Fotball is Here, Baseball is Basically Over for Me

With the St. Louis Cardinals grasping, hoping and waiting for some help from whomever the Cincinnati Reds are playing, MLB baseball is over for me.

Don't get me wrong, I will be rooting the Cards until the magic number reads 0, but in the meantime, the NFL is in full swing and time to switch gears and watch the gridiron on Sundays.

Ahh Sundays...the day where you can sit back, beer in hand, hot wing in the other (it would be the remote for me, but our landlord won't allow us to get Directv, so I can't get the NFL Sunday Ticket so I am forced to watch whatever is on our here.)

Anyway, The Indianapolis Colts looked terrible last Sunday. Got smoked like a pack of Kool's to the Houston Texans. Didn't actually get to watch the game (see previous note,) but I was excited about this past Sunday's...brother v. brother...Eli v. Peyton. Two Super Bowl winning MVP's.

That until the second half. I figured as usual, the Colts defense would have been left back at training camp, Eli would put up gaudy numbers, as would Peyton, and we would have an action packed game. Well, the Indy defense remembered they were to play on Sunday and showed up in full force knocking Eli around like a punching bag.

Defensive ends Robert Mathis and Dwight Freeney would tell you Eli's cologne stunk of those little beads coming off the new astro turf of Lucas Oil Stadium. No. 10 got pounded and pounded again and again. I would have been quite embarrassed if i were Tackles Kareem McKenzie and David Diehl.

What do you say to Eli after a game like that? 'Sorry we got bull rushed and you got your undies twisted all game.' After a melee like that is it appropriate to take Eli out to St. Elmo's and pay for his dinner? Would that be enough?

I know, I know, it's all part of the game, but wow, you have to feel sorry for him. No doubt about that.

The Colts poured it on and won 38-14.

Indy goes to Denver to take on the Broncos, which should be another clean up game. Eli and the Giants get to host the Tennessee Titans. Vince Young coming off a fresh benching and a beat down of the Ben Roethlisberger-less Pittsburgh Steelers should be hungry and in attack mode. That one won't be easy.