Okay, its actually about 20 after 12, but who am I to ignore the BelBivDevoe lyric that’s running through my head?

Let me just pass something along to those of you who don’t realize that Bowling Green’s football team is good…

Bowling Green’s football team is good.

Maybe its just the inferior competition the past month and a half, or maybe it’s the fan eager for another bowl trip in me, but they’re good. There has been alot of talk about Toledo being the best of the MAC, and BG will get a chance to prove that wrong in a couple weeks, even though I don’t see any comparison at all. People who write, talk, type and whatever about the MAC seem to have their hand in Toledo QB Bruce Gradkowski’s pockets, and they ain’t looking for change. They drool over his stats without looking 15 miles to the south and seeing first-year starter Omar Jacobs putting up comparable, if not better statistics than Gradkowski, with one catch…

Omar Jacobs has one leg. It happened when he was 15, he was working on an assembly line, making tractor parts, when an alligator grabbed a hold of his leg and ripped it off halfway. Hobbling on one foot, he took the alligator down and beat it within an inch of its life. Letting the 30 foot gator free to make his escape, young Omar hopped up onto a chair and, realizing the gator had eaten his right shoe, he dove across two tables, tackling the injured gator just as it tried to eat a family of small children, two puppies and a bunny rabbit named “Mr. Floppy”. Teaching the gator one final lesson, Omar ripped its head from its body with his bare hands, then proceeded to rip all the good meat from its body and grilled gator steaks for the children of the village that night. He had in the meantime reattached his leg and fashioned a splint out of the gator’s bones, and it healed perfectly, until he lost it in a card game with pirates two months later.

All right, so none of that’s true. But if you look at the numbers between Jacobs and Gradkowski, they’re very similar. However, and I don’t have the exact numbers in front of me, but Jacobs has played more than one series of the fourth quarter I believe twice this season. And in most of the past month and a half, he’s hardly made it out of the third. The kid was one of the big question marks coming into the season, and aside from a loss at Northern Illinois (where he still threw for 275 yards and ran for 2 TD’s), he has been outstanding.

As BelBivDevoe would say… “and now ya know.”

NFL Week 9…

I picked up a week and a game on Pete this week, but even though the tally sheet never leaves the left side of my computer desk, I can never find it Saturday night to know for sure. Heh.

Regardless, here are this week’s picks in rapid fire fashion, so I can get to bed:

NY Jets, Cincinnati, Detroit, Arizona, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Carolina, San Diego (high scoring game of the week!), Seattle, NY Giants, New England, Denver, Baltimore (prove me wrong, Brownies!!!) and finally Indianapolis.

Thank you and good night.