Written by Gene Zarnick | 28 September 2009

This Monday is a tough one to get through.  Not only did both my fantasy teams lose, but the Steelers lost to the frickin Bengals at the end of the game and I had to witness Penn State get dismantled by the Iowa Hawkeyes, again!  Losing sucks!  Anyone who differs with that opinion is a loser.  Everyone wants to try and put positive spins on losing and talk about falling down and getting back up, perseverance, and learning from your mistakes.  Not me.  Alright, sorry about that, that recap of those horrific events just put me in a somber mood.  Let's lighten up a little and go over what happened in the weekend of football.

So I've been ranting and ranting and ranting about how bad college football rankings are, that they really don't mean anything and are pointless, and are just made up for television purposes.  Wow, who would've thought how far RIGHT  I was!  I mean at this point in the season I'm righter then Glenn Beck at an anti-ACORN rally.  I don't know how this year compares to year's past, and I'm not going to spend my time like the Schwab researching stats all day to figure it out, but every week the rankings seem like we just take the top 25 teams, put them in a bowl, and pick a new number.  We had #4 Ole Miss lose on Thursday to South Carolina and #5 Penn State lose to Iowa.  Everyone's bandwagon team, the U, got beat up by Virginia Tech.  #6 Cal got crushed by Oregon.  Morale of the story; rankings don't mean a team is actually good and they don't mean that the game is going to be good.  The best games of the day were Michigan/Indiana and Purdue/Notre Dame.  Last little note about college football and rankings.  Can we please just have a playoff? On my drive down to State College I heard one moron radio announcer repeatedly try to defend college football and the BCS.  This guy was speaking more garbage then Kadafi speaking about jet lag.  I'd like anyone to give me some legit reasons for not having a playoff and I'll refute them for you.

So since the whole season of college football is basically a farce let's get to the NFL.  Yesterday I told you to not jump to conclusions.  Welp, I think I'm turning into a lemming because I'm about to jump.  The Jets looked good, really good.  Those are three solid victories, with a rookie quarterback leading them, and they are getting the job done.  I was so far off on the Jets!  Congratulations to Jets fan you finally have a quarterback.  Denver's 3-0 (Still iffy on them), Vikings 3-0 (more about them later), Saints 3-0 (Offense wins championships), Colts 3-0 (never doubt them), and is Baltimore 3-0 (Flacco is a beast).  All these teams look pretty impressive.  Denver's defense is looking solid, but I want to see some better competition before I'm on the Bronco's saddle.  I mean they got the fluke win against the Bengals, who should be 3-0, then they beat the Chiefs and Raiders.  The NFL is just great this year though.  Not many teams are terrible except the Cleveland Browns, St. Louis Rams, and the Washington Redskins.  The Redskins amaze me every year.  They waste their money on these horrible free agent signings and they continuously suck every year.  They lost to the Lions!  Yes, the previous year's 0-16 Lions finally got their first win in 20 games.  The Browns might be in contention with Oakland for the worst run franchise in the NFL.  Not only do they have a horrible offense and their starting QB gets  benched after going 6-8 with one interception to be replaced by the backup who throws three interceptions, but pretty much every player on the team hates the coach and are filing complaints against him for fining them over a grand for not paying for a $3 water at the hotel.  The team should fine him for being a horrible coach.  The Steelers may be 1-2 right now after two miserable losses in the last second, but at least we get to play the Browns twice a year.

Now to the biggest story of yesterday.  The man we love to hate.  Brett Favre.  The San Francisco 49ers and Vikings game was a great matchup between two very solid and balanced teams.  The 49ers had 3-0 in their sights until the one, the only, Mr. Wrangler pulled out the trickery, snapped back, and fired a bullet down the field, which allowed Greg Lewis to make a great catch and gave the Vikings the victory with only 0:02 sec. remaining.  Can any Vikings fans even pronounce Ta-var-is anymore?  I think they made wise choice.  So far.

Another great weekend and more to come next week.  In college football be on the lookout for # who cares Ohio State vs. Indiana, LSU/Georgia, and the late game, Oklahoma versus Miami.  On Sunday we get to watch Baltimore versus New England and then the game of the weekend New Orleans Saints versus the New York Jets.