Everyone remembers the famous pitch pass from Antwan Randle-El to Hines Ward. Everyone remembers last year when Santonio Holmes barely scraped his toes against the red end-zone to clinch the Steelers sixth Super Bowl title. But what a lot of people don't remember, is the Steelers famous Super Bowl slump.
This past Thursday, the Super Bowl champs lost to the putrid Cleveland Browns 13-7 (luckily it wasn't on national television). This brought their record to 6-7 and killed their hopes for the postseason. After they won the super bowl in 2006, they went 8-8 the next season and fell short of the playoffs. Each of these years they were expected to be possible Super Bowl repeats. Coach Tomlin said in this past offseason they took it easy because of the extended season after winning the Super Bowl. Hows that for being coached under a bad sign?
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
The Dark Ages
As many of you know, Charlie Weis was fired as head coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team this past week. After losing his last four games, including losses to longtime rival Navy at home and emotionally struggling UCONN with the loss of their teammate Jasper Howard..this game was also at home, Coach Weis barely had enough time to get off the plane from Stanford before AD Jack Swarbrick fired him. I am a huge Notre Dame fan and I realize that yes we are a struggling program right now. Losing to Navy two out of three times, not beating USC in almost fifteen years, and beating up on Nevada, isn't what you'd call a National "Powerhouse". But Notre Dame is not the only storied program thats struggling now a days. Kids of my generation haven't seen the norm when it comes to those, so today I'm going to take you into what I like to call the dark ages of college football.
Adults that are probably twenty five years old and older grew up watching the Golden Domers beat The U and play for National Championships. They watched Michigan vs. Ohio State and actually thought Michigan could win nonethless score an offensive touchdown. They watched Nebraska plow their way through the corn country and stomp Oklahoma, Miami, and others for the Orange Bowl and the National Championship with Tommy Frazier leading the way. They watched Tennessee compete with Florida without a cocky head coach lighting a fire under their behinds. So lets come back to the present. Michigan finished last in the Big Ten this year behind horrid programs like IU and Purdue. Tennessee hasn't gone better than 7-5 in consecutive seasons in more than five years, and Nebraska seemed to have disappeared off the map of college football. Where I am getting at is that none of these four programs have ever had times that have been this bad. Its something the world has mostly never seen before. My generation is growing up to the SEC, or the Speed Excites Crowds conference, the spread offense, and the wild cat... or wild rebel.. or the leprecat..you see what I mean. People say these programs will go back to normal and the Domers will return to glory, but the way these programs are going its got me wandering.. will we ever come out of the dark ages?
Adults that are probably twenty five years old and older grew up watching the Golden Domers beat The U and play for National Championships. They watched Michigan vs. Ohio State and actually thought Michigan could win nonethless score an offensive touchdown. They watched Nebraska plow their way through the corn country and stomp Oklahoma, Miami, and others for the Orange Bowl and the National Championship with Tommy Frazier leading the way. They watched Tennessee compete with Florida without a cocky head coach lighting a fire under their behinds. So lets come back to the present. Michigan finished last in the Big Ten this year behind horrid programs like IU and Purdue. Tennessee hasn't gone better than 7-5 in consecutive seasons in more than five years, and Nebraska seemed to have disappeared off the map of college football. Where I am getting at is that none of these four programs have ever had times that have been this bad. Its something the world has mostly never seen before. My generation is growing up to the SEC, or the Speed Excites Crowds conference, the spread offense, and the wild cat... or wild rebel.. or the leprecat..you see what I mean. People say these programs will go back to normal and the Domers will return to glory, but the way these programs are going its got me wandering.. will we ever come out of the dark ages?
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