First thing's first...Notre Dame is going to start paying me to go to their games because they just can't seem to do anything but come thru with huge comeback victories when I'm in attendance. I'm 2-0 this year in the best comebacks I've ever seen - Frank Reich-esque.
I could go into complete detail about the whole weekend, but I'll short-hand it: Lou Bits and I headed to Chicago Friday night for the free place to stay with his girlfriend Emma - nice trip, nice city, awful traffic. We headed to ND in the morning, yadda yadda yadda, got to the game later than we'd hoped so we just went into the stadium without visiting campus much. The game was insane, comeback victory 2nd only to the MSU comeback of 4 games ago. We wandered campus for a couple hours, culminating with over-spending but under-buying at the bookstore.
Time to address college football as a whole: Calvin Johnson deserves to have the ball thrown to him every play, regardless of how many defenders are on him. Go to www.ramblinwreck.com and click on the Calvin Johnson-All American link on the top right...watch that video, then tell me that Reggie Ball is the dumbest QB in college football for not throwing to him every single play. Florida State sucks (sorry TJ). Miami's thug-mania. I hate Nebraska. MSU actually came back to win over Northwestern...very uncharacteristic of John L. Smith - who sucks. Ray Rice needs to be taken seriously as a Heisman contender. I know he's playing against semi-crappy competition, but he just rambled all over Pitt for 225 yards - not to mention that he's running behind Rutgers' not-so-stalwart offensive line. Let's see...what else...uhh...iduno, OSU/Michigan should be pretty big, eh? Yeah, that'll be something. Let's move on.
To the NFL Sunday! ...ouch. Cleveland sucks. Bigtime. Nice to know that Gary Baxter is now out for the season with a torn patellar tendon - same as LeCharles Bentley. Remember when I predicted that the Browns would have more people out for the season by week 8 than they would wins in the whole season? Well, we're coming into week 8 right now with 3 starters down for the season and 1 win under our belt...with a grand total of 3 seemingly winnable games left: the Jets, Bucaneers, and Texans. I guess the Chiefs and Steelers could be winnable in the sense that the NFL is unpredictable. But as for the other games (Ravens, Bengals, Falcons, and Chargers) we have no chance whatsoever. This is depressing, I'm just gonna move on.
There were some other NFL games yesterday, some field goals that won games...some other crap I didn't care about.
Kenny Rogers had pine-tar on his hand. No doubt about it, that was pine-tar. That didn't even look like dirt. If you've ever played baseball and had pine-tar on your hand at some point, you know that was pine-tar. What a dick.
I'm gonna go ahead and cry about how awesome saturday was and how much the Browns suck.
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Gary Baxter will have surgery to repair the patellar tendons in BOTH knees. Yeah, that's not a typo. The dude blew out both knees. Our fearless and ever witty coach Romeo Crennel is quoted as saying, "He's not going to be able to move around vey much...." Wow, that was profound Romeo. This dude will be lucky if he ever suits up for the NFL again. LeCharles Bentley has a staph infection in his surgically repaired knee and probably won't be ready for next season. Keep the hits rollin Brownies. Maybe next we'll lose Maurice Carthon for the season with an unfortunate gunshot wound to the scrotum.
Yeah, I don't want to be the guy who says that the Browns are cursed, but I certainly wouldn't say we've had a "lucky streak" since 1999.
I was going to weigh in with a similar sentiment -- this is probably career-ending. Best-case scenario, he is probably looking at a 2008 return, and he'd probably have to do it as a safety. I'm not sure there is any precedent for a recovery from two patellar tears, so 2009 is a real possibility (if at all, of course).
Correll Buckhalter tore one patellar tendon in August 2004, and returned to practice in July 2006 after a 23-month absence. Nate Webster tore one patellar tendon in September 2004 and returned to practice in December 2005, after a 15-month absence.
In other words, I'm not expecting either Baxter or Bentley back next season, and maybe only one of them the season after that.
alright, so we lost Carthon for the rest of the season, just not in the way I had hoped or predicted.
Life's little compromises
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