The BCS National Championship

I do realize that this blog is about professional football but this post is about the next generation of professional football players, the college guys. Last night the Florida Gators played against the Oklahoma Sooners in the BCS National Championship at Dolphin Stadium in Miami, Florida. The Florida Gators showed the nation why they dominated the SEC all year. The Gators took no mercy in beating the Sooners with the score being 24-14. Percy Harvin played after being questionable due to an ankle injury that occured weeks before. The game started slow and the score heading into half was 7-7, but the two highest scoring offenses in the league would step it up in the third n fourth quarters. Tim Teebow and the Florida Gators beat Heisman Award winner Sam Bradford and his Oklahoma Sooners to becoming the National Champions. My congratulations go out to the Florida Gators for an impressive season.

The Week of Destruction

This weekend there are once again 2 games on Saturday followed by 2 games on Sunday. Saturday's games are Baltimore traveling to Tennessee and Arizona traveling to Carolina. The first of the 2 games, Baltimore at Tennessee, should be a very physical and low scoring game. Look for both defenses to come out and fight until the last whistle blows and Tennessee prevails. The Titans will win this game by 3 points due to the fact that the Ravens just played a very physical game against Miami last week. The 2nd game is not worth watching. The pass happy Arizona Cardinals are heading into a fierce Carolina storm. The "smash and dash" pair of Stewart and Williams will run all over the Cardinals defense and when Arizona falls behind look for Carolina to start intercepting Warner's passes. Carolina will win by 17.

The Sunday games should be much better though. The Eagles are heading into New York to take on the Giants. Philadelphia has been playing outstanding football while the Giants have been very timid out on the field. I believe that the Eagles will pull off the upset in New York and head over to Carolina in 2 weeks to play in the NFC Championship. The AFC has a physical game between San Diego and Pittsburgh. Due to the steel curtain in Pittsburgh, little Darren Sproles will not be able to run the ball and the entire game will be riding on Philip Rivers. Being that the game is in Pittsburgh, the Steelers will win but only by a touchdown.

With these results comming out next week will have Tennesse in Pittsburgh for the AFC and Philadelphia in Carolina for the NFC. Following that week there will be the week off before the big game is played. On February 1, 2009 we will see the Pittsburgh Steelers taking on the Carolina Panthers in Tampa, Florida.

Long Time No See

I have not been able to update my blog for some time due to medical reasons. I am truly sorry for any people that check up on this blog for advice. But it's time to get back to business.

To get us back up to date, the NFL Playoffs have started and last weeks games were exciting. First we had Atlanta visiting Arizona in the NFC Wild Card round. This was a 3 point game going into the half with the Atlanta Falcons leading 17-14. In the 3rd quarter Arizona came out playing with their hair on fire. The Cardinals managed 14 points to the Falcons 0, taking the lead 28-17. The Falcons won the 4th quarter by the score of 7-2, and by doing the math you see that Arizona ended up on top by the score of 30-24.
The second game was Indianapolis visiting San Diego. The story of the game came via the smallest man on the field, Darren Sproles. Sproles ended with 328 all purpose yards to go along with 2 touchdowns, yet it came down to overtime for this game to be settled. In overtime Sproles took over and ended the game with a 22 yard touchdwon run to beat the Colts, 23-17.
The third and fourth games were both blowouts. The Baltimore Ravens traveled down to Miami and after a total of 13 turnovers all season, the Ravens forced 5 turnovers in the routing of Miami, 27-9. The NFC's other Wild Card game showed that real men do not wear purple. Philadelphia beat Minnesota 26-14. The Vikings stayed in the game but with 2:53 left in the fourth quarter, Jackson had the snap hit his leg and the Eagles recovered. The Eagles went on to drive and kick a field goal to put the game on ice.