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Monday Morning QB
By Christopher Kay
Monday, February 5th 2007
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The NFL is the best sports league in America by a wide margin. However, when it comes to Championship games, the Superbowl is a farce compared to the MLB, NBA and NHL Championships. The Superbowl has become, and in fact it always has been a joke. The opening ceremonies are so corny and just plain embarrassing to watch, the halftime show is cringe worthy every year, and the game itself is too big for the players due to the media scrutiny that surrounds this game every year. The players who go to the Superbowl for the first time are always warned about the feeling of playing in a Superbowl, but the nerves always seem to get the best of them. This game was one of the sloppiest I’ve seen in a long while, especially at the beginning. Yes, it was raining hard, but I’ve watched many games when it’s rained and snowed and nothing like what we saw in the first half has happened. It made me embarrassed to love football. To have your two best teams in the league to compete for your title be that sloppy after a full season of practice after practice and game after game is just pathetic. To fix the Superbowl, the first thing to go will have to be all the hoopla that surrounds it. Unfortunately, that hoopla makes a lot of money.
No Huddle
Please let there be more of a commotion from what Ted Johnson said about Belichick pressuring him to play with a concussion. What a despicable act by a despicable coach and human being.
Favre is back. Let’s hope it’s not a flop. Let him break the records for the short lived period until Peyton gets them all.
Mail Bag
Empty. Like the tin can the hobo holds on the street corner because I’m a miser.
Offensive Player of the Week: Peyton Manning. Superbowl Champion. Superbowl MVP. Now it can finally be put to rest that he is the best QB ever to play the game. He has his Superbowl. I still would have called him the best without it. Teams win Championships, but the people who don’t realize that have nothing left to bitch about.
Defensive Player of the Week: The rain and nervousness. Stopped many players on Superbowl Sunday. It was pathetic.
Special Teams Player of the Week: Devin Hester for being able to be great even in a huge game. That’s not always the case with special teams players. He may be dangerous next year too, unlike so many return men before him.
Joe Theismann Award of the Week: Phil Simms.
Pet Peeve of the Week: The Superbowl.
C Kay’s Top Ten
1. Indianapolis Colts
2. Chicago Bears
3. San Diego Chargers
4. New Orleans Saints
5. New England Patriots
6. Seattle Seahawks
7. Philadelphia Eagles
8. Baltimore Ravens
9. Cincinnati Bengals
10. Dallas Cowboys |
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