Weekly Rant

Alright another week of sports has once again left my brain, including my sense of logic, in disarray. Not only did we see one of the best college football games of the season so far, we also got to witness that undeniable fact that the NFL is the best professional sports league. On top of that I found one instance where I don't mind watching NASCAR (or any racing sport for that matter).

1) The Red River Bowl was incredible. Texas got a well deserved win to an extremely good Oklahoma team. That being said, I don't NOT understand Texas jumping all the way to #1, but I'll save that for someone else to talk about. Another wonderful sight to see (and not because I have any disdain for either team) was both LSU AND Missouri losing. My god college football is incredible. Unfortunately we all know how it's going to go: both USC and Ohio State are going to win out the rest of their season, while all the teams atop right now falter at some point, and face each other in the BCS title game AGAIN and Ohio State will blow is on a national stage AGAIN. This bodes well the question of whether or not a loss in the beginning of the season is the best time to lose? Of course NOT losing at all would be the best. I bring this up because while I believe Texas, Alabama, and Penn State are great teams anyone can have a bad week. If that bad week happens now it's goodbye National Title game. If it happened in the beginning of the season (like it did to USC) you feasibly have time to work your way back into it.

2) The NFL is phenomenal. So how do we feel about Derek Anderson after last night? Also, how can it be said, this goes out to you Matt, that Brady Quinn (and for the record I'm a Brady Quinn fan based solely off his Myloplex commercial) is one of the best athletes of all time. That's like me telling you Matt Cassell is a fantastic college quarterback. Quinn hasn't proved anything yet. I agree he will be, and should be, the franchise QB of the Browns, but give him time.
It was great to see Atlanta win, Houston win, St. Louis win, the Giants lose, the Cowboys lose, the Redskins lose, and this has nothing to do with the fact that I either like/dislike any of the aforementioned teams. It just makes for GREAT competition. That being said, I will stand corrected and proclaim that the Browns/Giants game was great to watch and worthy of MNF.
Let's talk about some people that SUCK: TO sucks, Tony Romo's pinkie finger sucks, OT rules in the NFL suck (it should be like college), the Cincinnati Bengals suck...big time, the Pats defense sucks (we can talk about not having Brady but that doesn't have anything to do with allowing 30+ points per game), PacMan Jones sucks, the broadcasters (not Joe Flacco himself) who keep proclaiming how much Flacco is improving even ofter he consistently has a QB rating of 60.6, Anthony Siragusa sucks (He is so annoying and when I saw him on the field this weekend in sunglasses that would fit a 4 year old, sweating profusely, I almost turned the game off) Last but not least...the 1972 DOLPHIN's SUCK. I hate them and now it's only a matter of time before we see their stupid faces when the last undefeated team of the 08-09 season falls. Every year I want to see all of them slip on the champagne they pop open and break something.

3) It must suck to be an Angels fan
4) The only time it's fun to watch any NASCAR (or other racing events) is when I'm watching on the Discovery channel's "Destroyed in Seconds" where all they show are the most incredible wrecks. Other than that, it sucks. I highly recommend the show though. It's pretty awesome.

I'm sure there's more that I missed in the world of sports this past week so please feel free to comment and/or add to this list. I'll be watching the Sox/Rays game tonight.

Derek