Have a good friend dating back to our high school days. We've managed to stay in touch over the years, even as he followed up his Navy career with another, heading the IT department with a Florida university. He's maintained his Green Bay Packer loyalty, and we text during games.
He emailed after the Packers tamed the Chicago Bears, commenting how gassed the defense looked in the second half (they were) and wondered how the elevation at Denver's Mile High Stadium would factor in.
While the Broncos are a respectable team, let's consider that during this 10 game winning streak (nine won in comeback fashion ). Let's also consider WHO they played -- Cincinnati (4-9), Jets (3-10), Giants (2-11), Las Vegas (2-11), Washington (3-10) and Las Vegas again. Teams that are combined 15-51. Hardly a murderer's row. The other wins were against a struggling Philly team, a Jekyll-Hyde Dallas team, Houston, and a Kansas City Chiefs squad that is REALLY struggling after four straight Super Bowl appearances, sitting at 6-7.
Denver lacks the strong running game the Bears brought in. Think if Green Bay can limit the stupid mistakes and penalties (looking at you here, Keisean Nixon) and control the ball, the Packers could be in good shape. And is it asking too much of the men and women in stripes to call a game that gives Micha Parsons the respect he deserves?
Was skimming through the paper -- online, as we let our high-cost physical subscription lapse -- and saw a reference to the Super Bowl. Seems there are those who want the NFL to move the game to the weekend before the President's Day federal holiday, thus giving more people a day off to recover.
Wouldn't it be just as simple to move the game from Sunday to Saturday? Or has that idea escaped all of those deep thinkers?
Happy for Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy for winning well-deserved back-to-back NL Manager of The Year awards -- the first to do so since Bobby Cox of the Atlanta Braves in 2004 and 2005.
The Indianapolis Colts, decimated at quarterback, have turned to 44-year old father of 10 (and grandfather of one) Philip Rivers. He's what, five years removed from the NFL? What, was Slingin' Sammy Baugh not available?
Lived down on the Louisiana bayous for a couple a couple of years, and still follow the fortunes of the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns (I knew them as the University of Southwest Louisiana, USL), Southern, Grambling and, of course, the LSU Tigers.
Is there a better soap opera than the one playing in Baton Rouge? The Tigers fire Brian Kelly as football coach -- at the behest of the governor, who got mad that the school had to Kelly $54 million to go away. THEN they go over to playoff-bound Ole Miss and hire away Lane Kiffin for seven years at $98 million (with a buyout said to be 80%).
And Kiffin has effectively been run out of town from pretty much every pro and college job he's held -- including being dismissed as Alabama's offensive coordinator just on the cusp of the 2017 title game because he had taken the Ole Miss job.
Oh, and not only did he say adios to Ole Miss, he asked if he couldn't please stay on and coach the team in the post season. That takes balls...
As they say, WTF!!??
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