A Turkey of a Game

Football on Turkey Day was not up to expectations, unless of course you are a Colts fan. In the early game, the Colts slaughtered the Lions 41-9 and Peyton Manning threw six touchdown passes. That is not a typo. Manning is already breaking some records, tying his own game record with six and breaking an NFL record of at least four TD's in five straight games. The granddaddy of QB records is Dan Marino's 48 TD season, and Manning is well on his way to breaking it. BTW, the NFL record is seven TD passes in a game. Unofrtunately, in blowout games like that, the casual fan loses interest early. Base10 expected a little more out of the lIons, who have a potentially explosive offence and good receiver corp against a Colts squad that anybody can score on.

The four o'clock game was not much better. The Dallas-Bears matchup featured the NFL start of QB Drew Henson of Yankee baseball fame. Unfortunately for Benson, he was replaced by Vinny Testaverde at halftime. Completely lackluster play by both Chicago and Dallas resulted in a 7-7 score at the half. Vinny came in and was helped by a defensive touchdown but also scored a TD pass of his own. The final was 21-7 with nobody saying afterwards, "What a great game!" Vinny actually had a pretty good game, but it eludes Base10 why Dallas would put him in over Henson. Dallas doesn't have a prayer at the playoffs at this point unless they win out which is highly unlikely. Why not give Henson the rest of the starts and see what he can do? At least you'd be settled on the QB question going into the spring draft.

Other interesting bit about the late game: Dallas RB Julius Jones was playing against his brother, Chicago RB Thomas Jones.

Base10 did not watch the NCAA football game last night, opting instead to stay home and watch the Spiderman movie (which was not bad actually). In the interest of completeness, unranked Pittsburgh beat W. Virginia 16-13 on a last minute interception.

Today's matchups are good: LSU v. Arkansas, Arizona v. Arizona St. and what Base10 thinks will be the best game of the week, Texas v. Texas A&M. Base10 is doing an early tour in order to catch the latter game if he can.
- posted by Base10 @ 7:47 AM