Tuesday, December 18, 2012

10 Awesome Things That Happened This Weekend (12/14-12/16)

10. Andrew Bynum Claims Kobe Stunted His Development
            I’d take his comments more seriously if he wasn’t rocking a Mod-Squad hair-do.

9. Josh Hamilton Signs Five-Year, $125 Million Deal With Angels
            There won’t be a scarier trio in MLB than Trout-Pujols-Hamilton. Too bad the Angels have no pitching.

8. Butler Takes Down #1 Indiana in Overtime
            Is there another school in the country that has pulled off as many improbable upsets as Butler over the past decade?

7. Seahawks Drop 50 Points Again
            For those of you that had the onions to start Russell Wilson in your fantasy playoff game this week, I salute you. Karma is eventually going to strike Seattle, adding the fake punt they ran while up by 30 and their replacement-ref aided victory over Green Bay earliar in the year.

6. Denver Dominates Baltimore
            Joe Flacco is a fraud.

5. Adrian Peterson Keeps Going Bonkers, Leads Vikings to Win in St. Louis
            With all due respect to Peyton Manning, Peterson should win the NFL MVP, Offensive Player of the Year, and Comeback Player of the Year award.
           
4. Kirk Cousins Wins First Career Start
            When the Redskins selected Cousins just days after mortgaging their future for Robert Griffin III, it seemed like their organization was run by a bunch of monkeys. For this season at least, that pick may have saved their playoff hopes.

3. Patriots Nearly Pull Off Epic Comeback, Lose to San Francisco
            One of the wildest games of the season, San Francisco showed tons of resiliency rebounding from a 28-0 run by the Patriots to win this game. The 49ers need one more win to lock up the NFC West. As for New England, they can kiss a first round bye good bye, and pencil in a divisional round game at Denver.

2. Cowboys Take Down Steelers in Overtime
            The game was playing out as a typical fourth quarter Cowboys-collapse, but incredibly Dallas flipped the script. The best proof of the NFL weekend that the world might explode in four days.

1. The World Honors the Victims of Newtown, CT
            Whether it be the moments of silence before all of this weekend’s sporting events, President Obama’s incredible speech Sunday night, the releasing of pictures of all the little ones that lost their lives, the past few days have been filled with emotion. It’s terribly sad to think that it took an elementary school massacre to make us consider that military assault weapons shouldn’t be so readily available (comparing it to sports for a moment, it’s a reminder of when we were losing NASCAR drivers left and right during the late-90s and 2000 and no one gave a shit. It took Dale Earnhardt’s death in the 2001 Daytona 500 for the sport to finally enact safety measures to keep the drivers safe. No NASCAR driver has died since), or that we should reassess how we deal with mentally unstable individuals. While it is true that evil will inevitably pop up in this world, every measure should be taken to limit the damage it will inflict. No Credentials offers it’s most sincere condolences to the family and friends of the 26 people lost, and to the greater Newtown community.   

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