Joe Torre blasts Yankees in new book

It has been reported that former New York Yankees coach and current Los Angeles Dodgers coach Joe Torre publishing a new book and in this book he blasts his former teamthe New York Yankees. He says teammates frequently called Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez "A-Fraud" among other things. He also says that Rodriguez was obsessed with his supposed rivalry with Yankees shortstop and team captain Derek Jeter. Torre's insight goes into the GM's office as well as Torre claims that Yankees GM Brian Cashman betrayed him many times. When I saw this I was shocked. This reminded me of the Dallas Cowboys not my New York Yankees. The Yankees are know as a team who buys many players and they are hated across the league but they don't really have many locker room issues outside of that on going Jeter & A-Rod fight going on. The New York media could have blown things out of proportion or got an incorrect source which is what I hope happened becuase if this is what happened then I would have lost much of the respect I had for Joe Torre. Torre has been my favorite coach as he led my Yankees to 5 World Series and 11 straight playoff apperances. But if this is true I have lost all respect for Torre. I understand that he could still be frustrated by the Yankees mistreating him at the end of his tenor their but to write a book and blast the team that took him in for most of his career is just ridiculous. When Torre's book comes out we will all see, but until then we can just wait and see all of the things Torre has said.

Barrack Obama's great impact on the sports world.

On January 20th, One day after Martin Luther King day we welcomed our 44th president of the United States. 44 and he is the first African American president. He will have alot of pressure on him and will have alot to do but Mr. Obama is not only going to be affecting the world of politics. He will also have a very positive impact on the sports world. We have already seen athletes commenting on how big this is and we saw athletes such as Ray Allen at President Obama's inaguration. We have seen former presidents come in who have a sports background such as George W Bush who was involved in the Texas Rangers francise but President Obama is different. President Obama has a passion for basketball and has played many times and still loves to play. He is actually pretty good too as we have seen clips of him playing. I also saw President Obama during one of his many apperances on inaguration day talking to soldiers in Iraq from his hometown of Illinois and asking them if they where Cubs fans or White Sox fan. President Obama is a white sox fan himself and said that he really hopes that they can come to the White House during his term as do all sports teams. The NBA is majorly affected by our new president because a large majority of the NBA is African American and they are very touched by him becoming president. One superstar who I am a big fan of, Gilbert Arenas, said in his own blog on November 15th of 2008 "At my house in the garage I had a mural of me airbrushed on the wall as the black president. After Obama won the Democratic ticket about a month and a half ago, I had him airbrushed on there next to me. When he won, I had the mural painted over and I'm going to have a new one airbrushed on there with the presidential shield and the whole Obama family" Arenas is just one of many NBA stars who are impacted by him. And of course there is our president saying that he would like to change the NCAA football BCS system and add in a playoff system like everyone wants. Right now I want president Obama to focus on the economy and our US but I thank him for caring about sports and I solomly swear I will be behind you President Obama. Good luck.

Swapping the BCS and playoff system

I was thinking about how Barrack Obama said he would make a change in the BCS to adapt a playoff system. It got me thinking. What if the NFL had a BCS system and college football had the playoff system. It would be chaos. So many teams in the NFL would have never would have won championships or came anywhere close with a BCS system. Lets take this year for example. In the NFL BCS it would probably take the top seed from each conference which would be the Titans and Giants and they would face off in the championship game. The Carolina Panthers would never had made it because the Giants had a regular season win over them which in the BCS system would never allow them to be higher ranked. Obviously with a BCS system neither the Steelers or Arizona Cardinals would be in the championship game. Pittsburgh would probably be in the Rose Bowl and Arizona nowhere close to a good bowl game because they ended the season on a bumpy run. The Eagles wouldn't have gotten a good game either because they didn't even win their division and getting in as a #6 seed would probably find them nowhere close to the NFL championship. And then there is last year where the Patriots would have obviously been the #1 seed but the New York Giants wouldn't have come within miles of them and wouldn't have ever won the championship or pulled off the biggest upset in NFL history. Then we look at the college football playoff system that everyone wants so bad. You would probably take the top 25-32 teams and have them play in one big playoff. Have 4 brackets, NCAA March Madness stye and then have them play it out. If this happened it would have looked like Florida at #1 and I guarnetee that Utah would have not made it past the top 8. The championship game would have most likley been USC and Florida. This would of course solve all of the complaining about the BCS and President Obama would be able to focus on our economy and not the BCS. But we wonder, if no one agrees with it then why not get rid of it and add a playoff system. That I do not know but I do know that I would love to have a college football playoff system and we can just throw this BCS BS out the window. A BCS system robs teams of the right to play for a championship and it leaves us all wondering and complaining about how our team is the best and we deserve it. Of course I would hate even more to have a BCS in the NFL but thats not happening any time soon so we don't have to worry. So BCS out, playoff system in and we'll all be happy.

The Greatest game ever. 50 years later

December 28, 1958 NFL fans gathered at Yankee Stadium to see the Baltimore Colts play against the New York Giants. The Giants where the darlings of the NFL and the Colts where just starting to emerge as a good football team. In this game their were 17 individuals who would go on to the Hall of Fame. Back in a time when the average salary was 4,500 and a franchise was worth 1 million. In this time football was not a big sport and sports such as boxing and baseball where bigger. At the time Baltimore was economically troubled and it is a fact that this game would help out. When over 4 million fans tuned into NBC and filled in to Yankee Stadium there is no way they thought they where about to witness the greatest game ever played.

Around 7 weeks earlier the Colts met the Giants in the regular season and won the game 24-21. Johnny Unitas the Colts starting QB was out with broken ribs and a punctured lung. Johnny U lead the Colts offense against Sam Huff and the rock solid defense of the Giants. The field on this day was frozen over causing players to slip. There also was not much grass on the field. Early on in the first quarter Colts kicker Steve Myhra lined up for a field goal. Myhra was not a real consistent or reliable kicker but got his kick blocked. The Giants would then go down the field and kicker Pat Summerall kicked a field goal to give them the early lead 3-0. The Colts would fire back with a strong running game with Lenny Moore and Alan Amache as Amache ran it in for a one yard TD which wouldn't be his last. This is when the Colts started to pull away. In the second quarter the Giants defense started to fall apart as Unitas started to pick them apart. He would hook up with Amache for a TD. 14-3. This would be the score at halftime as it looked like the mighty Colts would win this one easy. In the 3rd quarter the Colts where threatening once again but a mighty goal line stand by the stingy Giants D caused it to be 4th and 1. Coach Weeb Ewbank decided not to kick the field goal. The called play was a pitch to Amache for him to then throw it. Amache didn't here the call right and ended up getting dragged down and the 5 yard line. This would be a huge momentum shifter as it took just two great plays for the Giants to score and make it 14-10. At the end of three it looked like a game and it would turn out to be a great one. In the 4th quarter QB Charlie Conerly hooked up with RB Frank Gifford who had a great game and put the Giants in front 17-14. Later on in the 4th Colts kicker Steve Myhra missed a field goal which gave the Giants the ball. They were going to run the clock out now.On 3rd down Gifford was running to the outside and a controversial call would be made. It was said that he did not make the first down causing the Giants to punt with 3 minutes left. The truth of this call would be unknown untill early tonight where the game was being re-aired on ESPN. They brought in a car crash expert who used technology to show us whether or not he made it. He used the 40 and 45 yard lines as what appeared to be parralell lines but they did go back to a common point. He then traced back that common point and found out that point was the first down line. He showed where Gifford landed and showed he was short about 9 inches. I found this very interesting as was the whole ESPN telecast. This call was at first believed to be changed by an injury to Gino Marchetti he was screaming and it is belived that the ball was moved back several inches due to this. Even with the Giants punting several people on the team where confident that they had this game. Great communication between Johnny Unitas and Raymond Berry helped them throughout the whole game and it helped them drive down and with 10 seconds on the clock got Myhra out there. With the whole stadium watching Myhra hit the field goal and sent the game to OT. We found out that 50 years ago Donovan McNabb wouldn't have been alone because many people didn't know that the game would go to overtime. With OT starting the Giants won the toss. They didn't get anywhere though as they where forced to punt. Now Colts players got confident and Johnny U and Alan Amache led the team down the field where the most famous picture would be taken from this game. Amache running it in for a one yard score and the win. The Colts won the game and the championship.

Now what made this game so great? Well to start off it had so many ups and downs, it was a see-saw game, there where 17 individuals who would go on to the Hall Of Fame, and that it was the first championship game to go to overtime. This game boosted the NFL's popularity to what it is today. The game was shown on NBC to thousands of viewers. At the time no one thought it would become the greatest game. This game also inspired the start of the AFL which made many of the teams in our league today. Johnny U among other players became famous from this game. I currently live in Maryland and I can tell you that many people around here idolize Johnny U and he is a loved player here. Of course the Colts left Baltimore and went to Indianapolis. At the end of the article I will post all of the Hall Of Famers involved so you can see. Of course there was Giants offensive coordiantor Vince Lombardi who went on to coach the Packers, win many Super Bowls, and get the trophy named after him. One last thing that I would like to take from this game is the similarity between these two teams and their championship teams from the past two years. To start off Peyton Manning looks very much like Johnny Unitas and the realationship Unitas had with Raymond Berry reminds me alot of the Manning & Marvin Harrison realationship. Both of these teams won the super bowl with a strong offense, strong QB, and a tough D. Now the Giants last years champs who won on pure defense. The Giants shut down Tom Brady in last years super bowl. Even thought they failed to do that to Unitas they still made him struggle sacking him 5 times. Once again there is no doubt this was the best game ever as it opened up oppurtunities to many people and gave us all the sport that we love.

Here is the list of Hall Of Famers

Giants:

OL Rosy Brown
HB Frank Gifford
LB Sam Huff
WR Don Maynard
DE Andy Robustelli
DB Emlen Tunnell
Offensive Coordinator Vince Lombardi
Defensive Coordiantor Tom Landry
Owner Tim Mara
Vice President/ Secretary Wellington Mara

Colts:

WR Raymond Berry
DL Art Donovan
DL Gino Marchetti
HB/WR Lenny Moore
OL Jim Parker
QB Johnny Unitas
Head Coach Weeb Ewbank

And the 74th Heisman is... Sam Bradford!

I am going to start this off by officially congradulating Sam Bradford on winning the Heisman and having one hell of a season. Ok now before the presentation I was pretty confident that Tim Tebow was going to walk away with the trophy once again. But when I started watching the presentation at 8:00 I keep going back and forth between all three of the candidates thinking to myself " You know what, any of these guys can win." But when Sam Bradford was announced I didn't have any problems with it because Sam Bradford lead a historic offense and was the best QB in the nation. The competition between these three was so close with McCoy coming in 2nd and Tebow coming in 3rd. The interesting thing was that Tim Tebow had the most 1st place votes but didn't win the Heisman. All three of these guys are great people and great QB's. And the best part of it is that we could see all three of them in this same place one year from now.

Getcha popcorn ready for T.O's latest act

Well this week we were all surprised to hear that Terrell Owens was complaining about not getting the ball. Yeah right. Only this time T.O's putting a spin on it. He's claiming that Tony Romo and Jason Witten are trying to keep him out of the gameplan. Well Terrell the reality of it is that your thrown to then any other Dallas wide receiver. About 30 times more actually but Jason Witten comes up with 20 more catches. This time though T.O wasn't complaining by himself. He dragged teammates Roy Williams and Partick Crayton in. Williams shouldn't really be there complaining because he is new to the system and Crayton I honestly don't know what he's doing there. He isn't as experienced or good as any of the other receivers so he should just sit back right now and wait for his chance. T.O though is a real team cancer and leaves the team he was previuosly on in oblivion. Ever since T.O left in 2004 the 49'ers have had a 22-54 record and haven't made it to the playoffs since. They haven't had a 6 year span of not making the playoffs since 1973. Then their is the Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles have faired better than San Fransisco actually putting up a better record of 31-34-1 but that still isn't a winning record in the span Terrell has been gone. You wouldn't think that was too bad but when you look at the 5 years that the Eagles had before T.O they went 51-29 with 3 straight NFC East titles and three straight confrence championship matches (all lost). Now the Eagles have finished 4th, 1st, 4th, and 3rd each year and are probably looking towards another 4th place finish again. So what fate does this leave the Cowboys when T.O leaves. Well if he is traded or release I think the T.O bug will create the fall of America's team.

Was Graham Harrell cheated out of the Heisman?

When the finalists where announced for this years Heisman many people where expecting Texas Tech QB Graham Harrell to be there. Well Tim Tebow, Sam Bradford, and Colt McCoy were announced but one person was left out. Graham Harrell. Now I'm not saying I believe that he was going to win but Graham Harrell's stats where packed and much better than any of the other QB's. Do I agree with not sending him though? Yes, I do believe Graham Harrell should have been left out. He had great stats but he threw many more attemps than any of the other QB's. Harrell was also on Texas Tech who finished lower ranked then any of the other QB's. Another factor in his stats was that he had an amazing reciever to throw it to every time he dropped back. He had sophomore wide reciever and possibly the best wide out in the nation Micheal Crabtree. Now is it Graham's fault he was paired with an All American wide out, no. Harrell's Texas Tech did lead the NCAA in passing but like I said this was becuase they threw the ball more times than any other team. Colt McCoy only threw 375 times, Bradford 442, and Tebow 350 compared to Harrell's 568. I am not saying that his season was not Heisman worthy but I do believe that there are more worthy candidates. Harrell made the claim that he was not chosen because they chose the people from the bigger name schools like Texas, Florida, and Oklahoma. This is a false stament because Texas Tech had the spotlight all year with their explosive, high flying offense and #1 ranking. I think Graham should just take in the fact that there where three more deserving QB's. Graham can look on the bright side that he's the 4th best QB in college football and he could have a bright future in the NFL