Football Thoughts

It's a damn shame that the football world is still talking about the fiasco that was Championship Sunday rather than Super Bowl LIII. Here are some football thoughts that have been bounding through my head.

1. More on the blown Rams-Saints pass interference call. I can't shake this fiasco. I wish that I could. Missing that call is as blatant as watching a kicked football sail through the middle of the uprights and calling it no good. Expanding instant replay has been brought up as a solution to this nonsense from happening again. It shouldn't take instant replay to make this call. It was as obvious a call as I've ever seen. If an official or crew of officials can't make this call they are in the wrong profession.

2. This season and Super Bowl will always have an asterisk on it. That's terrible.

3. Football is fun. It wasn't fun last Sunday. Super Bowl LIII had better be the best and most FUN Super Bowl ever.

4. One good thing about the New England Patriots being in the Super Bowl is that Patriots Super Bowls, at least during the Belichick-Brady era, have been entertaining. Often very entertaining.

5. Bill Belichick on his tenure as the head coach of the New York Jets: "Adam Gase has already outlasted me." That's damn funny.

6. No matter how accurately applied the term "goat" is being used way too often.

7. The videos of the coach that keeps Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay on the sideline rather than the field are hilarious. He's the busiest Rams coach on gameday.

8. I'm so glad that Larry Fitzgerald will be back for his 16th season. The league is better with him in it.

9. While I'm really going to miss Mike Mayock's draft analysis I'm looking forward to Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks leading NFL Media's draft coverage.

10. It's hard to imagine the Pro Football Hall of Fame without Joe Horrigan. He's retiring as executive director of the Hall on June 1. I completely agree with Peter King when he said that Steve Sabol and Horrigan were the top two "keepers of the flame" of the NFL.

"I've had dinner with Bronko Nagurski, Red Grange, George Halas, and Don Hutson..."
          -Joe Horrigan

That statement is ridiculous.