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Sideline Chatter: Huskies, Seahawks really hope for the unexpected to last
By Dwight Perry The Seattle Times - 01/02/2009
SEATTLE — From the Past Performance Is Not Indicative of Future Results file:
The Detroit Lions, 4-0 in exhibition games, go 0-16 in real ones.
Pac-10 football teams, 1-6 against the Mountain West Conference during the regular season, go 5-0 in bowl games against opponents sporting a combined record of 46-14.
Eagles have landed Yes, that is Philadelphia — 5-5-1 just more than a month ago — in this weekend's NFL playoffs.
"The Eagles barely were playoff contenders entering Sunday," noted Tony Augusty of the Detroit News. "To even have a shot, the Buccaneers had to lose, the Bears or Vikings had to lose, Tony Romo had to take a homeless man to see ‘Phantom of the Opera,' Ed Hochuli had to blow a call and Bill Belichick had to smile.
"Improbably, all the scenarios we didn't make up came true." Get me rewrite Maybe we've been spoiled by too many pro rasslin' scripts, but how does Air Force not win the Armed Forces Bowl?
Pass the vanilla "No Terrell Owens. No Brett Favre. No DeAngelo Hall, Jeremy Shockey, Pacman Jones or Chad Zippo-Dumbo," noted Jeff Schultz of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "When is the last time the NFL playoffs kicked off on such a pure note?" Stopping the run Heard about the factory recall on Broncos signature watches?
The things quit ticking in mid-December.
Grab a No. 2 pencil Sports quiz question, from Chris Ferrell of the San Antonio Express-News: "The best bowl gifts for players participating in a BCS game this season are: "a) A $300 spending spree in the Sony Suite at the BCS national title game.
"b) Blu-Ray DVD players at the Sugar Bowl.
"c) The chance to see a Madame Tussauds' wax likeness of Joe Paterno at the Rose Bowl.
"d) Oops, apparently that is actually Joe Paterno." Paging Judge Smails If somebody wants to make a movie based on Steve Williams, Tiger Woods' loose-lipped bagman, Seattle Times reader Bill Littlejohn has the title: "Caddysmack." Quote marks
Steve Harvey, author of the L.A. Times' "Bottom Ten," after Cleveland's offense failed to score a touchdown in an NFL-record 24 consecutive quarters: "No surprise there. Where do you think the term ‘Brown-out' for a power shortage came from?"
Notre Dame basketball coach Mike Brey, to the Chicago Tribune, comparing the Irish's second-round opponent in the Maui Invitational with their second-game opponent during an August tour of Ireland: "Texas ain't Poland."
Steve Rosenbloom of ChicagoSports.com, after the defending-champion Red Wings ended the upstart Blackhawks' nine-game NHL winning streak Tuesday with a 4-0 romp: "Forecheck, backcheck, reality check." One and done Q: Why is Plaxico Burress finished as a New York Giant?
A: Apparently his opportunity was just a one-shot deal.
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