The Weekly NFL Wrap Up
Hair of the dog: When the NFL released its schedule back in the spring, you can bet they were thinkin' December 10, Saints at Falcons, err'body will want to see Mike Vick take on the defending NFC South champs, right? Instead they got to see Vick sentenced to 23 months in the clink as depicted by the world’s worst courtroom chalk drawing. Add Falcons head coach Bobby Petrino to Ookie’s collateral damage. Petrino quit his job and the NFL a few hours after the Saints put the wood to the Falcons on MNF, taking a $10 million dollar pay cut to coach the Arkansas Razorbacks. With a QB depth chart that reads Harrington, Leftwich, Redman the only other viable option was suicide.
Buffalo Bill back in the saddle: Hat’s off to Bill’s tight end Kevin Everett. After fracturing his neck making a tackle during a kickoff the first week of the NFL season, Everett defied is back on his feet.
USA Today calls out Papa Bear: On Monday the paper published an article stating the Mike Ditka Hall of Fame Assistance Trust Fund for collecting $1.3 million in funds and distributing only $57K to needy former players. Ditka’s response? Dudes with mustaches like that don’t have to give responses. But he did dissolve his namesake HOFAT Fund (couldn’t resist) to pump more money into two of his other charities.
Pack keeps it Natural: Brett Favre took a break from having every sportscaster from here to Nambia try to get their lips around his nuts long enough to call in his personal sports idol, former UFC heavyweight champ Randy “The Natural” Couture, to deliver a team pep talk before their game on Sunday. It worked. The Cheeseheads stomped the Raiders 38-7. But, it kind of begs the question, why do pro athletes need an effing pep talk?
