The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

I don't know what I did to piss off the football gods this weekend, but I must have done something. Assuming Denver beats Oakland tonight, I'll finish the week an awful 6-10. Oddly enough, those numbers should be reversed at 10-6, but due to a number of strange events, that just wasn't to be. Green Bay led Cincinnati by a couple of scores heading to the 4th quarter, but after Cincy trimmed that to one and the Packers were driving late in the quarter, rookie tailback Jonathan Franklin fumbled the football on a 4th-and-inches, the Bengals scooped it up and ran it in for the game-winning score. San Diego led Tennessee throughout most of the game, but Jake Locker connected with a receiver on a deep last-second pass, where the receiver got away with offensive pass interference, to give the Titans the victory. Minnesota led Cleveland late in the 4th quarter (much like they did in their game against Chicago the week before), but unknown backup quarterback Brian Hoyer put the...

I've been fighting a cold the past 2-3 days, so I wanted to get to bed early last night, but couldn't bring myself to do that. The reason? Baseball. It was the final day of the regular season and there were four big games played last night which could have decided the wild card teams from both leagues, as the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays were tied for the final playoff spot in the American League and the Atlanta Braves and St. Louis Cardinals were tied for the wild card in the National League. In the first week of September, Boston led Tampa by 9 games and Atlanta led St. Louis by 8.5. For Tampa and St. Louis to tie Boston and Atlanta going into the last day of the regular season was remarkable by itself. What occurred last night was even wilder. St. Louis had no problems with Houston, defeating the hapless Astros 8-0, to put them 0.5 game ahead of Atlanta. The Braves led for most of their game against Philadelphia, up 3-1 until fairly late and 3-2 going to the top of th...