Glad to have NFL back! I’m a Giants fan, but can’t see them making the playoffs this year. Looks pretty open overall, though I imagine the Patriots and Seahawks will be there or thereabouts again.
The Giants did a respectively good job against the Cowboys yesterday night. OTOH it looks like
the Seahawks are damned if they do and damned if they don’t as they did try a running play against the Rams yesterday in OT but still lost when the defense was able to stuff it.
I’ve been a Vikings fan all my life,basically since I was a toddler.Though I also root for the Seahawks.
Though back in the day it was easier when one was in the AFC and the other in the NFC.
I would really love to see Minnesota finally win a Superbowl after all the ones they’ve lost.
Well the Seahawks eked out a win against the Lions on Monday night but it ended up being a bit
controversial because of a rule that was pretty obscure. So you can’t bat the ball when you’re in the endzone? I wonder how many people even are aware of the rule’s existance. In any case even the
Lion’s coach is now tired of all the discussion about it.
And now to celebrate 50 years of the Superbowl every high school that was attended by either a player or coach who ever appeared in a Superbowl is going to get a golden football in commeration.
The Spokesman Review has a headline on the Sport’s Page featuring Packer’s Great(and still unjustifiedly not in the Hall of Fame but ought to be) Jerry Kramer returning to his alma mater
So, aside from watching guys slowly freeze to death, very little suspense this time around. Pitt/Cinci turned out to be the most exciting, though it certainly didn’t start that way.
HOUSTON — The Rams are moving back to Los Angeles — and might be doing so with company.
The San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders might end up staying where they are, but leadership of the teams didn’t come close to making that commitment Tuesday night. One of them could be headed to L.A. too.
Owner Stan Kroenke got his wish to take his franchise back to Los Angeles.
A long day of votes and re-votes ended with 30 of 32 NFL owners approving Kroenke’s ambitious plan to move his team from St. Louis to the site of the old Hollywood Park racetrack in Inglewood, California, about 10 miles from downtown L.A. The Chargers have a yearlong option to join the Rams, followed by the Raiders if the San Diego franchise declines.
Ever since the NBA owners voted the same way to move the Sonics to OKC I’ve been a bit suspicious
of such things. To put it another way I wonder how much lucre was needed to grease Goodell’s
hands.
I don’t feel too bad for St. Louis after all they were the ones who took the Rams away from
Los Angeles in the first place.
OTOH you have to feel a bit for the folks in San Diego who are about to loose their second major league team to LA. They must feel crappy about it now.
As far as the Raiders go: their fans in Oakland have been yanked around a lot from them moving back and forth.
Which is why the Broncos have changed their total philosophy to center it on the Defense.
In other news,and not a surprise but: the Browns are going to let the albatross around their
neck go finally. In other words that douchebag Johnny Football is being dropped from the team.
I keep thinking of the Chargers and Ryan Leaf. Another case where a team selected a promising
young quarterback who preferred partying to actually playing. Leaf unfortunately never learned his lesson, it is hoped that Johnny Manziel will learn his.
Well…umm….that one part where they show that one inkblot that looked like an octoupus reminded me a bit of Charlie’s Angels.
Anyhows: congrats to the Broncos for their win over the Panthers.
though there was a negative for the Broncos fans and team and a positive for the Panthers fans and team:
the negative for the Broncos and their fans was that while the defense played as expected, the offense still showed the inconsistency and ineptitude that lost them Superbowl 48. Fortunately
unlike the Seahawks the Panthers weren’t able to capitalize on turnovers too much.
the positive for the Panthers was despite loosing they were able to remain in it throughout most of the game and Cam Newton was able to keep it from being too much of a run away.
If they would’ve gotten one or two calls to go their way they might have pulled off a come from behind win.
And so football season is now behind us and we await the opening of Spring Training.
