Sports Corner
I remember when I first saw this Sports Illustrated cover thinking “Mental Note: Remember that cover. The editors are simply tempting fate here.” Yes… it now looks like this cover takes its rightful place in the Curse file.
ESPN analyst Michael Irvin recently said the Eagles would be undefeated if Favre were the starting quarterback.
Asked for his thoughts on Irvin’s comment, Owens said: “That’s a good assessment, I would agree with that, just with what [Favre] brings to the table.
“A number of commentators will say he’s a warrior, he’s played with injuries. I feel like him being knowledgeable about the quarterback position, I feel like we’d probably be in a better situation.”
Speculation exists that Michael Irvin has become a Terrell Owens mouthpiece… in this case this is sort of a Judith Miller — Ahmad Chalabi thing going on.
I will note that the team that Brett Farve is actually quarterbacking, the Green Bay Packers, is now 1-7. My desire for the team to win the division and thus make the playoffs, and do so with a record of no better than 7-9, is — alas– in flames. Further, it looks most probably that the Chicago Bears will do the honor of winning this division — and with a record exceeding 8-8. The NFL dodges that bullet, of watching in embarrassment as a Losing team eeks into the playoffs, once again. Nonetheless for the Packers, Brett Farve is considered by the NFL intelligentsia to be a good quarterback — still — (some say as good as he was when during his Superbowl years), with a team that is simply too bad to pull to any wins.
But… that “Brotherly Love” relationship between Terrell Owens and Donavan McNabb?
Reacting to a report in The (Trenton, N.J.) Times, ESPN and Fox confirmed that Owens brawled with former Eagles player Hugh Douglas in the team’s training room, before charging into the locker room and challenging McNabb and other teammates to put up their dukes.
I can’t figure out that Sports Illustrated Cover. It makes as much sense as the Ryan Leaf cover (the storyline of Ryan Leaf having been that he sucked up the joint the first time, was benched, and now was being given a second time because … whereupon, he resumed sucking up the joint.) Then again, this cover pops up at me once again — as we move through above-average (and frequently exceptional) statistical records that fall flat in the win-loss records which would measure him as “Greatest Ever”, and as he was injured with his replacement providing the team with a victory-lift, and as the current Sports Illustrated cover features the two quarterbacks currently playing most likely to be named “Greatest Ever”.
Sports Illustrated’s covers crack me up.