This weekend's tilt between the Packers and Bears is one of the few times a season I like to turn off my brain and embrace my inner meatball by calling this "a HUGE game", even though it usually isn't as big as most Bears fans like to think it is. This contest however does have meaning beyond the usual rhetoric, particularly for the Lovie Smith era. Lovie Smith has been a lot of different things as Bears Shot-caller, but the one thing he has consistently done over his tenure is beat the Packers once a year. He missed the chance to accomplish his self stated "#1 goal" at the beginning of this train wreck of a season. Now comes his chance at redemption, and more importantly an opportunity to cement his already likely return as Bears coach next season. A win versus the Packers would give some consolation that even in a bad year, he still finds a way to send the orange and camouflage-clad Packer fans back to their caves in disappointment.
Even though they haven't mattered since 1993, it's still news that Notre Dame has hired their Karen Filippelli and it's Brian Kelly from U of Cincinnati. He hasn't even had the press conference yet, and already he's given us plenty to hate about him. In case people forgot, he's the one who had some pretty productive seasons helming the Bearcat program, made some pretty big demands from the university to upgrade the stadium and facilities, and now has turned his back on them. I'll be looking forward to the press conference, and him making a lot of empty "return to glory" promises, and spewing even more "how sacred this university is" garbage. Maybe he'll get a knee-jerk ten year deal too if he says that...
It's pretty much fate
accompli that Colt McCoy will walk away with the trophy this weekend in my view, joining the immortal
QB's Heisman winners like Danny
Wuerffel, Gino
Torretta, Charlie Ward, Eric Crouch, Andre Ware, and Ty
Detmer. It would be way more thrilling if
Ndamukong Suh ended up winning it. It will never happen, but
Suh is a remarkable talent that is considered by many to be
unblockable. Even if he finished second he would be the first defensive lineman to finish that high since Hugh Green in 1980. Nevertheless I'll watch the show, just because I always find it very Roman in it's presentation and tradition.
Hopefully Mercury Morris will continue to be nervous after this weekend because the Saints and Colts won again and remained (ahem) perfect. The 1972 Dolphins will always be ridiculed on this blog for being the worst winners of all time. Their overall lack of class, petulant nature, and overinflated sense of achievement will forever diminish their accomplishment. Either way, here's hoping this is the season they finally go away never to be heard from again.
This weekend's tilt between the Packers and Bears is one of the few times a season I like to turn off my brain and embrace my inner meatball by calling this "a HUGE game", even though it usually isn't as big as most Bears fans like to think it is. This contest however does have meaning beyond the usual rhetoric, particularly for the Lovie Smith era. Lovie Smith has been a lot of different things as Bears Shot-caller, but the one thing he has consistently done over his tenure is beat the Packers once a year. He missed the chance to accomplish his self stated "#1 goal" at the beginning of this train wreck of a season. Now comes his chance at redemption, and more importantly an opportunity to cement his already likely return as Bears coach next season. A win versus the Packers would give some consolation that even in a bad year, he still finds a way to send the orange and camouflage-clad Packer fans back to their caves in disappointment.
Even though they haven't mattered since 1993, it's still news that Notre Dame has hired their Karen Filippelli and it's Brian Kelly from U of Cincinnati. He hasn't even had the press conference yet, and already he's given us plenty to hate about him. In case people forgot, he's the one who had some pretty productive seasons helming the Bearcat program, made some pretty big demands from the university to upgrade the stadium and facilities, and now has turned his back on them. I'll be looking forward to the press conference, and him making a lot of empty "return to glory" promises, and spewing even more "how sacred this university is" garbage. Maybe he'll get a knee-jerk ten year deal too if he says that...
It's pretty much fate accompli that Colt McCoy will walk away with the trophy this weekend in my view, joining the immortal QB's Heisman winners like Danny Wuerffel, Gino Torretta, Charlie Ward, Eric Crouch, Andre Ware, and Ty Detmer. It would be way more thrilling if Ndamukong Suh ended up winning it. It will never happen, but Suh is a remarkable talent that is considered by many to be unblockable. Even if he finished second he would be the first defensive lineman to finish that high since Hugh Green in 1980. Nevertheless I'll watch the show, just because I always find it very Roman in it's presentation and tradition.
Hopefully Mercury Morris will continue to be nervous after this weekend because the Saints and Colts won again and remained (ahem) perfect. The 1972 Dolphins will always be ridiculed on this blog for being the worst winners of all time. Their overall lack of class, petulant nature, and overinflated sense of achievement will forever diminish their accomplishment. Either way, here's hoping this is the season they finally go away never to be heard from again.
Shows what I know. Congrats to Mark Ingram.
ReplyDeleteHe's really not that impressive.
ReplyDeleteHe's really not impressive when you travel 600 plus miles to watch him play a half of football, and then hightail it to the bar to watch the Hawkeyes.
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