Whew! One down, four to go. We are one day closer to Friday, cheer up. If you are a football fan, and I am, this past weekend was a good one. Alot of great games and some upsets too.

This weekend a couple true freshman quarterbacks stood out. Michigan’s Forcier threw the game winning touchdown with just seconds left to beat Notre Dame by four. Then Saturday night, USC’s Barkley marched into the “Horseshoe” and led the Trojans on a game winning 4th quarter touchdown drive to beat Ohio State. In an upset, this weekend Oklahoma State got beat at home by Houston dropping them out of the top 10 along with Ohio State.

Sunday was the debut of the NFL Networks new channel the NFL Redzone. This channel has single handily changed the way I watch football on Sunday. Instead of only seeing 3 or 4 games on Sunday afternoon, I saw EVERY score Sunday, every touchdown, every field goal, and every safety. It was truly unbelievable. Things I would have only seen on some highlight reel, I got to see live. Thank you NFL Network. There were several good games. Every game really had it’s moments. From last second touchdowns, to records being tied or broken, to just awesome stats like 185 yards rushing and 3 touchdowns or 6 touchdown passes, it was  a great day of football.

I’m not one of these people that will only talk about the games he got right. I took a few hits this week. I’m going to chalk it up to it being early in the season. This week will be better though, I’m sure. I hit the Auburn spread and picked the winners in the USC and Georgia Tech games. I missed the spread in the rest of the college games though. The NFL was a little better to me. The Saints covered the spread but went over the 49. I picked the Vikings to cover the spread in Favre’s debut, and they did. NOBODY saw the Bills being competitive so …. back off. Honestly, if I had knew that, I wouldn’t be sitting here right now. I’d be kicked back in my pj’s with my homie Hef. But what a finish. The look in Brady’s eyes with 90 seconds left, priceless. The Chargers also pulled one out in the final seconds to beat the Raiders. Neither the Patriots or the Chargers covered the spread though.

And finally, I guess Baby has to go back to sitting in the corner. Patrick Swayze died Monday at the age of 57. Corny movies or not, I really liked Swayze. Seems like every week we are losing someone else famous. I mean real famous people we knew, not the guy that invented the piece of plastic at the end of shoe strings. It’s been a tough year. Stay safe.