After the game against the Giants last Sunday, Terrell Owens was getting ready to fly west for his birthday party while the rest of the team was listening to their head coach.  Now this wouldn’t be news if the player and coach that are involved weren’t two of the biggest names in the NFL: Terrell Owens and Bill Parcels. Everything these two do shows up in the paper and on TV, what we have here is the way media sells sports. Media jumps on top of the biggest sports and movie stars and ride them until they jump. By the meaning of jumping I’m talking about getting caught cheating, drinking and driving, being somewhere they shouldn’t be and the most famous quotes they give.
Terrell Owens gave himself a birthday party on the west coast, so after the Dallas Cowboys football game his mind was on the party and not listening to the biggest speech coach Parcels gave the team.  Was he wrong for not paying attention, I will let you be the judge of that. Back to the question at hand is it the media fault or TO fault that this situation is even in the news?

One of the most durable football players in the league just announced that he needs ankle surgery at the end of the season. This would be normal for any football player but from this guy is definitely the abnormal.  Brett Favre told reporters today that he will need surgery at the end of the season. The question at the end of the season is his announcement of retirement? Brett Favre has played in more consecutive games than any football player in NFL history, and what makes it really surprising is that he is a quarterback.  Every season the league has at least 3 starting quarterbacks go down and miss some games this guy just seems to know how to play hurt.
Every football player wants to leave on his owns terms and not by injury, but what really happens is they hold on to long because they have nothing else to do.  Well Brett will have plenty to do he already has a Super Bowl ring two MVP trophies and most of the quarterback records in the league, so what does he play for? The Green Bay Packers are a young team maybe two years away from the playoffs, if he continues to play behind this young line who knows it may not be an ankle but maybe a knee that goes out. Please let’s start a website for Brett Favre asking him to retire.

We have four weeks left in the season and the playoff picture is getting setup. Which team wants to take advantage of home field advantage?  In the last 6 years at least one of the 4 teams that had a bye week has ended up in a Super Bowl game. This should tell you how important home field advantage is.  The picture looks a lot clear in the NFC because the Chicago Bears have a two game lead on all division leaders in their conference.  The AFC we have two teams that are 10-2 in the San Diego Chargers and the Indianapolis Colts, and these two teams don’t play each other this year. The NFL should be called the median league, because out of 32 teams we have 9 teams that are 6-6 or 7-5 in the league.
This week we have the game of the week in Dallas as two division leaders are playing to see which team has the inside track on being the second team in the NFC to have a bye week.  NO Saints vs. Dallas Cowboys will be a hard fought game on Sunday Night. Make sure you tune in to see. With four weeks left we will see if these 9 teams are for real or if another team will creep in to take over one of the last playoff spots.

On Sunday December 3, 2006 New Orleans Saints fans finally got to see what they been waiting for since the beginning of the season… Reggie Bush scoring touchdowns. The New Orleans Saints were lucky in the NFL Draft when Reggie Bush fell into their hands as the number 2 pick in the draft.  Most people assumed he would go as the number one pick to the Houston Texans, but they went another direction, defense. Up until this week it seemed that the player the Saints were depending on to bring excitement was worth all he was supposed to be. Reggie Bush had only one touchdown this football season. 11 games and only one touchdown, this would have been bigger news if the Saints weren’t winning games. That’s the difference the NO Saints were winning games and making a push for the playoffs, and they were doing it with other key players not named Bush.
Well the real Reggie Bush finally showed up and showed the league, Saints, and especially the San Francisco 49ers that he is for real.  Reggie scored four touchdowns on Sunday the 3rd and he scored them in a variety of ways. He scored on a dive play, scored on a sweep, scored on a shuffle pass and he scored on a reverse.  He had 168 total yards on 20 touches of the ball. These are the type of numbers he was supposed to put up all year long. If Reggie Bush would have gone number 1 to the Houston Texans, we might have already seen these types of days. Reggie would have been the number one running back as he wouldn’t have had to split plays with anyone but instead he might be going to the playoffs in his rookie season. This way he can show his talents off in the post season and the rest of the league now knows he can put up these types of days.