This weekend of games was full of "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" moments in sports. The best thing is that there was more good things to out weight the bad and ugly things.
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The six early NFL games that was played in the snow. You either had flurries or a down right snow storm. We had a preview of what could happen in this year Super Bowl. And I have to say the average fan will enjoy the Super Bowl if there was snow. The six games that was played in the snow had a lot of offense and not much defense, but that is kind of expected. In games where it is hard to keep your footing on the field the defensive player is helpless. Only the offense know where they are going so it slows even the best defense. Another good thing came from the NCAA football conference championship games. Besides the Flordia State and Duke game, they all was very entertaining games. We was so close to ending the BCS era without having a SEC team in the national championship game. Being a Buckeye fan I don't really consider the Big Ten Championship game one of the good things of the weekend, like some SEC fan would. All in all you had to like the college games on Saturday whether they had BCS implications or not like the Oklahoma/Oklahoma State. The Big 12 was one of the two AQ (automatic qualifier) conferences that did not have a conference championship game. Which led to three Big 12 teams (Oklahoma State, Baylor, Texas) with the chance to win the the Big 12 title. At the end of Saturday night Baylor Bears ended up the Big 12 champs. The last good thing of the weekend games. The return of Kobe Bean Bryant 9 months after tearing his ACL. It was good to see Kobe back on the court, but it was a bad game for the Black Mamba. Playing 24 minutes only scoring 9 points and causing 8 turnovers. But it is good to see him playing this year.
I really hate the way things are going in Washington this year. It all started in the playoffs last year, and continue in the off season and the beginning of training camp of this year. Word is that the Skins head coach Mike Shanahan will be fired either in the next couple of days or at the end of the season. I don't feel sorry for Shanahan because he brought it on his self, but I don't feel it was a even fight. You have a star quarterback who has the backing of the owner of the team, when it is suppose to be the other way around. How is a coach suppose to coach the team the way he feel, if he can be over ruled by his quarterback at any moment. RG3 should have been benched five weeks ago when he showed signs of struggling to recover from his knee injury from last year to where it was affecting how they game plan against a team. The Skins still had a chance to make the playoffs, but I don't believe Shanahan had the authority to bench the quarterback with the owner Dan Snyder standing behind RG3 instead of the coach. Now what coach is going want to take the job knowing they have to be on pins and needles when dealing with RG3 and the owner relationship.
The ugly of the weekend is the Patriots losing Rob Gronkowski for the year after he torn his ACL and MCL on Sunday. The Patriots just got Gronk back 7 weeks ago and he was just starting to fit back into the offense and Tom Brady was getting used to having Gronk back. The ugly is not that Gronk got hurt but the way he got hurt. After catching a pass for the gain of 21 yards Gronk knee was taken out by Browns safety T.J Ward. Ward who said he went low because he was in fear of being fine if he hit Gronk high when asked after the game about the play. I don't blame Ward I blame the NFL for putting the defenders in such a tough situation. Gronk is not the only player to have his knee blown out this year because defensive players are more afraid of getting fined by the league, then they are of ending the season of they're counterparts. You can't get no more ugly then that.
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