William World News William F. Yurasko's blog v.14 – Nats, Penn State, Redskins, greater DC , travel, more

When I found out Jim Zorn was hired by the Redskins to be the offensive coordinator head coach, I immediately hit YouTube looking for the NFL Films Feature on him. He was the original Seattle Seahawks quarterback and his signature play in this early expansion years was the fake field goal. He was the holder [...]

Since I’m officially on board with the Washington NFL team (however ambivalently), I thought I would start a weakly weekly prediction of the Redskins outcome. This week, they travel to the New Jersey Meadowlands to play the New York Football Giants (if it were up to me, they’d be the NY-NJ Giants). The Redskins history [...]

Tonight, the NFL returns, so I thought I’d get in the spirit and give you my predictions for the 2009-10 season. Divisions listed in order of least to most importance.
AFC SOUTHThe Houston Texans will admit they have the most boring name in the NFL.
Indianapolis Peyton Manning will take first ever snap without audibling confusing entire [...]

HOME team capitalized
Baltimore over TENNESSEEThis is a tough one to pick because there are two big reasons the Titans are supposed to win — playing at home against a rookie quarterback. However, I think the Ravens defense will mess with Kerry Collins enough that the Ravens find a way to win.
CAROLINA over ArizonaThe Cardinals won [...]

Carl is happy in his typical tasteful way. Use headphones at work.

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I had expected at least one of the tabloids would have gone with “WE WIN.” The Daily News cover shown was a wrap-around; there were two regular covers today too. The NY Post’s back cover is shown.
The right team won and restored order to the New York vs. Boston rivalry; take note Yankees. It has [...]

DC Sports Chick notes that amazon.com has a special book on sale. Make sure to pay attention to the tags at the bottom.
Just in case amazon removes the page, I have uploaded a screengrab for posterity.
POINT OF CLARIFICATION: I believe the Giants won the game more than the Patriots lost it, but I couldn’t resist [...]

UPDATED 10:33 p.m.
Jimmy Johnson never got over the ‘87 Fiesta Bowl. Neither did Vinny Testaverde, heh.
Belichick took off his red sweatshirt. He looks devastated. Good.
I expect at least one NY tabloid to have the headline WE WIN on one of their covers tomorrow.
UPDATED 10:28 p.m.
Enjoy this moment Eli, we’ll like you for a little while [...]

QUARTERBACKS
Giants — Eli Manning — no personality, pulled draft day stunt
Patriots — Tom Brady — 3 rings, dates super-models, baby daddy and full-fledged celebrity
Neither are likable, but Brady ruined 1999 Senior Day
CITY
New York — capital of the world
Boston — nice in its own right, but not New York
ACTUAL STADIUM LOCATION
Giants — East Rutherford, N.J.
Patriots — [...]

I’ve overheard or read that nobody outside of the Northeast is going to care about this Super Bowl. Riiiight. Like nobody outside of Illinois and Indiana cared about last year’s Super Bowl. It is the Super Bowl, people care. Either way, about 40 million people live within the “footprint” of those two teams. That is [...]