The Highs....

And The Lows...

Damn Packers....

Rambling after week 10...

So here we are, its Tuesday morning and I'm getting some Ramblings down a bit early today (although these words won't find their way to the old internet until the usual time - this evening - I suspect). We had a great week of BIG action over the past couple days and the division races (for the most part) are getting pretty tight. Let's run a quick recap...

So here we go....

In the Bulldog...Jason's team bounces back from a week 9 loss, and takes down Smitty behind the strength of Curtis Martin's 2 TD game against the Ravens D. This moves the Red Horse to 8-2 on the season, 4-0 in the division and a comfortable 2 game lead in the division. The Little B's continue their climb up from the basement to move into a tie for 2nd in the division with a win over fellow PHS coach Juice (who is now on a 6 game skid). Juice matches Mike as the only two teams in the league to not have picked up at least 1 division win...and that is not a good thing (at least for them). Up next week....LRH vs. Juice and LB's vs. Fat British Pigeons.

In the Husky...Wonger breaks his 3 game losing streak and embarrasses the Tang 138-100. As long as Owens goes, Wonger will go as well...as a sidenote, doesn't it seem like T.O. has played a major part in determining our league champion over the past 5 years? Either he's been on the winner or someone lost because they had traded him away (or sometimes the 2nd place team had traded him to the first place team). Anyway, just a thought I had. Tang got his points from his two QB's (Culpepper and Vinatieri), but no one else showed up. In the other matchup, GOO's big gun Manning took down Nookie 96-63. Ben had Tiki and that's pretty much it. Next week....Tang tangles with GOO while Wonger gets a shot at Nookie.

Finally, to the Bison...The Fantasy Superior might finally be showing us a little something. Jugsie is now on a six game winning streak and has taken sole possesion of the Bison lead as he hands Mike his 10th loss of the year. But, hot on his heels at 6-4 are both The Flying Hellfish and Air JC thanks to JC's big win over the 'Fish in week 10. As Madden might say, this division is a three team horse race and Jugs will have to earn this division title as he faces JC, The Hellfish, Tang and Wonger down the stretch. Up next week for the Bison...Your Fantasy Superior vs. Your Fantasy Commish and Your Flying Hellfish vs. Your Team Trying to play Spoiler (you know Mikey will get 1 win...the question is against whom?).

And, oh yea....my weekly edition of "IF THE PLAYOFFS WERE TODAY" (think of a nice echoing announcer saying that)

Bulldog: Jason's Little Red Horse (8-2)
Husky: Wong's Wong's LD's (5-5) [*takes 3rd division tiebreaker over Tang - see rules page]
Bison: Jugs's Fantasy Superior (7-3)
Wildcard: Suomala's Flying Hellfish (6-4) [*takes 2nd wildcard tiebreaker over LB's, JC and Smitty]

So let's move on to the Ramblings portion of today's show....

Today after reading a bit of a crazy story during my morning online tour of the news/sports world, I decided to add a short, altered type of a Blog on the Green/Porter incident....enjoy (and I swear I made none of this up...we're dealing with professional athletes people, no need for fiction here)

Story 1 Headline - Lewis: Bengal was spit on in Redskins game

JC's Comment: So does this bring up Magic Johnson type issues?  Really, who spits?  (Other than certain writers when they have a few too many cocktails down in FLA)  Sean Taylor is once again proving just what kind of high quality, mature young men emerge from the University of Miami's football program (remember that he is a rookie that has already been arrested for DWI earlier during the regular season). Also, I enjoyed seeing the fight between Willie and Joey....actually, I enjoy really any time being able to watch pro athletes prove how stupid they are on national television.

CINCINNATI (AP) -- Coach Marvin Lewis said one of his Cincinnati Bengals was spit on during a 17-10 victory in Washington, and he hopes the NFL does something to crack down.

Receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh confronted Redskins safety Sean Taylor at the end of the game Sunday, but declined to say why.

"It had nothing to do with physical contact," Houshmandzadeh said afterward. "He's a punk."

Lewis said Monday that one of his players -- he wouldn't confirm it was Houshmandzadeh -- got spit on. The receiver wasn't available for comment.

"We had a player spit on yesterday, and that's not right," Lewis said. "It's something that's been escalating from certain players. Hopefully the league will do something to cut it out."

Joe Gibbs, at his news conference Monday, was asked about Lewis' comments.

"I wasn't aware of that until you just mentioned it," Gibbs said.

Taylor refused to comment. He hasn't spoken to the media since he was arrested and charged with drunken driving on Oct. 28.

Before their game in Cleveland on Sunday, Browns running back William Green and Steelers linebacker Joey Porter took swings at each other and were ejected. Green appeared to spit at Porter, who hit Green in the mouth.

Story 2 Headline - Brown's Green, Steeler's Porter Kiss and Make Up

JC's Comment: Aww, isn't that cute. They must have both calmed down and realized that they earn rediculous amounts of money and are above the law....and then exchanged a laugh. Now let's put this incident into 'real world' perspective (and NO not MTV-style Real World). Let's say our favorite northland sports guy Chris Long is covering a Proctor football game at good old Egerdahl and during his pre-tape cals, he and bitter rival Jason Kuss of hated KBJR come a bit too close and exchange pleasantries. Soon thereafter, they are spitting on each other and throwing wild, eyes-closed roundhouses that miss by about the length of an average Eddie George carry. Would Chris and Jason still have jobs, much less be paid for their day of work? I think not, but I'm guessing that Willie and Joey will still take home a good chunk of change (yea, the NFL will probably fine them, but I'd bet all I have that they don't take away their full game check).

BEREA, Ohio -- They spit in each other's faces, exchanged a few wild punches and several nasty, not-fit-for-print words during pregame warmups.

Then, Cleveland running back William Green and Pittsburgh linebacker Joey Porter got thrown out together -- before the opening kickoff.

But like two school kids sent to detention for fighting during recess, the two are friends again.

Wait a second. Aren't the Browns and Steelers supposed to hate each other?

"We talked after the game and we both realized that it kind of got out of control," Green said Monday. "It's not something that we want to do as players and we apologized to each other and we left it at that. There's no hard feelings."

What's next, exchanging Christmas cards?

Green regretted his fight with Porter, which began with the two players jawing at each other as the teams went through their pregame drills.

Green said the trash talking quickly escalated once both took off their helmets.

"We kind of got into it, we were saying different words and the next thing I know I feel glock of spit shoot in my face and it just kind of went from there," Green said. "He spit in my face and that's when I went back at him and pushed him and I spit back at him."

Green said he doesn't know what prompted Porter to spit in his face.

The third-year back missed eight games last season when he was suspended by the NFL for failing the league's substance-abuse policy. He's sorry for his latest episode.

"The last thing I want to do is get ejected from a game," he said. "I'm sorry about that as far as my teammates go, but things happen sometimes and things all went wrong, I wish I could take it back."

Porter was unavailable for comment. The Steelers, who won 24-10, were off on Monday.

Browns coach Butch Davis said he spoke with Green about the fight and is confident he won't have any other problems.

"He just shouldn't have gotten involved in it," Davis said. "Hopefully, it will be something that will never happen again."

Green was not permitted to be near the field and watched the Browns lose to their archrival from a luxury box. He said Porter contacted him on his cell phone afterward.

"He got the number somehow and gave me a call, and if not, maybe I would've given him a call," Green said. "We're professionals, we have families to feed and it's not something we want to have riding on our heads."

Green said his next apology would be to Browns owner Randy Lerner.

"I will go and find him and let him know 'Mr. Lerner, that's not the kind of person I am,'" he said. "On TV it looks bad, it looks like I just take off and push him and spit in his face, but that's not the way it happened. The last thing I would do is spit in another man's face."

So let's close this thing up here since I have class in a short while, and move on to this morning's top 10 list...

Top Ten Signs You're Watching Too Much Football

10. You spend all your free time baking brownies for John Madden.

9. You've been banned from Paulson's Super Value for spiking coconuts.

8. You actually watched the Lions-Redskins game on Sunday.

7. You dump Gatorade on the old lady after a spectacular dinner.

6. Most humans: 75% water, you: 75% top-the-tater.

5. Someone says, "Pass the turkey," and you hurl that SOB 60 yards.

4. You paid $22 million to have Randy Moss shovel off your driveway.

3. For the last two months, you've been wearing nothing but a team bandana.

2. You fell in love with your wife because she looks like John Madden.

1. After sex, you always go for the 2-point conversion.

Thanks...you've been great...see ya next week...

Need I say more?