The Crew hated the betting card yesterday, so, to the disappointment of zero, we did not post a Playhouse. Let's be frank, very few care about what we offer in this space aside from our surprisingly good Super Plays this season, so there was little point in compiling a bunch of nonsense that maybe three people would have read anyway.
Meanwhile, after last Sunday's winner on San Francisco, the Super Play is 17-8-2 for the year.
A couple very angry thoughts before today's Super Play...
Kirk Herbstreit took to the airwaves yesterday to admonish Stanford fans, who the night before struggled to fill the second deck of their stadium for the Pac-12 Championship Game. Herbstreit, while nothing that the weather was poor, called the crowd 'embarrassing.'
It's called having perspective, and the only thing remotely embarrassing was his ill-advised take on the matter.
Yes, we will concede that while the SEC has rabid packs of lunatics who are willing to bankrupt themselves both financially and spiritually by stalking their teams to every inch of the globe -- which it should noted largely helps to feed the corruption of the NCAA and make a mockery of the words 'student athlete' -- Stanford's alumni can't trusted to do the same. It's probably because, as one of the leading universities in the world, half the student body probably is unaware the school even has a football team. Or it perhaps could be that its alumni is too busy running the world to indulge the Pac-12's latest crass money grab.
Indeed, little known start-ups such as Hewlett Packard, Google, Gap, Netflix, LinkedIn, Nike, Sun Microsystems, Charles Schwab, Pay Pal, Yahoo, Microsoft and Time Warner all were founded or co-founded by Stanford alumni. Also, one former president, four former and current Supreme Court justices, and countless members of Congress and the federal judiciary all wasted their time studying there. And the inventors of lightly used technologies such GPS, the satellite dish and some bullshit called the Internet also matriculated through Stanford.
Still, the fact remains those assholes don't take conference championship games serious enough. It's time for the Stanford community to take stock, reassess its nearly incomparable past and current contributions to society and spend more time getting drunk at relatively meaningless football games.
Good call, Kirk...
ESPN embarrassed itself in other ways yesterday, too (shocking, yes), largely covering the Jovan Belcher story as a suicide, throwing up a graphic reading: 1987-2012, as if dude should somehow be memorialized. According to early reports, dude shot the mother of his three-old daughter muliple times because his outsized ego couldn't stomach her staying out late for drinks -- and then compounded his cowardice by taking his own life to avoid the consequences. A woman was murdered by an NFL player -- that's the fucking story, assholes...
Super Play of the Day
Ravens -7.5
other picks
Tampa +7.5
Cincy -1.5
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