Skip to main content

What I learned in Week 8 of the NFL season

- Chip Kelly has asked if it's possible for him to be traded back to Oregon.

- Only the Dallas Cowboys can finish a game at +4 in turnovers and find a way to blow a 10-point 4th quarter lead, unless we're talking about basketball.

- Tom Brady fantasy owners are temporarily benching the quarterback in favor of back-ups Thad Lewis, Jason Campbell, and whoever the Vikings start.

- Atlanta tight end Tony Gonzalez's ringer is supposedly set to him saying, "I came back for this?"

- Tampa Bay seems to play much better in the first 30 minutes of games, prior to Greg Schiano's halftime speech.

- Peyton Manning made a bet with someone that the Broncos could spot the Redskins a 7-point lead at the start of the 4th quarter and still manage to win by 24 points.

- The Bears and Steelers will play a game on the weekend of the Pro Bowl, and call it, The Has Beens Bowl.

- In the second half of yesterday's game against the Cincinnati Bengals, New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith reportedly forgot which team he was playing for, saying he thought he was on the Houston Texans following his two pick-sixes.

- The NFC East is so bad, winless Jacksonville would still only be four games back of division-leading Dallas.

- If Dez Bryant and Philip Rivers ever played on the same team, the two of them would likely suffer concussions from punching one another in the face on the sideline during a game.

Labels

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Boycotting jukeboxes because of TouchTunes

I love music and enjoy hitting the bar(s) over the weekend, so naturally, when the mood strikes me, I've never been coy about playing some songs on the jukebox. This past Thursday, a friend of mine turned 50, so several friends of her's, including myself, all met up to celebrate the occasion. At around 9:30, a friend of mine and I both chipped in $5 to play some songs on the jukebox. Four hours and 231 skips later, we gave up on hearing the songs we had selected, and went home knowing we had just wasted $5. This wasn't the first time such a thing had happened to me (and many others), and due to that, I'll be boycotting jukeboxes. Why? The scam known as TouchTunes. You see, here's how the plot typically breaks down. A person (or group of people) downloads the TouchTunes app on his/her phone, consumes one too many adult beverages, and due to this, has less care for spending extra money to hear the songs of their choosing right NOW. That's the thing with TouchTun...
2 comments
Read more

Face guarding is legal in college football and the NFL

I just wanted to remind fans and announcers especially, that face guarding is legal in both college football and the NFL. It all comes down to contact. So long as a defender doesn't make contact with an intended receiver, he doesn't have to turn around to play the ball. I can't tell you how many times every week I hear announcers talk about face guarding being a penalty. It's not. I even heard one announcer yesterday state, "If the defender doesn't turn around and play the ball, the ref will call pass interference every time." That's simply not true. Courtesy of referee Bill LeMonnier, he says this with regard to the rule at the college level (answered on 8/12/13): "NCAA rules on pass interference require the face guarding to have contact to be a foul. No contact, no foul by NCAA rules." In the NFL rule book, this is written:  "Actions that constitute defensive pass interference include but are not limited to: (a) Contact by a ...
2 comments
Read more