Showing posts with label Week 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Week 2. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Week 2 - Voicemails, Fingernails, and Ticket Sales

Week 2 is in the books, which means it's time to giveth and taketh away for the week that was:

-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 England Patriots via missing their mojo - Rex Ryan better learn quickly that there are 2 things you just don't do. 1) Trash-talk Belichik or 2) Trash-talk Brady. Oh, wait…

+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.