Just a Few Thoughts

Just a few thoughts on some sports related topics…

I am not taking a side, just making an observation.  The NFL needs to find some way to get the NFL officials signed and on the field.  I think football officials are poor in general but the replacement officials are a flat out embarrassment right now.  It looks like they just pulled some schmucks off the street and gave them striped shirts.  Some don’t even appear to know the rules or what they are looking for.  It is a travesty.  Even the announcers are having a tough time biting their tongues. 

I thought so before the draft and I think so now.  Robert Griffith III is going to be a superstar.  He is already one of my favorite players.  He is like a Michael Vick with a brain.  My goodness, he is fun to watch…

Salvador Perez may just be the Royals all around best player right now.  He now has nearly 400 career at bats.  He is hitting .318 with 14 home runs and 7 pick offs.  Pitchers love him and he looks like he knows what he is doing, both behind the plate and in the batter’s box.

The Kansas Jayhawks looked better yesterday against TCU than they did in their first two games despite the loss.  TCU was simply a bigger, faster, and better football team.  KU at least was competitive.

It appears as if the Kansas City Chiefs have joined the Royals as a snake bitten franchise.  Few of their moves seem to work out.  The Chiefs look awful right now and I blame Romeo Crennel.  KC was out-schemed, out-coached, out-prepared, and out-played today.   Crennel, like Todd Haley, was Scott Pioli’s choice for head coach.  The Chiefs seem reluctant to spend money to sign superstars or take chances by drafting quarterbacks high in the draft.  Kansas City fans deserve better. 

Speaking of rookie quarterbacks, Russel Wilson, Andrew Luck, Ryan Tannehill, Brandon Weeden, and RGIII have made it look easy to be a rookie quarterback starting in the NFL thus far…

I am pulling for the Oakland A’s and Baltimore Orioles.  I love the underdogs.  These two teams are winning against teams much more willing to spend at will.  Quick – name ten players for each team!

Congratulations to the University of Louisiana-Monroe.  They marched into the home stadiums of two mighty SEC schools over the past two weeks.  They beat highly ranked and horribly overrated Arkansas in OT, then fell by a field goal to Auburn in OT.  The SEC is very good at the top, but their middle and lower tier teams are very mediocre. 

I was shocked to see all the empty seats in Doak Campbell Stadium Saturday.  Florida State is a very good football team and I couldn’t believe that place wasn’t packed, even for a cupcake non-conference game, oops, I mean conference game, against an awful Wake Forest team. 

I think KU should load up on bottom tier ACC teams for future non-con pigskin match-ups.  Rice and Northern Illinois would finish in the middle of the pack in that conference.  So would UL-Monroe.

After watching early season Chiefs and Jayhawk football games, I have but one question – Is it basketball season yet?