Super Bowl Buzz Kill

Why your team won't win the Super Bowl:



Claiming that the Bills are not going to win the Super Bowl is not really going out on much of a limb. Especially when you consider that the only thing the Bills know about the Super Bowl is losing them. Yes, it's nice to be nominated and its an honor just to reach the but game, but the Bills squandered a franchise�s lifetime history worth of Super Bowl chances in just four years. Each in dramatic fashion. For that reason, it seems the Football Gods have smited the Bills to roam football purgatory for the rest of the Earth's days.

Or at least as long as Marv Levy and Ralph Wilson continue to call the shots (which might be longer).

Evidence of this eternal damnation comes in the form of the quarterback duel of J.P. Losman and Kelly Holcomb. It's not going to make anybody forget about Jim Kelly and Frank Reich. Hell, it won't even make people forget about Joe Ferguson and Matt Kofler. Or the Vince Ferragamo and Bruce Mathison era. If it were not for the Jets, this would be the worst quarterback tandem in the NFL.

Then the club made matters worse when it hired coach Dick Jauron. When you stack Jauron up against some of the recent coaches, it doesn�t look too bad. Hey, Jauron did have one winning season in five attempts as head coach in Chicago (36-50 career mark). That's as many winning seasons as Gregg Williams and Mike Mularkey managed in five years. So Jauron should continue to the smiting as the Football Gods have deemed.


Other previews: Jets and Texans, Vikings, Jaguars.

Keep Walking, Tough Guy

Is there a bigger collection of crybabies than the Oakland A's? Outside of Mark Kotsay, who of course, doesn't fit the mold of your typical Oakland Whiner. But the club seems to continue to stack the team full of female dogs and kitty cats like Jason Kendall, Nick Swisher and third base coach Ron Jackson among others.

Jay Payton was the latest to embarrass himself on Wednesday. Payton was nicked in the hand when he swung at a Scot Shields offering and fouled off the ball. Payton was awarded first (although TV replays made it look like it hit the bat), while making like Red Foxx and asking manager Ken Macha to hold him back.

Is Lamaze coach part of Macha's job description?

This was the second time the A's have tried to scuffle with the Angels. Kendall charged the mound earlier this year when John Lackey told him to, �Put your [kitty-cat] pad out there again and see what happens, [female dog].� Jackson tried to choke Lackey out in the pile up like he was Frank Trigg or something.

And Swisher is just a [expletive] mascot.

That makes losing two of three to these clowns painful. And it's a good thing the Angels didn't get an extra bat, because that would have made no difference in these one-run games.

YouTube link of the day

Courtesy of Sars, and totally worth the 3+ minutes: Die Hard 12: Die Rockin'.

Update: I was reminded in a conversation with Fienberg that the actually subtitle of Die Hard 12 was "Die Hungry." So enjoy both.