Boring Football Saturday

There's a few of these weeks each season, one or two maybe, where we just have a bunch of clinker games available and all hope for entertainment rests with the E. Okefenokee State Possums and the University of Ponchartrain Swamp Thangs getting into a thrilling 65-64 six overtime shootout. Alas, today we don't even have that type of game to save our football addicted asses as the college season is over, with only one meaningful game left to be played some 3 1/2 weeks from now. Nor are there any NFL games today, as the league has shifted Saturday games to Thursday night on its very own, very limited access network.

So today pretty much sucks, footballwise. With any luck at all I can avoid seeing a Bruins / Thrashers score today and catch the replay tonight on NESN - even though I pay for the channel, the live games are blacked out.

We're left with the Heisman Trophy presentation, an hour of hype and good old stories to get to 5 minutes of the actual presentation and subsequent interview - WOOP! I've professed Tebow man-love here before, and won't shy away from him now. By sheer numbers, it's tough to vote against McCoy, who could go zero for twenty in his exciting upcoming matchup against Ohio Fucking State and still set the alltime completion percentage record, and just as tough to vote against Bradford as he leads an offense that's thrown down 60 against its last 5 opponents, another alltime mark. I would submit here that both have played the majority of their games against weak-assed Big 12 defenses and other cupcakes, and have stats that are inflated as a result. Florida beat then #1 Alabama, #4 LSU, and #6 Georgia by a combined score of 131-51, with Young Tim at the helm, and played an tougher overall schedule than either of his worthy foes.

Who wins? Who the fuck knows... Based on stats alone, Bradford. Toss in leadership and being the most valuable player to his team, and it's Tebow. I see McCoy as being a Ross Perot/Ralphie Nader in the voting, and I believe he'll take more votes from Bradford than Tebow, giving the Gator Great his second Heisman. If I had a vote, I guess I'd employ my basest logic - if the Patriots needed a QB, God forbid, which of these three would I draft?

T2, hands down.