Well, here it is, January 1, 2007, and the first of what I hope to be daily dispatches to my new blog. I was planning to writte about the stupid New Year’s Eve countdown telecasts like I did on my family website last year but I didn’t stay up long enough to watch them. I knew […]
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Well, here it is, January 1, 2007, and the first of what I hope to be daily dispatches to my new blog. I was planning to writte about the stupid New Year’s Eve countdown telecasts like I did on my family website last year but I didn’t stay up long enough to watch them. I knew it was midnight when I heard some firecrackers go off while I was half-asleep on the couch with my daughter on my chest (probably the best possible way I could have spent the last few hours of 2006 and the first of 2007 anyway).
New Year’s Day is about football, although I don’t pay any more than passing attention to the college game and it’s extremely annoying lack of a playoff system. Instead, I am focused on the NFL playoffs which are just a few days away from kickoff. I am most worried about my Chicago Bears. I was not able to watch the whole game last night because we had friends over but that was a blessing in disguise. Brett Favre creamed the Bears in Chicago and exposed just about every weakness they have. For a team with the best record in the NFC, the Bears are in trouble in the playoffs if they continue to make the type and quantity of mistakes that they have been making lately. I like Rex Grossman, and I think he has the potential to be a very good player in the long run, but I have been waiting for 20 years at a shot at the SuperBowl and Grossman just doesn’t protect the ball well enough and it makes me insane! I really think they should put the veteran Griese in for the playoffs to manage the game and let the running game grind away mixed with occasionaly controlled passing. If Grossman gives up an interception return for a touchdown in the playoffs and the Bears exit early (and, this year, anything but getting to the SuperBowl would be considered an early exit), I am going to be very upset.
In other NFL news, it always cracks me up how teams fire coaches the day after the season ends. I love the annual coaching turntable and, with the exception of last year when there were a ton of vacancies that were filled mostly with young first-timers, why so many teams keep hiring the same guys to coach them to mediocrity. Jim Mora (now formerly of the Atlanta Falcons) and Dennis Green (now formerly of the Arizona Cardinals) both got fired today, not 24 hours after losing their last games and missing the playoffs. I don’t really know much about Mora other than his dad is an idiot and he got to the NFC title game three years ago and was never able to build on that despite having Michael Vick. Green is just an idiot himself and I don’t know why anyone expected great things from him in the first place, regardless of how much high-priced free-agent talent he has. I mean, please, he had Randy Moss and Duante Culpepper (when they were good), the best record in the NFL and couldn’t make it to the SuperBowl (hopefully, they won’t be saying similar things about the Bears after this season).
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