Random Football Ruminations

College first: When is the last time that 4 top 10 teams lost? Ole Miss, Cal, Penn State and Miami all lost this weekend. Unbelievable. 40% of the top ten. LSU should have lost and would have lost, but they had an unbelievable goal line stand that allowed them to escape with a win. They were rewarded handsomely being bumped up to number 4 in the country. There is no way they are that good. I think that this year is a crap shoot. I am certain that a one loss team is going to be in the national championship game. I am not certain either Alabama or Florida will go undefeated. Texas might, but they still have tough games against both Oklahoma schools. Watch out everyone. As ESPN keeps touting, one loss teams are still alive and well. Go Trojans.

PRO FOOTBALL: Did you see Brett Favre? The guy is 39 years old. He drops back with 10 seconds to go, and escapes the rush. Miliseconds before some big ass mastadon gets a paw on him, he throws a dart to the back of the end zone that only 4 or maybe 5 other guys in the entire NFL can throw. Boom! The ball sticks in the reciever’s mitts. Two toe taps on the end line, between two San Francisco defenders! Ball Game. S.F. fans are crying, but you know what; ESPN’s Chris Berman said if Brett Farve is good for two extra wins this season, then the Vikings pick up was a good one. Well the Vikes are 3-0 and they play Green Bay this week. Revenge is best served cold.

Tim Tebow gets his bell run. Should he have been in the game late into the 3rd period with the Swine Flu? The lead was huge and he was sick. Was Urban Meyer trying to Heisman pad the stats? Yeah I think so. Watching Tebow laying on the ground, unconscious was kind of scary. Made me think that he and Sam Bradford, now getting 2nd opinions on his shoulder injury, should have entered the NFL draft. Both would be multi millionaires today. Instead they are question marks for the rest of the season.

Speaking of NFL rookie quarterbacks, Mark Sanchez is lighting it up. He is the first rookie quarterback since the merger to go 3-0. USC coach Pete Carroll told Sanchez that he wasn’t ready for the NFL. Pete Carroll wasn’t ready for a 2009 year without Mark Sanchez is what I think he meant to say. I’m not sure that the Tennessee Titans were ready for the guts and determination of Sanchez. He may be a rookie, but playing for USC is like playing in the pros. In L.A., USC football is it. When you are the QB at USC you are Da Man. Sanchez was the man. I always thought he was a little heavy in the foot, but he always could make up for that with a cannon arm. He will make a fine pro. When was the last time both the Giants and the Jets started the season 3 and 0?

Terrell Owens is still a punk ass bitch. The Buffalo Media ain’t exactly blood thirsty, but they were trying to get T.O. to lose his cool by asking him about his role in the Buffalo offense this past sunday. T.O. simply said “just trying to be a better teamate.” So he is not speaking to the media. He thinks they are trying to get him to lose his cool. He will. We’ll see how long that lasts.

Stephon Johnson, the star running back for the USC Trojans was weight lifting Monday when 275 pounds slipped out of his hands and the bar dropped on his throat. He was rushed to California Hospital Medical Center where he had 7 hours of vocal chord surgery. He is listed in critical, but stable condition. He is writing notes to his family and teammates and is reportedly in good spirits. A teammate that saw it happen says football doesn’t even matter compared to what Johnson is going through. I couldn’t agree more. Doctors say he will make a full recovery and will stay in the hosptial at least a week. He is probably out the rest of the year. I guess living is better than scoring touch downs, but damn USC fans will miss him.

Joe Paterno just looks like he is going to topple over on the sideline. He is 175 years old and walks with a peg leg. His Penn State team got upset in Happy Valley by Iowa and it shouldn’t have happened. The crowd dressed in white to scare Iowa. Iowa responded by cramming a football up Happy Valley’s collective ass. The Nittany Lions who have the ugliest uniforms in sports are now out of the tital hunt.

I love the Cowboys new stadium. Even if you hate the Cowboys, the stadium is like the Taj Majal of sports. And and they still have the hottest cheerleaders in pro sports.

Jerry Jones has plastic skin on his face.

I like Chris Collinsworth as a color man more than John Madden on NBC’s broadcasts.

I am not sure what Tony Siragusa is doing in the end zone most of the time. He wears that little microphone like he is a back up singer for Brittany Spears.

I can’t understand a thing that Lou Holtz says as he tries to annunciate through a mouth full of spit. He is so Pro Notre Dame and Anti USC I can’t stand him.

The Oakland Raiders play on a big dirt infield that just looks terrible on tv and I bet it hurts like hell when you get tackled on it.