Monday Sports Recap

I didn't get to see the Steelers game this week because my TV buddy was off to Orlando for a soccer game, but I listened to the Pittsburgh radio station and followed along on the Yahoo Game Channel via my computer.  Hard to comment in this fashion, but I did have a couple things to mention:

Steelers:

• Luck was with the crew yesterday when Steve Johnson dropped the pass in the endzone that would have sealed a Buffalo Bills win in overtime.  The Steelers are lackluster right now and they really need someone to fire them up.  They have the Ravens in an evening game this Sunday and if they can't put away a team like the Bills...well...I'm worried...
• Saw the hit that James Harrison put on Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, and while I only watched it once, I just have to say the same thing I've been saying all along...how do guys put the brakes on their momentum?  Harrison was rushing through an opening going after the quarterback - his job - with his head down (one would think to protect himself as well as get through the wall of linebackers).  He was fined because his head hit Fitzpatrick under the chin?  On a taller quarterback he would have hit him in the chest and then that would have been okay? Or is it that he should raise his head and put it where? I really don't understand the rule in this respect.  Harrison says he isn't going to change, but he is also being penalized on the field and that hurts the team.  Harrison is going to have to be the bigger person here despite the NFL's crackdown on what appears to be him each week.  He is going to have to say that the team comes first and change his ways.
• Hate that I missed out on seeing my boy, Troy, make another big play.  That's two in a row for him.

Other:

• How sad is it that Boise State kicker Kyle Brotzman and his family are getting hate calls because he missed two kicks in the game against Nebraska? Seriously, this is one of the reasons that sports gets a bad rap. Can't say that it is just a game anymore, not with the serious money that is doled out week in and week out, but for people to be so enraged to threaten a kicker and his family?  Sad.
• Interesting to me that Denver coach, Josh McDaniels, caught for video taping throws his old coach under the bus.  McDaniels brings up Patriots coach, Bill Belichick's video taping history of which McDaniels watched while his assistant.  The sports crews were going nuts on the pregame shows this week with one saying no matter you don't tell on the coach.  Interesting how nobody brought up the fact that a head coach was teaching his assistants, the men he is suppose to be mentoring, to cheat.
• Shout out to my tennis boy Roger Federer for his win over his nemesis Rafael Nadal. 
• Is it just me or does Peyton Manning look pained lately?  In the last two games of the Colts, Peyton has looked as if he was being forced to play the game while his family was held hostage.
• Will be interesting to see how the NFL CEO's handle the major fight that went down between Houston's Andre Johnson and Tennessee's Cortland Finnegan.  If they are going to fine James Harrison for a hit on another player, how about fining these two who were seriously trying to kill one another?
• I got a kick out of the Yankees acting like they aren't going to try to keep their boy Derek Jeter.  "We've paid him a lot of money over the years"....uh, whose fault is that?
• I'm getting tired of hearing about LeBron James and his leaving Cleveland.  The fans were surprised?  Hello!  Welcome to the new sports age.  Players go where the money is and why shouldn't they?  They are the ones earning that money for the owners, etc.  The days of loyalty to a team are gone for players.  A lot of the times the team can't keep them or doesn't want them.  So the fans booed him in Cleveland.  So he and his new teammates aren't doing what everyone expected of them.  Is it really news that LeBron shoulder bumps Erik Spoelstra?  Let the man be and just let him play his game.  He will turn out to be one of the greats.