There was a time when the football played on Championship Sunday was a good deal better than the football played on Super Bowl Sunday. The first three decades of Super Bowls were mostly one-sided affairs. The last decade has seen a change in that pattern. That takes nothing away from the conference championship games. It just makes the whole postseason better.
As is too often the case, the four quarterbacks in today's games are getting most of the attention. We've got the "old" guys in the AFC and the "young guns" in the NFC. Brady vs Manning. Kaepernick vs Wilson.
Flea Flicker Predictions:
New England Patriots vs Denver Broncos
-Broncos win
I can't get over the tremendous coaching of Bill Belichick this season. The only performance that comes close to that of Belichick this season might be the passing performance of Peyton Manning. The Patriots might be the most difficult team to beat of the four teams still standing. A gut feeling has me thinking that Manning will find a way today.
San Francisco 49ers vs Seattle Seahawks
-49ers win
I think that the 49ers winning is entirely dependent on being able to keep Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch in check. That's really no great insight as Lynch's importance to the Seahawks offense has never been in doubt. It's more in response to all the attention being paid to quarterbacks Russell Wilson and Colin Kaepernick. I'd really like to see the Seahawks fan base really, really silent. I am so tired of this "12th Man" crap. The "12th Man" is at Texas A&M. It has been for about a century. Originality goes a long way with me and Seattle has none. They pilfered the "12th Man." There was some economic compensation so Texas A&M is cool with the Seahawks. It's still pathetic. I think that the 49ers are picking up steam at the best time. Now. They might not have been the best team during the season but they might be the best team right now. Go 49ers.
I can't get over the tremendous coaching of Bill Belichick this season. The only performance that comes close to that of Belichick this season might be the passing performance of Peyton Manning. The Patriots might be the most difficult team to beat of the four teams still standing. A gut feeling has me thinking that Manning will find a way today.
San Francisco 49ers vs Seattle Seahawks
-49ers win
I think that the 49ers winning is entirely dependent on being able to keep Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch in check. That's really no great insight as Lynch's importance to the Seahawks offense has never been in doubt. It's more in response to all the attention being paid to quarterbacks Russell Wilson and Colin Kaepernick. I'd really like to see the Seahawks fan base really, really silent. I am so tired of this "12th Man" crap. The "12th Man" is at Texas A&M. It has been for about a century. Originality goes a long way with me and Seattle has none. They pilfered the "12th Man." There was some economic compensation so Texas A&M is cool with the Seahawks. It's still pathetic. I think that the 49ers are picking up steam at the best time. Now. They might not have been the best team during the season but they might be the best team right now. Go 49ers.
We're getting a rematch of Super Bowl XXIV!
We're getting the San Francisco 49ers vs Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII.
I don't think that Broncos VP John Elway has too many fond memories of Super Bowl XXIV. The 49ers took apart his Broncos 55-10. I hope that we never see Super Bowls like that again. Unless, of course, the Minnesota Vikings are the team putting up the 55.
Speaking of the Vikings, the roof of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome was deflated yesterday. The last time that the roof gave way was an accident. The Vikings were still playing under that roof. This time, the roof was deflated on purpose. 35 minutes. This time the roof was deflated for the last time. The whole building will follow. The new stadium will go up in it's place.
The Metrodome was a real dump but it was the Vikings home since 1982. A lot of fine football was played in that building. A lot of great football players played in that building. In 35 minutes, all those years were put in the ground. It may have been a dump but it was home. The building will soon be gone but the memories will last.
There was some talk that the Minnesota Vikings would have some difficulties in finding a coach because the team will be forced to play outside the University of Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium for a couple of seasons.
Are you kidding me?
Mike Zimmer!
The Vikings have found themselves a football coach. Mike Zimmer was introduced to the media on Friday. I can not wait for September!
Zimmer may have been formally introduced on Friday but news of his hiring started spread on Wednesday. I've never seen so much respect and so many congratulations over the hiring of a head football coach by an NFL team. Zimmer waited a long time for this shot. Former players, coaching colleagues, coaching rivals. Everyone in the business seemed to have a love and respect for the man and the coach. I truly don't understand how some team didn't hire him before but I'm sure glad that they didn't.
I thank every team that decided that Mike Zimmer should not coach their football team.
There are a lot of idiots that are being paid a lot of money for really, really stupid decisions.
I can not wait for September!
When Bill Parcells was named the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys in 2003, Mike Zimmer was the incumbent defensive coordinator. He'd been with the Cowboys for ten years. Parcells kept Zimmer as his defensive coordinator. As a result, Mike Zimmer will be neatly placed in the Bill Parcells coaching tree. Zimmer is quick to credit Parcells as a tremendous influence on his coaching career but I don't think that Zimmer falls into the coaching tree of any one coach. He was influenced by all of them. He's quick to credit his father, Mike Price, Barry Switzer, Parcells, and Marvin Lewis as influences. He spent 13 years with Price as a college coach at Weber St. and Washington St. Zimmer is a football coach that learned from every coach that coached with him. I don't think that he neatly falls into any one coaching tree.
The Vikings hired Norv Turner as their offensive coordinator. Zimmer and Turner have about fifty combined years of NFL coaching experience. I'm seriously crying now.
It was a "wasted roster spot" for the 2000 season. That's what Bill Belichick called the Patriots' decision to carry a fourth quarterback throughout that 2000 season. That fourth quarterback was Tom Brady.
It's college all-star game season. The East-West All-Star Game was up first yesterday. This is the oldest college all-star game.
The East won the game, 23-13.
There was a time when these college all-star games were an honor, an active trophy, for the college football players on a great season. There's probably still a little bit of that. Now, it's mostly part of the interview process for the NFL. Now, the week of practices leading up to the game is even more important than the game. College All-Star Games are the only games, that I know of, in which the practices for the game are more important than the game. Many, if not all, of the NFL scouts leave as soon as the last practice closes.
I've always watched these all-star games with the Minnesota Vikings in mind. This was never more true as when I watched the all-star games following the 1979 college football season. Texas Tech running back/fullback James Hadnot was the perfect back for the Vikings offense. Oh boy did I want the Vikings to draft Hadnot in 1980. Instead, the Kansas City Chiefs drafted Hadnot in the third round. I was so sad. But of course Willie Teal was a much better selection for the Vikings in the second round.
Eastern Illinois quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo looked great yesterday. He was a late addition to next week's Senior Bowl. He took the place of Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron. For purely selfish reasons, I wish that Garoppolo had stayed in Illinois or anywhere else but Mobile, Alabama. The more that Garoppolo throws the more likely that people see that he might be the very best quarterback in the 2014 NFL Draft.
His release and throwing efficiency is quite a bit like the release and throwing efficiency of Jeff George. George was a true tool but he threw a seriously beautiful ball. Garoppolo could be a quarterback that is truly special. As far as I'm concerned the less that people see of Garoppolo the better.
102 underclassmen declared for the 2014 NFL Draft in May. That is by far the most to ever do so.
The NFL's All-Star game is next week. The Pro Bowl! Exciting stuff. That exciting stuff is being done a little different this year. The league also tossed out a new word. Unconferenced. All of the selected players are going to be tossed into the same pile without regard to their conference. Unconferenced. The two teams will be "drafted" from that pile by team captains Jerry Rice and Deion Sanders. That draft will be held on Wednesday. It's televised!
Let it rip......
I don't think that Broncos VP John Elway has too many fond memories of Super Bowl XXIV. The 49ers took apart his Broncos 55-10. I hope that we never see Super Bowls like that again. Unless, of course, the Minnesota Vikings are the team putting up the 55.
Speaking of the Vikings, the roof of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome was deflated yesterday. The last time that the roof gave way was an accident. The Vikings were still playing under that roof. This time, the roof was deflated on purpose. 35 minutes. This time the roof was deflated for the last time. The whole building will follow. The new stadium will go up in it's place.
The Metrodome was a real dump but it was the Vikings home since 1982. A lot of fine football was played in that building. A lot of great football players played in that building. In 35 minutes, all those years were put in the ground. It may have been a dump but it was home. The building will soon be gone but the memories will last.
There was some talk that the Minnesota Vikings would have some difficulties in finding a coach because the team will be forced to play outside the University of Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium for a couple of seasons.
Are you kidding me?
Mike Zimmer!
The Vikings have found themselves a football coach. Mike Zimmer was introduced to the media on Friday. I can not wait for September!
Zimmer may have been formally introduced on Friday but news of his hiring started spread on Wednesday. I've never seen so much respect and so many congratulations over the hiring of a head football coach by an NFL team. Zimmer waited a long time for this shot. Former players, coaching colleagues, coaching rivals. Everyone in the business seemed to have a love and respect for the man and the coach. I truly don't understand how some team didn't hire him before but I'm sure glad that they didn't.
I thank every team that decided that Mike Zimmer should not coach their football team.
There are a lot of idiots that are being paid a lot of money for really, really stupid decisions.
I can not wait for September!
When Bill Parcells was named the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys in 2003, Mike Zimmer was the incumbent defensive coordinator. He'd been with the Cowboys for ten years. Parcells kept Zimmer as his defensive coordinator. As a result, Mike Zimmer will be neatly placed in the Bill Parcells coaching tree. Zimmer is quick to credit Parcells as a tremendous influence on his coaching career but I don't think that Zimmer falls into the coaching tree of any one coach. He was influenced by all of them. He's quick to credit his father, Mike Price, Barry Switzer, Parcells, and Marvin Lewis as influences. He spent 13 years with Price as a college coach at Weber St. and Washington St. Zimmer is a football coach that learned from every coach that coached with him. I don't think that he neatly falls into any one coaching tree.
The Vikings hired Norv Turner as their offensive coordinator. Zimmer and Turner have about fifty combined years of NFL coaching experience. I'm seriously crying now.
It was a "wasted roster spot" for the 2000 season. That's what Bill Belichick called the Patriots' decision to carry a fourth quarterback throughout that 2000 season. That fourth quarterback was Tom Brady.
It's college all-star game season. The East-West All-Star Game was up first yesterday. This is the oldest college all-star game.
The East won the game, 23-13.
There was a time when these college all-star games were an honor, an active trophy, for the college football players on a great season. There's probably still a little bit of that. Now, it's mostly part of the interview process for the NFL. Now, the week of practices leading up to the game is even more important than the game. College All-Star Games are the only games, that I know of, in which the practices for the game are more important than the game. Many, if not all, of the NFL scouts leave as soon as the last practice closes.
I've always watched these all-star games with the Minnesota Vikings in mind. This was never more true as when I watched the all-star games following the 1979 college football season. Texas Tech running back/fullback James Hadnot was the perfect back for the Vikings offense. Oh boy did I want the Vikings to draft Hadnot in 1980. Instead, the Kansas City Chiefs drafted Hadnot in the third round. I was so sad. But of course Willie Teal was a much better selection for the Vikings in the second round.
Eastern Illinois quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo looked great yesterday. He was a late addition to next week's Senior Bowl. He took the place of Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron. For purely selfish reasons, I wish that Garoppolo had stayed in Illinois or anywhere else but Mobile, Alabama. The more that Garoppolo throws the more likely that people see that he might be the very best quarterback in the 2014 NFL Draft.
His release and throwing efficiency is quite a bit like the release and throwing efficiency of Jeff George. George was a true tool but he threw a seriously beautiful ball. Garoppolo could be a quarterback that is truly special. As far as I'm concerned the less that people see of Garoppolo the better.
102 underclassmen declared for the 2014 NFL Draft in May. That is by far the most to ever do so.
The NFL's All-Star game is next week. The Pro Bowl! Exciting stuff. That exciting stuff is being done a little different this year. The league also tossed out a new word. Unconferenced. All of the selected players are going to be tossed into the same pile without regard to their conference. Unconferenced. The two teams will be "drafted" from that pile by team captains Jerry Rice and Deion Sanders. That draft will be held on Wednesday. It's televised!
Let it rip......
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