Denizens, this somewhat belated edition of the Perfect Football Weekend™ begins with the fallout from an incident in the N’awlins Saints-Care-ah-line-ah Pan-thahs game last week.
Carolina’s Steve Smith broke a tackle from the Saints’ Jabari Greer, and glided into the end zone, sorta non-chalanting it.  He claims  that he was protecting against his momentum carrying him into the stadium wall, but anyone who saw the play knows that that’s bullshit.
In response, New Orleans safety Roman Harper plowed into Smith and knocked him to the ground, inciting a lot of pushing & shoving by both teams.  Smith, for his part, jumped up and spun the ball on the ground, acting like the douchebag he’s known for being.
Harper was fined $15,000.
Harper’s late hit was the only penalty called. Harper said after the game that he wasn’t going to apologize.
“If you’re going to score, go score, but a guy is not going to try and just walk it in on us like that,” Harper said. “You’re going to have to pay for it as you get past the goal line.”
Now that’s  my kind of football player.  Were I his owner, I’d pay the fine for him and give him a bonus.  In fact, I wish he played for the Cowgirlz.  We have a couple of assclowns in our division who could use a little of that.
On with the football. As I write this, my Arlington Heights Yellow Jackets are taking on the Southwest Raiders Rebels.  (That’s right, FWIST and the rest of you PC pussies – I said “Rebels”.  Deal with it.)  This is gonna be Heights’ big test, and a win is not guaranteed this year – Southwest is good.
I’ve got my fingers crossed.
Saturday will be Guaranteed Win Day™ for Bob Stoops third-ranked Oklahoma Sooners, as they travel to Lawrence, KS, to play…Rock Chalk.
The line’s Kansas plus 36½.
Poor Turner.
Sunday, speaking of the Cowgirls, they’re gonna get their heads handed to them as they travel to Bahs-tun to play the New England Pansies.  And as promised two weeks ago, since El Choko’s starting, I’m pulling for the Pansies to kick the Cowgirlz’ asses.
Shouldn’t be a problem.
TCU & Nebraska are both off this week, so just for HDD, we’ll plug in fourth-ranked Bucky, who has Indiana at Camp Randall.
We’re back Monday or so for the recap.  In the meantime, HDD…I should like my chances against the Hoosiers, right?