Sports talk

Very exciting sports weekend is coming up for me this weekend...

Tomorrow night is the last NASCAR race before the points are reset for the ten race chase to the championship.  While I can understand the argument that some people make saying the Chase is stupid or unfair, I cannot argue that it does not make the sport more exciting.  Without the chase, pretty much everyone but Jimmie Johnson and Matt Kenseth would have little-to-no chance of winning the championship.  With the Chase, there are 11 people who have a realistic chance.  Obviously that is much more exciting.  Tomorrow's race is even more exciting for me because one of my favorite drivers (and my wife's favorite driver) Kasey Kahne is only 30 points out of contention for the 10th spot.  Last week he was 90 points out and won the race to get where he is now.  Kasey has five wins this year, which is more than any other driver.  Many argue that the Chase should be changed to automatically give the driver with the most wins a berth into the Chase.  That would be ok I suppose, but if they did that then tomorrow's race would not be very exciting, so I would understand them not making any changes.

Sunday night is a moment that I imagine some people have been waiting for since they found out Archie Manning had two sons that wanted to be quarterbacks.  At the very least, they have been waiting for it since Eli began his NFL career.  That's right - Colts vs Giants, brother vs brother, Peyton vs Eli.  Scheduling this game as the first Sunday night game of the season was pure genius by the NFL.  I imagine advertisers have been lining up for this game at close to the same level as they line up for the Super Bowl.  This is much like NASCAR, where they have a huge race at the beginning of the season and the title race at the end.  Very exciting.  I'm so torn on who I want to win this game.  I've been a fan of both Peyton and Eli for a long time now.  But I think I want the Giants to win strictly because Eli went to Ole Miss.  However, I think the Colts will likely win because...well...they are a pretty darn good football team, and let's face it, Peyton has more talent than Eli right now on many levels, especially his decision making.  Eli will hopefully reach at or above Peyton's level, but he's simply not there yet.

Ok, so I've tried to figure out how to end this darned blog post for like ten minutes now and can't come up with anything intelligent or funny.  So...

The End.