It seems only fitting that as Chucky, a spin-off from the original "Child's Play" movies, debuts on SyFy & USA Networks tonight, an NFL coach who was nicknamed Chucky has seen his career come to an abrupt end.
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Despite having the Las Vegas Raiders in the thick of the AFC West race, Jon Gruden is out after some old tweets, dating back as far as 10 years ago (of course) surfaced in which Gruden made some homophobic, racist, and sexist remarks. The more recent of these haterizing tweets are tied to a New York Times investigation into the sexual harrassment scandal involving the Washington "Generics", for whom Gruden's brother, Jay, coached in 2018-19 before being sacked in favor of Ron Rivera. Jon Gruden returned to the sidelines with the Raiders around that same time after leaving ESPN, but, as we've seen time and again, it doesn't matter how far back it goes, it's still socially unacceptable in the era of #MeToo.
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Five weeks into the NFL season, and if someone told you before the season the 2-time defending AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs would be in last place by Columbus Day, you'd probably wave it off as wishful thinking.
Reality check, aisle 1!
The Chiefs (2-3) are in fact in last in the division after losing to AFC East leader Buffalo (4-1) on Sunday night. The Bills avenged their loss in the AFC title game 9 months ago. Just to illustrate the difference between the East & West in the AFC, New England has the same record as Kansas City at 2-3, but are two games out of first in the East because the Jests & Dolphins are tied for the basement at 1-4.
To be fair, it seems as though the AFC West has caught up with Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. There's something about those silly State Farm ads that will affect a player's performance now and again......!
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We are assured of a new AL representative in the World Series this season.
Defending AL champion Tampa Bay was bounced in four games by Boston, the clincher coming Monday on a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 9th. Seems the Rays dissed the BoSox by bringing along some champagne upon arriving at Fenway prior to Sunday's game.
After that mishap in protocol, the only Rays we'll be hearing from will be on oldies channels.......
Meanwhile, in Chicago, the White Sox got a forecast from meteorologist Chicken Little, and postponed game 4 vs. Houston until this afternoon. In other words, they anticipated rain was coming, and acted prematurely. We've seen that before.
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Over in the NL, San Francisco & Atlanta could close out Los Angeles & Milwaukee, respectively, in their game 4's today. Alex Wood did the unthinkable, as far as Dodger fans were concerned, in outdueling Max Scherzer, to get the Giants within a game of their first LCS since 2014.
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NHL season starts tonight, and the league has been welcomed in Seattle, where the expansion Kraken will debut this week. No truth to the rumor that Silly Sidney Powell is one of the investors. For those of you who haven't been paying attention, national broadcast rights are now shared by ESPN and TNT, just like in the NBA.
And I know I won't be the last one to make jokes about the Kraken and Powell. Trust me.
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