What a Weekend!!!!!

Happy Monday sport's fans!!!! What a weekend!!! CBC had Hockey Day in Canada and all 6 Canadian teams played each other!!! Not to mention all but 2 teams in the NHL played at some point during that day!!! Not sure if everyone is familiar with the concept of Hockey Day in Canada...so I'll try and capture it in a nutshell. Basically, CBC holds a contest to see who will be the host city for the main show. This contest is based on the best feel-good story as well as funds raised for charities plus the level of volunteerism. Many cities across Canada will submit their own stories for consideration and CBC will choose one rfrom all of them. The others will still have some degree of exposure as well. CBC will plant a reporter in each of these small towns across Canada and will spend air-time showcasing each and every one...kind of gives you the warm fuzzies about the state of hockey in our great land!!!!

So in case you missed it...here's a general re-cap of the Canadian teams...
Ottawa 8 - Montreal 3 (in Ottawa)
Vancouver 6 - Toronto 1 (in Toronto)
Calgary 3 - Edmonton 1 (in Calgary)

I'm not going to go through all the other teams...suffice to say my Bruins lost to the Rangers 3-1...and that's all I'm going to say about that!!!!

Also, if that wasn't enough, the NFL play-offs were on this weekend on both Saturday and Sunday. AFC and NFC semi-finals were played and they were extremely entertaining games. On Saturday we watched the storied New Orleans Saints run past the Philadelphia Eagles for a 27-24 win!!! That rookie Reggie Bush is something to watch...always finding a way through the line!!! Then the Indianapolis Colts kicked their way past the Baltimore Ravens for a 15-6 win. The Ravens held Peyton Manning off the scoresheet but couldn't contain Adam Vinatieri's foot...probably the most prolific kicker in the NFL when needed.

On Sunday we witnessed The Chicago Bears beat the Seattle Seahawks 27-24 in overtime. Thanks to kicker Robbie Gould who kicked the tying field goal with 4:28 left in regulation from 41 yards out and then kicked the game-winner at 4:58 in OT from 49 yards out. Hard to believe this guy was a walk-on during training camp...he was a construction worker before he got this job!!!! Also on Sunday, The New England Patriots demonstrated why they've won 3 of the past 5 Super Bowls by coming from behind and scoring 11 points in 3:26 to beat the heavily favoured San Diego Chargers 24-21. What a game!!! Hell, the whole weekend was a great game after another great game!!! The remote sure got a workout!!!!

So after all this excitement on the weekend I still found a bunch of issues. There was a confrontation between Tomlinson and "someone" from the New England team...there was no footage and none can be found. The NFL has more cameras in so many locations than any other sport yet they have no footage of the incident. It happened so fast last night that you knew something happened but you weren't sure. And the networks didn't go back and try to find anything on it...if they did it wasn't shown on the channel I was watching!!!

No post-game news conferences for any of the Hockey Day in Canada games...very little post-game coverage for the NFL games. I just want to hear what's going on in their heads!!!

Well...that's it for now...I will blog again next week!!! Till then enjoy your sports!!!

CHEERS!!!
Rokpig...