The New England Patriots got back on the winning track Sunday, avenging a Super Bowl loss to Philadelphia by holding off a late Eagles rally to win, 17-10, but the story here is that, in what might be a first, Tom Brady went the entire game without throwing a touchdown pass.
Instead, receiver/kick returner Julian Edelman, on an option play, threw the game winning TD pass. Brady, in his 19th season out of Michigan, was only too happy to let someone else be a hero. The problem is that everyone assumes he'll win the game every time, but as has been demonstrated in recent Super Bowls, other players, such as Malcolm Butler (now with Tennessee) and James White were the real heroes ignored by the mass media.
It's not going to get easier, not with Dallas coming to town next week.
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Sam Darnold threw a career high 4 TD passes, to four different receivers, as the Jests beat the Washington Trumpets, 34-17. Ex-Trumpet Jamison Crowder, one of New York's off season acquisitions, caught the last of the four TD's.
At least the Jests can say they're not tanking.
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ESPN bloviator Stephen A. Smith is whining about Colin Kaepernick, and how the ex-San Francisco QB-turned-social activist moved a public workout on Saturday to a less glamorous location because of NFL questions about liability insurance or some such. You never played the game, Screamin' A, so shut up already.
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Kanye West's first hit single was "Jesus Walks". He'd like you to believe his career has come full circle.
West now claims he's given his life to Christ, and his "Sunday Service" tour brought him to Joel Osteen's megachurch in Texas on Sunday. A scheduled 7 pm (CT) program ran late, predictably, though an 11 am service ran smoothly. West is touring to promote his new CD, "Jesus is King", his first Christian record. However, he can't let go of his ego, proclaiming himself as the greatest artist God has ever created.
I'm pretty sure there are more than a few folks who are looking at this with a side eye, thinking that West is working the masses. Well, let me give West some advice, through the Good Book itself.
"Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up."--James 4:10 (King James version).
"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."--Proverbs 16:18 (King James version).
And, then, there is the wisdom of football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers, whose credo was, "The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third". The last part of that statement was the title of Sayers' 1970 autobiography.
Current athletes, such as injured Trumpets QB Case Keenum, are also Christians, and follow the same credo. It would really be a miracle if West did the same, and got wife Kim to follow suit.
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While police are still searching for a gunman who cut down five men at a NFL watch party in Fresno on Sunday, another jackass showed up in a Walmart parking lot in suburban Duncan, Oklahoma earlier today, and reports have at least three people dead. No one's sure if the shooter was one of the three.
Couple these two incidents with a school shooting in Santa Clarita, California a few days ago, and you wonder when this nonsense will ever stop. It won't, sadly, until school administrators and law enforcement officials begin looking into the psychiatric profiles of some of these shooters, and what their motivations are. Trying to pin the blame on the NRA (which isn't doing anyone any favors) isn't helping, but rather, hindering the cause.
"The mind is a terrible thing to waste."--United Negro College Fund slogan, dating back to at least the 60's.
This is so true, and yet, so many people are so willing to go ahead and waste their futures because of low self-esteem, lack of confidence, etc., and an unwillingness to seek help when it's available to them.
The Bible teaches children to obey their parents in the Lord, for it is the right thing to do. Unfortunately, that homily is lost on a lot of today's families.
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