Friday, August 12, 2005
Best NFL football column by a Brookings Fellow returns.
TMQ is back for the season. If only he could predict game outcomes the way he predicted how the Space Shuttle would turn out, 25 years in advance. But he can't. The course of hugely expensive government boondogles is so much easier to foresee.
In Arena League action, the Colorado Crush defeated the Arizona Rattlers 74-69 in a game that featured 18 touchdowns and four field goals; the teams combined for 80 pass attempts and nine rushes. The Crush ended up winning the Arena League championship despite surrendering an average of 54 points a game and at one stretch going two full games without recording a defensive stop...It's been a long off-season, eh, Gregg?
In a National Women's Football Association game, the Columbus Comets beat the Tidewater Floods 100-0...
Norbert Revels of Hamtramck, Mich., beat Edgar Downs of Gary, Ind., in the 2005 Super Bowl of vibrating electronic football ... 14-0 by staging a clock-killer drive that consumed an entire quarter...
