I've got a bucket of work-related things to do in this last week of National Blog Posting month so I'm going to carry on with my third sports-related post in a row.
Ann Killion's headline in today's San Jose Mercury news about how adding Ted Tollner as an offensive assistant jump-started the 49er offense in yesterday's overtime win against Arizona: "Maybe 49ers' copy machine just needed some Tollner". Ugh.. Bad pun, no biscuit.
If Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner had just taken a sack in the end zone during yesterday's overtime period instead of fumbling the ball for a 49er touchdown, I could have satisfied my lifelong dream of watching a football overtime end with a safety. I'm sure it will happen eventually -- it's just a matter of time!
After spending the better part of my Thanksgiving weekend watching college and professional football games, I've decided that college games are way more exciting than NFL games. This time of year, most college teams play like they don't have anything to lose, mostly because they don't. The overtime rules for college games (where the game goes to "extra innings" and each team gets a chance to score) are a lot fairer than NFL overtime rules (where game goes to "sudden death" and the first team that scores wins). College teams in overtime games need to score and prevent the other team from scoring. The NFL overtime is a crap shoot based on a coin flip, where the team can win the toss, march down the field and kick a field goal.
There were two exciting overtime games over the weekend (LSU-Arkansas and.. another SEC game that Tennessee won) that went to five rounds of OT before there was a winner. They need to go for two point conversions after the third overtime, and both teams in these games kept scoring. If they were NFL gamex, it would have been like boom-bam game over. Maybe the NFL is worried about violating NLB fair labor laws if overtime games run too long? The Players Association might need to be paid time and a half or something.
Speaking of Bachman Workin' Overtime, even the CFL uses college rules for overtime. Canadians are ahead of US in everything. Touques off to the Saskatchewan Rough Riders who beat Winnepeg 23-19 to win the 95th Grey Cup yesterday..The 95th Cup, eh? That's nearly four cases worth of Grey Cup!
3 comments:
Did you watch tonight's Dolphins/Steelers game? It was 0-0 until there were only about 20 seconds left in the 4th quarter! The field was really muddy and rain was pouring down. It was kind of fascinating in a weird way.
I don't usually watch Monday night games since I get home too late on Mondays, but caught the end of last nights' game. It was like an Italian soccer match between Juventus and AC Milan. Neither team could move the ball at all.
What I'm wondering about is that "X is Y's answer to Z" formulation: what's the question supposed to be? In your example (okay, Homer Simpson's via the writers for the show): "Say, Canada - what about ELP?"? Kind of an odd phrase...
Of course, while ELP piled up many more notes than BTO, BTO seriously outweighed ELP.
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