How about those…BILLS?!?!?!

As I’m sitting in my hotel room in Los Angeles this past weekend with my NFL-addicted family. Football games are on and emotions fly. It was a sad sight to watch the flightless Eagles perish against the equally as ineffective Giants. But, as I have known, anything can happen on any given day in the NFL. That includes the AFC East powerhouse New England Patriots falling to the usually pathetic Buffalo Bills. The New York misfit franchise came back from a score of 21-10 to defeat the Patriots by a score of 34-31. This brings the Bills’ record to 3-0. Wait, WHAT?! THE BILLS?!?! I’m not going to complain. I am tired, as I’m sure many others are, of the Patriots winning everything year after year after year. I’m glad a team finally put them in their place. However, I never thought for one second that this team would be the Buffalo Bills. Quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick graduated from the football “powerhouse” known as Harvard University, has led the Bills through the first part of the season with perfection. However, Harvard grads rarely opt to enter the NFL. In fact, to my knowledge, only one other player in NFL history has graduated from Harvard and played for at least 7 seasons (Matt Birk). Maybe teams should add Harvard as a college of interest when they recruit players pre-draft. Certainly seems to have worked out well for the Bills. Will it last? I don’t know. Like I said, anything can happen.

The Crying Game…No really

After a heated game between the St. Louis Rams and the New York Giants, Rams players are complaining that the Giants faked not one but two injuries in order to receive a timeout from the officials instead of wasting one of their own. In the NFL, if a player appears to be having difficulty leaving the field of play after an injury and is unable to walk to the sideline on his own, the officials call a timeout which stops the clock so the medical staff can attend to the fallen player, or in this case, players. Now, I am not a Giants fan in any way, shape or form. In fact, I hate them. But, the players need to understand that the NFL is nothing more than a glorified business with pads and hitting. However, even as a strong supporter of hating the Giants, I don’t believe any injuries were fake. Maybe it just a cramp but it’s still an injury.

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Doesn’t look fake to me. What’s your thought?