The day after Thanksgiving is usually the day of the Backyard Brawl between Pitt and West Virginia but with the Mountaineers running off to the Big 12 (or 13? Or 14?) and Pitt leaving for the ACC next year, the future of the Brawl is uncertain.
Nonetheless, there was football on Friday when the East Carolina Pirates and Marshal Thundering Herd both suffered from defensive amnesia. The battle in Greenville, NC resembled a cross between tennis and basketball and even went into overtime. In the end, ECU won by the incredible score of 65-59.
Saturday saw Pitt host not West Virginia but the Scarlet Knights of Rutgers. Pitt got the win, 27-6 and improved their record to 5-6. A win over South Florida would put them at .500, which is better than I thought they would do.
On Sunday, Canada had her Super Bowl. The hometown Toronto Argonauts dismantled the invading Calgary Stampeders 35-22 and the Grey Cup gets to stay in Toronto...until next year.
Then my Steelers stank worse than rotten turkey, loosing the ball eight (!) times and handing Cleveland (!!) a 20-14 victory. The Steelers are not the same without Big Ben.
Since the UFL fell apart and the Las Vegas Locos are no more, I replaced them in my football continuum with the Carolina Panthers. The Panthers, suffering through a bad year, walked into Philly with a 2-7 record, harassed the Eagles on their home field, and walked out with a 30-22 win.
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