Off The Crossbar

Tweet During and after the NFC Championship game yesterday there were some pretty harsh things said that were directed at Chicago quarterback Jay Cutler regarding his exit from the game early in the 3rd quarter.  It was being reported during halftime that Bears #2 quarterback Todd Collins was warming up and that Cutler didn’t have

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Tweet We’ve reached the point of the NFL season where 4 teams remain and 2 of them will advance to the Super Bowl in Dallas, Texas on February 6. This year the NFC has the Green Bay Packers traveling to Chicago to face their long-time nemesis, the Bears.  The two teams split their match-ups this

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Tweet Yesterday I was approached by my friend Matt (@Hawkdad3 on Twitter and the blog Wide Right) about doing a joint NFL awards blog.  Of course I jumped at the chance and we created the 2010 WROTC (Wide Right Off The Crossbar) NFL Awards.  We exchanged our picks for 10 categories and they have been

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Tweet My friend Matt at Wide Right (http://wideright3.blogspot.com) did a post outlining what he is asking Santa for this year. It got me thinking about my own wish list. Thankfully I’ve been pretty good this year so here it is: The Hawkeyes to not blow a 4th quarter lead in the Insight Bowl. I don’t

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Tweet A few Sundays ago I was sitting on my couch doing what I enjoy on a Sunday afternoon: watching some Green Bay Packers football. A short time after I started to watch I realized that I am starting to enjoy the NFL more than college football. There was a time when this was true

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Tweet The last two weeks have been very hard to put into words. Two very beatable teams (Indiana and Northwestern) with one fairly embarrassing loss and a drop-the-ball win. A 7-3 (4-2) record that could, and probably should, be 6-4 (3-3). These games came after Iowa destroyed Michigan State, who was ranked #5 at the

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Tweet Late in the spring I caught wind of a special event coming to the Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines on November 13. Realizing what it was I checked the Hawkeye’s football schedule and was relieved when it was an away game (not touching that at all). Buddy Valastro, of TLC’s The Cake Boss,

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Tweet This sort of weekend is rare when you are a married man with 2 young kids. Yes, I am all alone at home this weekend! Molly and the girls are heading to Minneapolis, MN to visit one of Molly’s friends. We have all been looking forward to this weekend since the initial planning took

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Tweet I was hoping to have this posted about a week ago but life caught up with me and it’s a little later than I had hoped. Early last week the National Football League decided to fine and suspend players for what accounts to too hard of a hit. There were already rules in place

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