On Football

Has anyone else noticed that John Madden seems to be alternating between dementia and lucidity on a week-to-week basis? I thought he was pretty good last night, but he was awful the week before. He seems to be doing well every other week. ABC needs to get him out of there next year. Maybe they could use him at half time in a manner similar to what they did with Chris Bermann a couple of years ago.

Mr. Madden's old partner - and I do mean old - Pat Summerall, likewise seems ready to hit the showers. I think this was perhaps the first week when he wasn't matched with the rest of Fox's A-team: Chris Collinsworth and Moose Johnston (uhh, I think Moose is the other guy (either way, Moose has shown himself to be quite good in the booth)). Instead he was matched up with someone I didn't immediately recognize, and Pat had a real hard time calling the game (Giants vs Cowboys). I think it's time for the ol' kicker to hang up his laces.

The quote of the week, as far as I'm concerned, came in passing during the Fox pre-game show when Howie called the NFC South the NASCAR Conference. Ha! That's perfect: Carolina, Atlanta, Tampa Bay, and New Orleans. I was pretty surprised that Jimmy Johnson didn't annoy me too much. There's no question he knows football. I wish they had filled the spot with Elway or Siragusa, but I guess Jimmy probably does have a deeper understanding of the game than either those guys.

While jumping around on the Foxsports site trying to verify who covered which games this weekend (which I never did find), I found this surprising little bit that they're doing that I wasn't aware of: Chicks on Football. I guess it's the game from the female perspective. I was a little surprise by the graphic on the Spankings of the Week page. Yeah, it's just a cartoon, but for Fox to show a bare bottomed young girl about to be spanked by an older, more mature woman really surprised me. Well, that last sentence ought to improve the number and quality of hits that I get off of Google.

Jonathan 10/08/2002 10:54:00 AM