-1 Dallas Cowboys via the worst seat in the house - Last week, Jerry Jones got credit for his new scoreboard. Unfortunately I forgot about the view from this seat.. Face value? $75, which in a strange coincidence is the percentage of the field you can see.
-1 Dallas Cowboys via a housewarming party gone bad - I hate to kick a team while they're down, so in fairness, the 3 hour NBC infomercial on the new stadium was great. The Cowboy's performance? Not so good. Romo proved he can have a terrible game without the help of Jessica Simpson, the Cowboys D couldn’t get a final stop on the last drive, and the $1.15 billion super-stadium is christened with a loss.
+1 New York Jets via Rex Ryan - Between the trash-talk, the rookie QB, and the pleading voicemail to ticket-holders, this shouldn't have ended so well for Rex.
-1 Minnesota Vikings via Brett Favre's fingernail - I was all ready to be fair here and give Favre credit for setting the record for most consecutive regular season starts…then I see the headline that he's going to but then I see a headline about his bent fingernail? I have zero doubt this is painful, but I can't talk about a guy's iron-man streak when there's a headline floating around about his fingernail…
-2 Jacksonville Jaguars via the blackout - If your home opener has to be blacked out because you can't sell it out, that's a problem. At least ownership has a plan.+1 Tennessee Titans via play-by-play man Mike Keith - How does this guy still have a voice? It can be a 2nd and 6 in first half against the Texans and he's screaming like it was the Music City Miracle. I don't know if this is a good or bad thing, but it's impressive.
+1 Indianapolis Colts via Peyton making it look easy - Yes the Dolphins had the ball 45 minutes to Indy's 15 and yes they outrushed the Colts by 170 yards, but when the Fish could never get up by more than 7, was there any doubt how this was going to end?
-1 Washington Redskins via too much Suisham - Your only points against the Rams (not exactly the 85 Bears) come from 3 field goals??? If there are moral victories, this is a moral loss.
+1 New Orleans Saints via lots of points - 93 points in 2 games? Please, I can score that in a half on Madden.
+0 Cincinnati Bengals via Ochocinco's Lambeau leap - If 85 leaps into a sea of green, this is worth at least 2 points. Instead, he opted for the conveniently located Bengals fans. Technically, he did the Lambeau Leap. On the other hand, he technically Lambeau Leaped about like Michigan's summer workouts were technically voluntary.That's all I've got for Week 2. More team history/tradition scoring and hopefully more team responses in the days to come.
Don't count Brett Favre's headlines against him. I'm sure he wasn't complaining about a fingernail. He is as tough as they come. He is also quite an interesting character. Plus he did lead the Golden Eagles to an upset victory over the Tide in 1990 only a month in a half after having a car accident that caused him to lose 30 inches of his small intestines. More interesting Favre history http://www.loudsportsshorts.com/football/favre/biography.html. For example I never knew he was recruited to play defensive back at Southern Miss.
ReplyDeleteBesides, Favre shouldn't have too much of a long-term impact on whether you choose the Vikings or not. At best Favre has two years with the Vikings before he just can't physically perform anymore. I think you should look at their history. Despite the "Purple People Eaters" they have been a team that is always close to being great but never winning a Superbowl. They basically built the Dallas franchise of the 90's by trading away five players, three first round picks, three second round picks a third round pick and a sixth round pick for Herschel Walker and then refusing to revamp their playbook and play calling to fit Herschel's style of play making him a failure in Minnesota. The first of those number one draft picks by the way was used by the Cowboys to draft Emmit Smith (well actually it was traded to trade up and take Emmit Smith). Also, don't forget about the boating scandal where they actually flew in prostitutes from Atlanta and Florida (obviously the girls in Minnesota just aren't as good as the ones in the south).
Bears beating the defending Super Bowl champs has got to count for at least a point in their favor...
ReplyDeleteOchocinco sent two free tickets randomly to those guys so that he could do the Lambeau leap with his fans.
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Bryan, As far as I'm concerned the Green Bay Packers are the greatest franchise in history...Lambeau Field is a truly unique place, the "frozen tundra". Consider this, Green Bay is the only NFL team owned by fans, run by the fans, and devoted to them from top to bottom...what other team can say that?
ReplyDeleteOchocinco is a fan player, the fans love when he does wat ever he does when he scores, the love watching him do wat he does off the field, come to the nati and tailgate wit the bengals fans and see how loyal and how much fun it is being a Cincinnati Bengals fan
ReplyDeleteSWF, you need to be a new england patriots fan, because you want to be with a winning organization, a team that give you chance to go to the playoff every year. we have the best coach the best quaterback.
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