First and Foremost…

Alright, Hello and Welcome to my first blog ever!

I am a die hard Philadelphia sports fan, mostly a fan of the Eagles(I’ll take all your sympathy) and Phillies and Sixers. Not real big into to hockey, so sorry flyers fans, I’ll probably only mention them if they are making some sort of playoff run or if they’re doing historically bad(something philly teams have no trouble doing). Other than just Philly sports I love sports in general, so I made this blog to talk about my opinions about what’s going on in the sports world. Oh, one last thing, I am no way shape or form a “good” writer in my opinion, so if you’ve come here to look for proper english and grammar I’m sorry, your only gonna find my opinion poorly articulated through the computer.

 

Alright! Enough Intro’s onto the stuff I wanna talk about. We just finished week 5 of the NFL football season, where I must say is shaping up to be a very, very interesting season. I’ll break down the league by divisions on where they stand as of now.

NFC EAST

Of course the Eagles are on their yearly path of underachieving, losing games they shouldn’t, and not being able to score in the red zone, making them 2-3 and last in the NFC East.  The rest of the NFC East however has hit the ground running with the giants being 4-0 coming off their bye week beating Seattle, which isn’t saying much considering I could start at Wide Receiver for them.  The Cowboys are 4-1 narrowly beating the Bengal’s, and the Redskins are 4-1 beating my Eagles. In this division it started out looking like the team to beat was the Cowboys, but now it seems like the Giants are having the quietest season after a Super Bowl victory in the history of the NFL. I wish I could say the Eagles may come out of this division with a wild-card birth but with the other 3 teams in this division playing like they are, right now it would take a lot of that to happen.

NFC North

The surprising Chicago Bears lead this division with a 3-2 record coming off a win against the Lions, who still haven’t seemed to grasp the concept of playing football yet(don’t worry lions fans, you’re on your, way! Matt Millen is gone!…oh wait Jon Kitna’s still there?….nevermind). The Green Bay Aaron Rodgers are 2-3 after losing a heart breaking to the Atlanta Falcons a team that everyone thought would struggle to win a game this year(maybe we shoulda kept that Favre guy?) The disappointing Vikings are 1-3 with a game tonight against the Saints on Monday Night Football. And the lions are 0-4, I would write more but…really…who cares.

NFC South

The Carolina Panthers lead this division with a 4-1 record after absolutely destroying the Kansas City Chiefs. Tampa Bay and Atlanta are tied at for two with records of 3-2, which both come somewhat of a surprise after beating Denver, and Green Bay respectively. The Saints which in my opinion is the most talented team in this division is last with a record of 2-2.

NFC West

The Cardinals took the lead in the division this week with a blow-out win over the Bills. Arizona fans don’t get excited the Cardinals won’t make the playoffs, they could go 16-0 in the regular season and now make the play-offs, the NFL playoffs wouldn’t be the NFL playoffs if the Cardinals were in it, I’m sorry. The 49ers and are 2-3 after losing to the Brady-less pats..that’s embarrassing. The Seahawks are 1-4 mainly because Matt Hasselbeck’s leading receiver after 5 games is John Carlson(who?) yeah exactly. And the rams are 0-4 I’m predicting the rams only end up playing 11 games because after that the rams defense is just going to stop showing up to games…I can see it now…”Hey guys, come on we got a game…wait….are you drinking?….you know we have a game in 15 minutes right?……ah….don’t throw up…

AFC East

Well the Patriots continue they’re dominance again starting off the season 4-0….woops sorry wrong year….The 3-1 Patriots are actually 2nd in division to the 4-1 Buffalo/Toronto(I don’t know what they want to be called anymore) Bills, a team that once ruled the division like the Pats have done most recently. Followed by the Brett Favre lead Jets at 2-2  and the Miami Dolphins at 2-2 also. I’m not sold on the Bills yet, so I’m gonna keep an eye on this division, seeing as Trent Edwards went down with a concussion early in the game(costing me my fantasy game this week!…Hey Coach Jauron next time something like this happens just put him in the game tape the ball to his hands and push him into the end zone, at least this way i’ll get points for a rushing touchdown.)

AFC North

The 4-1 Steelers lead this division after beating a confusing Jaguars team who I personally thought was the team to beat after Brady went down…guess not. Next in line is the Baltimore Ravens at 2-2 who lost a close one, to who seems like the team to beat in the AFC in the Tennessee Titans. In third place are the Browns nothing new to them, but a team many thought were going to be better, seeing as how the NFL put them on the National Spot light (ha, the browns on prime time…who are these people?) and in last place are the Bengal’s who are 0-5…where did the 05 Bengal’s go? The team that had an offense that was Second to none…oh yeah they have a receiver named Chad Ocho-Cinco…okay it makes sense now.

 

AFC South

This division is lead by the 5-0 Titans a team that looks like a real threat to make a deep run into the playoffs, they have a good defense and a great young play making quarterback…..wait…Kerry Collins is still Alive? and He’s starting?! over Vince Young?! okay…they have an old slow quarterback who makes smart decisions. Sounds like the Ravens team that beat Collins’s Giants in the super bowl….thats intriguing. In second are the 2-3 Jaguars who have disappointed me and the team in third place in this division which is also a disappointment are the 2-2 Colts who have not deserved to win all 2 of their games. In last place are the 0-4 Texans, hey on the bright side it looks like the Mario Williams thing panned out alright….you can come out of hiding now Charley Casserly(texans gm).

AFC West

This division is lead by the 4-1 Broncos who got beat by the Chiefs and barley beat the 3-2 Buccaneers, I don’t know about this team yet..Cutler to Marshall has been good so far, lets see how far this shaky defense lets them go. Next up are the HUGLEY disappointing AFC championship runners-up the San Diego not so super Chargers they are 2-3 and are up and down every week, you never know what team your going to get with these guys, you could get the team that spanked the jets 48-29 or you could get the team that couldn’t beat the Miami Dolphins last week…who knows?..not me. In third are the 1-3 Raiders…who’s Owner Al Davis looks like he’s been dead for almost 2 years, and still insists he knows how to run a football team, even tho he remember his own name…Mr Davis…..excuse me Mr. Davis….WHO ARE YOU?!?! and why do you keep calling me Mr. Davis?!?…because your thats your name….Mr. Davis…I don’t know what or who your talking about…but have you seen the football team I own play? I own them right?….yes sir….good…good. And Finally the Chiefs at 1-4 round out this division…they’ve had 3 different starting qb’s in 5 games…and one of them was named Tyler Thigpen… I know…I know.

 

 

ALLLLLLRIGHTY now that you’re all done reading that…(which I’m sure you read every word right?)…Lets talk quickly about some baseball. The Phillies beat the Brewers in 5 games(when you pinch hit your pitcher, your pretty much asking to lose a series) and are back in the NLCS for the first time since 1993. They’ll be taking on the Dodgers a team they’ve faced 10 times in the NLCS already. This outta be a good series, but I’m just waiting for the Phillies either 1.) Lose now and break my heart 2.) Win, and lose in the World Series and break my heart or 3.) Win the World Seri…..haha(I say this only so I don’t get my hopes up, if and when they do lose, if being a Philly fan has taught me one thing, it’s to never EVER have expectations!)….The ALCS is still to be determined but if it works out the way I see it, it should pit the Rays vs the Red Sox which would also be a very interesting match up.

Basketball season’s coming up!….

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