The Daily Forecast

The Mondays …

Where you awake from your premature inauguration celebration to realize that …

… the Fucking Arizona Cardinals are in the Super Bowl.

No, really. After a 32-25 win against the Philadelphia Eagles, the Cardinals are going to the Super Bowl. Sure, they took a 24-6 lead and then gave their fans a coronary by letting that lead completely evaporate in the second half, but they still won. Kurt Warner is perfect in NFC Championship games. Larry Fitzgerald is not human. Ken Wisenhunt is much smarter than you thought he was a month ago. Yet they’re a 7-point dog heading into the Super Bowl, and everyone will pick against them.

… the Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers enjoy hitting each other … hard.

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By the way, the Steelers won 23-14 and will play for their second title in four years.

… winning on the road in the Big East is near impossible.

This is not just because I’m a Notre Dame fan and they just lost to Louisville and Syracuse on the road this past week. But look at Pittsburgh, too, which lost to the Cardinals at Freedom Hall. I don’t know if the top of the Big East (Pitt, Uconn, ‘Cuse) is as good as the top of the ACC (Wake, UNC, Duke), but I do know that there is no conference as deep as the Big East, and that any team that is at or near .500 is deserving of an NCAA Tournament berth.

… it’s OK to hate Tim Tebow.

OK, Tim, we’ll give you the whole “best college football player in the last 15 years” title. We’ll give you the “great kid off the field” award. But this dramatic speeches in front of the fans thing is getting a little ridiculous. I could see dramatically announcing that you were coming back. That’s fun. But dramatically ripping off your sling at a basketball game? A big Christian such as Tebow should know that pride comes before the fall. Not that I believe any of that horseshit, but I do think the Gators are a little too sure of themselves winning it all again next year.