02/13/24 Yeah, the NFL is really struggling, isn’t it?
I’m OK that Andy Reid and Travis Kelce are apparently OK with Sunday’s sideline scene. I don’t have a right not to be OK with it. It’s their thing. It’s their relationship. It’s their team. And it’s pretty obvious their team is doing just fine. It’s just not my place to publicly criticize them. But […]
02/12/24 MVC? Most Valuable Coach? Spags
We all know that football is a 60-minute game. Unless of course it becomes a 74-minute and 57-second game. Super Bowl LVIII almost extended into a second 15-minute overtime period, until the Kansas City Chiefs made sure it didn’t. So, it took a while. But when it finally ended with the ball in the hands […]
02/11/24 Final “pre-flight” check
It’s less than eight hours until kickoff of SB LVIII. Picking against Patrick, Andy and the Chiefs can be foolish. (I was living proof of that last year.) But I’m taking the 49ers. Here’s why: The SF offense is the best and the most versatile in the NFL. That attack can pull and stretch a […]
02/07/24 Queso….who gonna win?
The League—or as Mel Kiper Jr. pronounces it—the “:Lig”—better hope no 49er pops a hammy on that “soft” practice field. I wouldn’t want to piss off Kyle Shanahan. That guy can give you the Death Stare. It’s Wednesday, meaning it’s back-to-work day in Super Bowl Week. Which team is going to have a fight at […]
02/07/24 As Russ said, “Get that weak shit outta here!”
Tuesday was a bad day for the forces of American Political Evil, aka the Republican Party. That made Tuesday a good day for America. A federal appeals court, in a unanimous 57-page opinion, laughed at Trump’s unfounded claim that he is immune from prosecution for any and all alleged crimes he committed while in the […]
02/06/24 The ‘Niners have not forgotten.
Four years are an eternity in the NFL. Rosters and coaching staffs can turn over like tables at IHOP. Still, there are plenty of holdovers from the Chiefs-Niners Super Bowl matchup four years ago in Miami. The Chiefs remember that game as the start of their amazing SB run. The Niners are still smarting from […]
02/05/24 Why try to solve a problem when you can just bitch about it?
The border deal/foreign aid bill that passed the Senate with bipartisan support is bold, creative and crafted to effectively address our immigration crisis instead of just bitching about it and using it as a political wedge. But since bitching about everything and using everything as a political wedge is the only way business is conducted […]
02/05/24 You coulda got big odds in…Vegas.
Who’da thought we’d ever see a Super Bowl in Vegas? There was a not-too-distant time when you could have gotten long odds on that in…Vegas. I’m no prude. Nor am I naïve. But I admit that this All-Out-Love-Fest between the NFL and the gambling industry makes me squirm. But then, I think, ”What could possibly […]
02-02-24 Brock may be just Purdy enough.
And you think Taylor Swift is polarizing? As we approach Super Bowl week, TS has nothing on BP. BP. Yes. Brock Purdy. Hard to believe, but the former “Mr. Irrelevant”—as much as I despise that term—has somehow divided football folks into two separate, distinct and vocal camps. There’s Pro-Purdy. And there’s Anti-Purdy. Gee, the gentleman […]
02/01/24 Mind if I ask what exactly is da matta wid you?
Did you have a problem with brief television cutaways of Mama Kelce sitting in her booth when Travis and Jason were squaring off in last year’s Super Bowl? No? Then why are you losing your shit over Taylor Swift? This is true hysteria. There is nothing complex, clandestine, conspiratorial, sinister or threatening about this. Let […]
