Weekend Observations #1

Until we find a better name for this...here are some things that happened in the last weekend of sports and how they made me feel, personally:

Nebraska 28 Northwestern 31

I don't know if it's the sleep crust still in my eyes as I awaken from football slumber, making it hard to adjust my eyes and fully understand  what I was watching ("Why are they in Ireland? No I know, why are they in Ireland?"), but there were a few moments in this weekend's college football opener between Nebraska and Northwestern that were far more interesting than a game involving Nebraska and Northwestern is legally allowed to be. Yes I'm talking about the onside-kick.

Still, college football is back. And the most interesting thing of the day was an internet outage at Aviva stadium resulting in everyone getting free beer. A move the vendor applauded for making sure "the fan experience was upheld".

According to ABC News, one fan missed out on the entirety of the game. Here's the money line:

Ronan McGowan got “three or four” plastic cups of Guinness “but it took 40 minutes, I missed the game. It wasn’t good. In fairness, most people didn’t have cash. They did the right thing, under the circumstances.”

I agree, the enthusiasm the people of Ireland have for American football doesn't mean they should be subjected to Northwestern vs. whatever the hell Scott Frost thinks he's doing. Let them drink.

Tom Brady saying "'I've got' a lot of shit going on" is the closest any of us will ever come to knowing what it's like to be Tom Brady

To be fair, the exact statement appeared to be "there's a lot of shit going on" but reading between the lines, or just considering that utterance came directly after the words "I'm 45 years old, man"...c'mon. Like you don't feel like you've aged five years during the last 3 years of panedemic?

I think this is the first time we've heard Tom Brady publicly admit the presence of father time breathing down his neck (Sammy fact check that for me). This isn't the venue nor is it really my style to speculate if that's all it is or if Tom is having struggles elsewhere in his life that TMZ just hasn't received the receipts from. I doubt it's the latter, and the former is too simplistic, but it is still a humbling and human moment from a guy who has played football at an absolutely inhuman level for the last two decades.

Adam Schefter sells pizza.

Football shaped pizzas are best left at birthday parties for 8 year olds on the local Pop Warner team after the last game of the season, and Super Bowl parties hosted by your friends who don't watch football but just bought a new house and wants all their friends to come see it (can you believe they got it at asking?). And anyone who tries to sell you a football shaped pizza should, in exchange for actual money should be arrested and indicted for fraud. Which makes the following tweet where Adam Schefter (a man who gets paid to be on twitter but still hasn't figured out when something shouldn't be tweeted) partners with Papa John's (a pizza company that doesn't know shit about pizza) to sell you a football shaped pizza all the evidence the Justice Department needs.

He's right there. Get em.

See you next weekend.