Ready for some football
While we're waiting around for the Red Sox to ruin a perfectly good postseason, there's a little football game coming up that should keep your interest, even though it features a team that went 5-11 last year and a team that went 1-15.
The Ravens, who many thought at the outset would not play any truly meaningful games this year, need to beat the Miami Dolphins to have any reason to look down the road with hope for a truly competitive season. If they lose and fall to 2-4, it's going to be very hard to position themselves for the tough second-half run that includes the Steelers, Jaguars and the four NFC East teams.
My prediction in Friday's paper: Ravens 20, Dolphins 9. I think the Ravens defense has something to prove after last week's fiasco in Indy, and I don't think the Dolphins "Wildcat" offense will be that big of a problem.
Frankly, I've never been that impressed with the Kentucky football program. I'd be a lot more worried if they had adopted the "Trojan" offense, since it scored 69 points against Washington State yesterday. ("BCS, baby! Here we come!")
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Comments
For me, living down here near Tampa, the Sox winning it would make my playoffs. I do not know about the rest of the country but down here the "fans" go from completly apathetic to obnoxious within the span of about 2 weeks. They did it with the Bucs, then the Lightning and now the Rays.
The fan base around here needs a nice punch in the gut series to toughen them up.
Posted by: Jeff V. | October 19, 2008 11:22 AM
Pete,
Nice prediction on the score, a decent season begins with beating the teams your supposed to beat!
Posted by: Keith Rowe | October 19, 2008 10:19 PM