So as I mentioned in my post on Sunday about the rise of the Buffalo Bills, there was a line I put in explaining how Bills fans are hopefully of a possible playoff berth. Well, the feeling is optomistic... a little too optomistic.
This evening the banter between the 10NBC anchors to sports director Robin DeWind was focused on Bills fans thinking that this team has a legit chance to go to the Super Bowl. While I have no problem with people thinking about their team going to the big game, I am a person who wants to think realistic and rationale about it. For instance fans of the Kansas City Royals should always feel realistic that their team might win 70 games tops (unless Tony Pena is the skipper). Those situations call for no hope, very real results.
In this case the Bills just wailed on a pitiful Seahawks team with not a lot going for them. Who actually plays for Seattle, especially at WR. This game had a lot of references to Seattle's jet lag coming into Orchard Park. When did travel become so much of a concern. Hockey teams have to do it in one day in the playoffs in the 2-2-1-1-1 system, but you never hear anyone complain. The Bills play another mediocre team, Jacksonville this Sunday. It will be a real guage to see how well they do, especially offensively because as Sal from the D&C was mentioning on WHAM's sportscast with Mike Catalana, Trent Edwards was far from spectacular. Granted he is still a drastic improvement from Jean Paul Losman, he needs to establish his game to make this Bills team credible in a strong AFC East. This is considering the Brady-less Pats and the Favre full Jets (who I still think won't win the conference).
Bills fans, I'm not saying this to flat out hate, but rather to suggest that you keep your mind open to the fact the Bills may not be it this year. Especially if Chad Pennington throws the way he did last week.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Where have you gone... stir ups?
The nation needs you more than you will know... ho ho ho... hey hey hey
So this past weekend SportsTalk 1280 WHTK held it's charity kickball tournament. Now, I'm the kind of guy who loves athletic competitions for charity. I showed up to the game dusting off some relics from high school baseball; my old cap, pants and of course my hosiery, the stir up. Back in the 1980's and especially in little league in the 1990's all ballplayers had prominent socks. The Reds made sure their players wore them up high as a team uniform code.
But as the 1990's allowed more players to sign shoe deals and make uniforms a fashion statement and overall disdain for stir ups, they began to vanish. This was a sad way of thinking for me. I grew up with the Norman Rockwell view of baseball with kids dressing up like their heroes those ball players wore the high stir up, at least a visible stir up.
We need to bring these back. A few players have but that's not enough. We need more people to ditch the solid color sock and don the sanitary sock covered by the stir up! Who is with me!
Also, those socks with the faux stir up do not count... only cheap coaches buy thoses!
So this past weekend SportsTalk 1280 WHTK held it's charity kickball tournament. Now, I'm the kind of guy who loves athletic competitions for charity. I showed up to the game dusting off some relics from high school baseball; my old cap, pants and of course my hosiery, the stir up. Back in the 1980's and especially in little league in the 1990's all ballplayers had prominent socks. The Reds made sure their players wore them up high as a team uniform code.
But as the 1990's allowed more players to sign shoe deals and make uniforms a fashion statement and overall disdain for stir ups, they began to vanish. This was a sad way of thinking for me. I grew up with the Norman Rockwell view of baseball with kids dressing up like their heroes those ball players wore the high stir up, at least a visible stir up.
We need to bring these back. A few players have but that's not enough. We need more people to ditch the solid color sock and don the sanitary sock covered by the stir up! Who is with me!
Also, those socks with the faux stir up do not count... only cheap coaches buy thoses!
Let's keep pumping this NFL Opening Weekend Thing
So the duo of Sal Fasano 401K watched one opening day match as a team. This is more like Siskel and Ebert rather than Batman and Robin. Girlfriends and friends who are girls would vouch for that. Together we united and critiqued the NFL during the Cowboys-Browns game.
First off it should be noted that while both of us do not really like football, the Cleveland Browns are our team. For no team has faced more pain that the Cleveland Browns (Bills fans cannot, because they didn't lose their team for five years).
I cannot understand and FOX kept going back to this, would someone want to bring a Cleveland Browns 1964 Team Program to the game. Since it was a decent shape and a scarce collectors item (denoting value) it should be in a safe place. I somehow doubt the safest place would be a football stadium in Cleveland with pretty rowdy fans, who have been known to toss beer bottles at referees, milk bones at John Elway and tons of other trash at Art Modell.
If it were me, that program would be in a clear jacket in a box in a dry, room temp, out of suns rays position.
Fans do bring some of the dumbest stuff to games. Kids can fall under that category.
While I am not saying that kids should never be at ballgames, infants, babies (especially on sunny baseball games, so those kids can develop skin cancer at an early age) should be left with a babysitter. Also they do cry and have diapers, resulting in missing action and angering those who paid to go see a ballgame on their day off.
Work is another thing. Baseball always has this. Someone will go to a baseball game and bring paperwork with them. Did you pay thirty bucks to balance the office budget or to see the Royals score six runs off of C.C. Sabathia? I think the work can stay in the office, especially since reports shouldn't have nacho cheese on them for not being able to move for the guy who bought those nachos.
Really bad jerseys. Now, both of us here at Sal's 401K support Brady Quinn and his quest to be a savior as the Browns QB. However, until he actually plays a down of football.... neh, he actually is named starter of Cleveland, leave your jersey home. This maybe nit picky, but blowing $100 on a Quinn jersey after the draft was a good idea then. Derek Anderson rose to prominence and nullified later sales of the #10 jersey. So keep those at home, bring to the stadium those Eric Couch jerseys or actually spend a c-note on a Kosar jersey. The man is a god.
First off it should be noted that while both of us do not really like football, the Cleveland Browns are our team. For no team has faced more pain that the Cleveland Browns (Bills fans cannot, because they didn't lose their team for five years).
I cannot understand and FOX kept going back to this, would someone want to bring a Cleveland Browns 1964 Team Program to the game. Since it was a decent shape and a scarce collectors item (denoting value) it should be in a safe place. I somehow doubt the safest place would be a football stadium in Cleveland with pretty rowdy fans, who have been known to toss beer bottles at referees, milk bones at John Elway and tons of other trash at Art Modell.
If it were me, that program would be in a clear jacket in a box in a dry, room temp, out of suns rays position.
Fans do bring some of the dumbest stuff to games. Kids can fall under that category.
While I am not saying that kids should never be at ballgames, infants, babies (especially on sunny baseball games, so those kids can develop skin cancer at an early age) should be left with a babysitter. Also they do cry and have diapers, resulting in missing action and angering those who paid to go see a ballgame on their day off.
Work is another thing. Baseball always has this. Someone will go to a baseball game and bring paperwork with them. Did you pay thirty bucks to balance the office budget or to see the Royals score six runs off of C.C. Sabathia? I think the work can stay in the office, especially since reports shouldn't have nacho cheese on them for not being able to move for the guy who bought those nachos.
Really bad jerseys. Now, both of us here at Sal's 401K support Brady Quinn and his quest to be a savior as the Browns QB. However, until he actually plays a down of football.... neh, he actually is named starter of Cleveland, leave your jersey home. This maybe nit picky, but blowing $100 on a Quinn jersey after the draft was a good idea then. Derek Anderson rose to prominence and nullified later sales of the #10 jersey. So keep those at home, bring to the stadium those Eric Couch jerseys or actually spend a c-note on a Kosar jersey. The man is a god.
Opening Kick-off Part Deux
The French is a ploy to impress girls...
So for everyone who read the first part of my football preview, that was all sarcasm… I know it doesn’t translate well for reading. Everyone loves football, so much so NBC calls it’s pregame coverage on Sunday Night, Football Night in America. Ironically it sounds very similar to CBC’s Hockey Night in
Anyways, in 2008
Thomas Boswell once wrote an article explaining 99 ways baseball was better than football. George Will once said that football dealt with the “two worse things in modern
I can’t help myself from agreeing with that. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love football’s athleticism, but I think as a nation we placed football and the National Football League’s success on such a high pedestal. Many, especially people my age, fail to remember how weak and vulnerable the sport was twenty-five years ago. There have been collective bargaining issues, work stoppages and even franchises that have faltered, something seen in every sports league. Replacement players did not just happen in the 1994 MLB strike, the NFL had replacement players.
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Okay so while watching the Bills-Seahawks game (thank you local coverage), my spank bank was filled. Sideline reporter Charissa Thompson was dressed in a nice sweater, glasses combo. She was official the best looking girl in Buffalo Sunday. She is really setting a decent bar for the women, now if only her sweater would blow open...
Sal Says: If only her sweater would blow open. I'm into that kind of thing... does anyone have any money, I need to buy booze.
New Team, Same Favre
So it’s opening weekend for the NFL, it’s bigger than Christmas, Memorial Day and the Fourth of July. This is the most important weekend in all arm chair quarterbacks’ calendar … well maybe tied with the release date of Madden.
The big event in every sports writer’s minds, along with everyone in a small
Of course Favre is a first ballot Hall of Famer and the last gunslinger of an era of pass first-ask questions later QB’s (John Elway, Dan Marino). He showed that kind of play on his 4th and 13 TD pass to Chansi Stuckey. The Jets should benefit greatly from the aging QB, but I don’t know if they are going to go to the big dance, especially if Tom Brady’s injury only takes him out of Week 1 or Week 2 action.
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Living in
While this is not the same Great Buffalo QB Controversy as seen between Doug Flutie and Rob Johnson, it is still another snag in a franchise that fifteen years ago was the usual AFC champion. The fans, who still support the team, despite revolving door QB’s and head coaches, losing quality players because there is nothing in Buffalo, the possibility of losing the franchise to Toronto despite the aging Ralph Wilson hoping to leave a positive image, still believe that this is the year.
Well, this year being the year they will make the playoffs (a reasonable goal). This replaces the old, Brooklyn Dodgers, wait til next year to win the Super Bowl belief in
Sal Fasano says: Football is really banking on this Favre kid.
The Map Game
Notre Dame vs San Diego State
“Will this be the game that put
That was the recurring theme in Saturday’s Notre Dame – San Diego State Game. Honestly, this was a huge game for the Aztecs. While Notre Dame is currently in the hang over days of Brady Quinn and losing the Fiesta Bowl to
Though the argument rises, will this game really put
So let’s put it into perspective, Notre Dame is losing value in the stock of college football, being trumped by
San Deigo is playing a team that is a shell of what it was a few years ago. Many people question the schedule of Notre Dame and their overall ability on the depth chart. Despite what the NBC broadcast teams says, this game will not put the Aztecs on the map … especially when they allow Clausen to find Tate for a touchdown pass.
Sal Says: Never assume this game will mean anything fro both teams… it’s not like its Appalachian State
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