Undefeated Seasons

So why all the big deal and hub bub about the Colts deciding they don't care about going 16-0? Why does it matter? The answer is it doesn't not one little bit. The only thing that is important is winning the Super Bowl. It doesn't matter if you go 8-8 during the regular season or if you 16-0. The Championship is the same regardless of how many wins you have, the super bowl ring looks the same, the Champagne tastes just as sweet. The Colt's had nothing to gain by playing their starters and going 16-0 and everything to lose. They could have lost Peyton Manning, it is football and anything can happen at any time. If that happened they might as well just forfeit. And for what? The Colt's had already secured home field, so what else was there? The fans at the game that boo'd the team should be ashamed of themselves, because they sure as hell would have lit Jim Caldwell up if they had suffered a catastrophic injury that cost them a chance at a championship. In fact Jim Caldwell was in a complete no-win situation. If he pulls his starters and rest them then he gets blasted, if he plays his starters and one gets injured then he gets blasted by the press. He chose the right answer in choosing the solution that gets him blasted by the press but doesn't cost his team a chance at winning the championship. In fact I feel terribly sorry for poor Jim Caldwell, if he was Tony Dungy he wouldn't be facing nearly as much criticism. Tony Dungy was in the exact same situation as head coach of the Colts and he did the exact same thing, yet most of these same fans and critics that are yelling at Caldwell complimented him about his savvy coaching and ability to keep focused on the target. I know, I am a Colt's fan and I remember it well. Basically the bottom line is the fans and media need to quit their bitching. Winning the division and locking down homefield early gives the team the right to rest their starters, why should the Colt's squander that advantage over some useless thing like an undefeated season?

I hate to admit it but I agree with Terrell Owens.

This hurts me, deep and to my heart, but I have to admit it to myself and to the world that I agree with Terrell Owens. He recently came out and said that players and the Players Union need to get involved in the NFL issues a 4 game suspension to Michael Vick. He feels that its ridiculous for a man to get suspended for 4 games after he has just been punished by the legal system for his crimes with a two year prison sentence. I agree with him, it just seems like piling on to add a 4 game suspension to Michael Vick. Michael Vick has paid his debt for his crimes, and served two years in prison. Its ridiculous and frankly a bit pretentious for the NFL to follow that up with a punishment of their own. NFL PA rep for the Bills George Wilson agreed wholeheartedly with what his teammate Owens was saying, so perhaps I will just say that I agree with the former Razorback George Wilson, rather than Owens. Of course the people that know me, know that I am practically a PETA member when it comes to being cruel to animals, but I also believe that when a man has served his sentence he has paid his debt and deserves a chance. Of course I have often disagreed with Mr. Roger Goodell. In regards to Pacman Jones, everybody knows that this man is a thug and an idiot, and nobody was really surprised when he got a one year suspension for his legal woes. But not many people realized that when he was suspended for a year for being involved in three crimes, in none of those instances was he ever convicted of a crime. In the first two they never even made it to court as they were thrown out. We all know he is a punk, but Goodell suspended him for a year for being in trouble with the law, when technically Mr. Jones was never guilty of committing those crimes. Seems a bit silly when you look at it that way. Its a bit steep when we get punished for being accused of a crime, isn't that a bit like guilty until proven innocent?

Draft Pick Salary Demands

I thought about this for a while this morning. Most people are quick to say that baseball draft picks should shut up and take very little, and not demand a lot of money since, unlike the NFL and NBA they will not be contributing on the field for their team for at least a year or two. I decided to think about it by putting myself in their shoes and try to come up with what I would do if faced with the same decisions they were. First of all, I was as big a fan of baseball when I was playing high school ball as I am now, and I am sure some of the players drafted are the same. I was a student of the history of the game, and I had allegiances and ideas about teams. I would find it impossible to just go where I was drafted and not say anything, or not to tell certain teams that frankly I am just not playing for your club. I am honestly amazed there is not more of this. If I were good enough to be drafted in the first round I would have had teams that I would play for, and teams that I would not play for. If I were going to drafted out of high school by say the Cubs, Yankees, Giants, or Braves, then they would have very limited options. They would either have to make me the highest paid draft pick ever, or I would be going to college, or playing in the frontier league for a year. But I would be honest with their scouts before the draft, so as not to surprise them, I would just have to say, I hate your team, I have always hated your team, and I can't really be honest with myself and say I want to take your money. Secondly, I can't fall these guys for trying to get as much as they can in their first contract. Many of them are foregoing college, and this might be the only big contract that get. Its got to last for a while, and give them something to fall back on if say, they have a catastrophic injury, or can't hit a professional slider.