Scott Cordischi On Sports
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
The worst kept secret in sports was made official yesterday when the NFL announced that the New York/New Jersey area has been awarded Super Bowl 48 in 2014. This is a bold move by NFL owners and Roger Goodell as the league has never played it’s showcase game in an open-air stadium in a cold weather city. Let the second guessing begin!
-A sportstalk host in Tampa put it best when he said, “playing the Super Bowl in New Jersey on February 2nd is like Rosie O’Donnell wearing a thong. It just doesn’t work!”
-It’s hard not to think that it should be the Boston Bruins and not the Philadelphia Flyers representing the Eastern Conference in the Stanley Cup Finals.
-Did anybody think that the Cleveland Cavaliers weren’t going to fire Mike Brown after their playoff loss to Boston?
-United States Ryder Cup team captain Corey Pavin said that Tiger Woods is not a lock to make this year’s team. Woods currently ranks 11thin the Ryder Cup standings behind Matt Kuchar. Something tells me he’ll solidify his spot in the top ten before the Cup is contested in Wales this October.
-Chiefs WR Dwayne Bowe’s revelation of his teammates “importing” a girl for every room on roadtrips should come as no surprise.
-Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Duncan Keith won’t be flashing his pearly whites anytime soon after having seven of his chicklets knocked out of his mouth when he took a puck in the face in his team’s win over San Jose.
-How long before owners like Bob Kraft and Daniel Snyder ask to have Super Bowls held in their stadiums?
-Word is the New Orleans Hornets have offered Boston Celtics assistant Tom Thibodeau their head coaching position.
-I don’t know about you, but I can think of other places I’d rather spend Super Bowl week than East Rutherford, New Jersey.
-Although I would enjoy watching the Super Bowl being played in a snow storm from the warm and cozy confines of my living room couch.
-Gotta love Philly fans! Seen at Citizens Bank Park when the Red Sox visited over the weekend were signs saying “Pats Cheat” and “Bruins Choke.”
-Speaking of Spygate, a message for outgoing Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter: don’t let the door hit you where the good lord split you!
-We are now seeing why the Red Sox were reluctant to trade Clay Buchholz and why so many other teams wanted him.
-Roy Halladay has a losing record against only one team in major league baseball – the Boston Red Sox.
-The NFL changing its overtime rules for the playoffs but not the regular season is a bad idea.
-The next time Kendrick Perkins smiles it will be the first.
-I think Orlando’s biggest problem against the Celtics is that it took Dwight Howard four games to play like Super Man instead of Lois Lane.
-If you have ever been to a Super Bowl in New Orleans you would agree that it is the perfect spot to hold every Super Bowl. The Crescent City was made to host an event like that.
-Criticize Terry Francona all you want but he’s being proven right again by sticking with a slumping player. This time it’s David Ortiz.
-LaSalle certainly looks like the team to beat in the Division 1 boy’s lacrosse tournament.
-Montaup Country Club continues to be one of my favorite Rhode Island courses to play.
-NBA officials are like local meteorologists. They get paid for being right less than half of the time.
-Of course, I’m not talking about John Ghiorse.
-The Ghiorse factor for this column is about a 2.
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