This weekend New York sent two of its team to Texas to go get 3 victories. They sent the Giants into Dallas to knock off the 1-4 Cowboys and maintain their standing atop the NFC East. They also sent the Yankees to the Ballpark at Arlington to get 2 victories over the Rangers to win the ALCS. One of those teams was able to comply, and one failed miserably. Until last night it was beginning to look like New York would not get any of those 3 victories, but then the Giants rallied back from being down 20-7 in the first half and won 41-35. Instead, it looked a lot like Christmas! The Giants won and the Yankees did not. The Yankees went deep into the heart of Texas and got whacked around by Josh Hamilton and the Rangers. Luckily for the Yankees they did not extend the series to 7 so that their big free agent signing this winter, Cliff Lee, did not have to pitch more innings this year. But, today's post is about football and the weekend that was in the league where they play for pay, as some like to say.
The Eagles looked ready to join the Giants at 5-2 atop the NFC East, but then they fumbled away a chance to put the Tennessee Titans away. All that led to was Rutgers' own Kenny Britt having a huge day as he scored 3 TDs and had 255 receiving yards, all of which came in 3 quarters because he was benched for the first quarter by the coaching staff.
The Steelers were awfully lucky that the referees could not determine who came up with the ball at the bottom of the pile when Ben Roethlisberger fumbled the ball near into the end zone. They got a huge break and a go-ahead field goal to beat the Dolphins and improved to 5-1 and first in the AFC North.
In San Diego the New England Patriots almost gave away a game against the Chargers, but thanks to a missed field goal late they got the victory. Bill Belichick apparently hasn't learned, however. Late in the 4th quarter he decided to go for it on 4th and short near midfield in order to put the Chargers, who had no time outs left, away. However, the Chargers came up with the big stop and took over on downs. Working with a short field, the Chargers easily got into field goal range for the tying field goal try, but Kris Brown's attempt of 50 yards hit the upright and the Chargers lost 23-20. To me, this move by Belichick is about as dumb as it gets. He should have punted the ball away, forcing the Chargers to come the length of the field in order to get into field goal range; instead, they only needed about 15 yards to do so, which the Chargers had no problem doing. He got burned last year doing against the Colts doing a similar thing, and apparently he still hasn't learned.
By the way, it cannot get much better: the Giants won and the Eagles lost, and the Yankees and Phillies both lost and were dismissed from the baseball playoffs. As for my picks, I went 9-5 and improved to 61 and 43 on the season.
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