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Oh, no. Not again!
For the second time in three years, it will be the red-clad Kansas City Chiefs squaring off with Philadelphia’s green Eagles once again in the Super Bowl.
For 8% of all men (including me), the ability to distinguish the red colored uniforms from the green team might present a bit of a problem. According to one medical source, red-green colorblindness is an inherited X chromosome condition.
Gee, thanks Mom!
Decades ago, I may still own the record at a Shreveport natural gas utility company by missing 17 out of 20 on their their required color-blindness test.
The attending nurse was aghast with my pitiful results. The only reason she passed me was after advising her that my job primarily involved reading and reviewing contract agreements. Whew!
In New Orleans in less than two weeks, those of us with red and green colorblindness issues will be quite thankful that the NFL will require one of those two teams to wearing primarily white uniforms!
Fly, Eagles, Fly!
Last week, Philadelphia’s mayor was so fired-up for Sunday’s NFC title game with Washington that she had trouble remembering how to spell the team’s nickname!
Regardless of the mayor’s grammatical lapse, her hometown “E-L-G-S-E-S” grabbed the lead for good after the team’s first offensive snap in the opening quarter.
Philly running back Saquan Barkley ran around, over, and through the Washington defense for a 60-yard touchdown on his team’s first offensive play from scrimmage. From there, the Eagles (correct spelling) soared to a 55-23 rout over Washington and into their third Super Bowl game in the past eight years.
With a balanced running and passing game Sunday afternoon, Philadelphia took advantage of four Washington turnovers to run away with this game in the second half.
Former Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts ran for three scores as did Barkley. It was the first time in NFL history that two players on the same team have scored 3 TD’s on the ground in a playoff game.
In the upcoming Super Bowl game on Sunday, February 9th in New Orleans, Philadelphia will try to avenge a 38-35 loss to Kansas City in 2023’s championship contest.
For the Buffalo Bills, this is getting downright ridiculous
When the same team keeps you from making it to the Super Bowl for fourth time in five years, it must be getting into the heads of the Buffalo Bills.
Buffalo desperately wanted to return to the Super Bowl game for the first time since 1993.
You might remember (or not want to to remember) that the Buffalo Bills played in the Super Bowl in 1990 (losing to the NY Giants), 1991 (losing to Washington), 1992 (losing to the Dallas Cowboys), and 1993 (losing to Dallas again).
On Sunday, Kansas City head coach Andy Reid proved again why he is the best strategist in the National Football League.
With the Chiefs nursing a slim 3-point lead and a minute to go in the game, Reid allowed his quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, to throw a short pass for a game-clinching first down and end the Bills’ fading chances.
Most NFL coaches would have opted for another running play to avoid a clock stoppage if a pass attempt should fall incomplete.
Not Andy Reid.
If Buffalo never gets the football back (even with less than a minute to play with no timeouts), the Bills cannot tie or win the game.
Final score – Kansas City 32, Buffalo 29
Mission accomplished for Kansas City and their exceptionally clever head coach!
This gem of a game between two of the best teams in the NFL was a back and forth slugfest – as usual. Buffalo battled back in the final quarter to tie the game as 29-29 with six minutes left.
The hometown Chiefs, buoyed by their very loud home crowd, worked their way downfield and kicked a 33-yard field goal with a little over three minutes to go for what turned out to be the winning points.
Statistically speaking, this football game was almost even. With the win, Kansas City is an incredible 11-0 in games decided by one touchdown or less.
Lucky or not, the Chiefs have earned a chance to win a third straight Super Bowl for the first time since the AFL/NFL merger was finalized in 1970.
For Buffalo, it’s back to the drawing board and another long off-season to contemplate how to overcome their latest loss to the Chiefs.
In other sports news from this past weekend…
Stop crying, Buffalo! Kim Mulkey’s LSU women’s basketball team just can’t shake its 17-game losing streak to South Carolina
Entering Columbia, South Carolina late Friday afternoon, Coach Kim Mulkey’s 20-0 LSU Tigers women’s basketball team was determined to end a 16-game losing streak to the Gamecocks.
Make that 17 games in a row.
LSU jumped out to a 16-11 first quarter lead but couldn’t hit the proverbial broad side of a barn for the remaining three quarters of this contest. The Tigers shot a woeful 29.9% from the field in losing 66-56 to #2-ranked Carolina (now 19-1).
Chalk it up to South Carolina’s very tight defense and platooning system where the Gamecocks will rotate ten players in and out of the line-up to keep the defensive pressure turned up.
After the game, LSU coach Kim Mulkey said, “To me, it was the turnovers at the most critical time that allowed the crowd to get into it and allowed them to gain a little more confidence.”
LSU’s next chance to break the South Carolina jinx will (perhaps) come in the SEC Tournament in March or in the NCAA March Madness national tournament.
The Tigers bounced back on Sunday afternoon to beat Texas A&M 64-51 in Baton Rouge and improved to 21-1.
The #7 ranked Tigers will host #13 Oklahoma (16-4 on the year) on Thursday night (6PM CST on ESPN2). LSU will end a three game homestand this Sunday with a 1PM tipoff against surprising Mississippi State (16-5). The Sunday game will be televised on the SEC Network.
Cowboys rope another head coaching puppet for Jerry Jones to control
Fans of the Dallas Cowboys can forget about Deion Sanders, Bill Belichick, Pete Carroll, and a multitude of other well known coaches for their open position.
Team owner Jerry Jones has elevated this year’s offensive coordinator to become the newest head coach of his personal toy known as the Dallas Cowboys.
The 51-year old Brian Schottenheimer (son of legendary NFL coach Marty Schottenheimer) has never been a head coach at either the college football or NFL level.
According to Jerry Jones, his new football coach does get along swimmingly with the Cowboys’ $60 million/year quarterback Dak Prescott.
That warrants a 4-year contract and a promotion to the team’s head coach?
We will break down this hire in more detail soon. Stay tuned!
US Patent office says “Nyet” to the NHL’s Utah Yeti
The former National Hockey League franchise in Phoenix (the Coyotes) was relocated to Salt Lake City over the summer and renamed itself the Utah Hockey Club.
The team decided to play their first year in Utah with the rather bland nickname to allow the fans and team management additional time to determine the best nickname for their new hockey team.
The team name of Utah Yetis caught fire in Salt Lake City in the past few months. The preferred name has just run into a very large stumbling block, though.
The US Patent Office waved its “Not, today!” finger at the Utah hockey franchise in the past week.
A merchandising company already had the name “Yeti” registered with the patent office.
As a result, the US Patent Office denied the application of Utah’s NHL team to use the name “Yeti”.
The feds released a statement saying, “The singular or plural form of a registered mark is essentially the same in sound, appearance, meaning, and commercial impression, and thus the marks are confusingly similar.”
Here’s a freebie idea to help solve this problem.
Allow the Yeti merchandising folks to buy a portion of the Utah NHL team. The Yeti merch owners will be able to advise the US Patent Office that there is no longer any conflict between their company and the pro hockey team. Win/win!
He shoots…he scores!