The Dolphins are losing at halftime, 31-7. There is snow on the field and the Bills are wearing their throwback uniforms. The Lions are up on the Cowboys, 20-14. The Cowboys have gotten away with pass interference two times. One time Roy Williams got away with it in the end zone. The Lions had to settle for a field goal. Later, Pat Watkins got away with hitting Calvin Johnson before the ball arrived. There was as clear a case of pass interference any of us will have seen this season and yet it was not called. The Lions had to punt on the following play. Billy Volek got booed mercilessly in Nashville when he took over at QB for the Chargers.
incredible finishes in the dallas and san diego games. saw the TD to Witten and the TD to Gates before CBS went to ads and the Jets game. OT in SD
Dallas was incredibly fortunate to win the game. That no call on the Watkins play was thoroughly ridiculous. That came right before the end of the 1st half. The Lions were headed to a probable field goal attempt. Then, in the 4th quarter, Jason Hanson missed a FG from a makeable length.
Minnesota is having some problems running against the vaunted 49ers defense. You'd figure that won't be the case as the game progresses.
Seems like the Steelers are going to break that trend of the Patriots' recent run of close games. And they talked themselves up so much during the week, too. Tsk tsk. Leave the guarantees to Broadway Joe. EDIT: Just as I say that, Pitts scores a TD.
Now it is a 17-13 lead for NE. The game is being officiated well today. Terry McAulay is the ref and he is pretty good.
re: 5 Minnesota finally did something good on the ground. Chester Taylor scored on an 84-yard run. Adrian Peterson has done nothing today. -2 yards in the first half. (Taylor's run might win me some money. I'm in a fantasy league points battle today. My game does not matter as I'm locked into the 2 seed. However, I am battling for 2nd place in points. The top two finishers in total points get money. I had an 80-point lead entering the day. My opponent has had a big day, aided in large part by Tomlinson. He started Adrian Peterson. I started Chester Taylor.)
I have first place locked up in my league and am on a 7 game winning streak.... That being said, I have both Taylor and Peterson... And I played Peterson... Ugh
If New England and Dallas play in the Super Bowl, which pretty boy, all-America QB is going to get the cheap interference calls to push his team to victory? Or maybe we'll see some fair officiating, since the league won't be able to decide?
Colts are spanking the Ravens, 44-13. I really wish the AFC divisions made more sense after the 2002 realignment. The Ravens should be in the AFC East. After all, the Ravens are the Jets closest AFC rivals, when you look at a map, that is. It's all the Dolphins fault. They just had to stay in the East. AFC Divisions should be: East- Patriots, Ravens, Bills, Jets North- Browns, Bengals, Steelers, Colts South- Titans, Dolphins, Jaguars, Texans West- Raiders, Chiefs, Broncos, Chargers Either that, or don't call them East, North, South, West. Call 'em Red, White, Blue, and Gold or something.
Being a Jet fan would be even more difficult without those two spirited rivalry games vs Miami every year...
I dunno if this a compliment to Cakes or an insult to all the TV producers out there, but I get more interesting info from his random drive-by musings on what's going on around the league each week than I do from those in-game updates.
The Dolphins were originally in the AFL Eastern division, which made sense geographically. The only other option in 1966 was to place them in the AFL Western division. After the merger the AFL teams were split up into three divisions and the Steelers, Colts, and Browns moved to the AFC, so that the conferences would each have 13 teams. There was an AFC Eastern division, along with a Central and a Western. The Dolphins continued to play in a division that made sense, geographically. It should have been changed in 2002. It makes more sense for the Dolphins to play in the South division. Or keep 'em with the Bills, Patriots, and Jets, but just don't call it the AFC East anymore. I understand your point about not wanting to lose a longtime rivalry. However, the realignment was done in part due to geography. No more jokes about Atlanta being in the West and Arizona being in the East. Unfortunately, for those of us who like maps and for those of us who were looking forward to new division rivalries (Jets-Ravens, Panthers-Redskins, Jaguars-Dolphins, etc) the faggy Cowboys and Dolphins whined. Those teams got their wishes to stay with PHI-NYG-WAS and BUF-NYJ-NE, respectively, like a baby crying for breast milk.
Although I do see your point, I don't think the NFL wanted the start and create new rivalries at the expense of eliminating/diminishing old and traditional rivalries.
Yeah, the Cowboys-Redskins one was very important to them. I would have liked the league to make the bold move OR simply not call that division the NFC East any longer. From 1967 to 1969 the NFL divisions were known as Century, Capitol, Coastal, and Central. Something like that could be in place now. Baseball didn't give in to the Cubs when they realigned things for 1994 when the leagues went to three divisions. The Cubs whined. They wanted to stay with the Mets. Baseball did not give in and put them in the Central. The Cubs were the team I hated the most in the old NL East and I didn't want to see them leave the division, but I thought baseball was right to move them.
The only game I watched yesterday was the Cowboy game... great finish although I have to agree about those damn no calls on the interference. Kitna was pissed and rightfully so. I think it was after the second one he was bitching loud and it looked like the head ref said something to him about. The other thing that pissed me off was the spiking the ball penalties... they REALLY need to do away with that shit. Here they don't call two obvious PI calls on the Cowboys, but they managed to hit Detroit with those spineless ball spiking ones - while completely ignoring Marion-Barber doing it after a run. Something really needs to be done about the officiating... something needs to be said about it, but anymore when people complain all the league does is fine people. Pretty disgusting if you ask me.
This year more than ever I've seen players get fined for complaining about the refs. Correct me if i'm wrong, but that rarely happened in the NFL in years pass. Did I miss something here?
It started at least a couple of years back... what usually happened was the coach would occasionally come out and say something and he would get slapped with a fine. Now players are saying things and getting fined as well.
