Colts vs. Saints

Super Bowl Colts vs. Saints

 

The Super Bowl well be Sunday February 7^th in Miami were the Colts are a perfect 4-0 in the Super Bowl and have played all 4 of there Super Bowls in Miami. Last time the colts were in the Super Bowl they played against the Chicago Bears, as it was the first time 2 African American coaches coached in the Super Bowl. The colts won the game and Peyton Manning ended up winning the MVP and winning his first Super Bowl title. The colts look to win there 2^nd title in 4 years and will have to do that against the New Orleans Saints who went through a lot in 4 years with Katrina and rebuilding the team and the city. Both teams went 14-2 and the colts seem to do it by choice as in each of there last two games they benched there starters.  The colts are favored by less than a touchdown, as each game they played in the postseason the Jets and the ravens had one of the top defenses in the league. The saints went up against the top two offenses in the league and had a shoot out against Brett Favre and the Vikings as they prevailed in overtime winning by a field goal. My prediction for the game will b e the colts wining over the saints in a close one but manning will taking over the running for the colts will be led by Joseph Addai and his mates Donald Brown and Mike Hart.  One thing the colts and saints have in common is a great receiver, but one thing about Indy’s receivers is they are still young and they’ve been doing well with manning as they connect with all of his passes. If I had to pick the score for this game I will take Colts 31-20 and MVP for the game will be either Peyton Manning or Joseph Addai I feel Addai will show the saints defense they cant stop the run at all and he will catch some balls out of the back field.

BCU vs. Northwestern

Briar Cliff vs. Northwestern Tonight

 

When you think of rivalries you think of Michigan and Ohio State, North Carolina Duke, Florida and Florida State, Texas and Texas A&M these team have fought and battled for many of years. One rivalry the chargers have started a new one with has been with Northwestern, which is only an hour away. Northwestern is known as the Dutch school and us known as the catholic school. The rivalry seem to get intense 2 years ago when briar cliff made it to the GPAC championship game and had to play the Red Raiders at there turf.  The chargers were missing their key player Dehonis Williams, but felt his presence on the bench would help the team. Adi Cizmic and Neil Rohe led the chargers at the time. The game turned out to be a crazy one as three fourths of the briar cliff student population and faculty attended the night game and was also in a snowstorm at northwestern.  They game turned out to be one of the greatest games in briar cliff history as the chargers lost by 5. The rivalry has now been a good one and intense after the JV game this past Monday as tempers flared a little bit between the men’s game. But with the big game tonight we all expect a big turnout and have plenty of Dutchmen show up to the Flanagan center 6pm for the women and 8 pm for the men and it will be a good one, who knows it might be another classic one.

National Championship

National Championship Game Texas vs. Alabama


The stage was set for the National Championship to be great and a lot of excitement between Alabama vs. Texas on Thursday night. Alabama was favored the whole time after blowing out Florida in the SEC championship game. Texas on the other hand played a tough one against Nebraska in the big 12 championship after a controversial call with one second left on the clock after Colt McCoy threw the ball out of bounce, and Texas kicking a game winning field goal. Colt McCoy and the longhorns offense look to prove to Alabama that their offense could get on a run and do damage against the Tide defense. But who knew we would never get a chance to see Colt McCoy in the National Championship except for 3 plays. After Alabama failed to convert on their first drive of the game the tide decided to punt the ball away to Texas. Instead the tide ran a fake punt and the longhorns caught them off guard had they got an interception. After the interception takes took the ball down to the tide 9 yard line in 2 plays look to take a quick lead in the game, but all that change on the 3rd play of the game as the horns ran an option play that didn’t work and McCoy was hit on the shoulder and took himself out of the game. McCoy ended up having a nerve injury in his shoulder and was not able to feel his shoulder and arm at all. The longhorns ended up losing the game 37-21 but the score was closer than it seems in the 4th quarter the horns maybe the game a 24-21 game with only 3:00 minutes left in the game. The question that everyone is asking right now is if Colt McCoy was able to play the whole game would the horns have won the game. Now being a longhorn fan I’m just saying this as a fan of college football I feel the game would have been closer or Texas would of blown the tide out of the game. The horns ran 2 quick plays that took them to the tides 9 yard line and easily could of took a 7-0 lead instead of a 3-0 lead. Then the horns regained the ball in the tides 30 yard line and easily could took of took a 14-0 lead instead of a 6-0 lead. The horns took it to the tide in the early minutes of the game as the tide looked confused and felt the horns were going to blow them away, but with the injury to McCoy we will never know. Greg McElroy QB for the tide was 5-11 with only 69 yards passing. Now what if McElroy had to pass the ball the whole game it would have been a long day for the tide. So another thing that you want to ask is is the tides national championship tainted knowing that fact McCoy didn’t play at all, and it wasn’t the game we wanted to see. 20 years from now all we will know is that McCoy didn’t play in the national championship and Alabama almost lost the game to a true freshman quarter Garret Gilbert.