Playoffs, Anyone?

Last night's BCS Championship game received the lowest viewer rating since the beginning of the BCS era, which isn't surprising.  It matched up two teams from the same conference who'd already played each other once (in another snoozer back in November), there wasn't much controversy to speak of, and the game itself was pretty brutal to watch.  So once again, the big question surfaces: Should there be a playoff?  The President thinks so.  Many college coaches have admitted they do, too.  Even a solid majority of the players, who, by the way, get some pretty great perks for playing in those bowl games, say they'd like to see a playoff.  And what about the fans?  In a poll taken 5 years ago, a whopping 85% say they'd love to see some sort of change.  Can't imagine what those numbers would look like after last night.

What do you think?  More competition, or tradition?

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"See You Tomorrow Night!"

Wow.  What a game!  The question is, how many people actually stuck around to watch it?  If you gave up and changed the channel or never turned on game 6 to begin with, you missed what many are calling the greatest battle in the history of the World Series.  Regardless of whether or not you were watching, we are now going to a game 7, which rarely happens, and hasn't at all in the past 10 years.  In other words, this series just went "from good to great" as the writer of the above-mentioned article points out.  

So, did you stay up, or give up?  How do you think last night's game will be remembered in the years to come?  Or the series itself?  How about the Cardinals' season as a whole?  How important do you think the game of baseball is to American culture?  Does it still matter?

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How Bad are the Colts?

Note even two full seasons after the two teams met in the Super Bowl, the Saints beat the Colts 62-7.  If I could put numbers in "all caps", I would.  I know Peyton Manning is great, but wow.  The Colts have already lost more games this season than they have in any other single season in the past 10 years.  On the other end of the spectrum, Drew Brees, like Tom Brady, is on pace to break Dan Marino's single season yardage record.  Several other Saints are on a record-breaking pace.  You can check out more historical happenings from what was an otherwise pretty boring weekend in the NFL in this article at Inhistoric.

So, after seeing what the Colts have done this year, how much do you think one player can mean to a team?  What do you think about teams that run up the score?  Is it more on the team that's doing the scoring, or the team that's being scored on?

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Another Milestone For Tom Brady?

Can Brady break the legendary Dan Marino's 27 year-old record for passing yards in a season (5,084)?  Inhistoric says it would be very tough, but not impossible.  In fact, through the first 3 weeks Brady has set a pace that would have him throwing for over 7,000 yards by the end of the year!  That's a bit unrealistic, but if he were to break the record, would that make him the greatest QB to ever play?  Remember, he's already the record-holder for TD passes in a season as well as a repeat Super Bowl Champion and MVP.  Either way, should be fun to watch.

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Historic Collapse... Times Two

If you stayed up late enough Wednesday Night, you had the opportunity to witness history.  If you didn't, you missed not one, but two teams simultaneously setting the record for the biggest flop in the history of Major League Baseball.  Inhistoric has a breakdown of the Red Sox and Braves' epic collapses.

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Week 2 in the NFL a Historic One

A look at the NFL's record-breaking week 2, via Inhistoric.

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The Streak is Over!

Talk about historic!  The Tigers just ended a streak that was a decade and a half old with their 20-17 win over the Newton Eagles.  Keep it rollin' fellas!

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Red Sox Try To Avoid Historic Collapse

Via Inhistoric:

The Sox are trying to avoid the biggest September collapse in the history of baseball...

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