Rename The Lomdardi Trophy? Don't Think So!

Bill Belichick suggests the Lombardi trophy, awarded to the Super Bowl winner, be renamed to say, honor Tom Brady.

WTF?

Don't think so Billy Boy. Yes, you were a successful NFL coach yourself -- with, shall we say, several questionable moves. Moves that got you fined, the New England Patriots fined and cost the team draft picks as well. And Tommy Boy? Well, there's Inflategate, the infamous football tuck rule and, to be honest, the smug entitlement that comes across.

Vince Lombardi was hired to be Coach and General Manager of the Packers on Feb. 2, 1959. All he did in the 1960s was win, going 9-1 in the playoffs and winning titles in five of seven seasons. His Packers won three straight NFL titles (1965-66-67), the last team to threepeat -- and the only other team to do so were the Packers (1929-30-31).

In Lombardi's era, players were paid a pittance and often worked off-season jobs.

No, Belichick, I doubt if your suggestion to rename the trophy will hold water. Today's players, and today's NFL, stands on the shoulders of giants named Lombardi, George Halas, Lamar Hunt and Pete Rozelle, to name a few.

And I keep wondering how objective Brady can be as a color man on Fox. After all, he's now part-owner of the Las Vegas Raiders and, from all reports, has been key to getting Pete Carroll to come on board and coach the franchise. Do we really think he can be critical of the league if the situation calls for it?

Doubt that Super Bowl LIX -- 59 for those of you challenged by Roman Numerals -- will be boring.

On the one hand, there's the hard-charging Philadelphia Eagles led by a strong running game. On the other are the Kansas City Chiefs, winners of a remarkable 17 straight one-score games.

Happen to be suffering from a bit of Kansas City fatigue. Nothing against Coach Andy Reid or quarterback Patrick Mahomes, etc. Have liked KC since their AFL games, and have a personal letter from Coach Hank Stram after the Chiefs won Super Bowl IV (beating the Vikings 23-7, no less). Just tired of seeing them in the marquee title game over and over again. Five of the last six, for example.

Well, that and the fact that it seems EVERY friggin' officials' call seems to fall KC's way.

Kansas City is going for three straight Super Bowl wins, a feat no other team has done in the Super Bowl era -- though I will argue the Packers could have done that had they met the AFL Champion Buffalo Bills in 1965. At that point, the Bills had won their second straight AFL title and would fall to Kansas City going for a third.

The EAGLES are going to block that threepeat try,, winning 36-31. Philadelphia is a talented squad and, I think, has the horsepower to notch the win. Thinking of super fans Jack & Theresa, whom we met on on vacation last November, here.

The Baseball Hall of Fame welcomed Ichiro Suzuki, the first Japanese player to be inducted. He was not unanimous, and I questions how one voter failed to check his name!. He finished his MLB career with 3,089 hits. Add in another 1 ,278 from the Nippon Professional Baseball league and that's good for a total for 4,367 -- well past the 4,192 hits the late Pete Rose got to lead the MLB.

We saw Ichiro get his 2,000th MLB hit while attending a game at the Oakland Coliseum on 9-6-09. We were visiting San Francisco and took the BART under the bay to Oakland. The BART ended right at the Coliseum, so it was a brief walk to the stadium. In his first at-bat that day, Ichiro stroked a double down the right field line for a stand-up double, becoming the second-fastest player to get to 2,000 hits in MLB history.

An addendum to my weather story a few days ago. Just months after moving to Louisiana, a squall came through and produced sneaux flurries, total accumulation maybe an inch. EVERYBODY at the newspaper was gathered at the windows, watching it sneaux and commenting. As I walked by I said something like "people, this isn't snow, this is a dusting. My Dad would call this 'three flakes to the acre' kind of snow."