Greatest MNF Game Ever

Somebody's getting fired in the NFL scheduling division Tuesday morning. I don't know how Seattle vs. San Francisco got put on Monday night. That was one of the worst games of the year. Each team played terribly, Seattle just happened to be mediocre as compare to S.F.'s utterly lame. This game had only one chance for greatness -- the Mike Nolan subplot. I honestly thought San Francisco had a chance before the game on that basis alone. I thought all the aura that comes with Monday night, Shaun Alexander's absence, and the Niner's desire to win one for Nolan could combine to override Alex Smith's talent and their defense's ineptitude. I was wrong. Must have been because Nolan went without a suit on a night where he surely should have had one on. In fact, the suits are the only reasons I have any respect for either Nolan or Jack Del Rio.

My night got even worse went I stopped watching that game in order to listen to the end of the Pittsburgh Penguin's game against New Jersey.
Final score: Devils 3 Pens 2. I can't bore you with a lot of hockey talk; I can't watch the games so I can't tell really what we are doing wrong, but I'm guessing it's a lot. Sidney Crosby's point streak is still intact though. It should be something to cheer for once we're winning again. There is still a long way to go in the year, I'll just hope we can turn it around. As long as Mike Lange is doing my play-by-play, I'll continue to listen no matter how bad we are.

Here's today's Gardocki: Did you know that A.J. Hawk is dating [now married to] Brady Quinn's sister? (As they pan to her just being a babe in half Notre Dame/half Buckeyes jersey from the 2006 Fiesta Bowl) R

Gardockis

'Did you know that Chris Gardocki has punted 1,177 times without having one blocked?'

Men who announce football games are, on the whole, retarded. I'm not saying it's an easy job, but after 15 years of watching sports, I know I couldn't hit a baseball or a receiver in stride, but I do feel confident that I could jump into the broadcast booth for Fox and be a sufficient color guy.

Anyway, if you watch enough, you begin to notice that even the best crews only have so much to say. There often isn't actually anything interesting to say, but they are getting paid to speak, so they do. In this case, what we like to call a 'Gardocki' comes into play. One of the most trumpeted stats over the past few years was Chris Gardocki's unblocked punt streak. Every time he did punt, without fail, at least one guy would tell us what number it was, or when Gardocki had entered the league, or some other bull that doesn't really matter. Almost every player has something 'interesting' about them that needs to be brought up once a week. We keep a running tab of the good ones at the house, so we'll post them at our leisure. After all, we do have lives... sort of. R