Just got back from New Orleans where depending on where you go things look great, or bleak. In the French Quarter, where there was very little flooding from Hurricane Katrina, the tourism seems vibrant. We intended to eat at the ACME Oyster Company, but the line was down the sidewalk. Still, had a great meal at the Bourbon Street Seafood House right next door for the second straight year. It's always good to have a back-up plan.
Saints play-by-play man, Jim Henderson told me that if you go to the Lower 9th Ward and East New Orleans, that it's as if the hurricane hit yesterday. It will be a long recovery in those areas, if it ever comes back at all in those sections.
All the Panthers did right on Sunday was win. By all accounts, the Saints dominated the game. But they had an 18-play drive result in a field goal and a 24-play drive result in a blocked field goal by Julius Peppers. Unlike fantasy football, real football is calculated on a scoreboard with points, not who has the prettier stats. Still, that won't win every week, so the Panthers need to improve and build off this win for the long haul to be positive.
Sorry Appalachian State fans, Stanford's 40-point underdog victory over Southern Cal has been dubbed the biggest upset in college football history. Maybe that's a compliment to the fact that the Mountaineers have a very good team again, despite losing to Wofford. Syracuse's win over Louisville was another one this season, and we are barely into October. Can Cal actually be the second best team in the country? I don't see that one lasting.
I'm still hoping that my Cleveland Indians can conquer the evil empire of the New York Yankees. In game-1, they fed off the indignation of Cleveland icon LeBron James wearing a Yankees hat in his hometown team's ball park. Game-2 was the great gnat attack with the migrating midges flustering the Yanks. But for game-3 in the Bronx there was no such magic, as manager Joe Torre kept his job with a win. As Panthers coach John Fox likes to say, he's day-to-day. Aren't we all.
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