Don't Tell Chris That I Wrote About Sports

Posted Saturday, December 22, 2007, at 5:39 AM

Not Adam, it's Aden.

Just in case Vinatieri gets injured, I've got a back up. Swinging into the end of football season (this is right about the time I start watching the NFL); I'm ready for another Colts Super Bowl Championship. If you don't like the Colts and live around here, go ahead and move to Chicago, Green Bay or wherever, because this is Colts Country.

College football has entered the Bowl Season and I love it. I'm in another pool this year and I'm 1-1 so far. Until this year, who even knew Florida Atlantic had a football team? Anyway, I picked the Hoosiers and the Boilermakers this year and I kept looking for the Irish…, but I guess they didn't get a Bowl this year Charlie. I've got LSU to win the "supposed" National Championship, because I just liked the fact that Les Miles turned down Michigan.

This year, they've got the Humanitarian Bowl. Now that's a good name for a game that thrives on violent hits. If Hawaii beats Georgia down in New Orleans on New Years Day, I think they deserve the real National Championship. I've always thought that games should be won or lost on the field and Championships should be decided there also, not on a computer. They should abolish this ridiculous system and have a playoff.

Got to get ready now for the Holiday Season to begin, so Feliz Navidad and Go Colts.

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You were up late for an old Tom Cat, but, as usual, right on the mark. You have a great holiday season also and if you see or talk to your brother, tell him the same.

-- Posted by simmons on Sun, Dec 23, 2007, at 6:06 AM

That picture of Aden reminds me of one of my favorite sports related Christmas stories of all time.

It's about Tom Dempsey, he of 63-yard field goal fame, and how Tom never received as much in his stocking as the other kids.

Of course it was this furious anger that motivated and propelled Tom to become the greatest placekicker in the history of the NFL.

And, did you know that there were conspiracy theorists at the time who were convinced that Tom Dempsey used human growth hormone? They claimed that its misuse manifested into the grotesque deformity that was his right foot. The entire "born without toes" a mere ruse I suppose.

Though Dempsey has never tested positive for performance enhancing drugs, it's common knowledge that he can't walk through a metal detector at the airport. That's right. Tom Dempsey's right foot was comprised of aircraft engine grade titanium alloy (6AL-4V).

Why sportswriters don't spend any more time covering this travesty is just another example of the double standard between football and baseball.

Merry Christmas, simmons.

I'd like to leave for you the "Tom Dempsey Rule" that has been with the league since 1977, and of which I'm sure is hardly any consolation to Mr. Bert Rechichar.

"Any shoe that is worn by a player with an artificial limb on his kicking leg must have a kicking surface that conforms to that of a normal kicking shoe."

-- Posted by GarthHudson on Mon, Dec 24, 2007, at 8:34 AM

OK, the Colts will be happy to continue on in the playoffs again, while the Real Men (Monsters of the Midway) sit at home (inside), get all Lovey and watch again.

Good story on Dempsey, Feliz Navidad Garth.

-- Posted by simmons on Mon, Dec 24, 2007, at 3:48 PM

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