Football Season

In addition to spending a lot of time watching games this weekend, I can tell that football season is really under way just from the new, popular Google hits I got over the weekend. I had a handful of folks looking for Peyton Manning wedding pictures. There were three or four readers looking for Melissa Stark, and around a dozen folks who were surely disappointed that their Jill Arrington pictures search led them here. Best football related hit was Melissa Stark dirty whore.

On Saturday I watched the #1 Miami at #6 Florida game. I was really impressed by Miami. They apparently sent eleven players to the pros last year - five of whom went in the first round. Despite such a massive loss of talent, they are still the number one team in the country. I rarely watch college football because I generally think that the level of play leaves much to be desired. That was not the case with Miami. Very impressive.

On Sunday, I flipped between the Bears and the Browns during the first game. Chicago did not deserve to win that game. I'm glad they did, but they shouldn't have. Likewise, there's no way Kansas City should have beaten the Browns. That was the craziest finish I've seen to a game since the kick-return-lateral-that-was-barely-a-lateral in the Buffalo versus Tennessee playoff in January 2000. I was surprised at how well the Brown's offense played.

I was pleasantly surprised to see the Broncos handle the Rams in the second game. Had I been betting, it would have been against the Broncos. They were amazing in the first half, and I kept thinking to myself that it was too good to be true. It would have been if not for bad coaching. There is no one for the Rams to blame for their loss other than their coach. You don't see many games where coaching makes such a noticeable difference in the outcome, but this was an exception. The Rams blew the momentum and gave Denver hope when they went for it on fourth down instead of tying the game with a gimmie field goal. Denver still has a lot of room for improvement on both sides of the ball. They'll have to do better to beat San Fran on the road next week.

Jonathan 9/09/2002 02:43:00 PM