Let me start by saying thank you to my Dolphins for slapping around Tom Brady and the Pats yesterday, if only you could all see the smile on my face from ear to ear. Is there anyone I hate in sports more than that pompous Tom Brady? I think not. Now if only the Dolphins would figure out how to play NFL level football during the first 7 weeks of the year (two years running now).
Touchdown, Torry Holt! And that will send me into the next round of my fantasy playoffs as the Bears D needed a shutout and A LOT more for me to have a chance of losing.
Before I could even get that sentence completed, Devin Hester dances his way to the endzone for his 5th return TD of the year. I feel like every year there is some guy doing this kind of stuff, but it's always some unknown quantity. Last year it's Dante Hall and now its Hester, if only any of this had fantasy relevance.
Let me just thank the ESPN production crew for blessing us with Jim Belushi in the press box as it adds to an already horrid MNF commentating crew. His "Go, go, go" chanting while Berrian runs one in was truly classic; Oh MNF, where have the good ol' days gone.
What a shot on Grossman to cause that "fumble" right before the half. There is nothing like seeing a guy's helmet pop loose after a stunning blow and it's an added bonus when the guy under the mask is Sexy-Rexy.
Before getting to the NBA action tonight, let me make mention of the biggest NBA news of the night and maybe even the year: Stern relents and goes back to the leather ball after the New Year. It's about damn time as players have been whining for too long nonetheless the initial decision was made in the interest of saving animal hides and to please the Rocket's owners wife. Women can truly accomplish anything when they put some effort into it and everyday I get the feeling that behind every man in power there is secretly a woman running the show.
Trolling through the NBA boxscores so far, Dwight Howard puts up a real stinker and played through a ton of foul trouble all night against the Suns. It would only figure I would play him tonight in NBA.com's Pick One Challenge. Anyone interested in the NBA should really check this game out, www.nba.com/fantasy/game_center/index.html, as it's a new twist to the fantasy world that requires some decent analysis.
Moving on, dare I say Al Jefferson has arrived! Back to back double-double's (14 and 12 with 4 blocks to boot) and he's finally putting ALL that potential we've been drooling over together. The only AI soon to be left in Philly is primed for huge numbers without Iverson taking 30 shots a game and tonight really shows it (27-7-3 with 2 steals). Jason Kidd finishes with yet another triple-double (12-10-13) and is coming mighty close to keeping good on his promise to finish the year averaging a TD per game.
Eddy Curry, who still looks like he swallowed Shawn Kemp, puts up another solid statline with 30 and 11 but I'm still truly impressed by the best hustle guy in the NBA, David Lee (14 and 13). Give this man a permanent starting job, even when Jeffries and limp-wristed Channing Frye come back!
Just witnessed a real oddity in the Pacers/Bulls game as it's the end of the 3rd and every guy who has stepped on the floor for the Bulls has scored in double-digits. Wonder when that happened last? Other than that, Pacers fans have to be worried with Jackson/Harrington/O'Neal all sitting out tonight due to a stomach ailment to go along with an gangster attitude and a possible torn hammy.
Unfortunately, here on the East Coast it is getting late and some people have to sit at a desk job at 8 a.m. tomorrow so here is to Thomas Jones running up a storm and the Bears D giving up some more points to solidify my victory.
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