The World Series, College Football and the NFL

It's been a couple of weeks so I figure it's time to catch up.

As a Husker alum, have to start with the Northwestern game from last week.  It's Wednesday but I want to go back to Saturday and probably one of the few times I've ever really felt dirty after a win.

It's not so much that they played terrible - they didn't.  Overall, they played a very good game.  But it's the same mistakes, being made over and over again that drive me crazy.  Those self-inflicted errors are hanging like a demon over this program.  The team has lost in the turnover margin in the last few games, and yet they won two of the three.

As far as the rest of the season goes, I know Husker fans want Bo Pelini fired, but the fact of the matter is that is extremely unlikely to happen.  Even if they lose to Michigan but win the rest of the games, that is 9-3 with losses to all decent to good teams.  If they go 9-3 they will have only lost to UCLA, Ohio State and Michigan, none of whom are slouch teams.  There were years in the 1970s where Nebraska had losses to worse teams than the UCLA loss this year.  They lost to Iowa State twice in 1976 and 1977.

As far as who is No. 2 behind Alabama, I am voting for Florida.  The reason being, because of the schedule.  Oregon is a good team but has yet to play the tougher teams on their schedule.  Florida has already played at Texas A&M, at Tennessee, at home against LSU and they destroyed South Carolina.  I like the Ducks but they have yet to play Stanford, USC or even Oregon State.

Memo to those who were spewing vile accusations at Aaron Rodgers about how he wasn't the same quarterback he was: Don't Poke the Bear.

As a Texans fan I can vouch for this first hand after he shredded the Texans defense a week ago.  The Texans rebounded to clobber Baltimore but I still have visions of an angry Aaron Rodgers picking Houston apart.  You can only poke a bear with a stick so many times before he snaps and eats you alive.

I thought it was hilarious that players on the New York Giants defense, in the wake of facing Robert Griffin III for the first time, are now calling him Sir Robert Griffin.  One, in particular, is Osi Umenyiora.  This was the same guy who was calling him Bob Griffin prior to the season.

The Giants pulled out a late victory but RGIII made a lasting impression.  Fact is, no one in that division has had to worry about who is playing quarterback in D.C. for 20 years.  Can you imagine what's going to happen when they get better playmakers on that offense?

As far as the World Series goes, Pablo Sandoval already has three home runs as I type this.  The San Francisco Giants...you can't kill them.  The Cincinnati Reds didn't and the St. Louis Cardinals didn't...and as some people I'm close to know, I don't think the Detroit Tigers can kill them either.  My prediction, before tonight's game was and still is Giants in six.

Until next time....

College Football Day and Correction on Previous Blog

Just a couple of quick things. First of all, I got it wrong on the whole thing about the election.  The votes will still count in all 50 states, just that the Associated Press will only focus on surveys in 31 states. My apologies.

Couple of college football thoughts: How bad does a conference have to be when a school coming off one of the worst scandals in NCAA history will likely win at least 6 games and probably more?

LSU lost their undefeated season, and depending on what happens next week might lose a lot more in the coming weeks. Next week's game with South Carolina will be a huge swing game in their season. If they lose that one, they may not even make it to Alabama with a chance to do anything.

Oklahoma came up big in Lubbock today. Depending on what happens tonight in Austin, who knows if Texas will be the one with momentum going into next week's Red River Rivalry game.

That is all for now.  Until next time....

College Football Weekend, Excluding Votes and Josh Hamilton

Just a few thoughts as the first Saturday of October dawns.

It isn't in the title but I want to point out that I said in my last blog - how long would it take for the officials to make a mistake in a big game and how long would fans defend them?  Well I think we got our answer in the Green Bay-New Orleans game.  The real officials got another call wrong against the Packers which almost allowed them to lose that game.  Fortunately for them they won, but it was a close call to say the least.

Among other regrettable things that Ohio State players have said this week, Buckeye defensive end Nathan Williams claims that Nebraska cannot run on Ohio State.  My advice to Mr. Williams: Keep your words soft and sweet lest you have to eat them Saturday night.

So Texas, Nebraska and 17 other states are going to be excluded from the voting that may decide who wins the Presidency?  Has this ever happened before?

Texas Rangers fans who booed Josh Hamilton should be absolutely ashamed of themselves.  That man did so much for that franchise, and the way they treated him like crap at the end of the year is beyond me.  How would they like it if Josh goes to New York and sticks it to the Rangers every time he plays them?

Great games in college football this weekend.  Unlike last weekend where there weren't a lot of great games, there are about five or six games I'm interested in watching this weekend.  October is where the pecking order starts to be decided.

Until next time....