This was a bad weekend for WCD. The Saints lost. The Packers lost. Eli Manning won. The only bright spot for us was the Patriots winning, and at this point the best we feel like we can hope for is a New England – San Francisco Super Bowl. And now we have to write this week’s TMQ Watch and see what Greggles has to say. Perhaps there will be photos of pleasant looking cheerleaders to relieve our burden.
After the jump…
“Football is more popular than Hollywood.” But why, asks TMQ? And his answers: football is America’s most popular sport, football is uniquely suited to the DVR, football is live, the increasing power of women is causing men to retreat to football, and “Only men can understand flat-screen HD TV remotes”. We question the latter four assertions, and would add two of our own. First, there are a limited number of outlets for football, and those outlets generally avoid conflicting with each other (with the possible exception of one slot on Sunday afternoon, depending on your location). Second, football is generally played in harsh weather when people tend to be inside; baseball, by contrast, is played when the weather starts turning pleasant and people move outdoors.
“the New Orleans Saints did themselves in by too much big blitzing”. Plus, positive reinforcement.
Sweet and sour: San Francisco – New Orleans (the Alex Smith run), New England – Denver (the Rob Gronkowski run), Giants – Packers (the Ahmad Bradshaw run and the Hakeem Nicks catch).
TMQ’s item suggesting that voters might confuse Bain Capital with Bane, the super villain in the latest Batman movie, and that this could cost Romney the election, has to be one of the dumbest things TMQ has ever written. We are not sure it is actually the single dumbest; that would require combing through years of TMQ to prove, and we think there’s a reasonable chance his “Kill Bill” rant would beat it. But this item is still pretty damn dumb, and not just for his continued insistence that “‘The Dark Knight’ was the worst motion picture ever made”. (“From Justin to Kelly” would like to have a word with TMQ. So would “Leonard Part 6”.)
New Orleans – San Francisco: a Saints defensive meltdown for the second year in a row. Plus: blitzes!
“Justified” is unrealistic. Thanks for the update, Gregg. We have not seen an episode yet (due to our no-cable vow) but we look forward to watching the show on DVD. Not because we’re expecting realism, but because we’re big fans of a) Elmore Leonard, and b) kicking ass. (We didn’t realize Graham Yost was behind the show, but that explains adding Neal McDonough and Mykelti Williamson to the cast. It’s a “Boomtown” reunion! And we really like Neal McDonough.)
Packers – Giants: The Giants are peaking, the Packers were overconfident. Plus: blitzes!
TMQ should not try to rewrite Robert Frost. Did Drew Brees actually make the first down against Detroit? An NFL official says yes, a high school official says no.
Texans – Ravens: Houston’s hot, Baltimore’s not. Turnovers, turnovers, turnovers.
Readers write: the senseless hero and re-writing the ending, and private family foundations aren’t necessarily a tax dodge. If they’re an ego boost, so what?
TMQ wins the Rory Award for the most gratuitous use of the word “Belgium” in an item about wasteful spending on bodyguards.
Denver – New England: “There’s not much to be said about a game that was over in the second quarter.” And we are all thankful for this.
“Zebras can tell thirds of yards from replays?” We can’t comment on the biology of African equids, but 1/3 of a yard is a foot, which certainly seems to be within the limits of human perception.
Single worst play of the season – so far: New Orleans – San Francisco.
“Maybe next season Aaron Rodgers won’t take three weeks off before the playoffs.” Maybe next season the Packers won’t have someone’s close family member die during the week before a playoff game, either, Gregg.
Tune in next week, when we start our countdown towards the last TMQ.