Quick Takes

The National Football League
-I'm sick and tired of the National Football League. For crying out loud, it's the NFL. We don't call the NBA the National Basketball Association. We don't call it the Professional Golf Assocation. No one in their right might says that National Hockey League. You do hear Major League baseball occasionally, but there at least is minor league baseball. But it's like everyone is against the 'NFL' these days. The other morning on sports talk radio when discussing the NFL draft, they dropped 'National Football League' about 20 times in 5 minutes or less and not once used 'NFL'. Annoys the crap out of me. Of course so does the entire morning show on WCCP now. Why would you gear a morning show on a sports talk radio station toward non sports fans? Idiots.
-Why are these NFL teams in such a hurry to hire head coaches? It's like its a race or something. I mean, this is one of the most important decisions you will make and set the course for your franchise for years to come, and you are going to rush to that decision?
-On the same topic, the Cowboys. How can you hire an offensive coordinator without first hiring a coach? What if the coach and the guy you bring in to be head coach have different coaching philosophies and ideas? Who would even want to coach a team when the owner had an offensive coordinator in place already that he hand picked. Plus, they say he is being groomed to be head coach in two years, so I guess that means who ever is head coach is just a figure head? There's no way anyone is going to take that job, just to be fired in two years no matter what for someone else.
-Speaking of figureheads, that kid that's the head coach of Oakland is simply a figurehead. Al Davis can control him. That's why he hired a teenager to coach the team. I guess the only positive is that the team can't get much worse. Well, 0-16 or 1-15, but I think I could at least coach a team to that. I predict that team being bad for awhile.