SFist: Happy Colts/Pats Sunday

ChinaNob

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:32:07 -0800

Sammy Morris, the Pats "run it up the middle" short yardage power back has been put on IR, so he's now out for the rest of the season. Although it frees up a roster slot, its a big blow as the Pats starting RB - Laurence Mauroney - has proven fairly fragile in his last two seasons and is looking increasingly like a soft speed back and not the power back the Pats running game revolves around. In other news, the Colts Marvin Harrison just got news from team doctors that his knee pain is going to last the rest of the season (and possibly his career). The potential fix would require surgery and minimum 6 months recovery time.

ihartsf

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:07:35 -0800

Rooting for the Colts is like setting your TiVo to "Two and a Half Men" and adding "SNL: The Best of Jimmy Fallon" to your NetFlix queue. If people are bummed about the Pats running up the score, they shouldn't have accused them of cheating, thus forcing them to turn off the cameras and turn on the pain. GO PATS!

DJTennessee

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:03:01 -0800

zig -- he's a registered Republican and told ESPN once that he aspires to run for office once he's retired. He'll have at least kid out of wedlock, which helps his "family values conservative" credentials. Caroline Roberts -- you and me oughta get together and swap track suits.

zig

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:12:39 -0800

what is the conservative reference to Tom Brady?

andyc

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:56:14 -0800

raiders fans, thank you for staying home this week. dang, i feel like i should just buy some tickets next week to make up for it, i know your pain, had a lotta blackouts back when detroit still played at the 80k seat silverdome and sold out 1 or 2 games a year after barry left. mickey's??

Caroline Roberts

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:51:29 -0800

OK, folks, Bostonist's Michael Femia will be live-blogging the game. China Nob, if someone rips anyone's head off, we are SO THERE.

eightslosh

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:50:38 -0800

Question about that little piece from the Chronicle. They note that the Raiders only took over ticket operations before last season. If it wasn't the Raiders, who was in charge of selling Raiders tickets before that? MUNI?

ChinaNob

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:01:13 -0800

The gap is huge and likely to stay that way for the near term. Some teams have clearly figured out the salary cap system to their advantage and secured a semi-permanent advantage. Pats, Colts, Steelers, Eagles, etc. - its the same teams at the top of the heap year in, year out. One of the weaknesses of the salary cap ear is the draft. The worst teams get the top draft picks, which would seem to be a fair deal. However, the costs to sign a top 10 draft pick are significantly higher that the price to sign a lower pick. Yet, we often see top 10 picks wash out and are no better guarantee to make it in the NFL than lower picks. (Tom Brady was pick #199 in the 2000 draft.) The result; everyone is capped at around the same salary budget, but the shittiest teams get socked with picks taking up more cap space than better teams picks, yet with a success rate for their pick being no better. As a result, good teams get to stockpile picks and players and bad teams are forced to roll the dice on expensive picks.

Agent510

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:25:47 -0800

This just goes to show how big the gap is between the good and bad teams in the NFL in terms of fan interest. Even on the Raiders' home turf, I'll bet 80% of the home viewing audience would rather watch the Pats.

ChinaNob

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:39:32 -0800

I can't wait to watch Bellichick put the fear of the Old Testament God into Dungy and watch Brady connect with Moss on deep outs and tear the Colt's Cover 2 to shreds. Watch Brady scorch them early, Dungy turn into a turtle, and Mauroney run it to eat time off the clock in the 2nd half and keep the New England defense fresh. I also expect either Seymour or Thomas to rip someone's head off and eat it on live TV while singing Helter Skelter backwards.

mkb3

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:36:54 -0800

Mickie's Big Mouth? This fine matchup surely requires a better beer...or, should I say, a beer.

Bushy Hyde

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:27:41 -0800

It's a great story. A topic of office conversation from Monday morning on. I hear the reason it wasn't a Sunday night game was because it WAS last year, and CBS which has the rights to most AFC games didn't want to lose it a second year in a row to ESPN/ABC/NBC.

daithi

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:26:13 -0800

Go pats..