After week 11, a couple of teams know where they stand. The Bills, Browns, Jaguars, Eagles, and Chargers know it’s going to be very difficult to make the playoffs. Every team in the NFC North (excluding the Lions) and the Falcons and Saints know they still have a glimmer of hope to make the playoffs. Lastly, the NFC West (excluding the Cardinals), Raiders, Chiefs, Rams, and Bengals know they still stink. Here are couple more things we know for sure after week 11:
Cowboys QB Tony Romo helps his team win, and lose, but mostly win.
Romo Does Make a Difference
As quarterback Tony Romo goes, so does the Dallas Cowboys. Just as fitting to say after the Cowboys beat the Redskins in Washington D.C. is: as quareterback Brad Johnson doesn’t go, so doesn’t the Dallas Cowboys. With Johnson in the Cowboys were stale and stagnant, Romo brings energy and excitement. Although his stats weren’t amazing (his 198 yards passing were the fewest of the season), Romo managed the game and got running back Marion Barber going again. Barber had his second best game of the year running the ball. The Cowboys will have 2 weeks of fine tuning and getting healthy while dispersing the San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks at home before they finish off their season with a tough stretch. A news story leaked in the press that Romo treated a homeless man to the movies this week. It sounds like an National Enquirer story to me, a member of the Dallas Cowboys doing something nice? That’s about as hard to believe as the woman that was enpregnated by an alien that looked like Sam Cassell. Wait a minute, maybe it was a Sam Cassell that looked like an alien… Apparently Carrie Underwood and Jessica Simpson, whom Romo has dated at one time or another the past couple years, just weren’t doing it for him, too much country. I bet he is loathing the day when Underwood or Simpson use his name in a country song about breaking up and losing a dog, or a playoff game. They could make lots of songs about that.
Eagles QB Donovan McNabb could have saved himself from embarrassment if the Eagles would have just lost.
There is Such a Thing as a Tie in the NFL
Donovan McNabb baffled the sports world with his lack of knowledge about NFL rules. The Philadelphia Eagles and Cincinnati Bengals both struggled offensively and could not settle their game in regulation, so they went into overtime. Both teams continued to struggle, Cincinnati missed what would have been a game winning field goal with under a minute left in overtime. As Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb trotted on the field, he was probably thinking, “Let’s get a couple good plays in and take the momentum into the the second overtime.” Unknown to McNabb was that there is no such thing as a second overtime in the NFL. After the game McNabb said, “I’ve never been a part of a tie. I never even knew that was in the rule book..I hate to see what would happen in the Super Bowl and in the playoffs.” Congratulations Donovan, you now have a place in the “Stupidest Things Ever Said by Professional Sports Players Hall of Fame.” Instead of a nice jacket, they are given a dunce cap when enshrined. Donovan, here’s your cap. Maybe somebody should let Donovan know if the Eagles even make the playoffs now (the tie put them in last place in their division), there are no real overtimes in the post-season, it’s sudden death. It’s comments like those that make me wonder why we all still care about most professional athletes’ opinions. Most of the time they really do have no idea what they are talking about.
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