Texans should be embarassed b/c I am. Texans literally gave the game to the Jaguars. I think the Texans are done, they have no chance to make the playoffs.

Huh.  Niners actually won a game, even if it was just against the Rams.  I look forward to a 7-9 NFC West team entering the playoffs!

They won their last game too, against the Broncos even. Oh and the Rams are looking good with Bradford throwing.

Well yes, but this time I voted for them.  Brawl4Life's many taunts are thus proven hollow!

Plus, 7-9.  It's coming.

At least the Bears won.  At least I got that right.

I am truely sorry for fans of the Texans.  What a heartbreaking loss and season this has to have been for them.

@ allaboutthegames about ESPN.  I have several reasons for not liking ESPN and they don't have to do with Disney or being irrational. 

Sportscenter used to be a fantastic highlights show.  One day a man named Craig Kilborn was hired there and decided that cracking jokes every other second and spitting out 756 catchphrases a show was the thing to do.  It worked for him, but all of the anchors that have followed him and do it need to stop.  If you don't have anything witty to say and are forcing it, then don't do it.

Many of the "highlights" that they show appeal to the lowest common denominator.  I don't need to see everyone of Ocho Cinco's touchdown celebrations or every time that a point guard makes a behind the back pass for an assist when a chest pass would have worked perfectly fine.  Men like Walter Payton, Jerry Rice, and Barry Sanders just handed the ball to the official and acted like they had scored before and men like John Stockton hold the all time assist record in the NBA by making the "boring" pass.  Athletes see the type of crap that ESPN puts on their show and say to themselves that are going to make a "Sportscenter moment".  This leads to moments of jackassery that I really don't need to see and makes sports in general more dislikable to me.  Oh, I almost forgot; they also like to show the guy that says something brash, arrogant, and stupid over and over.  This leads to more of that sort of thing too.  For some reason I have seen much more of Terrell Owens over the years on ESPN than Marvin Harrison or Larry Fitzgerald.  Why is that?

They constantly cover the same things.  This is fine if you are a fan of the Yankees, Miami Heat, or Brett Favre.  If you aren't, then you're shit outta luck.  Speaking of Lebron, them having a "special" about where he was deciding to go fed into his massively huge ego and said, "Hey, it's cool to have a massively huge ego (even if you've never won a title)".

Also, they did get rid of hockey.  Ask anyone in the city where I live (Chicago) if hockey's a popular sport.  It might not be a popular sport where you live, but I don't think that no one cares about Nascar since most people don't in my region.  I'm sure that it's probably different where you live.

I know that this was long winded, but I hope that I answered for you why I dislike ESPN.  I don't hate them, but I do strongly dislike them.     

Oh... and Chris Berman's nicknames are stupid.

Man this year soo fucking unpredictable....no team really rising to the occasion. I thought the Giants and Steelers were the best in NFL...jeez they stunk it up. Congrats to Buffalo first win of the season. And damn poor Texans...

I'm use to the Texans losing like they did on Sunday. The Texans defense is the worst in the NFL, so I expect to lose more games like this. A lot of fans in Houston want Kubiak fired, I don't think he should be fired,but, I do think our defensive cordinator should be fired right away.

@ amp316: Would you like some Banana Splits to go with those Sour Grapes? Tra-la-la La-la-la-la/ Tra-la-la La-la-la-la...

In all seriousness, they just report the news, they don't just make it up. What sportscaster that anyone has any memory of doesn't use catchphrases? As far as the "SportsCenter moment" goes, I think any motivation for an athlete to elevate their game is good for sports in general. As for the reports on rants, flagrant fouls, roughing, and the like, it's all for the purpose of appreciating what complete jackasses certain athletes can be. I'm not about to support the coverage of "Favre-Watch 2010" or "Indecision: LeBron James" (to borrow from Comedy Central), but they are both stories that have to be followed for the sake of public curiosity. Finally, the NHL has a very limited demographic in these United States of America, which, for better or worse, is dwarfed by the demographic for NASCAR (but hey, I'm no fan of NASCAR either; what person with an IQ greater than 90 could possibly enjoy watching cars turn left for 3 hours straight?). So don't blame ESPN for the way they do business, blame the tastes of their target demographic, the average sports fan in the USA.

Just to be clear, though, I love this country that I live in, this USA, but greedy people have been taking advantage of a population that has become too comfortably stupid to defend their own interests. Personally, I think the popularity of NASCAR is merely a symptom of a disease I like to call "Ineptus Americana", a disease that should have been quarantined to its origin, the Great State of Texas, a hell of a long time ago (yeah, everything's bigger in Texas, including the morons; yeah, I totally went there, what are they going to do about it?).

@ allaboutthegames  I loved the Banana Splits.  One banana, two banana, three banana four...

So I'm not sure if I'm reading what you wrote correctly, but according to your theory ESPN is stupid in order to appeal to stupid beer drinking Americans.  I guess that would make everything that they do make much more sense and I might have to agree.

I have a couple of questions for you though:

What was Howard Cossell's catchphrase? 

What is hockey's limited demographic?  The attendance figures that nordlead brought up would argue otherwise.