The Show

Tonight’s outing was pretty rough for the Boss: long on rehearsed stage banter, short on any spark of musical spontaneity. He can still write great music, but this Washington Post article on one fan coming to terms with Springsteen’s halftime appearance seems apt:
I had covered three Super Bowls in nearly 20 years as a sportswriter. [...]

Out of Bounds

This is very cool.

This Week’s Sign of the Apocalypse

The Skins are losing to the frakkin’ Bengals. Kill me now.

Little Platoons

Not quite what Burke had in mind, perhaps, but this grassroots effort to rein in Bengals GM Mike Brown is awesome (via Peter King). Here are the fan-funded billboards, and here is the site’s manifesto:
Preamble
IN THIS TIME of perpetual Cincinnati Bengals incompetence and futility, with zero playoff wins in the seventeen seasons since the WhoDeyRevolution [...]

Giant Killers?

What a demoralizing start . . . Go Skins!
UPDATE: That reverse was the sickest.

Pats-Jets

Is everyone watching this game? Mangini looks like he just had an aneurysm and Cassel looks like a future Hall of Famer.

From the Peanut Gallery

2:20 or so left in the Minnesota-Green Bay game, Adrian Peterson’s just broken loose for a touchdown, and Mike McCarthy challenges the ruling on the field. Why does this not make sense? Either you a) lose the challenge, burning one of your two remaining time-outs just before your offense attempts a game-winning drive, or b) [...]

Commercial Appeal

I keep hearing an awful cover of Morrissey’s “Every Day Is Like Sunday” during the Broncos-Browns game. So without further ado, here’s the (excellent) original:

Reckless Predictions

Go Skins! But I have the Steelers coming out on top.

Lions in Winter

Beating an 0-6 team quarterbacked by Dan Orlovsky should not be a nail-biting affair well into the fourth quarter. After an upset loss to the Rams and a close win over Cleveland, I’m beginning to wonder about this team.