Spring Break
Reviewing year 2009
Adam Loghides
Issue date: 1/7/09 Section: Sports
Many are calling 2008 the best sports year in history. Time will only tell. The end of any year brings with it all kinds of different "Year in Review" columns all across the country.
I thought it would be fun to crystal ball gaze, forward think and preview what 2009 may bring - wrapped neatly - for sports fans and Beaver Nation.
January: Indianapolis Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy announces he will return next season to lead his team to its eighth consecutive playoff appearance. He waits exactly one week after his team's elimination from the playoffs to make his announcement public. His statement comes on the heels of stating we would all know his plans exactly one week after the Colts' season had ended.
In New York, Jets quarterback Brett Favre says he will need at least three months to decide whether he will be coming back next season. When a New York columnist alludes to the fact that the Jets may have fired the wrong guy (a.k.a. Eric Mangini) after the Jets late-season collapse, Favre retorts with a wink and this gem: "That columnist and Thomas Jones are welcome to come to Mississippi in April for my press conference to reveal my decision. I'll have some Pea Gumbo waiting for 'em." He leaves it up to us to decide what the "pea" stands for. Mangini gets hired by the Cleveland Browns.
February: The Detroit Lions petition the NFL to allow them to play in the Super Bowl XLIII as the AFC's representative to help boost ratings, stating they believe the AFC has no real "Super Bowl worthy" team, and they want to go for the perfect season that the Patriots failed to achieve last year. Commissioner Goodell approves the petition, saving the nation from witnessing the Titans play in the Super Bowl. The Lions fail to reach perfection as well, beating the Carolina Panthers on a last-minute touchdown throw from Jon Kitna to Calvin Johnson. After the game, ex-Lion General Manager Matt Millen is quoted as saying, "I'm going to Opryland!" Days later, Millen is found dead - shot to death while walking in Memphis looking for Opryland, which unfortunately is in Nashville. The gun used to shoot him is registered to Plaxico Burress.
I thought it would be fun to crystal ball gaze, forward think and preview what 2009 may bring - wrapped neatly - for sports fans and Beaver Nation.
January: Indianapolis Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy announces he will return next season to lead his team to its eighth consecutive playoff appearance. He waits exactly one week after his team's elimination from the playoffs to make his announcement public. His statement comes on the heels of stating we would all know his plans exactly one week after the Colts' season had ended.
In New York, Jets quarterback Brett Favre says he will need at least three months to decide whether he will be coming back next season. When a New York columnist alludes to the fact that the Jets may have fired the wrong guy (a.k.a. Eric Mangini) after the Jets late-season collapse, Favre retorts with a wink and this gem: "That columnist and Thomas Jones are welcome to come to Mississippi in April for my press conference to reveal my decision. I'll have some Pea Gumbo waiting for 'em." He leaves it up to us to decide what the "pea" stands for. Mangini gets hired by the Cleveland Browns.
February: The Detroit Lions petition the NFL to allow them to play in the Super Bowl XLIII as the AFC's representative to help boost ratings, stating they believe the AFC has no real "Super Bowl worthy" team, and they want to go for the perfect season that the Patriots failed to achieve last year. Commissioner Goodell approves the petition, saving the nation from witnessing the Titans play in the Super Bowl. The Lions fail to reach perfection as well, beating the Carolina Panthers on a last-minute touchdown throw from Jon Kitna to Calvin Johnson. After the game, ex-Lion General Manager Matt Millen is quoted as saying, "I'm going to Opryland!" Days later, Millen is found dead - shot to death while walking in Memphis looking for Opryland, which unfortunately is in Nashville. The gun used to shoot him is registered to Plaxico Burress.
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