Bush as incompetent (personal comment)

Sports: As the NY Yankees loses much hometown feeling as their conversion to a bunch of expensive free agents continues, the NY Mets picked up a shortstop (Reyes will shift to the second base hole) and outfielder, while fan target Roger "E-9" Cedeno seems to be on the way out. Jim Fassel, coach of the NY Giants, is also on the way out. Injuries and two ridiculous early losses helped, but the team has long seemed to have give up. This is distressing in that even bad teams like the Arizona Cardinals have shown some life. When the Bengals were consistent losers, they time and time again had some chance to win, but lost late. The Giants' last game was lost by over thirty points to the ... Saints.

The game had the infamous incident where a Saints player, after a teammate took it out of the goalpost, celebrated a goal by calling someone on a cell phone. A repeat offender, he was fined 30K, which being less than what he makes in a game, did not cause him too many monetary worries. Some are incensed at such grandstanding, but my real beef is, "what are you celebrating?" You scored a TD vs. the NY Giants, the team whose top rusher of the game might have been the starting (backup) QB. Not something to call home about. This was a game where a penalty and trick play got the Giants to the Saints 15, where they commenced to try an ... end round! This resulted in obvious loss of yardage, and the ultimate field goal attempt was blocked, and ran in for a touchdown. The one touchdown came after a turnover, followed by a QB scramble, and three defensive penalties. Heck, the guy wasn't fined enough!

[A local reporter wrote today that the NY Giants should be riled up to beat Dallas and threaten its playoff hopes, especially given that former Giants coach Parcells heads the opposition, and to repay the team for the horrible loss that started the Giants' road to ruin. Also, it would be nice to give Fassel one more win, or the team overall. Yeah, the operative word is "should" ... many new parents have more energy at two a.m. feedings than the team seems to have these days.]

An impressive bit of stupidity followed by class came in the Kansas City/Detroit game. First of all, Detroit (bad team) actually scored seventeen points, while giving up about the same amount of points as NY ... but to KC (two losses), not to fumble prone New Orleans (seven). Anyway, the president of the Lions decided to compliment the KC for whipping his team 45-17. He also wanted to say a few words to a player he cut a couple years earlier. The player wanted nothing to do with the guy, so he does the classy thing -- he called him a homosexual (just not so nicely). The player not only tells the media that he thinks this is moronic, but notes it was especially insulting because he has gay friends. An impressive thing for a football player to say.