An advice column for people who live with people who live for sports
What happened on Sunday, December 7, 2014?
A very full day of NFL football: Because of bye weeks and Thanksgiving, yesterday was the first Sunday since ten weeks ago that featured the maximum number of NFL teams playing in one day — 28. That is a full day of football! If you missed even a small part of it or, you know, all of it, leverage our one liner recaps of all the games to find out what happened. Line: Sixteen games in one day is a lot to track, even if there weren’t anything else in the sports world going on.
Goodbye and congratulations to Landon Donovan: Landon Donovan has been the face of U.S. soccer for the past fifteen years, even to some extent this summer when he was left off the U.S. Men’s World Cup team. Yesterday, he played his last game as a professional before retiring, and he went out on top! His team, the Los Angeles Galaxy, beat the New England Revolution in the Major League Soccer Cup 2-1 in overtime. It’s a hard pill to swallow for the Revolution, who remain the only original MLS team never to win a regular season title or championship. Line: Good for Landon, he gave us some great memories during his career, and frankly, I think he deserved better treatment from us and from the national team.
The first college football playoffs are set: This year was supposed to be a big break through in college football. For the first time, after years of lobbying for this from fans, there is going to be a playoffs instead of simply a championship game. Yesterday, the four teams to make the playoffs were announced by the selection committee. Fans of Oregon, Alabama, Florida State, and Ohio State are happy. Fans of TCU and Baylor are unhappy. Everyone else is slowly shaking their heads and thinking that a playoff with four teams just shifts the arguments about who gets left out from the third and fourth position to the fifth and sixth. Line: I’m not really sure a four team playoff improves anything. Look at college basketball where there are 68 teams that make the playoffs and people still obsess and fight about the teams left out.
