DOWN goes New England.
DOWN goes Seattle.
The herd of remaining undefeated teams in the NFL has been further culled.
Idle thought: I wonder what the people in Philly think of former coach Andy Reid now. After all those mostly successful years in the City of Brotherly Love, they gave him the boot. Now they're watching their Eagles limp along while -- surprise -- Andy Reid's new team, the KC Chiefs, are 5-0. Still, the Eagles knocked off the NY Giants. And what's happened to those guys anyway? They're still winless and getting pummeled every week. Methinks head coach Tom Coughlin's seat is beginning to get very warm.
The New Orleans Saints remained amongst the undefeated by marching into Soldier Field in Chicago and double-timing Da Bears back into their den with another loss. After "Bountygate" and a horrid season last year -- could the Saints, now 5-0 as well, really be back that fast? Maybe.
Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos also remained undefeated by beating the Cowboys, but that might be a bit deceiving. Sure, Peyton's been a great QB, but he's also hugely benefited from the team around him over the years. Like back in his Indy days, he now enjoys the luxury of having an offensive line in Denver (that never gets any credit, per most O-linemen) that gives him ALL DAY to throw. Manning can drop back, look left, look right, look left again, do the happy-feet dance he's famous for, perhaps even likely start writing a novel -- and STILL not get touched by a rushing defenseman lineman. Plus he's always had an elite wide receiver corps to throw to. Yes, Peyton's good, but he's had the good fortune to have been in the right places at the right times as well. Had he been on lesser teams where dropping back to pass involved a-thousand-one, a-thousand-two, DUCK, it's entirely possible we wouldn't see him on so many commercials.
At that, Denver was exposed as having a weakness. Their defense. Good grief, Tony Romo, yes THAT Tony Romo, threw for well over 500 yards and the Cowboys racked up 48 points against the Broncos. Yet the Denver faithful likely never worried much. After all, it was Tony Romo. Keep the game within striking range and the pressure on long enough -- and chances are good Romo will eventually make a bonehead play to cost his team the game. And so he did. Tied at 48 with time winding down, Romo finally made a stupid throw that was intercepted deep in Cowboy territory. The Broncos calmly ran the clock down, and kicked a field goal to win it as time expired.
In other news..... Kevin Harvick won the NASCAR chase race in Kansas City. Jimmy Johnson once again lurks not far behind in points. No surprise there. Danica Patrick somehow managed to crash yet another car on the very first lap of the race. For this she earned 63 thousand bucks and change. Tell ya what. Put me behind the wheel of one of those 700+ horsepower cars, guarantee me 63K, and who knows? I might even make it 2 or 3 laps. With Danica, it's like whoopee, another $400,000 car trashed, give her another one, and oops, she has to go off to a photo-shoot somewhere for yet another endorsement. Excuse me, but something is very wrong with this picture.
In baseball, Detroit Tiger pitcher Max Scherzer continues to win, but last year's Cy Young winning Justin Verlander seems to keep falling short. Go figure.
The Detroit Lions went into Green Bay and got thumped for the 23rd time in a row. Hey, some things just aren't meant to happen. Yeah, just last week, the Lions finally broke through their forever winless streak in DC, but the Packers aren't exactly the Skins. One is still pretty good, while the other is terrible. Of course, Lions' fans will whine that their star receiver Calvin Johnson was unable to play. That's horsepuckey on a few different levels. First, every NFL team experiences injuries to key players. Second, the Packers themselves lost a Grade A receiver named Greg Jennings to free agency after last year. And third, if the Lions whole rodeo boils down to a one-trick-pony called Megatron -- and that horse comes up lame -- if the Honolulu blue and silver can't do better than what they showed at Lambeau -- they're in deep trouble.
In what yours truly believes to be a first, an NFL game was played on the west coast at about 9 PM. That's Pacific time. In the Eastern time zone, which sports have basically catered to since forever, that means the game started at roughly midnight. In other words, most people couldn't possibly stay up that late to watch it with the alarm clock set to go off for work on Monday morning.
Perhaps it's just as well, considering the two teams were Oakland and San Diego. Nobody east of the rockies would care about such a game anyway. There are the lunatics that continue to dress in silver and black variations of Kiss costumes and proudly call themselves Raider Nation, while the rest of the football world has watched them lose more battles than your average French army. And San Diego's not much better. While a great city to visit, their biggest attraction seems to be their zoo. I was there a few years back and got to watch a couple panda bears sitting on their butts chewing on bamboo, because they had nothing better to do. Sort of like their bottom-feeding baseball team -- the Padres. The San Diego Chargers indeed. Methinks the good folks in San Diego might be well-advised to be more worried about what might come charging north across the border from Tijuana, than overly concerned about a football team that is obviously going nowhere. I have no idea who won that game? Why? Because it wasn't worth watching. Who cares?
And of course, Tiger Woods is back in the news. It seems the US team defeated an international squad in something called the President's Cup. Don't ask me what President this was named after, but I'd take a wild guess and say it wasn't Millard Fillmore or Charles DeGaulle. At any rate, the headlines are blaring that Tiger won the Cup. Actually, Woods just won an 18 hole match by one measly stroke against a golfer named Richard Sterne, who most people haven't even heard of. It just so happened this was the one point the Americans, who already had a commanding lead, needed to put them over the top for this particular event. Nevermind all the rest of golfers on the US team that had contributed as well by winning their own matches. The way media is spinning it, one would think Tiger single-handedly stormed the beaches at Normandy, slayed the evil dragons, and rescued damsels in distress the world over. All hail Eldrick, a hero for the ages. Puh-leeze. He played an otherwise average round of golf. Period. Yet the hype never seems to end for this guy.
Nevertheless, despite all these sports rants, something special happened a while ago.
The Raven is back. And that indeed is special. It's a personal thing.....
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