If ifs were points, the Colts would be Super Bowl kings again today. But they play this game with footballs, not maybes, so the champs are Drew Brees and his pistolero pals from New Orleans.
They got it right Saturday, the way the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee usually does. I've always contended that the people who deserve to make the Hall do make it, and they did, again -- Emmitt Smith, Jerry Rice, John Randle, Rickey Jackson, Russ Grimm, Dick LeBeau and Floyd Little.
Who dat say gonna beat dem Saints?
Plenty of folks do. But no matter how many people pile on the Indianapolis Colts bandwagon, they won't stamp out the Who Dats.
Get right down to it, Peyton Manning isn't that different from the rest of us in one respect.
Is Peyton Manning the greatest quarterback of all time? Or will he be?
To the first question -- very possibly. To the second -- absolutely yes.
Between that spanking-new statue of Don Shula and that blockbuster crowd of 70,697, the Pro Bowl had itself a time.
Not one soul I know has faulted this Dolphins team on the try quotient, even as it finished precisely and drearily the way it started, with three consecutive losses. But it was the father of Dolphins big boss Bill Parcells, I think, who first told him, ``You get no points for trying.''
The Dolphins finally got motivated Sunday, but the wrong end of zip-to-27 is a little late to start self-stimulating.
Come on, 'fess up. You know you've doubted Chad Henne at times. You know you've said to yourself, No way the Dolphins entrust their future to Chad Henne's hands.
Don't be misled by the 34-16 size of Miami beating Duke. The Blue Devils had the Hurricanes in deep trouble with eight minutes left. Miami blew it all out only in the last part and finally, at 8-3, looks like the best batch of Canes in at least four seasons.
After as possum-ugly a game as the NFL will cringe to see, the Dolphins showed the one thing that would save their Sunday.
What a lot of people can't figure out today is how Virginia ever won three games this season. The closest thing to an answer is that they weren't playing anybody like Miami those days.
Crazyball!
Possibly we have had wilder games than Clemson beating Miami 40-37 in overtime. Just don't waste any energy trying to look one up online. There certainly hasn't been one since the Internet was born.
Just dial it up, folks, Put the Dolphins and Jets on Monday Night Football and stand back and watch them bruise each other. Just don't call it a night too early, or you miss Ronnie Brown's triumphant 2-yard touchdown burst for this 31-27 classic victory with six seconds left.
Florida A&M collected a fat $600,000 paycheck Saturday night, but I don't know that you can put a price on the humiliation the Rattlers paid.
By any standard, this was a laugher, except NFL teams never laugh at anyone for fear of the inevitable biteback. Anyway, Sunday was as easy as they come for the Dolphins, who bludgeoned the Buffalo Bills 38-10 with 250 yards rushing to the hated invaders' frail 46.
After an opening 30 minutes that was more of a public flogging than a major-college football game, the main question became: Was the first half only an illusion, or is that really a thunderbolt traveling in the disguise of the Miami Hurricanes?
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- And so they came to sudden death, an incongruous designation for a Masters Tournament as lively as any ever played. And then Chad Campbell putted his chance away. And Kenny Perry, who at 48 years 8 months would have been the oldest man ever to win a Masters, knocked a bad drive on the second playoff hole, and there was only Argentina's Angel Cabrera to step into the green coat that is sports' most-sought-after haberdashery.
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Dreams are busting up all over the place. Tiger Woods probably isn't going to win his fifth Masters. Not Sunday, anyway. Phil Mickelson won't nail his third. Paddy Harrington can forget taking his third consecutive major.
AUGUSTA, GA. -- Tiger Woods' last hole Friday told his 2009 Masters Tournament story as well as anything. He hit into a bunker and then two-putted. That gave him an un-Tigerlike total of 61 putts for these first two Masters rounds.
RSS|
My Yahoo|
Newsletters|
Widgets|
Mobile|
Alerts|
Twitter
Terms of Service| Privacy Policy| About our ads| Copyright| About The Miami Herald| About the McClatchy Company| Corrections| Contact Us| Advertise
Partners: El Nuevo Herald| Newspaper in Education| WLRN | Miami Herald News| CBS4 WFOR-TV| More
Copyright 2010 Miami Herald Media Co. All rights reserved
