Hello,
Congratulations to the San Francisco 49ers for making it to the Super Bowl. I'm so excited to have a team to cheer for this year. The last Super Bowl I truly cared about was played on January 26th, 2003. That was when Tampa Bay destroyed Oakland 48-21. The same Super Bowl that provided the answer to who is the most mediocre quarterback to ever win a Super Bowl? The answer: Trent Dilfer. I had a rooting interest in the following Super Bowl as well, I fell in love with that fantastic Panthers defense that year. I've only watched snippets of the last couple of Super Bowls. I'm not sure there could have been a least interesting match up for me than last season's Patriots-Giants game. The only way I'd have had interest in that game is if there was a way both teams could lose. I love football, but those years I was more interested in the commercials than the actual game. I can always catch the best commercials on youtube.
San Francisco shows how to turn a bad team into a great team in a short period of time. It's a complete opposite of how the Cowboys are doing it. Let's review: San Francisco has a real head coach in Jim Harbaugh, a coach that had also won at Stanford. They also have a clutch quarterback in Colin Kaepernick. In his first season in the playoffs he already is 2-0. He already has twice as many playoffs wins as does Tony Romo in his whole career. Finally the 49ers have a non-meddlesome owner. I don't even know who the 49ers owners is!
Meanwhile the Cowboys have a puppet for a head coach. What were his credentials before coming a head coach? He was a backup NFL quarterback and an ineffective offensive coordinator. So obviously he should be a head coach next. What can go wrong? They also have a quarterback that is 1-6 in win or go home situations. He was mediocre as a quarterback and and as an offensive coordinator, obviously he'll make a great head coach. To no one's surprise Garrett is 16-16 as a head coach. Also there's no reason to expect him to do better in the future. You either have it or you don't and he clearly shows he doesn't have it.
Finally the Cowboys have the most meddlesome owner in all of professional sports, plastic surgery's best friend. That's Jerry Jones, the man who not only has to win, but has to win his way. Which is funny, because his way has only won one playoff game in the last 17 years. Jones way isn't even good enough to be considered mediocre.
Here's another stat that's interesting. In the last 12 years, 11 NFC teams have made it to the Super Bowl. Not one of them was the Cowboys. Jerry Jones do you need any more proof that your way isn't working? The Giants have been to the Super Bowl 3 times since the Cowboys last made the Super Bowl.
On a day one California team is returning to the Super Bowl, another California team continues to be terrible. That team is the terrible Lakers. As a certified 100% Lakers hater, I enjoy watching the Lakers collapse game after game. To make things worse they lost to the horrible Raptors. With this victory the Raptors are now 15-26. The Lakers fell to 17-23!
Against the Raptors, Dwight Howard was ejected for arguing calls. At least that's the official story. But with Howard sometimes he just doesn't want to play, he wanted to get kicked out and have the day off. He got his wish. Seriously I just don't understand all the love is for an injury prone, doesn't play hard, attention grabbing malcontent. And the fact that Dwight Howard nicknamed himself Superman is an affront to the fictional character. Come to think of it Howard is sort of a fictional person. A career built on freak athleticism, smoke and mirrors. DC Comics should definitely sue him for nicknaming himself Superman.
I'm sure the Lakers will be chasing hard after Howard to come back after this season. I'm just not sure that's the smart move. Just off the top of my head my feeling is that Howard will command a 5 year, $100 million contract.
I also loved watching Kobe Bryant shooting 10 for 32. Of course you can't blame him, who else on that highly overrated team is going to carry the scoring load? They are clearly a poorly constructed team. I also loved Mike D'Antoni getting so mad during the game last night. He clearly has no idea what he's doing. Will D'Antoni survive this season? The Lakers should give the team back to Bernie Bickerstaff. Yes, I know it's a limited sample size, but I think that was the only time the Lakers actually put fear into anyone. The Lakers made a horrible mistake when they failed to bring Phil Jackson back. In the offseason this team needs to get blown up and get much younger.
Updated 1/22/2013: The Lakers lost to the Chicago Bulls last night to drop to 17-24 at the halfway point of the season. Currently the Lakers are the 12th place team in the Western Conference. They've lost 3 games in a row and have only won 2 of their last 10 games. That means if the playoffs started today the Lakers wouldn't be going. I loved typing that last sentence. Currently the Lakers are 4 games behind the 8th seeded Rockets. I mean what have the Lakers done this year to make people think they are a legitimate playoff team?
Again Dwight Howard was a virtual no-show. He only took 5 shots from the field and finished with 8 free throw attempts. He exploded for 8 points, yeah I'd really want to build my team around Howard. (There really should be a font for when people use sarcasm with the written world.) Of course he was blaming his teammates for not getting more shots, which has some truth to it. Of all the Lakers he shot the sixth most shots. However in the limited time I watched the game he played uninspired again. At one point he was in the lane, right in front of the basket and he brought the ball down low. Even I know you shouldn't bring the ball down low, then you make yourself as small as the guards. He had a guard strip the ball from him. Just another dumb play by Howard. His career will continue to deteriorate until he starts working on the fundamentals. His freak atleticism can get him so far, but he needs to get a lot more down if he wants to be a champion someday. But again I just don't think Howard cares enough, he's just in the NBA for the paycheck.
I also hated the color guy who was calling that game, Steve Kerr?, he sounded like a big Laker homer. The NBA had rescinded Howard's second technical from the previous game, which means he shouldn't have been ejected. The announcer said that essentially cost the Lakers the game against the Raptors. Um, Howard was available all of last game and the Lakers still lost. He also said it robbed the Raptor fans their only chance of the year to see Howard in person. Howard isn't that exciting to watch. I never go to a game of my team, the Jazz, to see another player. The team the Jazz play is secondary.
Kerr? also called Gasol "one of the best big men in the NBA", really? Is that how average the big men in the NBA are? Earlier in the season there were rumors about Gasol possibly being traded to the Jazz. Hell to the no. The Jazz have no need for the Big Stiffy, no need at all. You know that Gasol is going to be traded. Who wants a slow, expensive, old, past his prime nearly one dimensional player? I wouldn't even trade a loaf of bread for him, at least I can get some use out of a loaf of bread.
I also realize why the Lakers get so much publicity, it doesn't matter how good or bad they are. But still even for the Lakers, their coverage seems to be a bit much. Just by comparison I looked up who the 12th place team in the Eastern Conference is. Ironically it's Howard's former team, the Orlando Magic. There seems to be some kind of analogy there, but I'm not sure what it is.
I'll continue to follow the Lakers this season, only to get see how bad they'll finish.
themusicaddict
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