Week 17: Endings & Beginnings

Christmas & New Years - The Most Wonderful Time of the Year for Sports ...

Happy Holidays from Jason & Michelle
Witten.
Courtesy of dallasnews.com.

The holiday season is full of parties, events, family, and sports.  Christmas Day featured a special NFL game, a day full of NBA games, and a couple of college football bowl games.  Every day since then, there has been at least one bowl game on television.  New Years Day is the day for bowl games and the NHL Classic.  Does anyone actually have time to watch all of these games?

We had the pleasure of watching the Cowboys game on Christmas Day, even without NFL Network, thanks to the Dallas CW station.  Before the game, we watched "A Cowboys Christmas," which featured Tony Romo interviewing his fiancee and several other players with their families.  (Click here to watch part of the special.)  We also watched the Vikings game on Tuesday night with my parents.  It was great watching the Vikes beat the Eagles in spite of having to wait out the blizzard.

Today, of course, is the last week before the playoffs.  None of my favorite teams are going to make it.  So I'll wait to see what happens today and then pick someone to follow to Cowboys Stadium for the Super Bowl.

... Weddings and Babies Too

Apparently, the holiday season is a great time to get engaged, married, or to have a baby.  After Tony Romo and Candice Crawford were engaged, many other celebrities have been announcing engagements, surprise weddings, pregnancies, and the birth of babies.  No other NFL players have big news, but I'm hoping Michael Vick gets married or the Manning brothers become fathers in 2011.

Brett Favre to Retire (Again)

This is how we should remember Favre.
Courtesy of SI.

The Vikings are playing their last game of the season today and Brett Favre says it's also his last game (again).  Since it is his last game (for the fourth time), he wanted to play but will be inactive due to the concussion that occurred during the game at the University of Minnesota.  

I really hope that Favre stays retired this time.  Both his pride and body would have benefited from not getting on that plane this season, but he can't change the past.  He definitely needs to go home, recuperate from all of his injuries, and lay low for a while.  He is a talented player, but made the mistake of trying to play too long.

Hopefully, Jenn Sterger is done with Favre also.  I don't know if she was looking to make money or just hurt Favre's reputation, but she ended up doing neither.  The commissioner couldn't conclude that Favre did anything inappropriate and he was fined $50,000 for failing to fully cooperate with the investigation.