Week 5 Musings

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on October 11, 2009 10:20 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

A couple of things we noticed while we waited for the Phillies-Rockies game to start:

1. The Browns finally got off the schneid, but no thanks to Derek Anderson. The Cleveland quarterback threw 17 passes -- and completed two of them. Anderson passed for 23 yards and an interception, immediately placing him among the worst quarterbacks to start for a winning team. Brady Quinn, anybody?

2. Was anyone else confused watching the Cowboys-Chiefs game? The Chiefs wore the state of Texas on their helmets, and the Cowboys wore blue jerseys, leaving no team with a white jersey and confusing viewers as to who the home team actually was. At least Kansas City's choice was explainable (the team used to be the Dallas Texans and the team wore throwbacks for the 50th anniversary of the old AFL). But why did Dallas wear blue? I thought those colors were cursed?

3. There was one bright side to Tampa Bay's fifth straight loss of the season. When a second-quarter Josh Johnson pass was deflected into the air, it fell into the hands of unsuspecting offensive lineman Donald Penn. The 6-foot-5, 305-pounder then started chugging up the field, plowing over Eagles defenders on his way to a 15-yard gain and a first down. Unfortunately, Penn's efforts were all for naught since Johnson threw an interception just before the end of the half.

4. Wait a second, is Cincinnati good? The team that used to be famous for having players jailed seemingly every other day is now pulling off impressive wins against Green Bay, defending-champion Pittsburgh and, on Sunday, AFC-favorite Baltimore. This may be the year Carson Palmer, Chad Ochocinco and the Bengals finally get it all together. Or, they could just be one of those teams that gets off to a hot start and then fades at season's end. Time will tell.

5. Princess the Camel picked the Monday Night game this week, so we won't know who to insult this week. Since she went with the Jets, Miniaci and Rung have their collective pride on the line. She beat Rung in last week's predictions, and she bested Miniaci in Week 2.

-Dan

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Dave Miniaci is a senior majoring in journalism and is the Daily Collegian's sports chief. He has previously been sports night chief and a sports copy editor. He has also covered men's rugby, men's track and field and field hockey. He is from New Jersey and is a big Devils fan and proud of both, and he doesn't care if you hold that against him.


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Adam Clark is a senior majoring in journalism and is the Daily Collegian's sports editor. He previously covered fraternity and sorority life, crime and courts and was the Collegian's summer 2009 news/sports editor. His favorite athlete died on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500 and his favorite football team is coming off the worst six-year stretch in NFL history. He does hold it against Dave Miniaci that he's from New Jersey.


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Dan Rorabaugh is a senior majoring in sports journalism and minoring in English. He is the sports copy desk chief, and was previously a reporter for the men's rugby, men's cross country, men's volleyball, women's soccer, women's basketball and men's lacrosse teams. Last year, the impossible dream happened - one of his favorite teams, the Phillies, won a championship. Now if only the Eagles could catch some of that magic, he might be able to actually find peace with sports.


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Michael Oplinger is a junior majoring in media studies and political science and the Collegian's assistant sports copy desk chief. He previously covered the men's tennis and men's volleyball teams. Even though he enjoyed the Phillies' World Series victory, he misses the days of Jose Mesa and David Bell.


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Eddie Gentile is a senior majoring in journalism and minoring in history. He works on the sports copy desk and previously has covered the women's tennis team, the Lady Icers and the Penn State baseball team. Gentile is your stereotypical Philly fan - he considers every game a loss until they actually win... and even then he'll probably still be moaning. Go birds.


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David Rung is a senior majoring in journalism and minoring in kinesiology. He works on the sports copy desk and previously has covered the women's swimming team and the men's rugby team. Rung isn't as die hard about pro sports as his sports staff brethren from Philly and Pittsburgh, but he does take pride in being a Red Sox fan before the bandwagon started.