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Posted 10.21.09 | 8:55 PM

Monday Mourning: Week Six

Week Six: Brady’s Back and Drew Brees is for Real
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By C.L. Lovett
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Monday Mourning Week Six: The "Tom Brady's Back and Drew Brees is for Real" Edition.

When Steelers kicker Jeff Reed used the men's room at a Pittsburgh convenience store over the weekend and found the place to be out of paper towels, he thought the best solution to the problem would be to beat the sh*t out of the machine and scream obscenities at the store attendant.

The result of this super-mature reaction to having wet hands was him being charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Pittsburgh police spokespeople said that, regrettably, they couldn't charge him with looking like this:



Did Craig Sager dress Brent Musburger for his broadcast of the Texas-OU game?

The University of Sioux Falls beat the University of North Dakota 28-13 last Saturday. Sioux Falls is the defending NAIA National Champion, while North Dakota is a member of NCAA Division 1AA (or the Football Championship Sub Division, if you wanna be a douche bag about it)...

Texas Tech, who stomped Nebraska by 21 in Lincoln last Saturday, beat North Dakota by 31 earlier in the season. Using the transitive property of sports, that means that Nebraska should be right behind Hastings College in the Great Plains Athletic Conference standings.

Memo to ESPN: I love the sports ticker scrolling scores across the bottom of the screen during all shows... I love it even more that it even goes on during commercials... but can you please get a handle on technology just enough so that the score of the game whose highlights I'm watching doesn't scroll across the screen during said highlight?!?

Nothing is worse than reading that Minnesota beat Baltimore when Ravens kicker Stephen Haruska missed a 46-yard field goal as time expired as I watch a highlight of Ravens kicker, Steven Haruska line-up for a 46-yarder as time expires, on SportsCenter.

On the NFL Networks NFL Gameday Final, Deion Sanders inexplicably changed shirts mid-show. At the end of the show, when co-hosts, Rich Eisen and Steve Mariucci asked him why he switched from his original white shirt to a purple shirt, Neon responded by saying "my outfit wasn't poppin enough." I don't even know what to say...

This has got to stop: Last night I I sneezed and someone said "Tim Tebow bless you."

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