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NAPLES — If only we paid as much attention to government and the politicians as we do to our sports.
That’s why this mess is our fault.
It’s all about priorities. I love sports, but don’t we all love our country more? Time to get back in the game, folks. We’ve sat on the sidelines for too long.
With that said, imagine if we could swap out politicians the way we do fantasy football players?
Talk about accountability!
Just wanted to get that off my chest.
Now we return to the regularly scheduled topics, already in progress.
• If the Dolphins win in Houston today, they will be playing a game with playoff ramifications Dec. 7 against Buffalo (in Toronto). Lose to the winless Texans and they will be nothing more than a spoiler.
Ditto Tampa Bay. Beat Carolina and you are an NFC South contender. Lose and you’re an 8-8 team.
• At first glance, Naples beating Estero 91-0 should be cause for a blistering column about Golden Eagles coach Bill Kramer.
Upon further review, Naples ran only 32 plays to Estero’s 41.
Is it the Eagles’ fault they scored on 10 of them?
Is it Kramer’s fault that his team scored three defensive/special teams TDs?
Take heart, Estero. I’m familiar with a girls basketball team that lost to an arch rival 108-12. Two years later, those same girls beat that arch rival.
• Lee County can’t find $539,000 to keep the DARE program going for another year, but they will find $50 million dollars so the Boston Red Sox (a billion-dollar franchise) can have a nicer spring training stadium to play 16 games in every March?
When your teen gets in trouble with drugs, will the Red Sox pay for rehab?
It’s a moot point. The Red Sox are gone, and have been for four months.
In 2010, say hello to the Baltimore Orioles.
• NASCAR attendance is down 10 to 15 percent. It really is the economy, stupid.
• As a New York Mets fan, I shouldn’t be feeling this way but I hope the Philadelphia Phillies win the World Series.
Philadelphia’s fans are way too good (tough and angry, but terrific) to have gone 25 years without a championship in the four major team sports.
• If BYU is the only undefeated team in college football, should they get a shot to play for the national championship?
I say no, but I think it would happen anyway.
• I said the Red Sox were crazy for trading Manny Ramirez. I said they will never win the World Series with Jason Bay in his place.
Is it too late for a mea culpa?
• I said the Packers were crazy to get rid of Brett Favre for Aaron Rodgers. I said in a year-to-year league you don’t trade away your franchise quarterback when you are on the cusp of winning a Super Bowl.
Is it too early to say “I told you so?”
If Favre was still in Green Bay, the 2-3 Packers would be 4-1.
• The NHL season is under way. Before the World Series is over, so too will the NBA season.
Why?
Fifty-game seasons would be perfect. Eighty-plus is ridiculous and all about greed.
If we are losing 25 percent of our investment portfolios because of the economy, can’t the NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball lose 25 percent of their seasons because of it as well? That would make the NBA/NHL seasons roughly 60 games and the MLB season 120.
If we applied the same formula to NASCAR, their season would have ended three weeks ago.
Labor Day weekend would mark the end of the PGA Tour season.
It all sounds too good to be true.
• The Phillies and Dodgers played a 3-2 game Thursday night that lasted 2 hours, 29 minutes.
The Rays and Red Sox played a 2-0 game Friday night that lasted more than 3:30.
I don’t know what takes longer, getting elected president or an American League playoff game.
• Do you get the feeling that the loser of today’s New England-San Diego game will miss the NFL playoffs? I do.
• I’ve been burned a few times since 2000, but I think Florida State football has turned the corner.
• The Buccaneers should sign safety John Lynch to a contract for the rest of the season. They unceremoniously cut him three years ago in the biggest PR disaster of Jon Gruden’s tenure. The 37-year-old Bucs legend is sitting at home, itching to play one more season. Sign him. Let Lynch and Derrick Brooks go out together.
Besides, the distraction may keep Bucs fans from realizing they still don’t have a franchise quarterback or impact player on offense.
Mr. Gruden, this is year seven.
Fans are getting itchy.
David Moulton is co-host of “Miller and Moulton in the Afternoon.” The show airs weekdays 3-6:30 on AM 770 ESPN Radio. You can e-mail David at: sportsgoober@hotmail.com.
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I can barely understand this blah, blah, blah sports is more important than country...what the heck is he trying to say?
SAY IT!
And NHS should've stopped at fifty points....call it a game and be a good winner. Now they look like poor winners who would rather masacre the other team, than win a game.
Is it Kramer's fault?
YES
YES
and
YES
Ask any of his second and third and fourth stringers who will never play football until they are SENIORS in high school or football prodigies he recruited at five from the Naples Gators.
Football's a very sad situation in Collier County. Just ask the thirty something that played for Immokalee H.S.?
If that doesn't tell U something about football here, than U need to wake up and smell the sick pigskin they call football games in Collier County.
#1 Posted by beetlejuice on October 13, 2008 at 7:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)
ohh beetlejuice, beetlejuice, beetlejuice (will that make u disappear?)
I get it that you have a hard time reading & comprehending - He's not saying that sports is more important than our country he's saying that WE have put sports ahead of country.
In case you didn't know - you can't just quit at 50 points - if you quit at 50 points you lose. The other team can quit but if you quit you lose. He could have been an idiot & told his kids to lay down when Estero put the ball in play so they could score - but then really what is that teaching your kids? He did what he should have done - he pulled his first string players & put his 3rd & 4th string players on the field. Should he tell those kids who don't get much play time to quit, give in, play soft, or stop running when you see daylight? NO
And since you seem to pull pieces from things to create a picture you want others to see I will explain one more thing for anyone ignorant enough to take something you say to heart. The 30 year old football in Immokalee was a 5 foot nothing 120lb replacement kicker who maybe put up 3-4 extra points in a season that Immokalee was beating their opponents by double digits every game. He didn't change the outcome of any game.
It's people like you who blow things out of proportion that have burdened high school sports with the weight they currently have to carry. EASE UP - they are just kids playing a game. I'd prefer the kids take the lessons their coaches are teaching that the junk you are selling. Anyone that would like their kids to learn to bury the hatchet in whoever turns their back first can register them in beetlejuice101 next fall.
#2 Posted by DCoop on October 13, 2008 at 10:51 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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