There are first for everything, but there is truly only one Al Davis! Raida's baby! First is Big Al, then the other three that make up my four most appreciated sports memories of the past week.
Al "was" a football genius in his hay day. His head is so hard now, that someone shot him in the forehead, and it ricocheted off. Couple of band-aids later, and Al is putting the Jedi Mind Trick on John Fox. But it appeared that Coach Jackson did his own play calling with no interference. Speaking of which...
Coaching firsts:
Coach Fox departed from Carolina to take on the job at Denver. In his debut as the Broncos general, Coach Fox and the Denver Broncos, would match up with conference rivals on Monday night for their first game of the season. They took on rookie head coach Hue Jackson and the Oakland Raiders. Here's the game in a 30 second, tell your co-workers, before the foreman gets back to shop, review:
The Broncos struck first with creating a turnover, that led to an early field goal. Then the Raiders struck back with a punt block, and advanced the ball down the field from their 40 something, on 8 plays that was capped off by a Campbell to Reece pass for a touchdown. Then another turnover a fumble gave the Raiders prime field position. The Broncos, however, held on D, and the Raiders had to settle for a field goal. OK you can go to the box score on www.espn.com for all the stats, but here's the good stuff, McFadden looked good, and broke a season opening rushing record for the Raiders with 150 yards. Sebastian Janikowski tied the NFL record for longest field goal, with a sixty three yarder. And Coach Hue Jackson won his first game as a head coach. This guy is always smiling too! Except in the picture that I used of him above the one in this paragraph.
Tom Brady threw for a Monday Night Record, and if I am not mistaken tied
the record for an opening day passing yardage record, with 517 in the
air.
Firsts Again:
Back to the college rankings. Coach Everett Withers has won his opener and second game of the season as the University of North Carolina Tar Heels new skipper. He has some work ahead of him, but I think the Heels with Coach Withers will fair just fine.
Back to the college rankings. Coach Everett Withers has won his opener and second game of the season as the University of North Carolina Tar Heels new skipper. He has some work ahead of him, but I think the Heels with Coach Withers will fair just fine.
Then back to my beloved sport of Cycling! Daniele Bennati won his first
stage at the Vuelta, and in all honesty, if he had ridden a bit tougher
and not given way to another cyclist (Team Lampre rider Alessandro
Petacchi) trying to psych, and edge him out, then he should have won the
last two stages. Not to take anything away from Peter Sagan, a three
stage winner with the last stage win. However, I feel that if Bennati
had stayed on his horse, and not been timid, he could have won. I know
it's a lot easier said than done, I wasn't the one traveling at 30 mph
per hour with a wire and foam cage for a helmet, and lycra for second
skin on my tush. Plus those metal barriers can be detrimental to the
human body as well. So Bravo on the first stage win, and on the multiple
podium finishes for Bennati! Stay strong learn from this, and hopefully
I can witness several more sprint victories of this awesome rider on a
Trek in the years to come!
