Sorry that I did not post yesterday. If you came here and were stricken with mass amounts of disappointment, I do apologize. Posting on the weekend when Amanda is around is more difficult, because, you know, I’m not trying to do things to pass the time. However, during the week, I will be a blogging machine.
Sunday’s AFC title game was forgettable at best. I was obviously off on the score. Kudos to Phillip Rivers for playing with a torn ACL. I hope that Marvin Harrison was watching the Chargers/Patriots game. It’s not being mentioned very much, but Harrison should have been playing, hurt or not, in the Divisional game against San Diego. I’m not a fan of Phillip Rivers, but kudos.
The real game of the weekend, however, was the classic Giants/Packers game. This was the best NFL game I saw this season, closely edging out the Patriots/Giants game in Week 17. You had the classic weather scenario in this game (just look at Tom Coughlin’s cheeks in the postgame conference). You had the big market team (from New Jersey, no less) against the neighborhood football franchise. Two of the NFL’s most storied teams. Two name quarterbacks. Two very underrated defenses. All around, just a fantastic game.
The one thing that I took away from this game was how absolutely dominant Plaxico Burress is at receiver. With one the toughest cover corners in the NFL (Al Harris) on him, Burress caught nearly everything thrown at him, no matter where the ball was thrown to. I never appreciated Plaxico in Pittsburgh; I’ve always loved Hines Ward and I loved Antwaan Randle El out of the slot. Burress was always just sort of there. But watching Burress on Sunday really floored me.
I hope Tom Brady is wearing the protective boot on his foot for jokes.
I really don’t intent on talking about hockey very much, but the injury to Penguins star Sidney Crosby not only hurts Pittsburgh’s playoff chances, but really kills the NHL, especially with the all=star game approaching this weekend. The one thing the NHL doesn’t need now is for their premier attraction, their best player, and their most marketable star to be hurt.
Game o’ the Day: Despite being unwatchable, because no major or medium level channel is covering the game, the best matchup in sports today will happen in Omaha, Nebraska when Drake and Creighton face off tonight. Drake has been the story that no one talks about so far this season and are flying way under the national radar. Creighton is in a down year, but it is a tall task for any MVC team to come into Omaha and beat the Blue Jays. For tonight only, I take Creighton 68-63 over Drake.
I hope Mercury Morris accidently drinks window cleaner.
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Mid-Atlantic Bias 