Big Ben Roethlisberger, Findlay High School alum, threw the game winning TD pass to Santonio Holmes to lead the Pittsburgh Steelers to his 2nd Super Bowl victory in 4 years. They won 27 to 23. They now have won 6 Super Bowls in all.
Awesome game.
Cleveland Browns: At least we aren’t the Detroit Lions
Well this picture from Sunday’s game says it all. Cleveland Browns fans have had a bad year following our favorite team but at least we aren’t fans of the Detroit Lions. Our team seemed to have gained momentum after the 10-6 season last year but this year it started off bad and got worse.
I kind of knew things were going to be bad when they had so many injuries during preseason. The team just couldn’t get back on track. Starting 0-3 was bad. Having Pro Bowl QB Derrick Anderson either throwing an interception, into the ground, or having his wide outs drop everything – that was bad.
The offense just stunk up the place aside from lineman Joe Thomas. When an opposing team can stack the box knowing the passing game sucks then the running game stinks. After Sunday’s game the announcers said Cleveland has gone 20 quarters without an offensive TD.
Even Phil Dawson has had off year kicking field goals.
There is a clamoring for coach Romeo Crennel to be fired and that may happen but they also need to get rid of some dead weight.
In one game Braylon Edwards was dropping every pass coming his way and they still threw to him several more times after that. If I was coach I would bench Edwards for the dropped passes until he showed he could hang on to them.
The defense has been the only bright spot for the team but the offense needs to put points on the board.
Oh, well… maybe next year…
Dear Michigan Football Fan
I just learned that due to the loss to Purdue on Saturday, you will miss going to a bowl game and will have a losing season for the first time since 1967.
Don’t be too sad. Change sucks. You have a new coach with a new system but you just didn’t have the players for it.
I know how you feel. Back in 1987, Ohio State fired Earle Bruce – old 9 and 3 Earle – as we use to call him because of the many 9 and 3 season records. OSU hired John Cooper who’s only claim to fame was beating you guys back in the 1987 Rose Bowl as coach of Arizona State.
In Cooper’s first season we went 4-6-1. That included being blown out by Pittsburgh and Indiana and not going to a bowl game.
So change does hurt but Coach Rodriguez is a good coach and once his recruits come in you will get better – but I hope not too much better…. (grin)
Hopefully we beat you this year but it would be better if you were a good team.
Good luck next season.
USC loses to unranked team and drops only 8 spots
The weekly football polls came out this afternoon and there was an interesting look to it.
University of Southern California, which was the number 1 team coming into this weekend, was listed as 9th in the AP Poll and 11th in the USA Today Poll.
The funny thing is that USC lost to an UNRANKED team and dropped the same number of spots that Ohio State (then 5th ranked) dropped when it lost to USC in week 2.
Wisconsin lost to an unranked team and dropped 8 spots too.
Basically the poll voters didn’t seem to care who the loss was against except when it was Ohio State in week 2.
I think that vote was a response to the left over hate from last season when people didn’t think Ohio State deserved to be in the Championship game.
Georgia, which was 3rd this past week, dropped 8 places after losing to 8th ranked Alabama and Florida dropped 8 spots after losing to an unranked team.
I just think a team should drop more if the loss is to an unranked team.
In 2007, Michigan was ranked 5th before they lost to a division 2 team and they dropped out of the polls.
Great game but wrong result for the Findlay Trojans
Ugh! At the end of 3 quarters I thought Findlay would pull out the victory, but a muffed punt close to the goal line ended the try.
There won’t be an asterisk next the “L” Findlay got for Friday’s 41-34 loss to Upper Arlington.
And FHS coach Mark Ritzler doesn’t want one.
“We’re not into moral victories. We were out here to win,” Ritzler said.
Findlay’s effort against a powerhouse Upper Arlington team went into the books as a loss only in the technical sense, however.
The Trojans overcame a 13-0 deficit to forge a 17-13 lead, erased a 10-point third-quarter deficit to tie the game heading into the fourth quarter, and almost overcame 14 points in the final 5 minutes.
“I told the guys I’m proud of them and I’m proud to be their coach,” Ritzler said. “I was proud of the way they kept coming back and fighting. They never gave up.”
Next up is traditional powerhouse Cincinnati Moeller in Cincinnati.
Good luck to Coach Mark Ritzler and the Trojans!
And thanks always to WFIN for streaming the games on the Internet for us expats.
PS – you can also hear University of Findlay games on the Internet as well. Go Oilers!