On insipid NFL announcers…
I tuned into CBS to watch the wrap-up of the early games prior to the 4PM Colts kickoff. The announcers were performing verbal fellatio on the '00's Superbowl dynasty of the New England Patriots Cheaters and how amazing it was that they have won 111 regular-season games in a decade, and how amazing it is that the Colts have won 115 regular-seasons games in that same time period. They then reflected back on the Cowboys of the 70s and the 49ers of the 80s, and how they won a lot of games, but not as many.
What these moron announcers left out is that over time the NFL has grown and that seasons have gotten longer with more games. Ergo, these more recent dynasties of game-winning are in-part possible because more games are played and the seasons are longer. So while these stats of n-hundred games-per-decade is a pretty nifty stat, it is useless in a comparative format, because the number of games played by different teams across different seasons is varied!
Sorry for the pedantic rant, but the idiocy bothers me.
December 27th, 2009 - 19:31
What they should be doing is ranting against the No Fun League and all the crap calls that are being made lately. Celebration and such after a touchdown. Barely touching a QB and getting called for it. Its like the league is worried that someone will get their feelings hurt