It wasn't much prettier to me, either, and I ended up switching to the last set of the 2010 U.S. Open men's tennis final. That's champion Rafael Nadal at the left, pulling yet another incredible winner. Everyone marveled at his tricks, including Novak Djorkavic, who managed to kick ass and still lose.
I bring the tennis up because it showed up on a channel where it normally doesn't belong. Usually, the men's final at Flushing Meadows airs on CBS on Sunday afternoon. That was the plan this year, too, but rain pushed the match back to Monday. With an event so important to tennis, you'd think that CBS would preempt its normal Monday programs to show the delayed match live. Unfortunately, this week's episodes of CSI: Modesto and Survivor: Northern Marianas Islands were more important; so the match ended up on ESPN2.
Even worse, ESPN2 warned that, if it hadn't ended by 21:15 CDT, the match would then move to ESPN Classic. (Match point fell just after 21:00, so that didn't happen.) In short: the U.S. Open men's tennis final was about to fall from a broadcast network all the way to a channel that wasn't even on basic cable. To say the least, this does not bode well for the sport of tennis (at least not in the U.S.).
Yep, I'm now not just an NFL fan. I'm an obsessed NFL fan. Um, hooray?
Fantasy football update: I opened with wins in both my leagues. In the family league, Peyton Manning and Wes Welker combined for five touchdowns to lead the Fluttering Horde to a 99-73 upset of the defending league champions, the Smoking Popes. Andre Johnson had only 33 receiving yards, but I didn't need him any more than the Houston Texans did.
In the public league, I left Bears RB Matt Forte and his 30 points on the bench, yet still coasted to a 102-88 win over the Dallas Drunks. Woo-hoo!
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After that miserable performance by my Cowmen (I figured I'd make a mistake with their name, like they made mistakes on every durned play), I am just not sure I can stand to watch another game.
Hold off on the despair -- the Cowboys get Chicago at home this week. They'll have to work hard if they want to make mistakes as serious as the Bears'.
Oddly, both teams have the same basic problem: their offensive lines both suck. The Bears' problem is more obvious because their skill players aren't as good.
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