NFL week 9, and lots of footbally goodness

Happy Friday everybody.

First, NFL picks. They go a little like so this week: Atlanta, Baltimore, Dallas, Buffalo, Houston, Kansas City, Chicago, New Orleans, Jacksonville, Minnesota, Cleveland, Denver, Indianapolis, Oakland.

Next up, a tribute to punt and kick-return touchdowns. The inspiration for this was Mewelde Moore’s punt-return touchdown Monday night against New England. Moore’s return cut New England’s lead to 17-7, and not only pulled the Vikes back into the game, but energized the Metrodome and gave his team new life. Well, at least until the end of the commercial break. New England followed-up Moore’s punt-return TD with a 74-kick return by rookie Laurence Maroney. The only thing that stopped Maroney was one of his own blockers. That set the Pats up at Minnesota’s 21-yard line, and three plays later the score was 24-7, and the game was effectively over.

Which brings us to the ode to kick returns, care of some quick YouTube-ing.

Devin Hester from the Arizona game.

I think this is from a high school game, and it’s awesome.

Remember Dante Hall?

I haven’t decided if this clip would be better or worse with a play-by-play call.

Can somebody teach these boys how to celebrate a major?

Good crowd noise on this one.

Go Reggie! Go Reggie! Whoooo!

That last one is priceless. I think that guy loves Reggie Bush more than I do.

Moving along, I’ve got you in my sights Peter Griffin, err, Ted Nonis. Ted, Ted, Ted. Ted. Ted. What the hell were you thinking? You run to a commerce meeting in Vancouver and spout off about basically having a job? You’re a moron. You can complain all you like about the new free agency rules in the NHL, you can complain all you want about the new scheduling format in the NHL, but you still don’t know the first thing about assembling a team. You fell into a very good Vancouver team, made one good trade, and still haven’t shown any inclination toward putting this team over the top. Futhermore, it says here, you won’t even get a chance to be a hypocrite when all is said and done because you’ll be out of a job before Sidney Crosby is an unrestricted free agent. The biggest issue here, is all the general managers and talking head crying about the new free agency system in the NHL. Without it, there isn’t a 2005-06 season, and there may not even be a league anymore. Shut up and live with it. Have a nice weekend everyone.