Stroll Down the NFL Boulevard Wildcard Weekend

Stroll down the NFL Boulevard

Wildcard Weekend

 

                Well here we are in the playoffs. The Wildcard playoffs, that time of year where the debates start and end about “Why can’t the NFL just put in the best 12 teams, why do we have to have division winners? So Expo what do you think about these debates??? Oh good point. It is that kind of insight that makes him great on this… Expo can you kick it please!!!

 

                Okay this is the playoffs and as such we expect, no we demand that each team put up a fight worthy of the playoffs. This game is made up of inches, inches to the left of us and inches to the right of us and inches in front of us, and inches behind us. There are inches everywhere and you have to claw and scratch for each one on those inches knowing that the only people that are going to help you get those inches are the people beside you. Your brothers in arms, those are the people who are going to help you get those inches. Arizona got inches this week. They got two thousand eight hundred and eight inches on Saturday. Those kinds of inches are what make this game great. Oh and those kind of inches also equal 78 yards, which for an entire game really sucks.

Final Score the Arizona 16 the Carolina 27. So this week’s Birth Canal Team of the week is??? Yep, Congrats to the Ari-Freaking-zona Cardinals on such a stellar game.

 

                People will tell you that Football is very confusing; you can get Stats that will tell you to lean one way or another. But if you can tell us how many turnovers each team will have in the game before the game, and then we can tell you who will win. Case in point, If you give the ball to the other team say three times, and they only give it back to you say once, then you are going to lose like 98% of the time. So Pittsburg had the ball for over 35 minutes, and outgained the Ravens by nearly 90 yards. But they had 3 turnovers and only got it back 1 time.

Final Score the Raven 30 the Steeler 17. Well having 100 more yards in Penalties doesn’t help either.

 

                   Last week we talked about knowing the history and if you don’t’ know your history then you are doomed to repeat it. And how the Bengals have been to the playoffs the last 4 years, and they had lost in the playoffs each of the last 4 years; and how this year while they had played the Colts a few weeks ago and they didn’t score a point. At Least this game they did.  

Final score the Cincinnati 10 the Colt 27. This really wasn’t a game, but we did have to listen to the comparisons of how Andrew Luck is like Tom Brady. Thanks Jim Nance and Phil Simms.

 

                And finally let’s talk about the most talked about game in the history of the playoffs so far. Let us just say that there are a few things wrong here. First this is not unusual, but the NFL will grade officials in their performance each week. And at the end of the year the officials who are the best get to move on into the playoffs and make playoff money. (It is a reward for doing the best job each week) but if we were to apply this same logic then only the best players in each division would move to the playoffs. Then it would be kind of weird to see a couple of guys from Minnesota let’s say, play for a wildcard team. NO that just doesn’t happen. So why would the NFL decide that the team that has played together for 21 weeks (including Preseason) now needs to be broken up by officiating position? We don’t know either, but when this happens you get Chaos and Chaos is not good. So last week the Lions fans were excited that the boy named Suh got his suspension lifted. This week they are mad at the officials for missing Pass interference. That knife cuts both ways doesn’t it. Oh you can whine and complain that it wasn’t fair, but the fact of the matter is that if the NFL would grade officials individually and as a team and have the best teams move on each week will you get a better officiated game. Since that is finished on to the game.  Detroit has not won a playoff game since 1990 and Dallas has not won more than 1 playoff game in a row since 1995. What did everyone think was going to happen?

Final Score the Lion 20 the Cowgirl 24. If this turns out to be the game that changes the way Officials are moved thru the playoffs, then so be it. But you can’t blame someone else for your failure, what are you 8?

 

Okay that will do it for us this week…

And remember like we always say.

 

One fine day as I was a-walkin' down the street
Spied a beggar man with rags upon his feet
Took a penny from my pocket
In his tin cup I did drop it
I heard him say as I made my retreat

"May the bird of paradise fly up your nose"
"May an elephant caress you with his toes"
"May your wife be plagued with runners in her hose"
"May the bird of paradise fly up your nose"

The laundry man is really on his toes
Found a hundred-dollar bill among my clothes
When he called me I came a-runnin'
Gave him back his dime for phonin'
I heard him sayin' as I turned to go

"May the bird of paradise fly up your nose"
"May an elephant caress you with his toes"
"May your wife be plagued with runners in her hose"
"May the bird of paradise fly up your nose"

 

I was way behind one day to catch the train
Taxi driver said "We'll make it just the same"
The speed cop made it with us
And as he wrote out the ticket
I stood by politely a-waitin' for my change

"May the bird of paradise fly up your nose"
"May an elephant caress you with his toes"
"May your wife be plagued with runners in her hose"
"May the bird of paradise fly up your nose"

 

"May the bird of paradise fly up your nose"
"May an elephant caress you with his toes"
"May your wife be plagued with runners in her hose"
"May the bird of paradise fly up your nose"