Monday morning sports recap

Got to see my beloved Steelers kick some booty yesterday.  An old fashion beat down on the Browns!  That is what I've been talking about all year.  If we can keep this up....

Steelers:

• Sat down on my place on my buddy's sofa just in time to witness my boy, Troy, walk out on the field.  Play begins and INT!  Right in Troy's hands.  7th interception of the season for Troy.  And don't even get me started on the play where he literally jumped over the entire offensive line to grab Colt McCoy's jersey.  Whoo!  The man isn't even human on the field!
• And while I'm on Troy I want to send a shout out to him for his selection into this year's Pro Bowl - 6th time to be selected.  And another shout out to Troy for being selected by his teammates as the Steelers MVP.  What a year he has had.  What a man he is.
• Ben threw to seven different receivers yesterday.  Spread it all around is a great motto when you have the hands for the catching.  Wallace da'Kid was remarkable, not only on that first possession play, but throughout the day.  What a year he has had!
• Always love it when Randle El gets in on the passing game.  He took the flicker from Ben, pulled out of a slide, and threw it right into the hands of Hines "Money" Ward who was waiting in the corner of the endzone.  Solid.  That's called using the talents you have.  Randle El was quarterback in college at IU.
• Shout out to the other Pro Bowlers - James Harrison, and Maurkice Pouncey, first rookie to make it in years!
• Always have said that Coach Mike Tomlin is a class act and in the press conference he was still at it getting a tad choked up over his players and coaches.  I really believe he means it.

Others:

• The Tampa Bay Buccaneers deserve a shout out today as well.  The year they have had has been unbelievable.  Youngest team.  Youngest quarterback.  Youngest coach.  Ten wins.  Should have been in the play offs.  Kudos to their win yesterday with a rag tag bunch of players playing in place of the injured.  Coach Raheem Morris has my vote for Coach of the Year.
• Okay, so Bret Favre has been fined for whatever it is he did sending nasty photos or what not to the former Jets employee.  By the time it was said and done most of us didn't remember or didn't care or didn't think it an NFL matter or didn't even think.  Is he done with football?  Who cares?  By now his legacy is tarnished, not to mention his family ties.  Ugh.  Last mention of him here I hope!
• John Elway coming in to save the Broncos?  Can't be any worse then the last few years.
• Interesting set up for the playoffs.  Teams got in with lousy records.  Teams with winning records didn't get in.  Think the commissioner will stick his nose in again and re-work the system.  My source says already in the works.
• Connecticut women's basketball players ended their winning streak at 90 straight games, losing to Stanford.  Bound to happen sometime, but I kind of felt bad for Maya Moore and company watching it happen.  But how funny was Coach Gene Auriemma at the press conference?  Might have to look at him in a different light now.