Since Faiz is the first follower of this blog, I would be remiss if I didn't start out by giving him a shoutout. So Faiz, thank you for coming and hopefully you will enjoy reading this.
In honor of the NFL Championships Weekend thought I would start the blog off with my game predictions for the weekend.
Colts 24 - Jets 13
In a hard fought battle, the Colts will pull out the victory on the back of Peyton Manning's two fourth quarter touchdown drives. Although the game itself will lack in excitement, the real fun begins during the postgame press conferences. Jets coach Rex Ryan refuses to admit that his team is eliminated from the playoffs and holds his postgame press conference wearing a "Road to the Super Bowl" hat and tells of the teams plans in Miami. After finally being convinced that they are in fact eliminated, Ryan calls NFL Comissioner Roger Goodell to file a grievance against the Colts. Among Ryans laundry list of complaints- Peyton Manning playing the whole game, Dwight Freeney using his spin move "an excessive amount of times, and Curtis Painter not being allowed to even be on the Colts sidelines.
Vikings 13 - Saints 9
In one of the most heart wrenching moments in sports, Brett Favre leads his second team to a Super Bowl berth. A vicious third quarter hit left the aging quarterback immobile under a massive pile of humanity. New Orleans had not seen such carnage since Hurricane Katrina, and the hometown crowd feared for the well being of the Hattiesburg native. After a 20 minute delay, the crowd erupts as Favre is taken off the field on a stretcher and holds the number one sign up on the way out. With less than 2 minutes to go in the game and the Saints clinging to a 9-6 lead, a shadow formed in the tunnel as the entire Superdome held its breath. A slow clap began and from the shadow rolled out Vikings quarterback Brett Favre on a Rascal. After a lengthy discussion, and some coercing by the president of Wrangler, the referees decide to allow Favre to finish the game on his scooter. As time ran down, Favre completes 5 of 6 passes for 63 yards and sets up a 3rd down an 2 from the 2 yard line with one tick left on the clock. Vikings coaches decided to go for the win and set up one of the most improbable endings in history. Favre drops back to pass, the Saints were on his receivers like white on rice, and Favre had nowhere to throw. He scrambled to his right and tucks the ball and headed to the corner of the endzone. The Saints pursuit came fast and hard and at the goalline a convoy of Saints defenders layed out the Vikings quarterback. The ruling on the field was no touchdown but instant replay was immediately invoked. Fox Sports "Pylon Cam" clearly showed two wheels of the Rascal in bounds as the ball broke the plane and the Vikings win.
With a championship weekend like this, I can hardly wait for the Super Bowl!
---Bret
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Witty, creative, and insulting all at once...just what I look for in a blog. Slow clap for Farve? Hilarious. But the scary thing is that you know it could actually happen...let by ABC/ESPN as a plot for a disney movie. On second thought, maybe the clap would be started by John Madden rising to his feet in the New Orleans crowd and shouting Brettfarve! over and over again.
ReplyDeleteGood idea guys...I look forward to seeing what else is on your minds...
And now we have a story book ending for the pre-retirement year of Favre. The question now, how many times will we see the "hit" he took which resulted in the injury of his leg?
ReplyDeleteI imagine after the Colts/Saints win the Super Bowl, the footage of Favre getting hurt will be 10 mintues worth of the Sports Illustrated Super Bowl video.