The Football Gods Are Cruel

Well, may be not the football gods, just the Philadelphia top brass.  And maybe cruel isn’t the best word, either.  How about stupid?  Arrogant?  Selfish? As a Philadelphia sports fan, its going tot take a while to digest this.  And maybe I’ll never come to terms with this.  Tonight, Michael Vick, dog murderer  extraordinaire, became an Eagle.  The bile rises in my throat just tasting those...

Rookie Hold-outs in the NFL

I hate the NBA.  I hate professional basketball.  Actually, I can’t stand college basketball either.  And I think that there is very little anyone can learn from the NBA.  Debilitating salary cap, anyone?  The salary cap in basketball is so horrible that it takes a team that made a single bad decision a whole freaking decade to recover. But there is one thing, yes, a single thing, I think that someone...

Brett Favre officially not coming back

Yeah, I’ll believe it when I don’t see it. He may not be back yet, but halfway through the season, when his arm is healed and some team needs a veteran QB, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him on the field again. Unfortunately. He says he’s not coming back, but I haven’t seen the word retired yet. Not that the word means anything coming from his mouth. I think we see Favre play more games...

What to do with Vick?

Michael Vick was just released from prison- twenty years earlier than he should have been, in my opinion- but he has supposedly pain for his crimes and is now a free man.  Now what? People will say that what Vick did was no big deal, or minor.  That what Leonard Little and Dante Stallworth did, was much worse.  he only killed dogs.  they killed people. But what people seem to forget is intent, and intent is very...