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College Football Recap – Week 3

By | September 20, 2011 | College Football, Football, NCAA, Weekly Recap | 1 Comment

One good thing about writing the weekly college football recap is that I don’t have to write about my Sun Devils losing and dropping out of the Top 25. I can pretend that it just didn’t happen and make fun of Buckeyes fans instead.

And on to the highlights from the weekend’s games!

Boise State 40, Toledo 15

Boise State continues to win, and win big. I for one thought they’d start the season off losing big to Georgia and finally show they couldn’t play with the big boys. But they proved me wrong. I’ll still always hate them, though, for Dirk Koetter.

South Carolina 24, Navy 21

The Gamecocks squeaked out yet another close win and they did it on the legs of sophomore running back Marcus Lattimore, who racked up a season-high 246 yards rushing against the Midshipmen. And the Gamecocks needed every single one of those yards to eek out the win.

Notre Dame 31, Michigan State 13

Notre Dame finally got a notch in the win column for 2011 by upsetting the 15-th ranked Michigan State Spartans. The Irish were finally ready this week and used two touchdowns from Cierre Wood and an 89-yard kickoff return George Atkinson III for a touchdown to propel them to victory.

Miami (FL) 24, Ohio State 6

I’m never sad when THE Ohio State gets beaten, nee UPSET. And even better, it knocked the nuts out of the Top 25 for the first time in seven years. This was also the first time in 23 years that the Buckeyes lost a road game to an unranked non-conference opponent. Since my team lost, at least this OSU loss was a boost to my spirits.

Clemson 38, Auburn 24

In a battle of the Tigers, the National Champions and their 17-game winning streak are history, after the Clemson Tigers upset the 21st-ranked Auburn Tigers. With the narrow victories Auburn has been lucky to come by this season, it wasn’t all that surprising.

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Kristabella really needs to start writing these recaps on Saturday night.

College Football Recap – Week 2

By | September 13, 2011 | College Football, Football, NCAA, Weekly Recap | 2 Comments

Living in Chicago, I really hate winter. But man, do I love fall and football! It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Hopes are still high for a National Championship. Well, unless you’re Notre Dame. Let’s get to a recap of this past week’s most exciting games!

Arizona State 37, Missouri 30 (OT)

I am ashamed to admit that I fell asleep before this game was over. I missed a hell of an ending. ASU donned their new all black uniforms and everyone in the crowd wore black, creating a blackout at Sun Devil Stadium. They built up a 30-16 lead and in true Sun Devil fashion, blew it. But thankfully in OT they scored a touchdown and the defense held down the Tigers for an upset of the 21st-ranked team in the country.

Auburn 41, Mississippi State 34

The reigning National Champions survived another close game to go 2-0 on the season. Their wins aren’t pretty, but a W is a W. Thanks to a goal line stand at the end of the game that stopped MSU, the Tigers got a big SEC win and a win over 16th-ranked Mississippi State.

Alabama 27, Penn State 11

For the second year in a row, Penn State proved that the Big Ten can’t hang with the SEC as the third-ranked Crimson Tide rolled over the Nittany Lions. (See what I did there?)

South Carolina 45, Georgia 42

This was a heck of a battle that went down to the last minute. The two teams went back and forth in a typical SEC rivalry game and the 12th-ranked Gamecocks held on for the win. Georgia looked to have the game locked up after going ahead 35-31 with about six minutes to play. But a quick TD by South Carolina, and then a fumble recovery for a touchdown, put South Carolina up 45-35 with three minutes left. Georgia added another score, but couldn’t find another way to tie up the game and the Cocks squeaked out the win.

Michigan 35, Notre Dame 31

Another exciting, down-to-the-wire game on our hands! In the first game played under lights in the Big House, Michigan scored with two seconds left to beat rival Notre Dame. The Irish went up early and were up 24-7 in the third quarter. The Wolverines answered in the fourth quarter with three straight touchdowns to finally go ahead. But Notre Dame silenced the NCAA-record crowd of 114,804 with the go-ahead score with just 30 seconds left in the game. Michigan never gave up and instead of kicking the field goal to tie the game and send it to overtime, new Michigan coach Brady Hoke went for it. And it paid off for the Maize and Blue.

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Kristabella drinks heavily on Sundays watching NFL games, which is why her recaps are always so delayed.

NFL Players Might Be Fined For Remembering 9/11 Anniversary

By | September 9, 2011 | Football, NFL | Comments Off

UPDATE: The NFL has told all 32 teams that players can wear special shoes and gloves to commemorate the anniversary.

This Sunday marks the 10 year anniversary of the tragic events that happened to our country on September 11. There have been all sorts of news stories and retrospectives in the media leading up to this day. In addition, many cities around the nation are planning to remember the day and the lives lost with tributes and moments of silence.

Sunday is also the opening weekend of the 2011 NFL season. In honor of the anniversary and to remind us to NEVER FORGET, Reebok has created some shoes and gloves to honor the fallen and to celebrate this amazing country we live in. (Reebok, by the way, is the official outfitter of the NFL.)

Some NFL players have decided to don these shoes and gloves for the 9-11 anniversary in games on Sunday. This is obviously against NFL uniform rules. (If you’ve never see what the rules are, you should really take a gander at all the things one CANNOT do while wearing an NFL uniform.) But these players don’t care.

Chicago Bears linebacker Lance Briggs, who I would like to slap most days because he’s a selfish asshole, is saying fines be damned and will be wearing the 9-11 tribute gear. According to his Twitter, he says it will be “by far the best fine I will ever pay.”

Other players, including Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles, Redskins tight end Chris Cooley and at least one player from the Chargers plan to wear the Reebok gear and take the hit, which could be close anywhere from $5,000 to $15,000.

But as Briggs pointed out, when the League does the pink gear in support of breast cancer awareness, players are allowed to wear that throughout the rest of the season.

However, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello sent an email to ESPN Radio’s “Mike & Mike In The Morning” show this morning saying that Briggs “thinks he will be fined. I don’t think he will be.”

Let’s hope not.

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New OT Rules For NFL Playoffs

By | January 7, 2011 | Football, NFL | 2 Comments

If you’re an NFL team playing in a Wild Card Playoff Game this weekend, it is in your best interest to not go to overtime. The NFL announced on Thursday that for the 2011 Playoffs, there will be no sudden death in OT.

Instead, the NFL will take a page out of college football’s playbook (see what I did there?) and give both teams an opportunity to score. There will be some differences:

  • The team who wins the coin toss can no longer win the game automatically by going down the field and kicking a field goal. They have to get back on defense and give the other team an opportunity to score.
  • That team then gets to be on offense and gets an opportunity to score points. If Team 1 scores a field goal, Team 2 must score a field goal to continue play.
  • If Team 1 scores a field goal and Team 2 scores a TD, Team 2 wins.
  • It basically goes on until one team has more points.

This all seems to stem from the NFC Championship Game last year when the Saints secured a spot in the Super Bowl after winning the game in OT over Minnesota on a Garrett Hartley field goal.

I, personally, think this is a much needed change. I don’t think OT in professional football should be at the whim of the luck of a coin toss. Both teams, who ended regulation tied, should get an opportunity to win the game on offense, regardless of who won the coin toss.

What do you think? Will this be good for the NFL? Especially in the Playoffs when there is more on the line?

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Kristabella only thinks this is a good idea, really, as long as it helps her Chicago Bears advance in the Playoffs this year.

So Sorry Vikings Fans

By | December 17, 2010 | Football, NFL | 1 Comment

Poor Minnesota. Not only did they get a million inches of snow last weekend, said snow also caused the Metrodome to collapse. That meant that the Vikings lost a home game last week when they had to move the game against the Giants to Detroit. Trust me, no one in the NFC North will root for a rival team.

Now, since the Metrodome is still all broken, they had to move Monday night’s game against the division rival Chicago Bears to the stadium on the campus at the University of Minnesota. So while technically a home game for the Vikings because it is in Minnesota, it isn’t really because the Gophers have a brand new OUTDOOR stadium with grass.

So sorry Vikings, we’re making you play outside in Minnesota in December. Against the Bears. Who practice and play outside in this all the time.

And to make matters worse? The seating is first come, first served. That means if you spent a boatload of money on tickets to a Monday Night Football gridiron match-up between the Bears and the Vikings, now you’re going to have to sit outside in the cold, in general admission seats.

But oh, ho, ho, the Vikings aren’t done fucking with you yet, fans. THERE WILL BE NO ALCOHOL SERVED IN THE STADIUM. Ha, ha, suckers! Better conceal that flask well so they don’t find it during the pat down!

And don’t be surprised if they ask you to help shovel the field as well.

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Kristabella will be happily watching this game indoors with plenty of booze on hand.

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