This is my last mostly football entry until Super Sunday. There are other things going on here, too. From the Indianapolis Colts Bill Polian:
Well, we'll come back to practice on Wednesday. We'll practice Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. They'll have off Saturday. If it weren't for the Pro Bowl disruption, they would have the weekend off, but they can't because we have to send those players to Miami to do Lord knows what. We'll come back and practice on Sunday, and the Pro Bowl players will go and do whatever they have to do, and then the team will leave on Monday.
I totally agree with him but I'll be surprised if he doesn't get a fine for that. The NFL likes their people to give full-throated support to ALL of their endeavors. The Pro Bowl doesn't need to be played any more. It's a bit of a joke anyway. Too many can't play and too many don't want to play.
About the QOTD: Shrimp cocktail? Shrimp cocktail? To the mayor of New Orleans? No one in New Orleans is ever going to be impressed with an Indianapolis shrimp cocktail. In fact, I'd avoid food altogether, Mr Mayor. Maybe Indianapolis 500 tickets or Final Four tickets ...
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Quote of the Day
Ballard -- as he did with Mayor Michael Bloomberg in New York before the AFC Championship Game -- will ship shrimp cocktail with plenty of horseradish from a Downtown restaurant to Nagin if the Colts lose.
Indianapolis Star
Blog of the day is here.
Quote from said blog: "Unless you have been living in a cave for the past 24 hours or deprived from any connection with the sports world, you are aware that the Indianapolis Colts will be heading to the Super Bowl to face the New Orleans Saints. This will mark the Colts' second trip to the Super Bowl in the past four years, coincidentally both of which have been held in Miami. Both of these teams staggered into the playoffs on multiple game losing streaks, and neither were the sexy choices to win the Super Bowl. Teams like the Chargers, Jets, Vikings, and Cowboys were being chosen left and right as favorites to make it to the Super Bowl, but all stumbled along the way. Ironically the two teams playing the worst football at the end of the season were the two that would ultimately represent their conferences."
The Pro Bowl the week before the Super Bowl seems pretty stupid to me. I didn't pay that much attention to it before and I'm not going to now. I'm not sure what they thought they were going to accomplish.
That shrimp cocktail thing is kind of amusing. They don't seem to have a state fish there, but if they did it would probably be bullhead. So maybe Nagin should take the shrimp cocktail after all.
Drew Brees dislocated the elbow on his throwing arm in that game a few years ago. The all star game is fantastic in baseball or basketball but it should go away in football. Give those guys the recognition, the bonus money, a trophy, a steak dinner, and whatever other perks you deem fit but don't bother to play the game. It's worse than an exhibition game because these are not mostly camp bodies. These are all important players to their team.