By popular demand, well, just John who sits behind me at Cardinal  
games, I've been requested to get off my posterior and submit something!

After two weeks at the UofP watching some incredibly exciting  
football, I'm also incredibly embarrassed by my last blog that railed  
against the current regime and direction of the team.  Ok, so we are  
idiots and have a hard time looking ahead and believing that we can  
trust Whiz. Obviously, things are much better then they seemed at the  
time and that's good for all of us, the team and the fans. I  
understand that passion and patience have a hard time co-existing but  
maybe we all learned a lesson this season.  Let's hope so.

Sunday provided one of the most unusual sequences I've ever witnessed  
at a game.  The fake field goal, challenge flag,  broken replay, 4th  
down do over, missed field goal, 60 yard touchdown has to be a first.  
But behind Roy Horton's work and the slow improvement of the offense  
(and yes, they still have miles to go with that unit) they are  
competitive in the improving NFC West. It doesn't look like the  
playoffs are really realistic at this point but under the crazy  
circumstances of this season who knows. (And the craziness of the NFL  
might be mirrored in the coming  truncated NBA season.)

Finally, there's my beloved Sun Devils, (heavy sigh).  Geez, I guess I  
should invoke that aforementioned passion and patience bs from  
earlier. Life's lessons are so annoying.