An advice column for people who live with people who live for sports
Friday, October 24
Anything you can do…: The San Diego Chargers are a really good football team. Nothing about losing 35-32 to the Denver Broncos last night makes me think differently and that’s what’s so remarkable about the Denver Broncos right now. They look like they are playing football on another level. Everyone else is playing checkers while they’re playing chess. Everyone else is strolling around while they’re racewalking. It’s pretty impressive. Line: The Denver Broncos are just playing on a whole nother level right now.
Fallen Giant: The Boston Bruins have struggled to start the season. They lost last night, 3-2 to the New York Islanders, to fall to 4-5 on the year but the bigger loss was that of their 6’9″ captain, Zdeno Chara. Chara damaged some ligaments in his knee (no more specific information is available) and is said to be out for 4-6 weeks. Line: A slow start is not all that worrying but losing Chara for any sustained time is.
Huskies put up a fight: The college football game between the 1-5 Connecticut Huskies and the 5-1 East Carolina Pirates was not expected to be close. Vegas had the Pirates as a 28 point favorite. The Connecticut Huskies looked ready to upset their opponents when they scored 14 points in the third quarter to tie the game. The East Carolina Pirates fought back in the fourth quarter and scored the final 10 points of the game to win 31 to 21. Line: Connecticut made it closer than people though but in the end, the Pirates’ class showed.
