Brain Tilt

Well, Peyton Manning finally won his Super Bowl.  No more comparisons o Dan Marino.  No more talk of how Peyton chokes in crunch time.  No more talk of how he can’t win the big one.

He’s done it.

Given how many commercials he’s in now, we can only expect a full on Peyton Manning barrage now that he’s won the Super Bowl.

If you are unhappy with the crap ESPN now tries to pass off as sports programming, check out this article.  Good read on the downfall of ESPN.

David Beckham is coming across the pond to play MLS.

Woo. Hoo.

I can only think of two reasons why he’s coming over here (besides the $250M).

1) He and his wife are fading in popularity in England, so they’ve decided to come to LA in hopes to stay relevant in the publics mind.

2) Beckham’s skills have slipped and he’s come to MLS to extend his career. He’s probably no longer the best player in Europe anymore. He may not even be in the top 5. So he sees his chance to extend his career by coming to the US. He’ll obviously be the best player in MLS, since American soccer players are not as good as Europeans. Keep in mind that I’ve based all this on my seeing one MLS shootout and a couple of World Cup games. Clearly, my knowledge of soccer players in America is extensive.

I guess my point is this: I still don’t care about MLS.

Sadly, last night marked the final game of the 2006 college football season. And it was a bittersweet game. Bitter, because Ohio State’s loss cost me my only shot at winning the bowl week and overall championship in my office pool. Sweet, because once again the SEC displayed it dominance over the rest of the college football world.

The Florida win also saved us from months of “Florida never should have been there in the first place” articles from sportswriters. I wonder how many of the writers that wrote articles saying “Michigan should have made it in rather than Florida”, will now write articles about how great Florida is?? I’m guess they all will, since most sportswriters are a study in contradiction.

I guess now I’ll have to settle for NFL playoff football and the draft until the next college season rolls around. I’ve been told Alabama has a good basketball team this year. Maybe I’ll check them out.

This is hilarious.

Someone has set up a blog posing a Drew Bledsoe after he was benched in favor of Tony Romo. Read some of the posts. They are awesome. Anyway, he’s doing a live blog “from the sidelines of the Dallas/Seattle play-off game. To participate, go here:

Nick Saban has accepted the head coach gig at Alabama.

I am a happy man.

And as expected, the Bama haters are already out in full swing.

Last week, Alabama was no longer the top notch program that could land a top notch coach. Today we land a top notch coach and now the columnists come out to bash our coach. This is why I read less and less of ESPN. They are more fickle than politicians on every subject. (And their fickleness applies not only to Alabama, but other schools/teams/etc.).

But really, nothing can ruin this day for me. Saban is our coach. Demeco Ryans won Defensive Rookie of the Year. Alabama basketball is 13-1 and ranked 8th in the country.

I have officially grown tired of the media hoopla surrounding my beloved Crimson Tide’s search for a new football coach. Especially the part involving Nick Saban.

While I think it would be nice to land Saban as coach, I highly doubt that he will end up at Alabama. And the worst part of it is that people seem to want to tell me how stupid I am and my university is for thinking that Saban will be the next coach.

Two things to point out:

1) As I’ve already stated, I don’t think Saban will leave Miami. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love it if he did, but I don’t think he will.

2) Why is my university stupid for going after Saban?? Is it wrong that we want one of the best college coaches of the last decade?? Is there a problem having really high expectations for your program and your coach??

The problem is that in recent years, Alabama’s athletic director, Mal Moore, has made a mockery out of the program with foolish hires (Mike Price and Mike Shula), so now that he is trying to rectify that and hire a good coach, people think he has lost his mind and that the status of the Alabama program has slipped. And that’s not the case.

The fact is that when we are not battling probation and sanctions, Alabama is one of the top programs in the country. Hell, even when we were on probation, we had coaches that won 10 games a season and landed top 15 recruiting classes…WHILE ON PROBATION AND DEALING WITH SCHOLARSHIP REDUCTIONS.

I just get sick of hearing about how stupid we are for trying to land a good coach and having to hear about how Alabama fans are living in the past. If we were living in the past, we’d still be trying to hire one of Bear’s boys again. But the last few coaches we’ve hired had little or no association with Bear Bryant. Shula played at Bama, but not for the Bear. Price and Franchione had no associations with Alabama at all.

Sorry if this post sounds whiny; I just get tired of hearing all this crap every day. I guess I’ll get my sweet revenge on everyone if Saban is hired as coach…