Defending their Crown: Lions Setting to Repeat!
What a year it was with some huge records being broken. In exceptional fashion, the Steelers completed their Super Bowl trip with being the first franchise to have 6 of the prized Lombardi trophies. There was another team that set another record that is almost equally as impressive. Yes, it’s the Detroit Lions that I’m talking about. Detroit finished its year 0-16 and became the first and only franchise to lose all 16 games in a season. It was hard work but Matt Millen, the owner, coaches, and players all worked very hard for about 5 years to reach this level of infamy. New year, new attitude! Well, Detroit is poised to make another run at 0-16 with their list of stupid off-season moves.
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Monday Mania - TO, A-Roid, Warner, Boldin and More!
The world of sports was lit on fire over the weekend by the amazing competition that is the Pro Bowl. Ha! Yeah, right! Actually, the sports world cannot shut up about A-Roid, er, A-Rod. I will be getting to my take on Alex Rodriguez and the rest of that “steroid thing” along with other topics. Lots of stuff to hit on including Todd Haley, TO, Pacman, Kurt Warner, Anquan Boldin, and more. You gotta keep reading to put the “man” in Mania on this weeks edition of Monday Mania here on Deviant Knowledge.
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Monday Mania - SuperBowl Extended Edition
No matter how you slice or dice it Super Bowl 43 was a full 60 minutes of hard fought athletic competition. The Steelers came into the game after finishing the toughest schedule in football 12-4 and the Cardinals had one of the weakest schedules yet finished 9-7. This pairing was very unlikely and many experts predicted a shalacking of those Red Birds from Arizona though I’d say ‘those‘ experts probably aren’t very good at their jobs. If you are a Jim Rome listener you know when I say the Jungle Karma was even and the playing field was neutral. Super Bowl 43, while somewhat sloppy, was an excellent show.
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Super Bowl - Breakdowns by Position
The World Series, the World Cup, the Stanley Cup, the NBA Championship, and even March Madness are pale mortals in America compared to 1 football game every year, the Super Bowl. Super Bowl Sunday is now played almost a full month later in the year than when it originally started and it only seems to build to the game even more. Bart Starr was the first Super Bowl MVP when the Packers defeated the Chiefs at the Memorial Coliseum in a 35 to 10 victory. This years Super Bowl will be “a first” for the Arizona Cardinals with their veteran and former Super Bowl MVP, Kurt Warner at the helm. An almost inconceivable match up at the beginning of the year is actually pretty close. Let’s break down Cardinals vs Steelers.
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Monday Mania - NFL News, Notes - Eat Up!
Somehow, someway, we still managed to have a pretty interesting week in the world of the NFL without a single game played. The NFL pulls makes its fans bloodlustful for news and discussion of their favorite sport unlike any other. Well, maybe the futbolers of the “other world” have this type of compelling nature and, in fact, they really do but I’d certainly take American ball any day of the week. So what did happened this week?
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Monday Mania - NFL News and Discussion
I’ve decided that there needs to be some “regular” columns around here (think Metamucil) so I will be writing a weekly “Monday Mania” column that is all about the NFL, its games, players, coaches, and anything else that I feel like throwing into the wind. This week I will do some brief summaries of the Cardinals triumph over the Eagles and the Steelers pounding of the Ravens followed with a series of musical compositions performed by Clint Eastwood (http://www.spike.com/blog/ten-things-you-didnt/72769). Well, maybe, maybe not. Why “Monday Mania?” Well, Monday Morning QB was taken (si.com), Manic Monday is poor chorus, and Monday Munchausen’s was just a mouthful, er, wait, too much House.
MMmmm, time for the beef in this meaty Monday sandwich.
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NFL Conference Champships - Analysis - What team looks like recent champ?
This is the first time that I have to admit to being completely wrong *cough* on something but the last round of the playoffs, boy did I suck harder than Bum Joe Don and his stink-sucking job on Mad TV. That’s right, I went a drastic “O-fer” and absolutely none of my picks were right. Sure, the Titan’s definitely should have won their game and the Panthers will probably not have another game that bad for 10 years but that doesn’t matter.
Let’s move on to this weekend now, shall we? The match ups in these two games are very interesting with at least one team reminding me (almost eerily) of a recent Super Bowl Champion. Find out why…
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NFL Divisional Playoffs Day 2 Wrap-Up; Eagles over Giants - Steelers out Chargers
Eagles 23 - Giants 11
I’m not really sure if I’m just paying more attention this year or if things are actually just this bad. I have yet to watch a game that has not been decided by a team shooting themselves in the foot. After watching the Titans and the Panthers fumble and throw their games away I was expecting a “return to normalcy” with a Tom Coughlin lead coach and I couldn’t have been more disappointed.
The game started off well for the Giants with a big kick return and a 4th and 2 conversion. However, the Giants were only able to get a field goal out of it. New York’s D came out really hot and held the Eagles to a 4th and 21 but there were two flags on the punt return making the Giants start on their own 12.
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NFL Divisional Playoffs Day 1 Wrap-Up - Ravens best Titans - Cardinals destroy Panthers
Wow, just wow. I need to stop picking teams since I think I’m just jinxing them at this point. This was the first day of play to determine who would go to the conference championship games. Would it be the Panthers, Ravens, or their rivals? Well, if you read my predictions you would have already figured this out.
Ravens 13 - Titans - 10
A game that was totally predictable as a defensive struggle. Both teams started their initial drives punting and that pretty much was most of the game. The first half was not totally stale with the Titans shifty rookie, Chris Johnson, burning up the Ravens for some big gains and putting the first points on the board with a slick scamper around the right side for 6 points. It really was looking like the Titans were going to be able to continue running the ball.
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6 NFL Coaches that should be Fired (that won’t be)
6. Dick Jauron - Buffalo Bill
Let me say I was all over this guy’s nut sack like a barnacle on a cruise liner last year. The Bills, last year, managed to be extremely competitive while scraping together a team with random people from Ottawa. 2008 was a totally different world for Jauron. Buffalo did lose it’s starting QB and went back to, as a colleague puts it, JP LOSERman but they didn’t take advantage of their running game the way a good team should have. I also have not seen a team that never appeared to have any type of “edge” like these guys were missing and that really cost them some games. In addition to the above, Jauron took the blame for a horribly bad play call that definitely cost the Bills a game. Jauron will stay because the owner is too much of a pussy to make a change right now. JauronaGO!
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