I had a pretty good day. Bad news: I had to work. Good news: nobody else apparently did. Better news: since nobody else was working, they started letting people (including myself) leave for the day at 11 AM. Even better news: because I left at 11 AM, I was able to spend much of the rest of the day leading my nephews on my sister’s side of the family on a grand expedition. (Slightly bad news: guns were not involved in this expedition. But we had fun anyway.)
The only drawback was that, being on a grand expedition, I wasn’t able to blog the NFL firing news beyond the Rams. Most of these have made FARK, but just for the record:
- Tampa Bay fired everyone just as hard as they could go. They fired old Raheem and they fired Jimmy Lake. And they fired some people that they didn’t even know. (17-31 over three years.)
- Bill Polian out as vice chairman and his son, Chris Polian, out as general manager in Indianapolis. Apparently, according to that article and this one from ESPN, there’s at least a possibility (maybe a strong one) that Jim Caldwell will keep his job as head coach. It looks like Irsay was convinced the main problem with the Colts this year was not having any decent backup for Manning, and that he blames the Polians more than he does Caldwell for that. I’d have to say that seems to be a position that can be defended.