs." All of the sudden media members are using actual reasoning to choose who the teams to beat are? Not that I'm a Giants fan, but after all of the times that the defending champs have not deserved to be the pre-season favorite, how come the G-Men haven't got one mention as the best team in the league...Patriots, Colts, Chargers and Cowboys are all mentioned before them.