Weekend Recap

What a weekend it was. Obviously, I already went over what happened on Thursday night between West Virginia and Louisville, so we’ll leave that alone.

Friday had me traveling to Jackson, WI to visit the new member of the Lang family, Phil, the English Bulldog. The puppy is quite cute and fun to play with, but there were other things going on that needed my attention. One being the full case of beer I had with me and the other the Bucks game against the Raptors.

Now this game was fairly big because it marked the first time that the two teams would be playing each other since the off season trade which sent Charlie Villanueva to the Bucks and TJ Ford to Toronto. Now, I’m no Bucks historian, but I don’t know if there has been a bigger off season trade than this in the past decade, unless you count the draft day trade of Dirk Nowitzki for Robert Traylor.

So what happened? Well, the Bucks got crushed, that’s right, crushed. From what I saw of the game, there wasn’t much good to talk about, so hopefully Hucklebuck can fill us in on the rest.

Here’s a tip for when you are spending a night at a friends house and doing some imbibing, don’t commit yourself to anything you may not remember the next day, as I told Hucklebuck I would go to the Bucks game with him on Saturday night, and completely forgot about this, more on that later. I also called Michelle 15 times in the span of about 25 minutes, but that’s neither here nor there, and I have once again lived on the edge and not heeded the old adage, beer before liquor never been sicker, so all in all, a solid night.

Anyway, woke up at 6:30am Saturday and headed home to get the day started. Here’s what I was thinking, quick nap until 9:00, watch college game day, Badgers game then the LSU/Tennessee game, nightcap of Oklahoma at Texas A&M, with the requisite video game playing in and recharging the batteries for a long day of football on Sunday.

Here’s what happened; I couldn’t sleep, woke up again at about 8:00, cursed why I couldn’t sleep, played Tiger Woods, watched countdown, watched the Badger game (good win for the Badgers. It wasn’t sexy, but they did what they had to do in order to win the game. I’m glad Donovan even got some reps for the injured Stocco. Do I think they can finally beat Iowa and go 11-1 this season? Probably not, especially after Iowa lost at home to Northwestern. I do feel bad for Joe Pa that he broke his leg, and I can’t believe he even tried to stay on the sideline, he is one tough cookie), at about 12:15, got a call from Ballbach telling me about going out downtown and then heading over to the Bucks game. What? Then I recalled what happened, hopped in the shower and was ready to go, except for the fact that I received a call during this time to go help my uncle with some work. So, didn’t end up going to the Bucks game. Fast forward to 2:30, I’m about to leave for my uncle’s when my brother calls to inform me he is coming into town for the night. Well, there goes helping my uncle, so I’m back to sitting on my couch watching football.

A few notes:

Michigan and Ohio State are both definitely looking ahead. There is no other explanation for their games on Saturday, both out of focus. Maybe ESPN should stop running a countdown to kickoff when the game is more than 300 hours away.

Tennessee looked really good, but LSU looked even better. This was a fantastic game and came down to LSU scoring a touchdown with 4 seconds to play, just an unbelievable game from start to finish. Another classic in this rivalry which is getting right up there in the can’t miss rivalry games of the season.

Alabama lost again, shocking.

Notre Dame is getting away with far too much for a team with no discernable defense. Didn’t Charlie Weis learn last year that he isn’t going to win a national championship with a defense that needs its offense to put up 35+ points per game? I know it takes more than one year to recruit, but come on, that defense is terrible.

Colt McCoy looks good, I mean really good. He may be my new heterosexual man-crush if he keeps playing like this. Too bad he goes to Texas.

Oklahoma/A&M lived up to all of the billing and went down to the final minutes. The Sooners have really done a lot to convince themselves they can win without Adrian Petteron which will just make them better if he comes back for the bowl game.

So, a good day in college football leads to Ben coming over, us playing video games, listening to music, and enjoying beverages of a spirituous nature. John and Jenny decide they are going to come over as well. So then, the calls start being made and before I know it, a few co workers are over as well. Flip cup, Moosehead, Cup of Death, football on the tv, The Rock playing in the background (solid background movie by the way, don’t need sound, you know what’s going on without it, and it keeps people entertained), and some Richard Cheese helping us get through the evening. Another solid night capped off by me defeating John in 2 consecutive games of MLB MVP 2004 (Devil Rays 14 Yankees 4 and Padres 7 Expos 5).

Sunday morning woke up, turned in my picks for the week, made my fantasy adjustments, and sat down to watch football for another 10 hours. Here’s my recap of that:

Packers/Bills- what can be said, it was ugly. There is no way the Packers should have lost that game, but they found a way to lose. Most people see this as a bad thing, I don’t, especially with some other teams winning, their draft pick is still hovering right in that early-mid first round level.

Dolphins/Bears- really? Did this game really happen? No, seriously? And I don’t want to hear that the Bears are better off having lost and all this and that they aren’t as good as everyone thinks. Look, this is a very, very, very good team. They had 6 turnovers and the Dolphins scored 28 points off of those turnovers. It wasn’t like the defense was getting the Dolphins pinned inside their own 15 every drive, quite the opposite actually. It has to be tough to play a game when you run to the sideline after stopping a team, take your helmet off to get a drink of water, and then before you can drink, you have to run back out onto the field because your offense or special teams turned it over again. By the way, random betting note here, never bet against the Miami Dolphins when they are playing an undefeated Bears team after 6 games into the regular season.

Broncos/Steelers- can we stop now? How about everyone stops talking about the Steelers and Roethlisberger? The guy almost died this summer, got hurt 2 weeks ago, give the guy a break. He’s 24, he’ll rebound, but let’s stop all of the Ben is back and so are the Steelers crap. See, see what happens when they play a good team?

Colts/Pats- I am angry today about this game and can’t summarize, this needs its own posting and it will come when I calm down.

So, as you can tell, a very solid weekend. Now, I get to chillax and wait for Louisville/Rutgers on Thursday night. Man, it’s a great time of the year!

-Until next time…