Back by popular demand!  Just in case you didn’t know.  Maybe you didn’t hear about it, you’ve been away a long time.   They didn’t go up there and tell you.  They didn’t go up there and tell you the Brass Bonanza Award is given to the week’s biggest loser.  Brass Bonanza was the Hartford Whalers fight song.  Need I say more?   This weeks winner, er loser, is Carmelo Anthony.  Hooray Carmelo Anthony!     

After the Knicks’ 111-99 blowout loss to the Orlando Magic Wednesday night at the World’s Most Famous Arena, Carmelo Anthony responded by saying, “We need to relax and have fun.”  Relax?  Have fun?  Hey Carmelo, are you out of your goddammed mind!!??  When the New York Knickerbockers lost to the Celtics on Monday night, it was their sixth loss out of their last seven games.  But that ain’t the half of it.  Like my main Elliot Ness always says, “Many things are half the battle. Losing is half the battle.  Let’s think about what is all the battle.”

Here’s the whole battle:  The Knicks allowed Boston to score 33 fourth-quarter points and the Celtics overcame a a 51-37 halftime deficit.  Just so you know, that raised New York’s average fourth-quarter yield to 28.4 points over the 16 games since Carmelo Anthony joined the team on February 23.  Just so you know, that’s the highest yield in the NBA over that span.  So, who can relax?  Who can have fun?  Not Knicks’ fans.  Nuggets fans are relaxing.  They’re having fun.  They’re 11-4 since the trade and have solidified their playoff position.  The Knicks, meanwhile, are 7-10 with Anthony and have lost their last four and are 1-7 in their last eight games to fall under .500 overall (35-36) and to seventh place in the Eastern Conference. So Carmelo Anthony, this Brass Bonanza is for you:

Peace out homies. Six two and even!

Back by popular demand! Just in case you didn’t know.  Maybe you didn’t hear about it, you’ve been away a long time.  They didn’t go up there and tell you.  They didn’t go up there and tell you the Brass Bonanza Award is given to the week’s biggest loser.  Brass Bonanza was the Hartford Whalers fight song.  Need I say more?  This weeks winners, er losers, are the Miami Heat.  Hooray Heat!                      

To say the Miami Heat have problems closing out ball games is like the Black Knight saying, “Tis but a scratch!” Look, you stupid bastards. You’ve got no arms left!  Indeed, it appears the Miami Heat have no arms left.  Had no arms last night.  No arms and no heart.  Last night the Heat frittered away a 24-point lead.  They were outscored by runs of 18-0 and 40-9 by the Orlando Magic when it counted.  Only one other NBA team has lost a game after leading by 24-or-more points this season.  Only the Detroit Pistons.  If you think that’s bad, just wait, it gets worse.

This was not the first time the Heat has lost a game in which it led by 20-or-more points this season.  If you remember, back in Novemeber, they squandered a 22-point lead in dropping a 116-114 decision to the Jazz.  Miami and Detroit are the only NBA teams to have lost a pair of games after having leads of 20-or-more points this season.  If you think that’s bad, just wait, it gets worse.  Both of those Heat’s losses were at home.  At home!  That makes them only the third NBA team in the last 10 seasons to lose two home games in one season in that manner.  You can’t expect to win a championship like that.

You can’t expect to win a championship like this either:   Miami has won only five of 17 games decided by five-or-fewer points this season. That yields a winning percentage of .294, tying them with Philadelphia (also 5-12) for second-lowest in the league in such games, ahead of only Minnesota (4-12, .250).  Egads man!

This team has yet to find its way at the end of games.  At the end of a Bulls game during the Michael Jordan era, who was taking the money shot?  Damn skippy.  At the end of a Sixers game during the Charles Barkley era, who was taking the money shot?  Damn skippy.  Big players take big shots.  Paul Pierce,  Kobe Bryant and so on.  Like my main man Al Capone always says, “A man becomes preeminent, he’s expected to have enthusiasms.  Enthusiasms, enthusiasms.  A man stands alone at the plate.  This is the time for what?  For individual achievement. There he stands alone.”  Nobody on this Heat team wants to stand alone. For that, they get the Brass Bonanza:

Peace out homies.  Six Two and even!

Back by popular demand! Just in case you didn’t know.  Maybe you didn’t hear about it, you’ve been away a long time.  They didn’t go up there and tell you.  They didn’t go up there and tell you the Brass Bonanza Award is given to the week’s biggest loser.  Brass Bonanza was the Hartford Whalers fight song.  Need I say more? This weeks winner, er loser, are the St. Louis Cardinals. Hooray Cardinals!

From bad to worse.  Or at least from bad to just as bad.  Ok, maybe from bad to very very close to almost as bad.  First, the best damned baseball player on the planet, Albert Pujols, called off contract negotiations for the season and will likely be seen in another uniform once he hits the jackpot and the  free-agent market.  Know this sports fans:  Pujols is only the fifth player in major-league history with a .330 or higher batting average and at least 300 home runs, 1000 runs scored and 1000 RBIs in his first 1500 career games.  The other players in that exclusive group are Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams.  My goodness!  My greatness.  Players like that don’t grow on trees.

Then comes the horrific news that the staff ace, Adam Wainwright, will  face  season-ending Tommy John reconstructive elbow surgery.  Egads man!  Know this:  Since 1970, only five other pitchers besides Wainwright last season have posted at least 17 wins and an ERA below 2.00 through 25 starts in a season.  Only Vida Blue 1971 (19 wins; 1.37 ERA), Gaylord Perry 1972 (17 wins; 1.70 ERA), Ron Guidry1978  (17 wins; 1.79 ERA), Dwight Gooden 1985 (18 wins; 1.64 ERA) and Roger Clemens in 1997 (18 wins; 1.66 ERA).  My goodness!  My greatness.  Players like that don’t grow on trees.

St. Louis Cardinals, this Brass Bonanza is for you:

Peace out homies.  Six Two and even!

Star of the day, who will it be? Your vote will hold the key. It’s up to you. Tell us who, will be star of the day. -Community Auditions

Back by popular demand!  Just in case you didn’t know.  Maybe you didn’t hear about it, you’ve been away a long time.  They didn’t go up there and tell you.  They didn’t go up there and tell you the Brass Bonanza Award is given to the week’s biggest loser.  Brass Bonanza was the Hartford Whalers fight song.  Need I say more?   

This one goes out to all the good folks over at the Salute Military Golf Association.  Over the week-end, Tiger Woods notched his worst-ever performance at Torrey Pines.  That in and of itself would have been bad enough, however; that was not in and of itelf.  However, PGA Tour rookie Brendan Steele told Sports Illustrated he believed Woods lost interest in his final round Sunday in the Farmers Insurance Open.  Tiger shot a final-round 75.  Tiger shot three bogeys over his last seven holes.  It was his second straight over-par round on Torrey Pines’ South Course.  This is a course Tiger owns.  This a course where he once won six PGA Tour events.  This is a course where he once won the 2008 U.S. Open.  This is unacceptable.  This is Brass Bonanza worthy.

Brass Bonanza Award

Peace out homies.  Six Two and even!

It’s just another manic Monday.  I wish it was Sunday.  ‘Cause that’s my funday.  My I don’t have to runday.  It’s just another manic Monday.  -The Bangles

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  Like my main Frank Gifford always says,”Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.”  Well, did you survive?  Huh?  Did ya?  Good.  Now let’s see who else survived.  Let’s see who else stayed alive. Ah ah ah ah stayin’ alive.  Shall we?  Sure we shall.              

Chris Johnson stayed alive.  Stayed alive in the MVP hunt.  MVP!  MVP!  MVP!  What a year this cat is having.  Yesterday, Every Coach’s Dream scored on an 85-yard touchdown.  Big deal?  So what?  I’ll tell you so what.  I’ll tell you that tied Jim Brown’s 46-year-old NFL record for rushing TDs of 50 yards or longer in one season of five.  I’ll also tell you Every Coach’s Dream now has more touchdown runs of 85 yards or longer this season than any other NFL player recorded in his entire career.  Ya heard?  More touchdown runs of 85 yards or longer this season than any other NFL player recorded in his entire career.  Yikes.  The Honorable mention goes Barry Sanders.  Uh-memba him?  Barry Sanders scored three TDs on runs of at least 80 yards (all in 1997), but none of his TDs was as long as any of Johnson’s three longest this season.  How about that?  Heres some more Chris Johnson goodness:

• Chris Johnson gained 154 yards in the Titans’ 20-17 win over the Cardinals, to finish the month of November with 800 rushing yards. That is the highest monthly total in NFL history – not just for November, but for any month. The previous record was 797 yards by Ricky Williams in December 2002.
• Chris Johnson gained 154 yards on 18 carries against the Cardinals, marking the sixth straight game in which he (a) ran for at least 125 yards, and (b) averaged at least 5.0 yards per carry. That’s the longest such streak in NFL history, breaking a mark set by Jim Brown in 1958.

If that don’t make an MVP season, I don’t know what does.

You can have your Roger the Dodger Staubach.  You can have your Jim Harbaugh.  Heck, you can have your John Elway.  You can have your cake and eat it too.  No you can’t.  I just said that ’cause it fits.  You can have all those guys.  There’s a new sheriff in town and his name ain’t Reggie Hammond.  No it ain’t.  It’s Peyton Manning.  It’s that six-five, 230-pound quarterback with the laser rocket arm.  It’s the guy, who yesterday, rallied from a 17-0 deficit to post a 35-27 win at Houston.  It’s the guy who now has led his team to a regular-season victory after trailing by at least 17 points for a record five times.  That’s the guy I’m talking about.

Speaking of John Elway, I give you Chris Redman.  He of the last minute winner winner chicken dinner.  You may remember Redman from his days at the University of Louisville.  The days when he completed his college career as the NCAA Division I-A career leader in passing completions and attempts.  Well, he picked up right where he left off.  Sort of.  Subbing for the injured Matt Ryan, Redman completed only 10 of 25 passes in the fourth quarter, but his 5-yard toss to Roddy White, with 23 seconds to play, gave the Falcons a 20-17 win over the Bucs.   Hooray Chris Redman!  Redman became the first player in the last 20 seasons to throw as many as 15 incomplete passes in the fourth quarter of a victory.  Ain’t that something?

Two weeks after the star running back suffered his second concussion of the season, the Eagles’ star wide receiver suffered his first.  Yes, Desean Jackson suffered his first concussion yesterday, but not before he did something else.  Not before caught a 35-yard touchdown pass in the Eagles’ 27-24 win over the Redskins.  You may say pfffft!  Feh!  35 yards?  Yes, it was the shortest of Jackson’s eight TDs this season, but nonetheless, it enabled him to match Randy Moss and Devin Hester for the most TDs of 35 or more yards in one season during this decade.  That’s not all it did.  With that touchdown,  Jackson also broke the single-season Eagles record in that category set by Tim Brown in 1962.  Get well soon Desean.  They need you.

With thunderbolts and lightning, we’ll light up the sky.  We’ll give it all we’ve got, and more with the Super Charger try!  San Diego Super Chargers.  San Diego Super Chargers.  Sounds so nice, I said it twice.  Get the papers, get the papers.  LaDainian Tomlinson and Antonio Gates.  Antonio Gates and LaDainian Tomlinson.  They go together like rama lama lama ke ding a de dinga a dong.  Remembered for ever like shoo bop shoo wadda wadda yipitty boom de boom.  Went together yesterday.  Went together scoring two touchdowns apiece in the Chargers’ 43-14 win over the Chiefs.  It was the third time that Tomlinson and Gates both scored multiple TDs in the same game, equaling the most such games by any teammates in NFL history.  This is one team I do not want to see in the playoffs.

Brass Bonanza:

The Brass Bonanza Award is given to the Sunday’s biggest loser.  Brass Bonanza was the Hartford Whalers fight song.  Need I say more?  This week’s Brass Bonanza goes to none other than Jake Delhomme. Delhomme threw four interceptions in the Panthers’ 17-6 loss to the Jets.  Bad enough in and of itself, but it was the second game this season in which Delhomme was picked off four times and failed to throw a touchdown pass.  Bad enough in and of itself but no player had two such games in the same season in more than 20 years since Warren Moon did it in 1986.  And know this, Jake Delhomme is no Warren Moon.  Hey, Jake:  This Brass Bonanza is for you:

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Peace out homies.  Six two and Even!

They say that all good things must end.  Call it tonight, the party’s over, and tomorrow starts the same old thing again.  -Willie Nelson 

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  Another Sunday down.  Down Goes Frazier!  Down Goes Frazier!  Down Goes Frazier!  I get knocked down but I get up again.  You’re never going to keep me down.  That’s right, I’m getting up to write down what happened yesterday on ye olde gridiron.  Let’s have us a look see, shall we?  Sure we shall.          

Falco may tell you not turn around, uh oh, but don’t tell that to Kurt Warner.  I mean, he doesn’t have book out called Can’t Keep Him Down for nothing.  Just one week after throwing five interceptions in a loss to the Panthers, Chachi in Charge threw five touchdowns in the Cardinals’ 41-21 victory at Chicago.  Hooray Kurt Warner!  Warner’s only other 5-TD game came more than 10 years ago, on Oct. 10, 1999 against the 49ers.  That broke Brett Favre’s NFL record for longest gap between games with at least five touchdown passes by a margin of four weeks.  How about that?  How about this:  Warner also became the second player ever to throw four first-half touchdown passes against the Bears.  Just two short weeks after Carson Palmer became the first.  Now, if only the Cardinals could win at home.

Michael Turner.  Turner the Burner.  The point of no returner.  Yards he does a-churner.  Yesterday, Michael Turner churned out two touchdowns.  Get the papers, get the papers.  Two touchdowns on runs of 30 and 58 yards in the Falcons’ 31-17 win over the Redskins.  Yowza!  Know this stat geeks:  Turner became the first player in team history with two rushing TDs of 30 yards or longer in the same game.  In fact, only one Falcons player had two rushing TDs of even 20 yards in the same game.  Wait for it, wait for it.  That’s right, Garfield’s favorite quarterback, Michael Vick, did it against the Vikings back in 2002.

Holy Dynamic Duo, Batman.  Forget Montana and Rice.  Forget Namath and Maynard.  Forget Manning and Harrison.  Forget Unitas and Berry.  Forget Bradshaw and Swann.  Forget all of them.  Brady and Moss.  Moss and Brady.  They go together like rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong.  Remembered forever as shoobop sha wadda wadda yippity boom de boom.  Like they’ve been doing it years.  Rockin’ their peers and puttin’ suckas in fear.  Makin’ the tears rain down like a monsoon.  Yesterday, Randy Moss caught a 71-yard touchdown pass from Tom Brady in the Patriots’ 27-17 win over the Dolphins.  Of all of the wonderful things they does, they never done doesed that.  That was Moss’ longest TD reception from Tom Brady.  If I were a betting man, I’d bet there’s more of that to come.

Cedric the Entertainer keeps on keepin’ on.  Last month, Cedric Benson broke a streak of 39 straight games the Ravens defense hadn’t allowed a running back to rush for more than 100 yards.  Yesterday, he did it for the second time in a month.  Not only that, he became only the second player to record two 100-yard rushing games against the Ravens in one season.  Good golly Miss Molly!  The second after Jerome Bettis.  But the Bus was so nice, he did it twice.

Rookie rookie, who gets the cookie?  Joshy, that’s who.  Joshy’s the big winner. Joshy wins.  No, not me.  Josh Freeman.  Yesterday, in all his Creamsicle orange glory, Tampa Bay Buccaneer rookie quarterback Josh Freeman threw three touchdown passes in his first NFL start to lead the Bucs (1-7) to their first win of the season.  Sweet sassy molassy!  The last rookie QB to start and win for a team with at least seven losses and no victories was the imitable Mike McMahon for the Lions in 2001.  See what Bucs fans have to look forward to?

Like my men Run DMC always say, “I got prescription glasses and my eyes are correct.  Two times every year I go to have them checked.  Per-fection’s my selection, and I will select, and if it’s not perfect, I will perfect.”  The New Orleans Saints didn’t look perfect yeserday for most of the afternoon, but they did perfect by game’s end.  Their rally from a 14-0 deficit to improve their record to 8-0 put them with only two other teams in NFL history.  Only the 1998 Chiefs and the 1984 Dolphins maintained a perfect record this far into a season by winning a game in which they trailed by 14 or more points.  This Saints team is better than both of those teams.

Before I start this one you must know, my favorite non-Patriot player of all time is the Tyler Rose.  My favorite non-Patriot player of all time is Earl Campbell.  That’s why this stat just jumped off the page for me.  Yesterday, Chris Johnson gained 135 rushing yards in the Titans’ 34-27 win at San Francisco.  Big deal you say?  Who cares you say?  I say, combined with his 228 yards against the Jaguars last week, Johnson posted the highest two-game rushing total by an Oilers/Titans player since Earl Campbell gained 368 rushing yards over two games in October 1981.  I say, you get your name mentioned in the same sentence as Earl Campbell, you’re doing something.  You’re doing something special.

Brass Bonanza:

That’s right, back by popular demand, it’s the Brass Bonanza Award.  Just in case you didn’t know.  Maybe you didn’t hear about it, you’ve been away a long time.  They didn’t go up there and tell you.  They didn’t go up there and tell you the Brass Bonanza Award is given Sunday’s biggest loser.  Brass Bonanza was the Hartford Whalers fight song.  Need I say more?

This week we proudly award the Brass Bonanza to the New York Football Giants.  In less than two minutes, in front of a stunned Giants Stadium crowd, the Giants managed to turn what looked like a rousing, season-saving victory into an agonizing, heartbreaking and absolutely devastating 21-20 loss to the San Diego Chargers.  That’s bad.  That’s really bad.  That’s Brass Bonanza bad.

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Peace out homies.  Six two and Even!

Whatever.  Party’s over, tell the rest of the crew.  Yo P, it’s on you, what you wanna do?  -Mobb Deep

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  Another Sunday in the books.  Like my main Mike Ditka always says, “You can’t win a derby with a donkey… You have a lot of people evaluating talent in the National Football League who don’t know how to evaluate talent.”  I’m one of those people.  Hee haw!  Hee haw!  I’m like Francis the talking mule.  The name’s Francis Soyer, but everybody calls me Psycho.  Any of you guys call me Francis, and I’ll kill you.  Also, I don’t like nobody touching me.  Now, any of you Romos touch me, and I’ll kill you.  Ok, ok, enough hijinks.  Let’s see what happened yesterday, shall we?  Yes we shall:       

Favre vs. Roethlisberger.  Roethlisberger vs. Favre.  That’s all we heard.  That wasn’t the story of this game.  What’s the story, Morninglory?  Defense and special teams were the story Morninglory of this game.  Defense and special teams were the story Morninglory of the fourth quarter of this game.  This game was the first game in NFL history with three touchdowns of 60 yards or longer in the final period and not one of them was a TD pass by either Roethlisberger or Favre.  There was a 77-yard fumble return by LaMarr Woodley.  There was an 88-yard kickoff return by Percy Harvin.  And there was an 82-yard interception return by Keyaron Fox.  Oh, there also was a Steelers’ 27-17 victory.  Hooray Steelers!

Like my main man Joe Jackson always says, “You gotta look sharp.  You gotta look sharp.  And you gotta have no illusions, Just keep going your way looking over your shoulder.”  Look Sharper.  Darren Sharper.  He’s got  no illusions.  He keeps going his way looking over his shoulder.  Looked over his shoulder yesterday with a 42-yard pick six.  Looked over his shoulder yesterday with his eleventh pick six of his career.  Looked over his shoulder yesterday and is now just one pick six short of Rod Woodson’s NFL record.  Sharper also moved past Neon Deion Sanders with a career total of 1353 yards on INT returns, trailing only Woodson (1483). 

Don’t look now sports fans but the New England Patriots are back.  Back in the back of a Cadillac.  Number one with a bullet, they’re a power pack.  Power packin’ and building a 21-0 lead against the Buccaneers yesterday.  Kid on halloween dressed as a pirate.  Guys says to him, “He kid, where are your buccaneers?”  Kid answers, “Under my buccan hat!”  I digress.  Combined with New England’s 59-0 win over the Titans last week, the Pats scored 80 consecutive points without allowing any. That was the longest such streak by an NFL team since the Bills scored 86 straight points over the 49ers, Colts and Patriots over a three-game span in September 1992.

Rookie QB, schmookie QB.  Who cares about a rookie quarterback when your team can run like this.  Fat lady goes into a drug store.  Tells the salesman she needs talcum powder.  Salesman says, “Walk this way.”  Lady answers, “If I could walk that way, I wouldn’t need the talcum powder.”  I’ll be here all week.  The New York Jets, who rushed for 318 yards in last week’s loss to the Bills, gained 316 rushing yards in their 38-0 victory at Oakland. The Jets became the first team in 75 years to gain at least 316 yards rushing in consecutive games. The last team to do so was the Detroit Lions in 1934, led by Dutch Clark and Ernie Caddel. 

Word has it that Cincinnati Bengals football player and social media star Chad Ochocinco is in works with Motorola to develop his own Twitter based social media news service called OCNN – Ocho Cinco News Network.  I got a story for him.  I got a Miles Austin story for him.  Yesterday, Miles Austin had another big day.  Yesterday, Miles Austin had 171 receiving yards and two touchdown catches, in the Cowboys’ 37-21 win over the Falcons.  How about that?  How about this?  Only two other players in NFL history gained at least 400 yards receiving and caught four TD passes over a span of two games.  Only Chad Ochocinco (nee Johnson) in 2006 and Cloyce Box in 1950.  Just so you know, Austin did it in his first two NFL starts.

Brass Bonanza:

That’s right, back by popular demand, it’s the Brass Bonanza Award.  Just in case you didn’t know.  Maybe you didn’t hear about it, you’ve been away a long time.  They didn’t go up there and tell you.  They didn’t go up there and tell you the Brass Bonanza Award is given Sunday’s biggest loser.  Brass Bonanza was the Hartford Whalers fight song.  Need I say more?

This week we proudly award the Brass Bonanza to the Cleveland Browns’ starting quarterbacks.  Yesterday, Derek Anderson passed for only 99 yards in the Browns’ 31-3 loss to the Packers.  It was the sixth time in their last 13 games that Cleveland’s starting quarterback was held below the 100-yard mark. No other team’s starting QBs have posted even half as many such games as the Browns during that time.  That’s bad.  That’s really bad.  That’s Brass Bonanza bad.

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Peace out homies.  Six two and Even!

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away, now it looks as though they’re here to stay.  Oh, I believe in yesterday.  -The Beatles

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  Woo doggie!  Another Sunday in the books.  Like that wild and crazy guy, Steve Martin, always says, “I believe in the Ten Commandments and going to church on Sundays…unless there’s a game on.”  There was a game on yesterday all right.  In fact, there were a bunch of them.  Let’s see what happened, shall we?  Sure we shall.    

• The Chicago Bears have had a lot of quarterbacks over the years.  They’ve had guys like Jim McMahon.  They’ve had guys like Jim Harbaugh.  They’ve had guys like Bob Avellini, Erik Kramer, Bobby Douglass, Jack Concannon, and Rex Grossman.  Guys like that there started a total of 338 regular-season games for the Bears but their porridge was too cold.  Some like it hot.  Superstar Jay Cutler likes it hot.  Starting just his fourth game for the Bears, Superstar Jay Cutler led his team to a victory over the Lions.  Hooray Jay Cutler!  Cutler did in just his fourth game, what those aforementioned quarterbacks could not do in 338 games.  He scored a whopping 48 points.  Yowza!
• Peyton Manning can handle things!  Peyton Manning’s smart!  Not like everybody says… like dumb… he’s smart and he wants respect!  I’m here to give it to him.  Yesterday was Manning’s fourth consecutive 300-yard game, an accomplishment that should not be overlooked.  None of the top three in career passing yardage, Brett Favre, Dan Marino, or John Elway, ever recorded four straight 300-yard games.  Fran Tarkenton, who ranks fifth in career yardage, never even posted two straight 300-yard games.  Manning’s father, Archie, had back-to-back 300-yard games only once in his career and his brother, Eli, has never recorded two in a row.  How about that?
• Darrelle Revis who?  Horton hears a what?  Like my main Joe Jackson always says, “You gotta look sharp.”  This guy does one better.  This guy’s sharper.  This guy’s Darren Sharper.  New Orleans Saints’ Darren Sharper’s 99-yard interception return was his second INT-TD of at least 90 yards this season.  Holy cow!  How holy?  This holy:  The only other player in NFL history with two TDs on interception returns of 90 yards or longer in the same season was Deion Sanders.  Watch your back Deion, the season’s still young.
• Sack attack!  Sack attack like a crackerjack.  Sack attack like a crackerjack leaving you holding your head with a big ol’ ice pack.  Lotta ice packs yesterday.  The Dolphins and Bills both recorded six sacks in Miami’s 38-10 victory.  It was the first NFL game in more than two years, and the first in the Dolphins’ 44-year history, in which both teams sacked opposing passers at least six times.
• Home is where the heart is, home is so remote.  Home is just emotion sticking in my throat.  Home is hard to swallow, home is like a rock.  Home is good clean living, home is – I forgot.  Lene Lovich may have forgot but Tom Brady sure hasn’t.  The Patriots’ 27-21 win over the Ravens was the 15th consecutive regular-season home win for Brady, who posted 18 straight home wins from 2002 to 2005.  Over the last 60 seasons, no other quarterback has won 15 home starts in a row two different times.  Honorable mention to Terry Bradshaw and Steve Young, who both recorded streaks of 15 and 14 .

Brass Bonanza Award:

That’s right, back by popular demand, it’s the Brass Bonanza Award.  Just in case you didn’t know.  Maybe you didn’t hear about it, you’ve been away a long time.  They didn’t go up there and tell you.  They didn’t go up there and tell you the Brass Bonanza Award is given Sunday’s biggest loser.  Brass Bonanza was the Hartford Whalers fight song.  Need I say more?

This week we proudly award the Tennessee Titans.  Remember the Titans!  I mean, remember the Titans?  Remember when they were good?  I’m having a hard time doing just that.  The Titans fell to 0-4 with a 37-17 loss at Jacksonville. Tennessee, which posted a 13-3 record in 2008, is the first team to start a season 0-4 coming off a season with at least 13 wins since three teams did it over a four-year span from 1999 to 2002: the 2002 Rams, 1999 Broncos, and 1999 Falcons.  Hey Tennessee, this Brass Bonanza is for you!

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 Peace out homies.  Six two and Even!

Star of the day, who will it be? Your vote will hold the key. It’s up to you. Tell us who, will be star of the day. -Community Auditions

Brass Bonanza:  Ok, here we go!  Just in case you didn’t know.  Maybe you didn’t hear about it, you’ve been away a long time.  They didn’t go up there and tell you.  They didn’t go up there and tell you the Brass Bonanza Award is given to the week’s biggest loser.  Brass Bonanza was the Hartford Whalers fight song.  Need I say more?    

You know the story by now.  Houston Texans running back Ryan Moats’ mother-in-law was dying in the hospital.  Houston Texans running back Ryan Moats runs a red light to see said dying mother-in-law in the hospital.  Give me a diablo sandwich, a Dr. Pepper, and make it quick, I’m in a god-damn hurry.  Too much of a hurry. 

Too much of a hurry for Dallas Police Officer Robert Powell.  Powell pulls Moats over. Powell pulls his gun.  Powell lectures Moats.  What we’re dealing with here is a complete lack of respect for the law.  Powell refuses to let Moats go.  Powell says things like, “I can make your night very difficult.”  Powell came through with his promise.  Came through with flying colors.  Moats’ mother-in-law, Jonetta Collinsworth, died before he and Collinsworth’s father could break free.  Simply shameless policing.  Simple abuse of power.  Simple Brass Bonaza.

Brass Bonanza Award:

Peace out homies.  Six Two and even!

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Brass Bonanza:  Ok, here we go!  Just in case you didn’t know.  Maybe you didn’t hear about it, you’ve been away a long time.  They didn’t go up there and tell you.  They didn’t go up there and tell you the Brass Bonanza Award is given to the week’s biggest loser.  Brass Bonanza was the Hartford Whalers fight song.  Need I say more?   

Say what you want about A-Rod.  Say what you want about Barry.  Say what you want about the Rocket.  Lord knows I do.  I’m also saying something about Bud Selig.  This all happened under his watch.  It was Bud Selig who turned a blind eye to steroids long enough to see the cash.  The cash that all but disappeared during the strike.  The strike Bud Selig himself, along with Jerry Reisendorf, caused. 

Jesse the Body Ventura got it right.  Jesse the Body said:

In the early ’90s, the federal government came into pro wrestling and tried to put Vince McMahon in prison for steroid use of wrestlers.  My question is: They’ve now determined 104 baseball players failed their steroid test in 2003—104.  They indicted Vince McMahon, why aren’t they indicting Bud Selig?  He’s the head of baseball, it happened on his watch.”

Hey Bud, this Brass Bonanza is for you!

Brass Bonanza Award:

Peace out homies.   Six Two and even!