Haas Football Weekend 2

The second Haas Thanksgiving Football Weekend kicked off the day after Thanksgiving, giving everyone a chance to sleep off turkey and corn...and a lot of cookies....

East Carolina took on Southern Methodist University on an unseasonalbly warm day in Greenville, NC in a battle of the "U"'s. ECU vs SMU....neither team remembered to bring their defense and they were both throwing the ball all over the field...The Mustangs threw it a little better and SMU went home with a 41-38 overtime win...East Carolina may have lost but they did better than Pitt. The Panthers donned their Nike "Pro Combat" uniforms, ran out onto the grass at Heinz Field in front of 63,000 rabid fans ready for the Backyard Brawl and promptly stank up the place....West Virgina walked all over the home team 35-10.

Starting off 0-2 is not good but it is not the end of the world either!

On Saturday, the UFL held its championship at historic Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebrasks. It was cold and crisp and the weather gave neither team an advantage...Las Vegas vs Florida...not exactly hailing from the snow belt...LOL

It was a great game that came down to a blocked field goal and the Locos hung on for their second straight UFL championship 23-20! Like the Green Bay Packers, they have won the first two championships....Having said that, I think that is all Las Vegas and Green Bay have in common.....

On Sunday, my Steelers jumped out to a 13-0 lead on the Buffalo Bills and then decided to take a nap in the second half! The Bills fought back to tie it at 13 before Pittsburgh hit a field goal to take a 16-13 lead late. But the Bills, sporting awful throwback unis, fought back and hit a field goal at the buzzer to tie it.

In OT, Bills receiver Fred Smith dropped the winning touchdown in the endzone and the Steelers decieded enough of this foolisheness. A long grinding drive later, the Steelers hit a field goal and won 19-16, giving me a 2-2 record so far this Thanksgiving.

Then came the Grey Cup: Canada's Super Bowl with the Saskatchewan Roughriders seeking to avenge last years loss to Montreal when they had too many men on the field. The weather was cold in Edmonton but the action melted the ice.

Unfortunatley, the Riders came up a little short, 21-18.

Then we heard Lesilie Neilson died.

When it rains, it pours.

But it was Thanksgiving and we counted our blessings---we weren't TSA perverts forced to look through someone's flab rolls at the airport!