Now that Clemson has won its second major college football championship over Alabama in three years, it finally looks as if Nick Saban's firm hold on college football supremacy is over...at least for now. Clemson coach Dabo Swinney has established his own claim to the best college football coach...and he's a lot, lot more approachable and likable than the Alabama coach. Plus, unlike Saban, he didn't abandon a prior commitment to another team in mid-contract in order to get his "dream" job. In honor of Dabo, I give Clemson honorary status as the "third" Florida team in the Atlantic Coast Conference and plan to support them next year...
In the NFL, the playoffs are down to eight remaining teams...in the wild card round last week only the Philadelphia-Chicago game went my way, and just barely as the Bears placekicker muffed a last-minute winnable field goal following an improbable Eagle comeback. Philly is playing this Sunday at New Orleans (4:40 PM) while the other Sunday game has New England hosting the LA Chargers (1:05 PM). On Saturday at 4:35 PM Indianapolis will visit Kansas City while the Los Angeles Rams will be at home against Dallas in a game starting at 8:15. For these four games I'm rooting for Philadelphia, the Chargers, Kansas City, and the Rams. Although the best-case scenario for me would see an Eagles-Chiefs Super Bowl, an all-Los Angeles championship game stands as a tantalizing possibility. And that would be a kind of justice, wouldn't it, after all the years that this large, great city had been deprived of even one National Football League franchise...
No comments:
Post a Comment