October 6, 2009
Some thoughts on a grab-bag of topics:
Reports are out that Rush Limbaugh has teamed with Dave Checketts to submit a bid for the St. Louis Rams, and would keep the team in St. Louis. I can’t even begin to imagine Limbaugh as the owner of a professional sports team. That has nothing to do with his political views; it’s just a hard thing to imagine. Could you really see him going into the locker room after a game and addressing the team? What would he say? Especially (going back to his politics) how much he has crushed Obama … you’d have to think there’d be a group of players who would be offended by that, wouldn’t you? It would be fascinating to watch, though … I hope it happens.
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October 6, 2009
The thing about the NFL that draws people in more than the hits, more than the personalities, more than the betting, is the fact that every team has a chance when the season begins. It’s not like baseball, where generally six of the eight playoff teams are from about 12 teams year after year, and it’s not like basketball, where you must have a LeBron James or Dwayne Wade or Kobe Bryant or Kevin Garnett if you have any hope of winning a championship.
No, the NFL is the league of Kurt Warner, the grocery store clerk turned Super Bowl MVP. The NFL is the league where the Arizona Cardinals went from worst to within one drive of being first last year. The NFL is where the Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars reached the NFC and AFC championship games, respectively, in their second year in existence. Because of the way the sport is set up, with only 16 games and one-and-dones in the playoffs, the best team doesn’t always win, or even make the playoffs. You have teams jump up out of nowhere and surprise every year.
And all of that is what makes it so impossibly sad to be a fan of the Buffalo Bills.
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