Rod's Monday Take n Things

I would just like to take this opportunity to thank the New York Giants for particpating in this year's NFL season. What a pathetic performance Eli and boys put on yesterday at the Metrodome. It was just as bad if not worse as the Bengals last night in New York. How somebody, who calls themselves a professional football player and plays the game for a living can put out an effort like the Giants did yesterday is baffling to say the least. You can not tell me that the Vikings are that, so much better, than the Giants. The Giants owner is one unhappy individual today and says heads are going to roll except for coach Tom Couglin and the General Manager, the two individual responsible for putting a team like the Giants on the field yesterday. Meanwhile, I am cautiously optomistic once again about the Bears. They looked like a team that knew what they were doing yesterday. Granted, they were playing Detroit, but it was at Detroit. Maybe, just maybe when the Bears get an offensive coordinator that understands the personell he has now and not 5 years ago they might make some strides. And for all of the Tavris Jackson nay sayers out there, Dante Culpepper will be available on the free agent market this off season. He was really not good yesterday and he was auditioning as the TV announcers would say for a job for next year. By the way, you can figure out the importance of the game by the pecking order of the announcers. The Bears and Lions had Chris Meyers and Trent Green yesterday. Meyers might be a good studio host but not as the play by play guy. And Trent Green comes accross as a nice guy but proving that quarterbacks aren't always the smartest guy on the team. Although I am living proof that the play by play guy isn't always the smartest guy on the team. And I in basketball anyway "is the team". Especially when it comes to describing the excitment of the athletic director's application of duct tape to hold the the rim of one of the baskets together. Always look for a ladder first is what I always say. (In case your unaware of what in the world I am talking about, go to the webcast of the Governors and Rapid City Stevens boys basketball game on www.dakotaradiogroup.com and listen in during the third quarter. Bet Joe Buck and Al Michaels couldn't of done a whole lot better). They might. They have higher contracts than I. But then some of the Giants players have better contracts than some of the Vikings players too. Eli is coming was more like Eli has left.