It’s a sad, sad Monday following a colossally weak weekend for football
in the State of Missouri. As a bonkers-crazy football fan, I was looking
forward to this weekend’s home games with anticipation and visions of sweeping
all three games. The sweep we saw is not the one I was envisioning.
Syracuse at Missouri
The Tigers were coming off a thrilling quadruple overtime victory,
earning just their second SEC win and their first on the road at Tennessee.
Syracuse beat a good Louisville team the week prior, but that was at home. They
wouldn’t be able to do that on the road against a rejuvenated Mizzou squad,
right? Wrong.
Unfortunately my first Mizzou game of the year was a disappointing loss
as the Tigers played porous defense, unable to stop the Orange’s quick passing
game. As a result, Mizzou (5-6) will not be going to a bowl game this year. Not
exactly what the Black & Gold faithful had in mind for its first year in
the SEC.
Jets at Rams
The New York Tebows came to town on Christian Family Day hoping to spoil
the Rams hopes to continue ascending up the ranks of improving NFL teams. After
managing to tie the mighty 49ers on the road last week, St. Louis had its
sights on a big home win. Tebow had little effect on the game, but the Jets
running game and defense did plenty. Other than the Rams’ opening touchdown
drive, the offense was anemic and the defense couldn’t stop New York’s running
game. Both teams had the same plan – run the ball, play tough D. Only one was
able to execute. The Rams fell to 3-6-1 and any hopes of competing for a Wild
Card spot were put to bed. Bengals at Chiefs
Cincinnati, coming off a huge home win over the New York Football
Giants, was hoping and easy path to its fifth win of the season in Kansas City.
The Chiefs entered the game with only one win, but the team had played the
Steelers tough in Pittsburgh on Monday Night Football and hoped to ride that
positive momentum double its season win total. Didn’t happen. I have Chiefs
season tickets, and thankfully, I couldn’t attend the game. My son took some
Mizzou buddies to their first ever Chiefs game … it was ugly. The only thing
more embarrassing than the play on the field was how not-full the stands were.
Needless to say, the Bengals stomped the Chefs (maybe they can cook better than
they play football) and set them firmly into place as the lead dog for the
first pick in next spring’s NFL Draft.
As always, thanks for reading. Join the discussion. That's what makes it fun.
Steve
